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Notable Brandeis Alumni
Notable Brandeis Alumni
Brandeis counts among its graduates Pulitzer Prize winners, Emmy Award winners, best-selling authors — even a Nobel laureate. But it doesn't stop there. Brandeis graduates occupy leadership roles in virtually every walk of life. Here are just a few:
Activism and Public Service
- Deborah Bial '87, education strategist; founder and president, Posse Foundation (MacArthur Fellow)
- Alisa Gravitz '77, CEO and president, Green America
- Devika Mahadevan '00, CEO, Mumbai Mobile Creches
- Bobby Sager '76, philanthropist; former president, Gordon Brothers Group
- Rakesh Rajani '89, civil society leader in Tanzania
- Robert Romasco '69, president, AARP (formerly American Association of Retired Persons)
- Andrew Slack '02, executive director and co-founder, Harry Potter Alliance
- Sam Vaghar '08, executive director and co-founder, Millennium Campus Network
Arts and Entertainment
- David Crane '79 and Marta Kauffman '78, co-creators, "Friends"
- Loretta Devine, MFA'76, Emmy Award-winning actor ("Dreamgirls," "Grey's Anatomy")
- Tony Goldwyn '82, film and TV actor and director ("Scandal," "Ghost")
- Debra Granik '85, film director and screenwriter ("Winter's Bone," "Down to the Bone")
- Marshall Herskovitz '73, director, producer and screenwriter ("The Last Samurai," "Traffic," "30something")
- Michael Kaiser '75, co-chair, IMG Artists; president, DeVos Institute of Arts Management, University of Maryland; president emeritus, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Jonathan Landau '68, music producer and manager (Bruce Springsteen)
- Debra Messing '90, Emmy Award-winning actor ("Will & Grace," "Smash," "Outside Mullingar")
- Anand Patwardhan '72, documentary filmmaker
- Theresa Rebeck, MA'83, MFA'86, PhD'89, Broadway playwright
- Gary Tinterow '76, director, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- George Wachter '73, chair, executive vice president, Sotheby's
- Adam Weinberg '77, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Mitch Albom '79, "Tuesdays With Morrie," "Five People You Meet in Heaven"
- Stacey Ballis '92, "Inappropriate Men," "Sleeping Over," "Room for Improvement"
- Edward Dolnick '74, "The Clockwork Universe," "The Forger's Spell," "The Rescue Artist"
- Karen Drogin '87 (aka Carly Phillips), "Serendipity," "Destiny"
- Ha Jin, MA'89, PhD'93, "Waiting," "War Trash," "Nanjing Requiem"
- Jesse Kellerman, MFA'03, "Sunstroke," "Genius," "Trouble," "The Executor"
Business and Industry
- Len Asper '86, co-founder and managing partner, Syngus Ventures; president and CEO, Anthem Media Group
- Tony Chang, PhD '83, founder and director, Tech-Link Silicones
- Steve Cloobeck '83, CEO, Diamond Resorts International
- Jonathan Davis '75, CEO and founder, The Davis Companies
- Jeri Finard '81, president, Godiva North America
- Brian Lash '78, founder and CEO, Target Logistics
- Olaf Olafsson '85, executive vice president of international and corporate strategy, Time Warner
- Lou Perlmutter '56, retired senior partner, Lazard; senior advisor, Corporate Partners private equity fund
- Robert F.X. Sillerman '69, businessman and media entrepreneur
- Sam Sisakhti, MA'07, CEO, UsTrendy
- Perry Traquina '78, CEO, Wellington Management investment firm
- Arthur Caplan '71, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and head of the Division of Bioethics, New York University Langone Medical Center
- Martha Kanter '70, former undersecretary, U.S. Department of Education
- Angela Davis '65, former director, feminist studies department, University of California, Santa Cruz; political and social activist
- Deborah Lipstadt, MA'72, PhD'76, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Emory University
- David Oshinsky, PhD'71, director, Division of Medical Humanities, NYU Langone Medical Center (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- Jehuda Reinharz, PhD '72, president emeritus, Brandeis University; Jewish historian; president, Mandel Foundation
- Manuel Rivera '74, prominent educator and inner-city superintendent
- Michael Sandel '75, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University
- Jonathan Sarna '75, MA'75, Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
- Fernando Torres-Gil, PhD'76, professor and director of Center for Policy Research on Aging, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Michael Walzer '56, political theorist; professor emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study
- David Yoffie '76, Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration; senior associate dean; chair, executive education at Harvard Business School
- Robert Zimmer '68, president, University of Chicago
Government and Politics
- Geir Haarde '73, former prime minister, Iceland
- Olubanke King-Akerele '67, former foreign minister, Liberia
- Lisa Kubiske '75, U.S. ambassador to Honduras
- Haile Menkerios '70, head of United Nations Office to the African Union and special representative to the African Union
- Dimitrij Rupel, PhD'76, former minister of foreign affairs, Slovenia
- Daniel Shapiro '91, U.S. ambassador to Israel
Journalism and Media
- Paula Apsell '69, senior executive producer, "Nova," and director of WGBH-TV science unit (Emmy Award winner)
- Thomas Friedman '75, foreign affairs columnist, The New York Times (Pulitzer Prize winner)
- Walt Mossberg '69, information technology columnist and founder, Re/Code (Loeb award winner)
- Peter Osnos '64, founder and editor-at-large, Public Affairs Books
- Martin Peretz '59, former editor-in-chief, The New Republic
- Guy Raz '96, host of "TED Radio Hour," National Public Radio
- Ellis Verdi '77, co-founder and CEO, DeVito/Verdi advertising agency
Science and Mathematics
- Paul Anastas, MA'87, PhD'89, director, Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering and Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment, Yale University
- Bonnie Berger '83, professor of applied math and computer science, MIT; first woman in MIT math department to earn tenure
- Adam Cheyer '88, co-founder, Siri voice-activated personal assistant
- Susan Band Horwitz, PhD'63, Rose C. Falkenstein Professor of Cancer Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; co-inventor of cancer-fighting drug Taxol
- Leslie Lamport, MA'71, PhD'72, principal researcher, Microsoft and developer of LaTeX (Turing Award winner)
- Roderick MacKinnon '78, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Professor, The Rockefeller University (Nobel laureate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator)
- Eve Marder '69, Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience, Brandeis; member of advisory board for President Barack Obama's BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) initiative
- Karen Uhlenbeck, MA'67, PhD'68, Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Mathematics, University of Texas-Austin (MacArthur Fellow)
- Edward Witten '71, Charles Simonyi Professor of Mathematical Physics, Institute for Advanced Study (Fields Medal winner)
- Nelson Figueroa '98, pitcher, Major League Baseball
- Jeffrey Lurie, PhD'87, owner, Philadelphia Eagles
- Tim Morehouse '00, Olympic fencer


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Johnson Praises Design Award Winners For Sustainability, Design Innovation
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Martha N. Johnson
U.S. General Services Administration
2010 GSA Design Awards
Washington, DC
January 20, 2011
Welcome to the 2010 GSA Design Awards. It is great to have you all here, and I am delighted that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan; Commissioner Amanda Burden of the New York City Department of City Planning; Editor in Chief Cindy Allen of Interior Design; 2010 GSA Design Awards jury chair Billie Tsien; and so many other distinguished guests and civic leaders could join us this afternoon.
We are gathered to honor the work of some of the country's top architects, designers, engineers, and building professionals.
In so honoring them, we reaffirm our belief that federal buildings offer us an opportunity to express and celebrate our shared national values.
Today, I would like to call out one of those values in particular. It is a value that President Barack Obama has also called out and particularly challenged us to lean into with all the creativity and inventiveness we have. That value is sustainability.
The General Services Administration has embraced that sustainability challenge, and within the last year has agreed to and engaged in seeking the aspirational goal of achieving a zero environmental footprint or ZEF.
Each of the buildings highlighted today moves the General Services Administration closer toward that goal.
Setting such a goal is like raising our line of sight up to the roofline of our buildings – and beyond.
It is what President John F. Kennedy did for the nation when he announced that we would put an astronaut on the moon and bring him safely home.
Such goals galvanize people; they capture the imagination and unlock our potential and creativity.
I am pleased to report that ZEF is galvanizing GSA, which, in turn, can support the entire federal system as it shifts to norms, decisions, and a culture of sustainability.
One of the ways that GSA's Public Buildings Service is engaging in ZEF is by linking it to our long tradition of superb design.
The leadership and risk-taking evident in the projects we are describing today are the results of that linkage.
In the buildings recognized this afternoon, you will see clever, inventive, progressive, and imaginative ways of meshing design and sustainability.
ZEF allows us to be a showcase, a proving ground, for the best in clean, high-performance buildings; they can be laboratories for clean technologies.
And it doesn't stop there.
ZEF resonates across our business lines. It underscores our commitment to growth in green construction, green jobs, green products, green fleet, green services, and green contracting.
GSA is a catalyst for innovation and change, and we are working closely with our partners in the private sector to bring sustainability to the buildings, operations, and supply chain of the Federal Government.
ZEF is also affecting GSA in our own self-definition and awareness.
ZEF is about "no waste" and focuses us on both our magnificent design capacities and our daily office behaviors.
Furthermore, it has provided interesting new ways to think about our skills and offerings.
We are a significant player in the design world. We are also a significant player in the disposal world. We are unique in our perspective and ability to link design to disposal, to close the loop of consumption, to practice the cradle-to-cradle thinking we must do to be truly sustainable.
The buildings and the designers that we recognize today are leaders, innovators, and pioneers.
They represent the highest caliber of design and the new edges of sustainability.
The portfolio is varied, ranging from a parking garage to a courthouse to the gateways of our country.
Yet though these buildings serve very different functions; they also reaffirm GSA's commitment to an innovative government today and a healthy world tomorrow.
Thank you.
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Henk Haazen at the helm of Tiama, leading the nuclear free Tasman flotilla out to sea where they will meet up with other Greenpeace boats to protest over plutonium being shipped through the Pacific Ocean.
Nuclear power is never safe, and the use of nuclear technology has never been 'peaceful'. Internationally, Greenpeace has always fought - and will continue to fight - vigorously against nuclear power because it is an unacceptable risk to the environment and to humanity.
The only solution is to halt the expansion of all nuclear power, and for the shutdown of existing plants.
We are campaigning to end the use of nuclear power and its subsequent reprocessing, transporting and dumping of toxic waste.
Greenpeace also wants total disarmament of nuclear weapons, and we'll always protest against, and endeavour to stop, nuclear weapons testing.
We'll also always campaign to keep New Zealand Nuclear Free!
Nuclear power remains dangerous, polluting, expensive and non-renewable. More nuclear power means more problems. It also means less resources invested in real solutions to growing energy demands.
Renewable energies, on the other hand, have truly limitless sources, can be more easily deployed in remote, underdeveloped regions, present absolutely no risk to global security and are environmentally friendly.
Nuclear power is not a solution to climate change. We need clean, renewable energy to power our future - read more.
Go to the Climate Change section to learn why we're acting to stop dirty energy (including nuclear) and promoting clean energy.
The nuclear age began in July 1945 when the US tested their first nuclear bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico. A few years later, in 1953, President Eisenhower launched his "Atoms for Peace" Programme at the United Nations amid a wave of unbridled atomic optimism. However, the use of nuclear power has never been "peaceful".
Nuclear installations, whether military or civil, have a sad record of accidents and incidents, shrouded in cover-ups, lies and misinformation. The generation of electricity in nuclear reactors produces substances than can be used for the fabrication of nuclear weapons. The dangers associated with the handling of weapons-useable nuclear substances require a high level of security and secrecy even in democratic countries.
Every part of the nuclear industry has unacceptable risks, from uranium mining to energy production to the unsolved problem of transporting and storing radioactive waste. Radiation released into the environment has led to the contamination of soil, air, rivers and oceans; causing cancer and other diseases in people.
Moreover, nuclear energy has never been economic, despite the massive state subsidies it has received for decades. Even now funding still pours into the nuclear sector at the expense of renewable resources like solar or wind energy.
Over half a century after Eisenhower's speech, the planet is left with the legacy of nuclear waste, which will be radioactive for tens or hundreds of thousands of years. The only logical solution is to close down the nuclear industry and stop creating the risk and the waste.
As a nuclear campaigner, I have seen the nuclear industry walk away from its mistakes many times, ignoring people's suffering.
But it is the terrible effect on people of a nuclear disaster such as Fukushima that really brings home...
The exact number of nuclear weapons situated across the world is shrouded in mystery, but whatever the number, North Korea's underground test this week is a grim reminder of the devastation and destruction these weapons could unleash.
They poured onto the sites of two nuclear reactor plants in Sweden this morning with minimal problems: more than 70 Greenpeace activists, from five countries, conducted peaceful stress tests of the sites. The goal: to show how...
Lijon was from Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands and was 8 years old when her home island was showered in radioactive fallout from the March 1, 1954 US Bravo test on nearby Bikini Atoll. Bravo was the biggest of the 67 nuclear...
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McCartney, Springsteen, & More to Rock NYC for Sandy Benefit Show
(NEW YORK) -- Many of the same artists who participated in the star-studded Hurricane Sandy relief telethon that aired on NBC a few weeks ago, plus more, are coming together in New York City on Wednesday, December 12, for a huge benefit concert.
Dubbed 12.12.12: The Concert for Sandy Relief, the one-night-only event at Madison Square Garden boasts a lineup that includes Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, The Who, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Pink Floyd's Roger Waters, and Jon Bon Jovi. It's being produced by the same folks who brought you the 9/11 benefit show, The Concert for New York City.
Proceeds from the event will go to the Robin Hood Relief Fund, which is providing money, materials and information to charitable organizations in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut that are helping assist the families and areas hit hardest by the storm.
The show will also be telecast, but those details are not yet available. Ticket information will be released in the coming days.
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Tualatin's library manager, Abigail Elder, will begin a new position as Beaverton's library director July 8.
Elder, 42, has worked for the Tualatin Public Library since 2008. She has also worked for the Multnomah County Library, Salem Public Library and Beaverton City Library.
"She's local -- she knows what we're doing," said Beaverton Mayor Denny Doyle, noting that Elder lives in east Beaverton. "I think she'll be very engaged with the community."
Elder is a past president of the Oregon Library Association and a current member of an American Library Association committee on expanding library services for the elderly. She received a master's degree in library studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master's degree in public administration from Portland State University, according to a Beaverton press release.
Elder could not be immediately reached for comment.
She is set to take the helm of an expanding library system. The Beaverton Library Foundation is currently trying to raise $350,000 to expand the library branch at the Murray Scholls Town Center by 5,000 square feet.
The proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 includes a slight increase in library staffing, and the city plans to hire more staff members if the foundation succeeds in paying for the branch expansion.
Beaverton's current library director, Ed House, 64, is retiring after 13 years. During his tenure, House oversaw the opening of the Murray Scholls branch in 2010 and a recent switch to automated materials handling.
If Elder's contract is approved by the City Council, she will earn $100,164 with a 2.26 percent cost-of-living increase, according to city spokesman Bill LaMarche. House currently earns $115,956.
The city narrowed 22 initial applicants down to five finalists, Doyle said, though only four completed the interview process.
Elder has "been pretty darn innovative in her current position," Doyle said, joking that he would have to buy Tualatin Mayor Lou Ogden dinner to apologize for the Tualatin library's loss.
Tualatin is preparing to recruit for a new library manager in the coming weeks, said City Manager Sherilyn Lombos.
Fenit Nirappil of The Oregonian contributed to this report.
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Gameplanet has
500 375 250 125 keys for the Diablo III Closed Beta to give away!
Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo III, the highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Diablo action role-playing game series, is currently in beta. The ability to participate in this epic test has long since been restricted to a small group of mortals. Now is your chance to raise weapons and battle the evil forces infesting Sanctuary.
Every Friday through to 9th March, we'll be handing out 125 keys.
Plus, at the end of the competition, one lucky person will win the Legendary Grand Prize:
- Diablo III 'Book of Cain' Hardcover, signed by the creative team including Flint Dille, Mickey Neilson, Chris Metzen and more!
- Limited Edition BlizzCon 2011 Mini Tyrael maquette
- Diablo III 'Rainbows' T-Shirt
That's in addition to scoring (or having already scored) a beta key, of course!
How to enter
To enter, look for loot drops scattered around the Gameplanet web site. Here's how it works:
- There are 40 items to be found. 40 have been dropped.
- Each item is worth a particular number of points. Some are much more valuable than others.
- Each point is equivalent to one entry in the draw to win. The more points you collect, the more chances you have to win.
- Find all the items to maximise your chances of winning.
- If you missed out in the last draw, don't panic: all the items you've already found still count towards the next draw, and we're always adding more so keep hunting!
When you find an item, click on the Pick Up button to be brought back to this competition page. Then click Redeem Item to enter the competition. You need to redeem each item as you find it. You can only redeem each item once.
To get you started, here is your first item:
The other items may be found inside articles, forum threads and elsewhere. Some items have not been dropped yet; they will appear in new articles published during the competition period, so be sure to check back.
About the Diablo III beta
In the Diablo III closed beta test, participants will be able to fight their way through part of Act I as any of the five hero classes – barbarian, witch doctor, wizard, monk, and demon hunter – and go head-to-skull against the Skeleton King, taking him on alone or playing cooperatively with other adventurers.
They'll also get to meet up with some of the artisans, followers, and other key characters from Sanctuary, and try out the game's skill and crafting systems.
Diablo III will continue the epic Diablo storyline, with players playing their role in the ongoing struggle to save the world of Sanctuary from the corrupting forces of the Burning Hells.
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- Prizes not claimed after 7 days may be forfeited.
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Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Benefits of Pilates:
- Works whole body;
- Develop core strength;
- Improves muscle flexibility and joint mobility;
- Adaptable to all fitness levels;
- Creates long lean muscles;
- Improves posture;
- Increases energy;
- Weight loss;
- Improves mind-body awareness;
- Prevention of future injuries;
- Corrects muscle imbalance;
- Reduces stress and tension in the body;
- Improves circulation;
- Complements sports training;
- Develop functional fitness.
Jo is a qualified Pilates instructor and physiotherapist.
Book now to ensure you get a spot as class numbers are limited! Email: email@example.com or text/call 02102695019 to book your class or to enquire!
Pilates classes also available in Henderson, Massey, Ranui, Oratia, Titirangi, Blockhouse Bay, New Lynn. Visit the website for full timetable.


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Louis Vuitton Monogram Neverfull PM Bag Pre Owned
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Authenticity code: Louis Vuitton VI4029
Authentic: Pre Owned
This authentic Louis Vuitton Neverfull PM bag has style and practicality. This PM is the big size of the LV Neverfull bunch. Its spaciousness and stability makes it ideal for any occasion. The most unique and special part about this bag is it is reversible and the interior canvas can be shown to achieve a different Louis Vuitton look.
- Exterior: Very Good
- Interior: Very Good
- Description of Interior: Textile Lined
- Interior Pockets: One zipper pocket
- Color: Brown
- Hardware Description: Gold Hardware
- Material: Monogram
- Width: 11.4 in.
- Length: 5.1 in.
- Height: 8.7 in.
- Handle Drop: 8 in.
Product Code: 2215003
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jspiker77 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 25 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Our software Dealership Director needs branding, we are looking for new fun and innovative design to brand our software
Dealership Director
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The name of the software is Dealership Director, if possible I am looking for a logo that not only encompasses the dealership but also conveys the aspect of taking control of your business.
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Apple Profit Rises on Strong Mac, iPod SalesBy Reuters - | Posted 2008-04-23 Print
Apple gets richer in profit in quarterly earnings.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday posted a 36 percent rise in quarterly profit, helped by strong sales of its Macintosh computers and iPod media players, but its cautious outlook disappointed investors.
Apple shares edged lower after the company, known for conservative financial forecasts, also gave a profit outlook for its current quarter that was below Wall Street estimates.
Apple said it expected earnings of $1.00 per share on revenue of $7.2 billion for its fiscal third quarter. Wall Street was looking for earnings per share of $1.11 and revenue of $7.17 billion, according to Reuters Estimates.
Net profit for its fiscal second quarter ended in March was $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per share, compared with $770 million, or 87 cents per share, a year ago. Revenue was $7.51 billion, up 43 percent.
The results beat the average analyst forecasts for revenue of $6.95 billion and earnings per share of $1.07, according to Reuters Estimates.
The company said it sold 2.29 million Mac computers in the quarter, topping the 2.04 million to 2.2 million range of five analysts' forecasts.
Apple sold 10.6 million iPods and 1.7 million iPhones in the quarter. Analysts were mostly looking for iPod shipments in the range of 9.5 million to 11 million, and iPhone sales in the 1.4 million to 1.8 million range.
Shares of Apple initially rose about 4 percent on the report, but quickly erased gains to trade at $159.25 versus their Nasdaq close of $162.89.
(Reporting by Scott Hillis; Editing by Braden Reddall)
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Mobil SHC Cibus Series is a new line of synthetic, food-grade lubricants that had its U.S. debut at Worldwide Food Expo in October 2009. The line is suitable for the full spectrum of hydraulic, gear and air compressor applications, providing food & beverage processors with high performance lubrication and long service life, even under extreme operating conditions such as freezers and cookers. In addition to being manufactured in equipment where cross contamination is minimized, Mobil SHC Cibus lubricants are formulated to be nut-, wheat- and gluten-free and suitable under Kosher and Halal dietary laws. Engineered with advanced synthetic base stocks, the oils, exhibit good load-carrying properties and low internal friction, helping to reduce energy costs. In proprietary worm gear bench tests, they demonstrated up to 3 percent overall efficiency improvement compared to mineral gear oils.


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Perhaps those things are not valuable in themselves. Sometimes they can be a cheap buzz, an easy distraction from more constructive and innovative activities and objectives.
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I doubt there is a magic formula that makes everybody "truly happy". The items you described are signals/proxies of achievement - the need for which we all obviously posses - and will certainly make some people very happy, specifically those which value such things. On the flip side, having no power, status, or wealth tend to make most of us unhappy. It is not necessarily thus that if that which makes us unhappy is added we become happy, or vice versa that if something which makes us happy is removed we become unhappy. In motivational theory a very intuitive model which explains this is the Hertzberg two-factor model, in logic it is related to the fallacy of affirming the consequent.
I couldn't tell you. I haven't accumulated much in either of those three things.
I don't know, give me a few hundred million dollars, and make me king an I'll let you know.
Thanks for your replies. Of course, this question isn't closed, but maybe we've moved on a little.
It's true that we need a certain amount of power, status and wealth, biologically.
However, first and foremost, those qualities have to come from within. Perhaps that is one necessary requirement for true happiness. If we don't feel them within us, then we can never get enough from external sources to fulfil our needs for them.
take out wealth in any equation and no matter what you'll be sad/depressed although you can't be happy with wealth alone, it needs to combine it with something else.


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We left North Carolina's mile-high mountains Saturday, driving some 800 miles in two days, mostly along Interstate 85, leaving behind the twisty roads and multicolored leaves and threats of a "Sandy" snowstorm.
We left North Carolina's mile-high mountains Saturday, driving some 800 miles in two days, mostly along Interstate 85, leaving behind the twisty roads and multicolored leaves and threats of a "Sandy" snowstorm.
By the time you read this, it will be clear whether meteorologists, a week ago, predicted correctly that a couple of cold fronts approaching from the northwest might combine with Hurricane Sandy, from the east, resulting in an early snow.
One report suggested a foot or two of snow along the Appalachians, chiefly in West Virginia, but possibly farther south, in Tennessee and North Carolina.
The locals we spoke to showed no surprise or alarm over the snowy prospects. Of course, snow in the mountains is not the rare phenomenon it would be here.
Preparations? As we drove southbound Saturday and Sunday, we spotted occasional clusters of "bucket trucks" headed the opposite direction. These were the sort of trucks used by utilities and professional tree trimmers, and over two days they totaled perhaps 50, far too many for any local job.
We suspect they were dispatched in anticipation of heavy storm damage to electrical systems when the storm came ashore. Our surprise was in their being on the way to potential damage days before the storm came ashore.
Satsumas! We returned from fall color viewing in the Smoky Mountains this week to find the local autumn colors showing up in orchards and roadside stands across the coastal region. We had managed to sample a few sweet satsumas before we left, and on our return found a message from Dot Rogers of Bourg whose orchard has been supplying us for years.
Her satsumas are ready, sweet, but the other citrus, oranges and grapefruit, will come later.
Dot has one of the several citrus orchards in the area. Hers is located on La. 55 alongside Bayou Terrebonne, just south of Klondyke, where La. 24 turns east toward Larose. There may be others more accessible to you, and roadside stands provide other opportunities to buy citrus by the bag.
Southdown Marketplace: Southdown Marketplace, an arts and craft show, is scheduled for Saturday at the plantation, 1208 Museum Drive, Houma. There will be scores of craft booths for fall shoppers.
The plantation's director, Rachel Cherry, said volunteer ticket takers are needed. If you would like to volunteer, call the plantation at 851-0154.
"Coming Apart": The romantic comedy, "Coming Apart," is scheduled to open Nov. 8 at Le Petit Theatre de Terrebonne, 7829 Main St., Houma. To reserve seats, visit www.houmalittletheatre.com or call 876-4278.
Smart voting: Early voting closed Tuesday in Louisiana, so remaining registered voters should be preparing to cast ballots at their precincts Tuesdat.
All the media attention has been on the Obama-Romney battle for the presidency, but they are not alone on the ballot. Expect a handful of presidential candidates you never heard of, plus a swarm of proposed amendments to the Louisiana Constitution, plus in some precincts, judgeships, parish propositions and more.
Get a sample. Study it with the aid of www.Geauxvote.com and www.parlouisiana.org for amendment explanation. Write out your intentions for a speedy turn in the voting booth.
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If you'll be in town for this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, you're likely looking for food options outside of the festival grounds. For a delicious meal of French and Creole cuisine in a charming, cozy spot near the Fairgrounds, Café Degas on Esplanade Ave is a sure bet. They serve up lunch Wednesday through Saturday, dinner Wednesday through Sunday and Sunday Brunch (just call ahead for hours), so you can enjoy their cuisine either before or after your Jazz Fest experience.
The restaurant is named after the 19th century French impressionist Edgar Degas who lived down the street in this quaint Creole neighborhood. The building itself houses tables both indoors and outdoors in a covered space that is pleasant even while it's raining. You can enjoy the pleasing atmosphere of the restaurant against the lush, historic backdrop of Esplanade Ave while dining on splendid Creole-influenced French fare. The inside is small but cozy and intimate with the feel and appeal of a French bistro.
The lunch menu includes such hors d'oeuvres as pates, cheese plates and to-die-for escargot and entrees like quiche, veal stew, yellowfin tuna, sautéed calf's liver and seared hanger steak. For dinner, you can expect similar appetizers and entrée offerings in larger portions plus extras like a pan-seared rack of lamb. Their brunch selection includes crepes au crab, grillades and grits, eggs benedict and Belgian waffles. They post their lunch and dinner specials on their website if you want to plan ahead. They are also open for drinks and small plates in between lunch and dinner services, and they boast a fine, varied wine list.
Café Degas is located at 3127 Esplanade Ave, which is down the street from the Fairgrounds, the host of Jazz Fest. Reservations are suggested for parties of three or more, and you'll especially want to make them sooner than later considering the volume of restaurant traffic from Jazz Fest crowds and city visitors pouring in.


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By early 1963, the number of American military personnel in Vietnam had grown from several hundred to more than 10,000 in a few short years. The ramifications of the United States' direct involvement in a conflict halfway around the globe — less than a decade after the ceasefire in another brutal war in Korea — were certainly part of the national conversation, but in '63 America's growing role in Vietnam was not even close to the all-encompassing, divisive issue it would become by the middle of the decade.
Vietnam was on people's radar, of course, but not as a constant, alarming blip. Military families were learning first-hand (before everyone else, as they always do) that this was no "police action; but for millions of Americans, Vietnam was a mystery, a riddle that no doubt would be resolved and forgotten in time: a little place far away where inscrutable strangers were fighting over . . . something.
[MORE: "Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week's Toll"]
All the more remarkable that in January of 1963, LIFE magazine published the powerful cover article, "We Wade Deeper Into Jungle War," and illustrated it with not one or two photos but with a dozen pictures — most of them in color — by the great photojournalist, Larry Burrows.
Burrows, seen at left in Vietnam in 1963, worked steadily — although not exclusively — in Southeast Asia from 1962 until his death in 1971. His work is often cited as the most searing and the most consistently excellent photography from the war, and several of his pictures ("Reaching Out," for example, featuring a wounded Marine desperately trying to comfort a stricken comrade after a fierce 1966 firefight) and photo essays (like 1965's harrowing "One Ride With Yankee Papa 13") both encompassed and defined the long, polarizing catastrophe in Vietnam.
He and three fellow photojournalists died when their helicopter was shot down during operations in Laos. Burrows was 44.
The pictures here, meanwhile, are striking not only for the clarity with which they document a scary, widening conflict, but for how graphic they are. To American eyes, long accustomed to having their news sanitized by the major media, the notion that these and similarly gruesome pictures routinely ran in a popular weekly magazine five decades ago will likely come as something of a shock. Today, a photograph of blood stains and broken glass on a street after a car bombing is about the extent of what most Americans will ever see on the nightly news, on bale shows or in their newspapers. (Raggedly severed limbs, torched corpses and viscera-covered walls evidently being deemed too upsetting to the fragile American sensibility.)
But it's worth recalling — or reminding those who weren't alive at the time — that, starting even before the January 25, 1963, issue in which the photos in this gallery appeared, and throughout the war in Vietnam, LIFE and other major, mainstream American news outlets, in print and on TV, regularly published and broadcast what today would be considered graphic, unsettling content.
That LIFE considered this a significant, indeed a groundbreaking article is evidenced by the highly unusual treatment it received on the magazine's cover. The first slide in this gallery illustrates this perfectly: rather than the customary horizontal, one-sheet image found on literally thousands of other LIFE covers, the January 25, 1963, issue featured an exceedingly rare fold-out, giving full play to Burrows' powerful portrait.
Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com


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It has been confirmed – Bill Daniels is leaving West Brook
West Brook High School Principal Bill Daniels is leaving, officials from the Beaumont Independent School District have confirmed. According to sources from within the district, Daniels will be accepting a position as the new principal at Atascacocita High School in the Humble Independent School District. Former West Brook coach Craig Stump moved to Atascacocita High School earlier this year to accept the school's head football/ campus coordinator position.
It is rumored West Brook Assistant Principal Veronica Durden, niece of Beaumont businessman Vernon Durden, will be taking over Daniel's position at West Brook. Durden's post, however, would still need to be confirmed after board approval.


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Barnabas Hankins married Sarah Fox in 1811 in a ceremony performed by John Bourland in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
January 2
John Emerson Goodloe married Elizabeth Pettus (his second wife) in 1849 in a ceremony performed by Rev. P. S. Lovan in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
James Dolphin Lanier died in 1959 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi.
January 3
Isabella Jane Goodloe Hankins married Thomas Yates (her second of three husbands) in 1874 in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Howard Doctor "Doc" Hopkins died in 1988 at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Cook County, Illinois.
Milton J. Taylor died in 1928 at the Pennington Infirmary in London, Laurel County, Kentucky where he was taken after a neighbor hit him in the head with an ax during an altercation near his home in Mt. Vernon.
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James Arton Hopkins died of Lobar Pneumonia in 1933 at his home in Harlan Township, Warren County, Ohio.


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Littleton is rolling out the welcome mat for 10 consecutive days.
The celebration of all things Littleton features events throughout the city that give families a chance to have fun and reconnect with friends. Highlights include a barbecue and fireworks show at Sterne Park and the Western Welcome Week Grand Parade on Aug. 15.
The Littleton tradition, in its 87th year, started as a homecoming party for the city, said Joan Facchinello, a volunteer with Western Welcome Week and a former executive director.
A Columbine High School graduate is making a documentary about how the shootings on April 20, 1999, have affected the adult lives of her classmates.
Filmmaker Laura Farber was a freshman when two student gunmen killed 12 students and a teacher. Farber, who now lives in Minneapolis, hopes her film, "We are Columbine," will change public perception of the school, as well as show how the horrific event affects the lives of former students today.
The Foothills Theatre Company had audiences laughing it up in Clement Park over the weekend. Even if the jokes were 400 years old.
The troupe is in the midst of a two-week run of this year's Shakespeare in the Park production, "Twelfth Night." The show, which opened Friday in Grant Amphitheater, is one of the Bard's most well regarded comedies and is filled with cross-dressing, young lovers and several humorously inebriated gentlemen.
There's nothing like listening to an orchestra play as the sun sets — the beauty of a violin, the dignity of the French horn, the sound of a battery of cannons firing in unison.
At Clement Park on Saturday evening, the 4th Artillery Band, whose members dressed in Civil War-era attire, performed Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture," which calls for cannons to be fired in the score.
And boy, were they fired. Volley after volley sounded as the band played on.
Clement Park was filled with Irish music, food and art last weekend. And just outside the gates of the Colorado Irish Festival was a celebration of the sporting side of Irish culture.
The Denver Gaels hosted an invitational tournament for other Irish sports clubs from across the country at the park's sports fields. Clubs from as far away as Atlanta and Portland came to play hurling, camogie, and men's and women's Gaelic football.
The Town Hall Arts Center's production of "Legally Blonde, Jr." promises music and laughs — even if some of the actors are out past their curfew.
The show, which opens Friday, is part of Town Hall's summer acting program for youths of high school age and younger. The upcoming show, based on the musical "Legally Blonde," features a cast of sixth- through 12th-graders, and the quality is top notch, said director Robert Michael Sanders.
Overcast skies and a few raindrops weren't enough to dissuade thousands from celebrating the long Independence Day weekend in South Jeffco and Littleton.
The Foothills Park and Recreation District's Red, White & You celebration on July 3 at Clement Park and Littleton's Fourth of July festivities at Cornerstone, Belleview and Progress parks drew massive crowds to eat, play and watch the massive fireworks displays that capped off each night.
A sunny Saturday morning in Morrison provided the moment 3-year-old Gus Solomon had been waiting for: time to ride the train at Tiny Town, the mountain area's enduring mecca of miniatures.
Gus lives in California but has visited Tiny Town a couple of times when his parents have been in town. The Solomons had arrived in Colorado a few days earlier.
Area resident Cindy Elliott was so excited about Bike to Work Day that she doubled the length of her morning commute on June 24.
"This is the perfect morning for a ride," said Elliott, who had stopped at a breakfast station on the Mary Carter Greenway near West Belleview Avenue and Prince Street on the way to her job in Highlands Ranch. "We're riding 7 miles this morning. Usually my commute is a 3-mile trip, but we decided to go for a longer ride since it's Bike to Work Day."
The future of rock was on display at Clement Park on Saturday. And the future looks bright.
The three bands that took the stage at Foothills Park and Recreation's Battle of the Bands gave the audience of a couple hundred a show and proved a musician doesn't have to have a driver's license to know how to rock.
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Columbine Courier is your source for local news, sports, events, and information in South Jefferson County, Colo., and the surrounding area.


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It seems cliché that I, a gringa married to a Latino, should identify so much with I Love Lucy, but some scenes feel like watching home movies of our marriage that I didn't know anyone was taking.
One episode in particular gets to me every time it's on. This same scene, which I've seen dozens of times, makes me laugh at the familiarity, but it has also made me cry on occasions.
The episode is called "The Matchmaker", (not to be confused with "Lucy is a Matchmaker" which is another episode.) In "The Matchmaker" episode, Lucy invites an unmarried couple over for dinner with plans to show them what a happy marriage looks like. Unfortunately, the baby cries, dinner burns, and when Ricky finds out what Lucy is up to, he sabotages the effort by pointing out and exaggerating all the negative aspects of marriage – As a result, Lucy and Ricky have a big argument right in front of their guests.
The next morning Ricky waits at the kitchen table for his breakfast, but Lucy hasn't forgiven him for ruining everything the night before. Another argument unfolds where some pretty harsh words are spoken.
Lucy: Well for once I decided not to do what you told me!
Ricky: For once?! You never do what I told you!
Lucy: Then why don't you quit tolding me?!
Ricky: Ay qué barbaridad, por qué tiene la cabeza mas dura de ninguna mujer que yo conocido en toda la vida entera!?
Lucy: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Spanish names won't hurt me!
Ricky: Sometimes I wish I never left Cuba!
Lucy: That makes two of us!
It's just a TV show, and yet it's not. Lucy and Desi's off-screen marital problems are no secret. They were passionately in love but they couldn't always get along. I guess it scares me sometimes because Carlos and I are the same way. Even after fourteen years of marriage, our relationship still resembles an episode of I Love Lucy more often than not. Each episode is full of humor, plans gone wrong, misunderstandings, arguments, hurt feelings, and ultimately, the realization that despite it all, they not only love each other – they can't live without each other.
In this particular episode, after that argument in the kitchen, Ricky goes out, saying he'll never return. When night falls and he still isn't home, Lucy begins to wonder if it's true. At Fred and Ethel's apartment she seeks comfort and Fred assures Lucy that Ricky is just doing what any man would do – he's just staying out late enough to give her a good scare.
Lucy decides she'll give Ricky a scare of his own by not being in their apartment when he returns and sends Fred up there to watch the baby so she can stay downstairs with Ethel. Fred goes upstairs, crawls into Lucy's bed and falls asleep but soon Ricky has come home with a box of chocolates and flowers.
Sitting on the edge of his bed, Ricky apologizes to who he thinks is Lucy, but, as we know, is really Fred beneath the blankets.
"Lucy, Lucy…" he says sweetly, "I'm home. Sweetheart, I guess I owe you an apology. I shouldn't have said all those awful things that I said. I was in a bad humor and I just blew my top, that's all. But darling, you know I love being married to you, honey. You are the dearest, sweetest, most wonderful person in the world. You know, I wasn't going to come home tonight just to teach you a lesson… And then I got to walking around and I, I started thinking about all the wonderful times that we've had together and how much we meant to each other and well… I brought you some flowers and some candy. Honey, I won't blame you if you never spoke to me again, but sweetheart, please say you forgive me, darling?"
At this point, Fred pops out from beneath the blankets, and Lucy and Ethel appear, laughing, having overheard the whole thing. Embarrassed and angry, Ricky puts his hat and coat back on, ready to leave once again. Lucy blocks the door and begs him to stay.
Just at that moment, the doorbell rings – it's a telegram from the unmarried couple they had invited for dinner at the beginning of the episode. Lucy reads the telegram aloud:
"We figured if you two characters could put up with each other for thirteen years there must be something to this marriage business so we're giving it a try."
Everyone laughs, Ricky and Lucy kiss, and they all live happily ever after… until the next episode.
Note: All images are screen captures of video still frames. The rights to I Love Lucy are owned by CBS.


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Quarterback Geno Smith, a four-year starter at West Virginia, was selected in the second round of the NFL draft Friday by the New York Jets with the 39th overall pick, giving the team some depth at a position that has been a problem since Mark Sanchez's struggles intensified last season.
Smith, a 6-foot-2, 218-pound playmaker, became the first quarterback in Mountaineers history to pass for 10,000 yards.
Considered by many to be the top quarterback in the draft because of his athleticism in the mold of the Washington Redskins' Robert Griffin III, Smith slipped to the second round when the Buffalo Bills opted to select Florida State's EJ Manuel with the 16th selection in the first round. No other team chose a quarterback in the first round.
"It's a test of patience," Smith said of falling to the second round of the draft. "It's kind of ironic that you see that you're put in that position."
Smith improved his accuracy and efficiency each season at West Virginia, completing 71.2% of his passes with 42 touchdowns and only six interceptions his senior season. He passed for 4,385 yards and 31 touchdowns as a junior and 4,205 yards as a senior.
Sanchez, in his fourth year out of USC, had a losing record for the first time as the Jets' starting quarterback last season, going 6-9, and at times was pulled in favor of former Alabama star Greg McElroy. The Jets, who played Tim Tebow sparingly at quarterback, signed former Jaguars starter David Garrard this offseason.
Sanchez completed only 54.3% of his passes last season for 2,883 yards and 12 touchdowns, his lowest totals since his rookie season in 2009. His quarterback rating, 66.9, also was his lowest since '09.
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LAKE FOREST, Ill., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Jay Cutler, who has been out with a groin injury, will likely start at quarterback this week for the Chicago Bears, the team said Thursday.
Cutler suffered the injury Oct. 20 and, after the team's bye week, missed the Bears' Monday night game.
It was initially said he would be out of action for at least four weeks but Thursday Bears Coach Marc Trestman said Cutler had been cleared to return to action. He is expected to start Sunday when Chicago has a home game against the Detroit Lions in a key NFC North game.
Josh McCown filled in for Cutler Monday against Green Bay and led the Bears to a 27-20 win. That left the Bears, Lions and Green Bay Packers tied atop the division with 5-3 records.
Cutler, 30 and in his eighth NFL season, has passed for 1,658 yards and 12 touchdowns, along with seven interceptions, this season. In his 100-game NFL career, Cutler is 1,942-of-3,180 passing for 22,974 yards and 148 touchdowns.


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Back in 2008, before Tony Stark and the rest of the Iron Man team came into our lives, nobody knew if anyone would care about them. Unlike Spider-Man or the X-Men, shellhead was on the B-list of characters created by Stan Lee in the Marvel universe. Sure, there were comic fans out there who loved the character, but a huge chunk of the population had never even heard of him.
Now, much like Stark in his own world, Iron Man is a phenomenon, and the new sequel is already an overseas hit even before it opens stateside this Friday. But unlike the first film, which was just Tony Stark's story, Iron Man 2 has a bigger mission: start getting things ready for The Avengers. An incredible team-up of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and hopefully The Hulk, The Avengers movie, scheduled for 2012, is unprecedented in the movie world, but once again must struggle to make sure anyone other than comic book fans know what the hell is going on. That's why you have people like me.
Iron Man 2 does commit itself to Marvel's Avenger plans with major subplots and character inclusions but some may find themselves confused by some of the lingo getting thrown around. So for those of you out there that have no idea what the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division is or are completely befuddled by the film's Easter Egg after the credits, prepare for an education.
WARNING: This article mixes both information from the comic book world and the film world that may end up being changed as more movies come out. This article also contains extremely minor spoilers for Iron Man 2, but unless you're avoid avoiding information about the post-credits Easter Egg, you should be fine.
How Does It Fit? Tony Stark is classified as one of those "super powered individuals," so S.H.I.E.L.D has had its eye on Iron Man for longer than he probably knows. Hell, they probably knew every little thing about him the second the Mark I suit allowed him to escape his captors in Afghanistan. They are the organization in charge of watching our most gifted heroes and using them to put down the forces of evil.
Nick Fury
How Does He Fit? Fans first met Fury in the Easter Egg after the credits of the first Iron Man, where he outright stated his mission: he is gathering the most powerful superheroes in the world to organize the Avenger Initiative. While he would later send Tony to get the Hulk (the events in The Incredible Hulk occur further down the timeline), Fury is always there, at the very least in spirit, to recruit his team. In Iron Man 2, Fury has taken it upon himself to evaluate Stark to see if he really is the man that S.H.I.E.L.D. wants for its elite team
The Avenger Initiative
How Does It Fit? One of the biggest concerns of the initiative is personality, which is an important subplot in Iron Man 2 as Fury evaluates how fit Tony Stark is for service. Between Stark's ego, Bruce Banner's inability to control his Jeckyl-ish other half, Thor's struggle with understanding humanity and Captain America's presence in a world he doesn't really understand, the Avengers is not made up of characters that play well with others. When they are faced with an enemy that threatens the world, however, it is not lost on these heroes what they must do.
Black Widow
How Does She Fit? As a member of S.H.I.E.L.D. and potentially a future Avenger, she will likely get more attention in the Avengers film, where they will hopefully bring the character back to her roots. Natasha, who isn't nicknamed The Black Widow for nothing, may very well end up being as duplicitous as she is in the comics, but it is more than likely that director Jon Favreau was concerned about juggling too many villains Spider-Man 3-style. It's still fairly hard to get a read on her, but she is a spy, after all.
Agent Coulson
How Does He Fit? His character comes across as just another cog in the S.H.I.E.L.D. wheel in the first film, but he does become more important in the sequel. He is very much tied into Fury's plans to build the Avengers and has, thus far, had connections to three of the heroes, more than anyone else. Expect to see more of him as this film series develops.
Captain America's Shield
How Does It Fit? Eagle-eyed fans are already well-aware that Stark is in possession of Captain America's shield (see it here on the far left) and it appears once again in Iron Man 2, only this time it's not so hidden. Handed to Tony by Agent Coulson and used in a "book under the piano leg" manner, many will wonder why Tony has this bit of superhero legend just sitting half-completed in his workshop.
After an incident that left him frozen and in suspended animation, Captain America is revived in our time. S.H.I.E.L.D being well-aware of who he is, he is immediately enlisted for the Avengers initiative. In the comics, Stark is given the task of upgrading the shield with modern technologies, but, considering that he has yet to join The Avengers and Captain America has yet to be revived, it is curious that he already has the shield in his possession. This is certainly still one of the mysteries of the series, and likely won't be resolved until Joe Johnston's The First Avenger: Captain America premieres next summer.
The character's origin begins when Thor's father, Odin (Anthony Hopkins), feels that his son needs to learn humility and is put in the body of a disabled medical student named Donald Blake. In the comics, Blake discovers Mjolnir while vacationing in Norway, but the hammer showing up in New Mexico and being covered up by S.H.I.E.L.D. suggests that this will not be the case and that Kenneth Branagh's Thor will take a different path.
How Does It Fit? Mjöllnir appears in the after-the-credits Easter Egg, when Agent Coulson arrives in New Mexico. After getting out of his car, he sees a giant crater in the middle of the desert, at the center of which is the legendary hammer. The question remains how Thor will be reunited with Mjöllnir. It's speculation, but perhaps Blake's lab, which could very well be located in New Mexico (they have been shooting there for quite some time now), is given a government contract to analyze the otherworldly object. Blake would then come in contact with the hammer and suddenly find himself transported to Asgard, where he learns the truth about who he is. With the first photo of Thor having been released already and Comic Con coming in July, it shouldn't be much longer until the mystery starts revealing itself.


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Introduction to Mechanical CAD
Dr Peter Dalmaris
What is this course about?
Software requirements
Getting started with mechanical CAD
Understanding the 3D workspace - Basic terminology
Understanding the 3D workspace - Basic shapes
CAD terminology (document)
How to use the Caliper
Welcome to the interface
Navigating the interface, Part 1
Navigating the interface, Part 2
Saving Your Work and Opening Files
DesignSpark Mechanical quick reference card
An explanation of primitives (PDF document)
DesignSpark Mechanical Mouse Gestures Card
Making your first 2D sketch
The Line tool
Ellipse and Circle Tools, Part 1
Ellipse and Circle Tools, Part 2
The Elipse and Arc tools
The Rectangle Tool
The three-point rectangle tool
The Rectangle Tools, recap
Drawing other Primitive Shapes using Lines
Drawing Complex Primitive Shapes
Editing 2D Shapes
Moving single Primitives and Complex Shapes
Selecting and Moving Multiple Primitives and Complex Shapes
Modifying Parameters of Primitives
Modifying Parameters of Primitives
Deleting Primitives and Using the Undo Command
Working in 3D/ From the ground up using the Pull Tool
Extruding using Pull, Part 1
Extruding using Pull, Part 2
Extruding using Pull, Part 3
Switching Between 3D and 2D
Boolean Operations
Filleting or Rounding Solid or Surface Edges
Chamfering Solid and Surface Edges, Part 1
Chamfering Solid and Surface Edges, Part 2
Moving Things Around
Plane and Split Body Tools
The Shell Tool
Making Your Own Electronics Project Box
Using Save as New Version to Save Revisions Save Incrementally, Part 1
Using Save as New Version to Save Revisions Save Incrementally, Part 3
Using Save as New Version to Save Revisions Save Incrementally, Part 3
Using Save as New Version to Save Revisions Save Incrementally, Part 4
The 2D Sketch and Pulling it into 3D
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How I went to Austin expecting to learn about browsers and came back wanting to change the world.
Author: Agathe Guerrier, Strategy Director, BBH & BBH Labs
I went to SXSW for the first time this year, with the firm intention to learn about UX, data visualization trends, and new, exciting browser features. As I landed in Austin, I couldn't wait to find out more about the native vs. web-based apps debate.
In reality, although clearly there WAS a lot of talk of browsers and coding languages and apps, I found myself confronted with a much more fundamental subject: that of meaning and purpose. More than acquire new knowledge, I was filled with new enthusiasm (and a little bit of concern) about the task that lies at hand – basically, redefining the rules of our economic, political and societal framework. Rethinking the world. Yup. Something that we need (the creative and tech community) need to take part in for two reasons: because the last 10 years have demonstrated the need for a new paradigm, and because the growing importance of technology in our world, means it now intersects significantly with world views, beliefs, and ethics.
Take the "Skynet vs. Mad Max: Battle for the Future" dual session (by our very own Mel and Jeremy). It drew a parallel between the small, apparently benign technology choices we make today as consumers, and the future of the human species. Who imagined that buying an iPhone represented a leap towards a world where individual identity would be reduced to one login, one identity, one self, the scary simplicity of this system ultimately leading to totalitarianism? It's removed, but not far-fetched.
Tim O'Reilly, in his fantastic "Create More Value than you Capture" discussion with Andrew Mcafee, made a powerful case for embedding social good and genuine value(s) in all businesses. He pointed to a brilliantly obvious truth: it's enthusiasm and passion that fuel creativity, not greed. For the sake of the social equilibrium that it depends upon, the objective of a business can not simply be profit, it has to create value for society at large, as well as for itself.
Ben Silbermann (CEO and co-founder of Pinterest) took part in a Q&A session with Christopher Dixon and kept surprising us with disarmingly candid answers to "hard-nosed" questions. When asked what product feature he was most excited about developing, he answered it was his team, because "your team should be the most interesting product you're building". A few minutes later, brushing away a question about whether he was concerned by the various attempts to copy or rip off Pinterest, he explained that their effort went into improving the product and making it the best it could be, not preventing others to imitate it. In his eyes, success comes from putting all your efforts into making your product and experience brilliant, and if others copy you, it probably means you've got it right.
And finally, against a backdrop of high risk, economic worries and general breakdown, I was surprised at how optimistically confused Bruce Sterling's Ultimate talk left us all. He forecasted a move away from the chaotic "internet" and towards vertical stacks or platforms like Google, Amazon, or Facebook (more organized, less messy – an echo to the Skynet vs. Mad Max talk and its crowd-sourced prediction of Skynet's victory)… but also the ulterior demise of stacks.
He didn't say what they would be replaced with, but this legendary cynic seemed pretty optimistic about the ability of the interactive community to make sense of the "augmented, ubiquitous, post-stack future".
In building this uncertain "new world", we might find inspiration in community-based, generous value creation models like Kickstarter, Airbnb, or Task Rabbit (which were unanimously praised as the most inspirational things to have happened in the last 5 years).
But there is still a lot of work at hand, especially for our industry, in translating the inspiration from Geektopia into actionable ethics for the world of brands…
In the spirit of starting small, here are three things I'm going to start or do more of:
- 1. Get rid of any obsession with single-mindedness, and make sure to respect people's intelligence by recognizing that "There is not one You", as Christopher Poole pointed out
- 2. Broaden the definition of "Business objective" to entail the creation of value and values for consumers and society at large, not just profit for the company
- 3. Behave more generously everyday, by building great teams and empowering them to create and make even greater things


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AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Guillermo Garcia-Lopez posted a slight upset Tuesday in a first-round match against Robin Haase at the ATP's Heineken Open in New Zealand.
Garcia-Lopez was able to finish off a 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-4) decision over Haase, who was the No. 8 seed. The match was tight throughout, ending with Garcia-Lopez winning one more point over the course of the 207-point battle.
Each player had three breaks overall -- Garcia-Lopez cashed in all three of his break chances -- and one in the third set before Garcia-Lopez edged ahead in the tiebreaker.
No. 5-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber came away a 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 winner over Pablo Carreno Busta in a relatively brisk 1 hour, 38 minutes. The only break in the third set came in the 12th game after Kohlschreiber won 75 percent of the points on serve in the set.
Sixth-seeded Benoit Paire raced past Michal Przysiezny 6-3, 6-2 in just 49 minutes. Paire lost only six points -- two on double faults -- over nine games serving.
Also Tuesday in the first round, Donald Young topped Federico Delbonis 7-5, 6-2; Lu Yen-Hsun defeated Igor Sijsling 7-5, 7-6 (9-7), Lukas Lacko stopped Jose Rubin Statham 6-3, 6-1 and Roberto Bautista Agut got by Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-1, 3-6, 6-4.


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The IRS is seeking more than $6.2 million from Nicholas Cage, the Detroit News reported.
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Prospect Watch: Gary Brown
By: Noah Frank
Oh, the offseason. The lack of daily baseball at Chukchansi Park leaves those of us who work here itching to get a jump on next year. And so, as we did last offseason, we will begin looking at the players making their way through the farm system who seem likely to spend at least part of the 2012 season here in the Central Valley. There will be names you most likely recognize, as well as those you probably do not. We'll start this year's crop with one that most Grizzlies and Giants fans know by now: Gary Brown.
Even if he begins the season at Double-A Richmond, which seems likely, given the logjam in center field created by the likes of Justin Christian, Darren Ford, Tyler Graham, the newly-signed Gregor Blanco and possibly Andres Torres, Brown will be a name often on the tips of Grizzlies fans' tongues next season. That expectation simply comes with the territory when you are a first-round draft pick, as Brown was in 2010. Just ask Madison Bumgarner ('07) and Buster Posey ('08), or the recently departed Zach Wheeler ('09), who now faces the additional pressure with the Mets of being the top prospect traded for a star in Carlos Beltran.
With Beltran himself quite possibly heading elsewhere this offseason, that will put pressure on Brown to live up to large expectations, and will no doubt lead to fans calling for his promotion to the Majors sooner rather than later.
Brown has certainly done nothing to dampen the enthusiasm surrounding him, but the Giants were careful with the Cal State Fullerton product in his first season. After assigning him straight to High-A San Jose in 2011, Brown was given the entire season to prove what he could accomplish in the California League. All he did was post a line of .336/.407/.519, rapping out 61 extra-base hits, stealing 53 bases, and scoring a mind-numbing 115 runs in just 131 games for the minor Giants.
As we always do at Yard Work, we sought out the expertise of someone who has seen what Brown can do close-up. We spoke briefly about Brown a couple weeks prior with former Grizzlies hitting coach Ken Joyce, who served in the same role for Brown's Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League, whose regular season ends today. But we went into greater depth with Joe Ritzo, the radio voice of the San Jose Giants, to learn more about what to expect out of the young centerfielder as he moves through the system. Ritzo pulls no punches when describing the role Brown played for San Jose, picked as the High-A Team of the Year, last season.
"He was our MVP," says Ritzo, and it's easy to see why. "Everyone knows about his speed and his defensive abilities, which were evident on a daily basis, but he had power too."
Indeed, Brown swatted 14 home runs on the season. He also absolutely wore out left-handed pitching, batting .459 with a .685 slugging percentage (!) against southpaws last year. Not bad for a leadoff hitter.
Ritzo also compares Brown's speed to the likes of Grizzlies single-season and franchise stolen base leader Graham, as well as Ford. Those two have been considered the fastest prospects in the system over the last few seasons, so the bar has been set high in the speed department before Brown ever sets his fleet feet in Fresno. But how does he compare to recent top draft picks at other positions?
"I've been here five or six years and there's nobody quite like him and how he plays the game," says Ritzo, which is high praise considering the top prospects that have roamed the diamond at Municipal Stadium the last few years. When I ask Ritzo to compare Brown to the likes of Posey and Bumgarner, he provides some interesting perspective.
"I don't think his personality was really like any of those players," he posits. "But what you see is that desire, working so hard before games, the competitive edge that you might see in Buster and Madison that separates them from others. The mental ability that those guys had, Gary has it as well."
Brown, as mentioned earlier, had the advantage of coming through a high-caliber college baseball program at Cal State Fullerton, the same school that produced Brett Pill. Fresno fans have seen that the experience and maturity gained from those years has paid dividends for Pill, and they seem to be doing the same for Brown, according to Ritzo.
"There's something extra when you watch him play that you just feel confident that he's going to have a long and successful Major League career," says Ritzo. "You can't predict that kind of Major League success with much certainty very often with guys at the Single-A level."
The only tick on Brown's stellar 2011 performance can be seen with a deeper look into his month-by-month numbers. He batted .333 (including a .385 mark in August and a .397 clip in May) or better in every month of the season except one— a glaring .202 performance in June. In cases like these, it's important to look for answers beyond the box scores, which is where someone like Ritzo comes in handy to provide context for such a slump.
"We made a lot of roster moves right about that time (early June), including sending Hector Sanchez to Fresno, and Gary was arguably playing better than any of those guys," explains Ritzo. "He was maybe anticipating that call-up, and when he didn't get the call it was a little disappointing, so he hit a bit of a lull. It was expressed to him that the organization wants him to stay in San Jose the whole year."
While the San Francisco brass may have taken the conservative route with Brown in 2011, Ritzo does not expect them to necessarily continue to do moving forward.
"You get the sense that they won't go that same route this year, especially if he's starting the season in Richmond," Ritzo says. "I would think if he starts hot would make it to Fresno before too long. If he has anything close to the kind of year that he had in San Jose, he'll move quickly through the system."
Here's to hoping Fresno fans get a glimpse of what Brown can do sooner rather than later.


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- 1 (8-oz) package of full fat cream cheese, room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup pizza sauce
- 1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- toppings - pepperoni, ham, sausage, mushrooms, peppers
- Garlic powder
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Lightly spay a 9×13 baking dish with cooking spray.
- With a handheld mixer, mix cream cheese, eggs, pepper, garlic powder and parmesan cheese until combined. Spread into baking dish.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes, our until golden brown. Allow crust to cool for 10 minutes.
- Spread pizza sauce on crust. Top with cheese and toppings. Sprinkle pizza with garlic powder.
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While the San Jose Mercury News made a big deal about a plan to ensure traffic lights will recognize two-wheeled vehicles, I'm not so sure it's happening in my lifetime. As you get older you find yourself using that expression a lot more often.
According to Gary Richards, aka Mr. Roadshow: "San Jose has received a $1.5 million grant from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to test and identify the best bicycle-detection devices and install them at signals throughout the city. This may serve as a model throughout the nine Bay Area counties."
Apparently the state passed legislation four years ago requiring that all new and modified signals include bike-friendly signal detectors and directed Caltrans to develop a standard, but it never did.
Cities and counties are on their own to find the best way to make signals work. Pleasanton is trying out an interesting concept. The city, with federal funding, installed microwave vehicle/bicycle detection equipment at selected intersections.
The system can distinguish between motor vehicles and bicycles and provides a longer green signal time when bicycles are present.
Seven units (costing $7,000 each) are installed at the following intersections:
- Foothill Road at Canyon Way – northbound
- Foothill Road at Stoneridge Drive – northbound
- Foothill Road at Stoneridge Drive – westbound
- Foothill Road at West Las Positas Boulevard – westbound
- Foothill Road at Bernal Avenue – northbound
- Foothill Road at Bernal Avenue – westbound
- Stoneridge Drive at West Las Positas Boulevard – northwestbound
It's about a million miles from my home to Pleasanton, but I'll try to ride there this summer and check it out.
I occasionally come across signals that don't recognize bikes, but less and less often. However, there's one turn signal from Saratoga Avenue to Pruneridge Avenue that has never worked for bikes in the 15 years I've been using it.
I gave up trying to get it fixed years ago and started going a different direction. I was even a member of the City of Santa Clara Bicycle Committee at the time, for crying out loud, and still couldn't get relief.