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Athletic programs have flourished at the University of St. Thomas. Last year, as part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, UST experienced victories as the men's basketball team won Red River Athletic Conference championship; women's volleyball advanced to the NAIA national championship tournament, and men's golf won the RRAC tournament. Now, UST is trying its hand with a new program: women's soccer. To help recruit and train a championship-caliber team, UST looks to Nikola Barjaktarevic, the former head women's soccer coach for University of Texas – Brownsville.
"As we grow as an athletic department, women's soccer was a natural progression for us," said Todd Smith, head men's basketball coach and athletic director. "Academically, women's soccer is a very good sport and there are so many great female soccer players in the city of Houston."
Barjaktarevic is not new to building a program from the ground up. While at UTB, he successfully built the women's soccer program, a process that culminated in the team's advancement to the Elite 8 round of the NAIA National Tournament this season, a current national rank of No. 9 by the NAIA and an impressive career record of 79-27-7. His approach, seeking student athletes with character and a passion for their sport, has proved successful, and he plans to use the same approach as he begins recruiting this fall.
Originally from Belgrade, Serbia, Barjaktarevic has played soccer his entire life. He played in Belgrade until the age of 21 when he moved to Jackson, Tenn., to play as an outside left defender for Union University. While at Union University he earned a bachelor's degree in physical education and was acting team captain for one of his two seasons there.
"I want to have a successful program," Barjaktarevic said. "When I say successful, I mean not only winning on the field, but winning off the field by doing things the right way and graduating and sending these young ladies off into the world. We teach them a lot both on and off the field. It is not totally about soccer; it is about life."
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I think I said it before - when i got my USPc in 9mm, I kept shooting low - At first I thought it was the sights - as I don't do this with other guns. I still had my fullsize USp at the time, and I shot that gun fine.
After a few trios, I shot well with it every OTHER trip. Then, by 800 rounds, I started to get consistent.
I let someone else shoot 1 mag thru it last month - sure enough - he fired all shots low.
For whatever reason, ya gotta "work" at it. Just keep shooting it. It will come.
Granted, I haven't had to do that on my other guns - at least not to this extent. But, just keep shooting w/ it. I have almost 1300 rounds thru mine now.

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Freshman Alex Godzak (Syracuse, N.Y.) was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week on Monday. Godzak wins the award for the second time this season.
In the middle game of the weekend series against Marist, Godzak went 7.2 innings, allowing one run on five hits, walking two and striking out seven. Of the 23 outs recorded by the 5-foot-9 freshman, 21 of them stayed on the infield. The Syracuse, N.Y. native also had five assists and one putout. Godzak improved to 3-1 in league play and conference opponents are batting .152 against the lefty.
Godzak also was named the MAAC Rookie of the Week on April 1, after throwing the first seven innings of the first nine-inning no-hitter in program history.
Canisius has had a league-best eight players earn a league-high 10 weekly awards from the conference office this season. The eight players have claimed a total of 10 awards, including three Player of the Week, two Pitcher of the Week and five Rookie of the Week awards.
On the season, Godzak ranks third in the MAAC in earned run average (2.52), fourth in strikeouts (51) and first in opponents' batting average (.198) and is tied for third with six victories.
Canisius (31-11) plays two mid-week games in Western New York this week. The Griffs play at St. Bonaventure on Tuesday, and at Buffalo on Wednesday, with first pitch set for 3 p.m. each day.


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Defensive Battle Awaits Phoenix in Second Round
By: Jill Wunrow
AMES, Iowa (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - For the third consecutive season, the No. 10/10 Green Bay (31-1) women's basketball team will play in the second round of the NCAA Tournament as it faces No. 12/11 Kentucky (26-6) Monday, Mar. 19 at 8:30 p.m. at the Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa. Monday's game will be the first meeting between No. 5 seed Green Bay and No. 2 seed Kentucky with the winner advancing to the Sweet 16 in Kingston.
Both teams are making their third-consecutive trip to the second round of the NCAA Tournament with Green Bay owning a 1-1 record, advancing to the program's first Sweet 16 appearance last season. The Wildcats lone win in the second round over the past three seasons came in 2010 when they advanced to the Elite Eight.
The Phoenix advanced to Monday's second round game with a 71-57 win over host, No. 10 seed Iowa State (18-13) in the first round. Green Bay led the entire contest with four players scoring in double figures including Lydia Bauer (Lake Zurich, Ill.) and Sarah Eichler (Grafton, Wis.) who had a game-high 16 points while Adrian Ritchie (De Pere, Wis.) chipped in 15 while grabbing a game-high six rebounds. All-American candidate Julie Wojta (Francis Creek, Wis.) added 14 points and grabbed a game-high and NCAA Tournament program-best six steals.
Kentucky outlasted McNeese State with a 68-62 win in its first round game which featured five lead changes. Six players scored at least eight points in the Wildcats win with Keyla Snowden leading the way with 11 points and Azia Bishop adding 10. Kentucky grabbed 58 rebounds with Samarie Walker grabbing a game-high 13 boards, tying a UK program record in an NCAA Tournament game.
Green Bay joins a list of 20 teams (including Baylor, Stanford, and Delaware this season) who entered the NCAA Tournament with at least 30 wins and no more than one loss. All 16 of the previous teams advanced at least as far as the Sweet 16. With an appearance in this year's tournament, seniors Julie Wojta (Francis Creek, Wis.) and Hannah Quilling have played in more NCAA Tournament games (7) than any other Phoenix players in the 39-year history of the program.
Monday's game features the two top defensive teams in the country. Kentucky leads the nation in turnover margin (+10.3) while Green Bay is second (+9.4) in the statistic. Of the 64 teams in the NCAA Tournament field, both Kentucky and Green Bay rank fifth with 12.5 steals per game.
CONFERENCE PLAYERS OF THE YEAR... Monday's contest will feature the top players in the Horizon League and SEC in Green Bay's Julie Wojta and Kentucky's A'dia Mathies. Both received Player of the Year, First Team All-Conference and All-Defensive team honors in their respective conferences with Wojta earning Defensive Player of the Year honors in the Horizon League.
Mathies leads the Wildcats with 15.4 points per game while Wojta leads the Phoenix with 19.6 points and 10.0 rebounds per game.
RELIABLE RITCHIE... Second Team All-League selection Adrian Ritchie has proven to be reliable for the Phoenix when it comes to NCAA Tournament play. In her six NCAA Tournament games, the 5-foot-11 guard is averaging 10.1 points and 4.2 rebounds per game. In Green Bay's first round win over Iowa State, Ritchie poured in 15 points and grabbed a team-high six rebounds. The junior guard thrives under deadline situations as twice this season she has made last-minute game-deciding shots. The junior sank a three with 0.6 second remaining against then No. 25 Georgia Tech to send the game into overtime. After Green Bay trailed by nine with 59 seconds to play in regulation against Youngstown State, Ritchie poured in nine points, including three game-tying free throws with 19 seconds to play to send the game into overtime.
RECORD BREAKERS... In Green Bay's first round win over Iowa State, the Phoenix tied or broke five program NCAA Tournament records. Green Bay's 29 three-point field goals attempted against Iowa State set a program record while its nine made in the first half was a season best. Its 20 steals in the game shattered its program-record 14 in an NCAA Tournament contest while forcing Iowa State to turn the ball over 30 times was also a program-best performance. Sarah Eichler's 10 three point field-goal attempts is a program best in an NCAA Tournament along with Julie Wojta's game-high six steals.
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Alien Swarm is a top-down shoot-em-up set at a 60-degree angle. Four players can join a single co-operative game, the aim of which is to progress through science fiction-themed levels while eliminating waves of aliens. Players can choose from 40 different pieces of equipment. The game includes persistent statistics, unlockable equipment, and achievements.
The game is class-based, with players choosing from the roles of Officer, Special Weapons, Medic, and Tech. Each class has two selectable characters, with differences in abilities.
- Officer
- Grants a passive bonus to damage and damage resistance to nearby allies. He has access to the Vindicator, a class-restricted shotgun with an incendiary grenade launcher and has general all-around abilities. They are also capable of throwing extra amounts of explosive ordnance, and may find class-restricted ammo caches on the field for his Vindicator shotgun. The two playable characters are Sarge and Jaeger.
- Special Weapons
- Brings raw damage to the table and starts out with a customized autogun with superior parameters, high magazine capacity, and auto-aiming ability. The Special Weapons gains access to a powerful minigun at a high enough level, and can pick up class-restricted ammo caches on the field. The two playable characters are Wildcat and Wolfe.
- Medic
- Is the only class able to equip and deploy temporary healing beacons, and at a high enough level can use a medigun to selectively heal teammates and themselves. The two playable characters are Faith and Bastille.
- Tech
- Carries a motion sensor, sets up sentry guns faster, welds doors faster, and is the only class capable of unlocking certain door panels or completing certain objectives by means of a hacking minigame. They also have access to a prototype assault rifle with auto-aiming capabilities and the ability to fire stun grenades. The two playable characters are Crash and Vegas.
- Make sure you have Unreal Tournament 2004 installed. Doesn't matter where. (It resides in /opt/ut2004 for me.)
- Then make sure you download and install patch 3204 .
- If you downloaded the non-umod file, then unzip the contens of the zip package to the /ut2004/ directory so Alien Swarm will be in it's on directory, /ut2004/AlienSwarm and run the executable script which is described a little more down below.
- If you downloaded the umod version of the file, unzip the contents to a temporary directory and copy the AlienSwarm_v1.ut4mod and as-linux-installer.sh files to /ut2004/System/ then open a terminal and type sh ./as-linux-installer.sh in the directory /ut2004/System/ and the installer will unpack Alien Swarm.
- You can also download a graphical installer for Linux which is made by Loki Installers for Linux Gamers. To run it, just type sh alien.swarm_1.0-english.run.
- (Note: This installer comes with a different executable, you need to type ./alienswarm instead of the command below to run AS.)
- To run Alien Swarm, execute the Swarm Linux executable by typing sh ./Alien-Swarm-Linux when you are in the /ut2004/System/ directory.


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If I had to sum up Darksiders II I would say this game is a combination of lots of other games, combined into one very entertaining whole. For instance we see elements or Portal 2, Devils May Cry, and even elements of Tomb Raider and Prince of Persia to mention just a few.
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Darksiders II is set to become the adventure game of the year and the second installment is simply breathtaking and the overall gameplay and graphics simply add to this masterpiece. You could describe this game as a cross between RPG and Adventure and the gameplay can easily last well over 20 hours.
In the original Darksiders you played a character called War, who was accused of starting the apocalypse, he decided to seek out revenge, in a brutal manner, on all those who had wronged him. In Darksiders II you play the role of Death who is literally destroying worlds in his attempt to clear his brothers name as he battles demons, dragons, and otherworldly characters in a hellish environment.
If I had to sum up Darksiders II I would say this game is a combination of lots of other games, combined into one very entertaining whole. For instance we see elements or Portal 2, Devils May Cry, and even elements of Tomb Raider and Prince of Persia to mention just a few. For example, you can jump through Wall Portals, or you can run against the wall, which was originally adopted in the game Prince of Persia. At times you will find the screen completely overrun with characters that are constantly attacking you. You will need to plan your actions well in order to live another day.
If you beat the game on normal mode you are then able to unlock another mode called the Nightmare Mode thus allowing you to further continue your journey. Unfortunately there are a few glitches within the game. I noticed one or two instances of words not in sync with the characters, another negative is the limited customization options.
A few people have complained about influences from other games, but I think that without having these influences you cannot really progress with the development of games in general. This game mixes a lot of top titles and styles of gameplay and welds them very well together in order to create an action adventure masterpiece.
There are times within the game where you will find yourself scratching your noodle as you try and figure out a such problems as a sequence of floor panels or switches which in some cases have to be hit in a certain order to move on in your quest
Overall this game is pretty much like the first installment of Darksiders, and is set to win several awards in the 2012 awards. Voted game of the year by numerous gaming sites, this game is well worth a look for anyone interested in Fantasy, Magic Action and Adventure.
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Patchwork is a GUI frontend to the distributed revision control system darcs.
1 Status
At the moment, Patchwork is very much pre-alpha but this shall change.
2 Development
Patchwork development was started at the BTU Cottbus as a student project under the supervision of Wolfgang Jeltsch.
Patchwork uses the Functional Reactive Programming library Grapefruit.
The source code of Patchwork will soon reside in a darcs repository under http://code.haskell.org/patchwork/main.
3 Community
Patchwork has a mailing list and a project management website where you can report bugs, for example.


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In her lush garden on the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Ambitious young writer Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa to write Clare's biography. But how honest is she prepared to be? As Sam and Clare turn over the events of her life, she begins to seek reconciliation, absolution. But just below the surface of her story lie Sam's own ghosts.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do..
"complexity is the ennemy of a pleasant reading..."
The story is told by different characters in an unduly complex fashion and finally unfolds leaving the reader with doubts, lack of clarity and generally mixed feelongs. May be this is the purpose and the message of the book, but i found challenging to complete the reading. I also found that South Africa is presented with too many stereotypes ; this country deserves a better insigth.
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Fox's Economically Inaccurate "New Normal"
Fox News contradicted a wealth of economic evidence to claim that a near five-year low in weekly jobless claims indicates that the economy has entered a "new normal."
Following the release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' report [1] on initial weekly jobless claims, which showed the number falling by 12,000 to 334,000, Fox Business host Stuart Varney claimed that while there was a significant drop in those filing for unemployment benefits, the number was still "relatively high." From Fox News' America's Newsroom:
After co-host Martha MacCallum correctly noted that the number of weekly jobless claims neared a five-year low [2], Varney insisted that the number was too high and that it indicated the economy is entering a "new normal" of sluggish economic growth.
But Varney's assertions about weekly claims don't match the data. Since 1967 -- the earliest data available -- initial jobless claims have averaged about 363 thousand per week [3]. This week's number is about 30 thousand lower than the historical average - hardly a "relatively high" figure.
The suggestion that this week's numbers show signs of a "new normal" also doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Since peaking in 2009, weekly jobless claims have maintained a consistent downward trend, and the current numbers mirror those experienced in previous decades.
According to a Reuters report [4], the drop in jobless claims experienced in recent weeks signals a slowdown in layoffs:
Many economists believe growing confidence in America's economic recovery has led U.S. employers to exit a long cycle of elevated layoffs.
The continued [5] insistence that the economy is entering a "new normal" is particularly strange given that in recent weeks, there have been signs that the economy is slowly improving, ranging from a surge [6] in housing prices to a five-year high [7] in consumer confidence.
While economic gains have not been rapid in recent years, Varney and MacCallum failed to note that many economists [8] have pointed to deep and unnecessary spending cuts as holding back growth. Indeed, reductions in government spending have reduced potential GDP growth [9], and public sector job cuts [10] are holding back labor market gains, a deviation [11] from previous recoveries.
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Why Are Multi-Core Processors So Popular?
Modern computer processors are designed to have multiple cores, basically smaller processors on a single big chip, which share resources and can process multiple bits of information at the same time. Why is this design better then one big processor? Why has it become so popular?
The simple answer is that a modern computer or smart phone does a lot of things at the same time. If your computer had a single processor core then everything that runs on your system from the update programs that check for latest versions of software, to your web browser, interface elements, virus scanner, music player and e-mail program would need to get in line to wait for it's turn to use the processor.
With multiple cores a processor can let a series of programs use the processor at the same time. Let's say your processor is a quad core (4 individual cpu cores) so instead of the e-mail client and web browser fighting for processor time one program uses the first cpu core and the next program uses the second cpu core.
Modern software is also designed to take advantage of multiple cpu cores. Many modern photo editing or design programs will use two or more processor cores to speed up things like video conversion or applying filters to a photo.
Does this mean that more cores are always better? Not always. If software isn't designed to take advantage of multiple cpu cores a program may run with similar speed of a single core processor of the same power.
How can you tell if a program in windows is taking advantage of multiple cpu cores?
Right click on your task bar and left click on task manager. Left click on performance and a chart will come up showing your CPU usage and a box will appear for each CPU core. Leave task manager open and open a program you want to test. Watch the CPU usage graphs when you perform a complicated task in the program. If it's using multiple cpu cores you should see bumps in each one of the cpu usage charts. If you see only a single cpu usage chart increase then the program may only be able to work with a single core at a time.
Will this trend continue? Judging by modern processors coming with 2, 5, 6 and even 8 cpu cores there is no reason to expect the trend to slow down anytime soon.
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Well, how do you fare compared to the Zeitgeist?
Chat up your fellow wooters and let us know how lame this poll was or what obvious choices we missed.
For example: Was this poll a) STUPID, b) DUMB, c) POINTLESS or d) ALL OF THE ABOVE?
Rand is for children, but not for kids.
My two favorites are Stan and Jan Berenstain and Gertrude Chandler Warner because the Berenstain Bears and the Boxcar Children books were my favorites as a kid! My current favorite (which was not written when I was young) is Night Monkey Day Monkey by Julia Donaldson (although I realize it's not a classic - at least not yet!).
Also, I would say E) this poll was good, however the choices were not the greatest...
A.A. Milne. Winnie-the-Pooh, FTW.
Dr. Suess!!
foobarski wrote:A.A. Milne. Winnie-the-Pooh, FTW.
Two for A.A. Milne
Shel Silverstein
Oscar Wilde and Jack Zipes' Don't Bet on the Prince
thebull55 wrote:Dr. Suess!!
prttymf8 wrote:Shel Silverstein
Agree for both. The Giving Tree still brings me to tears.
Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time series was my favorite between 8-15.
However, this is the undisputed finest children's book:
Stephen King FTW!!!
Shel Silverstein with Dr. Suess as a close 2nd!
Either P.D. Eastman or Edward Gorey
Bill O'Reilly
Judy Blume. Enough said.
Shel Silverstein, Dr Seuss, Richard Scary....
Dr. Seuss!!!
Madeline L'engle
Dr. Seuss.
Ayn Rand made me lol. Congratulations pool writer, you've done it again.
Shel Silverstein or Dr. Suess
Robert Munsch
George R.R. Martin. Let them know the facts of life early
Theodor Geisel
Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)
My son loves Eric Carle books and my daughter loved Dr. Seuss when she was little. Now she's into Hunger Games and mystery/suspense books.
pisces42 wrote:Shel Silverstein
Ahhh, Shel too! Indeed...
nobody said Rick Riordan
A. A. Milne anyone?
Maurice Sendak
absolutely 100% agree
This! I loved Where the Sidewalk Ends as a kid and still have the cassette today and play it for my kid!
I'm highly amused that the top 3 right now are NOT American. Authors from across the pond are so much more imaginative. I voted for Lewis -- I spent hours of my childhood hiding out in my parents' armoire and reliving his tales.
hands down: shel silverstein.
Dr. Suess! Come on now woot???!
How on earth is Dr. Suess not an option?


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Washington University faculty are distinguished for their research and creative activities. Twenty-three Nobel laureates have been associated with Washington University, nine doing the major part of their pioneering research here. Faculty are successful in winning support for their research from many sources, including the federal and state governments, corporations, foundations, nonprofit agencies, individuals and the university itself.More about research by school


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U-T San Diego Writes Off Keystone XL Protesters As "Daft"
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A U-T San Diego editorial claims that opposing the Keystone XL pipeline is "daft" because if President Obama were to block the construction of the pipeline, Canada would easily construct an alternate pipeline through British Columbia to export to China, ignoring that such a plan faces significant opposition.
The February 19 editorial claims that "If the president rejects the [Keystone XL] project, Canada will instead construct a pipeline from Alberta to the British Columbia coast, where it will build refineries and eventually ship most of the refined bitumen to Asia -- primarily fast-growing China."
But the route to British Columbia faces significant opposition in Canada. First Nation tribes have rejected the Northern Gateway pipeline project, which would transport tar sands oil from Alberta to British Columbia since 2006. At a series of community hearings in 16 different towns in British Columbia, the National Energy Board -- an independent federal agency that regulates pipelines and energy development -- heard 1,159 speakers opposed to the Northern Gateway project and only two in favor. In fact, Robert Campbell, a Reuters market analyst, explained in a column that a pipeline following this route is likely to face even more opposition than Keystone XL:
Despite what you may think, the delay or even cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline project from Canada to the United States does not ensure that China will become the go-to customer for Canada's vast oil sands.
Doubtless this theme will be dredged up by Keystone's backer, TransCanada and other oil industry lobbyists in Washington with an eye to fanning Americans' fears about oil supply security should the Obama Administration opt for further study of fresh routes for the pipeline.
But the simple fact is that this claim is at best a huge exaggeration. If anything a pipeline from Alberta across the mountainous province of British Colombia is likely to face more scrutiny from environmental groups than Keystone XL.
Thus it's not inevitable that the accelerated development of tar sands oil, which creates "14 to 20 percent more carbon emissions than other oil the U.S. imports," will occur. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service estimated that if the Keystone XL pipeline were approved, it could increase United States carbon emissions by the equivalent of up to four million cars annually.
The U-T San Diego editorial also cites the New York Times' Joe Nocera -- who supports construction of the pipeline -- claiming that blocking the Keystone XL pipeline would harm our energy security, benefitting "our No. 1 geopolitical rival."
However, Nocera's column was factually challenged, and Keystone XL would have little impact on U.S. oil imports or energy security. As economist Ed Dolan explained, the pipeline symbolizes one more step toward dependence on oil, when the most effective solution to our energy security problems is exactly the opposite: reducing our oil consumption.
The editorial board's misleading right-leaning stance on this issue should come as no surprise given that the paper's new owner has turned the once respected paper into a corporate shill.
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Actual Cadillac CTS production numbers for 2009, 2010 and 2011
Per Cadillac: email@example.com
In response to your inquiry regarding the production numbers, we have listed below the available information:
2009 CTS (All) - 59,716
2010 CTS (All) - 40,100
Sedan - 36,548
Wagon - 3,552
2011 CTS (All) - 57,943
Sedan - 40,591
Coupe - 15,715
Wagon - 1,637
NOTE: these numbers are all inclusive, and do not differentiate between V series or transmissions, etc.
I'd approximate CTSV production to be less than 10% of the numbers above (2009 CTSV production was approximately 3500 from other sources). I'd also assume 85% of all vehicles to be automatic transmissions.
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That's pretty neat, thanks!
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Thank you very much, that helps.
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Just kidding. Thank you.
I think manual trans builds are probably even less than your estimate. Or the autos are more prevalent than you estimate.
Re: Actual Cadillac CTS production numbers for 2009, 2010 and 2011
But yeah, 10% might be more realistic I just have nothing to support it.
Re: Actual Cadillac CTS production numbers for 2009, 2010 and 2011
Great numbers. Now if only we had the actual V numbers. GM releases the CTS numbers in aggregate, not differentiating between body types and V-series, so this is the first time we've seen these numbers.
No 2012 or 2013 breakdowns?
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Nonetheless, I was flabbergasted at the remarkably low number of wagons produced en total: 9.9% in 2010 (first year of production) and dropping to under 3% the second year... Less than 1650 TOTAL (CTS/CTSV) wagons for 2011? That's crazy.
Recalling my post from the other thread on production numbers, it looks more and more plausible that less than 2,000 total CTSV Wagons will be built, with only a fraction of those being manual transmission vehicles. I do expect the 2013 year to have a relative increase in CTSV numbers, since we all thought it was the end of the line... but even with a 50% increase in CTSV Wagon sales year over year accounting for the enthusiasts, you're talking maybe a hundred additional units if you're generous.
After all, the Motor Trend video I linked to (other thread) stated only 447 V Wagons were made over two years (likely `10 and `11 model years) - so out of 5189 total Wagons, 447 were V series... or about 8.6% of all wagons in those two years were CTSV's and likely dropping in popularity for the following years. Thus, I expect 2012 to be a low numbers year comparable to 2011; and `13 is anyone's guess but I'd expect it also to be rather low overall for CTSV sales given the CTS line was declining significantly (as in -43% YoY) in popularity relative to the new models rolling out which are usurping the overall volume of Cadillac growth.
To recap: if what we know is true... less than 10% of all Wagons are V's of any color or transmission. Extrapolate down to manual wagons... we're all going to be rich when we roll our manual transmission Unicorns through Mecum in a few years!
Here's some completely made-up numbers I'm playing with.
Total CTS units of any variant: 60K in 2009, then 40K, then 58K in 2011, we'll say 50K in 2012 and we know there was a 43% drop for 2013 - or around maybe 35K units for 2013, which gives us approximately 243,000 units total production - and I think my approximations are going to prove rather generous for the later year volume. I'll assume the `14 model year for CTSV's is so minute as to be a rounding error (with no CTS production to account for).
CTSV (any style) seems to be less than 10% of that - or around 24,000 total best-case scenario (which I expect will be very optimistic, since I'm using the 2009 percentage and first-year sales always run strong). Perhaps 7-8% total would be more realistic, or around 18,500 total CTSV's. The vast majority of these will be sedans (80+ %). Coupes are also a strong seller, but I expect significant declines for 2012MY and later.
For us Wagon enthusiasts, using the known values in my first post, CTS/CTSV wagons are 5.3% of all CTS/CTSV production from my first post - or 12,800 total CTS/CTSV wagons for all production years combined.
Given the CTSV ratios (again, likely markedly less than 8.6% of all wagons produced given the decline in sales over a multi-year run), I wind up with a CTSV wagon estimation of around 1,100 units.
So I think my first guess of 1200-1500 Wagons is probably pretty close and well within my approximations above. Even if we say 30% of all CTSV wagons are manuals - which is an absurd number - there are going to be around 500 manual CTSV wagons (or less) of any option level ever built. I really think the total number of manual tranmission wagons will be less than 15% (under 250 vehicles)* , because at the end of the day very few people have the desire or the means to buy a slush-box wagon for daily-driver duty.
* Remember, this post is just me taking heavily extrapolated guesses based on approximations of the first post.
To make it even crazier, VMoose noted that the Stealth Blue wagon he was looking at was going to be a 1 of 49 vehicle. And that Glacier Blue Vagon someone bought - will it be a one-off car? :O
Re: Actual Cadillac CTS production numbers for 2009, 2010 and 2011
Sounds reasonable to me.
Someone from Cadillac Corporate, who knows all the numbers hands down, is probably laughing at us trying to figure out production, though.
If only it weren't a big secret...
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That's cool..... My 13' TG manual wagon just became a keeper
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Good information above. I bet Cadillac's competitors have done the same number crunching as Random did. Still don't see why the secret with production numbers anyway. I can understand keeping it a secret the first couple of years, but the CTS-V has shown to be very successful and other OEM's have already responded in like with their models. Don't see the need to be so secretive anymore.
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If someone was motivated enough, it wouldn't be terribly hard to go through the dealer advertisements on various websites where they show all of the active dealer listings with VIN, color, transmission, etc.
Having someone spend just a few hours every month recording the basic info attached to a VIN would give you a pretty accurate picture of national sales with very few errors (as the VIN could be used to remove duplicate sales) and you'd be able to break it down in rather good detail. This is something that could easily be coded for with software depending on the websites used... heck, it probably already is.
So I think Cadillac's pursuit of secrecy is largely futile given the low numbers, the easy access of information online and of course the heavily advertised online listings with VIN, etc that can be quickly culled by someone motivated to do so.
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I pretty much agree with all of that. Despite the fact that I am aware of three V wagons in Vegas alone, plus a lot of people here on the board seem to be buying V wagons, I think it's definitely within the realm of possibility that there are less than 300 manual V wagons out there, total. I ran some made up numbers like that last year, and came up with similar results.
On a related tangent, I have a friend that somehow got access to BMW's internal records for production numbers, and he learned that he actually owns a one-off 330i - it's the only one in the country with a manual transmission, his color/interior color combo, the ZHP option pack and the other options it has. I thought that was cool, I'd love to be able to see the actual numbers for our cars.
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I'm guessing I have the only Glacier Blue manual V-wagon with red calipers ever made.


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'So when you cut through all the hat tricks and end-to-end rushes, it still gets back to the guy standing between the pipes – or guys, because as long as Martin Biron is here, the Sabres have as solid a tandem as anyone in the NHL. That's why the Sabres are not likely to stumble, why they should continue to perform at a very high level and contend for No. 1 overall in the league.'
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The Sheriff's Office is notifying the public that a Level 2 Registered Sex Offender (Moderate Risk to Re-offend with community notification justified) has now moved to Baxter County and has newly registered with the Sheriff's Office.
NEW ADDRESS: 45 CR 23, Apt. #9
Clarkridge, Arkansas 72623
The offender was convicted of Sexual Assault 2nd Degree on May 9, 2005. This offense involved the offender engaging in sexual contact with an eight (8) year old female. Public Notification is justified due to the young age of the victim at the time the crime occurred.
This person is not wanted by law enforcement at this time. This notification is not intended to increase fear; rather it is our belief that an informed public is a safer public. This information cannot be used to threaten, intimidate, or harass Registered Sex Offenders. Citizen abuse will not be tolerated. Such abuse could potentially end law enforcement's ability to do community notification.
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text: XINYU CITY, China and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK), a leading vertically integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic products, today announced the results of its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on September 17, 2012 at the Company's office in Hong Kong. At this year's AGM, shareholders approved all of the resolutions proposed in the AGM notice, including the adoption of the 2011 annual report, and the re-election of class II directors, Tong Xingxue (President and COO) and Xiang Bing (independent director). The total number of members of the board of directors of the Company remains at six. KPMG was reappointed as the Company's outside auditors for the fiscal year 2012. There were an aggregate of 73,682,324 shares represented in person or by proxy throughout the duration of the AGM, including shares underlying American depositary shares. The adoption of the 2011 annual report was approved by 55,820,035 shares; the re-election of Tong Xingxue by 55,560,114 shares; the re-election of Xiang Bing by 55,505,573 shares; and the re-appointment of KPMG by 55,921,453 shares. About LDK Solar (NYSE: LDK) LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) is a leading vertically integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) products. LDK Solar manufactures polysilicon, mono and multicrystalline ingots, wafers, cells, modules, systems, power projects and solutions. LDK Solar's headquarters and principal manufacturing facilities are located in Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province in the People's Republic of China. LDK Solar's office in the United States is located in Sunnyvale, California. For more information about LDK Solar and its products, please visit www.ldksolar.com . Safe Harbor Statement This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact in this press release are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to, LDK Solar's ability to raise additional capital to finance its operating activities, the effectiveness, profitability and marketability of its products, the future trading of its securities, the ability of LDK Solar to operate as a public company, the period of time during which its current liquidity will enable LDK Solar to fund its operations, its ability to protect its proprietary information, the general economic and business environment and conditions, the volatility of LDK Solar's operating results and financial condition, its ability to attract and retain qualified senior management personnel and research and development staff, its ability to timely and efficiently complete its ongoing projects, and other risks and uncertainties disclosed in LDK Solar's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on information available to LDK Solar's management as of the date hereof and on its current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about LDK Solar and the PV industry. Actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results because of such and other risks and uncertainties. LDK Solar undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, or changes in its expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections except as may be required by law.


text: Finally had a chance to watch a live game again. I do see some improvements and i think all the excuses that have been roaming around (chemistry, AI blending in, Rip grieving) can be tossed out of the window. The team is as it is right now. All that can be fixed to improve this team are rotations or adding another big. MC's rotations puzzle me big time and same might be the case with the Piston players. Why can't we just go back to an "old school"/normal/standard rotation instead of these "how do i feel today"/"what does my instinct tell me" kind of rotations that sometimes doesn't make sense. I haven't seen Boston play this season ( i hate them) but i doubt they bench players at random because the coach feels like it. How do you prepare as a player if you don't know if you're gonna be out there, how do you build up rhythm. When Pistons signed MC i had high hopes but they are lowering every game the Pistons play. I have read ppl post that Flip often looked like a scared mouse, well MC looks like a headless chicken most of the time. PS Sorry i had to go so soon during the podgame show, but was towards bedtime where i live, had to go to work the next day. I really like the show, hope to join in longer next time.


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Posted by Ryan Skinner on the B2C Marketing Professionals Blog on June 9, 2014
Set against marketing messages, I would rather listen to my neighbor's opinion of a product. A critic's opinion. An expert's. Any idiot with an Internet connection, in fact (according to our research, review content from complete strangers is more trustworthy than messages from brands).
The payload of this realization – that marketers' messages are overinvested in by a million percent and underdeliver by an equal value – strikes our marketing foundations, oh so softly. Thud. Pop. Distant thunder.
Simultaneously it's never been easier for other people to write about our brands, to create breathtaking personal tributes to our products, to call out our worst policies, and even to slander us. The crowds have snatched the megaphone and they won't give it back.
These are two factors in a big equation that we're still only beginning to calculate.
So far, we've dealt with these changes pragmatically and conservatively.
Community management is a perfect example of the pragmatic response. Community management is just a series of tribal agreements about playing rules. The brand will not allow threads that include the word "shit". The brand will retweet only tweets from registered users. The brand answers requests within one hour between 9 AM and 9 PM EST. The brand will blog politely about its topic.
The marketing fortress has collapsed, the mobs are baying for blood, and the sop you throw this change is to play nice? This is what I'd call the Marie Antoinette response.


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reducing food losses during storage, its proponents claiming that it will allow chemical control methods to be reduced or eliminated. In December 1988, FAO co-sponsored a conference in Geneva with the International Atomic Energy Agency, WHO and the GATT/ UNCTAD International Trade Centre, which gave the green light to the more widespread use of irradiation and the trade in irradiated foodstuffs.
FAO has remained impervious to the consumer advocates and others who have argued that there are still considerable doubts over the safety of food irradiation. They claim that FAO is putting its weight behind a "technology in search of an industry", which is irrelevant to the problem it is supposed to be handling. As in so many other instances, FAO has embraced a capital-intensive, hightechnology "solution" which will further increase the dependence of Third World countries on the North.
FAO's Power Structure
FAO's headquarters on Rome's Circus Maximus. Many of the work here are reported to be demoralized with the constricting bureaucracy. (Photo: FAO)
A similar impression is given by FAO's support for the tobacco industry. In June 1989, FAO's Committee on Commodities held a special discussion on tobacco. An opening statement was made by a WHO observer, K.E. Stanley, who pointed to the two million deaths caused by smoking every year, and argued that "in the long term, tobacco consumption is not only a major health hazard but also a burden to national economies, due to associated health and social costs". He also stated that "economic analyses should not be the sole basis for determining government policy with respect to tobacco".13
Such arguments cut no ice with the committee. Although it recognized the concerns over health, it remained adamant that, "tobacco is of great socio-economic importance... a large number of people worldwide depend on tobacco cultivation for their livelihood". The role of tobacco in export earnings, government revenues and so on were also evoked in support of the industry. Arguing that "malnutrition and infectious diseases" were "more pressing health concerns" in Third World countries than smoking, the committee went on to request that FAO provide technical assistance to improve tobacco cultivation. Yet it is hard to see how expanding tobacco cultivation, which mines the soil and entails taking land out of food crop production, will help combat malnutrition.
FAO's bias towards industry also explains its support for the Tropical Forestry Action Plan (see George Marshall, this issue) and food irradiation. The latter is being promoted as a means of
over 3100 staff who nature of the huge
FAO is governed by a conference of all its member states held once every two years. A council, which meets twice a year, oversees the organization's activities between conferences. Eight standing committees deal with:
finance, programme, legal and constitutional affairs, commodities, fisheries, forestry, agriculture and food security. Finally, regional conferences meet in non-conference years.
Heading the secretariat is a Director-General who, in the absence of any effective checks and balances, is all-powerful. In effect, member governments have very little control over how FAO operates or how it spends the funds they place at its disposal. As has been pointed out by the late German journalist Otto Matzke, who made a detailed critique of FAO, the office responsible for auditing FAO's accounts is directly dependent on the office of the Director-General.14 It is hardly likely to provide sincere and searching reports on FAO's use of funds. The external auditing of accounts is carried out by the United Kingdom's Comptroller and Auditor General, whose staff is too small to carry out substantial evaluations.
Neither is there any independent procedure for assessing FAO's operational effectiveness: the only evaluations are carried out by FAO itself. The service which deals with field programme evaluation and inspection is located within the office of the Director-General. Finally, the Finance and the Programme and Budget Committees are too large (over 30 members each) to perform detailed scrutiny of FAO's activities. In 1987, the FAO Conference reluctantly agreed to order a "Review of Certain Aspects of FAO's Goals and Operations".15 However, this was top-heavy with representatives of member governments under secretariat influence and resulted in a virtual whitewash for
The Ecologist, Vol. 21, No. 2, March/April 1991 FAO's current activities and approach. Not a single totally new idea came out of the $2 million exercise.
The Director-General's Personal Ambitions
The policies and and functioning of FAO depend critically on the management style of its Director-General. I f the Director-General so chooses, he or she can use his or her considerable power constructively, selecting high-profile, competent close colleagues, delegating responsibility, interacting with member governments, developing relations with sister organizations and providing lead-
Outsiders or former staff members who dare to question the system go on to a "black list": no question of their getting back in, even on short term contracts.
ership in FAO's areas of competence. Alternatively, the DirectorGeneral can be secretive, scheming, eliminate "rivals", centralize to the extreme and be confrontational with governments and other agencies. Since 1976, and the rise to power of the current incumbent, Edouard Saouma, it is the second management style which has prevailed.
Typical is Saouma's decision to set up a network of special FAO ambassadors directly responsible to his office. By convention, the UN "resident representative" in any country is the most senior UN official. His or her office also houses the offices of the other UN agencies. Saouma decided that this was demeaning for FAO and in 1976 began setting up his own separate representatives (FAOR in the jargon). Today, there are over 70 such representatives covering 100 countries and costing FAO some $22 million a year, excluding the salaries of the regular staff who work for each FAOR. Even countries as small as Cape Verde and Barbados have their own FAOR.
The system was presented as an important step in the decentralization of FAO; in practice, FAORs have no autonomy whatsoever — indeed, they often give the appearance of being mere election agents for Saouma. Though the 1989 conference decided that the country representative system should be strengthened, in private senior agriculture ministry officials in many countries ask why FAORs exist at all.16
Saouma was originally elected for a fixed term of six years. One reason for limiting the mandate to a single six-year term, starting with the 1975 election, was because previous DirectorsGeneral had spent too much of their first term (originally four years) seeking to secure re-election. This had led to what might be termed "electoral sclerosis" since the Directors-General preferred to avoid any new initiatives for fear of offending their "electorate".
No sooner was he elected, however, than Saouma convinced the Third World countries that it was in their interest to lift the restriction on the number of mandates. A constitutional amendment was duly passed and the way was open for Saouma to spend the rest of his life at the helm of FAO. Re-elected unopposed in 1981, Saouma was not expected by many observers to secure a third mandate against his charismatic opponent, Benin's Moise Mensah, to whom the Organization of African Unity (half the total
Third World vote) had pledged their unanimous support no less than three times. But political mistakes by Mensah, astutely exploited by Saouma and his allies, the unashamed use of the organization itself and of the carrots and sticks available to the incumbent, finally saw Saouma victorious by a wide majority.
Saouma's re-election in 1987 was met with despondency by FAO staff who in their vast but silent majority favoured a change at the top. Worse still, perhaps, Saouma had to pay the "debts" accumulated in gaining re-election. Already, he had systematically ousted anyone who, even unwittingly, might become a rival. A flood of wholly unsuitable political appointees to decisionmaking positions now followed.
When the new Assistant Director-General of the Development Department — which encompasses the whole of FAO's field programme — took over his post in 1988, he had no experience of agricultural development in the Third World. This might have been interpreted as an exciting and daring innovation by Saouma to inject new blood and a new approach. The reality is far more banal: the new ADG's appointment was a debt payment. He had been chef-de-cabinetto the Agriculture Minister in the right-wing French government which had campaigned actively for Saouma and had probably swung the African vote in his favour.
The other main department of FAO, the Economic and Social Policy Department, has also been headed since the 1987 election by someone of doubtful qualifications. Where an imaginative specialist with the ability to develop new ideas and give a real impetus to FAO's work in this field was needed, an FAO career bureaucrat was nominated.
All the staff are aware of cases of candidates — for both external and internal recruitment — who have gone successfully through the selection process and been short-listed with one or two others only to discover that a complete outsider is eventually taken on. Outsiders or former staff members who dare to question the system go on to an unofficial "black list": no question of their getting back in, even on short term contracts.
Saouma's political appointees are a major source of discontent
A new approach is urgently needed: one that starts from peasant practices
and seeks to solve problems as the
cultivator sees them.
and frustration within FAO today. One middle-ranking fisheries technician complains: "Sometimes I arrive home in the evening completely demoralized: the man above me is afraid to take the slightest decision. My work can be held up for weeks because of this." A very senior secretary of over 25 years' standing says: "The Director-General has only just begun to realize the huge damage done to the organization as a result of all the political appointments he has made in the framework of his re-election campaign. The trouble is, it is too late to do anything about it now and the organization is suffering tremendously as a result." Another secretary of similar rank and experience considers that FAO could save a million dollars a year simply by sacking incompetent managers: "We have secretaries here doing those people's work already; what little they do themselves has to be double checked, which creates even more work." A technical professional complains: "This organization is no longer being managed, it is being
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Been reading this for years, I think I may have even learned about it from someone on OnRPG? Can't remember. It's pretty neat tho seeing how popular it's become over the past few years, especially with a few concept games coming out for it.
Anyways, I'll just leave the link here and let you all discover exactly what SCP is for yourself. Feel free to share any interesting entries.


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Hello guys ,
I am posting right here to make my interest in a new game public.
I'm a german gamer who played a lot of games the last 4-6 years. I tried everything out , from games i really enjoyed (PWI, Cabal, Tera) up to games i didnt liked at all (Mobas, Path of Exile .. )
Now I'm looking for a game which I will play for a long long time.
Things I would love to have in it :
- A High Level Cap, so not like Tera in that fact, reaching level 60 took about 1-2 weeks and this is not what i really enjoyed
- Player Customization. ( Tera / PWI Like. :-) )
- an auto-walk system (PWI is the best example)
- An End-Game content which is playable alone. (maybe an OP class could be enough, lol. )
- Mounts, i love mounts, that's just easy.
- Maybe, if this it possible at all, but i dont think so, an game without any Premium Content, but I dont think that this is easy to find.
- High Player Base.
Thanks a lot guys! Any Hints will help me out.


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Kelly Smith knows Arsenal Ladies will face one of their toughest tests of the season when Birmingham visit Meadow Park on Sunday.
David Parker's Blues led the way for large parts of last season's Women's Super League before eventually being overhauled by Arsenal late in the campaign.
The Blues have already been buoyed by FA Cup success this season and Smith insists Laura Harvey's side will leave nothing to chance as they look to retain their league crown.
"They are a completely different team now to the one when I left for America [in 2009]," the striker told Arsenal.com.
"They have a few England internationals in Jade Moore, Rachel Williams, Eniola Aluko and Emily Westwood - they are stacked with international players. They have a whole different outlook from when I last played and they are now coming off the back of an FA Cup win so they will have a lot of confidence.
"I know it came down close to the last couple of games last season for the title and so they are probably our main rivals at the minute.
"I think the teams are a lot better and it has made it a lot more elite because the games are a lot closer. I have obviously not played in England for over three years now and it is different watching it to actually being a part of it. I just want to make a difference on Sunday if I get on."
You can follow Kelly on Twitter at @kjs8eng.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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The Power of an Online Education
June 23, 2009
When you earn a degree online from Excelsior College, it can improve your life and the life of your family in the same way that earning a degree from a traditional four-year college can. Excelsior College is accredited academically by the same organization that accredits other four-year colleges and universities.
Today, many employers consider an online degree as valuable as a degree from an on-campus school. A recent Excelsior College/Zogby International Distance Learning Survey of more than 1,500 CEOs and business owners confirmed that 83% of them strongly believe a degree from an online college is as credible and valid as one from a traditional campus-based school.
In fact, many employers consider online degrees more valuable because many online learners work full-time and have family obligations. These added responsibilities cause employers to see online college graduates as being more disciplined and hard working than graduates of traditional colleges. Employers also know that online learners have Internet and technology skills thanks to their online educational experience. These are advantages you can emphasize during job interviews to make yourself more qualified.
The truth is, Latinos are the fastest-growing college enrollment group in the U.S.1 And because of its convenience and growing credibility, enrollment in online colleges is growing at around 30% a year.2 It's becoming such a force, 75% of traditional colleges and universities in the U.S. now offer online courses or degree programs in addition to their normal on-campus course offerings.3
In addition to being more accepted than ever, an online degree can make a huge difference in the money you can earn. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2007, the average annual income of someone with a high school education was $27,915. The average salary for someone with a college degree was $51,206. That's $25,000 more per year, or about $1 million more over the course of a normal 40 year working life.
Higher income is only part of the online education advantage, though. Getting your degree online at Excelsior College, for example, can happen sooner than you might think. Excelsior College was founded on the principle of giving working adults a more flexible way to finish their college degree. So, their flexible transfer credit policies give you more credits for the credits you have already earned. Plus, you can earn credits toward your degree with Excelsior based on your corporate or military training. You can even take Excelsior College® Examinations and qualify for credits based on what you already know from your career or life experience.
Earning a college degree can help you feel better about yourself and your future. It sets a great example for your children and family. And it helps you earn the respect of everyone who knows you. The truth is, your college degree can change your life dramatically.
Earning your degree online is also something you can do without moving to a campus or leaving your job. You can earn your degree online from Excelsior College no matter where you live in the U.S. or the world, for that matter. You can study when it is convenient for you, on your schedule, because all course material is always available online 24/7.
Getting your degree online also doesn't mean you can't communicate with your fellow students. Excelsior College offers virtual classrooms where you can interact with your professor and your classmates. You can also share thoughts, ideas and experiences about your courses and other topics with other Excelsior students. And since Excelsior is on a variety of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, you can stay in touch not only during college, but also long after you graduate.
The world is your "campus" when you're earning your degree online with Excelsior College. And online learners everywhere are your classmates.
- Santiago, Deborah and Brown, Sarita. Federal Policy and Latinos in Higher Education. Pew Hispanic Study Center. June, 2004.
- Lewis, Regina. Earning a Degree Online. 2003. Retrieved from http:www.worldwidelearn.com/education-articles/benefits-of-online-learning. June 16, 2009.
- Coleman, Stephanie. Why Do Students Like Online Learning. Excerpted 6/5/09 from WorldWideLearn.com. http://www.worldwidelearn.com/education-articles/benefits-of-online-learning.htm.


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Re: The Black Hole
really cute. love it!
phahnleat wrote:If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? According to my high school physics teacher, it does not. Sound can only be interpreted by the human ear. If it is not heard by anyone it is not a sound, just vibrations. The squirrel and bird portrayed do not count.
Five colors on grass
Thank you, somebody that got this question right!
Re: Laws of Gravity vs. The World
I don't get it, if you are trying to show weight/force as its affected by distance from the fulcrum you have it backwards.
Re: Testing the twin paradox
love it love it love it love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: The Doppler Effect
Sheldon Cooper would totally wear this shirt.
Re: a simple question of weight ratios (v2)
oh! love this updated furry-coconut version!
If you haven't memorized the Standard Model, you might be wondering a) what's going on, and b) where the ninjas are. So, I'll explain to anyone who as a little time.
This is a cartoonized version of the Standard Model. So, the round humanoids are elementary particles. Their graphics are based on their name and/or characteristics. The categories are as follows: green = quarks, blue = leptons (those two make up matter), and red = bosons (they carry forces).
First, quarks. Top left: up quark, it's pointing up. Bottom left: down quark, it's pointing down. Top middle: charm quark, it's kissing at you. Bottom middle: strange quark, mixing elixirs, has a large eye, tilted mouth, and a pair of horns. Top right: top quark, on top of the platform; bottom quark: below the platform.
Next, leptons. The top row is the neutrinos, whose only graphically renderable characteristic is that they're tiny (in comparison to other elementary particles), so, I made them small. In the bottom row, there's the electron, the muon, and the tau. The only differences are that they're (somewhat) big, bigger, and biggest. Therefore, I increased the size with each one.
Finally, there are the bosons. The top one is the photon (carrier of electromagnetic force, a.k.a. light) so it's sparkly; the second and third from the top are the W and Z particles, respectively. They carry weak force (it comes into play in atomic nuclei) so I made the W trying to lift a light weight, and the Z particle has already given up. The bottom one, however, is the gluon, carrier of strong force (again, it comes into play in atomic nuclei) so it can easily lift heavy weights.
But wait, there's more! You see the black and gray particles at the bottom? They aren't actually particles. They gray one represents antimatter. Every particle has an antiparticle, which has the same mass and spin but opposite charge. Antimatter reacts violently with matter.
The black one represents all of the theories. Dark matter, dark energy, the graviton, string theory, etc. The things that haven't been proven; that have eluded scientists. A little like… come on, the black clothes, the sword, you can guess it, right? It's a… ninja! There's that elusive ninja!
Much improved. I'll be amazed if this doesn't get 1st place.
Love it Artulo! and the colors are amazing!
Good luck with this!
missmissa07 wrote:Very happy you went with the kelly green :D. It looks excellent! +1
I agree, the kelly green was an excellent choice! Good Luck!
Re: Applied Physics
Nice job S. It's a great idea. I think I'd leave off the halftones and maybe do the cliffs and stuff as solid colors.
Re: Static Electrikitty
I love this, very spot on
Re: The Standard Model (plus some)
Re: obviously youre dense V2
wow! impressive!
I love it in the first, but now I need it!
Love the texture work and color choices! I'm a little hesitant on whether it works without knowing the theme. I think it'd still come across that the little sphere is heavier than the rest, but I'm not sure the "why" of it will come across. Of course I could be wrong on that. Either way it's a great illustration.
Re: Orbital Hoopla
I LOVE IT!!! Now I know for sure I need to get a hula hoop...to whittle my waist while I'm wearing the shirt, of course. Love the colors. Love the happiness of it all!
Re: The Evil Twin
This is really clever! Awesome job.
Re: The Evil Atom
Nice work.
Re: Physics 101
I would've added a comment earlier, but I had to hit the road (and I'm not using my computer). Thanks so much for liking it! I based it around my first physics class in school and all the diagrams I could remember. This is my first real derby entry, I entered something last time to see how things work. I feel like I need to make better thumbnails, if anyone has advice on it, I'd be more than willing to hear it.
chumpmagic wrote:Random question...
How do you get your images as signatures? I tried coping and pasting the image link (with proper formatting) in My account > signatures, but it hasn't worked the last few weeks. Hasn't worked for me yet actually.
The only way I can get it to work is if I copy and past it each time at the end of my comments (like below) until a Mod auto creates the signature for me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
[MOD: I fixed your signature for you. You were very close. You had the URL but not the IMG. Actually, you just needed to paste the code right above this note into your signature. You can see what I did if you go look at My Account.]
Thanks noble moderator for caring and tending to my needs. I copy and pasted the code above. Every time I hit the "update your info" button, the image info disappears and the code looks like it does in its current state (or like how you found it before). In this last case, I was using your code, but I tried removing the "Planetary Revolutions" text.
I use Safari. I don't know if that has any issues.
O well, it's not the end of the world. I do greatly appreciate your help. Thanks again!!!
Re: Diving With Photons!
This is one of the coolest designs I've ever seen. I hope, hope to heck it prints. It's visually striking and I want!
llklocke wrote:What does that even mean?
Electronics is part of physics
Re: The Force of Attraction
If any more of your shirts print, I think it's going to break me! +1
SailorButterfly wrote:I didn't think I'd like anything from this derby, but this is the coolest thing I've seen in any derby in a long time. <3
Re: Nuclear Fusion-HA!
Wonder Twin powers, activate!
Form of gas!
Shape of Hydrogen atom!
Re: Its A Rabbit!
I don't know what's funnier, the loophole in using a bunny (sorry, rabbit) or the serious comments to a playful entry.
Re: Weather killed the Weatherman
Like the idea but may not make it cause it may not be a woot template / color?
fabiofranca wrote:Nice Halftones...
Thanks! Your gravity design is pretty sweet.
YinofYang wrote:This is one of the coolest designs I've ever seen. I hope, hope to heck it prints. It's visually striking and I want!
Thank you! I'm glad you like it.
Re: Conservation of Demolition
This is really cute! Personally, I'd like it a bit better if it were a picture of a house rather than a door (right now, it sort of looks like an overly complicated mechanism to knock on someone's door), but I love the concept! GMV
Johndis5 wrote:Retro Physics.
This is only my second derby entry ever. Any criticism you may have is welcome. I need to learn the ropes. Thanks for taking a look!
I like the general design but am not wild about it on cranberry. Also, just my opinion, but I would like it better with a plain nucleus, rather than a cutesy smiley one.
Re: The Solar System
Very cool! I suppose it works out well for the octopus that we don't count Pluto anymore.
endangeredomega wrote:The internet is made of cats. And nerd-rage. Lots & lots of nerd-rage.
Heh heh heh heh heh heh....wonder what a nerd rage shirt would look like? LOL
cosmiccow wrote:Very well drawn, but it comes off as one of those designs where you give it a title to make it fit the theme, rather than designing for the theme.
MaliceKaiser wrote:I agree. Great work, but in my opinion it's totally off-topic.
Thanks for your input, but I created this design specifically for this theme because I wanted to use a more natural representation of an observed phenomenon in the study of physics rather than a symbolic or graphical one.
Optics is a major branch of physics, concerning the behavior and properties of light. The behavior of light when interacting with water is key in my submission.
Well I wish I could vote, but you get a +1 from me!
Re: Nuclear Fallout
This started out to be one of those nuclear symbols, broken apart and falling. But then it looked more like the symbol was picking a fight with the moon. I guess the title works either way?
This is just my second try at a shirt. Any feedback would be appreciated.
Spiritgreen wrote:Thanks guys! I nearly gave up on this a couple of times... but it got there in the end. Like the eponymous bullet, I guess. :p
megsck wrote:this is a great shirt! it reminds me of a card game named "Bang!" that i play with friends, i would definitely buy this shirt! great job as always! gmv!
I love BANG! and love this shirt! So glad that you didn't give up, Spiritgreen, it's awesome! I also love your drawing style, wowee!
Re: Nuclear Physics
Please allow me to explain! I took the concept of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree and gave it a sort of post-apocolyptic/acid flashback slant. Hopefully the end effect is that, from a distance, the shirt appears to be a guy relaxing under a tree.
I left colors and gradients out of this go 'round because I wanted it to be cold and impersonal. I'll shut up now.
Re: Escaping gravity
amazing color on the balloon, and the details in the gondola are great!
this is great! I agree the fuzzy coconuts are a nice improvement.
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Dr. Niping Wang, a hospital dental fellow and postdoctoral research fellow at UMMC, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor.
It is a joint appointment between the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences in the School of Medicine and the Department of Periodontics in the School of Dentistry.
After receiving the bachelor's degree in dentistry in 2000 and the M.S. in clinical pharmacology in 2003 from Anhui Medical University, China, Wang earned the Ph.D. in anatomy at UMMC in 2010.
She served as a teaching assistant In the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences from 2006-07 and in 2009, was a hospital dental fellow/instructor in the School of Dentistry's Department of Advanced General Dentistry from 2010-12 and has been a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior since 2012.
An active member of the American Association of Anatomists, the Society for Neuroscience, the American Dental Educational Association and the Academy of General Dentistry, Wang has authored or coauthored more than two dozen articles in peer-reviewed professional publications.
Her research interests include the neuroanatomy of the trigeminal system and the oculomotor system, the molecular mechanism of alcoholism, anti-inflammatory and analgesic pharmacology and educational pharmacology.


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Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen
With the rich detail of Cold Mountain, the strong female bonds of The Help, and the untold history of The Warmth of Other Suns, comes a powerful debut novel about the secrets a woman keeps, and those she will risk everything to tell.
Based on the remarkable true story of a freed African American slave who returned to Virginia at the onset of the Civil War to spy on the Confederates, The Secres of Mary Bowser is a masterful debut by an exciting new novelist.
Author Lois Leveen combines fascinating facts and ingenious specuation to craft a hisotrical novel that will enthrall readers of women' fiction, historical fiction, and acclaimed works like Cane River and Cold Mountain that offer intimate looks at the twin nightmares of slavery and Civil War.
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Editor's Note: The following is a summary of one of the talks from the 2013 Nano-bio Symposium hosted by Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology held May 17. This summary was written by Christian Pick, a doctoral candidate in the chemical and biomolecular engineering laboratory of Joelle Frechette. Look for other symposium summaries on the INBT blog.
The fundamental goal of regenerative medicine is to allow the body to restore normal function to damaged or diseased tissues. Tissue scaffolds provide a structure for cells to grow on to accomplish this task. The pinnacle of scaffold function would be for the tissue grown from a scaffold to be completely indistinguishable from natural, undamaged tissue.
In order to improve scaffolds, researchers need to better understand how scaffolds interact with the body. Peter Gabriele, Director of Emerging Technology at Secant Medical, discussed FT-IR microscopy, which is a unique tool that can help researchers with this very task.
Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique for analyzing the chemical identity of materials. FTIR spectroscopy has been used for years in forensic analysis for identifying unknown samples. FTIR microscopy combines the functionality of FTIR spectroscopy with optical microscopy.
For the field of regenerative medicine, this means that the surface functionality of a scaffold can be mapped and studied throughout its entire lifetime: from production through degradation in-vivo. For instance, FTIR microscopy can be used to analyze surface modifications made to a scaffold during fabrication.
Additionally, it can be used to track tissue formation in implanted scaffolds. As an example, Mr. Gabriele described studies on "biorubber" or poly(glycerol sebacate) (PGS). FTIR microscopy has been used to identify collagen integration within the polymer during implantation as well as map the erosion of the material once implanted. Through the use of tools such as FT-IR microscopy, researchers can continue to expand the functionality of tissue scaffolds.
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text: I am working on the quick rocker sequence in Novice MIF and I'm having trouble. If you can see the following photo this is what my tracing looks like. My exit lobe on the rocker is flat and non-existant and then when I get to the 2nd rocker in the sequence, I have no speed and am doing it at practically a standstill. I try to go into it with more speed but it's almost like I'm getting twisted and can't get speed for progressing forward. I do not have money right now to pay for a coach and was looking online for some videos showing this move but I can only find this one and she does it so fast I can't really break down the body movements. I have been practicing just the rocker on a figure 8 pattern but it falls apart when I do it quickly on the sequence. If anybody knows of any videos or can give me some tips I'd appreciate it.