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Several estimates were used to develop the outcomes table. This appendix provides 2 examples of specification of sampling distributions for these estimates.
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The estimate of P(D+|G) is obtained from our analysis. We assumed that logit(P(D+|G)), denoted as logit(P) for concise notation, is approximately normally distributed and estimated logit(P) and its variance from data available in the literature. Estimate of P(D+|G) and its CI is obtained by transforming logit(P) and its CI (Go to Appendix 2 for more information).
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When developing the outcomes table, the estimates of relative risk (RR) are obtained from published studies. Usually, the point estimate and its 95% CI (RRL, RRU) are reported.
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where Z0.975 is the 97.5% quantile of the standard normal distribution. Random samples of RR are obtained by first drawing random samples of ln(RR) from and then transforming to RR by taking exponentiation.
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In the latter half of the 1990s, Eric Rudolph emerged as a bit of a folk hero. While a conservative Catholic, he was placed on the Christian Identity/white nationalist spectrum as had Tim McVeigh, a 'patriot' gun rights anti-racist–who BTW had a vendetta against the previously discussed, Lon Horiuchi, before him.
Rudolph's targets—abortion clinics, the Olympics, and homosexual clubs—were not Far Right targets-well, I suppose the Olympics. (The Far Right is generally tolerant of homosexuals and is tolerant of abortion for eugenic reasons.)
Nevertheless, as Gawker notes, Rudolph was a version of a folk hero with t-shirts and bumper stickers (Run, Rudolph, Run!) as he headed into the mountains to allude the Man, as Bonnie & Clyde, Jesse James and Billy the Kid went before.
Chris Dorner has entered the news cycle. The ex-LAPD, military trained, Mr. Dorner, posted a manifesto and has gone rogue with a series of killings, but not exactly thrill or random killings.
While the rightish media has focused on the boilerplater liberalism of Mr. Dorner's manifesto, fresh off their defense of gun rights as the final check on tyranny, it has downplayed the 'revenge' and avenging agent points, where Mr. Dorner details bad language, bullying, abuse of suspects, general corruption amongst supervisors, which apparently in his narrative, led to his dismissal.
His targets have been selected for righteous vengeance, and families are considered fair targets—similar to contemporary Drone logic, certified by the Attorney General and the Nobel Peace Price winning President.
Comments on local California news stories appear to show some thought out sympathy and admiration for Mr. Dorner's cause.
The LAPD is on edge, no doubt, and have made matters worse when six officers opened fire on a pick-up truck that perhaps matched a description. A Hispanic woman was hit twice, and another women escaped with minor injuries, and apparently suffered from not understanding police commands.
Reports indicate that Dorner's trail has gone cold…literally. Apparently there is reason to believe Dorner has hit the mountains, perhaps having committed suicide, or perhaps not.
Ever the metaphysician, Charlie Sheen, old Matt Eckert avenging his Pa himself, has done a short video asking Mr. Dorner to give him a call, and see if they can figure out a way to work this thing out.
It will be a rather short story, or perhaps drag on a bit longer.
3 thoughts on "Rambo 2013"
Abortion is tricky not only for eugenic reasons but population control as well.
It's a horrible thing to weigh though, murder of babies… I've condemned David Duke over it in the past.
It might not be stereotypically right-wing to say, but I'd like to preserve a diversity of non-human species. I don't like how the global population continues to grow. In a deeper sense, the environment truly is a right-wing issue. The Bible says to be fruitful and multiply, but we glorify God in preserving His creation. The spirit of the Bible is better served in preserving at least some of nature.
Darwinism has undermined the majesty and awe of nature; but for the true Christian who believes evolution only alters Creation partly, nature is still wondrous to behold.
I don't think it matters that a Catholic authority has declared evolution, or at least Intelligent Design, tolerable within Christianity. I'm not Catholic, and I won't believe the sun revolves around the Earth either.
I'm too often beaten over the head with, "The Catholic Church says it's OK," lol. Well, is it also OK to be a Creationist?
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What I think you mean to say is that abortion might be a reactionary position for eugenic reasons in the current climate. Same as injecting birth control to the lower bell curve, and encouraging sterilization amongst a certain class.
I could pound back about first we must dismantle the welfare state, but that would be a contrived secondary reactionary position.
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A Closer Look: Author Lisa McKay
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So I think, when I started writing the book, I was writing fictionally about some of my own deepest struggles with those issues. I think I chose to pursue it in my 20s because it was the thing I was grappling with most deeply. I thought, This scares me to write about this, really scares me." It was personally really challenging, but I think the trauma work helped me really think through various different people's types of reactions to these events, and having them try to deal with those questions of suffering.
Which definitely lands in authenticity, instead of tying things up in a bow.
That was one of the things that I struggled with in writing it. I wanted to have different types of reactions, but have them be as honest as possible
From the sounds of it, you've racked up a few frequent flyer miles recently. Where would you travel just for pleasure?
This past year I went to Turkey just for pleasure, and that was awesome. I decided at the beginning of last year that I hadn't travelled anywhere just for fun for quite awhile, and it would be nice to get off the plane for once and not be responsible for leading trauma workshops. So, I went to Turkey and Greece and that was amazing. But where I would go next just for fun? I've always wanted to go to South America. That's on my Top-5 list. I want to go and see the Amazon.
Very cool. So you have a Top-5 list?
I do. And it changes all the time. The list of places where I don't want to go in the world is probably shorter than the list of places where I would really like to.
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What is still left unchecked on your list of future goals?
I would like to get married and have a family at some stage, but I'm wary of making a goal because I'm not sure I have complete control over that one. It's one of those goals so I think I would like that, but I'm also going to be happy and happily fulfilled without that. So in terms of actual goals, I have just recently committed to seeing if I can write a second book. I wasn't sure if I would ever write another book after I finished Hands, and so…
Well, you wrote 170,00 words ... that's nuts.
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Thread: Douglas Fir vs. Pine question
02-16-2006, 04:02 PM #1ErikYGuest
Douglas Fir vs. Pine question
I am building a rocking horse for my daughter, and I am having a really difficult time finding wood for this thing.
The plans call for
one 2" thick 12" by 6 Foot long board
one 1" thick 12" by 8 Foot long board
I went to my local lumber yard where I buy all my hard woods. The widest of any hardwood that they had that was 2" thick was 8", and it is EXPENSIVE!
If I use this, I would have to do 2 things I really dont want to do, first I would have to edge join two 6" boards to get the 12" board, which will be a pain and could weaken in time, and second spend a ton of money on all the lumber.
I went to Lowes today and they had some really nice 1" thick, 12" wide select pine boards, and they also had 2" thick, 12" wide Douglas Fir boards that were pretty nice and mostly not free.
My question is threefold, 1) Has anyone ever worked with Douglas Fir before in a woodworking project? I know it is meant for decking and outdoor use, but could I use it for this? 2) How difficult will it be to match the colors on the pine and the D.F. for finishing? 3)Would I be better off using all select pine, and face jointing 2 1" thick boards together for this project?
Any help would be appreciated!
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RE: Douglas Fir vs. Pine question
Ok, first I assume(bad thing to do,lol)that your talking about a 2x12 as in building lumber. While it says 2x12 it is actually 1 1/2x11 1/2.
Not sure If that will mess up you patern requirments or not. These boards can tend to be sappy. And firs are pine so not a lot of difference I believe.
Now, just my 2 cents so take it as you will. I make horses and use 3/4" hardwood. Mostly walnut, but some cherry, birch, maple. I get it at the mill and plane it myself. I usually get common walnut as I like the color variations. It goes about $1.50 bdft. I do edge joint the wood to make 14" wide boards. Never had one come apart. I do watch where I put the joint. Going to 2" will increase the price, but you can still glue the edges.
I would think this is better than face jointing 1x's together. Especially if you plan the joint just right.
As for pine at the mill, I think it's about $2.00-$2.25 a bdft for 8/4 board. Anything over 10" adds a buck per bdft.
Anyway, just my thoughts,
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RE: Douglas Fir vs. Pine question
Erik, my favorite word:
Doug fir is some neat stuff to work with. It's strong, it's straight, it's tough. It's gotta' be to make a doug fir tree look like a doug fir tree. Me, I'd rather do the whole thing in doug fir than in pine.
You won't have a lot of luck getting color matches between the douglas fir & the select pine; they just won't look like they came from the same kinda' tree.
Doug fir's plenty good for makin' what you're makin', I think. It's one of the harder softwoods, and I think it'll do ya.
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RE: Douglas Fir vs. Pine question
Even within the true "pines" there is a lot of hardness differentiation, and, like Timmer said, doug fir is a pretty hard, strong wood. Doug fir is one of the few coniferous trees that is hard enough to use on a real neander bench top.
02-17-2006, 09:31 AM #5ErikYGuest
RE: Douglas Fir vs. Pine question
Guys, thanks for all the replies. I have never really worked with any soft woods before, as I have always worked with Red Oak, Cherry, Maple of Walnut, so the whole soft wood idea was a new one to me.
The douglas fir is so darn cheap, I guess I can always give it a shot and if it turns out crappy, put the money into some hardwood.
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I have to agree with the other guys - D-Fir is nice stuff.
I also replyed to your other post.
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RE: Douglas Fir vs. Pine question
As a general rule, the firs are stronger and harder than the pines, the biggest exception being Longleaf Pine, commonly referred to as Southern Yellow Pine...
Doug Fir is easily worked, though I would stay away from kiln dried stock; the tendancy is for the mills to "rush" the drying process. Case hardening and shakes are common. If you do go with #2 Common stock be carefull when selecting the boards as pitch pockets are common. Also select boards where the growth rings are as close to perpendicular to the faces as possible (vertical grain). Additionally, #2 Common is "dried" to about 18% moisture content, so stickering your boards until they reach equilibrium is a good idea.
As someone alluded to, the properties of any species can vary. With Doug Fir this is also true. Coastal Doug Fir is the hardest, whilst Douglas Fir from the Interior South is the softest...Old growth Doug Fir is all but impossible to get now days, it's definetly the most desireable. If you can get a hold of reclaimed Doug Fir, go for it.
The "second" growth DF that you see in the yards will have reddish heartwood with yellow sapwood and the contrast can be quite stunning if finished "natural", both tones "mellow" out over time.
I wouldn't be too concerned about edge gluing; the adhesives we now have are so superior that, in most cases, the bond is stronger than the wood itself. The main thing is to make sure your stock has reached equilibrium before you start the project.
One word of caution, if you do get a splinter in your hand remove it immediatly and disinfect the wound, you can get a pretty nasty infection if you don't. FWIW.


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When watching the youngest of the youth teams conduct a brief scrimmage before the Zamboni resurfaces the ice for the next period of a Minnesota game, it is hard to envision our accomplished Gophers at that stage of their development. At least it is until one little girl zips into a cluster, emerges with the puck, flies down the ice with her ponytail and other players trailing behind, as some band members chant, "Future Gopher!"
"When I was like probably three or so, my mom and my dad put me on skates—on little double blades," forward Rachael Bona said. "So I started like that. My brother played hockey, so I did everything he did. So that's how I started. Then in kindergarten, I got on my first real team."
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even those not related to them are interested. By the time Bona and her teammates for the Coon Rapids Cardinals made their run to a third-place finish at the Minnesota Class AA High School Tournament, they had attracted a boisterous student following.
"I couldn't really believe the crowds we had my senior year," she said. "I don't know what happened—something just sparked up at school. People started talking. We created a Facebook page for our high school team. We just asked kids to come to our games. They knew we were going to be good that year, so we started getting kids coming around school, and it started going around like, 'Oh, girls' hockey tonight.' Everyone started coming."
While pumping up enthusiasm for her high school team, Bona was selecting a college.
"I was looking at a lot of schools in the WCHA, and I was looking out east at Harvard and stuff, but I've always wanted to come to Minnesota," she said.
"I've always dreamed of coming here. You get a good education as well as a great hockey team and a great hockey program. I liked the coaches, I liked being close to home—all of that kind of played into my choice."
Beyond a few early butterflies, Bona is adjusting well to Minnesota.
"I think it's kind of expected to be nervous for your first college game, but once you got out there—I think I was the most nervous for my first shift, but once I had a couple shifts, I was good to go."
Illness and injury to other forwards has caused some lineup fluctuation, affecting where Bona lines up each week.
"At the beginning, my first two games, I was playing wing, and I played wing my ninth and tenth grade year, and I'm now playing center, which is fine with me," Bona said. "I'm really okay with anything. I think that we should be able to play wing and center no matter what. Whatever role they want to throw me in, I think I can adapt to it pretty well."
Coach Brad Frost says Bona has good hockey instincts.
"She's very crafty, has great hands, has a good shot," Frost said. "She's a really slippery player, but she's got a great head for the game and knows the space to jump into. With her size—she's not small, but she's certainly not big either—you need to have that innate awareness of where to go on the ice to get the puck and be in a position to do something with it."
In her first road game in Madison, Bona applied those skills and scored her first collegiate goal against the top-ranked Badgers.
"I think she's grasped things pretty well, so far for us, which is good to see," Frost said.
As with any student athlete, there is much to grasp off the ice as well.
"I would like to go into the medical field," Bona said. "I'm looking at physician's assistant, so I'm not sure what major I'm going to choose yet, because you can choose a lot of different things to do that. I'm not sure yet, but that's the path I want to take."
She hopes that by the time she graduates from Minnesota, fans come to know her as a hard worker who puts the team before herself. But for now, the question is how to get that same buzz and support at Ridder Arena that she had at Coon Rapids High.
"I would love to have a section like that here," Bona said. "Some of my friends from high school go here, and they came to a few games, but it's hard to get crowds like that, because in high school, you know everybody and everybody knows you. It's such a big campus here that it's hard to have those relationships with people. Anything we could do to get a crowd like that would be unreal."
Rachel Ramsey
Sometimes the question of how a player got started playing hockey isn't much of a question at all. When your father has won an Olympic gold medal and played and coached in the NHL, family routines will lead you to the rink and genetics will favor you once there. But as for how Rachel Ramsey decided to take her hockey-playing talents to her father's alma mater, Minnesota, let's hear from the rookie defenseman herself.
"I kind of looked at other WCHA schools, just being a Minnesota kid and wanting to stay in the WCHA, in the area," Ramsey said. "Probably obviously it would be Wisconsin, North Dakota, and those schools, but none of them were even close to Minnesota for me, ever. Growing up as a Minnesota kid, I wanted to play here and to be a Gopher. As soon as I got an offer to play here, I didn't have to think twice."
When moving up a level, most student athletes must do more thinking, on and off the ice.
"A lot of it was as I expected," Ramsey said. "School is relatively hard, as expected, and the level of play is a lot faster, as I expected. I think a lot of it you kind of know coming in, but it's just really adjusting to it."
Adaptation is easier when one possesses a bounty of talent.
"She's very skilled," coach Brad Frost said. "She gets out there, and she's six feet tall and looks like a lot of our other defensemen, but there is still some high-schoolness in her game. Whether it's passing the puck hard, or throwing things softly on her backhand, or whatever. Just playing the D-zone is completely different. She could get beat in high school and still recover because of her speed and her length, and now it's a little more difficult. She's been doing very well for us early on here, but there's still definitely some parts of her game that need to grow."
On the Minnesota blue line, Ramsey is surrounded by people who can mentor her.
"We have an amazing group of defenders, and I've been blessed to learn from them so far, and I can't wait to see what the rest of the season holds as far as that goes," she said.
And if the tutoring of her partners on defense isn't enough, Ramsey has an All-American goalie in Noora Räty playing behind her.
"She communicates a lot, which my goaltender, Julie Friend, whom we played [versus St. Cloud State], did quite a bit in high school, but Noora lets me know when I mess up, which is a good thing," Ramsey said. "It's been good with her back there, because she lets me know when I'm doing something right and wrong, and I'm learning from it."
Mira Jalosuo once said that Räty communicates with her in Finnish around the Minnesota net. I asked Ramsey if she is able to understand what her teammate is telling her.
"I can," Ramsey said with a laugh. "I sit next to Mira in the locker room, so I'm understanding what they're saying now. I'm getting there."
Despite her inexperience and advice coming from all corners, Ramsey is performing just fine. Through six games, her 5 points are second among Minnesota defensemen, and she leads the team with a plus 11. Of course, those few games only hint at what she can become.
"Hopefully, by the time I'm a junior or senior, I'm looked upon as a leader on the team, someone that the team can look to in go-to moments, but I've got a long ways to go to get there," Ramsey said.
College presents a lot of questions to figure out, but four years gives Ramsey time to sort through them.
"My major is undecided so far," she said. "Probably something in sports management, and maybe a coaching minor. We'll see as we get down the road here. Otherwise, I'm just trying to soak up the experience here as a freshman and get a little bit of everything outside of hockey. I'm trying to meet some people outside of the hockey team, so that I can kind of have that college experience, as well as getting to play with such a great team here."
Shyler Sletta
Do you ever wonder how certain kids wound up confined to the goal crease, while the others were free to dart about the ice?
"In mites, everybody kind of took a try at it, and it worked out well for me," Gophers frosh goaltender Shyler Sletta said. "It was something that my dad wanted me to continue at, because I was pretty good at it. And it just worked out that I ended up doing it for the rest of my life."
Eventually, that skill took her to Minnesota, where the Gophers were looking to fill the hole left by Jenny Lura's graduation.
"I looked at a lot of different schools," Sletta said. "I looked out east at various schools. Being here in Minnesota, I've never really had the ambition to move. It's a great state; it's the State of Hockey. I really loved it here on campus when I came up for my visit. I could feel like I was at home being at school here. It's like being really close to my family. That made a huge, huge factor in why I came here—that I'm very tight with my family. It's nice to be around them and to see them on the weekends."
The Gophers offered a role that was far from glamorous.
"She was brought in as the third-string goaltender, with the message that 'I'm not sure if you'll ever get in a game or not, when you have Noora and Alyssa Grogan, two experienced goaltenders ahead of you,'" Coach Frost said.
"Obviously, things change, and sometimes you can't anticipate that. With Alyssa being out, suddenly she's a backup and seeing a ton of shots in practice, with the opportunity to potentially play a lot for us should Noora get hurt.
"I've been really impressed with her progression since she walked in the door, and she has made some great strides and is a great team player for us."
Frost knows that what is being asked of Sletta is not easy.
"Being ready to play but not playing, yet trying to improve every day in practice just in case your number is called—she's been handling it well," he said. "Andy Kent, our goalie coach, has been doing a great job with her. It's good to see the strides that she's made."
Sletta is taking a straightforward approach to the situation and is not trying to make it more than it is.
"I have a belief that physically I'm able to stop every puck, so if I don't let the mental aspect of the game like being nervous or being worried about it [interfere], then I'm sure I'll play fine.
"Having Alyssa out is not good, but it's opened up a lot of opportunities for me as a goalie. I can't wait to have her back; she needs to come back at some point, but it's worked out well for me right now."
She did see her first game action in the St. Cloud State series, and Sletta saved all the shots that she faced.
"Playing goalie isn't something that I get nervous for," Sletta said. "With other sports, I sometimes get nervous, but hockey is something that comes pretty easy to me. We do it for a couple of hours every day. It's hard to find something to be nervous about when you do it every day."
In the classroom, Sletta is majoring in sports management.
"I would love to work with a sports team or even be an athletic director," she said. "My passion is sports, obviously. Anything involving that—teaching kids about sports, coaching, and everything—is just my way to give back to the game. That really led me to my major and deciding to work with sports—the game means a lot to me."
Before it is time to turn to her career, there will be many pucks to stop and an evolution to go through.
"I feel like it's going to be nice to be known as a part of this team and to leave behind kind of a standard for other people to follow," Sletta said. "I think it will be great to look back and to remember, 'Oh, I was that freshman; I didn't know what to do then.' But I feel that it will be nice after I'm done to be able to tell people that this is what it was like, and it was an amazing experience, and don't take it for granted."
Stephanie Anderson
By all indications, this year's team is one of the deepest, and likely the most talented, Minnesota teams ever. That's good news—unless, like Stephanie Anderson, you're one of the newcomers trying to secure playing time.
"The depth is working against Steph to an extent, but it also allows her to be in a position where she can just work hard every day," Coach Brad Frost says.
"She can get the puck to the net; she can backcheck hard and use her speed to her advantage. She's continued to progress throughout the year and is getting more and more time as the year goes on."
Anderson looked at other schools, including Minnesota State and North Dakota, but she wanted to follow in her father, Mike's, footsteps and become a Gopher.
"It was always a dream of mine to come here," she says. "Once I came here on my visit, I was just kind of stuck; I couldn't really choose anywhere else."
The product of North St. Paul and the Minnesota Thoroughbreds finds herself most recently placed on a line with junior Sam Downey and sophomore Bethany Brausen of nearby Little Canada, someone she'd played with on teams prior to college.
"She and I are starting to click really, really well, and I get along with Sam pretty good," Anderson says. "We're doing pretty well, I think. Starting to see each other."
Playing time can be irregular, but it has been increasing in recent weeks.
"Everyone's excited on the bench when he says, 'Roll four lines,'" Anderson says. "It's a pick-me-up for our line, fourth line: we'll get out there and do our job and go right back out when we're called again."
This is the point of the season when the rookies can hit a bit of a wall,
as the season is two months old but has yet to reach the halfway mark.
"Actually, the past couple weekends, we've tried a different preparation, which has helped us a lot," she says. "Turning our cell phones [off] and warm up a little better. We're having a lot of fun, so we're a lot more focused lately."
Hockey isn't the only part of the college experience that can get demanding at times.
"It was kind of unexpected—some of the days during the week are really jam packed," Anderson says.
"You wake up, you go to class, you do your study hours, you got to
go work out, and by that time, it's practice time. Sometimes you got night class, so those days get a little hard."
On a team with a strong senior presence, there's no shortage of teammates offering advice.
"They just tell you to get through it; freshman year is usually the hardest," Anderson says. "So, just trying to keep the wheels turning."
She is studying animal science, which comes with a science-heavy curriculum. There too, help from a teammate is never far away.
"[Mira Jalosuo] lives across the hall at Keeler from me, so any questions, I'll just run over and ask her."
Anderson hopes to use her degree to become a veterinarian, and she has some ideas about what her patients should look like.
"Small animals, no big animals," she says.
For now, Anderson is adjusting to wearing maroon and gold on game days.
"I'm still kind of working on the experience part. Still kind of nervous playing out there, I'll admit. But four years down the line, I want to be that go-to player that Coach is looking for, people to remember me by my speed—could put the puck in the net when she needs to."
Meghan Lorence
After two years of runs to the state tournament by Irondale High School, Meghan Lorence found herself alone last season as the veteran presence on a young Knights roster. That experience made joining a seasoned Gophers' squad a novel experience for the wing from Mounds View.
"It's a big jump, especially since I was leading the team last year," Lorence says. "It's a good experience just kind of flipping the coin, and it goes the other way around."
For her high school team, any line including Lorence automatically became the top line. Now she's had to adjust to varying roles, usually on the third line with Rachael Bona and either Stephanie Anderson or Becky Kortum, but filling in on the top line when needed.
"It was good skating with the first line during the Wisconsin weekend just to get the feel of things, but that was just a big eye-opener for me and made me realize just how hard I need to work to get up to that level just to keep up with them," Lorence says. "I'm really enjoying [the third line] and just kind of finding my spot right now."
Lorence is no stranger to learning from those older than she is on the ice.
"I grew up watching my brother and sister at the rink, so ever since I was a baby. I was just kind of born up at the rinks," she says. "All my uncles and Mom and Dad played hockey growing up, so it's kind of in the family."
Family played a part in her selection of Minnesota, and they've helped ease her transition.
"I was looking at other schools, but after I came here, down to visit, it was kind of obvious that I wanted to come here, and it was the right place for me," Lorence says. "Just being in my hometown and being in front of my own crowd. It was a pretty exciting moment for me."
"My family is super supportive, so I see them a lot, and they bring me down groceries whenever I need it. So that's been good. It hasn't been too hard—just the hockey, I suppose, would be the hardest."
Even the hockey isn't proving too difficult for Lorence. She picked up her third assist in the second game at Harvard to go with four goals over the season's first two months.
"She definitely has a knack for getting to the right place at the right time," Coach Frost says.
"I think the biggest thing for her, as with most Minnesota freshmen who have played high school hockey, is just the transition to the collegiate game with kids being bigger and faster and stronger. But also just to learn how to play defense and play in the D zone, to move the puck and jump into space to get it back.
"I think she's progressing well, and I would expect her in the second half to be even better."
One flaw that Lorence readily admits is being too passive at times on the ice.
"I do find myself doing that quite often, and then I get back to the bench, and I get a reminder of how I need to keep going," she says.
New position coach Nadine Muzerall is helping her to be more assertive.
"At first, I came in here always wanting to give the puck up, just because I was a freshman," Lorence says. "But hearing her get under us about shooting all the time, it kind of brought an eye-opener to me and how we just need to shoot the puck whenever we get close to the net."
Lorence is planning to major in sports management and hopes to pursue a career in coaching and give back to the game of hockey.
But for now, she's still building her Gopher legacy on the ice as a hard worker, dedicated to both her team and the game.


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User Biography : Cooper Edwin L. received his Ph.D. degree in biology from Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, in 1963 where he was elected to the Society of the Sigma Xi and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, Calif (UCLA),School of Medicine, in infectious diseases (now microbiology, immunology, and medical genetics). He became Assistant Professor (1964) and Vice Chairman (from 1989 to 1993) of Anatomy (now Department of Neurobiology) and Full Professor 1973. He is the author/editor of more than 25 books and several hundred other publications dealing with comparative immunology, invertebrate immune systems and evolution of neuroimmune systems. He founded the international journal: Developmental and Comparative Immunology (DCI) in 1977, (Elsevier) and was Second President and founder of the journal's Society (ISDCI). His current research interests include antimicrobial peptides and CAM mechanisms with applications to biomedicine. For CAM, Professor Cooper co-organized the International Symposium on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan, 2002 and has co-edited the proceedings to be published by Kluwer Publishers, New York, in 2004. He is now Founding Editor in Chief of the new journal: Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, (eCAM) published by Oxford University Press (2004). Edwin is a Charter Member of the new International Society of Complementary and Medical Research (ISCMR); He has served as Program Officer and President of the American Society of Zoologists (now Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology). Edwin is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American, British and French societies of immunology. He has been awarded Docteur Honoris Causa from five American and European universities and appointed as Senior Visiting Scientist, in the Institute for Advanced Studies, at the University of Bologna, Italy, 2006. In 2006 he was elected to the Erfurt Academy of Erfurt in Germany which is equivalent to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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I think this is a great shot. It's hard to take these without getting the lens wet, and the slow shutter speed (needed for the low light and great for showing water in motion) probably warrants use of a tripod.
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Baked Pasta Primavera
Yield: Serves 4
Cost per Serving: $1.61
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Bake: 25 Minutes
Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 519
- Fat: 19g
- Saturated fat: 11g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.0g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.0g
- Protein: 19g
- Carbohydrate: 67g
- Fiber: 5g
- Cholesterol: 50mg
- Iron: 0.0mg
- Sodium: 1083mg
- Calcium: 0.0mg
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup low-sodium chicken broth
- Salt and pepper
- 3/4 cup grated Parmesan
- 8 ounces ziti
- 1 1-lb. package mixed frozen vegetables
- 1/3 cup plain bread crumbs
- 1. Preheat oven to 375°F; lightly grease a 2-quart (11-by-7-inch) baking dish.
- 2. Melt 3 Tbsp. butter in a small pan over medium-high heat. Add flour; stir until blended, about 2 minutes. Whisk in milk and broth. Cook, stirring, until mixture forms a thick, smooth sauce, about 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in 1/4 cup Parmesan.
- 3. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add ziti; cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Add vegetables and bring back to a boil. Cook until pasta is almost done, about 3 minutes longer. Drain and return to pot.
- 4. Pour sauce over pasta and vegetables; mix well. Spread evenly in baking dish. In a small dish, mix remaining Parmesan and bread crumbs. Melt remaining butter, stir into bread-crumb mixture and sprinkle over top of casserole. Bake until casserole is bubbly and top is golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes.
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THE AMA PRO FLAT TRACK FINALS ROARS BACK INTO THE WILD AND EXCITING POMONA HALF-MILE OCTOBER 11th!!
The Law Tigers AMA Pro Flat Track Finals, brought to you locally by Pomona Valley Harley-Davidson and Glendale Harley-Davidson, roars off the startline,Saturday, October 11th at the Fairplex.
After a thrilling battle for the Championship in 2013 the Law Tigers AMA Pro Flat Track Finals, presented by Pomona Valley Harley-Davidson and Glendale Harley-Davidson where fans watched lap after lap of non-stop high speeds and handlebar-to handlebar action, the highly anticipated race comes back in what is sure to be the wildest action of the year for the AMA Pro Racing Grand National Flat Track Championship.
In 2013 the crowd watched an epic one-track battle between Brad Baker who came into the event leading the field by a mere 10 points and battling fierce competition all night long from Bryan Smith and Brandon Robinson as the battled for the coveted AMA National #1 Plate!!
Gene Romero Named Grand Marshal of AMA Pro Flat Track Finals At Pomona
Gene Romero, one of the most colorful and successful flat track motorcycle racers whose popularity introduced the sport to a wider audience of sports fans in the 1970s, has been named Grand Marshal for the AMA Pro Flat Track Finals, set for October 11 at the LA Fairplex in Pomona.
"It's an honor and I'm flattered," said Romero, who was inducted in the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1998. "I'm looking forward to seeing all my friends there."
"We chose Gene Romero as Grand Marshal because he is a legend who has bled for the sport for 40 years," said Chris Morgan, co-promoter of the AMA Pro Flat Track Finals. "He has been a great friend, and the legacy he has left as a rider, promoter and an ambassador for the sport makes him exactly the type of person who deserves this honor."
Romero was the youngest Grand National titleholder in the sport's history when, at 22 years old, he won the 1970 championship and the fans' most popular rider honors, just seven years after his first amateur race at Ascot Park in Southern California. He was so dominant that he sealed the championship by winning Sacramento Mile with two races remaining on the schedule.
Speedway Bikes Set To Tear It Up At This Year's Flat Track Finals
Champion vs Champion vs Champion . . .
Two-time World Speedway Champion Billy Hamill will take on a host of young-guns at the Super Long Track Speedway Race at this year's AMA Pro Law Tigers Flat Track Finals. One of Hamill's biggest challengers for the win will be nineteen year-old USA World Cup star Gino Manzares. Manzares recently won the biggest title of his young career by winning the 2013 AMA Long Track National Championship at Perris Auto Speedway. Hamill and Manzares will be fighting it out on the track with speedway bike legend and former Arizona State Champion Eddie Castro as well as Aaron Fox, Former World Vintage Moto X Champ Tyson Talkington, Jason Ramirez, Justin Boyle and more. Come out and enjoy the spectacular action of the Super Long Track Speedway Championship at this year's AMA Pro Law Tigers Flat Track Finals presented by Pomona Valley Harley-Davidson and Glendale Harley-Davidson.
Ascot Reunion Returns for 2014
The very popular Ascot Reunion at the Law Tigers AMA Pro Flat Track Finals is back again for 2014. The reunion is set to begin at 3pm on race day (October 11). This is a great place to meet the legends of the sport up close with some of the bikes that made them famous. Ascot, which was in Gardena, California, was the epicenter of racing for many years. The Legends Autograph Session is part of this amazing Ascot event, so bring something to sign, and meet all the legends in one place at the same time! The Ascot Reunion takes place in front of the stands next to the front straightaway.
Rockabilly Greats "The Loveless" to Play at the Flat Track Finals
The Loveless flyer Famed rockabilly band and LA's own "the Loveless' has signed on to the AMA Pro Flat Track Finals at Pomona to play a rocking set as a part of the Gasser Customs Vintage Motorcycle Rally and Miss Flat Track Finals Pin Up Contest. Ever popular and with a huge Southern California following this band exhibits Southern California Old School cool and plays to sold out crowds From San Diego to the Bay Area weekly. As classic motorcycle enthusiasts and AMA Pro Flat Track fans we are lucky to have these guys out at Pomona to bring in the event in style!!
Vintage Motorcycle Rally at Flat Track Finals
Join us for the first annual Gasser Customs Vintage Motorcycle Rally! Come out and share with us our passion and enthusiasm for all things motorcycles!
Ride out or just come along to browse through history with great bikes of old and check out what's new in the world of custom styles.
Awards will be given for Best in Show, Best Custom and People's Choice so bring out your prized ponies and show them off for a chance to win! Lots of vendors on hand, live music, custom pinstriping on site, and of course a chance to get your picture taken with the GC girls!
Stick around and get your tickets for one of 2013's greatest nights in racing with the Flat Track Championships!
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Pepper learning about Coulson's death
Why these two ALWAYS manage to reduce me like this every. single. time. they're in a movie?
Despite what a lot of people have been trying to tell me, Loki is, in fact, a villain.
"Looking at Tony and Bruce's outfits at the end of the movie, I'm just gonna put this out there: Bruce is wearing Tony's clothes. They're about the same size and build, Bruce' outfit is way snazzier than his usual style, and we already know that Tony practically asked Bruce to move in with him the day they met. Tony loaned him an outfit from his no-doubt gargantuan Stark closet because they're Science Bros now, plus Bruce's only other clothes were reduced to a pair of torn short-shorts when he Hulked out. Also, Tony knows that this is Bruce's first (positive) interaction with the press, and if there's anything Tony Stark's good at, it's putting on a show."
'How to be Badass' with Hawkeye
That's painful…
Agent Coulson has visited Captain America's memorial since he was six years old.
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Except now, Captain America visits his.
Agent Flowers reporting in!
The Mission to get the message out to Agent Coulson seemed to be going all according to plan…
Until I received a very unexpected visitor.
The way he whispers her name.
I don't think it's really spoilery, but just in case for the last panel, I will just throw this out there so you can't get mad at me if you think it's spoilery ; )
Just a doodle idek
They all stumbled into Stark Towers, well the lower part that had not been almost destroyed, and proceeded to collapse. Pepper helped Tony to one of the bedrooms and the pair locked the door. Steve plopped onto a couch and immediately let himself "rest his eyes" for a moment. Thor dropped his hammer on the floor and no one even flinched as it dented the hard wood. He dropped on the other side of the couch and stretched out his large body before passing out himself. Bruce went off in search of a bedroom and some scented candles, no one asked about the last part. All Natasha wanted was a shower, and maybe sleep, but mostly a shower. She found a spare bedroom with a huge bathroom, but best of all, an equally large shower.
She turned the water on too high but didn't complain as it singed her skin. She scrubbed off dirt and blood and tried to get that sick feeling in the pit of her stomach to go away. She should be happy, everyone was safe, no one had died, well no one on the team had died. She got out of the shower before she could pass out on the tiles and wrapped one of Stark's overly fluffy towels around her. She stood in front of the mirror for a minute, clutching the towel around her body and studying her reflection. She looked down at the pile of clothes Pepper or someone must have dropped off while she was in the shower and she was grateful that someone could think clearly today. She pulled on a tank top and pair of yoga pants, before slipping back into the bedroom. Clint was passed out cold on the bed, uniform and all, looking oddly peaceful. She was too tired to find another room and frankly, just didn't want to be alone, so she climbed in beside him.
She rested her head on his chest and he moved in his sleep, or whatever state of consciousness he was in, to wrap an arm around her.
"I'm glad you're back," she whispered into his chest and she felt him tighten his grip on her and she smiled.
When Nick Fury arrived the next morning to check on the team he tried not to act surprised when he found Thor and Steve practically cuddling on the couch. He didn't question it when he found Bruce on the floor next to a bed surrounded by extinguished candles. He actually wasn't that surprised to find a note stuck to a door informing him that Tony and Pepper had taken the Jet to Paris. He could only smile at the sight of Natasha and Clint tangled in each others limbs, fully clothed of course, and fast asleep. He left the breakfast on the table beside Steve and Thor and took the car back to head quarters, deciding to leave them alone for a while. They did deserve it after, you know, saving the world and all.


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Celeb Moms Love Baby Eggi
A designer kids clothing line that gives back to charity. Now this, we like ...
Tori Spelling, Marcia Cross, Poppy Montgomery and Kim Raver are all fans of the adorable line Baby Eggi -- a totally stylish and reasonable designer line that's also charitable: 20% of the proceeds from Baby Eggi go to various children's charities. Another tid bit -- L.A. tattoo artist Mark Mahoney (he's inked daddies Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp) designs the line, which ranges in price from $18 - $38. Love.
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Ella November 11, 2008, 4:42 PM
I LOVE Baby Eggi, even better is that they give so much to charity. I think they should start making mommy Eggi!


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This is a good article but with some of the sites I have designed accuracy of information comes first with marketing second. While both are important sometimes it is difficult to produce a webpage that encompasses both.
When I first read this article, I wasn't nearly as well-read on the five canons of classical rhetoric. Now having a stronger on core rhetorical principles, I think I've a different understanding of the nature of kairos and how it applies to the web.
Colleen, I understand you to be defining kairos on the web as: how to use words with the right tone in the right context to persuasively appeal to a given audience. However, putting emphasis on kairos being about the right moment, I don't think you're discussing kairos in this article, but rather the rhetorical principles of invention (what to say) and style (how to say it).
Kairos is really about when you communicate a message. So kairos is more concerned with interactions such as those encountered during an e-commerce checkout, a tutorial, subscription process, a search, or while using an online office suite.
An example of what I mean is when a new user logs into Google Docs for the first time and they are presented with a pop-up box offering an optional tour. That first login is a kairotic moment where Google can educate its new users about how they'll benefit from using the application.
Another example would be when a user is buying flowers on FTD.com and during the checkout process is presented the option of adding a gift card or a box of chocolates to their order before submitting their payment information.
Both of these are examples of kairotic moments in web design and exemplify messaging at the right time, although the principles of invention and style would still apply.
There is so much garbage out there on the web today. So, it was really refreshing to read your article and be able to nod in agreement all the way through.
The quality of content and the quality of the writing is critical to the success of any website.
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