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Welcome to a long overdue update on the 2013/14 SmartStop/Mountain Khakis 'cross season. We're 6 weeks and 1/3 of the way into the year, so there's a lot recap, and I'll do my best to keep things brief!
Things were incredibly busy for the road team in August as we built towards Tour of Alberta and the final NCC and USA Crits events of the season. The heavy lifting for the 'cross season happens in that same window, and as in past years, Pat and Jamie turn the 'cross season planning over to me. There was so much work to do, with very little time to talk about it. This season, instead of only me flying the team colors for the fall, Travis Livermon is joining me out there in the mud. It's great to have two us representing the team, but it also means twice as much commitment for the equipment sponsors. We're lucky to have so many of you returning and stepping up to keep us both going. With the switch over to Ridley disc brake bikes for both of us, as well as SRAM Force 22, there was a lot of retooling to do for this year, for Mercury and TRP especially. In addition to SmartStop, Mountain Khakis, and Happy Tooth as title sponsors, our equipment suppliers this year include Ridley frames, Vittoria tires, Champion System clothing, Mercury wheels, SRAM Force 22 components, TRP Spyre disc brakes, Mavic shoes, Hawley-supplied EIS bars/stems/seatposts, Lazer helmets/glasses, Crank Brothers pedals, Selle San Marco saddles, Enzo's chamois cream and embrocation, ProGold lubes and cleaners, Toko gloves, and SwissStop brake pads. All in all, it's an exciting program for us. CX Magazine even did a feature on the bikes already:
For me, the 'cross season kicks off with our annual Cycle-Smart Cyclocross Camp in early August. We have 50 riders of all ability levels show up from around the country to spend the weekend with 6 Cycle-Smart coaches working on 'cross technique. It's also a great way for me to sharpen up before the hard training begins, and introduce a lot of 'cross riders to the equipment I'm riding.
The racing started in earnest for Travis and me at the Nittany Lion UCI events in Trexlertown, PA. For both of us right now, staging is a challenge. Travis is coming back from a season off due to illness, and I had a forgettable 2012, so our call up positions are much further back then either of us are accustomed to. Nittany was a success, though, with me making the front group for the first time in a long time, spending much of the race off the front, and hanging on for 7th on day 1 and 4th on day 2, making the first weekend of this season more successful than any weekend from last season. Travis took his first steps back with top 20 rides both days.
The following weekend was the opener for the Verge New England Cyclocross Series, which I organize. The Vermont round is a challenging, hilly course both days, and I came away with 12th and 17th. Not the top 10s I was hoping for, but good photo coverage on Cyclingnews nonetheless:
Interbike and 'Cross Vegas was next. The hardest part of 'Cross Vegas is not the race, but getting there, and then having to "work" the show. Add the USA Crits finals back into the mix on Thursday night, travel home all day on Friday, and the Boston Crit that Saturday, and it's a difficult week. I had a respectable ride to finish 29th, and felt great the next night in the crit riding for the team. Escaping that trip without getting sick is a victory in its own right.
Travis skipped Vegas to focus on the Charm City UCI races in Baltimore the following weekend, and his gamble paid off. Saturday he was still looking for a good ride and finished 13th, but Sunday he showed everyone why he's a guy we believe in, making the front group and narrowly missing the podium with a 4th place. That's a great result, and those points will pay off when the new rankings are posted after the first World Cup next week.
The first two Shimano Series races followed in the weeks after that at Gloucester and Providence. I'm also part of the organizing group for the Shimano Series, so these weekends see me wearing multiple hats. I do my best to focus on being "just a bike racer" when race day comes, but there's always a lot of peripheral stress to manage. 21st and 24th at Gloucester, and 33rd and 21st at Providence were again just fair results, but improvements over last season, and not without challenges. At Day 1 of Providence, I was caught in a huge pile up in the start, and rode from 80th place through almost 50 people to get that 33rd. It was one of my strongest rides in a long time, and I only wish it was for the top 10.
Crash video here:
Gloucester post-race interview here:
In between Gloucester and Providence, we have two amazing mid-week nighttime 'cross races that are part of what we call Holy Week: The Midnight Ride of Cyclocross in Lancaster, MA, and The Night Weasels Cometh, in Shrewsbury, MA. Both races have UCI-level prize lists, great courses and production, and big crowds. This year, I was excited to actually win one of them, taking the sprint from a group of five for my first victory of the season:
Midnight ride post-race interview:
Midnight Ride race video, including podium:
Night Weasels is a much hillier and taxing course, I was wary of going too hard here and not being recovered for Providence. 7th place was an ok ride with that in mind, including a few bike changes for mechanicals:
Race recap video, including Mr. Jeremy Powers as the race DJ, if you want to see what a great event this is:
With the stress of Vegas, Gloucester, and Providence finally behind us, it was time to take a break this week and try and catch my breath. I opted to recover Monday-Friday, avoid the travel, and take advantage of the great local racing New England has to offer. As a result, I ended up on the podium both days, getting 2nd at the Casco Bay 'cross in Portland, ME, on Saturday, and again at the MRC 'cross in Lancaster, MA, on Sunday.
I lost contact with Dylan McNicholas after a rare mechanical that saw me off my bike for about 30 seconds, leaving me with a gap I couldn't close, so I was happy with the ride:
I was disappointed to lose the sprint on Sunday and not get the win again after a strong race, but it was a great weekend and felt good to ride well in front of the home crowd:
Next up, Travis and I will both be at the UCI races in Rochester, NY, and after that is my weekend, the Cycle-Smart International in Northampton, MA. Today is a day for some big choices in the schedule, though, and making the call between a big road trip to the UCI events in St. Louis in between, or staying home to rest, train, and manage the stress that comes with organizing the oldest UCI event in North America.
Ideally I'll be moving these updates over to the Cycle-Smart Constant Contact account, and sending out them out on a more regular basis. Weekly would be great, if I can manage it. Thanks to all of you for the support!
If you missed it, 'cross camp registeration is OPEN, and there are only 18 spots left! This year we've pushed the field limit out to 50 riders, and as of today 32 people have registered. Camp will definitely fill, so don't get caught out!
I haven't blogged in a while. I know. I've been too busy to think in more than a few tweets at a time. But every now and then something spills over.
I got a special email today. It meant a lot, and I just wanted to share it. I've edited a few things out, but this is 99% of it. I don't think it requires any additional commentary from me.
"I haven't really taken time to digest all of these doping confessions that have come out over the last few months. Mostly because I am too busy and to disconnected from personally being competitive in elite races now. It feels like a different life. The Crawford thing stung. I mean, we all "knew" all of this long ago. The person that mailed the epo for Crawford told me a list of names in 2002 and 2003 that included all the names listed in the Velonews article plus some others. Who knows.
And Crawford and Tyler are still making money in cycling off of their connections and affiliation with doping. That is what stings. The other thing that stings is that a lot of us never got the chance to compete in a clean sport. I mean, look at my career overlap with the dates and what was out there. My experience in Europe and what the doctor told me to do is a whole different story. But here in America, trying to eke out a living at the bottom and retroactively seeing, or 100% knowing how many spots were taken by dopers, is now hard to swallow.
I guess when I read the Crawford thing this morning it made me want to reach out to you and make you aware that you are riding for our generation, or at least as a spokesman for our generation. The generation that never had it stacked fair from day one. A lot of us got tired of treading water at the bottom knowing the system was flawed. Now, the system is better (I hope) and it is super cool that "one of us" is there to ride in this new system. These kids racing now will never know what it was like (and that is good).
More later--but just keep in mind when you are feeling beat up that there is more at play and more reason for you to keep going than your own will and desire. You speak and ride for more than yourself.
Thanks for going training today."
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Franciscan Father David Jaeger is one of the Roman Catholic Church's most authoritative experts on the Middle East. Until a few weeks ago, he was the delegate of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land in Rome. A convert from Judaism who became a Roman Catholic priest in 1986, he is a noted canon lawyer. He was part of the Vatican team that negotiated diplomatic relations with Israel in 1994 and is part of the Vatican team that is still ironing out the final subsidiary details of that accord. He spoke to Reuters and Reuters Television about the upcoming Mideast synod in the atrium of Antonianum University in Rome. Here is a transcript of parts of the conversation.
What do you expect from the synod?
I think it is intended to be a very significant step forward in the development of the witness of the Church in the Middle East. Synods are convened not simply, or not necessarily, in response to a current affairs concerns but as a moment for the Church to grow, in faithfulness and in effectiveness of witness. (Photo: Fr. David Jaeger in a screengrab from a Reuters Television interview in Rome, 6 Oct 2010)
The moment in the Middle East is particularly appropriate for this further development. There is hope for new ecumenical relations. There is a growth of the Church itself in the Middle East, in awareness of fundamental values of Vatican II, such as religious freedom and the civic responsibility of Christians. I don't think people in the West appreciate to what extent the thematics of the synod are totally new to so much of the Church in the Middle East. Religious freedom some decades ago was not even a known concept. It had never been experienced in 13 centuries. It had always been presupposed that it could not be attained, yet now it is being spoken of in the preparatory documents of the synod as a serious subject, not as something already existing of course, but as something realistically to be looked forward to.
The whole discussion of the civic duty of the Christian, the Christian as citizen, the Christian communities as actors in the national lives of the countries where they live, this is totally new for the region as a whole. For 13 centuries, Christians in the Middle East had been made to live strictly in kinds of socio-political ghettos, not a physical ones necessarily, but socio-political and legal ones, and it was a given that general society was something else, in which as Christians they had no part. Maybe individuals did manage to insert themselves into politics in different countries, of course, but that the idea that as a Christian, as a Christian community, you had to participate in the formation of a national culture, in the development of the national political culture too, these are all new insights in that region. These are all (examples) of Vatican II coming finally to fruition in that region too, so it is a very exiting moment for the Church.
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In Ethiopia, Departures climbs aboard an Astar B3 helicopter for what may be the most extreme safari on earth.
Ben Simpson, perhaps Africa's best helicopter pilot and the man behind Tropic Air, Africa's most exclusive helicopter safari company, and I are hovering over a lake of molten lava. It's another day at the office for Simpson, who has already logged 6,500 hours aloft in his 35 years. That's three quarters of a year airborne. But for me, flying over Ethiopia's dark peaks, rising up in steep, tormented folds, is a thrill. We peel away in his AStar B3 helicopter and head to the heart of the Danakil Depression in northern Ethiopia, the hottest place on earth. Here the ground is flatter than still water and whiter than bleached bone. At first it seems there is nothing but this salty desert formed a millennia ago when the sea came and then disappeared. But soon we fly over a series of vast pillars of potassium and salt, like elemental melted wax rising from pools of sulphur. Beyond them: lava fields, more volcanoes, cobalt lakes and, in the distance, the rising folds of the Great Rift Valley itself. "When you come over this bit up ahead," instructs Simpson, "put your hand over your mouth to save your heart from jumping out of it."
As a child, Simpson always wanted to fly. He lived high above the bustle of Hong Kong in his family's tower block apartment and got his soaring fix jumping off nearby hills and paragliding down. It was here that he received his private pilot license. At 20, he left for Florida to train as a commercial pilot. "I dreamed of flying in Alaska," says Simpson, now a grown man with Robert Redford looks and a partner in a booming heli-safari concern, "but I didn't have a green card." Instead, after listening to an Irish pilot's yarns about flying in Kenya, Simpson came to Africa instead—"aged 21, knowing no one and with only $1,400 in my pocket."
Simpson found work with Willi Roberts, one of East Africa's greatest fixed-wing bush pilots and a scion of a high-profile Kenyan family that owns some of the country's best camps. "Shortly after I arrived, I put my head around the door of the city's Aero Club of East Africa and saw an advertisement," Simpson recalls. "Instead of writing the number down, I tore the ad and stuffed it into my pocket so no one else would apply." Soon he was flying a tiny Cessna 206 out of a bush strip in Kenya's Masai Mara. But with a desire to see more of Africa, Simpson set off for the Sudan, flying for the World Food Programme, followed by a stint for the United Nations in Somalia. "By the end of all that, I'd clocked up 5,500 hours," he says. "But I wanted something more challenging. So I took myself off to Hawaii to train in helicopters."
Hawaii, like East Africa, rises quickly from sea level to 14,000 feet. Simpson learned how to land on crater rims and in thick forests; how to skim volcanoes and fly at altitude. He returned to Kenya, and in 2004, together with Willi Roberts's brother, Jamie, set up a helicopter division for the Roberts' family's charter business, Tropic Air. The company has since pioneered extreme helicopter safaris up and down East Africa's Great Rift Valley, all the way from the cradle of mankind on Kenya's Lake Turkana to the Danakil, the land of the Afar tribe on Ethiopia's war-torn border with Eritrea.
To be so far from all that is familiar yet knowing you are in safe hands—that is why Simpson gets the call when Ralph Lauren flies his family through Kenya. Regular clients like London-based financiers Stuart and Teresa Graham are about to book their fifth trip with Simpson. "Ben has become a friend, but it's about more than that," says Teresa. "He takes us out of our comfort zone to see places and do things we'd never even think of." The couple has visited Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Namibia and Uganda with Simpson.


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We have exciting news to share with you. After completing an extensive search, it is our great pleasure to introduce Jenny Gersten, who will be joining Friends of the High Line as its Executive Director in January. Jenny will replace Robert Hammond, who earlier this year announced his plans to step down from the Executive Director position at the end of 2013. Joshua David will remain with Friends of the High Line as its President and will be working closely with Jenny in her role as Executive Director.
We are incredibly fortunate to have found an accomplished leader in Jenny, who has a proven track record of success in program development, non-profit management, and fundraising for arts and culture organizations. As the Artistic Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where she has worked since 1996, Jenny helped create and oversee the organization's long-range strategic plan and $7 million endowment fund. She also managed a vast professional development and training program for more than 200 apprentices, interns, and professional staff. Before the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Jenny served as the Associate Producer of The Public Theater in New York City, where she produced six Shakespeare in the Park productions.
The High Line's planting design is inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew up between rail tracks after the trains stopped running in the 1980s. Today, the High Line includes more than 300 species of perennials, grasses, shrubs, and trees – each chosen for their hardiness, adaptability, diversity, and seasonal variation in color and texture. Some of the species that originally grew on the High Line's rail bed are reflected in the park landscape today.
This week we share with you one of our gardeners' current favorites.
Come observe the celestial bodies above the High Line. On Tuesday evenings through the end of the month, the Amateur Astronomers Association will set up their high-powered telescopes to provide visitors an opportunity to get an up-close-and-personal look at the stars and planets. Stargazing on the High Line is a free program, so take advantage of one of the final three opportunities of the season.
High Line Photographer Oliver Rich took this photo earlier in the season using a tripod and a long exposure to capture the movement of people while keeping the stationary objects tack-sharp. Thank you, Oliver, for this wonderful image!
For more about this program and our other upcoming programs for adults and kids alike, visit the High Line Events page.
How do we transform a once-notorious landfill into a beautiful New York City park?
On Monday, September 23, we hosted a discussion on the metamorphosis of Staten Island's Fresh Kills Landfill – once the largest landfill in the world – into Freshkills Park, a 2,200-acre oasis. James Corner of James Corner Field Operations and Eloise Hirsh of the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation spoke about the incredible changes they've been making to this site since the landfill closed in 2001.
James Corner Field Operations, the lead on the High Line's design team, is also leading the design of Freshkills Park. Corner discussed the unique challenges he's faced on this project, as well as the park's many idiosyncrasies. "If Freshkills is to be a living, and dynamic, and changing, and growing landscape, in a sense it never has a finished state," he remarked.
As the administrator of Freshkills Park, Hirsh has also witnessed the former landfill's about-face, and spoke eloquently of the site's transformation. "It is the most elegant testimony to the strength of nature that you can possibly imagine," said Hirsh. She also underscored the park's commitment to sustainability, describing their use of animal husbandry and green building.
Watch our full-length video of the talk below. For more images of the landfill-turned-park, see our recent photo essay.
This week we share with you one of our gardeners' current favorites.
Surprise, it still feels like summer!
Visitors have been flocking to the Sunken Overlook in the 10th Avenue Square to relax and soak in the sun while the weather remains nice. This last week has brought us unseasonably warm temperatures and clear skies, which will reportedly continue in the upcoming week, making it the perfect time for strolling and lounging on the High Line. Eric La captured this late-afternoon scene earlier in the season.
Bring a book, a friend, or snack from one of the High Line's food vendors for the ultimate relaxing experience during your next visit to the park.
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Carol Bove's organic shapes and weathered metals seem to sprout from the natural landscape on the undeveloped section of the High Line at the Rail Yards like the green grasses, trees, and flowers surrounding them. For those that have seen Bove's fantastic installation, Caterpillar, you may have wondered about the names and types of plants around you on your tour, and so have we! Luckily, Tom Smarr, our Director of Horticulture on the High Line, walked us through the rich variety of flora at the rail yards, giving us a crash course about the rich assortment of plants and trees occupying the landscape.
In celebration of our new 18-month High Line Calendar, we're exploring each month's featured image to bring you more of the behind-the-scenes details.
October's calendar image is a vibrant autumn landscape shot by High Line Photographer Steven Severinghaus. This image was taken during one of our seasonal photo walks, informal meet-ups Friends of the High Line leads with our volunteer photographers. On that early morning in October last year, a small group of us met up at the south end of the High Line at the top of the Gansevoort Stair and set out into the park with our cameras. The weather was brisk and fall foliage was in full-swing. Steven's photo beautifully captures a short section of park between West 19th and West 20th Streets. In the foreground, the light purple blooms of Raydon's Favorite asters contrast against the yellowing wispy strands of threadleaf bluestar and red-tinged Shennendoah switchgrass.
Steven is one of a small, dedicated group of photographer volunteers who lend their talents to the High Line, turning their lenses to a variety of subjects in the park. He has an impressive talent for discovering subtle details and textures that easily go unseen to most people. Browsing his Flickr Photostream is guaranteed to brighten your day. There you'll find hummingbirds alighting delicate branches, poetically composed portraits of seasonal blooms, and a variety of the teeniest fauna you'll ever find in New York City's natural spaces.
We are endlessly impressed by and delighted with Steven's work, and we're sure you will be too. Join us after the jump to get to know him better.
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MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - The state government coffers will take in $912 million more than projected for the current budget period that runs through mid-2015.
That's what the Legislative Fiscal Bureau said Thursday afternoon.
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Governor Scott Walker touted the surplus as a sign that the Wisconsin economy is humming -- and more workers are putting more money in their pockets.
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I recently enjoyed reading an article by Jake Mann of Insider Monkey titled "Want to Invest Like Buffett?" The article makes several good points; it notes that Buffett likes to buy simple businesses that have durable competitive advantages and strong management teams. He then argues that it is difficult to know how to invest like Buffett, so we should just buy Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B) and call it a day.
That's not terrible advice, especially considering that Berkshire trades at a discount to what many investors believe to be its intrinsic value. On top of that, you get an outstanding CEO in Warren Buffett managing your money.
But I'll have to say, I was more than a little disappointed with Jake's conclusion. Sure, Berkshire might be a decent investment, but I don't think it's a stock Buffett would buy if he had only a couple million dollars to invest. I don't want to have rich old Warren manage my money and get rich old Warren returns. I want young and ambitious Warren returns.
Early Buffett: Net-Nets and Great Businesses
A much younger (and poorer) Buffett would not spend much time analyzing an enormous insurance conglomerate like Berkshire Hathaway. Instead, he'd be buying tiny, little-known securities that are so illiquid that I could get sued for market manipulation for posting examples here. However, suffice to say he would be buying either net-nets or great businesses.
Net-nets are the situations that Buffett's mentor, Benjamin Graham, made famous. A net-net is any stock trading for less than its current assets minus all liabilities. In theory, the company can liquidate and give shareholders a payout in excess of the current stock price. In other words, the market is saying the company is worth more dead than alive. The adage "good things happen to cheap stocks" is the investment thesis here. Buffett bought a lot of these "cigar butts" in his younger years and made lots of money doing it.
But Buffett also invested in great businesses. Long before Charlie Munger arrived on the scene, Buffett invested 75% of his portfolio in GEICO stock -- considered to be a growth stock selling at a fair price at the time. Charlie Munger's biggest influence on Buffett was not to start investing in great businesses, but to stop investing in net-nets.
Great businesses come in all shapes and sizes. I've found great businesses with market capitalizations under $15 million. The majority of great businesses have extremely large market capitalizations, but there is limited opportunity in these issues due to their wide followings. However, investors should understand why these big companies are great businesses so that they can go out into the nooks and crannies of the market and uncover great businesses that few have heard of.
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When you think of great businesses, you probably think of companies like Coca-Cola and Moody's. These are businesses that Buffett owns and loves. However, there are other models worth investigating to add to your knowledge of great businesses.
Take, for instance, Fair Isaac Corp. (NYSE: FICO). FICO owns a wonderful business -- credit scoring. Essentially, FICO gathers some personal information as an input, does some magic, and -- poof! -- a credit score!
As you can imagine, this is a high-margin business. FICO is the only company that can produce a FICO score. In addition, the company is finding new ways to monetize its special asset. Traditionally sold only to to lenders, FICO is now promoting myFICO.com, which allows members of the general public to purchase credit score information.
However, FICO also owns some poor businesses. You do not need to sit down with management for a one-on-one chat to know that free cash flow has not been used wisely in the past. Instead of returning all of the free cash flow produced by the wide-moat credit scoring business, management used shareholder money to invest in businesses that have no competitive advantages. This is a troubling indication of poor management that should be weighed against the strength of the credit scoring business in determining FICO's investment merits.
Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE: DNB) is another great business. Over the years, DNB has compiled a database of 200 million business records -- a feat that no new entrant could hope to replicate. This gives DNB incredible pricing power, which is clearly illustrated by its high margins. Lately, management has been taking on a heavier debt burden to leverage the remarkable consistency of DNB's profitability. Investors should be wary of too much debt, but a manageable load is nothing to be concerned about.
Never Stop Searching, and Don't Be Afraid to Hold Cash
At the end of his article, Jake says, "as investors, we understand the importance of not leaving cash idly sitting around. If you're struggling with ideas on where to put some of your investment cash in 2013, Berkshire Hathaway is a low-risk way to capitalize on long-term growth."
Again, Berkshire is a decent investment for the average individual investor -- the investor who wants to have somebody else manage her money in a safe and reliable manner. However, it's not a way to invest like Buffett.
To paraphrase Buffett, cash is a call option with no expiration date. Investors should not buy a stock just to be fully invested; instead, they should wait for stocks to get cheap and then exercise their right to buy.
Investors who wish to wish to invest like Buffett should stop researching Berkshire Hathaway and start looking at microcap companies that have durable competitive advantages. Look in the ugliest corners of the stock market, places where stocks trade maybe one day out of the month -- sometimes even less. Look at companies that are controlled by families; companies that are conservatively managed and that do not appear interested in optimizing debt ratios; companies that turn off most investors because they do not care what Wall Street thinks. This is where you will find opportunity, and it's where Buffett would be looking if he had to start all over again today.
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David Takeno, my teacher at the Guildhall School in London, used to say that the first thing to do when learning a new piece was, 'Lie in the bath and read the score.' Spend time getting to know the work without the instrument; find the shape of the piece; see where the cues are and mark them in your own part; listen to a recording if possible. Practising a sonata without the piano part is meaningless because you can't tell what your own part relates to, whether you're accompanying the piano or vice versa. It's vital to have an overall view of the piece before getting stuck into the nitty-gritty.
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I wrote a blog post about this a few days ago - check it out at www.enviro.aero/blog.
As for nuclear-powered aircraft... well, we'll see!
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Each year since 1980, the Student Alumni Ambassadors of the University of Illinois Alumni Association invite a group of distinguished alumni back to the campus to participate in traditional activities such as the Homecoming Parade and Pep Rally. These alumni honorees also interact with current students and talk about their professional experiences since leaving their Alma Mater.
2013 Illini Comeback Honorees
Jeffrey D. Breslow '65 FAA
A chance encounter with an exhibit of student work on the University of Illinois campus opened Jeffrey D. Breslows eyes to the world of industrial design. Little did he know that he would go on to graduate from the Universitys program and eventually be recognized as one of the most respected toy designers in the field. Breslow began such work in 1967 at Marvin Glass & Associates in Chicago, where he stayed for more than 20 years and rose to the position of managing partner. Branching out in 1988, he helped form Breslow Morrison Terzian & Associates, which evolved into Big Monster Toys, one of the largest independent toy design studios in the world. Inducted into the Toy Manufacturers of America Hall of Fame in 1998, Breslow was honored for lifetime achievement at the 2008 TAGIE (Toy and Game Inventor) Awards in 2008. That year, he stepped down as BMTs president and CEO to devote himself to sculpting full-time, where he combines a love of nature with the joy of design. This fall, his granite-and-steel tribute to his mentor, UI professor Ed Zagorski, was installed on campus. Breslow also established a visiting artist fund in the College of Fine and Applied Arts, from which he earned a bachelors degree in industrial design in 1965.
Col. Michael S. McBride '84 las
Retired Col. Michael S. McBride is a 27-year career infantryman in the U.S. Army, where he served in a variety of roles, from rifle platoon leader to adviser to the Iraqi Army to senior liaison to the U.S. House of Representatives. He holds a masters degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College and is a graduate of The Army Command and General Staff College. Col. McBride completed the Army ROTC program at the University of Illinois, where his experiences broadened his global perspective and sense of social justice and greatly influenced his approach to soldiering, leading and developing relationships with peoples from different cultures. For his contributions, which included combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, Col. McBride has received the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster and the Bronze Star with v device for valor in combat with three oak leaf clusters, among other commendations. Having retired from his military career in 2011, Col. McBride is studying for a masters degree in education at the University of Illinois and is devoted to mentoring young people. An inaugural inductee into the Fighting Illini Army ROTC Hall of Fame, he earned a bachelors degree in political science from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1984.
Tonise Paul,
'79 media, ms ' 80 media
Tonise Paul has made an indelible mark on the advertising industry as president and CEO of Energy BBDO and as director of BBDO Worldwide, the most awarded agency network in the world. Fueled by Pauls vision that to grow brands, one must invigorate all of the people involvedemployees, clients and consumersEnergy BBDO has grown fivefold under her leadership and counts as its clients such iconic brands as Bayer, Bud Light, Mars/Wrigley, PepsiCo/Frito-Lay, Quaker and SC Johnson. Paul, who joined BBDO in 1983 and worked her way through the ranks, has received numerous honors, including Advertising Woman of the Year (1999, Womens Advertising Club of Chicago), Chicago Illini of the Year (1998, University of Illinois Alumni Association) and repeated listings in Forty Under 40 (Crains Chicago Business). Paul serves on the James Webb Young executive board at the UI College of Media, as well as on the boards of Off The Street Club, UNICEF, the Mundelein Seminary and numerous business organizations, including the Executives Club of Chicago. She is a member of The Commercial Club of Chicago, The Economic Club of Chicago and the Chicago Network. A life member of the University of Illinois Alumni Association, Paul earned bachelors and masters degrees in advertising from the College of Media in 1979 and 1980, respectively.
Past Illini Comeback Guests
Ron Bess '69 BUS, MS '72 media
Sheldon Siegel '80 bus
Beverly Washington '78 faa
Ryan Baker '91 media
Paul Schrage ms '59 media
Bud Strom '54 ahs
Bob Epstein '74 media
G. Robert Hillman '72 media
Jon Khachaturian '78 eng
Laura Rowley '87 media
Mark Filip '88 las
Robert G. Kennedy '78 eng
Marvin White '69 las
Scott W. Atlas '77 LAS
Barry Sabath '74 LAS
Lee Archambault '82 ENG, MS '84 ENG
Cathy Larson Koerner '87 ENG, MS '89 ENG
Maj. Matthew C. Shortal '94 BUS
C.O. "Doc" Erickson '43 ACES
Gregory Paw '85 MEDIA
Betty Lee Sung '48 LAS
Andrea Darlas '94 MEDIA
Stuart M. Kaminsky '57 MEDIA, AM '60 LAS
Ann Davenport McBrien '82 BUS
Mary Frances Fagan '76 MEDIA, MA '83 LAS
Bridget Later Lamont, MS '72 LIS
John David Mooney, MFA '65 FAA
Grover "Russ" Whitehurst, AM '68 LAS, PHD '70 LAS
John Burgstone '95 ENG
Londa Jorgensen Dewey '82 LAS
Carol Hillsman Sagers '79 MEDIA
Scott Altman '81 ENG
Temple Grandin, PHD '89 ACES
Laura McInerney Jennings '83 BUS
Barbara Baxter Pillinger '56 AHS
Andrew A. Sorensen '59 LAS
Daniel J. Balz '68 MEDIA, MS '72 MEDIA
Henry Givens Jr., EDM '61
Edward L. McMillan '69 ACES
Sheldon B. Rubin '64 LAS, '66 VM, DVM '68
Dr. Scott Anderson MS '36 ENG, PHD '40 ENG
Carol Ross Barney '71 FAA
Dianne Sautter Campbell '71 ED
Merle Gilmore '70 ENG
Mary Kay Kretch Haben '77 BUS
Cheryl R. Berman '74 MEDIA
Lu Ann Walker Maddox '74 AHS, MS '76 AHS
Peer Pedersen '47 DSSWV, LLB '48 LAW
Fred A. Rubin '72 FAA
Lt. Gov. Corinne J. Giese Wood '76 LAS
Doris Kelley Christopher '67 ACES
Eileen F. Fisher '72 ACES
Fred F. Guyton Jr. '61 FAA
John A. Johnson '64 ENG, MS '65 ENG
Arthur Ramer Wyatt '49 BUS, MS '50 BUS, PHD '53 BUS
Rowine Hayes Brown-Truitt '38 MEDIA, MD '39 MEDIA
Julia J. Henderson '36 LAS, AM '37 LAS
David F. Linowes '41 BUS
Park C. Livingston '30 LAS, MED '81
Charles B. Shuman '28 ACES, MS '29 ACES
James M. Benson '68 LAS
Judge Maynard Glitman '55 LAS
Debra L. Mitchell '75 FAA
Cordell Reed '60 ENG
Dr. Katie Harper Wright '44 LAS, EDM '59
Judge Eugene N. Hamilton '55 LAS, LLB '59 LAW
R. Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, PHD '69 LAS
Carol Ann Keiser '68 ACES
Robert D. Novak '52 LAS, HON '98
Gary K. Wolf '63 MEDIA, MS '69 MEDIA
K. Kenn Allen '71 LAS
Samuel T. Balen '57 FAA
Steven H. Gerdes '77 ACES
Nada J. Rowand '58 FAA
Joyce E. Tucker '70 LAS
Emiel Hamberlin, EDM '77, EDD '83
Mannie L. Jackson '60 AHS
Robert B. Levin '65 MEDIA
Terri L. Ludwig '85 LAS
David A. McConnell '54 VM, DVM '56
Eleanor H. Moty '68 FAA
Jacqueline Triche Atkins '69 LAS, JD '73 LAW
Herbert Y. Chang '60 ENG, MS '62 ENG, PHD '64 ENG
George M.C. Fisher '62 ENG, HON 96
Graham C. Grady '80 LAS
John G. "Red" Kerr '54 UIUC
Cecilia McCane "Ceil" Kuzma '70 LAS
Miriam J. "Jess" Marlow '58 DSSWV
Lester H. McKeever Jr. '55 BUS
William F. Kirk '64 ACES
Landon Parvin '70 BUS
Roger L. Plummer '64 ENG
David A. Powless '66 BUS
Christina Walton Tanner '86 LAS
Eddie N. Williams '54 MEDIA
Stewart D. Daniels Jr. '49 LAS
Stanley L. Elkin '52 LAS, AM '53 LAS, PHD '61 LAS, HON '86
Laura Barber Fraley '77 LAS, MS '79 BUS
William E. Geist '68 MEDIA
Charla M. Krupp '75 MEDIA
Robert "Bob" Martinez AM '64 LIR
William F. Mellberg '75 BUS
Dora Dougherty Strother AM '53 ED
Barbara Seaquist Williams '49 BUS
Nancy Goodman Brinker '68 LAS
Richard B. Fink '50 VM, DVM '52
Rita Bell '65 BUS
Jacquelyn Knight Gates '71 UIUC
H. Richard McFarland '52 ACES
Susan Sowle Suter '72 LAS
Gary K. Bielfeldt '58 ACES, MS '59 ACES
Lee H. Falk '32 LAS
Richard H. Frank '65 BUS
Grover G. Hankins, JD '72 LAW
Hachiro "Buddy" Koyama, AM '80 LIR, HON '95
Kathy Olesker Pounds '71 LAS
Gail Shapiro Steinberg '69 LAS
Max Abramovitz '29 FAA
Barton A. Cummings '35 MEDIA
W. Leonard Evans. Jr. '35 BUS
John C. Houbolt '40 ENG, MS '42 ENG, HON '05
George E. Keck '32 BUS
Jack S. Kilby '47 ENG
Thomas A. Murphy '38 BUS
James B. "Scotty" Reston '32 MEDIA
Alfred B. Swanson '45 MEDIA, MD '47 MEDIA
Phillips Talbot '36 MEDIA, '36 LAS
Robert C. Underwood, JD '39 LAW
Wilma L. Vaught '52 BUS
Lee L. Morgan '41 ACES
Steven R. Nagel '69 ENG
Lou Proana '66 LAS
Edith Ann Stotler '68 LAS
John L. Strom '35 MEDIA
Michael Colgrass Jr. '56 FAA
Donald C. Johanson '66 LAS
Barbara Miller Knuckles '70 LAS, MS '71 MEDIA
Prentice H. Marshall '49 DSSWV, JD '51 LAW
Lynn Morley Martin '60 LAS
Sherman Ted Rice '43 ACES, MS '48 ACES, PHD '50 ACES
B. Kenneth West '55 LAS
Andrew Barr '23 BUS, MS '24 BUS
Richard A. Campbell '49 ENG, MS '50 ENG
Roger J. Ebert '64 MEDIA
Richard A. Greenberg '70 FAA, MFA '72 FAA
Charles Marshall '51 ACES
Cesar Pelli, MS '54 FAA
Meredith Pleasant Sparks PHD '36 LAS
James S. Brady '62 MEDIA
Harry J. Gray '41 MEDIA, MS '47 MEDIA
Gardner W. Heidrick '35 BUS
Herbert H. McKenley '49 UIUC
Godfrey Sperling Jr. '37 MEDIA
Marion Morse Wood, PHD '65 MEDIA
John B. Anderson '42 LAS, JD '46 LAW
Arnold Orville Beckman '22 LAS, MS '23 ENG
Carole Kamin Bellows '57 LAS
Earl B. Dickerson '14 LAS, HON '84
Malcolm C. Todd '34 LAS
Craig S. Virgin '77 MEDIA
Harold R. "Hal" Bruno Jr. '50 MEDIA
Arthur S. "Arte" Johnson '49 MEDIA
Kathleen K. Kellaigh '76 FAA
Alfred N. Koplin '49 DSSWV
Lester G. Leutwiler '29 ENG
Timothy J. McCarthy '72 BUS
Nina Temple Shepherd '55 LAS
Larry A. Werries '62 ACES
John S. Coleman '57 MEDIA
Sheldon F. Good '55 BUS
Alan M. Hallene Sr. '51 ENG
Nancy Thies Marshall '79 LAS
Cirilo A. McSween '54 LAS
Judith Ford Johnson Nash '73 AHS
Jane Hayes Rader '54 LAS


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"VoltDB for SQL Developers" on YouTube
I presented VoltDB to the Boston MySQL User Group on 9/13, focusing on VoltDB technology from a SQL Developer's point of view.
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April 22, 2014 | Program Results Report
From 2007 to 2013, the National Quality Forum undertook an array of activities to strengthen the use of measurement to improve health care quality.
June 19, 2014 | Issue Brief
An Urban Institute study raises important questions about addressing health disparities after comparing U.S. and European Union policies.
June 16, 2014 | Issue Brief
This issue brief explores key lessons on how communities can share data, encourage collaboration, and make patients and consumers part of improving quality for all. Learn more about reducing disparities in health care.
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This set of case studies explores how three Aligning Forces for Quality communities worked to reduce disparities. Learn more as we explore how various initiatives were developed and the results achieved thus far.
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Thomas E. Love, PhD, director of Better Health Greater Cleveland's Data Center, discusses how collecting data through electronic health records (EHRs) can lead to improved care for racial and ethnic minorities. Learn more about his work.
March 28, 2014 | Issue Brief
This brief, by Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, explores an approach to making health care organizations more knowledgeable and responsive to cultural issues—beyond cultural competency training.
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This one-page infographic summarizes the five key points for communities and providers to remember when working to reduce disparities. Learn more about RWJF's Quality Field Notes.
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This resource guide provides a list of tools that health providers can use to learn more about strategies for reducing disparities and collecting Race, Ethnicity and Language (REL) data.
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Roast Beef, an African penguin at the New England Aquarium, made a special visit today to a Haverhill nursing home.
"They seemed to be thrilled and even after, as we were wrapping things up, they were calling us over to ask us questions," said penguin exhibit manager Heather Urquhart.
The visit to the Hannah Duston Health Care Rehabilitation Center was prompted after a resident, Sandra Ramsey-Sterling, painted a mural of five penguins on a snowy background.
She said she made the painting for the 9-year-old daughter of one of the nurses. But after three weeks of work, the painting turned out better than she expected, said Ramsey-Sterling, who said she had been painting for 30 or 40 years.
So with the help of some of the nurses, she made poster copies of the painting and donated them to the aquarium, hoping they could be sold in the gift shop. Though the aquarium was unable to use them, they sent an ambassador — Roast Beef — to thank her personally. (Boston.com)
Last month, while at the Mystic Aquarium to hang out with the penguins, we also stopped to check out the beluga whales. This one whale was having a great time, and it was one of the coolest things I've ever seen at a zoo or aquarium; she was interacting with the people standing at the glass watching her and it looked like she was having a blast doing so.
Now, the whales dancing has gone viral, but we saw something even more fun. I posted the photo on Instagram that day, but didn't post it here or talk about it, until now.
She would float right up against the glass, face to face with the crowd standing at the glass, and occasionally press the top of her ahead against it, just like she does in that video. We could hear her noises; they sounded pleasant. She'd occasionally squirt water up in the air, since her head was just about at the top of the water as she floated right in front of us. She would nod her head a bit, like she does in the video, and then she'd open her mouth just for a quick second, like she's doing in this picture. She seemed to especially enjoy doing it for the little kids, who would react by yelling and clapping because they were enjoying themselves so much; it was almost like she was thinking 'the smaller humans like this the best!' Then she'd swim away, only to swim right back and do it all again. So awesome.
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90% (or more) of what we learn in schools is NOT subject related
There is a tremendous focus on the quality of the subjects in schools, so children will learn more and thus education will improve. But I wonder if school isn't about learning maths or history, but maybe school is relevant to learn life skills. To learn how to develop your own way to look at the world and using skills that transcend school subjects. What do you think?
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May 28 2013: When I was little, I remember my mother always saying how times were so different than when she was growing up. And I find myself saying that a lot now and I'm only in my late 20s. I completely agree that schools should take more of a proactive approach in regards to teaching children life skills. We no longer can rely on them learning these things at home. For many reasons, times are just different now.
One being the internet. With social networking sites practically being inescapable, it is vital that we teach our kids how to deal with life and to embrace individuality. If the kids aren't learning life skills at home, or at school, they're left to learn it via facebook and twitter - or as I call them, the Home of Groupthink. Among the people who create online personas to make up for real life insecurities, there are kids who will never learn how to form an opinion of their own because they will be conditioned to always vote with the group for fear of public alienation or humiliation.
Schools are the best places to counter this. Our kids need to learn how to cope and deal with life in different ways now. The traditional - "learn the hard way" approach to figuring life out is now gambling with kids lives.
I think this is a great idea.
May 29 2013: It also seems important to me to learn like skills, because the Internet and the world around us changes rapidly and constantly. I would rather learn about dealing with the world, than learn about knowledge that was considered usefull 50 or more years ago. That way people can learn how to survive in an ever changing environment, with core skills, and the schools don't have to keep on teaching things that aren't relevant anymore.
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STANDISH — About 360 registered bidders and 200 online bidders looking for property participated in the Arenac County land auction at the Standish Knights of Columbus Hall on Aug. 22. more
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Staff writer | 8/27/08 | 509 views
MICHIGAN — As area farmers get ready for another planting season, we are staring down a gauntlet the likes of which very few of us have faced in our lifetimes. more
By Rodney Daniels
Special to the Independent | 4/1/08 | 625 views
DEEP RIVER TOWNSHIP — Some residents living along Deep River Road between Jose Road and M-76 are urging the Road Commission and Deep River Township Board to take action to repair huge holes and remedy the flooding issue on the county road. more
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DEEP RIVER TOWNSHIP — Some Deep River Township residents living on Deep River Road are hopeful that the Road Commission will do a major repair to the road. more
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ARENAC COUNTY — The Arenac-Iosco District Library (AIDL), which has branches in Standish, Omer and AuGres, is celebrating National Libraries Week April 13-19 and inviting county residents to join in the fun. more
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STANDISH — Prisoners sentenced to the Standish Maximum Correctional Facility (SMF) are now serving healthier time since tobacco cessation has began. more
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ARENAC COUNTY — Arenac County Bikers 4 Kids are hosting a Texas Hold 'em tournament to raise funds for area children and give card players a chance to win some serious cash. more
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ARENAC COUNTY — The Arenac County Board of Commissioners have organized a 125th anniversary kickoff celebration at the Olde Courthouse and Masonic Lodge in Omer on April 11. more
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Warm spring weather and an empty parking lot was all that these Standish area skateboarders needed for entertainment on March 24. more
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