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The season is just a few weeks away and the 2011 teams have reported to get ready for the coming year. Can the SEC continue its streak of BCS championships? Will another surprise team rise from the pack and lead the conference? Can a player from the conference snag a third consecutive Heisman trophy?
The answer to all of the above is, "maybe." There's plenty of talent and reason to believe all will happen. There's also enough talent spread across the conference to think it will not happen as the conference cancels itself out of those opportunities in the midst of stiff competition.
This article will take a look, team by team, at what the SEC East looks like for 2011 and make predictions for records. I will revisit this at the halfway point of the season and make adjustments to the predictions as the season progresses. Teams are listed in order of their 2010 finish.
SEC East
South Carolina – 2010 Record: 9-5. Returning Starters: 13; 7 offense, 6 defense.
Reasons to Believe: The studs on offense are back for another round. So are some of the leaders from the defense. The Gamecocks also have a pretty favorable schedule in 2011.
Reasons to Doubt: Consistency has never been the hallmark of Steve Spurrier's teams in Columbia and that was even a problem last year. For all their offensive prowess, the Gamecocks finished in the middle of the conference statistically. They'll have to do better than that if they plan on a repeat trip to Atlanta.
Predicted 2011 Record: 9-3. The schedule helps a lot and if they are more consistent, the Gamecocks just might earn that return trip. But it won't be easy.
Florida – 2010 Record: 8-5. Returning Starters: 11; 7 offense, 4 defense.
Reasons to Believe: Florida is loaded with talent. (Remember those three teams I said were virtually three-deep in the SEC? Well, Florida is one of them.) Will Muschamp and that defense shouldn't really miss a beat and in fact, expect the blitz packages to become much more creative. Bringing in Charlie Weis to run the offense should really help improve what was easily the weakest link in last year's squad.
Reasons to Doubt: Changing offenses is never easy and though I have faith Weis' scheme will work, it may take a little time to come around. Florida's got three of its toughest games in conference on the road as well.
Predicted 2011 Record: 9-3. In spite of a tough schedule and growing pains of a new regime, these Gators should be much improved, right back in the thick of it in the East.
Georgia – 2010 Record: 6-7. Returning Starters: 13; 6 offense, 7 defense.
Reasons to Believe: QB Aaron Murray is considered to be the top signal caller in the league and for good reason. He really stepped up to the plate last year. Georgia also landed a stellar recruiting class after a disappointing season to compliment their young QB. Last year's defense wasn't totally bad and having experience on that side of the ball should serve it well.
Reasons to Doubt: The Bulldogs backfield is severely depleted with losses to graduation and transfers which will put the load on a young, talented back in Isaiah Crowell. The Georgia offensive line has struggled for years so this may be a case of addition by subtraction, but I'll have to see it to believe it.
Predicted 2011 Record: 8-4. Georgia looks like a team right in the middle of things in the East. However, they are probably still behind Florida and South Carolina and need to watch their backs as Tennessee isn't far behind them at this point.
Kentucky – 2010 Record: 6-7. Returning Starters: 15; 6 offense, 9 defense.
Reasons to Believe: A lot of folks are high on QB Morgan Newton to come in and make the offense click in the post Randall Cobb era. The return of LB Danny Trevathan, who led the SEC in tackles last year, is also a plus.
Reasons to Doubt: There's just not much else on the roster to get excited about for the Wildcats. If they played in Conference USA or the Big East, they'd probably be in the mix but in the loaded SEC, they are in the hot water week in and week out.
Predicted 2011 Record: 3-9. Kentucky had a good defense and a solid offense last year and still only managed 6 wins. With the offense in rebuild mode, it looks to be a long year for Big Blue.
Tennessee – 2010 Record: 6-7. Returning Starters: 13; 7 offense, 6 defense.
Reasons to Believe: Tyler Bray is a star in the making at QB for the Vols and there are playmakers around him on offense. Derek Dooley proved he could handle adversity last year and the trend in the SEC of late is for second-year coaches to make a big improvement.
Reasons to Doubt: While the offense came around late in the season, the defense was never better than good, and they'll have to get a lot better if Tennessee hopes to improve on last year's record.
Predicted 2011 Record: 7-5. The Vols are a team trending upwards and should have enough to get over .500 this season.
Vanderbilt – 2010 Record: 2-10. Returning Starters: 19; 11 offense, 8 defense.
Reasons to Believe: James Marshall is really selling the program to recruits and to the group that's still intact. That large number of returning starters gives Vandy experience on the field.
Reasons to Doubt: This is still Vanderbilt and this is still the SEC. Having a large number of returning starters is usually a good thing unless both squads finished dead last in 2010. There's room for improvement because it's hard to get any worse.
Predicted 2011 Record: 4-8. Even if they are as bad as last year (which I don't think they could be), Vandy's experience should buy them a couple more wins but not much else.
Check back later this week for a preview of the SEC West teams.
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UPDATE: Did break-ins and coverups lead to the Los Angeles Times firing of investigative reporter Jason Felch, who was probing new sexual assault scandals at Occidental?
When Leah Capranica decided to go to Occidental College in Los Angeles, she thought she had found a school whose values matched her own. With its tranquil campus in Eagle Rock and its diverse student body — after all, President Barack Obama went there — the Springfield, Ill., native couldn't wait to attend an institution that would give her the opportunity to pursue her dream of studying politics.
But two weeks before her sophomore year began, Capranica, now 22, says she was sexually assaulted by another student. When she went to report the crime to school officials, Capranica was shocked by their response.
"I was told I might have to stay in the same dorm as the guy who had done this," she says, "and that my case wasn't really that serious."
Capranica, who declines to divulge details about her rape, unfortunately didn't report the alleged assault to the Los Angeles Police Department. "It's an incredibly emotional process," she says, "and based on the experience I was having at the school, I just didn't feel it was something I wanted to do at that time."
Capranica did push for an internal investigation at the school, though, and following a secret, closed-door hearing involving campus faculty and administrators, her rapist was found responsible by Oxy for assaulting her — as well as two other students. But after initially being expelled, the male student's punishment inexplicably was reduced to a suspension.
He will be allowed back on campus in December, never having been publicly named.
Then, when a rape near campus was revealed by CBS2 News in February, angry students and faculty began lashing out at college president Jonathan Veitch, dean of students and vice president for student affairs Barbara Avery and college counsel Carl Botterud for failing to alert the campus and for mishandling previous rape allegations. Critics dubbed themselves the Oxy Sexual Assault Coalition.
In April, members of that group, including Capranica and 37 current and former Occidental students, filed two federal complaints against the college. They say Oxy's secretive, image-conscious administration violated Title IX, which prevents colleges and universities from discriminating against students based on gender, as well as the Clery Act, which requires schools to report crimes that happen on campus.
They allege that Occidental has made a habit of discouraging students from reporting rapes to the college administration, retaliating against the mostly female students who do report rapes, and allowing alleged rapists back on campus.
Amidst this tension, a student accused the college's attorney, Botterud, of belittling the Oxy Sexual Assault Coalition to a group of male athletes, telling the men, "Fuck 'em," and arguing that the coalition had vilified male students in the complex cases to which police sometimes refer as "he said, she said." On May 6, the faculty considered a vote of "no confidence" in Avery and Botterud. It passed overwhelmingly.
Then, on May 22, prominent attorney Gloria Allred — representing eight students at Oxy — announced that those clients would be joined by women from USC, UC Berkeley, Swarthmore and Dartmouth who had filed similar complaints. "We have up to 16 violations that we lay out in the complaint," says Tucker Reed, 23, a female co-filer at USC. "They are not only federal civil rights violations but also violations of school policy."
The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is investigating one of the federally filed complaints. If that investigation ultimately shows that the school isn't compliant with Title IX and Oxy doesn't correct the problem, it could cost the private four-year college its federal funding.
Avery did not return numerous calls from L.A. Weekly seeking comment, but Botterud says it's possible he said "fuck 'em" because he strongly feels that all students — male and female — should have a voice in the tense conversation unfolding at Occidental, and some men feel they don't. "I don't recall whether I said that or not," Botterud says. "But it sounds like something I would have said under the circumstances."
Unfolding events have left the campus divided and the highly active Eagle Rock community wondering how this could happen in their backyard.
Danielle Dirks, an assistant professor of sociology, has firsthand experience with what she describes as the school's mishandling of rape allegations. After starting her job at Occidental in 2011, she says she was floored by the number of students who came to her office feeling "hurt and betrayed by the administration" after trying to report they had been sexually assaulted by other students.
"People have the idea that this college is kind of idyllic, and our campus is stunningly beautiful and amazing in every other way," Dirks says. "So it's hard for them to think, 'Oh my gosh, that's going on at Oxy.' "
Dirks and other faculty members say that, when they pushed the administration to change, long before the eruptions in the spring, they were ignored. Veitch, who took over at Oxy in 2009, admits he was too slow to respond, telling L.A. Weekly, "When we get these cases, we need to do a better job of investigating them, adjudicating them, responding empathetically to the students that have been violated, and we have to do a much better job on education."
That's not good enough for critics, who point to what happened last fall. "The term 'too pushy' came up," alleges Caroline Heldman, an assistant professor of sociology who was involved in Dirks' effort, in describing a September 2012 meeting with dean of students Avery. Heldman says Avery told her, "I admit my staff has been basically rejecting all of your ideas because faculty are too pushy on this issue."
At that time, the position of the school's brass appeared to be that the mostly female victims were exaggerating a sexual encounter they allowed to unfold, or wrongly describing aggressive sexual play during drinking.
Veitch tells the Weekly he's been giving the college's past handling of such incidents "a lot of thought. I think I was slow to respond initially. In truth, I thought I was doing the right thing."
For many, that's a disturbing take on alleged sexual assault at this 125-year-old bastion of progressive thinking, which prides itself on its Presbyterian founders' liberal agenda and thirst for knowledge. The peaceful, 120-acre campus is lined with lush trees; a tranquil, green quad sits at its entrance. With about 2,100 students, the school is known for annual traditions such as a neighborhood birthday party and a water balloon fight pitting seniors against the college president.
Yet evidence suggests that officials' reluctance to take action on rape allegations allowed a criminal and social problem to become a crisis, creating potentially profound legal and political problems, and something equally foreign to Occidental — a permeating sense of distrust and unease.
When Carly Mee, now 22, finally decided in her junior year to report a sexual assault she says happened when she was a freshman, she says she was told that she was mistaken in thinking her assailant capable of rape.
"When I spoke to an administrator," she says, refusing to name the female official, "I said, 'I've been feeling really unsafe and worried that he will attack me again,' and she told me that she met with him and didn't feel like that was something he would do, so I didn't have to worry."
Mee's alleged assailant, incredibly, was the same male student who attacked Capranica. He was found by Occidental, in secret proceedings, to have been responsible for attacking Mee. The unidentified male, whom Mee refuses to publicly name out of fear, was suspended but not expelled.
"When I met with an administrator to ask why" he wasn't expelled, Mee says, "they said it was 'extraordinary circumstances,' and that it was a 'messy case.' "
Audrey Logan, now 22, mustered the courage in her sophomore year to report that she had been raped on two separate occasions in her freshman year — by a young man she considered a friend. She says the administration made repeated errors in handling her report, yet her assailant admitted he assaulted her.
"It wasn't a situation where someone says something happened and the other person says nothing happened and then they're trying to figure out who's telling the truth," Logan says. "It was an agreement on the events, and then the administration trying to figure out if that 'violated' the sexual-assault policy."
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Logan's assailant was found by Occidental, in closed-door proceedings, to have attacked her. He was expelled. Logan refuses to name him publicly after, she says, having faced retaliation from her social circle for pursuing a case against him.
According to Logan, administrators asked her to consider a settlement that might allow her assailant to return to school. She refused.
"I felt like I personally cared more about the safety of this community than a lot of the administrators," she says.
Despite the recurrent themes in these cases, it wasn't until this February that brewing anger over complaints about sexual assault at Oxy came to a head. One night, while walking near campus, an Occidental student was raped. This time the incident wasn't stifled by Oxy's leaders or by a traumatized victim — it was reported to LAPD.
Rather than hear first from school officials about the attack, the campus community learned of the crime from CBS2 News. The local news channel reported that the incident occurred at about midnight on Feb. 24 in the 4900 block of Range View Avenue, which leads directly into campus. "People were upset," says Ryan Meltzer, a 21-year-old track and field athlete at Oxy. "Students were responding, [asking] how did the news get to this first?"
From there, pent-up stories of rapes and other sexual assaults began to snowball. Reports of sexual assault on or near the campus flooded the college's crime log; in the two months following the February attack, 45 incidents of sexual violence were reported, some dating to 2010.
"Numbers will be extremely high this year," Dirks says, "but they will be more accurate."
Though some may find it startling, under state and federal law, colleges and universities are not required to report rape to the police, unless the alleged victim is a minor. The responsibility falls on the adult victim, but many — like Capranica, Logan and Mee — are extremely reluctant to go public.
LAPD's data starkly reflect this fact: Despite the 45 incidents now in the college's crime log, Detective Lina Teague, LAPD's sexual-assault coordinator at the Northeast Division, which serves Eagle Rock, notes that only three rapes involving Occidental students have been reported to LAPD in the past two years.
There are multiple reasons for victims' failure to alert police, says David Lisak, a Boston-based clinical psychologist and expert on college sexual assault. Many victims of non-stranger rape — which comprises much of on-campus rape — are too traumatized to speak of the experience. If it's date rape or a rape by someone who, up until the attack, was viewed as a friend, Lisak adds, "It's quite typical for [the victim] not to be able to really apply the label 'sexual assault' or 'rape' to what happened."
And on college campuses — particularly at small schools, where everyone knows everyone else — there's a fear of being ostracized or blamed for what happened.
"It's fairly common for questions and comments to be directed at them, like, 'You were just drunk, you don't really know what happened, you were just as responsible as he was,' " Lisak says.
From an administrative standpoint, he adds, "There's this long-standing view of, 'Well, it's just young people who have often had too much to drink, and it's all very gray, and maybe they need to learn more about consent issues. ... There's an inclination to deal with it as an educational problem rather than as very serious criminal conduct."
Lisa Wade, an associate professor of sociology at Oxy, says that view is widespread in Oxy's executive offices. "I'm rather stunned by how many rape myths I hear come out of the mouths of our administrators," Wade says. "For example, [Occidental president Jonathan] Veitch saying that he was disinclined to believe sexual-assault survivors, or several of our administrators saying that sexual assault is a matter of miscommunication."
But according to Lisak's research, which was published in 2002 in the journal Violence and Victims, young men, including students, who commit rape or other sexual assaults at universities often are not just drunk or confused about the requirement to get consent. He has found that about 90 percent of rapes on college campuses are perpetrated by serial offenders who deliberately target their victims.
"The more research that's done on these guys," he says, "the more they basically look like other sex offenders," who also happen to be college kids or friends of college kids. "What is new is that a lot of people have had this schema that one would not find sex offenders on a college campus, and there's no reason other than we just don't like the idea. It's jarring."
The deep divisions emerging at Occidental, and the unwanted attention from federal investigators and mega-lawyer Allred, raise the question of why the school didn't alter its approach before now. But there could be more going on than, as President Veitch suggests, a failure to craft policies that more clearly put student security first.
Colleges and universities have a disincentive to be upfront about rape allegations made on their campuses. If the number of such incidents got out, critics suggest, colleges could have a PR nightmare on their hands — one that could be costly come enrollment time. "The first wave of colleges that tell the truth about rates of rape and sexual assault on campus," Oxy's Heldman says, "will take a hit with admissions."
And when it comes to admissions, Veitch — like most college presidents — has a reputation to uphold. Before becoming president of Occidental, he was the dean of the Eugene Lang College at the New School for Liberal Arts in New York. There, he helped grow enrollment by 39 percent.
Since Veitch arrived at Oxy in 2009, applications have increased by 3.2 percent. A campuswide scandal involving dozens of alleged crimes and students could harm the college's growth and reputation, as well as the financial gifts that stream in each year.
"Parents may not want to have their daughters apply for admission, and that would affect the bottom line," says Allred. "If alumni know that there are a number of rapes and sexual assaults on campus ... that may affect the fundraising."
On the charming streets of surrounding Eagle Rock, known for its hundreds of historic Craftsman, moderne, art deco and Mission Revival homes and bungalows, some residents aren't surprised that sexual-assault allegations were kept under wraps. Michael Nogueira, president of the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council, says that while past administrators at Occidental informed the community of campus goings-on and took an active role in the neighborhood, Veitch has kept his distance.
"In the past, we've always had community leaders meet with the presidents and board of trustees and talk about what the college can do for the community," Nogueira says. Now, he complains, "We're not getting much of anything."
Given what he sees as a real shift in what was a largely positive, good-will exchange of information between residents and college, Nogueira says he wouldn't be surprised to find that the school was keeping the lid on a controversy like sexual assault.
"They don't say anything, they keep things hush-hush," he says. "It's too bad, it's really too bad."
Nogueira also slams the LAPD, saying that they, too, sought to downplay the controversy to protect accused students.
"We have our LAPD senior lead officer come to the Neighborhood Council meeting and give reports of what's happening in the community," Nogueira says. "She told us 'We've got to be very, very careful in filing reports or making arrests.' You are gonna ruin that student. He will be expelled and he will be marked as a sex offender. You don't want to scar a male student for the rest of his life."
Teague says LAPD would never support such advice and dismisses Nogueira's criticism. "I have no independent knowledge of any of my investigators giving that advice," she says. "We take every report very seriously."
Now, the administration is rushing to make changes. Occidental has brought in two outside consultants, Gina M. Smith and Leslie M. Gomez, from Philadelphia-based law firm Pepper Hamilton, to review its policies and procedures on sexual assault in order to recommend and help implement any necessary changes.
In a May 1 letter to students and faculty, Veitch outlined his plans to "address the serious concerns raised about sexual assault at Occidental," which include the implementation of a 24/7 sexual-assault hotline as well as an ongoing sexual-assault awareness training program for students and faculty.
Some passionate critics among parents of students don't think much of these plans.
"I've had some exchanges with President Veitch around this and I'm not impressed," says Eric Kessel, a San Francisco–based psychologist whose daughter will be a sophomore at Occidental in the fall, and who has supported the victims of sexual assault on campus. "No one is. He's not trusted at this point. Changes have been promised before and he didn't stick with it. In my last email exchange with him, I told him he is on the wrong side of history."
Kessel says real harm has already been done that cannot now be undone. "Veitch's slowness in making change happen at the school means that, during that period, people were harmed," he says. "There were assaults ... by people who were not kicked out, by people who were not educated, and the message to people who had been assaulted was the wrong one."
Allred says, "Most of the recommendations that were made [by Smith and Gomez] have already been made in the past, and they still have not implemented them. ... I see a lot of this as foot-dragging and face-saving."
Beyond the reluctance among college administrators at Oxy, and at numerous colleges and universities from coast to coast, to air their dirty laundry about campus sexual assault, the criminal justice system is still struggling to find a way to deal with rape when it involves two people who know each other.
Attorney Saundra K. Schuster, a partner with the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, says, "A prosecutor or the DA has the burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime occurred," and with non-stranger rape, "it's an extraordinarily high standard to reach."
LAPD's Teague adds that there's a widespread misconception that, if two people know each other or are dating, sex between them cannot be a criminal assault. "People think that it can't be rape if you've had consensual sex in the past," she says. "But to have sexual intercourse with anybody against their will, that is rape."
When the full student body comes streaming back in the fall, for many it will be to a place less welcoming and secure than before. It is telling that, even in the broader off-campus community, perceptions of the beloved neighborhood college are being tested.
"It seems pretty crazy to happen at that school. No one would've thought it would happen at Oxy," says Vineeth Ratnaweera, an employee at the Coffee Table, a bistro on Colorado Boulevard, not far from Oxy. "Certain types of people go there — they're not party kids. Seems like everyone's got their head on straight and it's not as crazy as the other colleges."
Teague says LAPD is working with the school to encourage students to report what has happened to them. "We are working together to come to an understanding on when to contact law enforcement," she says. "Hopefully we can come to an agreement and encourage the victim to come forward."
But Mila Conste, who has lived in Eagle Rock for eight years and has encouraged her 17-year-old daughter to attend the college right down the street, is having second thoughts.
"It's really scary nowadays," Conste says. "Why are we not made aware of these things? Why? We should know — it's like you're sleeping and you're not aware of the commotion."
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jstaniek 19:52, 11 January 2008 (CET): Move these docs to the TechBase if relevant:
Getting mp3-support in KDE for Windows is major PITA at the moment, so this section needs defintly improvement to be end-user ready.
The first step would be get a hold of all codecs and check which are the best and fit best in our purpose.
After we found the best solution the next step would be to integrate this into the installer. The codecs could be installed automaticly or the user could be given choice and also educate him of legal conseqences.
<item> <title> Release of Amarok Beta 1 Nerrivik for Windows </title> <date> July 29th, 2008 </date> <fullstory> After joint efforts, the KDE on Windows Team is glad to announce availability of the first Beta release of Amarok. Note that the quality of this software differs from its Linux counterpart and might only reach Alpha level so far. Nevertheless, users are invited to file related bug reports using the KDE Bugzilla web site. The official release notes were published the Amarok Team at amarok.kde.org. Windows binaries are available via the KDE Installer.
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Announcement: Release of KOffice 2.0 Beta 1 for Windows Along with other platforms, the KDE on Windows Team has released the first beta version of KOffice 2.0 running on MS Windows. As stated in the announcement, the goal of this release is to prepare a basically usable 2.0 version thanks to feedback from both users and developers on the new user interface and underlying infrastructure. Therefore, Windows users are also invited to join the community. Note that the quality of this software differs from its Linux counterpart and might only reach Alpha level so far. The official release notes from the KOffice Team are published at www.koffice.org. Windows executables for the new KOffice are available directly via the KDE Installer.

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A Dec. 19 special City Council meeting during which the council was to consider annexation petitions from Eastgate and Tamara Hills has been cancelled, likely to be rescheduled in January.
Property owners representing more than 50 percent of the assessed value of both unincorporated areas have signed petitions seeking annexation to the City of Bellevue. The council was originally going to take action on them next spring, but was prepared to act this month to preserve a state tax credit designed to offset the cost of providing services to thousands of new residents.
The Legislature, in a special session to address a state budget shortfall, was considering eliminating the tax credit for any new annexations. Staff believed Bellevue had a better chance of keeping that credit if the Eastgate and Tamara Hills annexations were already in process before the legislative session ended. However, the Legislature adjourned Wednesday without taking action on the tax credit.
The Legislature will meet for a regular, 60-day session starting Jan. 9, and could take action on this issue then. Due to this change in timing, staff plans to place the Eastgate and Tamara Hills annexation and public hearing on the Jan. 17 council agenda.
If the council accepts the petitions, actual annexation would still occur next spring, after review by the King County Boundary Review Board.
The council's action would not have an effect on the possible annexation of two other unincorporated areas of South Bellevue -- Hilltop and Horizon View. Petitions from the necessary 50 percent of property owners in those neighborhoods have not been submitted yet.
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The Student Summer Scholars (S3) program is Grand Valley State University's premier research program for undergraduates and allows students to gain hands-on experience while having a chance to create and shape knowledge in their chosen field. The S3 program is made possible in part by the Ott-Stiner Fellowship in Chemistry and Natural Sciences which helps to pay for the scholar's living wage, project supplies and travel expenses. This year, Benjamin Nicholson and Talon Kosak were given the opportunity to contribute to the scientific community through S3 research and were selected to be Ott-Stiner Scholars.
Nicholson, a senior at Grand Valley, is double majoring in chemistry and biomedical science with an emphasis in bio-chemistry. Before coming to Grand Valley, Ben had not strongly considered studying chemistry specifically, but after taking Chemistry 115 decided to add it to his focus. Nicholson was also inspired to pursue this course of study because of his family doctor, Dr. Jeffrey VanWingen, who arranged a job shadow opportunity for Ben.
"He was a great role model," Nicholson said, "although he teaches full time, he still found time to help and guide me."
Nicholson's decision to study at Grand Valley was driven by the university's reputation for strong science programs. Another important factor to Ben, a Grand Rapids native, was his family who have always supported him and wanted to see him continue his academic success without traveling too far from home.
"It was a great opportunity for me to come to Grand Valley and ended up being the best thing I did in my life," Nicholson said.
Talon Kosak is a junior studying chemistry with a minor in Spanish. Kosak said that he took several advanced placement (AP) classes in high school and found he liked history but was also a great science student with an interest in plants.
"My mom has a green thumb," Kosak said, "our garden is always gorgeous and in high school I got into plants and gardening too."
Talon's interest in nature took off as he finished high school and began looking for colleges to attend. Kosak said that studying plants and their natural chemistry was what he was passionate about. For him, Grand Valley stood out as a university that had a strong emphasis on science fields but also focused on student success.
"I really liked the small class sizes," Kosak said, "you can get a lot of 1 on 1 time with professors if you ask them for help."
Students enrolled in S3 are challenged and encouraged by faculty mentors to think critically in order to fully understand certain concepts. S3 is not dedicated to one specific area of study but presents a variety of works that range from microbiology to cultural ethics.
"I was pushed by my academic advisor; Dr. Richard Lord, to do S3 because I needed that deep exposure to research," Kosak said, "this opportunity has made me want to pursue chemistry."
Research is an important component of education, and learning how to properly conduct and present research allows students to be fully prepared for their future profession regardless what that might be.
"I've gotten a lot of experience working not only with fellow students but also with professionals," Nicholson said.
The Ott-Stiner Fellowship in Chemistry and Natural Sciences was initiated in 2011 in memory of Arnold and Marion Ott who had a strong belief in education and philanthropy. Today their daughter Jackie (Ott) and son-in-law Les Stiner continue to uphold and exemplify the same ideals. This fund is not only making a difference to summer scholars but many students who will continue to rethink and improve scientific practices.
"I think this work could have a big impact," Kosak said, "if we can prove experimentally what we observe, we can go back and predict outcomes and eventually produce pharmaceuticals more easily and efficiently."
Students like Ben and Talon are grateful for opportunities like the S3 program and the Ott-Stiner Fellowship that allow them to gain the experience they need to be fully prepared to enter the professional world.
Benjamin Nicholson is in the process of applying to medical school and Talon Kosak also plans to attend graduate school after Grand Valley. Both are very excited about their future studies and recognize the help they have received so far.
"I would like to express my gratitude to the Stiners," Nicholson said. "I think their goal was to help students and they've certainly done that."
"I would like to thank the Stiners for contributing to science," Kosak said. "It's not only me they support but also science as a whole as it expands."


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Sometimes the small episodes of a sitcom are the best. It's the episodes where very little happens from which the most humor can be gleaned. Such was certainly the case with tonight's How I Met Your Mother, which revolved all around Marshall's search for the best hamburger ever created.
As you may recall, last season Marshall left his job at a soul-sucking corporation in order to pursue his dreams of becoming an environmental lawyer. That wasn't so much panning out for him, and by this week he had taken to sitting around in his underwear. And going out to get the mail in his underwear. And going out to restaurants in his underwear. The man needed help.
He wasn't too depressed to go to the bar with everyone else though, where the waitress informed them that they had just gotten a new chef who made the best burgers. Everyone — save Robin, who was the hungriest and consequently not served — tried their burger, and only Marshall found it lacking. It was not, he said, the best burger he'd ever had in the city.
We quickly flashbacked to Marshall's first days in New York City. He was, understandably a bit nervous. Okay, it wasn't understandable, as he was completely over-the-top nervous. It took Ted practically forcing the man out of the apartment for Marshall to dare venture into the city.
Once out, he loved the city I like to think of as home, he even found a hole-in-the-wall burger joint that served the best burger ever. I can't tell you how badly I wanted one. Of course, Ted wanted one too. Sadly, they couldn't find it again, and apparently Marshall and Lily tried every burger place in town, including the Corner Bistro. They tried to ask Regis (who, apparently eats at every burger place in the city too, including Marshall's mythical burger joint), but while Regis dreamed of the burger, he didn't know where to get it. Stupid guys, they never asked Robin about it. She knew exactly where the place was and they were off just as Robin's burger finally arrived. The hunt was on!
Unbelievably, ridiculously, not only was Robin correct about the look of the place (green door, small neon sign that said "Burger"), it was still there and it was open. Everyone, save Robin, was served, and everyone who was eating, save Marshall, thought it was the greatest burger ever created. One small meltdown later, Marshall stormed out and it was only then that the waitress confirmed that the restaurant they were in was modeled after a different one, one that was uptown (they were downtown). The hunt was back on!
One look at the block uptown confirmed for Marshall that they were, finally, in the right neighborhood. There was but one small glitch — the place wasn't there anymore. Instead, there was an ATM for Goliath National Bank, a bank Barney's company had just bought and about which Barney had been singing the praises of all evening. Lily was rather perturbed with Goliath for sucking away her husband's possible merriment at having the most delicious burger ever created and noted to all who would listen (even if they didn't want to), that Goliath was an horrific bank.
It came as quite a shock to poor Lily when she learned that her Marshall had secretly taken a job at Goliath which Barney had first offered weeks earlier. Were there a burger to be had, it would have been Goliath's money with which Marshall could have fed his wife (not that she needs it as she has a job, but that's far less semi-poetic).
Actually, as it happened, the nice man from the XXX store right next door to the ATM informed the gang that the restaurant had just moved and for a mere hundred bucks he'd tell them its new location. Thank goodness for the FDIC insured Goliath National Bank and its conveniently located ATMs — the hunt was on for a third time!
Finally at the new burger joint, Marshall confirmed that it was everything he ever wanted in a burger. At first Regis wasn't so sure, but eventually he did realize it was the burger he too had been searching for.
And all was right with the world (save the fact that I've had a burger hankering for weeks).
Quotes and questions:
- There were tons of funny quotes tonight, but I'm going to give you my personal favorite, Barney on the burger he had at MacLaren's — "I love this burger so much I want to sew my ass shut."
- Here's what I really want to know, wouldn't it just have been faster to drive to Louis' Lunch in New Haven for the best burger?
- Seriously though, Regis. I thought the recurring Regis stuff funny at first, but kind of taken too far by the end. What do you think? Too much Regis, too little, or just right?
The TV and Film Guys Reviews — Where we've wanted a good burger for so long.


text: Maybe SciFi Should End Shows More OftenGraeme McMillan1/13/09 10:30amFiled to: scifi channelStargate Atlantisamanda tappingTelevision23EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink The new recipe for ratings success at SciFi Channel? Final episodes, apparently, as last Friday's season/series conclusions of both Stargate Atlantis and Sanctuary brought in higher-than-usual audiences. Why do we love to watch things end? Advertisement The final episode of SGA managed to score 2 million viewers, capping off an incredibly successful season that had seen the show grow its audience by 5% compared with the year before. More impressively, its household rating increased by 14% when compared with last season. Sanctuary, meanwhile, also managed to grab 2 million viewers, giving the show its best ratings since the season premiere.The one-two finale punch managed to make the channel the fourth most-watched cable network for the night, something that has to make the people in charge very happy... especially knowing that this Friday sees the start of the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica, replacing the departed shows. Advertisement 'Stargate,' 'Sanctuary' Give Sci Fi Stellar Ratings [TV Week]


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Return from the Mars (Povratak sa Marsa)
Return from the Mars
Povratak sa Marsa
1. | Hej tugo moja |
2. | Srce mi je zastalo |
3. | Znam ja |
4. | Nema vise cile mile |
5. | Crne oci |
6. | Andjeo bez krila |
I don't speak Serbian, but the English seem a bit odd to me at times
return from the Mars -> more like "Return from Mars"
There us nowhere blushed one -> ??? no one of us blushed there ???
to forgive for the green women -> to forgive the green women
going to the Mars -> going to Mars
You already flown -> "you already flew" or "you've already flown"
you lost half of your size -> do you mean like shrinking? Or simply lose weight?
Without filed and hoe -> I assume you mean "field"
who fucks her -> ??? maybe "who gives a fuck/damn about her/them" ?
I'm here to chew for you, whatever you don't understand until you do Kuroi_neko.
They taught me that definite article goes in front of the unique things. So far I heard of only one Mars. But then again, I may be wrong.
There should be an indefinite article before "blushed one", which I will correct. He meant that there was not a single woman that actually could blush.
Not to forgive the green women, but to forgive to him for being with green women, but since he didn't say "being" I skipped the part as well.
Again, there is only one Mars.
Thank you, I forgot to write "have" and will correct it right away.
If a man loses weight I say he shrinks and I say he lost half of his size. So unless it is not understandable by automatism, I hope that now it is - it's the same.
Yes, I meant field, thank you, I will correct it as well.
Yes, it means exactly what you said. However, I have heard plenty "expressions" the way I translated so I don't see a problem with it.
Thank you for stopping by and checking
Well English is not my native language so I may be wrong in some cases, but still I spent quite a few months working in the UK so I got used to some casual (British) English.
Just to make sure, I googled the expression and came up with lots of porn, but not a single case of the expected use.
I can't transform, nor I want to transform lyrics into something they are not. Many songs in Serbian, as in other languages, simply ask from you to think little more to understand what poet wanted to say.
If someone can't understand text, then they ask. And I usually tend to write explanations when I think it's not understandable.
For sure we make mistakes, and for sure you will see that even natives don't speak grammatically right (you corrected me for perfect tense, but many don't use have/has when using perfect tenses - even songs I've been translating).
I used the expression "lost half of your size" - that can only mean "lost the body mass". Otherwise it would be stressed. But I'll keep in mind that shirk thing.
Lol, I will memorize the last correction, hopefully, I won't use it much.
Since I have only some English at my disposal, my remarks cannot go beyond the readability of the translation.
If the original lyrics themselves are difficult to read for a non-native, all I can do is draw your attention to the parts where a footnote could be needed.
Pretty funny song anyway, thanks for letting more people understand it.
I lack many times some adequate expressions so your help was more than welcome.
This song doesn't make much of a sense in original as well so it's basically what you see there, and it's up to people how will they interpret it.
Spirit of one language can hardly be translated with ease.
My pleasure, hope to see you around.


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I'm curious if anyone else on this site is having similar problems.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's foreign minister and the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon exchanged views Thursday on the country's controversial nuclear program and its potential role in ending the Syrian conflict, two issues expected to dominate next week's annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations.
Mohammad Javad Zarif, a former U.N. ambassador, returned to U.N. headquarters for the first time since he was named foreign minister by the country's new president, Hasan Rouhani, who will be making his first appearance at the General Assembly on Tuesday.
"I commend the efforts of the new government in Iran in promoting dialogue with the international community," Ban said. "I'm pleased the government ... is now taking some concrete steps to fulfill the promises made by president Rouhani during his recent election campaign."
After years of frozen diplomatic relations, U.S. President Barack Obama and Rouhani, considered a relative moderate in Iran's hard-line clerical regime, exchanged letters after his election. This has fueled widespread speculation that U.S. and Iranian officials may meet on the sidelines of the General Assembly.
Avaaz, an activist organization that uses the internet to mobilize support for various political issues, said it launched a campaign this week which has already been signed by more than 1.1 million people calling on the U.S. and Iranian leaders to agree to talks at the General Assembly. It is also running polls in Iran to gauge opinion on a U.S.-Iran meeting.
"This could be President Obama's Nixon-to-China moment that would save Syrian lives — the question is whether the two reform-minded leaders who will soon be mere steps away from each other in New York will seize it," Avaaz Campaign Director Ian Bassin said.
Zarif hosted a lunch for many U.N. ambassador and Wednesday and invited the five permanent members of the Security Council — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France. Several ambassadors who attended said they did not see U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and a well-informed U.N. diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because the lunch was private, said the U.S. did not attend.
The secretary-general told reporters he had "a very good meeting" with Zarif and praised the government's release Wednesday of 12 political prisoners — a move Ban said he pushed for when he visited Iran in August 2012.
U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky added that they discussed "Iran's growing cooperation with the international community on a host of issues, including the nuclear file, as well the role Iran could play in promoting a political solution to the conflict in Syria."
Zarif was equally upbeat about the meeting.
"We had a good meeting with the secretary-general, discussed various issues of interest to all countries including Iran and the United Nations," the Iranian foreign minister told several reporters. "We attach great importance to the role of the United Nations and we had a good discussion on the nuclear issue and on other issues."
The U.N. Security Council has imposed four rounds of sanctions against Iran because of concerns it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons and its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment. The U.S. and its Western allies have imposed even more punishing sanctions which have severely affected Iran's economy.
The West believes Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful, aimed only at producing energy and isotopes for medical use. Rohani told NBC this week that Iran has "never pursued or sought a nuclear bomb and we are not going to do so."
Rouhani said last month that the foreign ministry — not the Supreme National Security Council — will lead nuclear talks with world powers, a shift away from security officials being in control.
Zarif said at the time that the next round of talks with the five permanent Security Council members and Germany will take place after the General Assembly's ministerial meeting.
He said he will meet European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, the convener of the talks, on the sidelines of next week's meetings. Foreign ministers from the six nations are also scheduled to meet next Thursday on the assembly sidelines to discuss next steps.


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One hour past midnight, I get an emergency call from the hospital where my father was in the Intensive Care Unit after having suffered a massive heart attack a few days ago. I rush to the hospital with my brother-in-law. My father, who is a doctor himself, has revolted in the hospital ICU. He tells us to move him out of this hospital immediately, as he feared that the specialist doctors attending on him have been grossly negligent, complacent and self-serving. He said this may eventually kill him. We stayed with him till day-break, discussed his concerns with the doctors and moved him out in an ambulance to another hospital, where he eventually recovered.
The "Credit Crisis" the world faces today, which is now snow-balling into a historical world wide economic recession, is the handiwork of a few greedy bankers who wanted to make a quick buck, hook or by crook, taking the economics of the whole world for a ride with them.
- Responsibility
- Accountability
- Transparency
- Relationships
Do we learn a lesson?
The only way to survive this mess is for Organizations and Entrepreneurs to build a new set of business rules that goes by the Kent Beck's four values for Agile.
This will surely help build a more realistic and responsible market place, a more accountable corporate society and an honest, transparent world that can prosper eternally.
This was never difficult, but today it has become an "Imperative for Survival". We can still choose to hide our cupboards full of skeletons, but for how long can we do this?
Thanks Kent Beck, for your courage in bringing the harsh reality of our ignorance to the fore. May be one day the world will see the truth behind the "Agile Values" proposed by you.


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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
- Freshwater and Tropical Fish
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Need advice/help... Ok...so I am about to be getting a 30 or 33 gallon tank and stand. I want to try planting this tankl. My mother in law has a goldfish in a 5 gallon and I want to give her my 10 gallon that I am currently using. She only has an internal pump/filter and that is not going to be enough for the 10 gallon. Before I thought about giving her my 10 gallon I was going to use the current filter on it to use in the 30/33. It is a Penguin 100B so I know I would need to add to it anyway. Here is my dilemma... - do I just get a bigger filter (or two smaller ones?) for my 30/33 and add plants and not worry about another cycle and give her my current filter? -Do I give her the filter and just get an appropriate size sponge filter/air pump (can someone point me to a good one)? Again adding plants to not worry about the cycling again. - Buy her an appropriate filter and let her use the media in her current filter (if there is any) and gravel to seed the 10 while keeping my filter and adding a second to get the appropriate filtration in my tank? Okay, I think that is all for now. Please let me now if there is something I am missing. O...I plan on keeping some/most of my current gravel to seed my new tank as well. |
You still need to cycle even if your adding plants.. If you want to quick cycle, run your current filter with the old media in the new tank along with your new filter. I'd recommend an AquaClear 50. If you don't plan on having a quarantine or hospital tank then I'd give her your filter once your done with it. |
That much flow wouldnt be too much for the plants/fish? The fish in my sig will be moved to this tank and add more. And as luck would have it, her goldfish died today. So I will hang on to all my equipment to seed the new tank. Will be going from natural gravel to play sand. What are everyones thoughts on sponge filters? Thanks again everyone! |
Not to much flow, the AquaClears have an adjustable flow as well, but I've run a AC50 on a 10g before, on my 29 gallon I'm currently running an AC50 and an AC20 both running at full blast with 2 platys, some neons and guppies. Always better to have to much filtration then not enough and running a filter meant for 30 gallons on a 30g tank barely cuts it. Sponge filters are good I've never run them in anything bigger then a 10g though, I use them mostly for fry tanks and shrimp tanks. I run sand in all my tanks as well, be sure when your working on the bottom to shut off your filters don't want any strired up sand getting sucked into them. |
First, welcome to Tropical Fish Keeping forum. Glad to have you join us. A good sponge filter will be sufficient for a 30g (I have an Elite dual sponge on my 29g), especially with live plants [good idea:-D]. The Elite duals are good, or the Hydro spong rated for a 30g. Playsand is a good substrate, I now have it in 3 tanks. You only want about 2 inches depth across the tank. Byron. |
Thanks Byron. What would be a good air pump/powerhead to use for the Elite duals? And where did you get yours? I saw some on drsfostersmith that look similar to the one you have posted before but wasnt sure if it was the Elite or not. Thanks for the help and welcoming. |
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Elite dual sponges are what I have in my 20g and 29g tanks. Photo below. There is also the Hydro, I have one of these in a 10g. Both in my view are very good filters. |
Would a single Elite double sponge be okay for a 4' 33long? Also, do you think an AquaClear 70 would create too much flow? I can get one for a good price. |
The AC's have adjustable flow, I've run a 110 on my 40 breeder, even on full flow as long as I kept the water level all the way up the current from it wasn't bad, maybe to much for a betta but ok for most all fish. |
You're intending live plants, so I would stay with a sponge filter. And for a 3-foot a dual Elite will be fine. Another option is an internal filter that is basically a motor and sponge, Fluval I belive make these. This is useful if noise is an issue, as they are quieter than most air pumps which you need for the Elite or Hydro. I am not a fan of HOB filters in planted tanks. And I have used them, back in the 1980's. No longer my choice. |
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Steamboat Springs The Steamboat Springs High School football team handed out end-of-season awards at its annual postseason banquet Tuesday.
The list was long.
After placing third in the Western Slope League and posting a 10-3 record on their way to the Class 3A semifinals, the Sailors en----joyed one of the best seasons in school history.
Seven Steam--boat players were named to the All-League or honorable mention All-League teams.
Seniors Thomas Allen and Scott Stanko were All-League along with juniors Westin Cofer and Lane Shipley.
Seniors Vince Grippa, Zack Savage and Jack Serhant were voted by league coaches onto the honorable mention All-League team.
The All-League selections were made before postseason play began, and the selections are not made by position.
Shipley, Grippa and Savage were Steamboat's three defensive linemen. The trio combined to make 175 tackles, 13 sacks and seven fumble recoveries.
Allen and Cofer were two of the five linebackers that made up one of the best defensive units in Class 3A. Cofer led the team with 130 tackles, including 10 tackles for loss. Thomas was second with 87 tackles and three sacks. Serhant and Stanko, two of the team's defensive backs, finished the season with three and six interceptions, respectively.
Shipley, Grippa and Savage also played on the offensive line and contributed to the success of Steamboat's rushing attack, which amassed 2,730 yards this season.
Stanko, Grippa and senior linebacker Sam Gary and senior running back Walker Hammond were voted team captains for the season.
The Steamboat coaching staff handed out their team awards Tuesday night. Junior linebacker Sean Forney was voted Scout Team Player of the Year. Grippa, the long snapper for three years, was the Special Teams Player of the Year. Savage was voted Lineman of the Year. Hammond was given Offensive Player of the Year honors. Allen was voted Defensive Player of the Year, and Stanko received the Most Valuable Player award.
The team's on-field accomplishments pleased the coaching staff, and Sailors coach Aaron Finch said he also as proud of the team's academic achievement.
Last season, the Sailors had the top team GPA among Class 3A football programs in Colorado. Final team standings have not been released for fall sports, but Steamboat figures to be in the running again after being named a Team Academic Champion by the Colorado High School Activities Association this season.
The team maintained an unweighted group GPA above 3.0.
Nine Sailors were named to the Academic All-State or Academic All-State honorable mention teams. Only juniors and seniors are eligible for the awards.
Allen, Shipley, senior Daniel MacArthur and juniors Jace Bonner, Tucker Campbell and Joey Melius were Academic All-State selections. A student-athlete had to maintain an unweighted GPA of at least a 3.6 to be on the All-State team.
Student-athletes on the Aca--demic All-State honorable mention team had to maintain an unweighted GPA of between 3.3 and 3.59. The Steamboat athletes named to that team were senior Justin Howard and juniors Aaron Hornstein and Tanner Stillwell.
The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News have not released their All-State lists for the 2005 fall seasons.


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Posts by Bryant
Total # Posts: 63
what is the pH of a solution prepared by adding 0.65mol of LiOH(aq) to 1.0L of 0.30mol/L HNO3(aq)>
October 3, 2016
jOSE HAS A 15-M^2 GARDEN AND PLANS TO BUY SOME MULCH TO COVER HIS GARDEN. ON THE BAG OF MULCH IT SAYS ONE BAG OF MULCH WILL COVER 20FT^2. iF EACH BAG COST $2.00 . hOW MUCH WILL IT COST TO MULCH THE GARDEN? 20FT^2*1YD^2/9FT^2*$2.00/1YD^2
May 1, 2016
In 1995-96 academic year there were 86,087 bachelor degrees awarded. That number fell to 71,261 for 2002-2003 school year. In 2008-09 it rose to 120,488 . How much greater was the percent increase from 2003 to 2009? How much was the percent decrease from 1996 to 2003?
April 17, 2016
You are offered $12,000 for an annuity at 3.9% compounded monthly for 6 yrs what would the monthly payments be?
April 13, 2016
After Khalil gave Benjamin 3/5 of the rocks in his collection, Benjamin had 70 rocks. If Benjamin had 25 rocks in the beginning, how many rocks did Khalil have in the beginning?
January 16, 2014
Submit the two equations that represent the cost of going to the gym based on if we join or do not join. Identify the number of times a person would go and have the costs of the 2 plans be the same.
May 3, 2013
3rd grade math
4 1/2
April 18, 2013
write expanded notation.40,050
March 19, 2013
(x^4-11x^3+43x^2-40x+19) ÷ (x^2-9) Long division
February 4, 2013
(x^4-11x^3+43x^2-40x+19) ÷ (x^2-9)
February 3, 2013
Differential Equations
A government agency has a current staff of 5000, of whom 25% are women. Employees are quitting randomly at the rate of 100 per week. Replacements are being hired at the rate of 50 per week, with the requirement that half be women. Interested in the rate of women coming in and ...
October 30, 2012
what is true of all values of x that will make divisible 2*x by6
October 10, 2012
Differential Equations
oh, never mind. I've seen my mistake. disregard this question.
September 25, 2012
Differential Equations
x dy/dx + y = 1/y^2, solve using bernoulli's equation. i got to du/dx + (2u)/x = 2x(u)^(-1/2). the u^(-1/2) is obviously a problem if im going to solve it using an integrating factor. if that is not what you yourself have gotten to then please show me my error.
September 25, 2012
Find the tangential and normal components of acceleration of an object that moves along the parabolic path y=4x^2 at the instant the speed ds/dt=5. I know how to find the both these given a vector but no idea when given just a path and speed. i figured i had to solve for the ...
May 8, 2012
never mind. i thought about it and it is the work done by gravity. not the man. which leads me to another question. how exactly would you find the work done by the man. would he be represented as another vector or or in the vector field?
April 16, 2012
A 160-lb man carries a 25-lb can of paint up a helical staircase that encircles a silo witha radius of 20 ft. If the silo is 90 ft high and the man makes exactly three complete revolutions, how much work is done by the man against gravity in climbing to the top? I looked at ...
April 16, 2012
1.5 liter flask is filled with nitrogen at pressure of 12 atmosphere. What size would be required to hold this gas at a pressure of 2.0 atmosphere?
April 8, 2012
Find the volume V of the solid in the rst octant bounded by y = 0, z = 0, y = 3, z = x, and z + x = 4. The best part about this problem is that I solved it using basic geometry but am expected to do it using a triple integral that will take up a whole page. I'm honestly ...
March 26, 2012
Consider ∫R∫xydA, where R is the square R=[0,1]x[0,1]. Let us compute some Riemann sums. For any positive integer n we partition R into n^2 little squares Rij each with sides 1/n long. Within each little square we evaluate the integradn at the point (x*ij,y*ij), ...
March 20, 2012
i meant ∫R∫xydA
March 20, 2012
Consider ∫R∫syDA, where R is the square R=[0,1]x[0,1]. Let us compute some Riemann sums. For any positive integer n we partition R into n^2 little squares Rij each with sides 1/n long. Within each little square we evaluate the integradn at the point (x*ij,y*ij), ...
March 20, 2012
Suppose R is the rectangle 1<=x<=4, |y|<=2 and evaluate the double integral ∫R∫f(x,y)dA, where f(x,y)= y/(1+3x^4)^(1/2). I first decided to integrate with respect to y first (which I think I can choose to do) I am a little confused at this part though ...
March 18, 2012
Let z = ∫(e^sin(t)dt) from x to y a = x b = y I tried thinking about it like a chain rule but even then i'm a little unsure. I know dz/dt = e^sin(t). Can you please point me in the right direction if i'm supposed to use the chain rule.
March 7, 2012
use google-fu next time and look these things up. volume of a rectangular prism = abc just convert inches to feet. then multiply.
March 4, 2012
oh never mind. i looked back and saw that i differentiated wrong on a step
March 4, 2012
If u = log(r), where r^2 = (x-a)^2 + (y-b)^2, and (x-1) and (y-b) are not zero simultaneously, show that d^2u/dx^2 + d^2u/dy^2 = 0. I first used some of the properties of log and made u = 1/2 * log((x-a)^2 + (y-b)^2) Then made u = 1/2 * ln((x-a)^2 + (y-b)^2)/ln(10) I'm ...
March 4, 2012
solve for what?
February 28, 2012
cos(sin(x))*cos(x) 16sin^3(x)*cos(x) d/dx(f(x))= f'(x)*x'
February 28, 2012
lim (x^3-1)/(x^3+2x^2y+xy^2-x^2-2xy-y^2) (x,y)->(1,0) alright i approached this at y=0. and got the limit as 3. where else can i approach this from to see if the limit really exist which im hoping it doesn't. i tried y=x-1 and that was a mess and i also tried y=mx which...
February 28, 2012
then what can i approach by as well cause i also tried y=x-1 and that was just a mess.
February 28, 2012
or does x=0 not work because x does not equal zero on the point (1,0). cause my teacher was fairly lazy in class and used the point (0,0) for every example.
February 28, 2012
alright thanks, my teacher never showed us that if you set one of the variables equal to zero you can make it a one variable function. so say i approach x=0 and find the limit of that to be infinity. does the original function f(x,y) not exist?
February 28, 2012
lim (x^3-1)/(x^3+2x^2y+xy^2-x^2-2xy-y^2) (x,y)->(1,0) my question is can you approach (1,0) with y=x and does that change the the limit to lim f(x,x) (x,x)->(1,1) in which case i get 3/4 as the limit. and if this is not how i go about doing it can you point me in the ...
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2007-02-22, 10:52 | Link #1 |
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CLANNAD the Movie
The official site for the theatrical adaptation of CLANNAD, a 2004 bishojo game released by softhouse VisualArt's/Key after their success with Kanon and AIR, featuring one of the longest and most complex story in the industry, has opened.
http://www.clannad-movie.jp/ The official opening will be on March 8th. |
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2007-02-22, 15:35 | Link #5 |
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Yeah, but that's the point, it complemented an already existing series, so it didn't need to do so much legwork in building things up, since most people were already familiar with the series and characters.
In this case though, unless you've played the game, you're not going to know any of the characters, and this is a long game as has already been stated, so I don't really see how they will be able to fit it into a film length feature without butchering a lot of it. Guess it's possible they'll just pick one section and focus on it, much like short OAV's converted from huge games (like Tales of Phantasia.) We'll see. |
2007-02-22, 17:18 | Link #9 | |
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Still, that doesn't mean the CLANNAD movie will be a flop. That would be giving Toei too little credit. I'm still very much looking forward to the movie, although I fear it would be nothing but a barebone version of Nagisa's story, simply because of CLANNAD's sheer size and length. CLANNAD is longer than both Kanon and AIR combined for a reason, after all. |
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2007-02-22, 19:51 | Link #11 |
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I wonder how the movie foucus will be, and which bits they will change. I can't wait to see Nagisa animated ^-^
For planetarian if it were to be animated, I wonder if they would animate bits from the novel. Looking way ahead I hope for a Little Busters anime too XD |
2007-02-22, 19:56 | Link #12 |
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Fear? That's what I'm hoping for. It'll be a total mess if they try to focus on more than one of the ladies. Sure, the others can have small parts, but spreading itself too thin would be far worse than just focusing on one single plot thread.
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Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. First we need to hope that the game actually gets released on the promised date first. Quote:
By barebones I meant the movie having so little room to wiggle, they wouldn't have time to portray anything from Nagisa's story except the bare minimum that's required for the story to make sense. We're talking about a story that progresses through several eras in the characters' lives, after all. Another concern I have, though less important, is the atmosphere the movie will end up providing. Anyone who played CLANNAD (or any Key game, for that matter) will tell you that it is a game that's as funny as it is touching (I think game fans will agree that CLANNAD wouldn't be CLANNAD without Sunohara or Akio's gut-bustingly funny antics). If possible, I want to see a movie that can maintain the "serious but gut-wrenching funny at times" atmosphere that the game managed to achieve. Then again, maybe I'm just worrying too much. Dezaki-san is one of the most experienced anime directors out there, and I'm sure his experience with AIR movie will help with CLANNAD as well. (then again, the guy is like 54 years old... ^^; ) Last edited by Sushi-Y; 2007-02-22 at 22:15. |
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Sign me up as another person who doesn't see this working. There have just been too many examples in anime history of lengthy complex stories losing all that makes them meaningful and interesting when they're squeezed into a two hour movie. Sure, the AIR movie was acceptable, since it was more an adaptation than a direct retelling, but it was nothing compared with the TV series. Without knowing much about the CLANNAD story, I'd guess they'd do a similar thing with that, but my early guess is that it's going to be underwhelming compared with the source material.
And it seems I'm not the only one who would love to see KyoAni do a full length TV series with the CLANNAD story. They've shown already that they have a massive respect for Key's stories and the way they handle them is outstanding. We may dream, I guess. Hopefully Kanon 2006 will be a massive financial success to the point that KyoAni would see the benefit of bowing the any public requests for them to animate a CLANNAD TV series.
2007-02-23, 01:28 | Link #15 |
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Looking forward to the movie, for two reasons:
1. Nagisa animated! 2. Good way to attract attention to my translation project! TOEI can either do this two ways; they can either, as Sushi-Y said, have a barebones version of Nagisa's route (would that cover both School and After stories?). Or, they could do a completely original scenario that only involves Nagisa and ties the 幻想世界 a lot more than it should be. Maybe to the point where it's more like the AIR movie was. Not saying it's bad, I haven't seen it myself, but you never know when you only have 90 minutes.
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Yeah, Clannad movie, I can't hide that I'm little displeased that it's not KyoAni doing this. Moreover I played the game and it's long and I just wonder: How the hell they want to make a movie out of this? There were already mentioned a few possibilities, but it's still hard to imagine for me. Ah, as for little Busters, the game release date is the 27th July, so better keep back with anime and stuff, that's how rumors get started! But throwing away all questions and doubts, a KEY visual novels is getting animated, that's already a good reason for a party!^-^ Last edited by -Nyu-; 2007-02-24 at 05:43. |
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2007-02-25, 11:21 | Link #19 | |
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Spoiler for Clannad's After Story:
Same here, which is quite surprising. Spoiler for Fuko:
There is still hope. After all, Key had produced an original novel, an OST and a drama CD last year, two years after the game was released. I am hoping that the movie (if there is one) will include events in 星の人 and チルシスとアミント(the last two chapters in the novel) as epilogue to give the story a bit more closure. |
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Gavin Heaton, the Yoda of my world, has a regular slot on his own blog: 5 Must-Read Posts from Last Week. Well, this week I'm tagging some his recent posts, the favourite of mine: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
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It would be difficult to find a riad with a better pedigree than this: Delphine Mottet and Jean-François Claeys's Tchaikana was renovated with the help of fellow Belgian Quentin Wilbaux, an architect and the author of Marrakech: The Secret of Courtyard Houses. The 1999 book helped fuel the trend of Europeans refurbishing old Moroccan homes, and Tchaikana's 2002 conversion—a three-room, two-suite place in the heart of the medina—was one of the earliest to hit the scene. Wilbaux worked with the couple to create a truly convivial atmosphere accented by hints of home. "We wanted it to feel like a guesthouse, not a hotel," Mottet explains, "So for starters, we chose not to have a lobby." Mottet, a graphic designer, also favored an eclectic and casual approach to decoration, combining totem-pole bedposts with tapestries from Burkina Faso and rough-hewn iron sideboards made by French-trained Moroccan Daniel Oiknine. In one particularly poetic nod to the owners' previous life, the shutters, doors, and arched gallery on the second level are all painted a calming, dusty teal called Belgian Blue. Down in the courtyard, an arched nook is the designated spot for a regular cocktail hour. Each night, as the proprietors pour drinks and dole out recommendations for local restaurants and shops, guests snack on honey-sesame peanuts and swap stories. And if you should get lost en route to the exceptionally hard-to-find riad (it's tucked into a dead-end alley east of the medina's center), the couple will happily send a porter to fetch you right to the door. 25 Derb El Ferrane, Azbest, tchaikana.com, from $118, breakfast included
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"I've always been amused by the mythology of 1960s Marrakech—Burroughs, Hendrix, the fashion set mixed with rock and roll," says Norwegian architect Knut Hovland, who opened his four-room P'tit Habibi (the name means "little darling") in 2005. It shows. The whole place resembles a movie set from a bygone era, from the mirrored table in the salon to the cascading, Verner Panton–inspired brass-ring chandelier in the library. Even the dining chairs are upholstered in a mod, orange-and-yellow floral print. The four individually designed guest rooms are similarly varied: A bed with a zellij headboard might be framed by an arched niche or presided over by the mounted antlers of a Swedish moose; a Space Invaders–themed bathroom mirror is as proudly displayed as an elaborately hand-painted dresser. Yet as far out as P'tit Habibi gets, it manages to stay true to its roots; imagine an entire wall of plaster bas-relief and a traditional oval pattern on the floor that echoes throughout the riad's wooden railings and fireplace tiles. Hovland's renovation also expanded upon the courtyard-centered architecture: The floor-to-ceiling sliding-glass doors that he installed create one fluid space between the ground-level common areas and the travertine-paved patio, which doubles as an alfresco movie theater. Guests can choose a DVD from the riad's collection, pull up a beanbag, and watch the film projected on one of the building's solid-white walls. Up on the breezy roof, there's a tiered terrace with a pool, a canopied daybed, and a handful of tables for taking in one of Marrakech's other cinematic moments: the vivid sunset over the northernmost section of the old city. 59 bis Sidi Ghanem, Zaouia Bab Lakhmis, ptithabibi.com, from $118, breakfast included
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Riad Porte Royale
When Philip Brebner was renovating Riad Porte Royale five years ago, many new riad owners were fixated on what he calls "their oriental dream"—all sumptuous furnishings, patterned rugs, and a solicitous staff tending to guests' every whim. To Brebner, who studied Islamic architecture in Algeria and then taught the subject at Portugal's University of Porto, that over-the-top aesthetic sounded more like a nightmare. "I wanted to take everything right back to basics, the way riads used to be, completely white, very simple, with just a few exquisite artifacts," says Brebner, who comes to Marrakech nearly once a month and brings his family here twice a year. It's fitting, then, that he chose the porte royale, an architectural element that symbolizes the angels' gateway to heaven in Islam, to serve as both his riad's namesake and the centerpiece of its otherwise sparsely decorated courtyard. He spent weeks rooting around the medina to find the 12-foot cedar piece, a museum-quality specimen carved and painted with the eightfold division of a circle, a common motif in Islamic design. Having located his conceptual cornerstone, Brebner turned his attention to the rest of the renovation: He installed a colonnade along the door, connecting the roof terrace on all four sides, and added a zellij-tiled plunge pool. And while the five guest rooms kept their original narrow dimensions, which were dictated by the size of the palm trunks used for the ceiling beams, Brebner upgraded the spaces with en-suite baths and dark-wood West African and Berber furnishings. 84 Derb El Maada, Diour Jdad, Zaouia, riadporteroyale.com, from $98, breakfast included
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Roger Goodell doesn't have much of a choice. It's Hammer Time.
Days after the NFL so stridently declared that it would not tolerate further abuse of the in-over-their-heads replacement refs by coaches and players, a national audience witnessed irate Bill Belichick chasing an official off the field at M&T Bank Stadium following the New England Patriots' last-second loss Sunday night to the Baltimore Ravens.
There's no gray area.
Belichick grabbed the official. On TV. Even though Belichick insisted Monday he only wanted to have the winning field goal reviewed (replays showed it was good), touching an official is a no-no. Coming on the heels of a behave-or-else edict by the NFL, he must be punished severely.
Never mind that the inconsistent officiating falls short of the NFL standard and is causing league-wide exasperation. That's not an excuse. The NFL created this mess, now it must police it.
And if Goodell doesn't punish Belichick with a stiff fine -- and a suspension should not be out of the question -- the credibility of the commissioner's office, already weakened by the assorted twists of the bounty scandal, will sink to a new low.
Senior NFL executives contacted all 32 teams last week to issue the warning that the replacements be treated with respect, given rough Week 2 treatment that included Denver Broncos coach John Fox and defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio berating a crew during a Monday night flare-up at Atlanta.
For their antics, Fox was fined $30,000 and Del Rio was clipped $25,000.
On Friday, Ray Anderson, the NFL's executive vice president for football operations, told USA TODAY Sports that the league would come down hard on those crossing the line with the officials. As Anderson put it, "There's a mob mentality that can take control if you let things get out of control."
The league's message: Coaches and management would be held to a higher level of accountability than the players. So what happened in Week 3?
Washington Redskins offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty near the end of the loss to the Cincinnati Bengals at Fed Ex Field for his heated protest of a misapplied rule. After the game, it got worse. A witness said Shanahan profanely screamed criticism at an official as he chased him through the tunnel.
The NFL said Monday the Belichick and Shanahan cases, along with Ravens coach John Harbaugh's apparent inadvertent bump of an official, are under review. Good.
But these reviews should be swift, given the evidence on Belichick -- who was fined, but not suspended after the Spygate allegations surfaced in 2007 -- and an admission Monday from Shanahan that he acted inappropriately. Shanahan addressed the penalty, however, not the alleged tirade.
"My emotions got the best of me," Shanahan said in a statement. "This will never happen again."
Like Belichick's explanation, it's not an apology. It's an admission of guilt. And usually, after that, comes the sentencing.
Criminals sometimes try to explain heinous acts as cases where they lost control of their emotions. No way that gets Shanahan off from stiff discipline.
Goodell has hardly been shy in sending strong messages during his reign. While players have grumbled about Goodell's power, the league dug in during negotiations for the collective bargaining agreement with players when the matter was broached -- although the NFLPA has since attacked through legal channels.
When players union chief DeMaurice Smith was asked in May by USA TODAY Sports why the NFLPA didn't fight to take away some of Goodell's power during CBA talks, he responded, "What makes you think we didn't fight?"
Interpretation: It was a deal-killer. Smith said there was more important issues (economic) that had to be settled to strike a 10-year labor pact.
Coaches, though, have no unionized method of fighting discipline. Ask suspended Saints coaches Sean Payton or Joe Vitt. They essentially had no options beyond appealing their discipline before Goodell. And indefinitely suspended Gregg Williams didn't even appeal the punishment he received for his role in Bountygate.
So there's no long, winding process to stop Goodell from acting now on Belichick, Shanahan or any other coaches whose conduct crossed the line in Week 3.
The outbursts might also prompt Goodell to do something else: Beef up the security details to better protect the replacement refs.
Jarrett Bell is the NFL columnist for USA TODAY Sports.


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A New Jersey library that covered up a drawing of a black female slave having sex with a white man after workers found it inappropriate is displaying it again.
The drawing was created by black artist Kara Walker. It shows the horrors many blacks faced after the Civil War and during reconstruction and includes a depiction of a slave performing oral sex.
It initially was hung during Thanksgiving in the Newark Public Library's second-floor reference room. But officials reluctantly covered it with a cloth after one day because some workers complained it was insensitive.
The Star-Ledger newspaper (http://bit.ly/Yho437) reported Sunday library officials and staffers have since met to discuss the drawing and decided it could be uncovered.
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Craig resident Alvin Carl Ridings died March 21, 2002, at The Memorial Hospital in Craig. He was 84.
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Music Review: Rob Stone – Back Around Here
Stone's sophomore outing is an accomplished and mature effort that sounds like a classic Read More »
Music Review: Chris James and Patrick Rynn – Gonna Boogie Anyway
James and Rynn return with a hard-hitting collection of unpretentious, unassuming blues – the real stuff! Read More »