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UPDATE: Judge's order says CPD officers Sean Emmer and Adam Cooley should be reinstated
There are new developments in the high profile case involving two Chattanooga Police officers fired for using excessive force. A judge says they should get their jobs back.
Officers Sean Emmer and Adam Cooley were fired in November of last year, after video surfaced of the officers using excessive force against halfway house inmate, Adam Tatum. Channel 3 obtained a copy of the video from June 2012. In it, officers Emmer and Cooley are seen beating Tatum, who suffered two broken legs in the scuffle. He was also punched in the head and maced. The officers say Tatum was high on cocaine, and was resisting arrest.
Emmer and Cooley's case went before a grand jury, but they were never indicted. Federal investigators also investigated the case, but never issued charges.However, Police Chief Bobby Dodd fired the officers for their actions.
The administrative law judge who heard the case issued a 30-page opinion on why former officers Sean Emmer and Adam Cooley should be rehired. The officers' attorneys welcomed the news but Adam Tatum's attorney and Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke have strong opinions on the decision.
Sean Emmer and Adam Cooley testified in a hearing earlier this summer defending their actions against Adam Tatum. After fighting for their jobs, the judge in the case issued an opinion, stating the two former officers should rejoin the Chattanooga Police Department.
"I'm upset. The chief is upset," says Mayor Andy Berke.
Mayor Berke says he strongly disagrees with the judge's opinion. In the order, Judge Kim Summers says Emmer and Cooley's actions were warranted, writing, "Since both the taser and OC spray had been completely ineffective, the baton strikes were the only viable means of force still available to the officers."
"I am extremely disappointed by this ruling. Over the last several months I've talked to the police chief several times. He's expressed his condemnation of the misconduct in this case," says Berke.
"These officers followed their training. And they should be reinstated," says Bryan Hoss, Sean Emmer's attorney.
Bryan Hoss and Stevie Phillips represent Emmer. Jonathan Guthrie represents Cooley. All three attorneys say the officers were doing their jobs.
"They were doing nothing but protecting city of Chattanooga citizens when they came across someone on parole, who's high on crack, and armed with a knife, who's terrorizing people down at the Salvation Army," says Hoss.
"Apparently we were looking at different videos," says Robin Flores.
Flores is Adam Tatum's attorney. He is representing Tatum in a $50 million civil suit against the city and the police department.
"This doesn't really have any effect other than maybe in the public eye, that somehow, these guys were justified in it. But the public has seen the same video we have," says Flores.
"We don't tolerate misconduct in our police department," says Mayor Berke.
"The mayor has said he wants officers back out on the streets, we've got two right now who are ready to go," says Hoss.
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Selected Publications
Daipha, Phaedra. 2001. "The Intellectual and Social Organization of ASA 1990-1997: Exploring the Interface between the Discipline of Sociology and Its Practitioners." The American Sociologist 32 (3):73-90.
Marya Doerfel
Marya Doerfel [School of Communication and Information (SC&I)]
Selected Publications
Doerfel, M. L., & Haseki, M. (forthcoming). "Networks, disrupted: Media use as an organizing mechanism for rebuilding." New Media & Society.
Doerfel, M. L., Lai, C-H., & Chewning, L. V. (forthcoming). "The evolution of networks and the resilience of interorganizational relationships after disaster." Communication Monographs.
Chewning, L. V., Lai, C-H., & Doerfel, M. L. (2012). "Communication technologies to rebuild communication structures." Management Communication Quarterly, available online: DOI: 10.1177/0893318912465815
Tina Eliassi-Rad
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Eliassi-Rad, Tina. 2012. "Gelling, and Melting, Large Graphs by Edge Manipulation" (with H. Tong, B.A. Prakash, M. Faloutsos, and C. Faloutsos), Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'12), Maui, HI, October 2012. [Best Paper Award]
Eliassi-Rad, Tina. 2011. "Measuring Tie Strength in Implicit Social Networks" (with M. Gupte), Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Science (WebSci'12), Evanston, IL, June 2012. [Appeared as a poster at the 2011 NIPS Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds, and as an extended abstract in the Notes of the 3rd Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN'11), New York, NY, September 2011.]
Keith Hampton
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Hampton, Keith, & Richard Ling. 2013. "Explaining Communication Displacement and Large-Scale Social Change in Core Networks: A Cross-National Comparison of Why Bigger is Not Better and Less Can Mean More." Information, Communication & Society 16, 4: 561-589.
Hampton, Keith, Lauren Sessions Goulet, Cameron Marlow, and Lee Rainie. 2012. Why Most Facebook Users Get More Than They Give: The Effect of Facebook "Power Users" on Everyone Else. Pew Research Center. Washington, DC.
Abbott, Katherine, Janet Prvu Bettger, Keith Hampton, & Hans-Peter Kohler. 2012. "Exploring the Use of Social Network Analysis to Measure Social Integration among Older Adults in Assisted Living." Family & Community Health 35, 4: 322-333.
Charles Heckscher
Charles Heckscher [School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR)]
Paul McLean
Selected Publications
Gondal, Neha, and Paul D. McLean. 2013. "What Makes a Network Go Round? Exploring the Structure of a Strong Component with Exponential Random Graph Models." Social Networks 35, 4: 499-513.
Gondal, Neha, and Paul D. McLean. 2013. "Linking Tie-meaning with Network Structure: Variable Connotations of Personal Lending in a Multiple-Network Ecology." Poetics 41: 122-50.
McLean, Paul D. 2011. "Patrimonialism, Elite Networks, and Reform in Late Eighteenth Century Poland." Pp. 88-110 in Patrimonial Power in the Modern World, volume 636 (July 2011) of The Annals of the American Association of Political and Social Science, edited by Julia Adams and Mounira M. Charrad.
Honors and Awards
2008. Honorable Mention. Best Book Competition of the ASA Section on Culture (for The Art of the Network).
2008. Best Article Award, ASA Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology, for "Elite Transformation and Organizational Invention in Renaissance Florence," American Journal of Sociology 111, 5:1463-1568 (second author, with John F. Padgett).
Jessica Methot
Jessica Methot [SMLR]
Neha Shah
Neha Shah [Business School]
Selected Publications
Bendersky C. and Neha P. Shah. 2013. "The downfall of extraverts and rise of neurotics: The dynamic process of status allocation in task groups." Academy of Management Journal 56, 2: 387-406.
Bendersky, C., and Neha P. Shah. 2012. "The costs of status attainment: Performance effects of individual's status mobility in task groups." Organization Science, 23 308-322.
Bendersky, C., and Neha P. Shah. 2012. "The costs of status attainment: Performance effects of individual's status mobility in task groups." Organization Science, 23 308-322.
Hana Shepherd
Selected Publications
Paluck, Betsy Levy, and Hana Shepherd. 2012. "The Salience of Social Referents: A Field Experiment on Collective Norms and Harassment Behavior in a School Social Network." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 103: 899-915.
Robu, Valentin, Harry Halpin, and Hana Shepherd. 2009. "Emergence of Consensus and Shared Vocabularies in Collaborative Tagging Systems." ACM Transactions on the Web 3: 1-34.
Spencer Foundation Grant. 2011, "A Social Network Approach to Influencing Civic Behavior: Building Cultures of Tolerance in Schools." (Co-author with Betsy Levy Paluck, PI, $40,000).
Rachael Shwom
Rachael Shwom [Human Ecology]
Selected Publications
Shwom, Rachael, D. Bidwell, A. Dan, and T. Dietz. "Understanding U.S Public Support of Domestic Climate Change Policies." Global Environmental Change 20, 3: 472-482.
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Which of the schools and program run under Doon University, Dehradun??
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Doon University was founded by an Act of Uttarakhand General assembly in Oct 2005 and it is settled in the city of Dehradun in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The 1st academic session was begun on 9th May 2009. The University follows a Semester System wherein there are two Semesters annually. It has also offered various Banking facilities with ATM will be available at the Campus very presently. The entire scholarly person is required to carry their identity cards all the time. Doon University, Campus Office main mission is carrying on high quality and multi-disciplinary research to push the boundaries of knowledge in the chosen fields.
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In my last post, I described some competitive lessons you must learn from the world's best athletes in order to play your best in "Prime Time," which I defined as being the biggest game of your life against the toughest field under the most difficult conditions. This week, I will delve into the minds of some of the world's best athletes and uncover the mental lessons you must also learn to play your best and achieve your goals. These mental lessons are especially important as you head into the most important games of the season, many of which occur during March Madness.
1. Believe in Your Ability.
One thing that separates the best athletes in the world from the rest of us is that they have a deep and resilient belief in their ability to play their best. Even when they're not playing well, instead of going to the "dark side" (i.e. going from being their best ally to their worst enemy) they never lose faith in themselves and continue to be on their own side.
For everyone else, developing confidence in your ability is one of the biggest challenges you face. Many athletes don't have that deeply ingrained belief in their capabilities. I see this often in games. For example, a basketball player misses a few shots early in a game. He then begins to doubt himself and then, instead of taking the open shot, passes the ball to a teammate.
It's a mistake for the player in the last example to give up just because he hasn't started the game well. The mental lesson you can learn from world's best athletes is that no matter how you start off or how many mistakes you make, you can still get back in the game (literally and metaphorically) and have a good game, but only if you stay positive stay motivated to play your best the remainder of the contest.
Building confidence in your game is no different than how the world's best athletes go about it. It takes thousands of hits, shots, spikes, runs, and rides, in addition to a positive attitude, meticulous preparation, support from others, and, of course, success. But, for every athlete, from the bottom to the top, it starts with a commitment to believing in yourself no matter how bad it gets.
This belief will serve you especially well in Prime Time. You may believe that you can play well under normal circumstances. You have probably put in a lot of time at practice that supports your belief. But the question is whether you can play that well in the most important game of your life against the toughest field of competitors you have ever faced? The lesson you can learn from the best athletes in the world is that you must have such a belief in your ability that you truly know that you can play your best when you absolutely need to. This belief in your play gives you the confidence to go for it in Prime Time.
2. Expect to Be Nervous in Prime Time.
Prime Time means the game you are playing in matters... a lot. The game may be the local Little League championships, the state championships, or the junior world championships. You may start to feel nervous because it's an important game. This anxiety makes you uncomfortable, which raises doubts in your mind, causes you to feel negative emotions, and, because of all of these things, you become more nervous. As a result, the quality of your play declines and you have a poor game.
This reaction is common among athletes at all levels of ability. It is also one of the most harmful reactions to have in Prime Time. Much of my work with athletes is directed toward helping them stay relaxed under pressure. The reality is however, getting nervous before important games is normal and natural. It happens to young athletes and, yes, it happens to the best athletes in the world. The difference is that the best get nervous and know how to overcome their anxiety.
One way to partially alleviate the negative effects of this nervousness is to expect to be nervous in Prime Time. If you anticipate experiencing some anxiety, when it arises, your reaction will be, "This is normal. I knew I would get a little nervous. No big deal," instead of "Oh no. I can't believe I'm getting nervous now. How can I play well feeling this way?"
Anxiety can also be interpreted in different ways producing very different reactions. If you view anxiety as negative and threatening, it will clearly hurt your play. If you see it instead as an indication that you're getting yourself prepared for the big game, that the feeling is not anxiety, but rather excitement, and then you will see it much more positively. With a more positive perspective on your nerves, they are less likely to overwhelm you and take you to the "dark side." As a result, that anxiety will have a less harmful effect on your play.
Another important realization is that whatever you're feeling, your competition is probably feeling the same doubts, anxiety, and emotions. Even if they look calm, cool, and collected on the outside, the chances are they're equally as nervous on the inside. This perspective offers even more support for the need to learn these lessons and win the mental game. Given fairly equal ability, the athletes who can keep their nerves in perspective and respond to them in a positive way are most likely going to play well and win.
3. Recover From Mistakes Quickly.
If you recall, Prime Sport is based on the goal of playing at a consistently high-level under challenging conditions. However, playing consistently does not mean playing perfectly -- it definitely doesn't mean that you will not make mistakes. One of the things that makes the world's best athletes so good is not that they never make mistakes. If you watch competitions in any sport, you'll see that even the winners make multiple mistakes in games. Instead, what makes them so good is how quickly they recover from those mistakes.
It's not uncommon for young athletes to dwell on their mistakes and take a long time to regain their composure, get their "mojo" back, and get their mind back in the game. Not infrequently, they never recover at all. This occurs because athletes lose confidence, focus, and intensity, and they become frustrated, angry, or depressed due to of their mistakes. Unfortunately, by the time they recover mentally and get their game back on track, winning may be out of reach.
Recovering from mistakes quickly begins with a forgiving attitude that you establish before you even get out on field (or course, court, or hill). You accept the fact that if the best athletes in the world make mistakes, then it's normal that you will make mistakes too. It also involves understanding that the loss of confidence, motivation, focus, and intensity will hurt your play far more than the mistakes themselves. This attitude makes it so that mistakes aren't crushing blows when they occur. Rather, mistakes are just a part of sports. When you accept that mistakes as part of the game, you give yourself permission to let go of the mistakes when they occur instead of feeling like they are the end of the world.
With the negative impact of mistakes reduced, you can then direct your attention to getting yourself back into the game mentally and emotionally. After a mistake, go into attack mode (rather than surrender mode) by immediately forget about the mistake and focusing instead on what you need to do to get your game back on track. In practice, create a keyword that you can think to yourself when you make a mistake that will help you do this, for example, attack, charge, or go. When you ingrain this keyword in practice, you're conditioning your mind to grab onto that keyword when you make a mistake in a game, triggering an aggressive mindset and a refocusing on the game ahead of you rather than the mistake behind you.
4. Accept the Challenge.
The biggest obstacle to playing your best in Prime Time is fear, or more specifically, fear of failure. Fear produces in athletes a cautious attitude and tentative play. On a practical level, this means that your main goal in the game is to not fail. Yet paradoxically, with this fear-driven attitude you're actually more likely to fail because there's no way you can play your best if you're afraid of failure. You don't fully commit yourself, you don't play aggressively, and you don't give it your all from start to finish.
Accepting the challenge means that you give it everything you have. You direct your fullest energy and effort into playing as well as you possibly can. Accepting the challenge also means accepting that you may fail, but you'd rather fail giving it everything you've got than wish at the end of the game wishing that you hadn't been so cautious. I'm sure you feel terrible when you play tentatively and kick yourself after the game for not having gone for it.
Why accept the challenge? Because there is one emotion you never want to experience in your life: regret. Regret means that you wish you had done something differently, in this case, play as hard as you can. And there is one question you never want to ask yourself: I wonder what could have been? After a game, win or lose, you want to look back and be able to say to yourself that you "left it all out on the field." If that effort didn't result in victory, you'll be disappointed, but you'll also feel pride in knowing that you couldn't have done anything more that day. And, of course, the only way to be truly successful in sports is to go all out and risk failure. If you keep putting yourself out there, the chances are that you will find success sooner or later.
These are four simple, yet powerful, lessons found inside the minds of the world's best athletes. The greatest athletes on earth learned these lessons and that's one reason they're the best. I can't guarantee that if you embrace these lessons you'll get there too. But I can promise you that if you do, you'll find out how good you can be. And, at the end of the day, whether you find yourself on the All-Star team or sitting on the bench most of the game, you'll feel good knowing that you left it all out on the field.


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Football is without doubts the most popular sport among passionate and casual sports bettors. Sports betting is as old as the sports themselves. It's a form of entertainment and for some a source of income. Hands down following a football match is a lot more exciting if you place a bet. Back the favorite with a bet or follow the gut feeling and put your trust in the underdog.
However, to maximize your chances of winning you may have to do some research. The more information you can get your hands on the higher the probability of winning. In practice you are betting versus the bookmaker. The bookmaker offers odds with which it states if there's a favorite or if it expects to see an intense match with unpredictable outcome. Fortunately, betting on the home or away team are not your only options. If you catch the bookmaker off-guard you will benefit of some high odds.
Once you decide what the match of your choice is it's time to do some research.
Where to Bet?
There are many offers and bonuses from different bookmakers, sometimes even on a match basis you can get special promotions. Especially if it's the first time you want to place a bet you have a choice of various bonuses like free bets and welcome bonuses when signing up at a bookmaker's portal. There are pages dedicated to list you the latest bonuses like sportsbetting24.com where you can get a good overview and make your choice.
Special tip: Search for match related bonuses by searching in Google "Team A vs. Team B. betting bonus".
Current Form
The current form of one squad speaks a lot about what you can expect of the upcoming match. A losing streak of 3 or more games can crush the squad's morale. On the other hand if the team is on a winning streak they will do everything in their power to keep it.
A rule of thumb is to consider the last 3 to 5 games. Considering games that took place beyond this mark is irrelevant. Make sure you take a good look of both the home and away games. There are teams whose performance is stunning when playing on their home stadium. Other teams play very defensively on away matches, this is a great opportunity to bet on under 2.5 goals.
Head to Head
Probably the most important piece of information you should consider. History tends to repeat itself, football games are not an exception. Use this to your advantage by taking their past head-to-head encounters in consideration along with the current form of the team. The current squads can't be that different from the previous year to make this information irrelevant.
Team Morale
Motivation or team morale is also an important factor for the performance on the pitch. If it's a derby match players will push themselves to their limits. Another situation when players tend to be fierce is when the season's end is near. They'll fight for every point to get higher on the table. The underdogs' performance can surpass your expectations, don't let them catch you off-guard. Games of this type call for risky bets. Nevertheless, these games are by far the most exciting.
Match Schedule
If a team is competing in several different competitions like a national cup or other continental or international competitions they might haven't recovered yet from the previous game. The coach can bench some key players to have them rest for some important upcoming match. After all, football players are just humans. They need to rest too.
Injured Players
Knowing what players are not going to play can be vital, especially if some of the team's key players are injured. It's a tough blow and every squad finds it hard to cope with this challenge, to fill the void caused by the absence of their superstar.
Sometimes the gut feeling is overwhelming and it may lead to some unjustified bets. It's better to skip a match than to place a wild bet. After all there are a ton of other matches to choose from.


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Discussion in 'GBAtemp & Scene News' started by T-hug, Jan 20, 2005.
Great, more Mario Panty
HUNTER your scripts suck
got proof ?
Mario party is teh roxors.
Absolutely can't wait for this to come around in English.
Found a nice menu trans for this one:
crap in your pants,, reyvgm!!
Same here
Any release date announced for it? There's already Wario Ware that I'll buy in around 2 weeks, and I'll buy Jam With The Band when it goes out...
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Thank you to all sponsors, carvers, donations and attendees for coming and making our second annual event a success. We will be posting pictures of the pumpkins carved and our total for the year soon!
GUTS 2017 - Saturday, October 28
Join us for our second annual GUTS event! GUTS is a friendly pumpkin carving competition benefitting Make-A-Wish.
The competition is open to anyone, local and regional, with a creative flair that want to test their pumpkin carving skills, and more importantly, raise money for the brave kids of Make-A-Wish Foundation. We raise money through the carver's registration fees, silent auction, food, drink, and merchandise sold at the event. For those who can't make it or would like to do a little extra, we invite anyone, anywhere, to contribute by donating.
Carve with us
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Eleven months ago, as the naïve editor of a college magazine, I knocked at a secreted, modest house in the heart of Eastleigh, and interviewed a charismatic, charming and (apparently) genuine, politician named Chris Huhne.
Tentatively raising the driving licence affair that blighted – and has now ended – an esteemed political career in rather undignified fashion, he quickly distanced himself from any wrongdoing.
"I've said very clearly that I'm innocent. I intend to fight this in the courts, and I'm confident that the jury will agree with me." He lied, before lying again in court. It was wrong, it was illegal, but was it really anything out of the ordinary?
In reality, this scandal would never have come to part had he not been caught speeding – a common offence, frequently irritating the general public since 1896.
Yet after Huhne's actions, public perception of politicians now rests at an increasingly dismal low, with many viewing them as cheats and liars. That is – of course – a sweeping generalisation, but arguably there are aspects of truth in it. You only have to look at the expenses scandal, which saw three Labour MPs and a Conservative peer imprisoned, to see that MPs are not always sincere.
Others highlight the list of broken Liberal Democrat pledges to show political corruption. Granted, there is a difference between manifesto pledges not being fulfilled in coalition, and perverting the course of justice. But nonetheless, it remains true that politics is not the most honest of professions, as exemplified by one of the most senior politicians in Britain, Nick Clegg. The deputy prime minister claimed expenses on business class air travel, despite flying in economy during his time as an MEP, but never faced significant repercussions.
Ultimately then, the fate of politicians can often come down to luck. Most have been evasive or misleading at some point, some just experience heavier consequences than others. Huhne had the disadvantage of contending with a revenge-driven ex-wife, on a crusade to bring down her former husband for an offence she was clearly party to.
When you consider what Huhne actually did, it is easy to feel a pang of sympathy. He was caught speeding – hardly the crime of the century. He then made two stupid decisions: to put the points on Vicky Pryce's licence and then to stick with the lie, because he wanted to maintain his career.
Yet this all happened 10 years ago – it seems a little harsh to bring the issue back up now. But it is upon margins such as these that the modern political career hinges – the phantom factor of luck plays a huge part. If someone pressed into events 25 years ago, they might find Cameron's activities less than impressive, in the morally-toxic Bullingdon club at Oxford University, infamous for ritually 'trashing' restaurants.
Huhne was perfectly equipped to go all the way in politics, having attended Westminster school, the University of Paris and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained a first class degree in PPE.
Starting out as a journalist, he achieved quickly at The Independent and The Guardian, winning financial journalist of the year in 1989. The successes followed in politics, as his meteoric rise from MEP to leadership contestant in seven years saw him become a leading light in his party.
He also had a successful career in finance, becoming managing director of Fitch IBCA, and Vice-Chairman of Fitch Ratings. His economic CV then, ominously, is probably superior to that of the Chancellor, who reportedly dropped PPE because economics was "too hard."
Yet, despite Huhne's credentials, you can't help but feel he's underachieved in politics. Though his record as an MEP was excellent, six years seems too long for a man with such ambition. Though he achieved much in his position as environment secretary, he's certainly got the temperament to go higher. And though he fought valiantly in two leadership contests, he lost twice.
His fateful speeding ticket has eliminated any chance of fulfilling his potential, after last week's resignation. It leaves you wondering, for Huhne's part, 'what if?'
What if, had he remained a Labour supporter after graduating, would he have done under the Blair administration? What if, had he overcome the finest of margins and won the Liberal Democrat leadership, would the party's fortunes have been under his stewardship? And most notably perhaps, what if, had he been the deputy prime minister in this coalition, would it's fate have been?
Certainly, had he not been caught speeding and been in Clegg's shoes, things would have been very different indeed, for the Liberal Democrats and perhaps even the country.


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In Vermont, sledding is serious business. If ever there were a place where the untapped potential of sledding as a sport could be unleashed, it would be here. And that's why a group of friends in Vermont's Mad River Valley - prime sledding territory - set out to create a sled that would offer what cheap toy store sleds and big, uncontrollable toboggans couldn't. And so the Mad River Rocket was born.
Before we tell you how much fun these sleds are, note that we can't do free shipping on them. Sorry. But they're totally worth it.
- Black shell with yellow ribbed kneepads
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With a little work these things can be used to make your own pulk, which is a pretty cool 2 for 1.
So much fun, I'm surprised it's legal.
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Using these sleds to sled is one of my passions. Here is our video edit from 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55vxa8lJ0vk
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"Where I need to be... is here..." Oil on marble plaster on panel
Nathaniel's art is about the blurring of lines between fantasy and reality, a twilight moment in one's mind. The work delivers that moment between daydream and realization of realities. Neither one supersedes the other or has greater value. A greater understanding is based on the perception of how the viewer first approaches and responds to the work he has created. The outright awareness of the work tells the story that is interpreted by the individual, which is solely left to their accord. The artist creates paintings that allow personalized context to exist within their own core. His work permits the viewer their own dialogue with the piece in concept and meaning. Nathaniel Galka feels that true art is not about the artist's projection so much as it is about the viewer's perception.
Nathaniel Galka began his artistic career in 1994 studying at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. He received his BFA in Painting focusing in conceptual studies and from here pursued his MFA at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. After receiving his second degree, Galka lived in Chicago, from 2001-2005 and was part of a young and thriving group of emerging artists. During this time he participated in various alternative and traditional Fine Art shows and since his subsequent endeavor to experience fresh environments, has lived in Los Angeles, Asheville and Knoxville. Though his location has fluctuated, his commitment to painting, drawing and creating has remained steadfast and hence, through his work, Galka has become a storyteller using pens and paint to mediate his natural subjects and internal processes. He is currently living and working in NYC.


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|Benjamin Karl (AUT)
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It has been a great 2009 FIS Snowboard World Championships in Gangwon (KOR) for Austria and Switzerland so far. After six of the nine medal events have been concluded, Austria has collected three gold medals and two silver medals while Switzerland has secured one gold, one silver and two bronze medals, all by its ladies team, fulfilling even the greatest expectations after a mediocre beginning to the season on the World Cup circuit.
The first champions to be crowned - in SBX - were Helene Olafsen (NOR) and Markus Schairer (AUT). The 18-year-old young star Olafsen, bronze medalist in 2007, celebrated start-to-finish triumph in the ladies final ahead of Switzerland's Olivia Nobs and Mellie Francon. On the men's side, 2007 world champion Xavier Delerue (FRA) was leading the pack of four riders all the way down until making a mistake on the last jump when Schairer took advantage and edged him into second spot in a dramatic finish-line push by just one centimeter which could only be determined by a photo finish. Nick Baumgartner (USA) rounded out the podium.
In the first parallel race, the parallel giant slalom, it was Marion Kreiner (AUT) who successfully competed against her teammate Doris Guenther taking her first ever title after winning silver two years ago. In the battle for third, Patrizia Kummer (SUI) surprised by grabbing the bronze.
On the men's side, it was time again for the 2003 double world champion, Jasey Jay Anderson. After Sylvain Dufour (FRA), Matthew Morison took another medal for Canada finishing third.
In parallel slalom, the titles went to Fraenzi Maegert-Kohli (SUI) and Benjamin Karl (AUT). Doris Guenther (AUT) claimed already her second silver. Ekaterina Tudegesheva (RUS), the 2007 PGS world champion, completed the podium. In an impressive comeback from a six-week injury, Karl took his first FIS World Championship title by beating Dufour, another two-time silver medalist, in the final. Patrick Bussler secured Germany's first medal by taking the bronze.
The first ever FIS Snowboard World Championships in Asia will continue with half-pipe and big air competitions on Friday and Saturday. Free online streaming of the competitions is always available at 9 GMT at www.fissnowboardworldchampionships.com
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The Telemark FIS World Championships 2009 got underway in Kreischberg-Murau (AUT) today Wednesday 21st January with the Telemark giant slalom races. In good snow yet somewhat changing light conditions the Norwegian Eirik Rykhus was able to defend his 2007 over last season's dominator Borge Sovik. Frenchman Chris Lau claimed the bronze medal.
In the ladies' competition the Swiss celebrated a double victory as Amelie Reymond collected the title ahead of teammate Sandrine Meyer while Sigrid Rykhus won the bronze. The championship competitions will continue with the Telemark classic events on Thursday and the classic sprint competitions on Saturday 24th January.
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|Beautiful Whistler Olympic Park
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|Happy Magnus Moan (NOR)
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If you win two out of two ski jumping competitions, then you easily can fall in love with a hill. From this point of view, it is easy to understand Nordic Combined overall World Cup leader Anssi Koivuranta (FIN): "This hill is perfect. It's modern, it's nice to jump - I love it." But he's not alone. Austria's Mario Stecher, one of the old stars in the Nordic Combined scene, who has seen almost all jumping hills of the world, added: "This hill could become my favorite one ..." Daito Takahashi from Japan, Bill Demong (USA), winner of the first World Cup competition on Friday, or Jason Lamy Chappuis from France agreed, too. The new hill in Whistler Olympic Park, the venue for the 2010 Olympic Nordic events, is comparable to the hill in Pragelato where the 2006 Olympic Games were held, it seems small but is majestic at the same time, and by being in the middle of woods minimizes trouble with the wind. "They have done a very great job, I'm already looking forward to next year's Olympics", Demong said.
The Nordic Combined athletes, also felt well on their 2.5 km lap with two hard uphills to climb. "The profile is nice", Germany's top skier Bjoern Kircheisen said. "It was exciting to run in front of a large crowd", Norway's Magnus Moan added. "I felt like running at home, with all these supporters from Norway." No wonder he went on to take his fourth season victory in the second competition on Saturday.
Besides the Nordic Combined athletes testing the Olympic venue, three days of the Viessmann FIS Cross-Country World Cup were carried out as a test for the Cross-Country teams, local organizer and FIS. Under sunny and blue skies, the number of spectators was one of the most pleasant surprises during a well-organized World Cup weekend. Some 6000 excited sport fans were counted on every day.
On the challenging classical sprint course, Alena Prochazkova (SVK) took her first World Cup win while on the men's side Emil Joensson (SWE) took the honors. During Saturday's pursuit race, TV viewers all over the world got the first taste of the amazing scenery in Callaghan Valley. The Olympic courses seemed to suit Justyna Kowalczyk (POL) and Pietro Piller Cottrer (ITA) best as both emerged with victories. The test weekend was concluded by a team sprint where Magda Genuin and Arianna Follis took the ladies' top spot for Italy and Swedes Emil Joensson/Robin Bryntesson finished first on the men's side. The biggest surprise was posted by the home team; George Grey and Alex Harvey from Team Canada II pushed hard and finished in third place. "This is where we want to be for the Olympics. This is a stepping stone so we did it," stated Grey after the race."
All in all, the representatives of FIS were highly satisfied with the pre-Olympic World Cups: "This venue is designed for the future and I am very happy with what I've seen from the tests we've done over the last three days," said Vegard Ulvang, Chairman of the FIS Cross-Country Committee who was present during the entire event.
The Whistler test events will continue with two FIS Ski Jumping World Cup competitions this coming weekend.
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|Carlo Janka (SUI)
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|Alla Tsuper (BLR)
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With the ladies' Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup continuing in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee (AUT), Lindsey Vonn (USA) claimed her already third season win and second career win in a super combined. She recovered from a major mistake in the downhill portion to deliver a solid slalom performance to win ahead of Kathrin Zettel (AUT) and Anja Paerson (SWE) as season's slalom dominator Maria Riesch straddled a gate after being favorite having posted 3rd position in the downhill race. The super combined surprise was young Canadian Larisa Yurkiw who blew everyone away by posting the fastest downhill time. The season's second downhill on Sunday saw Paerson sharing the win with Swiss Dominique Gisin who landed her first ever World Cup victory. Vonn who took third also took over the lead in the overall World Cup standings.
The ladies tour continues in Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA) this week where continuing snowfall has forced some schedule changes. The super-G, scheduled for Thursday has been cancelled and replaced by a downhill training after the trainings set for Tuesday and Wednesday had to be cancelled. More information regarding super-G will be communicated on Thursday. Friday's and Saturday's downhill competitions, as well as Sunday's giant slalom will take place as scheduled.
At the men's traditional Lauberhorn races in Wengen (SUI) the Swiss took revenge after their poor performance on home slalom course in Adelboden. For the first time since 2003, Lauberhorn saw not just one but two Swiss winners. On Friday, new star Carlo Janka was back on top of the podium in super combined, an event that he apparently finds arduous since one must lug two types of skis up the mountain. Speed skier Peter Fill showed his skill with the short skis by taking 2nd, with Silvan Zurbriggen in 3rd adding to the Swiss joy. The Swiss celebrations continued on Saturday as the team delivered a stellar performance led by team veteran Didier Defago with five racers in the top 13. 2007 & 2008 winner Bode Miller took 2nd. In Sunday's slalom Team Austria was back with a vengeance after the poorest showing in a World Cup downhill since 1994. Only Ivica Kostelic (CRO) was able to prevent a four-fold victory by the red-whites, whilst for Manfred Pranger it was the first victory in four years. In excellent winter weather, 55'000 fans celebrated the best male ski racers in the Bernese Oberland over the weekend. The men are racing in Kitzbühel this week, where the program includes super-G, downhill, slalom and the traditional Kitzbühel combined.
Moving to North America, the Freestyle FIS World Cup in ski cross continues its rapid competition pace. In Lake Placid (USA), Lars Lewen of Sweden took his first win of the season, while Austria's Patrick Koller was second and World Cup leader, Tomas Kraus of the Czech Republic was third. For the ladies, the Lake Placid event was the first time for a field of 32 in the finals. In previous races, the finals were only open to 16. That did not change the winner as Ophelie David (FRA) took her second straight victory, this time ahead of Jenny Owens from Australia and teammate Meryl Boulangeat.
The aerials World Cup also continued in Lake Placid on Sunday. Jeret "Speedy" Peterson (USA) notched his seventh World Cup victory on his return from 18 months off competition. His last win came at Deer Valley two years ago where he won back-to-back aerial World Cups and set a record for the highest score received for his trick "the hurricane". Canadians Kyle Nissen and Warren Shouldice completed the podium. In the ladies competition the victory went to Alla Tsuper of Belarus ahead of Mengtao Xu of China and Emily Cook (USA).
|Podium ladies in Schonach (GER)
The winter period of the Ladies Continental cup in Ski Jumping commenced in the middle of December and is now half-way. 9 of 19 Continental Cup competitions have already taken place and the mid-season balance can be seen as very positive.
After the kick-off of the series in the US and Canada before Christmas, the circus returned to Central Europe for competitions in Germany and today in Toblach, Italy. The mid-season ranking leader is Lindsey Van from the USA with a total of 482 points. Runner-up is Ulrike Graessler of Germany (463 points) ahead of her teammate Anna Haefele (441 points).
The most victories - three - so far this winter were collected by both Anna Haefele and the 'veteran' Daniela Iraschko (AUT), who started her season after an injury break only in the New Year and immediately won three competitions in a row. There has been great change among the athletes in the top positions which is also shown in the overall ranking, where there are athletes from six nations among the top ten.
"We are really satisfied with the development of the ladies Continental Cup. So far we had no cancellations and were able to organize the highest number of competitions compared with the several past seasons. The ladies Continental Cup is now in its fifth season and we are happy that we are included in the program of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships this year. We are looking forward to Liberec 2009," stated Chika Yoshida, FIS Coordinator for the ladies Continental Cup.
The preparations for the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships for the lady jumpers will take place at the upcoming Continental Cups in Slovenia, Poland and Norway. After Liberec 2009 the ladies will conclude their season in Japan with competitions in Zao and Sapporo.
Contributed by Sandra Spitz
|Inside FIS
OC Val d'IsŠre
It is just 12 days until the Opening Ceremony during which FIS President Gian Franco Kasper will declare the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 officially open on February 2nd. A show entitled "Pistes Royales" and the Transe Express company orchestra will follow the short official ceremony.
The great celebration of skiing will feature a great deal of music with numerous concerts by artists such as David Guetta, Jim Murple Memorial, CaravanPalace, Mellino/Négresses Vertes, Ana Popovic and Pep's, just to name just a few of the musical side events taking place.
Culture is also high on the list with guided tours organized in the resort to discover the local architectural history and conferences focused on the environment hosted by Nicolas Vanier for example. Also, evening events such as the Full Moon Burn will offer the opportunity to ski by moonlight in a trendy, hip atmosphere while pyrotechnical shows will illuminate the Snowfront with explosions of colors and sparkling shapes and forms.
There will be entertainment at the races themselves too with giant screens, DJs and lively commentators charged with creating a festive atmosphere during the competitions. Several former ski champions from France and abroad will be competing in a "Living Legends' Slalom" night race.
There will also be no lack of high caliber visitors, notably IOC President Jacques Rogge, among many others.
|In Depth
|Liberec (CZE)
Photo: Nordic Focus
In a month's time, from 18th February -1st of March, the 2009 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships will take place in the Bohemian city Liberec (CZE). After years of intensive preparations, Liberec is ready for its grand premiere and looking forward to the event. The forthcoming FIS Nordic World Ski Championships will be the most prestigious sports event to have taken place in the history of the independent Czech Republic.
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 will be the first to welcome the female ski jumpers at the highest level of FIS competitions. The Nordic Combined mass start will also make its title event debut.. Altogether, 20 medal events are on schedule in Liberec, which is a new record in the history of FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Of those, Cross-Country will count for twelve (six female and six male) events, and Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined each for four. Needless to say, the 2009 Championships promise to be a superb spectacle with plenty of vivid experiences in store for about 600 participants from 59 nations, also a new record!
The Organizing Committee for Liberec 2009 and the competition venues - Vesec for Cross-Country and Ještěd for Ski Jumping - are getting their fine tuning "The most important thing is that we have enough snow - about 70 cm. In these days, we are preparing the trails in Vesec. The Czech representation already tested it and they were satisfied. Ještěd is already fully-prepared. Now, we are just refining details in the logistics and other areas," stated Liberec 2009 President, former top skier Katerina Neumannova.
Beside the athletes, special attention is being paid to the Nordic fans who will visit these unique World Championships: "We have prepared a special social program for the fans. And I am pleased to be able to invite to the Official Opening of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships at Tipsport arena. Probably the most famous name (not from sports, of course) that spectators and ski fans will get to see there is that of the legendary English rock band Deep Purple", Neumannova added. "During the Championships, we will have theme days in Liberec. During these theme days, spectators will have the opportunity to meet cultures of countries such as Italy, Norway or Slovakia. A great attraction during the Slovak Day will be a concert of the popular Slovak band Elán. The Organizing Committee is preparing fan zones on the and Vesec grounds which will offer not only refreshments but also music productions. Nearly every day, concerts by Czech music stars will take place on the main square in Liberec where medal award ceremonies will be held."
To get smoothly to the venues, the Organizing Committee is offering free public transportation in Liberec, as well transfers by tram from the neighboring town of Jablonec nad Nisou.
How to get there: Prague International Airport is the closest airport to use for Liberec, it takes about 1,5 hours to Liberec (depending on traffic), the distance between Prague and Liberec is a bit more than 100 km and is connected with a highway.
For more information visit www.liberec2009.com
The reigning 2007 World Champions from Sapporo (JPN)
Individual start 10 km free technique: Katerina Neumannova (CZE)
Mass start 30 km classical technique: Virpi Kuitunen (FIN)
Pursuit: Olga Savialova (RUS)
Team sprint free technique: Finland
Sprint classical technique: Astrid Jacobsen (NOR)
Relay: Finland
Individual start 15 km free technique: Lars Berger (NOR)
Mass start 50 km classical technique: Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset (NOR)
Pursuit: Axel Teichmann (GER)
Team Sprint free technique: Italy
Sprint classical technique: Jens Arne Svartedal (NOR)
Relay: Norway
Ski Jumping
Large Hill: Simon Ammann (SUI)
Normal Hill: Adam Malysz (POL)
Team: Austria
Nordic Combined
Sprint: Hannu Manninen (FIN)
Gundersen: Ronny Ackermann (GER)
Team: Finland


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And by Living with Type A, I mean how you can better support your Type A significant other or friend. Once you understand us, you'll realize we're always right.
Firstly, a point of clarification: Type A is not OCD. I will be covering OCD in a different entry.
Important Motivators of Type A Folk:
1) Perfection – Who cares if this is technically impossible? We are forever haunted by the possibility and will compromise our health and sanity in the pursuit of nirvana, which any Buddhist will tell you is possible.
2) Efficiency – Type A people don't like people or objects, but especially people, that get in their way of getting things done in a timely manner. Don't judge, just get out of their way and no one will get hurt.
3) To Do List – Nothing is more thrilling than crossing off an item on the To Do List, second only to closet organizers. Forgive me for stating the obvious, but if it is not captured on a To Do List, it is not worthy of your time and attention. Once you realize this, your life will thank you.
Failure to meet any of the above three objectives may result in stress, shortness of breath and night sweats. But don't worry, this is just a temporary blip on the path to perfection.


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Many a times as an instructional designer I only have background information about my learner; I don't know who they are or what their interest are. This makes my job a bit difficult because I need to make sure that my learner is motivated enough to complete my course. But how do I do this?
There are plenty of books written with instructional strategies on how to engage and motivate your learner. These books are mainly theoretical and do help when you're in need; however, I have realized that there is no better way to learn other than from your own practical experience.
Let me take you through 5 simple ways of designing eLearning courses, which have helped my learners have an amazing learning experience.
1. Build a structure:
What happens when you construct a building without its pillars? It's bound to fall, right? In the same way never start your course without creating a proper structure. You want a course that makes a lasting impression in your learners' mind and to do that, the first thing you need to do is to analyze. Now analyzing just doesn't mean reading through your content; when you analyze you need to think about the accuracy and appropriateness of your course – whether or not it make sense to you. And if it doesn't make sense to you, rest assured it isn't going to make much sense to your learners as well!
It is important to create a strategy that covers the A to Z of your requirements and resources, so that when you begin you exactly know where you will end.
2. Less content more learning:
Too much of anything isn't always good. The same applies to eLearning, never bombard you learner with too much information. You may think you're doing a great job by giving your learner the tiniest of detail he or she needs to now, but you end up losing your learners' attention. Very often, your content dictates the way of your course and a content-heavy eLearning course is like a boat that has a hole in it, eventually waiting to drown.
One of the ways to avoid such a disaster is to present concise and accurate information. Use information that adds value to your content. Minimal text onscreen and language that is simple and conversation will make your course lively and learner friendly. Too much content can distract your learners and as an instructional designer you have to find the right balance between too much content and too less content and once you get the hang of it, your course will seamlessly flow from topic to topic.
3. Tell a story:
As children we all grew up listening to fairytales and bed time stories. Using storytelling as an instructional strategy is not only a great tool to impart knowledge, but it also appeals to the child in you. No matter what the context is, simple or complicated, when you spin a story around learning you are bound to make the hardest subject easy and fun to understand. Storytelling conveys learning through emotions, for instance, you can use characters, create a scenario around them and then use that scenario to explain a procedure. Check out How an Instructional Designer Can Evoke Emotions in eLearning? for more information.
4. Visual treat:
No matter how interesting your subject is and how well you tell a story, it means nothing if you don't visually entice your learner. Learners tend to concentrate more on images rather than plain text.
Visuals are generally used in following ways:
- Images: You will find images in every eLearning course out there, but don't think that just by adding an image your content gets interesting. The key to using images is that it should not only support but enhance the value of your content. For example, using a doctor's images just because your content talks about cancer isn't enough. In such a situation, an image of that particular cancer cell will make more sense to you and your learner.
- Videos: Videos are a step ahead than images. Moving images always attract your learner's attention. Videos are an asset to eLearning. Videos are best used as welcome messages, employee or customer testimonials and are the easiest form of instruction when you have to explain a complicated process. However, there is a lot more to know about the technicality of videos while embedding them in your course. Check out Using Videos in eLearning – Factors to Consider for more information.
5. Activity:
Any eLearning course becomes the best when your learner is allowed to do something; even a small click of the mouse can make a huge difference. Another way to keep your learner hooked is by making them do something! For such a situation, you have simulations where your learners see a process and then repeat it. For instance, you want show your learner how to register his/her name on a popular website; here you take your learner through the webpage and detail out the steps. Once your learner has watched it then the next step is to make him/her try out the same exact procedure; this not only keeps your leaner engaged but reinforces the process of learning.
With these 5 strategies in my kitty I was able to make quite a few interesting eLearning courses that made my learners wanting for more. If you know strategies that can help your learners even more then please do share.


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Written by: Student Assistant John Nash
Michael Wishart (Hillsborough, Calif.) is a two-year starter in goal who helped lead the Broncos men's water polo team to a 22-12 record and a third place finish at WWPA's in 2009. Wishart is the definition of a true student-athlete. After only two seasons of play he ranks second in career blocks at Santa Clara. Wishart, majoring in Mathematics and minoring in history, was named to the ACWPC All-Academic team for his achievements during the 2009 season.
Below, get to know rising junior Michael Wishart.
SCU: Head coach Keith Wilbur has called you one of the hardest-working players he has ever coached. What sort of things do you work on in order to help prepare yourself for the upcoming season?
MW: I spend as much time in the water as possible. I would workout on my own or with other teammates before practices and days off. Being 5'10, I'm not the biggest guy in the pool so I work to make up for it by having stronger legs and being able to move quickly through the water. I lift weights at the Riekes Center three days a week so that I can be as strong in the water as possible. I constantly learn more about the game by meeting with Coach Wilbur and by watching video of games from the previous season. This helps me see what I need to work on so that I can always get better.
SCU: Last season the Broncos set a single season records for wins. With the departure of four important seniors, 2010 marks a new era for Santa Clara water polo. What's the outlook for this upcoming season?
MW: We had a great senior class last season in Mike Sorgenfrei, Mark Soares, Jack Wall and Liam Farrell. That group did a lot these last four years (five for Jack) in order to get SCU men's water polo to where it needs to be so that we can be in a position to win a championship. Luckily, we are returning a great core of players this year which will be supported by an exciting incoming freshmen class. I am really looking forward to seeing the senior class of this upcoming season (Mitch Kilpa, Stephen Hobbs, Josh Luebke, Daley Meistrell, Jeff Welch, Jake Diserio and Nick Poggetti) build off of what we have already done and possibly lead us to our program's first WWPA championship.
SCU: Goalie is a key position on any team. What are some characteristics of a good goaltender in water polo?
MW: Every goalie needs to have the physical attributes of being explosive with strong legs and quick hands. Being a good passer is important in order to lead the counter-attack. Just as important is being a smart player so that the goalie can dictate to the defense where they need to be. By understanding the game, the goalie can know what the opponent is going to do before it happens and prevent it.
SCU: You have had the chance to start every game in your
Santa Clara career. How does that experience translate into success
in the pool?
MW: I am very fortunate to have two years of experience as a starter going into my junior year. Having that experience is critical because it gives me the confidence of knowing that I have seen almost any possible scenario in any big game. With that confidence I know that our team will be able to handle any game situation this upcoming season. That experience helps me become a more consistent player which is important so that my teammates will know what they will get out of me in games.
SCU: You're majoring in Mathematics. Any ideas as to what you want to do when you finish with school?
MW: So far no. The great thing about majoring in Mathematics is that it gives me a lot of options. While at SCU I am going to take a wide variety of jobs so that I can get an idea of what I would like to do as a career. I am doing an internship right now as a research analyst which is great since it gives me an idea of how I can apply my skills as a math major in business.
SCU: We've gotten almost everyone's World Cup picks. With only eight teams left, who's your pick to take it all?
MW: "Don't Cry for Me Argentina!" is what Germany is going to say after Messi brings it this Saturday. Argentina all the way.


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