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New telescope may be able to detect extraterrestrial life
Astronomers from Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) think it may be possible to detect signs of extraterrestrial life within the next 25 years. Without the need for a space mission. Their article about this will be published in The Astrophysical Journal.
New method
Astronomers have speculated for decades about how observations of exoplanets could provide proof of extraterrestrial life. They can already observe certain gases that are exhaled by organisms in the atmospheres of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars other than our sun. This idea, which has been around since the 1960s, has now been linked to a new observation method that uses relatively cheap flux collectors, large reflecting telescopes.
Research into the presence of oxygen
About 20% of the Earth's atmosphere consists of oxygen. The gas is present because plants produce enormous quantities of it during photosynthesis. Without this biological activity, oxidation would soon cause all oxygen to disappear from our atmosphere. If oxygen were detected in the atmosphere of an Earth-like exoplanet, this could therefore be a first indication of extraterrestrial life.
Space mission
Until now it was thought that such observations would have to be performed using space telescopes. The oxygen in the atmosphere of the Earth would cause too much interference for the observations to be made from the ground. However, the plans of European and American scientists for a big dedicated space mission, such as Darwin or the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), have been put on ice for a number of years, making it unlikely that such a telescope will be launched in the coming 25 years.
Observations from the ground
A group of astronomers from Leiden University and the SRON have now demonstrated that the same can be achieved with observations from the ground using a special method. 'The way to distinguish oxygen in an exoplanet atmosphere from oxygen in our own atmosphere is to measure very precisely the wavelengths of the absorption lines,' says Ignas Snellen from Leiden University. 'The high speed of such a planet with regard to the Earth will mean that the oxygen lines are Doppler shifted, and therefore do not coincide with those of our own atmosphere. Consequently the telescope does not need to be outside our atmosphere, which delivers huge cost savings.'
European Extremely Large Telescope
The team has shown how oxygen in the atmosphere of a hypothetical Earth twin, seen against the light of a red dwarf, which is cooler and smaller than our Sun, could possibly already be seen with the planned Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). 'But we would need a bit of luck,' says fellow researcher Remco de Kok (SRON). 'The telescope will only be able to do this if extraterrestrial life is very common and can consequently be found relatively close by. Even the E-ELT may not be big enough.'
Collecting light with telescope mirrors
The team therefore suggests developing what are known as flux collectors. For spectroscopic measurements of bright stars and their planets it is not necessary to build a telescope such as the E-ELT that can take very sharp images. What is important is to collect as much light as possible, which can be done with big telescope mirrors of a much lower quality, which can be built at a fraction of the cost. 'With a number of flux collectors, covering an area the size of a few football fields, we would be able to conduct a statistical study of extraterrestrial life on the planets by our solar neighbourhood. There is still a long way to go, but this should be possible within 25 years,' says Snellen.
See also
Fundamentals of Science is one of the six themes for research at Leiden University.
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Even if you're not having bug problems with wet food, you could be having another issue—wet food can dry out fast in the heat. To counteract this, add water. It has the added benefit of providing extra hydration for the cats.
This is a time of year to take the cats' water needs seriously. Consider putting out extra sources of water during the summer months, and placing them in areas that will remain cool throughout the day. Water evaporates quickly in the summer heat, so keep bowls out of the sun. A feeding station (see above) can help provide shade. A bowl with less surface area will reduce the evaporation rate as well, so use a bowl that is narrow, but deep.
Trapping Conditions
If you are performing Trap-Neuter-Return during the summer months, make sure to take into account the extreme heat and how it affects the cats' safety. It is possible for a cat to die from heat stroke when confined in a trap for too long. A simple guideline: if it is too hot outside for you, it is too hot for the cats. Make sure the cats don't remain in their traps for long by making your neuter appointments for directly after your trapping.
Also, don't place traps on surfaces that can get extremely warm from the sun, such as asphalt. The metal trap can absorb the asphalt's heat and burn the cats' paws.
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Katy Perry ties Michael Jackson's historic record
Katy Perry received the unprecedented feat through 'Last Friday Night' (T.G.I.F.). She took to her Twitter page to share her excitement. She tweeted, "What a way to wake up! SO proud to announce that the little-engine-that-could of a song 'Last Friday Night' is officially #1 & made HISTORY!"
The 'Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)' hitmaker owed her success to her fans and thanked them for their support. "I couldn't have done it with out ya, really I owe u guys BIG... so take this moment to give yourself a high FIVE!!! #allbecauseofu."
However, comedian Russell Brand's wife is a winner among her equals. Her friends Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga have four No. 1 singles in 2006's 'FutureSex/LoveSounds' and 2009's 'The Fame' respectively. Now Katy has come one step ahead of those popular stars.


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Last Saturday night in Los Angeles, Samuel Bayer revealed his impressive black and white nude photographs at the Ace Gallery in Beverly Hills.
And when I say the works were impressive, I'm not kidding.
Each piece on show explored issues of gender, agency and sexuality through towering six to twelve inch diptychs and triptychs which showed its subjects with full frontal nudity and not one ounce of shame. In fact, it was rather refreshing to view nude shots that didn't attempt to bastardize human bareness through arty compositions or unnecessary guises.
According to Bayer, the idea was to explore, "the kinship between empowerment and fetishistic voyeurism..." through the photo series. Whether or not he achieved this is difficult to say, however; the segmented images of each woman suggested a compartmentalism of femininity that, in some ways, could very well counter the idea of empowerment.
But perhaps that was the intent...
PS. Don't you just love the cheeky smiles and strong lip colours on Oroma Elewa, right, and model Jodie Smith in that second shot?
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Wreckless Abandonment
All of us come to a point in life where we have to either completely change, or continue to ride the fence. Those of us who instinctively feel that there is infinitely more to creation, to ourselves, to life, etc. have the hardest struggle of all, I believe, in making this choice. Our souls tell us that we should concentrate on our deepest desires. Be they to backpack around the world and visit ancient monuments, spend a few months or years with the indigenous peoples of whereever, or simply save up a lot of money, buy an island and concentrate of developing the unification of mind, body and spirit. One, if not all of these ideas, and more crosses our minds more times than we can count throughout the day. Personally, I'm borderline at that point. Enough with speaking about the way things are and the way we, as people should behave. Simply be all that you study. Live the example that you admire so deeply and forget everything else. Take only the things that matter seriously. Everything and everyone else is just smoke and mirrors. It seems that every time I turn on the television I'm disgusted. Simply because there's nothing to watch. Nothing inspiring, educational or even remotely entertaining. "The Event" is the best thing on since, "Heroes" for me. Bottom line, wreckless abandonment, with just balance, of course, is seeming to be the best option for me as of now. Has anyone tried this yet? Those of you who have considered it, I'd like to hear your thoughts/advice as well. Peace |
many of us are becoming extremely intolerant of the things that's going down - if you're not happy with the way things are in your life, you have to stop doing the things that you're doing routinely and abandon whatever you feel you have to have - i've left my home a few times and been homeless and what not - left possessions and shit - freedom is no joke
If you're reckless, you're reckless. If you abandon something that was holding you back or down, you abandon it. It's precisely the risk that you might lose your sense of balance that's makes the leap so hard to do. I hear what you're saying. I think it's definitely better not to get wrapped up with disgust or over-concern with other people or the 'world' as it is going. People are who they are. You don't get angry at a rock for being hard. Contempt is an underused disposition. If you have better things to do or think about, them do them. If TV,life or your relations etc. are boring, think about what it is lacking and go towards or create that which does not have that lack. |
Peace Journalz please read the monoloque of Ashtavakra and Janaka it worked refreshing to me it might do to you 2 g
Urban, what is the ultimate goal that you hope to accomplish?
Honestly, my aim is to first get rid of all distractions in my life. Rather, the effect that thest distractions have over me and see what it's like to truly be focused on whatever I choose, whenever I choose and for how long I choose. No mental inhibitions whatsoever. Really, to get a broader perspective of creation itself. I see and feel the calm and serenity in nature all around me and I want to know what it's like to also be so focused and serene. The way you see a statue of a Buddha in meditation for example or the way you see a tree calmly embracing the wind. There's a book I'm reading called, "The Master Mind: The Key To Mental Power, Development and Efficiancy" and it's really opened a lot of doors of understanding for me as far as the way we let outside influenced intrude on our better judgment. Most of the time, we react out of feeling, prejudice or what could be called, "peer pressure" from years and years of conditioning. Because of this, many of our reactions are based solely on everything other than ourselves. Wether we want to admit this or not, it's true. My goal for now then, is to find that, "Something" that mine and no one else's and let that control my every move, thought and action. Clarity, in a word, would be my main goal for now. |
all that matters for me right now is enduring an undoing process and confrontin my inner demons and gettin closer to becomin me. ive smoked green at and seen how i allowed certain events in my life to shape and mould without noticing n i feel like others wanna do this to me too. I see the dangers of clinging to things..ideas, people..anything but i know its down to being scared which isnt a normal state..it makes one a slave aswell as stagnant. placing ur life in the hands of people who do not know u personally or have any reason to care is beyond bizzare and i want out
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peace. yh thats very true, and the backlash from backtracking and letting things get to me always happens.. yeah g i'd appreciate some recommendations. I think it would make most sense for me to address things from an energetic point of view as opposed to what ive attempted. thats probably the most effective in transformation and being less subject to things |
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Tata's Nano, the World's Cheapest Car, Is Sputtering
The old adage says a person can't be too rich or too thin. Given Tata Motors' disappointing experience with the Nano, the $2,000 compact it introduced with great fanfare in 2008, it's clear a car can be too cheap—at least for consumers who don't want to be associated with a low-end ride. Ratan Tata, then chairman of parent Tata Group, made headlines a decade ago when he ordered up a "people's car" that would appeal to Indian families who previously could only afford to travel by scooter. But Tata Motors has sold just 229,157 Nanos since deliveries began in 2009, and sales in March were off by 86 percent from a year earlier.
Tata Managing Director Karl Slym insists the company won't kill the tiny, egg-shaped car. It will soon add improvements to breathe new life into the model, a move that would ultimately bring its price closer to those of rivals. The Nano's marketing "didn't jell with anybody," Slym says. Scooter drivers weren't attracted because others "don't think I'm buying a car, they think I'm buying something between a two-wheeler and a car. Anyone who had a car didn't want to buy it, because it was supposed to be a two-wheeler replacement."
Slym points to the Pixel, a Nano-based concept vehicle Tata first showed in 2011, as an example of how the brand could evolve. The two-door hatchback takes the skeleton of the Nano and adds innovative doors that rotate up rather than open out, automatic transmission, and a diesel engine. Yet Haritha Saranga, an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, says in an e-mail that "just creating variations is not going to help increase sales. It is important to change the current image of Nano as a cheap car."
With Nano sales in free fall, Tata's passenger vehicle sales dropped 15 percent in the year ended March 31, even as industrywide sales rose 2.2 percent, according to the Society for Indian Automobile Manufacturers. For the year through March, Nano sales were off by 28 percent, to 53,848 cars.
When Ratan Tata conceived the people's car in 2003, after seeing an entire family precariously riding a scooter, he established a target price of 100,000 rupees, a bit more than $2,000 at the time. The price has crept up to about 142,000 rupees ($2,600) for a stripped-down model and as much as 200,000 rupees for a version with air conditioning and power windows. These days, Nano buyers are more likely to be wealthy Indians rather than families upgrading from a two-wheeler. "People are buying the Nano for their mothers, fathers, children, second cars," says Slym, a General Motors veteran who took charge at Tata in October. "That's actually a good thing, because it allows us to do a lot more with the car than just make it at a low price."
Tata will have to change the exterior and interior of the Nano and add features such as power steering to compete with cars from Maruti and Hyundai Motor, says Umesh Karne, an analyst at Brics Securities in Mumbai. That would require raising the sticker to about 250,000 rupees, says Karne, about the level of rival hatchbacks. Instead of selling solely on price, he says, the Nano must be "more aspirational." Yet the automaker is still playing to financial concerns: In a bid to woo consumers unwilling to take out bank loans, Tata in March started accepting credit cards for Nano payments.


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Jarzabkowski, Paula and Balogun, J and Seidl, David (2007) Strategizing:the challenges of practice perspective. Human Relations, 60 (1). pp. 5-27. ISSN 1741-282X
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While the strategy-as-practice research agenda has gained considerable momentum over the past five years, many challenges still remain in developing it into a robust field of research. In this editorial, we define the study of strategy from a practice perspective and propose five main questions that the strategy-as-practice agenda seeks to address. We argue that a coherent approach to answering these questions may be facilitated using an overarching conceptual framework of praxis, practices and practitioners. This framework is used to explain the key challenges underlying the strategy-as-practice agenda and how they may be examined empirically. In discussing these challenges, we refer to the contributions made by existing empirical research and highlight under-explored areas that will provide fruitful avenues for future research. The editorial concludes by introducing the articles in the special issue.
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Journal or Publication Title: | Human Relations |
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Departments: | Lancaster University Management School > Lancaster University Management School - Other > Centre for Strategic Management |
ID Code: | 45152 |
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Deposited On: | 11 Jul 2011 19:27 |
Refereed?: | Yes |
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text: Toyota Avalon Singers Are The New Chevy Volt DancersRay Wert2/12/10 11:00am1001EditPromoteGo to permalinkRemember the horriful Chevy Volt song and dance? Now Toyota's got their own goofy, gross n' gooey auto show number. Meet the Toyota Avalon singers from the Chicago Auto Show. God, even Toyota's auto show song-and-dance numbers are bland.


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An open source machine learning library on RDBMS for Big Data age
MADlib is an open-source library for scalable in-database analytics. It provides data-parallel implementations of mathematical, statistical and machine learning methods for structured and unstructured data.
The MADlib mission is to foster widespread development of scalable analytic skills, by harnessing efforts from commercial practice, academic research, and open-source development. The library consists of various analytics methods including linear regression, logistic regression, k-means clustering, decision tree, support vector machine and more. That's not all; there is also super-efficient user-defined data type for sparse vector with a number of arithmetic methods. It can be loaded and run in PostgreSQL 8.4 to 9.1 as well as Greenplum 4.0 to 4.2. This talk covers its concept overall with some introductions to the problems we are tackling and the solutions for them. It will also contain some topics around parallel data processing which is very hot in both of research and commercial area these days.


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They sure do. Very well observed.
I make a point of remembering it when coding for institutional content where text is usually long. When text is somewhat short and more informative than anything else, I skip it.
They sure do. Very well observed.
I make a point of remembering it when coding for institutional content where text is usually long. When text is somewhat short and more informative than anything else, I skip it.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
I really don't see the use of WYSIWYG editors. Their only use is that people who can't afford to spend 10 minutes on learning the basics of HTML could make websites. Totally absurd.
And actually it would take me much longer to make a website with a WYSIWYG editor than doing it manually. Once you've got used to the standards, HTML/XHTML is just so DAMN easy to write.
"The Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore
They are made so that you don't have to spend eternity debugging and figuring out solutions to code.
I found that mixing together a site with just code is just purely annoying; using an editor made it so much easier. I would not consider doing it by hand again, if I write another site and I can help it.
Even with much knowledge at your command, using a GUI is just so much faster.
Wow Maxorator, I never imagined you as the web development type
At the end of the day you still have to either remember, or refer to the CSS properties of the elements you are creating. Be able to build a mental image of what to expect (idealy in each browser). Then test what you wrote. Then if it looks wrong go back and modify it until it looks right. Setting properties through a GUI and viewing instant results is a hell of a lot faster, unless of course you know exactly what you are doing.
I'm completely self-taught.
I know C pretty decently, C++ as well as I'd like to know it right now, assembler, Perl and some other random scripting languages.
I've been doing C for.. 4 years or so. Anyway, I'm self-taught simply due to the fact that I'm not even old enough to actually have any programming or computer science related classes. However, I'll be programming in Java next year at school.
It is my opinion that you can teach yourself pretty much anything using the internet. Following only one source of information is not what I have in mind, but the thousands of sites that have the same, but just a tad different, information about the same thing. When you know the basics of a programming language, the rest is just bettering yourself at 'programmatic thinking', so to speak - how to do this, an algorithm for that, etc, anyway, so when you got the basics, you're just relying on yourself.
I've also experienced that a lot of people learning programming at universities are often taught really, really outdated stuff. "Those who can, do - those who can't, teach." I don't blame them, anyway. Reaching your forties, settling in and establishing a family will probably mean that running around to tech conventions and doing mindless research on the internet about new standards and this and that gets tiring.
Some of the best programmers I know are purely self-taught and possibly went to school to get some kind of a degree to get them jobs. Coincidentally, the worst ones are those who just started programming when they got a course in school - I know one exception though. The lead programmer of the game "Kane and Lynch" started programming in his twenties.
To sum my rant up: I think that self-taught people can be just as good, even better, than those who got an academic degree in programming.
Along with what mike said, I don't think it's fair that you base your time estimates on your personal experience. The argument that I heard for WYSIWYG editors is that at most the same amount of time (and often a lot less) can be spent tidying your webpage to standards as it would have to write by hand. Not to mention that people with time on their hands, such as ourselves, who also like to optimize their utility and build stuff, will build tools to automate. I can't imagine initially writing something while I'm structuring it in HTML or making it look pretty.
Provided you learn the standards, you will be able to apply them. I'm just trying to add some contrast to the mix. I honestly don't find it that difficult to bend tools to my will. I imagine others do this also.
But (and to drag this on topic a bit) I learned HTML myself as well. It became a habit to study the source of the pages I visited, and eventually caught on to helper places like Webmonkey and whatnot.
Last edited by whiteflags; 03-13-2008 at 06:50 PM.
I have been programming for years and still don't know how to program
That's why I love you esbo.
I copied it from the last program in which I passed a parameter, which would have been pre-1989 I guess. - esbo
That is indeed the general argument I also hear in favor of WYSIWYGs editors. Curiously though, I hear that argument only from those in favor of these tools. What I never saw was a study that revealed that much (or the contrary for that matter).
So, it is really hard not to base any comment on personal experience since it becomes as valid as the next thing.
I do believe though that argument is as flawed as they come. I've had the opportunity to work with teams on both sides of the fence. And I always saw W editors bringing more pain to their users, then the traditional GUI editors.
A traditional developer codes for the standards from the moment he types <html>. Everything he does from there, he does in control of his own code. A W editor developer, on the other hand has to tweak whatever is thrown at him by the code generator.
On complex webpages this can become a daunting task. Not to mention the fact that certain types of changes to the code will render the WYSIWYG parser useless.
And this is really only HTML. The CSS generated by these editors is almost always nightmarish in that it is bloated, most of the times ripe with redundancy, and often non browser aware.
So, we turn the tables and I say that often the time spent tidying a webpage to standards is a lot more than if you had just done the thing by hand, instead of believing a code generator could ever make better decisions than you.
Quiet frankly, and to open the game here, WYSIWYG are perfect tools for making complex websites very fast, but that are non standards compliant and browser dependent.
I agree them to be fast tools for just that; crap code. And you really better get a comfortable chair and a week supplies if you want to try and convince me otherwise.
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Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
A fine rebuttal Mario. I can't say I want to convince anyone that writing code by hand isn't the way to go. Every professional I know still prefers a text editor and some elbow grease. I mean there is a reason that about dot com throws a whole team of web developers at their site, and those people have to tweak and work with pages everyday. I doubt WYSIWYG editors are helping them.
I really have to wonder though, the type of website that you'd be building with a WYSIWYG that is so complex. In my experience, programs like FrontPage and web alternatives don't really "break the internet," but then, there's a spark of minimalism in me. I'm not taking on huge projects that appeal to the masses at large. I generally don't use the gear before I have the idea either, which may be the key to my success.
I rationalize like this: WYSIWYG is a nice alternative for the hopelessly busy person who wants to write web content. I routinely notice that actual content makers, especially on larger sites which would have facilities for them, have only remedial html in their toolbox and don't necessarily want to learn web development to hang out their own shingle on the roof of the Web. Or those who decide to throw a site together for interviewing purposes; a place to dump their resumes may only be temporary or simply not worth the effort beyond what can be stripped down and still be crisply professional. This is a niche's approach to development, which is the way it should be. For now.
I don't think we do ourselves a service if web designers aren't eventually like graphic artists, with the same powerful tools. There will always be a need to learn fundamentals, of course. I certainly never made excuses for myself. (Do any graphical artists not learn to do material drawing?) But we'll figure out how to make it less tedious.
People are welcome to disagree because of how things are now, if you'll excuse my arrogance. Looking toward a possible future.
Last edited by whiteflags; 03-13-2008 at 10:59 PM. Reason: diction changes,
Yeah, I've done a bunch of commercial sites (I am also a PHP programmer on the most popular web-based game in Estonia), lots of sites for testing stuff and lots of sites for friends. I learned HTML when I was 11, so I've been doing it for very long. XHTML 1.1 Strict pwns.
I use Firebug for testing CSS properties quickly. It is VERY fast and I can also write the code myself. I don't trust ANY code generated by a program. Actually seeing the code gives a much better mental image. Me and my brother (web designer) are quite specialists already in cross-browser code, so I do think I know what I'm doing.
Anyway, is it really so hard to press ALT+TAB twice and then F5?
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"The Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore
Well I have it, but I haven't tested if it supports XHTML totally. Anyway, it can't handle CSS2 nor CSS3 (can't blame them about this tho since Opera 9.5beta is the only one which does support CSS3 atm). And it is very buggy (even Hotmail doesn't work correctly on it) and crashes alot.
"The Internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it." - John Gilmore
Actually I am totally satisfied with Windows XP, which is the only piece of Microsoft software I use.
But yeah, IE has been awful since the day it was first released. Btw, Microsoft lately made an update to Windows Live Messenger - they gave it the Vista theme... wow, wonderful update. But that doesn't really matter since I use Pidgin.
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Dinosaurs Fell Victim to "Perfect Storm" of Events, Study Infers
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Dinosaurs might have survived the asteroid strike that wiped them out if it had taken place slightly earlier or later in time, according to new research conducted in part by the American Museum of Natural History.
Which Came First: The Bird or the Bird Brain?
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New research led by the American Museum of Natural History provides evidence that dinosaurs evolved the brainpower necessary for flight well before they actually took to the air as birds.
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In a video, Research Associate Lowell Dingus and Mark A. Norell, chair of the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, explain what we know about what the skin of extinct dinosaurs might have looked like.
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Defender Gold Club High School All-Star Games Held Saturday
Date posted - March 17, 2013
Dordt College hosted the annual American State Bank-Defender Gold Club High School All-Star Games on Saturday, March 16 at the De Witt Gym.
High school seniors from the Lakes, Siouxland and War Eagle Conference took part in the annual event which started in 1996.
In girls action, the Black team defeated the Gold team 73-61. In the boys, it was Black 72, Gold 70.
The three-point contest winner for the girls was Emily Pick (Le Mars). She prevailed over Jillian Estes (Sioux Center) in a sudden death third round. Pick made seven shots in the first round and six in the second round before winning in sudden death.
The boys three-point contest was won by Cam Kuchel (Remsen-Union) who had to go to a second round to defeat Michael Whitehead (Gehlen). Kuchel and Whitehead made 11 each in the :45 first round and Kuchel made 10 in a :30 second round to Whitehead's five.
The girls mvp awards were won by Brooke Wolterstorff (Western) and Lexie Ackerman (Central Lyon). The boys mvp awards were taken by Jake Jackson (Emmetsburg) and Justin Van Kalsbeek (MOC Floyd Valley).
Most valuable player awards were given to a player off each team.
Players who competed included:
Lexi Ackerman-Central Lyon
Kori Schulte-Central Lyon
Emily Pick-Le Mars
Taylor Carstensen-George Little Rock
Taylor Sweeney-Hartley Melvin Sanborn
Rylee Yaw-MOC Floyd Valley
Jillian Estes-Sioux Center
Alissa Christoffer-Spirit Lake
Emily Holtgrewe-Gehlen
Jill Schouten-Unity
Jade Lynn Vlotho-West Sioux
Carissa Anderson-West Sioux
Brooke Wolterstorff-Western
Kim Kroeze-Western
Shae De Jager-Western
Elissa Jansma-Western
Kenzie Vande Vegte-Western
Sam Wielenga-MOC Floyd Valley
Nicole Ewoldt-Boyden Hull
JC Koerselman-Boyden Hull
Colin Bolkema-Boyden Hull
Jake Jackson-Emmetsburg
Matt Burrell-Estherville Lincoln Central
Michael Whitehead-Gehlen
Jason Vander Kooi-Hinton
Cade Harvey-Hartley Melvin Sanborn
Kyle Dolph-Le Mars
Justin Van Kalsbeek-MOC Floyd Valley
Trey Achterhoff-MOC Floyd Valley
Cam Kuchel-Remsen Union
James Gradert-Sheldon
Michael Grady-Spalding
Matthew Klemme-Spencer
Eric Wilkie-Cherokee
Trevor Kauk-Unity
Michael Den Herder-Western
Brad Gritters-Trinity
Sam Weber-South O'Brien
Jay Grant-Storm Lake
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Movie SummarySinging Behind Screens (Cantando dietro i paraventi)
Description: Directed by veteran helmer Ermanno Olmi, this Chinese folktale revolves around a young man (Davide Dragonetti) who mistakenly enters a brothel while trying to find his way through urban China circa the 1930s. Narrated by Bud Spencer, the young man succumbs to temptation, and the dialogue-free scene is performed through dance. Meanwhile, pirate junks begin firing at one another from a shoreside village. The leader, Admiral Ching (Makoto Kobayashi), is backed by a powerful group of profiteers, thus prompting the emperor to offer him a high ranking position if he stops firing. Unwilling to lose their income, Ching's backers murder the pirate, which sets off a strange sequence of events that will resound throughout the community for years to come.~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide Movie summaries and listings powered by Cinema-Source
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Discovering Our Son Had Downs
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We didn't know Micah had Downs before birth. When our fourth child was handed to us we were very proud parents indeed. We did the usual "he looks like" game and I was adamant that he had Luke's mouth. I just couldn't place the eyes. They looked like nobody's in the family. How nice that he's his own little person and not a mini-me of someone.
The next morning the pediatrician came in for his morning rounds. Oh so casually he said they were testing our son for Down syndrome. With his strong accent surely he didn't say what he just said. I questioned, he repeated.
And then the world stopped.
Karen is a mother of four, parenting teens, tweens, and Micah, who was blessed with Down syndrome. Her life is crazy busy, and she wouldn't change a bit of it even if she could. Her blog post about going back to work was previously featured on PlayGround.


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So we sat on a log out in front of Uncle Jim Brothers's hotel, and waited for the worst to happen.
They pulled the log out of the sand, carried it to the muddy spot, and threw it into the mud where they wanted it.
Youll bring every log out o that backwater or Ill know why, he thundered.
Spenski swung the end of the log out to the grass for them to make good their retiring.
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The Shortlist for May 21
Ever since last February, high school senior Cady Eimer has been campaigning for a special prom date: Justin Bieber. "It's a simple question, and a huge dream of Cady's," the Virginia teen declares on her website, OneLessLonelyProm.com. "Is there any reason to say no?" The Biebs caught wind of Cady's website and Twitter pleas and made her dream come true -- kind of. "I know you wanted me to come to your prom Cady, but I'm actually gonna be at the Billboard Awards," he said in a surprise video that ended u being played for Cady at her prom on Saturday. "I'm gonna have a car waiting for you so you can come to the Billboard Awards tomorrow with me. That's exciting, right?" He added, "I love you … I can't wait for you and sister to be my guests at the Billboard Awards." Cady's stunned reaction, which was also caught on video, was nothing short of adorable. "Thank you so much for an amazing night!," she tweeted after her dream date with Justin at Sunday's award show. "I had the time of my life." (GossipCop)


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BMW is making a limited edition version of the HP2 Megamoto that was raced at last year's Pikes Peak hill climb event. Unfortunatly, the Pikes Peak edition HP2 Megamoto will only be available in the Japanese market, and while a considered a "replica" of the Megamoto which BMW Motorrad / BMW USA Sierra raced at the Pikes Peak, it will mimic the race bike in form only. Read: the replica will will feature a race-replica paintjob and stickers, but will remain stock mechanically. Cue hisses and booos.
BMW HP2 Enduro Recall
Recalls appear to be the order of the weekend. This does give us the opportunity to examine the ways in which different bike manufacturers take it upon themselves to make this sport just that much more interesting for us. Ducati, always being the fashion-minded, chose death by fire, which of course would match perfectly the red and white livery they adorn their bikes in. Buell, thought it fit to decapitate its riders, which is also fitting since must have lost your mind to ever purchase the baby Harley in the first place. Not to be shown up, BMW in a very German fashion is going with just instant death in no particular fashion. This does bring up interesting thoughts of graphic video footage of wheels coming undone and bodies flying over hay bails, but that's just my imagination. Check after the jump for full details on this expedited suicide.


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Greg Yielding was given a quixotic task: travel to China and determine if consumers there would be willing to eat American rice.
So he set up tables at some of the most popular supermarkets in southern China, hung American flags and began dishing out steamy samples of rice from Arkansas and California.
"At first they'd say, 'There's rice in the U.S.?" said Mr. Yielding, head of emerging markets for the U.S. Rice Producers Association, a Houston-based trade group. "And we'd have to show them a map to explain that it's grown in California and the South. Then they'd try it, and they would really like it."
Chinese importers, distributors and grocery chains lined up. Selling U.S. rice to China seemed like a slam-dunk. But eight years after Mr. Yielding's first venture on behalf of the U.S. industry, not a single shipment of American rice has officially made it into Chinese hands.
That won't happen until the two countries agree on a so-called phytosanitary protocol, which determines the necessary steps U.S. rice exporters must take to mitigate pests such as insects. The disagreement highlights the growing pressure on U.S. agricultural producers to either accommodate China or risk being shut out of the world's largest emerging consumer market.
That might not have mattered a decade ago when U.S. farmers could rely on domestic buyers or traditional foreign markets such as Mexico and Canada. Today, China's swelling appetite for food is touching agribusiness everywhere and forcing companies to choose whether to adapt.
Those that comply are seeing dividends. American agricultural exports to China rose to a record $25.8 billion last year from $5 billion a decade earlier.
Until a few years ago, no one would have considered exporting much rice to China, the world's largest producer and consumer of the grain.
Tim Johnson, president and chief executive of the California Rice Commission, called it "the ultimate example of selling ice to the Eskimos."
But starting in 2012, China went on a spree, scooping up millions of tons of the grain from countries such as Vietnam, Pakistan and India. China is now on pace to import a record 3.4 million tons of rice this year — six times more than it did in 2011, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Chinese regulators want the U.S. rice industry to expand the use of insect traps down the supply chain and keep records of their findings. The USA Rice Federation, a trade association in Washington, D.C., that represents millers, merchants and 90 percent of the country's rice growers, called the Chinese demands "unrealistic and onerous."
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service declined to provide details about the negotiations. A spokeswoman said the agency was currently reviewing the latest Chinese response, received Aug. 1.
Other food exporters have overcome challenges gaining access to the China market. Before Chinese buyers purchased Smithfield Foods last year, the Virginia pork giant began ramping up production of meat free of ractopamine, a feed additive used to promote lean muscle that's banned in China.
Dairy farmers in Nevada also built a first-of-its-kind milk powder plant to meet China's preference for whole milk powder rather than the skim milk powder standard in the U.S.
Other industries remain shut out.
While other products struggle to win access, the U.S. rice growers are hopeful that officials in Washington and Beijing can come to terms as early as next year. If they do, analysts estimate, U.S. rice exports to China could reach several hundred million dollars a year. That would make China a top buyer of the American grain, on par with Mexico and Japan.
Though it produces only 2 percent of the world's rice, the U.S. accounts for nearly 10 percent of the rice traded globally — enough to make it the fifth-biggest exporter. About half the rice grown in the U.S. ends up abroad. Still, rice consumption in China is so high the country could eat through America's annual production in 17 days.
American rice producers can't meet that sort of mass demand — nor do they want to. Their interest is in selling packaged rice to China to fill a high-end niche. The rice producers association's survey of Chinese consumers buttressed that idea. Despite the concerns of Chinese regulators, shoppers in China overwhelmingly perceived U.S. rice as a safe alternative in a country hit by myriad food safety scandals.
Josh Sheppard, a fourth-generation rice grower in Biggs, Calif., about 60 miles north of Sacramento, said he'd welcome Chinese buyers because they probably would pay more for his grains than U.S. customers — much the way Japanese buyers currently do. That's especially important now when drought has cut rice acreage in the state by 25 percent.
"We don't want to compete down in the gutter. We consider ourselves a premium product, like a fine wine," said Mr. Sheppard, who heads a rice farming cooperative in Butte County that's already made plans to export to China.
The cooperative is managed by Stuart Hoetger, co-founder of Stogan Group, an agricultural consulting firm in Chico, Calif.
Mr. Hoetger has arranged a partnership between the rice growers and Chinese food and agriculture conglomerate Wufeng.
Medium grain rice known as Calrose grown by the cooperative is being shipped in limited quantities to Chinese ports, where Wufeng is redirecting it to customers in small markets such as the Solomon Islands, the idea being Hoetger and his growers will be ready to ship to China shortly after a trade agreement is finalized.
"If China asks for something, you do it," Mr. Hoetger said. "You ask any farmer that's sold to China in the last few years and they'll tell you they've made a lot of money."
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Witness says he helped Hells Angels member dispose of slaying victims in Berkshires
A key witness at the murder trial of a Hells Angels motorcycle club member charged with killing three men testified Wednesday that he helped dispose of the victims' dismembered bodies. David Casey, 65, of Canaan, N.Y., testified in Hampden Superior Court in Springfield that he helped Adam Lee Hall bury the remains in a 4-foot-deep trench on private property in Becket in Berkshire County. Hall, 36, of Peru, Mass., and two other men are charged with fatally shooting David Glasser, Edward Frampton, and Robert Chadwell in Pittsfield in August 2011. Prosecutors said Hall wanted Glasser dead so he could not testify against him in an unrelated assault case. Casey is charged as an accessory.
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December 28, 2016 - Industry News
The FMCSA is notifying drivers who were given medical examinations by Anthony Lefteris that they have 30 days to get a new a Medical Examiner's Certificate from a medical professional on the National Registry.
Tags: CDL, Crime & Fraud, National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners, Medical Examiners
October 24, 2016 - Industry News
A federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Penn., has indicted Joann Wingate for wire fraud, submitting false documents and aggravated identity theft for impersonating a commercial driver's license medical examiner.
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October 18, 2016 - Industry News
The FMCSA has awarded close to $1 million in grants to seven technical and community colleges to help train military veterans and their families for jobs as commercial truck and bus drivers.
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October 12, 2016 - Industry News
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July 8, 2016 - Industry News
R&R Trucking has reached a multi-year agreement with the U.S. Army post at Fort Knox, Ky., to assist soldiers in obtaining a commercial driver's license.
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October 22, 2015 - Industry News
Temperature-controlled truckload carrier KLLM Transport Services has partnered with Cedar Valley College to open a new KLLM Driving Academy in Lancaster, Texas, for state residents.
Tags: Texas, Frozen Food Express, Truck Driving Schools, Driver Training, CDL
October 8, 2015 - Industry News
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has awarded nearly $2.3 million in grants to train veterans and their families as truck and bus drivers.
Tags: FMCSA, CDL, Veterans, Grants, Hiring Veterans
September 15, 2015 - Industry News
A Brooklyn, N.Y., federal court has charged a doctor with falsifying certifying physical examinations for commercial drivers.
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August 12, 2015 - Industry News
Two defendants have pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy to sell fraudulently obtained Class A commercial driver's licenses by bribing DMV employees in Northern California.
Tags: CDL, DMV, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Crime & Fraud
July 10, 2015 - Industry News
A Senate bill would instruct FMCSA to conduct a pilot study of lowering the age at which Class A CDL holders can drive trucks across state lines.
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June 25, 2015 - Industry News
More than 10,000 veterans and active duty personnel have taken advantage of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Military Skills Test Waiver Program since it began in 2011.
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June 12, 2015 - Industry News
A third-party CDL tester used by South Carolina has been indicted for giving tests he wasn't supposed to and skimping on the tests themselves.
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June 11, 2015 - Industry News
The FMCSA has granted C.R. England a training rule exemption allowing drivers who have passed the CDL skills test to operate a vehicle on public roads without requiring a CDL holder to monitor them from the front seat.
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May 14, 2015 - Product News
J.J. Keller & Associates has released the third editions of the J.J. Keller Tractor-Trailer Driver Training Manual and Instructor's Supplement.
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December 1, 2014 - Industry News
C.R. England is asking for a rule exemption to improve its driver training process.
Tags: CDL, Driver Training, C.R. England, Regulations, Driver Safety
October 21, 2014 - Industry News
The carrier A. Duie Pyle is opening its second driver training academy in Northborough, Mass., to serve prospective drivers in New England and upstate New York.
Tags: CDL, Driver Training, Massachusetts, LTL
September 24, 2014 - Industry News
Truck Stop Health Care is planning to make DOT physicals for CDL drivers available at truckstops in all states across the U.S.
Tags: CDL, Driver Health, U.S. DOT, Truckstops
July 28, 2014 - Industry News
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently announced that its waiver program that helps experienced veterans and active duty personnel transition into commercial truck and bus drivers positions has been expanded.
Tags: FMCSA, CDL, Veterans, Drivers
April 3, 2014 - Industry News
Drivers whose medical exams were conducted by the late Dr. Paul Besdansky, Garden City, Ga., need to get a reexamination, says the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Besdansky was in failing health toward the end of his life and was not conducting proper exams, the agency said.
Tags: FMCSA, CDL, National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners, Health, Drivers
April 2, 2014 - Industry News
Transportation leaders in the House are asking the Government Accountability Office to review two studies used by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in its hours of service rule.
Tags: FMCSA, HOS, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, 34-Hour Restart, Hours of Service, Commercial Driver's License, CDL
December 26, 2013 - Industry News
As we look back at 2013, here's our annual look at the top news stories of the year. Our list was compiled on the basis of popularity on our website, Truckinginfo.com, as well as our editors' opinions on which stories have the most impact on the trucking industry.
Tags: FMCSA, CDL, Sleep Apnea, Legislation, Regulations, Insurance
November 5, 2013 - Industry News
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered a Cherryville, N.C.-based trucking company, to immediately cease operations, declaring it to be an imminent hazard to public safety.
Tags: FMCSA, CDL, Drug Testing
September 30, 2013 - Industry News
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing a new definition of a "tank vehicle" to clarify concerns about the impact of the definition on Commercial Drivers License requirements.
Tags: FMCSA, ATA, CDL, Hazmat, Tankers
September 29, 2013 - Industry News
In a complaint unsealed last week in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., 11 individuals were charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud as part of an extensive scheme to let applicants for New York State commercial driver's licenses cheat on required tests.
Tags: Drivers, New York, CDL, Fraud
August 20, 2013 - Industry News
The NAFA Fleet Management Association has raised concerns about straight truck safety recommendations issued earlier this summer by the National Transportation Safety Board after a study found they were not as safe as their larger counterparts.
Tags: FMCSA, Drivers, CDL, Trucks, U.S. DOT, Medium-Duty Trucks, Private Fleets
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Pension Marianna Guest House and Conference Venue
Single R600.00 per person B&B | Sharing R 475 per person B&B
Location in Bellville
Set in a lush well established garden with enormous shady trees, Pension Marianna offers timelessly elegant accommodation to the discerning guest looking for a quiet retreat, away from the hustle and bustle of city life.
The facilities are conveniently centrally situated on the eastern edge of Bellville offering magnificent views of the Boland Wineland mountains. The guest house is ideally close to all major highways linking to Cape Town, Paarl, Stellenbosch, Somerset West and major central business area.
About Our Accommodation
Suites are elegantly decorated and spacious with en-suite bathrooms. Luxurious percale linen and high quality towels and personal toilertries complete your retreat experience at Pension Marianna which endeavours to go the extra mile in providing you with service excellence in every discipline.
Pension Marianna Guest House offer you:
- A 4 star Accommodation experience with airconditioning & en-suite bathrooms
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- Fine dining on request with excellent full English breakfasts
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Pension Marianna is owner driven by Marianna and Stephanie, a mother/daughter combination who lead a formidable staff compliment, well trained in the hospitality industry. With over 15 years of experience in the industry, you are assured of only the best when it comes to service levels.
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by Grace Bonney
Deborah Bowness always creates the most beautiful wallpapers, and her latest designs, Farmhouse Floral and Chairs, are no exception. After launching a new website and shop, Deborah introduced these styles, which are set to debut at Decorex 2012. I've chosen my favorite colors above and below, but you can check out the collection in more detail right here. Thanks, Deborah! xo, grace
Have you seen Flavor Paper!? Equally amazing. I'm definitely adding some to my house…just have to start saving my pennies:) http://hammer-and-heels.com/2012/05/21/pump-up-the-flavor/


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Australian and New Zealand Gardening: It's Brugmansia time.....let's see your beauties., 3 by 77sunset
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77sunset wrote: Yes Shaun, I decided that all my pretty ones that I intend to keep and breed , deserve names. It makes things so much easier to know a name instead of a number. I find that getting around the garden, one can picture the flower when it has a name. Makes it easier for others too, as if you number your own, it can get confusing with plants with the same number. pic 1 ...you can see why it reminds me of jaffas with the pretty orange color. pic 2..another view pic 3 opening color which darkens after 2-3 days. Not the best of pics but it got a bit torn in the weather. You can see the mummas influence in the color. Jean. |
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Olivia Culpo, Miss USA and winner of Miss Universe 2012, had no qualms about rocking her bikini on the pageant stage. In case you were wondering how she maintains those killer abs, Shape magazine has the beauty queen's daily diet plan.
Culpo eats a high protein, low carbohydrate diet and carries around meal replacement bars for the extra protein boost. "No offense to the 90-calorie ones, but they just don't do it for me," she says.
At home, Olivia will make herself some mashed sweet potatoes, and top with a little cayenne pepper and some Greek yogurt. In order to aid digestion of the necessary green veggies, Culpo prefers to use the steamer rather than eat them raw.
Olivia says her favorite on-the-go-snack is raw, unsalted almonds. When she can afford to stop and use a spoon, Culpo loves to eat yogurt because "it's low in sugar and high in protein."
Her secret to looking slimmed down on camera? Pineapple. Who would have guessed that?
"Pineapple reduces swelling," Olivia says. "You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be."
During the pageant, Culpo's secret weapon was a good old-fashioned banana. She says she snuck one into her makeup bag. "I don't know if it's the potassium," says Olivia, "but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down."
Throughout the competition, Culpo says her biggest craving was the old standard, peanut butter and jelly, telling the mag, "Oh my goodness, it is so good. I could live off of it."


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The Don Best Sports odds screen has Connecticut as a 3 ½-point favorite, with the total set at 129 points.
Butler (28-9 straight-up, 20-13-2 against the spread) advanced by beating 11th seed VCU 70-62 as 3 ½-point favorites. It was a battle marked by grit and hard work by each school. Both teams shot under 40 percent from the floor, but Butler's 46-30 advantage on the glass was a big reason for the win.
Guard Shelvin Mack scored 24 points for Butler on 8-of-11 from the floor, including 5-of-6 from beyond the arc. Forward Jamie Skeen had 27 points for VCU, showing a very nice inside and outside game.
The 132 combined points scored snuck just 'over' the 131 ½-point total. Late Butler free throws after intentional fouls were the difference. The 'over' is 3-2 for Butler this tournament.
Butler, which has now won 14 straight games, is 7-0 ATS dating back to the start of the Horizon League tournament.
Eighth-seed Butler is trying to match the 1985 Villanova Wildcats as the lowest-seeded school to capture the title. Villanova had the huge upset over Patrick Ewing's Georgetown squad that was looking for back-to-back titles.
Butler lost 61-59 to Duke in thrilling fashion in last year's championship game, but easily 'covered' the seven-point spread. That game also went 'under' the 128 ½-point total.
Michigan's 'Fab Five' teams in the early 90s were the last to lose consecutive title games. The 1998 Kentucky squad was the last to win the national championship after losing in the title game the year before.
The No. 3 seed Huskies (31-9 SU, 22-12 ATS) had the more high profile Final Four game, beating Kentucky 56-55 as two-point underdogs.
The 111 combined points scored went way 'under' the 138 ½-point total. The 'under' is 4-1 for Connecticut in this tournament, with the defense allowing just 59 PPG.
Kentucky shot just 33.9 percent from the floor with freshman point guard Brandon Knight a dismal 6-of-23. The team converting just 4-of-12 from the line also really hurt.
Kentucky trailed 31-21 at halftime, its lowest first-half output of the season. However, coach John Calipari's guys clawed back in the second half, even taking some small leads. But Kentucky was the more tired team down the stretch with just seven players seeing action.
Connecticut All-American point guard Kemba Walker had to work for his 18 points. He was 6-of-15 from the field and 1-of-5 from beyond the arc. The entire squad struggled from long range (1-of-12), which needs to improve Monday night.
Connecticut has won 10 straight contests starting with winning the Big East Tournament as a No. 9 seed. The only 'cover' failure was a 65-63 win over Arizona in the Elite Eight as 3 ½-point favorites.
The Huskies are perfect outside of Big East regular season play, going 22-0 SU and 15-1 ATS.
Coach Jim Calhoun is looking to join some elite company by winning his third national title (1999 and 2004 the others). Only John Wooden, Mike Krzyzewski, Adolph Rupp and Bobby Knight have won three or more.
The Monday night matchups will be exciting to watch. Mack (16.1 PPG) is averaging 23.5 PPG in his last four and is much stronger physically than Walker. Walker (23.7 PPG) has the quickness advantage and will play a lot of off-guard with freshman Shabazz Napier handling the ball.
Connecticut has good size up front with starters Alex Oriakhi and Roscoe Smith, plus Charles Okwandu off the bench. Matt Howard, Butler's big man who is averaging 16.7 PPG, is as crafty as they come drawing fouls around the basket. He had 12 free throw attempts last game and made 11.
The key could be freshman guard Jeremy Lamb (11.1 PPG). He's been a consistent second scorer this tourney at 17 PPG. He also provides a big matchup problem for Butler with his athleticism and 6-foot-5 length.
Neither team is reporting any significant injuries.


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James Bickford, cousin of Jeff Gordon, celebrates his first NASCAR K&N Pro Series West victory at Stateline Speedway in Post Falls, Idaho
16-year-old driver, James Bickford, took the lead from Greg Pursley with four laps to go in the NAPA Auto Parts/Toyota 150.
It was Bickford's seventh career start in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West. His previous best finish was fourth place at Iowa Speedway in May.
Greg Pursley was leading the NAPA Auto Parts/Toyota 150 in his Gene Price Motorsports Ford but with 4 laps to go James Bickford drove the #6 car past him
"I knew I had a chance at it if I could just get by him," Bickford said of sizing up Pursley on the final restart. "I did everything I could – all of my effort was into that first corner – and we ended up pulling out in front of him and clearing him."
Pursley was in the lead on the final restart of the race on lap 143. Bickford made his move to the lead three laps later. He led only four laps in the race, the final four.
"I knew once we got to the high line that there was no stopping us," Bickford said, "and we took the checkered flag for the first time."
Braeden Havens qualified fastest in his #82 Chevrolet and earned himself the 21 Means 21 presented by Coors Brewing Company Pole Award
Pursley finished in second place. It was his seventh top-five finish in seven K&N Pro Series West races. "He [Bickford] did a great job, he had a really good car tonight," Pursley said after the race on Saturday night. "That last restart there with five to go, I knew his car was better than mine and I tried to hold him off for a little bit but I was just way too loose."
The rookie, 16-year-old, Nicole Behar finished sixth place and matched the highest finish for a female driver in NASCAR K&N Pro Series West history
Pursley added to his lead in the K&N Pro Series West standings. He is 27 points ahead of Dylan Lupton. Bickford is in fifth place and the highest ranking rookie in the K&N Pro Series standings. He is 74 points behind Pursley.
"He did a good job," Pursley said. "He's a good little racer, and something to look at here in the future." Brandon McReynolds finished in third place, his fifth top-five finish of the K&N Pro Series West season. "We need to be a little better moving forward," McReynolds said. "We're really proud of our NAPA Toyota guys. It's a step in the right direction. We just need to take that next step and we will be right there." Braeden Havens won the pole, but David Mayhew, who started on the front row, claimed the lead on the first lap.
Mayhew was out front for the first 96 laps of the race. Lupton passed Mayhew for the lead on lap 97, but only held it for two laps.
Mayhew reclaimed the lead for another 32 laps on lap 100. Lupton again jumped out front on lap 133, but a crash on lap 134 that knocked Lupton to ninth place set up a restart.
Pursley led the restart and was out front for 12 laps. Bickford made the pass for the win on lap 146. Havens crossed the finish line in fourth place, followed by Mayhew in fifth.
Nicole Behar was sixth, matching the highest finish for a female driver in K&N Pro Series West history. Three other female drivers have finished sixth in a K&N Pro Series West race, most recently by Hannah Newhouse in 2012.
The next race on the K&N Pro Series West is the NAPA Auto Parts/Toyota 150 at Colorado National Speedway on July 26.


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Blog Archive
Field Report From Mars: Sol 3705 – June 27, 2014
Posted by Larry Crumpler on 2014/06/30 07:30 CDT
Opportunity has left the winter haven and is still driving south along the rim of Endeavour crater, currently exploring an outcrop a few meters from crater rim.
Our Pathway to Exploration Should Start with the Asteroid Redirect Mission
Posted by Louis D. FriedmanTom Jones on 2014/06/30 06:01 CDT | 51 comments
Despite its rejection by the NRC Committee, we argue that the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) is an affordable and logical first step in such a sequence. ARM is not only consistent with the NRC Committee's own principles, but is also the only near- term initiative that can shape their recommendations into a sustainable human space exploration program. ARM would launch U.S. explorers into deep space beyond the Moon, and fits logically into an exploration program aimed at Mars.
LightSail is Ready for Launch! Join Us as the Countdown Begins
Posted by Jennifer Vaughn on 2014/06/27 03:38 CDT | 12 comments
We hope you can be with us as we make a major announcement about our solar sail spacecraft, LightSail 1.
A close look at Saturn's closest moons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/06/26 08:13 CDT | 1 comments
A new composite image of the eight named moons that orbit closest to Saturn, and a list of all the best Cassini observations of these moons.
Curiosity update: One Mars Year! Sols 662-670
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/06/25 03:34 CDT | 2 comments
On Monday JPL put out a press release marking one year since Curiosity landed -- one Mars year, that is! There was a new version of the Kimberley self-portrait, and a video update on wheel wear testing. While we've been celebrating on Earth, Curiosity has been driving, driving, driving, on a new "safe transit route" taking her southward toward the black sand dunes ringing Mount Sharp.
Skimming the inner planets: Updates on MESSENGER and Venus Express
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/06/24 11:52 CDT | 1 comments
The two spacecraft currently orbiting the two innermost planets are both flying low in their orbits in the final phases of their missions. MESSENGER just performed a rocket burn to raise its orbit slightly, while Venus Express did the opposite.
The latest on NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission
Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/06/23 06:01 CDT | 3 comments
During televised updates on June 18 and 19, NASA showcased its progress on Orion and ARM. Here's the latest news.
Posted by Bill Dunford on 2014/06/23 09:36 CDT | 3 comments
Seeing Saturn before and after Cassini.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/06/20 10:00 CDT | 1 comments
I am both elated and relieved that Rob Manning and William Simon have written Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer. The book delivers on the promise of its title, in a slender volume that is full of great stories you'll read nowhere else.
The Senate's Flawed NASA Bill Hits a Bump in the Road
Posted by Casey Dreier on 2014/06/19 10:09 CDT | 2 comments
For the second day in a row, the Senate failed to vote on a bill that would fund NASA and other agencies in 2015. Without passage, no progress can be made addressing the flaws contained within.
NASA selects Planetary Society LIFE Proposal
To study flight of LIFE experiment on ARM (Asteroid Redirect Mission)
Posted by Bruce Betts on 2014/06/19 06:10 CDT | 5 comments
NASA has selected a Planetary Society proposal to study accommodation of the Society's LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment) biomodule on NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM).
We could find life on another planet, but do we have the will?
Posted by Bill Nye on 2014/06/19 10:46 CDT | 36 comments
Are we alone in the universe? This month's National Geographic cover story takes a look at the question, and I weighed in on the subject.
Rosetta completes another rocket burn, spies decreasing activity on comet
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/06/19 10:42 CDT
Rosetta has now completed its three largest rendezvous burns as it approaches ever closer to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Beginning on July 2, Rosetta will now conduct weekly burns, through August 6. Meanwhile, the cometary activity of April and May has quieted again, leaving the comet looking smaller than it did before.
LightSail update: Three steps forward, one step back
Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/06/18 05:55 CDT
The LightSail team has found potential workarounds to solve the spacecraft's boom deployment problems, but more analysis lies ahead.
One Number, Two Budgets
The Senate and House have both agreed to increase NASA's budget to $17.9B, but they have very different ways of spending that money
Posted by Van Kane on 2014/06/17 01:03 CDT | 2 comments
The Senate and House have both agreed to increase NASA's budget to $17.9 billion, but they have very different ways of spending that money.
Hubble to the rescue! The last-ditch effort to discover a Kuiper belt target for New Horizons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/06/17 11:59 CDT | 5 comments
Will New Horizons have a mission after Pluto? Ground-based searches have failed to turn up anything that New Horizons can reach. Now Hubble is joining the search, but time is running out: a discovery must be made within the next two months.
Curiosity update, sols 645-661: Driving, driving, driving
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2014/06/16 04:44 CDT
Curiosity has been busy. The rover has traveled more than half a kilometer since my last update, making steady progress beyond the Kimberley toward Murray Buttes. There hasn't been much time for science, but they sneaked in an observation of a Mercury transit across the sun, and a neat MARDI video of the rover driving.
Is Mainstream Space News Adrift?
The Houston Chronicle has a new, interactive web series on America's space program. Why don't we see more space coverage in this format?
Posted by Jason Davis on 2014/06/13 01:38 CDT | 8 comments
The Houston Chronicle has a new, interactive web series on America's space program. Why don't we see more space coverage in this format?
Walking the Blue Carpet with Samsung
Posted by Bill Nye on 2014/06/12 06:32 CDT | 3 comments
Bill Nye reports from the Samsung Hope for Children gala event in New York City.
The OSIRIS-REx Design Reference Mission
Posted by Dante Lauretta on 2014/06/12 06:18 CDT
This week the OSIRIS-REx team gathered at the Lockheed Martin facility in Denver to perform a "Design Reference Mission (DRM)" walkthrough. The DRM is basically the battle plan for OSIRIS-REx for accomplishing our goal of returning pristine samples from asteroid Bennu.
Planetary Defense
An asteroid or comet headed for Earth is the only large-scale natural disaster we can prevent. Working together to fund our Shoemaker NEO Grants for astronomers, we can help save the world.


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Nov 21, 2013 at 10:18 am
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's unemployment rate has dropped below 5 percent for the first time in nearly six years as the state climbs further out of the deep hole caused by the Great Recession.
The Department of Employment and Economic Development reports Thursday that October's unemployment rate was 4.8 percent. That's the same as it was in December 2007, which is generally considered to be the month that the long recession started.
The state released figures for both September and October. The September figures had been delayed by the federal government shutdown. Unemployment fell from 5.1 percent in August to 5 percent in September to 4.8 percent in October.
The department reports that Minnesota employers added 9,900 jobs in October, for a total of nearly 50,000 jobs added in the past year.
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St.Vincent Mercy Hospital Foundation, the philanthropic arm of St.Vincent Mercy Hospital, was created in 1983 by a group of caring citizens in Elwood. We solicit and manage donations for a variety of projects, including:
Gifts can be made for current use or endowment building, and can be directed to virtually any hospital area. We also recommend that you discuss your charitable gift plans with your financial advisor.
All donations to St.Vincent Mercy Hospital Foundation remain at the local ministry to better St.Vincent Mercy Hospital, our patients, associates and community. With the help and support of our donors, we truly make a difference. Thank you for your help in our success.
Those considering such gifts should contact our office at (765) 552-4768, as well as their own financial advisor, for more information. Please be sure to let us know if you've already provided for the St.Vincent Mercy Hospital Foundation in your will.
Matching gifts, employee contributions matched by employers, are an important source of income. Donors must initiate these gifts.
Our development officers may be able to help you determine if your company has a matching gifts program.
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Mudslides and flooding in Mexico after heavy storms
17 September 2013 Last updated at 10:36 BST
At least 12 people have been killed in mudslides in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz as the country continues to be battered by two tropical storms.
Hurricane Ingrid made landfall on the Atlantic coast, while Tropical Storm Manuel has triggered mudslides causing buildings to collapse in states along the Pacific.
More than 20,000 people have been evacuated and moved to shelters.
Will Grant reports.


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text: During the two years of studies the student will do an individual research project. The nature of this research may be artistic, historical, theoretical, sociological, etc. An in-house symposium will be the setting for the final presentation of the research project. This presentation may be a lecture-performance (which consists of a spoken presentation and a musical performance), a concert with extensive program notes, a written thesis, or a workshop or master class.


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Parents go to clinic, catch reading bug
Three-year-old Sebastian approaches shyly, but Juan Carlos Páez is ready for him. He names each brightly colored fruit on the cover of "Eating the Alphabet." Sebastian softly repeats each word.
"Which one do you like the most?" Juan Carlos asks, and suddenly, they are having a conversation.
Right there, in the doctors' waiting room, Juan Carlos is luring children to his corner. He entices them with puzzles and hand puppets made from paper bags. Like a pied piper, he leads them to books.
Three days a week, this grandfather is a friendly fixture in at the Kaiser Permanente Clinic in Santa Ana. A reader in Orange County's Early Literacy Program, he seems focused on the children. The whole point of the program, however, is hooking the parents.
It is the softest of sells.
Ellen Christie reads at the Kaiser Pediatric Unit in Mission Viejo three days a week.
"We do much more than just read to the children," she says. "We're modeling for the parents."
At first glance, teaching parents to read to their children sounds like a swim class for fish. It's supposed to come naturally.
When my three children were little, we checked out library picture books by the pound. Bedtime always meant a bath and a book – which my husband or I diligently finished unless we fell asleep first.
Reading is an excuse to snuggle, but that's the least of it. Good readers do far better in school – and reading is built upon skills children develop before kindergarten. You need to start with 6-month-old babies.
Reading fertilizes the brain so development blossoms. The clinic readers show parents images of a brain engaged in reading, listening, speaking and writing. Each activity lights up different lobes like neon in Times Square.
I thought I knew how to read to my children. But who knew that reading the words aloud isn't enough?
So show me how to read, I instruct Linda Clinard, 68, a reading specialist and retired UC Irvine education professor. She consults with the Early Literacy Program, helping the readers read better.
"It's not just reading," she explains. "It's the interaction. A child could have books galore, but if you don't talk and listen, those books aren't going to mean as much."
She picks up Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to demonstrate. The process, she emphasizes, happens before, during and after reading the book.
Before, she would ask a child questions: What do you think is going to happen? What do you think the caterpillar is going to do?
As she reads, Linda slides her hand along the words. Then more questions: Can you find the egg? What do you think the caterpillar will eat?
"You should not be the only one talking," she emphasizes. She suggests prompting the child to name colors or count objects in pictures.
After the book, ask the child to name things from the story and explain what happened.
"Literacy is greater than reading and writing," Clinard explains. "Ask: Did you ever eat an apple? Did you ever see the sun? Take what you read in the books and make it real in their lives."
Estimates are that 54 to 84 percent of parents regularly read to their children ages 3 to 5 – but the number declines for younger children, for lower income families, or for large families.
Reach Out and Read is a brilliantly simple Early Literacy Program funded by tobacco tax revenues. As parents are held captive, waiting for the doctor, teach them about reading by demonstrating with their own children.
Make it contagious and hope the doctor is running late.
At their monthly meeting, some of the 32 Reach Out and Read workers share success stories. They don't mean the 35,000 kids who hear them read in 52 Orange County clinics each year. They don't mean the more than 30,000 used (and disinfected) books they give away yearly, or the information they hand to parents.
They mean the children and parents who watched, listened and learned. The lives they might have changed:
Merna Young tells of the boy who hung back as she started a story. He listened as she read one book and then another.
"I'll be back to read with you!" he shouted, as he was called to see the doctor.
"I'll be back to read with you later!" he shouted as his family left.
There was the older brother, too interested in video games to read – until he heard the voices of children imitating jungle animals.
Estela Alvarado recalls a mother who could not read a picture book in English.
"Create the story in your own language," she told her. "Use the pictures and make up your own story."
Beatrice Vázquez remembers the 4-year-old who asked for a hug and asked for another book.
What book did he get last time?
It was about a mouse and a cookie, he answered. His mom reads it to him every night.
And that's how it works with reading. If you read a kid one story, he's going to ask for another.
Reach Out and Read, an initiative of The Children and Families Commission of Orange County, welcomes volunteer readers and book donations. Call: 714-285-2320 or look for their booth in the shade at the Orange County Fair.
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There are those times. You know them. Such as when Andre Miller hoists a 3-pointer late in the game and the entire sports bar bellows, "Noooooooo!" Or the times he puts the pin in the balloon, slowly setting up a half-court possession when the Nuggets have been flying up and down the court. Or the times his defense becomes offensive.
But the point guard is going to be on the floor late, if the game is on the line. He's a veteran, a chess master.
And lately, he has helped the Nuggets (40-22) win important games, be it with his clutch shot at Portland or his splurge at Sacramento on Tuesday, when Miller scored 10 points and had four assists in the fourth quarter.
"That's kind of how our team is. You never know who's going to grab the steering wheel and who's going to drive us home," coach George Karl said after the Nuggets beat the Kings 120-113. "People don't think that's good. I think it's a pretty versatile asset to have."
Next up for the red-hot Nuggets: the Los Angeles Clippers at the Pepsi Center on Thursday night. In two games against the Clippers this season, Miller has averaged 12 points and nine assists. His season averages are 9.1 points and 5.9 assists.
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SOAR Caseworker Dialogue Group
This is a regular meeting of the NCCEH SOAR Caseworkers Dialogue Group.
It is a caseworker roundtable to problem-solve and connect with others around the state who are working on SOAR cases.
Details on how to call in will be emailed to registered participants by the day of the call.
Dialogue Groups are free for all NCCEH members. If you are not a member and are interested in joining, you can sign up here.
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The Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Foundation announced today that the $10,000 SOM 2013 Structural Engineering Travel Fellowship has been awarded to Yao Xiao, who in April received her Master of Science Degree in Structural Engineering from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
The SOM Structural Engineering Travel Fellowship is awarded annually through a national competition. In January 2013, the SOM Foundation received portfolio submissions from students at US schools having an accredited program in civil and structural engineering. The submissions were judged on the quality of the design portfolios, research proposals and travel itineraries.
In addition to her academic course work for which Prof. Gregory Deierlein served as her Advisor, Yao participated with a student team in the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon in 2012, and worked with Prof. Calvin Kam as a Research Assistant at the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, evaluating the BIM/VDC performance of various building projects.
This research contributed to her knowledge of construction technologies, including pre-fabrication, and inspired her to seek optimisation techniques and efficiency in structural design to improve project efficiency and cost. Yao's Stanford research experience influenced her choice of research topic for her SOM Foundation Fellowship.