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(Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co EKDKQ.PK said on Tuesday it expects to emerge from bankruptcy as soon as July as a commercial imaging business under the control of its creditors.
It said in court documents filed with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan that it expects to issue new stock with the majority of it going to its second-lien note holders.
The holders of the second-lien notes include investment funds P. Schoenfeld Asset Management, D.E. Shaw Group and Bennett Management Corp.
A new board will be appointed and the company said the new directors will be identified later.
The company did not say how much it expects to pay its unsecured creditors, who are owed as much as $2.2 billion, but they would also receive some shares in the reconstituted Kodak.
Kodak's bankruptcy plan is subject to a vote of creditors and court approval. Kodak must first gain court approval for its disclosure statement which describes its bankruptcy plan and the risks associated with it and is meant to help guide creditors in their voting on the plan. A hearing on the disclosure statement is expected in June.
Kodak sought protection from creditors in January 2012 after it failed to embrace modern technology and became one of the biggest corporate casualties of the digital age. The company said it had $6.75 billion of liabilities when it entered Chapter 11 reorganization.
Kodak's bankruptcy exit plan comes a day after it clinched a key deal to sell its personalized imaging and document imaging businesses to its UK pension fund for $650 million. The pension fund also agreed to give up a $2.8 billion claim against Kodak, resolving the biggest unsecured claim in the bankruptcy.
Rochester, New York-based Kodak launched its first camera in 1888 and grew to dominate the market for photographic film. Although Kodak invented the digital camera, it put the project on the back-burner and spent years watching rivals stake a claim to the market while physical film sales plummeted.
The company hopes to put all that behind it once it exits bankruptcy and focuses on selling printing equipment and services to businesses. It said on Tuesday that it expects its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization to increase to $494 million in 2017 from an estimated $167 million this year.
It expects revenue to climb from an expected $2.5 billion this year to $3.2 billion in 2017, although that would still be below the level in 2011, its last full year before it filed for Chapter 11.
Prior to its bankruptcy filing, the company had not had a profitable year since 2007.
Kodak's pink-sheet shares fell 7 percent to 37 cents on Tuesday. Although the stock has risen from 30 cents per share on the day Kodak filed for bankruptcy, the company said shareholders will get nothing and their stock will be canceled when Kodak exits Chapter 11.
The bankruptcy case is In re: Eastman Kodak Co, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-10202.
Reporting By Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; Editing by Daniel Magnowski and Matt Driskill


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SAN DIEGO -- Emerging from a 90-day house arrest, ex-Mayor Bob Filner on Sunday said that he wants "a chance to earn your forgiveness over time based on my actions."
Filner's sentence for his guilty plea to harassing women ended Sunday. He no longer will be confined to his home in a downtown high-rise.
In a statement to KNSD-NBC7, Filner predicted that he will "emerge from this dark and difficult period in my life as a better human being."
Filner, 71, a 10-term member of Congress who was elected in 2012 as San Diego's first Democratic mayor in two decades, resigned in August amid allegations that he had harassed more than 20 women. In October, he pleaded guilty to charges brought by the state attorney general.
In his statement, Filner said that he would continue to focus on his "mental and physical health and family and private life."
He added that he will not be giving interviews "or making appearances in the immediate future."
Under a plea bargain with the state attorney general's office, Filner remains under three years' probation. He pleaded guilty to felony false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery.
Under home confinement, he was required to wear a GPS monitor and could leave his condo only for medical appointments, religious services or with the permission of a probation officer.
While Filner was confined to his home, voters elected a successor, Kevin Faulconer, a Republican, and the City Council settled a sex harassment lawsuit filed against the ex-mayor by his former communications director.
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text: Mike, I've been trying to pick the brains of other folks on the beowulf list who have computer rooms with modern equipment. One problem with the existing air, with regards to future expansion, is apparently the total amount of air that the current A/C can move. This is all horrendously complicated and needs to be looked at carefully by a HVAC consultant. Pretty sure we have enough tons and flow for now, meaning my rack and Deshaies and everything else I know is going in there in a couple of months. More and more convinced that we don't have enough to handle multiple full racks of the next generation of computers. Jim Lux from JPL answered my questions as attached after my signature. His back of the envelope calculations for a 5kW rack (roughly equal to what I have now) give a requirement for 1800 cfm flow through the rack. The current A/C is, according to the A/C guy who was here, good for only 5500 cfm. However, since I don't know what the inlet or outlet temperatures on the rack are going to be (ie, the temperature of the air the A/C returns to the room and how hot the air is coming out the back) the required cfm may be quite different than this. Hmm, let me go borrow a thermometer and measure it, 22 C in, 32 C out the back, on the node in the middle of the rack. So there's 10 degrees across my rack and he assumes 15. Anyway, a safer estimate for the next generation is 10kW, and there are people who predict 20kW, so total airflow through the A/C seems unlikely to be sufficient a few years down the road. Assuming that people put this equipment in the room. Sorry, to be vague, there are just so many unknowns. I also talked to Darryl Willick, who runs a bunch of machine rooms on campus for Chemistry and some of Rees, Bjorkman and Mayo's stuff. His main room is about at capacity now with 6 full racks and a few odds and ends. He has 2 x 250A panels in there and apparently only a 45kW A/C unit. That second number is really odd because they aren't usually rated that way, but that's the number he remembered. If he's right that's 45000/3500=12 tons, roughly the same as the unit currently in the Rees area. He said his had to be serviced recently because they were having overheating problems, but only a belt was changed. Unknown how many cfm it is. He has a small workstation area that is somehow or other connected to his machine room ventilation wise, and apparently when they prop the door open in the workstation area it causes problems in the machine room. So maybe it would make sense to put a small separate A/C unit in the proposed classroom to avoid those sorts of complications in the future. Or maybe it can tap off building air. Darryl did say something interesting though, he said that for some units the A/C people can increase the capacity by changing the pulleys around. Apparently this blows more air, and the cold water isn't limiting, so it effectively upgrades the unit without changing very much. Darryl said that this was done at some point for Mayo's computer room in the subbasement of the BI. Regards, David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech ------------- Forwarded message follows ------------- At 08:17 AM 2/11/2005, you wrote: >In designing a computer room two key factors are: > >1. Power in (electricity) >2. Power out (A/C) > >The second term really has two parts: > > A. the amount of air moved > B. the reduction in temperature of that air across the A/C unit > >The latter part is specified in tons. The A/C guys I've spoken >with recently utilize some more or less standard relationship >between cubic feet per minute (cfm) and A/C tons for the units they >maintain. These run off the campus cold water supply, so >it makes sense that heat out is proportional to flow across, assuming >that the cold water has a very large heat capacity. > >However, in terms of cooling the units themselves, the amount of >air flow through the racks is also important. That flow is >also in cfm. Ideally cfm through the racks would be equal to cfm >through the A/C, ie, all air goes once through the racks and then >directly through the A/C. Even more ideally cfm through _each_ rack >could be modulated somehow, since some racks move much more >air than others and putting a low flow rack next to a high flow rack >might drive the air the wrong way through the low flow unit. > >How does one calculate an optimal cfm through a rack? Decide on a maximum outlet temperature (say, 30C) Find your inlet air temperature (say, 15C) You know your dissipation.. (say, 5kW) Calculate how much air you need to move using the specific heat of air. (about 1 kJ/(kg K)) 5 kJ/sec means you'd need 5 kg/sec for a 1 degree rise, but here, with a 15 degree rise, you can get by with .33 kg/sec. Turn the kg/sec into cfm... .33 kg * 1.3 m3/kg = .43 cubic meters/sec. There's about 35 cubic feet in a cubic meter, so we need about 15 cubic feet per second. Multiply by 60 and you get a bit more than 900 cfm. Now.. that's idealized, so double it. 1800 cfm or so. Step 2: How big is the duct? Generally, you don't want to go any faster than 1000 linear feet per minute, so your duct will need to be about 2 square feet. (you begin to see why you don't want some little 6" diameter blower...) >For a specific example with round numbers, let's say it's a >25U rack, dissipates 10kW, and has a single 50 cfm per minute output >fan per 1U node. (Ie, all air out must go through that path.) > >There seem to be a bunch of variables that are hard to deal with. >For instance, adding the exhaust fans would be 50*25 = 1250 cfm. >Is that all there is to it? But that type of fan only runs at >the stated flow rate if the pressures are exactly as specified. >Without incredibly careful balancing of the pressure across the >rack it won't generally run at 50 cfm. This is precisely the case. And, of course, the actual circumstances will be nothing like what the design specs are. >Is cfm the key unit here or should one think in terms of pressure >at various points in the room? Trying to come up with an accurate aerodynamic model is a worthy challenge for a very large cluster (computational challenge, not thermal). It's all done by rules of thumb and adding lots of margin. Use the rough sizing technique to get an approximate air flow. Use reasonable sized ducts and air speeds. Measure the actual outlet temperatures. Actually, what most people do is a rough sizing, then call in someone who actually does this for a living (a HVAC contractor) and use their rough sizing to validate what the contractor tells you you should have. >Thanks, > >David Mathog >mathog at caltech.edu >Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875


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Botnets Takedowns: A Game of Whack-A-Mole?
Botnet takedowns are exciting. Researchers explain how they've infiltrated the shadowy world of botnets and wrested control away from the unknown botmasters who are intent on controlling our computers for their nefarious purposes. Thanks to their technical expertise, our computers are safe again, at least, until the next infection.
On Mar. 26, Microsoft announced Operation B-71, in which its Digital Crimes Unit worked with industry partners and law enforcement to seize over 100 domains and shut down servers used to control a group of Zeus botnets. Kaspersky Lab followed up three days later with its own shutdown story with Crowdstrike and Dell SecureWorks to take over the Kelihos botnet, which may have had 116,000 machines under its control.
In the days since, it appears that the criminals have resumed operations.
"It's good technical work by all those concerned, but has also proved to be ineffective if the objective was to actually take down the botnet," said Gunter Ollmann, vice-president of research at Damballa.
It turns out that as long as the criminals remain at large, botnets don't actually stay dead for long.
Kelihos/Hlux.C Emerges
In the case of Kelihos, Microsoft and Kaspersky had already shut down the first version of Kelihos botnet last September. The gang just moved on and started up a new botnet with a slightly modified source code. The latest attempt infiltrated the peer-to-peer network through which the zombies in Hlux.B (Kelihos version 2) received their instructions. Kaspersky's sinkhole operation was effective, as the gang abandoned the botnet within a few days.
Sinkholing refers to the process of diverting network traffic away from the intended destination. The code instructed a handful of infected machines to connect to and get instructions from a server controlled by the "good guys." Those bots, in turn, passed on the new instructions to other machines, who then passed it on, until the botmasters no longer had control over the machines.
That didn't mean the botnet was dead, really, as Seculert researchers observed Kelihos still spreading on Facebook by tricking users into clicking on a malicious photo album link. The gang regrouped fairly quickly after the sinkhole operation and began re-building the botnet. In fact, some of the victims who had been infected with Hlux.B may have been re-infected by the new version.
Kaspersky confirmed that Kelihos was still operating, but insisted it was a new variant. "We confirm that a new Hlux/Kelihos sample exists but it has a different configuration, which means it's coming from a new Hlux botnet (Hlux C)," said Marco Preuss, Kaspersky's head of global research and analysis in Germany.
Zeus Still Alive?
Microsoft seized over 100 domains and servers belonging to botnets that were created using the Zeus crimeware kit. The goal was to "disrupt" criminal operations, according to Richard Boscovich, a senior attorney with Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit.
Researchers at FireEye Malware Inteligence Lab identified 156 different domains which had been actively used by one of the botnets shut down by Microsoft. Three days after Microsoft announced its shutdown efforts, 147 were under Microsoft control, but three appeared to be active and sending malicious instructions to infected zombies, Atif Mushtaq, head of research at FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab, wrote on the company's blog. The remaining six showed no malicious activity, according to FireEye.
"One botnet was able to recover partially from the takeover attempt," Mushtaq wrote. "Without these domains completely destroyed, this botnet can not be officially declared as dead," he added.
It's not clear whether FireEye is claiming Microsoft lost control of those three domains, or if Microsoft never seized them. I will update this post once Microsoft and FireEye clarify this point.
Botnet Operators Need to be Arrested
Instead of claiming that these operations shut down botnets, but it would be more precise to claim criminal operations have been disrupted, Ollmann said. That's pretty much in line with what Boscovich said regarding the Zeus operation.
The fact that criminals are able to release an updated variant and be back up and running pretty quickly "reflects the futility of much of the current takedown effort," Ollmann said. The only way to stop this cycle of shutting down one botnet, only to have another spring up by the same perpetrators is to take out the criminals at the top, Ollmann said.
To be fair, Kaspersky and Crowdstrike both acknowledge that their technical efforts are just temporary, and that the criminals have to be arrested in order to permanently shutdown botnets. Without new legislation to help law enforcement work with counterparts in other countries to track and apprehend these criminal organizations, these groups will remain at large, Preuss said during the press conference last week.
Just as a final point, though, takedown attempts sometimes do work. All reports show that spam-spewing Rustock remains inactive, more than a year after Microsoft seized the U.S.-based servers controlling the botnet.


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By Jonnelle Marte
The launch of the first private spacecraft bound for the international space station on Tuesday heralds a new era of space exploration, funded by the likes of movie director James Cameron and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
But financial advisers point out that you don't need to be a billionaire to invest in outer space. While private venture firms that back space travel are typically restricted to the super-wealthy, several exchange-traded funds invest in aerospace and defense companies – the same firms likely to be involved in creating the technology and equipment necessary to explore the final frontier. For example, both the $100 million iShares Dow Jones US Aerospace & Defense fund (ITA) and the $51 million Powershares Aerospace & Defense fund (PPA) list Boeing (BA) and Lockheed Martin (LMT), two aerospace companies responsible for much of the world's rocket production, among their top holdings. These funds allow investors to get some exposure to industrial and aviation focused companies, while also spreading their bets across dozens of companies that contribute to the technology and equipment used for space travel. "For the average investor I would look at who's providing the technology, who is providing the maintenance and the fuel," says David Blain, a financial adviser based in New Bern, N.C.
Investing directly in space ventures is too risky for the average investor, Blain says. For one, the cost of space flight is so high that it's likely years – if not decades – before such travel could be affordable to a large segment of the population. And individual stocks could plummet if there are setbacks or major disasters. Some of the companies that made the materials for the NASA space shuttle Challenger shuttle, which broke apart shortly after taking flight in 1986, struggled after the tragedy, says Rob Siegmann, chief operating officer for Financial Management Group in Cincinnati.
For investors who can't resist getting in on the intergalactic action, however, experts recommend small investments in blue-chip companies that produce components that might be used in space travel. For instance, aviation companies like General Dynamics (GD) and tech provider Honeywell (HON), which make engines and aircraft, could benefit from growth in space travel, says Siegmann. "It's too much risk to try to pick the one company that's going to make it happen," he says.


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Michelle Knight, one of three Cleveland women who survived a decade of imprisonment and torture, was forced to help captor Ariel Castro prepare a torture chamber for his third victim, she told Dr. Phil McGraw.
Knight, now 32, had seen television reports about the disappearance of 14-year-old Gina DeJesus, when Castro forced her to help him.
"He was telling me that I needed to help him prepare another room and I didn't want to prepare that room," Knight said. "I had to help him drill holes in the wall to put the chains through to hook us together."
PHOTOS: Inside Ariel Castro's House of Horrors
"He had told me he was bringing us somebody in the house and he told me to be very quiet. All I hear is fighting in the basement. I could hear things crash and I could hear somebody screaming, 'Get off me. Get off me,'" Knight said. "All I could hear was a girl screaming for help and nobody comes, nobody helps her."
A few weeks after hearing about DeJesus' disappearance, Castro told Knight his daughter was coming over and he wanted Knight to meet her.
"I knew that wasn't his daughter," Knight said. She remembered a rare moment when Castro left her and DeJesus in the bathroom alone together for a few minutes while DeJesus did her hair.
"I told her I knew who she was," Knight said. "I whispered it in her ear. 'You're Gina DeJesus.' And she whispered at me, and she said, 'You know who I am?'"
Knight told DeJesus, who is now 23, not to tell Castro that she knew who she was or else there would be consequences.
Castro treated DeJesus "halfway decent" at first, Knight said, because she was new and Castro didn't want to scare her right away.
Knight and DeJesus were chained together often and they became close, Knight said.
"There was times that he would hit her and I would stop him and take the hit. I would jump in front of her," she said.
She would take the punishment because "I know how it feels to be hurt and I didn't want her to feel that," she said.
Knight would tell Castro, "I'm the one you hate" and take the beating for DeJesus.
After, DeJesus "would cry and ask me why did I do that and I would say because I care."
Knight said DeJesus saved her life after one of her five miscarriages, caused by Castro starving her, jumping on her stomach and kicking her.
"There was a time in the house I was going to die but Gina picked me up in her arms and said come back... I begged her to let me die, but she wouldn't," Knight said.
She said Castro liked Amanda Berry, his third victim, because "I think he had an obsession with blondes."
Knight told Dr. Phil she never saw anyone on the news looking for her and that Castro taunted her about her family.
"He'll see Amanda's mother on TV and the first thing he'll say to me is, 'Where's your family? Why don't you have any? They must not really love you,'" she recalled. "And it would hurt because I knew my family didn't care and I knew they wasn't there for me because they never was."
"And to see Amanda have her mother, I just wanted her to be my mother. I wanted her to say those things to me," she said. "It was just extremely painful to have somebody coming in your room day after day telling you, 'Your family doesn't care about you. You never had a family that loved you and that's the reason why I hate you – because I can abuse you and nobody would care.'"
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Michelle Knight and Amanda Berry Are Not Close After 10 Year Kidnap Ordeal
Knight said Castro tested the women by giving them what seemed like an opportunity to get away, but he would use mirrors and peepholes to watch them. He told them that anyone who tried to escape and anyone who helped would be killed. He occasionally let them in the backyard with wigs on, but kept a gun within reach.
Knight developed a close bond with DeJesus and said she still loves her to this day. She and Berry are "okay," but not the "best of friends."
"[Berry] was one of those girls that really didn't get it," Knight said. "She would see it and she didn't believe it. She wanted to think that it wasn't happening. That's what type of girl she was in the house. He treated her totally differently so she looked at the situation in a different way."
The day Berry, who's now 27, went into the labor with her daughter, Knight was the one who delivered the baby.
"I see the baby's head and the baby is blue and we need to get the baby out right now," she said. "The baby finally comes out and I tell [Berry], 'You just got to pray to God that I can get her to breathe.'"
"[Castro] told me if the baby didn't come out alive that he would blame me," Knight said. "I knew if I didn't get her to breathe that he would kill me right then and there."
Knight used two fingers to give the baby compressions and did mouth-to-mouth. Five minutes later, the little girl started screaming.
When Dr. Phil asked Knight why she thought Berry was allowed to have a baby after Castro's violent refusal to let her have one, Knight said she thought it was because "he didn't want a girl like me to have a kid."
"I was a girl that couldn't be broken, a girl that couldn't be underestimated," she said. "When he figured out he couldn't control me very much, he didn't want to give me a kid."
She also told of a day that Castro's daughters came over with their boyfriends and children after hearing that there were three women in the house. They wanted to search the house and got as far as the basement, where the three women were hidden, before Knight said Castro told them the basement was under construction and they couldn't go down.
They came back the next day and Castro hid the women in the truck outside.
On the day the women escaped, 11 years after Knight had been taken, she remembered she and DeJesus hearing commotion downstairs and thinking the house was being broken into.
When she saw a police officer in the hallway, she ran toward her, "I jumped on her and I never let go."
She didn't know at the time that Berry had managed to escape from downstairs with her daughter, run across the street and call 911. Knight said it made her "sad" that Berry didn't mention her or DeJesus in the 911 call, which she later heard.
"It was a like a roller coaster of mixed emotions ... We're going home. That's the only thing I can remember is that I was going home," she said. "I wanted to kiss the ground that I was walking on and thank God for getting me out of that hell-hole."
Knight is the first of the three women to publicly tell her story and Dr. Phil said the show has created a fund for Knight and made a substantial donation to the fund.
Berry and Gina DeJesus announced a book contract in October, but Knight declined to be part of the deal.
Castro pleaded guilty to 937 counts of rape, kidnapping, torture and aggravated murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 1,000 years by an Ohio Judge on Aug 1. He was found dead in his jail cell on Sept. 3.


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GRANTHAM, Pa. – The York College men's soccer team lost a 1-0 non-conference heart-breaker on Wednesday evening at Messiah. The game definitely lived up to the hype of a clash between traditional powers. Both teams played tremendous games and had plenty of chances to get on the board but it was a late goal from Messiah that ended the battle.
With the loss the Spartans drop to 7-2-1 while the Falcons improve to 8-0-1 overall.
The game was extremely physical from the first whistle until the last. Both teams were willing to lay it all on the line for the win. The Spartans definitely held the advantage in the first half. Antonio Bua (Lancaster, Pa./Lampeter-Strasburg) ripped a shot from outside the box that went just wide of the cage only 12:26 into the game. Right before halftime Aaron Beale (Baltimore, Md./Archbishop Curley) had a solid header that slid just past the far post and Chris Weaver (Baltimore, Md./Archbishop Curley) was able to get another huge shot off but it was deflected at the last second. Going into halftime the atmosphere was filled with excitement and intensity.
The Falcons came out in the second half much more composed and seemed to control the tempo. Just eight seconds in, Messiahs' Jack Thompson cranked a shot from outside the box that was blocked. The Spartans would recover and make a comeback of their own. Greg Bechard (Newark, Del./St. Mark's) ripped a shot that was only inches wide of the goal at 51:57. Minute's later Spartan goalkeeper Jesse Derksen (York, Pa./Susquehannock) came up with a huge save to keep the game tied 0-0.
With 26 minutes left in regulation Taylor Brummitt (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis) had what was most likely the best opportunity for the Spartans to take the lead. Unfortunately the beautiful shot hit the crossbar. Messiah would then go on to take the last six shots in regulation but could not find the back of the net.
Heading into the first overtime both teams had even more opportunities to put the game away but could not capitalize. York was able to block a lot of the shots that Messiah continued to fire.
In the second overtime the Spartans seemed to loose a little bit of gas, but continued to fight with all they had. Messiah missed a wide-open net at 101:33. York would make a good run up the field but would be called offside's.
Derksen made another huge save for the Spartans with under five minutes to play. The Falcons would soon strike again getting Derksen out of position and Joshua Wood would score his first goal of the season and the game-winner for Messiah.
"We set the standard to play high tonight," said head coach Mark Ludwig. "We came in to play one of the best teams in the country, on their field and we played them toe-to-toe. We gave our best, they gave their best and unfortunately they got the goal."
The Falcons held a decent 24-13 advantage in shots and a slim 7-5 advantage in corner kicks. Pablo Martinez (Cheltenham, Pa. / Northeast Catholic) and Weaver each had three shots. Bua and Bechard added two shots each as well.
Both goalkeepers played tremendous in net. Derksen made some outstanding saves, especially late in the game and finished the game with four total saves. The Falcons goalkeeper Brandon West played equally as well and finished with a total of six saves.
"Jesse made some great saves, I couldn't believe it was a 0-0 game after regulation," said Ludwig.
The Spartans return to action on Saturday afternoon in an important game against CAC rival Salisbury. The game is set for 2:00 pm at Graham Field.


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NAWM Honors Alumni & Friendsby Jim Amidon • September 25, 2010 Share:
The National Association of Wabash Men held its annual meeting Saturday during the 2010 Homecoming Alumni Chapel. While the business of the meeting was short and sweet, the honors the NAWM bestowed on alumni and friends were festive and celebratory.
The NAWM presented its highest honors — the Alumni Awards of Merit and Honorary Alumna — and also honored men for their service to the Admissions Office and Schroeder Center for Career Development.
The Alumni Board also made a surprise announcement — a very well kept secret — when it honored Tom Runge '71, the College's Director of Alumni and Parent Relations, with the Clarence A. Jackson Career Service Award.
Honored Saturday were Alumni Award of Merit winners Charles Crowley '70, Richard Regnier (posthumously), Dr. Ross Zumwalt, and Runge.
Long-time swimming coach Gail Pebworth was named an Honorary Alumna, while Ron Klene, a retired Lawrence North High School teacher was honored for his contributions to the College's Admissions Office.
Long-time Swimming Coach Gail Pebworth was named an honorary alumna in the Class of 1991.
Two new awards were also presented — the Alumni Career Services Award was presented to Alex Miller '71 and Scott Medsker '04 was honored with the Young Alumnus Service Award.
"This Homecoming Chapel provides us with an opportunity not only to relive our Wabash days, but more importantly to celebrate the men and women who have made, and continue to make, our Alma Mater so special and her impact so far-reaching," said NAWM President Mark Dewart '74.
Before the awards were presented, President Patrick E. White welcomed alumni, their families, and the College's friends to the official start of Homecoming activities.
"Homecoming," President White said, "what a beautiful word and an even more beautiful action… In the lives and in the actions of these few individuals we honor today, we see in them the highest imagination of ourselves.
"In the act of coming home you bring new life to Wabash."
Coach Pebworth led the Wabash swimming and diving team to an 18-year dual meet record of 131 wins and just 20 losses and recorded five top-20 finishes at the NCAA Championships, including eighth place finishes twice.
"Your true meaning to Wabash lies in the way you mentored and inspired hundreds of men who competed under your leadership," Dewart said in reading her citation. "You taught them to win or lose with dignity and class. You treated novice, even first-time swimmers with the same respect as your elite All-Americans. You modeled for your men a constant pursuit of excellence and you demanded nothing less than each man's best effort.
"Our mission at Wabash calls our students to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely. In you, Gail Moll Pebworth, we have a living example of how that mission is manifest and all the good that can come from a single person in pursuit of excellence.
Runge's name wasn't on the official list of award winners; the NAWM Board of Directors voted secretly to honor him with the Jackson Award. And since Runge coordinates the slating of potential candidates — and every other aspect of the Homecoming Alumni Chapel
"Throughout your tenure you have helped us determine the most deserving alumni to receive our highest honors, the Alumni Awards of Merit," Dewart said. "When we paused to note that the Clarence A. Jackson Career Service Award "shall be presented to a Wabash alumnus who has distinguished himself by outstanding contribution to his chosen vocation," your name grabbed our attention. For we realize that you have had not one, but two distinguished careers, and for that we honor you today."
The NAWM gave two-career salute to Runge, who was an Air Force Colonel in his first career before coming to Wabash as Director of Alumni and Parent Relations.
"All of us thank you for your ability to bring together disparate groups of alumni working toward a common goal; your wisdom and thoughtful approach to problem solving; and your unwavering love of and respect for Wabash College," Dewart added.
Chuck Crowley '70 received the Fredrick J. Urbaska Civic Service Award for his lifetime service to the greater Minneapolis community. Crowley has served in a number of leadership positions in programs that provide services to adults with disabilities. He's presently the Executive Director of Metro Work Center, Inc.
"This position seems a perfect capstone for your remarkable career since you provide employment opportunities, life skills development support, community integration, and recreation activities for adults with developmental disabilities so that they can function with dignity in your community," Dewart said. "Chuck, we ask our students to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely, and we could do no better than to hold you up as an example of an alumnus whose calling is in perfect harmony with the College's mission."
Dr. Ross Zumwalt '65 has been at the forefront in the evolution of crime scene investigators and forensic medicine. A commencement speaker at his graduation, Zumwalt earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois, and now serves as the Chief Medical Investigator in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
"Through your illustrious career, we imagine that you've spent more time on the witness stand in murder trials than all of those actors on all of those CSI shows combined," Dewart quipped. "Your keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and leadership in the forensic medicine community make you a model Wabash man living out the mission of the College."
Margaret Regnier, the widow of Dick Regnier, attended the Homecoming Chapel to receive the NAWM's Frank W. Misch Alumni Service Award for her late husband.
Regnier was known as "Mr. Phi Psi" during his decades of volunteerism and leadership of the Phi Kappa Psi chapter at Wabash. He was not only a part of the founding pledge class of the chapter when it re-colonized in the early 1950s, he served as president of the housing corporation and chief fund-raiser for the chapter house's renovation in 2007.
"Dick was a true Wabash man in every sense of the word, and friends say that his relationship with the undergraduate and alumni members of Phi Kappa Psi was unparalleled," said Dewart. "He built and sustained Indiana Gamma's greatness and taught literally hundreds of young men the values of leadership, service, kindness, and love. Described by his friends as a 'driving force,' a 'quiet leader,' and a man of 'great impact,' Dick's legacy will long be remembered when undergraduates walk by his portrait, which hangs in the Great Hall — Regnier Hall — of the Phi Kappa Psi chapter house."
R. Scott Medsker '03, a Class Agent and member of the NAWM Board of Directors, received the Young Alumnus Service Award. He is a frequent volunteer for Admissions Office events, and is a leader of the Nation's Capital Association of Wabash Men.
"R. Scott Medsker, the College's Alumni Office would like nothing better than to be able to clone you," Dewart said. "For you exhibit the qualities we hope to instill in all of our alumni in your dedicated service to your alma mater.
"That you've served the College so deeply in such a short period of time has us excited about what you will mean to the College in the future. As one of your friends and colleagues told us, 'Scott understands that the Wabash network is a crucial part of life after Wabash, and mutually helpful to all alumni.'"
Even though Ron Klene is not a Wabash alumnus, the NAWM deemed him worthy of being named an Alumni Admissions Fellow. Klene has been deeply involved in Wabash's successful Moot Court competition, and that work has included bringing scores of high school students to the College. He has also actively recruited on Wabash's behalf, and is directly responsible for 6-10 current Wabash students being on campus in any given year.
"While we tend to focus on the alumni who return to their alma mater at Homecoming, we're just as pleased to have you with us today, for you have spent far more time on this campus than the majority of our alumni," Dewart said. "Over time, you've developed a method of identifying ideal students for Wabash… And these are good, Wabash men of substance and accomplishment you have guided to this great College."
Retired Rear Admiral Alex Miller '71 has received the College's highest honor — an Honorary Degree — but the National Association of Wabash Men selected him as the first person to be named an Alumni Career Services Fellow.
"You have often returned to campus to talk to students who are pursuing a career in the Navy — or any vocation for that matter," Dewart said. "And when Wabash men say they want to live and work in Washington, D.C., you go out of your way to lend a hand. We honor you today for your kindness and integrity. As one student said, 'Admiral Miller goes out of his way to treat every person he meets with the utmost dignity and respect.'"


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Cliff Deal Ignites Global Rally
Investors cheered a last-minute budget compromise in Congress, pushing technology and small-capitalization stocks higher amid a broad equity rally. Paul Vigna has details. Photo: AP.
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Dr. Jan Peter Balkenende, former prime minister of the Netherlands, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Hope College on Friday, Sept. 7.
Dr. Balkenende also presented a public lecture, "Europe: Risk or Opportunity? Economic developments, financial challenges and European values".
He was honored in recognition of his distinguished service to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and for his emphasis on Christian principles as a component of good government.
Balkenende was prime minister and minister of general affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from July 2002 until October 2010. He is now a professor of governance, institutions and internationalization at the Erasmus School of Economics and the Erasmus School of Law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also a partner at Ernst & Young (BeNe Head Office, Rotterdam), responsible for international affairs, corporate responsibility and advisory activities on public-private issues.
Balkenende was born in Kapelle on May 7, 1956. After completing his secondary education, he went on to the Free University of Amsterdam where he studied history, graduating with an M.A. in 1980, and Dutch law, graduating with an LL.M. in 1982. He obtained his doctorate in law in 1992 with a thesis on government regulation and civil-society organizations.
From 1982 to 1984 he was a legal affairs policy officer at the Netherlands Universities Council, the umbrella organization for Dutch universities. He then served on the staff of the policy institute of the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA) until 1998. As a senior staff member, he was responsible for social, economic and financial affairs, including development cooperation, technological innovation and European integration.
Balkenende was a member of Amstelveen municipal council from 1982 to 1998, and leader of its CDA group from 1994. From 1993 to 2002 he was a part-time professor of Christian social thought on society and economics at the Free University of Amsterdam.
From 1998 to 2002 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the States General for the CDA. He led the CDA parliamentary party from 2001 to 2010.
His tenure as prime minister saw reforms in fields including social security, pre-pension facilities, public health and deregulation. He also played an active international role, in Europe, including as president of the European Council in the second half of 2004; in the G20; and in the United Nations, with a special emphasis on issues like sustainable development, Millennium Development Goals and the World Trade Organization. He paid many official visits to other countries, often accompanied by trade mission representing Dutch companies.
Across his career he has also been a member and vice-chair of the board of the broadcasting organization NCRV; a member of the Amsterdam Regional Forum; chair of the Association of Christian Lawyers; a member of the group on socially responsible business practice in the Royal Association MKB-Nederland, which represents employers in small and medium-size businesses; and a member of the board of the Parliamentary History Group.
Balkenende has written many books and articles, including "Government Regulation and Civil Society Organizations" (1992), "On Responsibility and Economics: What Next?" (1993), "Responsibility and Law" (1995), "Trust and the Economy" (1997), "Different and Better" (2002), "Private Enterprise and Society" (2003), "Shaping Europe's Future" (2004) and "Prime Minister, The Floor Is Yours" (2010). He is the author of many policy documents on economic growth, social security, fiscal policy, poverty, development cooperation and innovation.
He has received four other honorary doctorates: in theology, from Karoly Gaspar Reformed University in Budapest, Hungary; in systems design and management, from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan; in sociology, from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea; and in humane letters, from Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. His other honors include eight Grand Crosses, including Knight Grand Cross in the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau, and several international prizes.
Balkenende is married to Dr Bianca Hoogendijk, a specialist in labour law. They have one daughter, Amelie.


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Off the charts pollen spreads allergy misery
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.
(AP) — Allergy season has come early and hit with a wheezing vengeance in
parts of the South and Midwest this year, thanks largely to an unusually
warm winter. Abundant pollen is causing watery eyes, sniffles and sneezing.
Doctors say the spring misery stretches from Mississippi to Ohio and from
Georgia to Texas, where a drought has exacerbated the problem. Forecasters
and allergists blame the unseasonably warm weather, and few cold snaps, for
causing plants to bloom weeks earlier than normal and release the
allergy-causing particles.
In some areas,
allergists say pollen counts this week are as high as they've ever recorded.
A clinic at Vanderbilt University in Nashville recorded 11,000 grains of
pollen per cubic meter Tuesday, the worst in the 12 years they've tracked
the number. The Atlanta Allergy & Asthma Clinic says this week's pollen
counts have beaten a high mark recorded there in April 1999. Their count for
Tuesday was almost 9,400. Fifteen-hundred is considered very high.
The medical
director of the Vanderbilt Asthma, Sinus and Allergy Program says he's been
seeing more patients — even while feeling puny himself.
"I'm kind of
sniffly today," Dr. David Hagaman said Tuesday.
The Asthma and
Allergy Foundation of America says more than 40 million Americans have nasal
allergies, popularly called hay fever. In severe cases, sufferers have
difficulty breathing that can send them to the emergency room.
Stephanie Baxter
was walloped when she returned to Gallatin, Tenn., from a vacation in
Florida last week. "We hit Tennessee and they started," she said. "I have
every possible symptom you can have. I'm trying to keep my energy because I
have a 3-month-old and a 3-year-old. There's no time for rest."
For three years,
the foundation has ranked Knoxville, Tenn., as the worst city in the country
for allergies — based on pollen counts, sales of allergy medications and the
presence allergy specialists. The city has been up to 20 degrees warmer than
normal the past few weeks. Spring arrived prematurely — along with sales of
nose spray.
"It's blooming
so early," said Sam Roberts, a meteorologist with the National Weather
Service in Morristown, Tenn. "Grass mowing has started early this year and
stirred things up."
Ranee Randby,
community relations director for the Knox County Health Department, said
Knoxville's scenic location in the Tennessee valley contributes to the
surrounded by mountains and whatever gets in here stays in here. It's like a
bowl," she said. "It's a beautiful, green part of the country but pollen
comes with that."
In San Antonio,
Texas, patients with allergies have increased in the past few weeks at
Southwest General Hospital. Daniel St. Armand, the emergency room director,
doesn't have to leave the hospital to find someone suffering.
"I have a friend
who goes through this yearly and it affects his whole system," he said. "He
constantly has a runny nose and itchy skin and eyes. He's just not himself."
In Atlanta,
Andre Osborne returned home from a long weekend to find his black Infiniti
sedan caked in yellow pollen.
"I feel
terrible," he said. "I know it's not as bad as it can be. But the sneezing,
the uncontrollable coughing, it's starting to kick in."
A couple miles
away, business was up at Cactus Car Wash as drivers brought in their
pollen-covered cars. Yellow water streamed into drains in its parking lot.
"It's very unusual this early on," said manager Jim James. "It's getting
cars a lot dirtier, which is happier for us."
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Agenda Confirmed; Mechanism Identified?
"Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option. Permitting could be an option — keep your gun but permit it."
Yeah, he was allegedly talking last week about a new potential ban on "assault weapons" (whatever the hell those are) might work in NY. But everyone knows that's merely a convenient "stalking horse" for their real agenda: gutting the 2nd Amendment.
But he's apparently not alone. As Jonn noted here a few minutes ago, it looks like that "great scholar" Biden is also considering recommending the POTUS practice legislation via Executive Order on this issue. I'm guessing Joe the Scholar is recommending that since he knows chances of getting any kind of meaningful Federal gun control law passed anytime soon are about the same as those of a June or July snowfall in Phoenix, AZ. Even many of his Democratic colleagues aren't that crazy.
But what does the Left have to lose? When you can't get what you want legally, illegal subterfuge is just about all you have left.
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Over the past few days my roommate and I have been working on a business card Menger sponge origami project. This was most recently inspired by Thomas Hull's fun book 'Project Origami', but it's quite possible I'd heard of the project before I found the book. I know that in Hull's book he finds formulas for the number of cards it takes to make various iterations of the sponge, but I wanted to try to come up with them again on my own, and thought I'd share my process.
Let be the number of cards showing on each face of a level sponge (recalling that level 0 is just an ordinary cube). The exterior faces of the Menger sponge are Sierpinski carpets, and it's pretty easy to determine that and . This means .
Next, let be the number of cards needed to make a completely unpanelled level sponge. So , and to make a level sponge requires 20 level sponges, so . This makes .
Now I'd like to determine the number of cards needed for what I'll call 'interior panelled' sponges. Let denote the number of cards for such a level sponge. A level sponge consists of lots of little cubes, some of the faces of which are showing (not stuck against faces of other little cubes). Some of the showing faces occur on the very exterior of the sponge (on the faces of the encompassing cube, if you want). So 'interior panelled' would be all of the faces except these very exterior ones. There's no such thing as an interior panelled level 0 sponge, so we start at level 1, counting as follows: Begin with an unpanelled level 1 sponge ( cards), and panel the two interior faces of each of the 12 'edge' level 0 cubes. So .
What about the next iteration for ? Well, there are 20 'interior panelled' sponges, and you need to panel 2 of the exterior faces of each of the 12 'edge' cubes. The exterior faces, recall, require cards to panel. So . Since we know , we can clean this formula up a little: .
Now we're almost done. The overall goal is to have a fully panelled level sponge. Let denote the number of cards required. Since a fully panelled level cube is an interior panelled level cube, along with exterior panelling, it's easy to count. There are 6 exterior faces, each requiring cards to panel, so .
So we're down to two formulas:
At this point, I checked Hull's book, and noticed he had only one formula – one for . So how do we get rid of ?
Solve the second equation for , obtaining (and so also ). Now substitute these two formulas in their appropriate places in the formula above for . This gives
which we simplify to
obtaining the formula that Hull's book has (hurray!).
Perhaps there's something more than can be done to understand this formula though (and Hull does have remarks like this as well). I'd really like my recurrence formula for to have s showing up, instead of that in the power for 8. So write . How can we interpret this formula geometrically, in terms of the sponge? Well, we see that to make a panelled level sponge, we make 20 level sponges, and then remove some bits. In particular, we remove the panelling on faces of cubes that come together – that's where the comes from, it is, after all , the number of panels on a face of an sponge. How many faces come together? Well, each of the 8 corner cubes (that lonely 8 in ) is 3-valent, meaning there are three 'edges' hitting that cube. At each of these 3 edges, we have two (, in ) panelled faces coming together, and we must remove all of that panelling.
So there you have it – a formula for the number of cards to build a level Menger sponge. If you're interested in building one, start gathering up cards. While the level 0 sponge (a cube) requires only 12 cards, a level 1 sponge already requires 192 cards. The level 2 sponge, that my roommate and I built, took 3456 cards, and the next level would require a staggering 66,048 cards. I'm in no hurry to start making one of those.


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If you're still interested, I can play after 530 weekdays the week of Jul. 20th in richmond.
I work in Richmond and can play lunch hours or after work around 4pm. Send me a message and let me know what time works for you.
Would anyone like to play at the lovely (and nearly always empty) courts on Odlin Road just east off number 4 Road? (They're just north of Cambie)
Weekdays after work, weekends ... or suggest a time!
I'm not overly competitive - just looking for someone who can return the ball and is looking for a bit of a workout through a casual match.
Hi there - i just signed up today - i really wanna learn how to play - i tried before and was able to return the ball - years ago - lol - would u be up to teaching a bit?
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10/26/13 Wedding - Spring Training Pic?
Does anyone know who I could contact at the White Sox to possibly arrange and surprise my bride-to-be with a picture at an upcoming spring training game?
We are both huge White Sox fans and our wedding date is on October 26th, 2013! Everyone on this message board should know that date in White Sox history... .
Anyway, we are trying to figure out a cool way of doing the "save the date" announcements. We came up with an idea of holding a sign that reads "10/26/13 Save The Date! GO SOX" and taking a picture with a player at a spring training game. We are going to Phoenix next week for my college roommate's wedding and then catching 2 games.
- 3/10 vs the Reds
- 3/11 vs the Rockies
If we could do it on 3/10 that would be great as we'll have other friends and family with us.
My fiance's favorite player growing up was/is Robin and my current favorite is Paulie. Obviously that's a tall order for either or both to join us and we understand that. Actually, taking a picture with any player is probably going to be hard. That is why I came to this message board to see if anyone had any suggestions or could put me in touch with someone in the White Sox organization.
If there is a cost involved to make this happen, no problem. To see the smile on her face will be priceless for me.
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions you all come up with!
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Any doubts that this is LeBron James' NBA and the other players currently are just participating in it should have been shelved last weekend. No, not by what the reigning Most Valuable Player and runaway favorite again for the 2012-13 award (sorry, Charles) did in the All-Star Game on Sunday, though his 19 points, five assists and three 3-pointers in 30 minutes weren't shabby.
James made his greater impact the day before, when he led the discussion – some have referred to it as part interrogation, part rallying cry – of fellow union members at which National Basketball Players Association Billy Hunter was relieved of his duties.
Insiders marveled immediately at how forceful both the Miami Heat supertar and Brooklyn Nets veteran Jerry Stackhouse were, among the 35-40 players in the hotel meeting room, in vetting the recent investigation into Hunter's nepotism and conflicts of interest and in moving the group toward a cleaner, more player-driven organization.
The vote of team player reps to oust Hunter was unanimous, 24-0 (not all teams were represented). The reconfigured executive committee, several of whom stood behind union president Derek Fisher when the outcome was announced, featured a handful of new members (including Stackhouse) along with some holdovers.
But it wouldn't have gotten to that point in the span of a couple of hours, if not for James and Stackhouse challenging the business audit conducted by law firm Paul, Weiss, then challenging their peers to take the union back.
The New York Times quoted one person in the room as saying, "It was spectacular."
"It's a misperception that we try to fight, that this was the first meeting LeBron has attended or this was the first time LeBron said something," said Miami teammate James Jones, the NBPA's secretary-treasurer. "LeBron's always talking about how we can improve our game and the issues surrounding our game. Because he's one of this league's brightest faces and brightest stars."
Star power matters in situations like this, not just when national media is focused on a lockout and collective-bargaining talks. James and other big names such as Dwyane Wade, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce made their presence in Manhattan known in the fall of 2011, when the NBA was shut down and sliced from 82 games to 66 in 2011-12 before an agreement was reached.
But dealing with internal strife matters, too, as does the reorganization and the strides that can be made during times of labor peace. It's not just for the 10th or 12th men on NBA rosters (Chris Paul was the only perennial All-Star on the exec committee.)
"I want to be educated," James told NBA.com late Thursday night, after the Heat's drubbing of the Bulls in Chicago. "Not only so I'm educated individually but so I can relate to my teammates and my teammates can relate it to their friends in the league. So we all can be more knowledgeable about it and not be caught off guard – that's what happened. Everybody asks about [the Hunter crisis] and when you don't have an answer, that doesn't look good."
If others were impressed with him, James said he was impressed with Stackhouse, 38 and 18 years into an NBA career that might not continue beyond this spring. The Nets swingman wasn't just vocal – he accepted a VP spot on the union board. Stackhouse also was working the visitors dressing room at Barclays Center Friday, along with NBPA attorney Ron Klempner, talking with members of the Houston Rockets.
"That shows a lot," James said of Stackhouse's commitment. "He's almost finished with his career and it's not about him. It's about the collective."
Fisher and the other players took no questions from reporters last week after reading a statement of less than three minutes announcing Hunter's dismissal. But Jones said the 8-0 vote against Fisher last spring, seeking his resignation, was set aside at the meeting when the case against Hunter was made clear to those players in attendance. "What happened in the past is in the past," Jones said. "Derek is our president and we're all behind him."
The Heat reserve also said that it wasn't true that most NBA players are ignorant of or disinterested in union business until trouble looms. "It's not like we're trying to keep 20,000 members involved," Jones said. "We've got about 450 . It's a misconception that they're not involved."
Still, many critics have cited Fisher and others for allowing Hunter's questionable decisions – hiring family members, directing NBPA investments, paying certain improper expenses and the limited oversight of his contract extension – to occur on their watch. Even Fisher said after the meeting, "Going forward, we'll no longer be divided, misled, misinformed. This is our union and we're taking it back."
That, James said, was his motivation last weekend.
Hunter, 70, is expected to mount a legal challenge, pending the results of criminal investigations into the matter. Or he may simply seek a settlement of the $10.5 million he says is still owed to him. The union might turn to an executive search firm to find a replacement for Hunter, unless Klempner seeks the position permanently and is a consensus choice.
"We haven't got to that point yet," James said. "We cleaned our house with the firing of Billy, releasing him. Right now we are getting things in order. But we are not going to take a step back. We're going to push forward and make sure we have more of an emphasis on the players.
"We feel like that's something that should be done – the players' voices mean something. In the past, it wasn't the players that we heard so much."
And there's no better time, with relative labor peace until at least 2017.
"Yeah, that's why you get started now," James said. "So at least you have a plan by the time it's time to talk again."


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Christopher M. Connor, the much-admired and long-serving chairman and CEO of The Sherwin-Williams Company, was at The University of Akron on March 11 to serve as keynote speaker of the 2014 Goodyear Executive Leadership Forum, sponsored by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
Christopher M. Connor
Connor spoke in the Student Union Theater on the topic of leadership, addressing a near-capacity crowd comprised primarily of students enrolled in UA's College of Business Administration. In his lecture, titled "Leave a Wake," Connor encouraged students to make their presence in the business world undeniable, to make an impact and leave a wake. Through the use of the ZIPS acronym, he also shared his characteristics of a true leader:
- Z – Zealous appetite for the toughest assignments. Connor encouraged students to search for these opportunities and to have the confidence to be successful.
- I – Importance of servant leadership. Connor stressed that giving credit to one's team comes before taking credit as the leader and cited his Jesuit education, which emphasizes being men and women for others.
- P – Personal character. According to Connor, the best leaders can make business mistakes but must always possess the highest level of morality, integrity, and ethical decision-making.
- S – Speed. Great leaders are decisive, Connor remarked, and counted on to get things done.
Relaxed and clearly pleased for the opportunity to address students, Connor took questions from the audience following his talk – and commented that some of the queries were among the toughest ever posed to him.
He also spoke lightheartedly about being the keynote speaker at a forum sponsored by Goodyear, since his father had been an executive with Firestone. Connor then relayed that as a child he and his family often joked how Firestone had great years and fantastic years – but never a 'good year'!
A native of Pensacola, Fla., who was raised in Akron and graduated from Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, Connor attended The University of Akron for a semester in 1976 before earning his degree from The Ohio State University. He joined The Sherwin-Williams Company in 1983 as director of advertising for the Paint Stores Group and held a number of increasingly important assignments prior to being named CEO in 1999 and chairman in 2000.
Connor addresses students as keynote speaker of the 2014 Goodyear Executive Leadership Forum.
In many ways, Connor's leadership style is reflective of the culture of excellence at The Sherwin-Williams Company, which has been recognized by many business publications for its financial excellence, integrity of business practices, and strong track record of dividend payments. What's more, Fortune magazine has – three times – named The Sherwin-Williams Company one of the nation's top 100 employers.
Prior to his closing remarks, Connor read the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling (explaining he had given a copy of the poem to each of his children at their college graduation), and he commented on the amazing transformation of UA's campus since his days as a student, praising the work and vision of President Luis Proenza, who was on hand and had introduced Connor to the crowd.
In addition to The Sherwin-Williams Company Board of Directors, Connor serves on the boards of the Eaton Corporation and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. His many civic and community board engagements include the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the Playhouse Square Foundation, University Hospitals Health System, United Way Services of Greater Cleveland, Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University, the National Association of Manufacturers, and The American Coatings Association. He also is chairman of the Greater Cleveland Partnership.
About the Goodyear Executive Leadership Forum
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company established the Goodyear Executive Leadership Forum through The University of Akron College of Business Administration. The forum, which hosted its first speaker in 1991, enables students, faculty, and the community to interact with individuals of national and international stature. The Goodyear Executive Leadership Forum is designated to showcase the special knowledge and insight of leaders in business, politics, and society. Past speakers have included Roger S. Penske, J.D. Power III, James C. Perkins, Stanley C. Gault, Hiroshi Okuda, W.R. Timken Jr., Glen A. Barton, Chris Jones, Joseph M. Magliochetti, Andrea Jung, David Oreck, Richard K. Smucker, Robert J. Keegan, David A. Daberko, Carl T. Camden, Walter W. Bettinger II, Jim Clifton, and Anthony Alexander.
About The Sherwin-Williams Company
The Sherwin-Williams Company is a $10 billion global leader in the paint and coatings industry. It operates more than 3,450 paint stores in the United States, owns many of the paint and coatings industry leading brand names, including Sherwin-Williams, Dutch Boy, Krylon, and many more; and sells products in more than 100 countries around the world.
About the College of Business Administration
The College of Business Administration is a professional college of The University of Akron that is dedicated to teaching, business research, and public service. The College offers programs of study in accountancy, business administration, finance, management, marketing, international business, and sales and is accredited at the highest level for both undergraduate and graduate programs by AACSB International – the mark of excellence in education for business schools worldwide. In fact, less than 2 percent of business schools in the world have achieved this accreditation. The College also is consistently ranked as a top business school by The Princeton Review, Bloomberg Businessweek, and U.S. News & World Report and has recognized programs in professional selling and direct marketing.


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text: The Black Cutworm and Thresholds July 4, 2013 12:00 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Ellie Murphy Farm Journal Media Intern Email Detecting an insect threshold begins with scouting early in the season. Farm Journal's Associate Field Agronomist Missy Bauer discusses the need for early scouting the black cutworms in Episode 6 of Corn College TV Season 3. Bauer says that it is important to put traps out in the field as soon as the weather starts to warm up. She says to record the number of moths in the trap every few days to determine when peak flight is occurring. Then, check to see if the number of heat units has been met for those larvae to hatch. (Click here to order Corn College TV Education Series on DVD.) When scouting, look for plants that have a wilted look. These have likely been totally cut off by the black cutworm larvae. Look through the soil for larvae and, if you find any at the 3-5% threshold, it is probably time to start spraying. "If you're getting that 3-5% cut plus you're finding the actual larvae themselves and identifying the stage of the larvae, that will give you a good indication of how much longer they'll be feeding." Watch Episode 6 below for more info on the black cutworm and insect thresholds. Click here to register for 2013 Corn College events happening throughout the summer. Back to news


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In this webcast Xenics focuses on "SWIR InGaAs line-scan cameras – square or rectangular pixels for imaging or spectroscopy?"
Short Wave Infrared (SWIR) line-scan cameras are more and more used in a broad range of applications, which require a longer cutoff wavelength than standard CCD or CMOS cameras can offer. These applications are all driven by cost optimization, quality control in the production process, and reduced time to market with easy-to-integrate products.
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As Roy Ortiz's car filled with fast-moving flood water, he thought about his family and prayed to God. He tried not to panic.
Ortiz, who was driving to work just before 6 a.m. on Thursday on Dillon Road near U.S 287, saw the street was washed out by flood waters. He tried to stop, but became trapped in his car when a bridge collapse caused him to slide off the road into Rock Creek. North Metro Fire Rescue rescued him from his submerged car two hours later.
At a press conference at Good Samaritan Medical Center on Friday, Ortiz credited North Metro Fire Rescue District's skills and his faith in God for helping him survive the harrowing ordeal.
"I need(ed) to relax, because I want to survive for my kids, my wife," he said.
Ortiz, a Broomfield resident, said he called his wife when he fell off the road, then called 911. Before he could get out of his car, two more vehicles on the road crashed into the same creek, causing his car to flip over in the water.
Ortiz survived by positioning his head in a small air bubble near the back of his car, but the sound of the flood waters made it impossible for him to yell for help.
"Everywhere I moved, there was the water," he said. "Two hours was an eternity."
He worried about running out of air. He worried about the car shifting in the water. Yet he prayed and sang to God and trusted that the 911 calls he and his wife had made would be enough, he said.
John Cook, an engineer with North Metro, said he and his team members responded to the scene just before daybreak, when they located three cars that were stuck in the creek.
One motorist was able to escape from his vehicle and crawl up the bank, and another was pulled to safety by North Metro, according to Sara Farris, spokeswoman for North Metro Fire Rescue District
Ortiz, however, was still trapped.
Cook and his team, who are trained in swiftwater rescue operations, took an inflatable boat into the creek, where they investigated Ortiz's car for signs of life. When they heard Ortiz's cries for help, they were able to break a car window, pass him a life jacket and eventually get him out of the car.
Cook said his team worked quickly to get everyone to safety, but said it's a miracle Ortiz made it out alive, especially because he had been submerged for two hours.
When Cook saw Ortiz for the first time, "he looked extremely tired," Cook said
At the press conference, Cook met Ortiz for the first time since the accident. The two shook hands and smiled.
"It's nice to meet him and see a smiling face, not an exhausted face," Cook said.
Ortiz said he didn't receive any major injuries, and now just has sore muscles and a sore neck from the two hours he spent in a small space.
He was most relieved to get back to his family, including his wife, Patricia Sosa, who made 911 calls and waited in panic until she heard her husband was safe.
Ortiz also is happy to be reunited with his daughter, 11-year-old Westlake Middle School student Evelyn Sosa.
"I didn't think he was going to get through that, but he did," she said.
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>email@example.com (Julie Locascio) Sub: Life Duty Death| Said:
>I think you are forgetting at least one important "natural" issue:
>international trade. Large countries and communities like the U.S. and the
>European Community survive on high levels of international trade.
>International trade can be grossly impeded by even "local" wars, which cause
>refugee flight, resource destruction, and market disruptions.
>There is no "local" war which could be fought to some "natural" conclusion
>without a >rippling effect on its direct territorial neighbors (via refugee
>resource destruction) AND on indirect trade neighbors (and trade links are
>very complex). You can say what you like about the "naturalness" of violent
>conflict, but you are turning a blind eye to the fact that intervention in
>other people's wars is OFTEN motivated by economic self-interest and long-term
>security concerns, not humanitarian pity. (cut for compuserve 50ln. limit)
Ms Locascio:
You are right about "economic self-interest," but I Have mentioned "profits,
greed, etc., many times, but maybe not in the same sentence with "corrupt
humanist" ideals. "Long-term security," translates into "economic interest," But
has a more personal ring to it, a "we're watching out for you" ring. Upon
hearing these explanations, lower nature (omega) man holds on with both hands,
to the long arms of the system, accepting without question their strong and
brave protector's every word. I agree with *most* everything you say, but you
fail to see that I don't care what happens to the "modern" world. I have stated
that I think over-population is our number one problem because of its affects on
the planet. Practically Nothing escapes Some form of altering and/or destruction
from this burden. As "barbaric" as it sounds, human "herds" need culling. Anyone
but a totally idiot would agree that: If humans numbers continued to increase
at the present rate, there will be No Future for humans, in particular "civil-
ized" societies, and certainly not white Aryan Kind. Many of Earth's ecosystems
would suffer tremendous setbacks also. The Only question then would be *how
long*.....? This being so, why should anyone concern himself with "rippling
effects" ect., from local wars since they serve a very important role in
population reduction, or "weeding the ranks." As we speak, research scientist
at LSU announced with great excitement that they may be getting close to
isolating the gene that "causes" aging, and the media excitedly reported as an
"I can hardly wait" issue. "Idiots" or idiot clones? Maybe science will soon
solve all "dying syndromes" and live-birth problems, thereby forcing us to come
face to face with our future much sooner. "Sooner" would be a good *damage
control* strategy. Some people do not want to think "bad" things because of the
burden it places on their "souls." Others won't because of self-centeredness.
Many are simply not biologically equipped for depth perception, and therefore
cannot be faulted unless they are in a position of influence, or, are involved
in some form of activity that is directly responsible for our problem(s). I think
this True Natural Law is not dissimilar to the artificial law of; ignorance is
no excuse. Yes, human civilized systems Are very complex, as opposed to
primitive societies. This is not natural nor desirable, considering the many
ramifications of *complex systems* on body, mind and spirit of man. Complex
systems slowly consume the "souls" of man, resulting in many and various problems
affecting nation/state, community and family. Many times these problems result
in unnecessary and stupid killings that defies all logic. Modern man knows much
less about True human nature than did primitive man. _Earth Abides_