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I am an avid reader as I read, on average, 3 books a week. I could list a ton of good authors and favorite books, but for this page, here is just a sampling of my all time favorite books and authors.
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"Christ the Healer" by F.F. Bosworth
"Schizophrenic God" by Steve C. Shank
"Driven by Eternity" by John Bevere
"Compelled by Love" by Heidi Baker
"Beautiful One: A Walk in Deeper Intimacy
with the One Who Created Us" by Beni Johnson & Others
"God's Smuggler" by Brother Andrew
"Tortured for Christ" by Richard Wurmbrand
"Heavenly Man" by Brother Yun
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"Zion Chronicles" and "Zion Covenant" by Bodie Thoene
"The Mark of the Lion" Series by Francine Rivers
"Northern Lights" Series by Lisa Bergren
"The Girl in the Gatehouse" by Julie Klassen
"At the Scent of Water" by Linda Nichols
"Edenbrooke" by Julianne Donaldson
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formation of a new political system
December 8, 1991 the heads of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus - the three largest countries of the former Union had - gathered at the Belarusian Bialowieza Forest.Their aim was to conclude the treaty.Yeltsin, Kravchuk and Shushkevich signed the Agreement on creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
This document has a preamble and 14 articles.It said that the Soviet Union ceased to exist.However, based on historical community of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples, according to the previously concluded bilateral treaties and so forth., The formation of the CIS it was necessary and appropriate.
Soviet President Gorbachev reacted negatively to the emergence of the Commonwealth that has not prevented the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation to ratify it December 12, 1991.In Bela
rus and Ukraine Agreement on the establishment of the CIS has also passed ratification.
in the Bialowieza agreements (named after the place of signing) indicated that a CIS can join the countries of the former USSR and others.December 13, 1991 on the initiative of Nazarbayev in Ashgabat hosted a meeting of heads of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Armenia, who expressed the desire to join the CIS.However, the representatives of these countries demanded that their participation in the Commonwealth were equal, together with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.Later he joined the CIS Azerbaijan and Moldova.In 1993, Georgia joined the CIS, which came out of it after the events of 2008.
Legal grounds
CIS existed under the Charter, approved on December 22 the same year.Its purpose was proclaimed the creation of the Allies a common economic, social, political, environmental, and humanitarian space.Between member states of the CIS were to operate concessionary terms of border crossings, established free trade zone.
important point was the interaction of the CIS with other international organizations.In 1994, the UN General Assembly granted observer status to the CIS.In 1992, the countries of the CIS announced the peacekeeping policy in relation to each other.Thus leaders tried to avoid violence and threats of violence against each other.For a long time, this agreement is enforced rigorously Kiev.After all, the maintenance of peace and stability was declared an essential condition for the existence of the Commonwealth.


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I joined BEG as a postdoctoral fellow in 2013 after getting my Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Maine. With a solid background of mechanics, I enjoy multidisciplinary research and have a wide range of research experiences. For my master theses, I analyzed the large deformation and instability of hyperleastic materials. For my Ph. D, I developed computational/analytical models to simulate natural hydraulic fracture initiation and propagation associated with transformation of solid kerogen to liquid oil, and conversion of oil to gas in shale formations. I also investigated multiple hydraulic fractures in poroelastic rocks. My current research is focused on fluid injection induced earthquakes. We try to investigate the causative relationship between fluid injection and induced seismic fault slip by integrating geological and geophysical data into a poroelastic finite element model. My research interests include borehole stability, hydraulic fracture, interaction between fluid flow, rock deformation and crack growth, and abnormal pressure modeling in sedimentary basins.
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Poroelastic modeling of sedimentary basins, Fracture and damage mechanics of rocks, Borehole stability, Natural and Induced hydraulic fracture, Fluid injection induced earthquake
Current Research Programs & Projects
RPSEA project Relationships between induced seismicity and fluid injection: development of strategies to manage fluid disposals in shale hydrocarbon plays.
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Starbucks Debuts Six New Frappuccino 'Fan Flavors'
Get ready for a new Starbucks order!
From cold-brew iced coffee to mini Frappuccinos, the coffee chain is pulling out all the stops for summer. And now comes another sweet announcement: the introduction of six new frappuccino flavors!
Dubbed "fan flavors," the new blended beverages are Red Velvet Cake, Cotton Candy, Cinnamon Roll, Lemon Bar, Caramel Cocoa Cluster and Cupcake, reports the Chicago Tribune.
The sugary drinks — which perfectly complement Starbucks' other summertime flavor, S'mores — are spins on some of their classic counterparts. For example, the Cotton Candy Frappuccino is a standard Vanilla Bean Creme Frappuccino with raspberry syrup added, while the Cupcake Frappuccino adds hazelnut syrup to the Vanilla Bean Creme Frappuccino.
Although they may not count as "skinny," the new flavors do range in calorie count. The grande sizes can be up to 510 calories (based on the company's standard recipes with whipped cream and whole milk) for the Cinnamon Roll Frappuccino, while the lowest-calorie option is the Lemon Bar Frappuccino at 350 calories.
And another reason to try all six? Customers can vote online from June 19 to 30 for their favorite new flavor. The winning one will be sold at a discounted price of $3 for a grande 2-5 p.m. on July 3-6.
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We know now from months of primary and now campaign rhetoric that Republican politicians and their surrogates lie about most everything having to do with Obama himself, his record over three-and-a-half years, their own record and, most importantly now, their proposed agenda if elected to office.
The question is, why do they lie with such conviction, dexterity and impunity? Why are their lies so outrageous and obvious to any thinking person? The lies extend to the creation of our national debt, to the supposed horrors of the new health care law, for the reasons why job creation has been so slow, and what Obama would perpetrate if he was re-elected to a second term.
It seems clear to anyone really listening, that the Republican lies all emanate from one simple premise: the harm Obama has done and will do is so dangerous and egregious that any lies they tell morally outweigh that immanent danger. The end justifies means.
If these liars are in fact able to sleep at night, it is this "higher moral necessity" that allows them their rest. They truly believe as a matter of the nation's survival that facts can be changed, records falsified, and even personal lives distorted with impunity.
Of course, watching this so-called moral high ground from which the GOP is preaching and lying, makes this holier-than-thou-the-people nonsense painful to watch. We cringe, cry out, and complain, all the while watching with dismay as the lies increase and the lame-stream media continues to ignore the lies. Yes, Palin was right about that characterization. It is lame.
The media is bound as we know by the corporate power that signs all those paychecks.
But that is no excuse for the response that many of us have now to this toxic political environment. Many of my friends, even family, have withdrawn in sadness, anger, even depression, from becoming energized. My own normally activist daughter said last week, "Part of me wants to just give up, and I can't promise that I won't occasionally post something dear to my heart that is coming up to a vote, but I'm going to try and refrain from spreading the hate. Enough is enough."
The truth is that the GOP has nothing true or valid to offer, nothing that they dare to propose openly to the American people. So they lie and they do so because Rove, the Koch brothers and all the other monied interests have convinced a rabid minority that lying is justified by the coming Armageddon and End Times, both of which are also lies, by the way.


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This is the first of a two-part interview with Allan Savory, President and Co-Founder of The Savory Institute, an organization based in Zimbabwe that works with farmers, pastoralists, and ranchers to restore degraded lands through holistic management practices. Savory is a winner of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, which awards recipients for innovative thinking to solve some of the world's most pressing problems.
Livestock production, particularly cattle, has been blamed in recent years for environmental degradation on both the local and global scales. Do you agree with this perspective?
Yes, livestock are blamed for environmental degradation, and rightly so. They have been blamed for thousands of years, as livestock grazing and burning of grasslands caused the great man-made deserts of the world. They have been blamed for the vast range land degradation in the U.S. and other nations. They are now vilified for the methane they emit adding to global greenhouse gases. They are blamed for the tragic degradation of riparian areas along streams in U.S. public lands. They have in fact caused far greater environmental damage over centuries than their strongest critics write about.
It was for this reason that I, in my days as a young scientist, hated livestock and the people running them. It was for this reason that I first coined the term "game ranching" and initiated the first efforts in Africa to show that we could give wildlife a value and ultimately get rid of livestock. I did this because of what I saw with my own eyes, and what my university training taught me to believe. It was all so obvious, and I could not see why anyone would deny such overwhelming evidence.
While all the critics are correct (as I was also), and were in fact understating the damage that livestock were causing, I did note that most of the damage was in regions with very seasonal precipitation and long dry periods, where humidity was strongly seasonal regardless of rainfall. I noted that much less damage was being experienced in environments where the moisture in the soil and atmosphere was more-or-less constant. Thus, we see the greatest desertification taking place on the roughly two-thirds of the Earth where humidity is very seasonal (including parts of the United States), but not, for example, in England.
People who are critical of livestock are right to be deeply concerned. Climate change is caused by two things: agriculture (the cause of global desertification), and fossil fuel use (leading to emissions of greenhouse gases). In many ways, agriculture, producing more eroding soil than food worldwide, is the most serious cause. I say this because even after we develop benign forms of mass energy, climate change will continue because agriculture is causing the expansion of deserts. Images over time from space are telling: Dr. [Elisabet] Sahtouris gives an interesting description of mankind as "a desert-making species" if viewed from space.
If we look at the other effects of desertification, we see its significance highlighted even more. Increasing drought and flood severity and frequency, poverty, social breakdown, cultural genocide of ranching and pastoralist peoples, increasing violence, emigration to cities, etc. All of these symptoms are due to desertification and not to climate change—although they are now being blamed on climate change, despite the fact that desertification began thousands of years before widespread fossil fuel use.
So we can take it as a given that livestock are gravely endangering humanity—as they have been managed and still are managed.
But you now believe that livestock is the only tool available to reverse desertification. How have you come to that conclusion?
Humans are a tool-using animal, and we can only manipulate or manage our environment by using some tool—through creativity, our labor, or our money. About 2 million years ago, we used our first tools: sticks and stones. But we could develop no further than sharpening the sticks with chipped stones, our first simple technology. Then we got use of the tool of fire and we advanced our technology to the marvels of today, where I can use this computer and the Internet and we can build vast cities and put a person on the moon.
For at least a million years, humans have had only these two tools: technology and fire. Then, sometime after the domestication of plants and animals beginning about 15,000 years ago, we developed the idea of "resting" the land or environment to let it recover—through crop rotations with rest, and grazing systems using resting land periods. Today, the most sophisticated scientific teams addressing climate change and desertification are still using the three tools with which we influence our environment at large: technology, fire, and rest. But there is no tool in our scientific toolbox that could have prevented, or that can reverse, desertification.
Desertification results from biodiversity loss: the loss of the mass and diversity of plant and animal life. Sustaining life in any environment requires sustaining a basic life-cycle of birth, growth, death, and decay, in which nutrients are cycled continuously. In perennially humid environments—roughly one-third of Earth's land—the decay part of this cycle is maintained by a high population of microorganisms that bring about biological decay. As vegetation dies throughout the year, organisms continually break it down.
In these environments, we can use the tool of "rest" to address the most severe environmental degradation. Old city civilizations that were abandoned in these environments, when agriculture had so damaged the land that people could no longer support a city, are found under recovered vegetation and jungle. This is because resting the land is the most powerful tool available to humans to restore and maintain biodiversity and the full lifecycling of vegetation in perennially humid environments, from oceans to tropical forests.
So why is desertification such a problem in other environments, that are not humid year-round?
In environments that are alternately wet and dry and thus experience seasonal humidity—such as vast grasslands, savannas, and man-made deserts—things operate very differently. The life-cycle has to be maintained—and it was, prior to human intervention. In these environments, a great amount of vegetation grows during the humid growing season. When the soil and humidity dry off each year, most trees and shrubs lose their leaves, which drop to the ground and decay. Many billions of tons of above-ground grass parts also die off but do not drop to the ground. Thus, a large volume of plant material that has to decay stands dead in an environment where the microorganisms of decay have also diminished due to the lack of humidity. How then does decay function?
The answer is that most of these perennial grass plants developed alongside vast herding herbivores. The animals were dependent on the grass for food, and the grass was dependent on the animals for removal and rapid biological decay of the dying material. Most grasses have growth points close to the ground, out of harm from grazing animals, so the animals could remove leaves without damage to the plant and also allow sunlight to reach the growth points the following season. But if there are not enough large herbivores with vast microorganism populations in their moist gut to cycle this mass of material, then it remains standing.
As dead grass parts stand, without large herbivores to bring about decay, a chemical process of oxidation takes over. Oxidation is a very slow process: experimental plots show that it can take over 60 years for a perennial grass to finally break down if totally protected from fire or animals. Slow oxidation/weathering leads to premature death of most animal-dependent perennial grass plants, and thus to loss of biomass and diversity. Healthy grassland gives way to woody tap-rooted plants that are not dependent on grazing herbivores (if rainfall is high enough). And in places where rainfall is low, it gives way to desert bushes and bare soil—i.e., desertification. (See images for an illustration of these changes.)
Commonly, the perennial grasses that do survive in areas with too few herbivores are what I call "rest tolerant," and these today dominate millions of acres of U.S. desertifying range lands. Examples of these grasses are aristida, gramma, and tobossa. They are generally recognizable by their short stature, fine sparse stems and leaves, or branching stems like a tree—all allowing light to reach growth points despite oxidizing material.
Humans must have first observed this weakening of grasslands sometime after killing off most large herbivores and replacing them with fewer domesticated animals. And naturally, they used fire to remove the old material in an effort to keep the grasslands healthy and woody plants at bay. This approach is still supported by major environmental and other organizations today because all of these groups use the core decision framework of humans that recognizes only technology, rest, or fire. Train in any university, in any profession, and you will only be trained to use either technology, fire, or rest to manipulate our environment at large. Even water for irrigation is not a tool in the sense that it can only be applied through some aspect of technology.
Fire, although rapid, is still oxidation—and thus represents chemical breakdown and not biological decay. It also ruthlessly exposes soil and contributes greenhouse gases and black carbon, contributing to desertification and climate change. The tool of rest also leads to oxidation—i.e., bare soil and desertification, as shown in the images of New Mexico.
Is the third tool, technology, an option? If not, where does that leave us for combating desertification?
Technology is the only tool remaining in our toolbox, but no imaginable technology can restore biological decay over two-thirds of the world's land, every year. There is only one thing that can do what is needed: large herbivores with moist guts in which microorganism populations remain high throughout the year. In practical terms, this means livestock, because most large herbivores were wiped out. In some situations, as we are demonstrating on the Africa Centre for Holistic Management's land in Zimbabwe, we are integrating livestock with the remnant wildlife populations.
I have come to the conclusion that we have no option but to get the public, scientists, politicians, and others to accept that only livestock can reverse desertification. There is no other known tool available to humans with which to address desertification that is contributing not only to climate change but also to much of the poverty, emigration, violence, etc. in the seriously affected regions of the world.
We can now see that it was not the livestock per se that caused significant damage in the past, but the way we managed them. And given that they are now the only practical tool with which to address desertification and its role in climate change, we can now put things like methane emissions into perspective. Livestock do produce methane. And it is likely that they produce more methane on artificial feedlot feed and pasture than on range land grass feed.
But assume for a moment that livestock even on natural range land feed produced 10 times the methane alleged. What would we do? Condemn them and continue dealing with desertification using technology, fire, and resting land—two of which cause desertification and one that cannot reverse it? No, we have no option but to use livestock—no matter what methane they emit. What is most likely is that the methane produced will be countered by healthy grasslands, as in the past.
Many academics, environmentalists, and others have ridiculed, abused, and "shot the messenger" over the last 50 years. But not one has come forward to show us where this reasoning is either wrong or unsupported by science. It is vital for humanity to end this controversy, and to do so soon.
What do you think about using livestock to manage desertification and climate change? Let us know in the comments! And stay tuned for part II of our interview with Allan Savoy in the coming days.
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Bridgestone Potenza BMW CCA Genesee Valley HPDE
BMW CCA - Genesee Valley Chapter
Registration closed June 3, 2016 11:59 PM on June 3, 2016 11:59 PM EDT Registration ends June 3, 2016 11:59 PM on June 3, 2016 11:59 PM EDT Registration opens January 8, 2016 12:00 AM on January 8, 2016 12:00 AM EST Registration runs from January 8, 2016 12:00 AM to June 3, 2016 11:59 PM
Welcome to the
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at Watkins Glen
This driving school is the second of four GVC HPDE's in 2016, our 32nd year running HPDE's at Watkins Glen. As most of you know, Watkins Glen was completely re-paved from the ground up this past fall. The super-smooth racing surface offers a fresh challenge to drivers and instructors alike. And the second weekend in June almost guarantees balmy weather.
New this year is our one-day driving school for beginners, which we are calling "Novice Track Day". This school will run on Friday and is limited to only 20 drivers. The format is similar to our novice group on Saturday and Sunday, but emphasizes basic concepts and skills for the first-time driver. That said, beginners may opt to extend the Friday NTD into the weekend by signing up in the novice group for all three days!
See below for more info.
The following lays out who is invited to register for this school, how our driving school is organized, and this year's fee structure. Despite a very hefty increase in track rental fees in 2016, we are happy to tell you that we managed to keep fees reasonable and competitive.
If you are a veteran of our schools, if you wish you can skip the rest of this section and jump directly to the registration page. Scroll to the bottom to find the "continue" button. Don't forget to read the waivers and check the boxes before hitting "continue".
GVC's Ultimate Driving School Program offers intensive, personal in-car training to students at all skill levels. Students are assigned to run groups according to prior experience, evaluations (including SLIP ratings) from previous driving schools (if any), vehicle and tire type. This year we will be running four (4) student groups at the May and June weekend schools. By adding an additional hour of track time, each run group will get a minimum of 4 track sessions each day (weather permitting). The four run groups include Beginners/Novices (<5 schools), Intermediate, Advanced, and Solo (Group S). All students (except Group S) are coached from the passenger seat by individually assigned, highly-trained, experienced driving instructors. Between track sessions, students are required attend interactive classroom sessions tailored to their skill level. Students also learn by example by riding with their instructors during the instructor track sessions. An infield car-control exercise paddock area provides students the chance to practice newly-learned driving techniques and explore the car's limits at lower speeds.
The Group S program (aka Solo, A-Solo) is open only to very advanced, experienced drivers who have been vetted through our checkout procedure to register for this group. Group S drivers in good standing from prior GVC events may register without prior approval. ALL other drivers seeking to join Group S require a checkout at the event before being admitted to the group. Applicants should register as "Group S checkout" and will be assigned by default to the Advanced (A) student run group prior to the checkout. Please consult the GVC website (link below) for further details on advancement to Group S.
Advanced and intermediate students have one option: register for the full two-day school running on Saturday and Sunday.
Beginners/novices have three options:
"Novice Track Day", our NEW one-day school geared toward drivers who have never taken a HP driving school, which runs on Friday only.
Two-day driving school on Saturday and Sunday (as above). Open to all novices, including those who have never taken a driving school.
- Three-day school, i.e. Track Day on Friday, and Novice group on Saturday and Sunday. For beginners who wish to get a full weekend of instruction and track time.
Group S drivers have three registration options:
Three-day school Friday - Sunday.
Two-day school Friday - Saturday OR Saturday - Sunday; Group S Checkout: Saturday - Sunday
Group S drivers are afforded the following additional benefits:
- Three hours of scheduled track time per day: Four "private" half-hour sessions in their own run group*, plus two additional sessions driving in either the advanced or intermediate group.
- Friday open-track day: Group S drivers registered for either the Fri.-Sun. 3-day package, or Fri.-Sat.2-day package, drive in "open-track" conditions with the instructors on Friday.
- Group S Classroom debriefing sessions: Group S coaches and drivers meet for tutorials on advanced HPD techniques and group discussions that take the place of traditional didactic classroom sessions, At these meetings, experiences will be shared, and driving techniques introduced, compared, debated and critiqued.
More details about GVC Group S are available on the GVC website, as well as from the GVC Chief Instructor (email@example.com) and Group S Lead Instructor.
Please visit the GVC website for complete details about our HP driving schools, including the Group S application procedure:
Registration and Fees:
- Members: GVC chapter members are afforded highest priority for seats in our events. BMW CCA members from other chapters are at the next level of priority.
- Non-Members: Registration for non-members is deferred until approximately one month before the registration deadline for each event. Non-members are charged an additional $100 above member fees, and are last to be accepted from a waiting list.
Membership in BMW CCA is only $48 per year. Join today before registering, and avoid the non-member surcharge! http://bmwcca.org/index.php?pageid=new_member
- Registration after the deadline is only possible by special arrangement, and only if there are still seats available, or late cancelattions (call or email the Registrar: email@example.com).
- Advanced and intermediate students: $495 per driver (two-day school). Non-members: add $100
Novice students:
- Novice Track Day: $295 per driver, members ONLY
- Two-day school: $495 (non-members add $100)
- Weekend school: $750 Friday - Sunday.
Solo Group:
- Approved Group S drivers: $525 (two-day school), $735 (three-day school) per driver. Non-members: add $100.
- Solo Group applicants: $495 (Saturday-Sunday). Attend Friday to take checkout. If you pass, the additional fees to drive in Group S will be collected on-site (cash or check only).
- Instructors: $100 (per vehicle). Includes Friday Orientation Day, two sessions each day Sat and Sun, and three-day shared garage access.
- Advanced and intermediate students: $495 per driver (two-day school). Non-members: add $100
- Fees Include an event shirt, and an informal soiree Saturday night at the Seneca Lodge Bar, with the first two beers on GVC.
- Registration is not fully confirmed until payment has been received in full.
- Fees are refundable before the deadline, less a 10% cancelation charge.
- To avoid the cancelation charge, Fees may be credited toward a future GVC Driving School .
- Fees are non-refundable after the registration deadline unless another student is available to take the vacated slot. We do not offer credit toward a future event for late cancelations.
The host hotel is the historic Seneca Lodge (http://www.senecalodge.com/) located at the upper entrance to beautiful Watkins Glen State Park off NY 329. The Lodge is famous for its food and racing heritage. The bar is notable for its collection of over 60 years of racing memorabliia, as well as an extensive selection of fine beverages. Another favorite place to stay very close to the track is the Falls Motel in nearby Montour Falls. http://www.thefallsmotel.com. These lodgings fill quickly, so make reservations early.
Camping at the track: Not available.
Off-site camping: Available at nearby Watkins Glen State Park and at other private campgrounds.
Many other lodging options are available in Watkins Glen, from cozy bed-and-breakfasts to the luxurious Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel.
For more information, please consult our website: http://gvc-bmwcca.org/DrivingSchool/WGInfo.aspx


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Pac-10 Women's Basketball Round-Up: Jan. 18, 2009
Jan. 18, 2009
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- A year ago, Alexis Gray-Lawson was a wreck after losing by two points at home against archrival Stanford. She pulled her jersey over her head and sobbed, as California had just cost itself the top spot in the Pac-10 Conference.
The Golden Bears went on to blow it at Washington and wound up in second place behind the Cardinal -- again.
This year could be different, a first.
Gray-Lawson scored a career-high 37 points, converting two free throws with 1:09 to play that put her team ahead for good and scoring again with 21 seconds left to lift Cal (No. 9 ESPN/USA Today, No. 11 AP) to a thrilling 57-54 victory over Stanford (No. 7 ESPN/USA Today, No. 9 AP) on Sunday.
'I was crying about this time last year. I felt like this was kind of a rerun of last year,' Gray-Lawson said of that 60-58 loss in February when her team was ranked eighth and Stanford at No. 7. 'With a minute left, I knew the ball had to be in my hands. I went to the basket and happened to make it.'
The Bears (14-2, 5-0 Pac-10) won their sixth straight and beat the Cardinal in Berkeley for the first time since a 64-59 victory on Feb. 12, 1993, and the first time overall since a win Feb. 4, 2007, on Stanford's home floor to snap a 14-game skid in the series.
'Amazing -- thank you Alexis Gray-Lawson,' said Cal's Ashley Walker, the Pac-10 scoring leader who faced double-teams all day. 'I love her to death. She's a gamer. Thirty-seven, what can you say? She was in the zone.'
Stanford's Kayla Pedersen and Jillian Harmon each missed 3-pointers to tie it in the waning seconds.
Jayne Appel had 18 points, eight rebounds and four assists playing all game in foul trouble for the Cardinal (13-4, 4-1), who had their five-game winning streak snapped.
The Bears -- who have never won a Pac-10 title -- rushed to the middle of the court to celebrate after the final buzzer sounded and the arena went crazy. It was a raucous environment for the nationally televised game at Haas Pavilion, where 10,126 fans came out for the first edition of the season series. The teams meet again Feb. 14 at Stanford. Last year's matchup in Berkeley drew a crowd of 10,525, the largest ever to see a Pac-10 women's game.
'It was as loud as I've ever heard it over here,' Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. 'It was a great crowd. People were into it. It was a great game. It's very exciting. We love playing over here. I wish it was this way in every arena in the Pac-10. It was awesome.'
With Cal trailing 52-49 with 2:56 left, Gray-Lawson was fouled on a 3-point try and converted two of the three free throws that followed. Devanei Hampton made two free throws with 2:19 left to put Cal ahead 53-52 and then blocked a shot by Appel on the other end. But Stanford got the ball back and Appel scored over Hampton with 1:26 to play.
After Gray-Lawson's two free throws at 1:09, Walker blocked a shot by Harmon at the 46.1 mark and Gray-Lawson scored on the other end.
Gray-Lawson scored 12 of her points in the first 6 1/2 minutes and shot 12-for-20 with five 3-pointers in 40 minutes. Her performance was the largest scoring outing by a Cal player -- and first of 35 points or more -- since Jennifer Bennett had 39 against Creighton on March 2, 1987.
'She can do it every night if she wants. It's a focus,' Cal coach Joanne Boyle said. 'She has the ability to do it and we're going to need her to do it.'
Walker, who was averaging 21.6 points per game coming in, didn't attempt her first shot until scoring on a drive at the 11:27 mark of the first half. She finished with only five points to go with seven rebounds, three steals, two assists and two blocks.
Walker hit the floor hard with 12:24 to play after falling backward trying to draw a charge against Appel. She was down for several minutes under Stanford's hoop before being helped to the sideline with a cramp in her right calf. She returned with about 8 minutes left but still dehydrated. Moments later, a male fan sitting courtside got thrown out for screaming at the officials with a police escort taking him away.
Pedersen added 14 points and eight rebounds for Stanford, which didn't lead for the first time until going ahead 30-29 on Appel's free throw 1:34 into the second half.
Stanford missed too many chances in crunch time.
'I need to make that, but it shouldn't come down to one possession,' Pedersen said of her last-ditch 3. 'Once we got the lead we needed to put the hammer down and roll away with it.'
Stanford, the eight-time defending Pac-10 regular-season champion favored to win again ahead of the Bears, held a 37-31 rebounding advantage but shot 5-for-20 from 3-point range and 36.7 percent overall.
The Cardinal were coming off a pair of 100-point games last weekend at home, including a 112-35 victory over Washington on Jan. 8 that was a school and Pac-10 record for margin of victory. Stanford followed that with a 102-53 win over Washington State two days later.
But Stanford hardly looked in sync in the first half and began the game 8-for-27, missing seven of its first 10 3-point tries. Cal didn't shoot much better at 38.5 percent after missing its final five shots of the first half, but still led 29-26 at the break.
The Cardinal captured all three meetings last season and had won 32 of the last 34 meetings dating to Jan. 21, 1994.
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Motorola Android smartphone 311.(Photo by: Brendan McDermid / Reuters)
Global smartphone market: Apple's iOS losing ground to Android
By JOHN BENZAQUEN
The constant struggle of major smartphone developers to stay on top and underdogs to get on top.
On the last week of January Apple published its financial results for 2013. These were record results in monetary income - $57.6 billion, a rise in revenue of nearly 6% compared to 2012 and record sales in the number of products sold. Despite what can be described as highly impressive figures, the markets were not pleased, due to the perception that Apple's propriety operating system iOS is losing ground to Google's public domain operating system Android.
And with reason.
Apple is a technological giant but in the smartphone arena is a lone rider. Only Apple can make use its operating system iOS while countless developers and manufacturers can make use of the Android operating system.
Technology is a battle of wits and mind power. There is no doubt that Apple employs hundreds of talented developers but they are a proprietary, a closed entity. A very large closed entity perhaps, but a closed entity nevertheless. As a consequence Apple is losing global world share. In 2012 it held 19% of the world's smartphone market, by 2013 it had fallen to 15%.
After publishing its 2013 results, analyst Van Baker from the Gartner Technological research institute commented, "The era of the smartphone has reached its peak. The market is based on customers upgrading their products and not on those buying smart phones for the first time." Others believe that unless Apple reinvents itself again by developing a new hot product, it will inevitably continue to decline.
But such statements ignore the strength of the smartphone market.
Irrespective of whether demand is from upgraders or first time users, demand for smartphones is robust. In 2013 just over one billion smartphones were sold worldwide compared to 725 million in 2012 - a rise of 38%. These impressive figures show this is still a tremendous market and a company with a 15% share of this multi-billion dollar market cannot be considered weak.
But what is happening in the global smartphone market and ipso facto in Israel?
Accel Telecom is the exclusive importer of French-Chinese smartphone manufacturer Alcatel, which has become a major player in Israeli smartphone market. Accel CEO Marc Seelenfreund told the Jerusalem Post, "The global smartphone market is highly competitive and dynamic. Only a few years back, companies like Motorola, Nokia and Blackberry dominated the market, while today the landscape has completely changed with Samsung and Apple at the forefront. Though Apple is clearly an extremely strong company with great devices, it seems to have hit a wall because it is competing with a very large number of developers and manufacturers of numerous smartphone devices, as well as thousands of software applications that make use of the Android open operating system. As Android offers a large range of handsets manufactured by multiple vendors and at various price levels, combined with a richer offering of software and applications, it seems that in this war of the smartphones Android handsets have the upper hand."
Ayelet Serfaty-Rozen is the CEO of iDigital, one of the official Apple importers in Israel. She agrees that the smartphone market is dominated by the competition between the Android and the iOS smartphones but totally disagrees with those that claim that Apple is losing ground.
"Demand for Apple products is stable. The Apple brand iPhone is very strong and that is a terrific selling point. It is true to say that we operate in a very dynamic and competitive market but whoever implies that Apple is not up to competing with the technological advances in the market forgets that Apple is one of the most innovative technological companies in the world. It has always astounded the market with its inventive technological developments."
Indeed when discussing the smartphone market one must bear in mind that, as in all cutting edge technological products, the key to success is new and advanced developments. Despite the seasoned development team at Apple, the countless number of Android developers around the globe at multiple manufactures give it a big advantage in developing new smartphone technologies. It is not only vis-a-vis Apple that the small developers are gaining ground. They are also gaining ground over other large developers. In 2012 small developers held 35% of the smartphone market while in 2013 they held just over 40%.
The same holds true in Israel. In the last quarter of 2013 Samsung held 33% of the market, as opposed to 40% in the first half of 2012. Apple, at second place with a 24.5% market share, was at 34% in the first half of 2012. Third place was Alcatel, surprising the market with a 13.4% market share compared to a 4% market share in the first half of 2012. Alcatel's success can be explained by a very efficient and focused marketing operation, but also by an attractive value-for-money approach which Israelis love. These technologically advanced smartphone devices sell for NIS 1,300 to NIS 1,700 and contain most of the important functions of their much more expensive Apple or Samsung counterparts. Alcatel sells its smartphones at all the cellular providers as well as at major retail chains in Israel, which makes it a real threat to the larger handset manufacturers.
Based on its knowledge of cellular hardware and the Android OS, Accel developed the first ever car-based smartphone, adapted to the needs of drivers - whether of private cars, commercial vehicles or Voyager trucks. Accel sells this device at Orange and has also started international sales with a multi-billion dollar market potential. This seems to be the first Israeli company to commercially launch a smartphone, which again shows the great potential in partnering with Android. But like all market products, Accel will have to continue developing more advanced technologies or decline in a market that shows no mercy. The smartphone market is tough in the extreme. Paul Lucifer, an ex-oficio Blackberry executive, told the Jerusalem Post, "Complacency is the biggest danger to smart phone companies, regardless of their size. Blackberry and Nokia were market giants in their field. Complacency led to their ruin; they failed to react to such innovations as the iPhone and the iTouch and they were brought down."
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text: I had planned on adding watercolor to this sketch, especially since I love mingled colors on terra cotta pots. But after a comment on Facebook about the drawing's "clean lines", I decided to leave it just ink. . . . . but niggled it a bit anyway by adding some of the quilted cloth's pattern and darkening the dirt.


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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Keep on truckin'
11 comments:
- Regina said...
Very nice, I like they way you photographed them too! Good luck at the show.
- October 6, 2010 at 7:34 PM
- Julianna Cannon said...
Those are freaky cool for last minute throw-togethers. Sweet!
As far as quitting at 5, you got jokes. I can't remember the last time that happened, but a 16 hour day in the studio still beats sitting behind a desk for 8.
Wishin' you a stellar show!
- October 6, 2010 at 8:04 PM
- Jen V. said...
Hi five!
I'm one of those folks who's behind a desk facing a computer full of email taskings all day long. I can't complain too much because it's a fun challenge sometimes, but sometimes I wish I could just get lost in a creative fog (with quick breaks to run for more supplies)....haaaaaaaaa
Hope you have a great show!!
- October 6, 2010 at 8:35 PM
- SummersStudio said...
5 pm? What's that? Nice bit of last minute work.
- October 6, 2010 at 9:14 PM
- Spirited Earth said...
happy to say i've never been refered to as a normal person..
that being the case..a 5pm stopping time is not part of my schedule.
- October 6, 2010 at 9:32 PM
- Linda Landig said...
Love the quick necklaces. What a good solution.
I'm just hitting my stride at about 3:00 and then I burn the candle 'till late at night. One good thing about having to clock-in at work any more: I can keep the hours that are the best fit for me. :)
- October 6, 2010 at 10:26 PM
- kelleysbeads said...
I worked until 11pm last night. For The Man. Not for myself :(
- October 7, 2010 at 8:11 AM
- Genea said...
The necklaces ROCK! Good luck at the show!
I am a night working person as well. I work on stuff all day and night long. I'm especially creative at night :D
- October 7, 2010 at 3:10 PM
- mairedodd said...
welp, you eliminated me at the 'like a normal person' part...
i work whenever - it could be in the middle of anything just about... if i get an idea, and feel solid about it, i seem to need to take action... because lately my brain has been too fuzzy...
good luck with the bracelets... love the necklaces... i am sure the show will be a success... at least you will have the good stuff, let's hope the buyers bring the desire to shop...
- October 7, 2010 at 3:18 PM
- jill dortch said...
I'm glad that you started putting a hole IN the birds themselves. I ordered an earlier one and the bale that was attached has already come loose and I almost lost the bird!! Nice upgrade to a great item!!!!
- October 9, 2010 at 8:32 AM
- My Life Under the Bus said...
Oh my you might be my hero - totally awesome !!!
- October 13, 2010 at 5:01 PM


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By snowlee
July 30th, 2015
Taken from Bradley's Head.
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Photo Settings: 24mm, f/11, 20 seconds, ISO 320.
Tangerines in the Sky
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July 27th, 2015
My wife and I were on our way back to the place we were staying in Maui when we saw this amazing sunset. I pulled over and snapped this shot. Maui has the most amazing sunsets I've ever seen.
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Tokyo Skyline at Dusk
By johnhmoody
July 22nd, 2015
Bunkyo Civic Center's observation deck provides expansive views of Tokyo's skyline, including the iconic view of Shinjuku District with Mount Fuji in the background. Mt. Fuji can be seen on the far left side of the horizon.
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Millenium Bridge
July 19th, 2015
Gateshead Millenium Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
There I was taking a walk after a busy day in Newcastle with my 5D mark III on my shoulder when I saw the Millenium Bridge up. So I looked up for the sun and made my comp.
Shot with a Canon 5D Mark III + Samyang 14mm T3.1 Cine Lens.
Edited in Adobe Camera RAW and Adobe Photoshop CC.
Photo Settings: 14mm, 1/100 second, ISO 160.
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Mount Katahdin
July 16th, 2015
Mount Katahdin from Chimney Peak, Baxter State Park, Millinocket, Maine.
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Cold Reflections
July 9th, 2015
Iceland: Jokulsarlon lagoon. A "popular" destination on the south coast of the island. As the glacier melts, a lake is formed and icebergs slowly make their way to the ocean, connected by a short river.
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I have seen this beautiful bridge photographed hundreds of times but never from a unique perspective. So one morning before sunrise I walked through thick bush, jumped a fence and continued along a train track before stumbling across this magnificent view.
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This is Aldeyjarfoss. Located 40 kilometers into the highlands from the Ring Road, Aldeyjarfoss is situated in a lava field that formed over 9,000 years ago. The river's source is Vatnajökull's glacial runoff, while its incredible basalt columns resembles that of its smaller (and more widely known) counterpart, Svartifoss. Clearly, getting here is a testament to taking the least ventured path, as it was impossible to find another soul for miles upon miles.
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Misty Sunrise
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June 15th, 2015
Misty morning at Kardzhali dam.
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Yosemite Color
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June 14th, 2015
I pulled into Yosemite Valley expecting a dry Yosemite Falls. I was pleasantly surprised to see this!
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LAFAYETTE — The number of licensed midwives in Louisiana could nearly double next year, from eight to 15, when the first class of students in the state's only midwifery training program becomes eligible for licensure.
South Louisiana Community College began offering classes for an associate degree in applied science in midwifery last year. The 30-month, direct-entry program prepares students for a licensing exam and combines academic coursework with clinical experiences.
Midwives assist women in the natural birthing process and also provide prenatal care and support through the pregnancy. Midwives may assist deliveries at home, a birthing center or in a hospital.
The program's first class of seven students is scheduled to fulfill the program's requirements next spring.
The program has attracted interest across the state with students from Alexandria, Jena, Baton Rouge, Hammond, as well as the Acadiana region, Sherri Daigle, SLCC's midwifery program director, said.
Daigle is one of eight licensed midwives in Louisiana.
Students meet once a week for their courses, which allows them flexibility to observe and assist with births in their own communities, Daigle said.
Students' clinical experiences progress in responsibility as they continue in the program.
Students said they've used their own networks of friends, and even Facebook, to find willing expectant mothers to allow them to be a part of their birthing process.
"Right now, we all have at least one person we're assisting at the birth in the next month," said Ali Roberts, 36, of Lafayette.
A second set of students began the program this month and an additional group will be added each January, Daigle said.
Their own personal experiences with childbirth attracted some students to the program.
"I had an experience that led me to think there must be a better way," said Charlotte Shilo, 48, of Opelousas.
Shilo said she feels midwifery is her "true calling" and provides an outlet to empower women by educating them about their pregnancy and birthing options.
Many midwives view their work as a ministry, rather than a career, Daigle said.
Giving birth naturally is an empowering experience, Roberts said.
"It's an amazing thing you do for yourself," she said. "You feel like a warrior and a rock star."
Too often, Roberts said, she hears women say they'll choose a natural option or seek out care from a midwife for their next birth.
She said a cervical cancer diagnosis altered her plans to have more children and inspired her to become a midwife.
"I didn't have a next time," she said. "I want to teach women to treat every pregnancy like it's the only one they'll have."
The youngest student in the class — Sarahbeth Boyd — is 18.
Boyd said she had her future set on medical school to work as an obstetrician on medical missions until she learned about the midwifery option.
"One of my friends is a missionary in Romania and said there's a need for midwives there," she said. "It showed me that I can do this and still do medical missions."
The observations are revealing, said Shatamia Webb, 27, of Lafayette, who observed her first birth two months into the program.
"I saw everything that I wouldn't want to do," she said of the experience.
Some students in the program, such as Erica Glass, 36, of Alexandria, already have some clinical experience.
Glass said she has apprenticed with a licensed midwife for the past year and a half.
Daigle said Glass will receive credit for her clinical experience.
She added that the college is preparing a pathway for those with experience to join the program for their academic classes and work toward an associate's degree.
There's also a need to standardize training for preceptors — practitioners who preside over students' midwifery clinical experiences, Daigle said.
The college plans to work in partnership with a technical college in Michigan, which also recently started a program, to develop a standardized training model, she said.


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Sorry this is late guys, theses are my recent makes of last month.
This dress is a little twist on a basic t-shirt dress, with vertical white stripes across with sheer front and back. I really enjoyed making this one, i just drew up a quick sketch and started sewing. The fabric is from the textiles shops in shepherds bush. I created the pattern by using the dimensions of an oversized tee. The only problem I faced was aligning the strips correctly for the front and back. I found it quite difficult to hem the bottom because I didn't align the lines properly causing it to look wonky. Other than that I am happy with the finished result.
What do you guys think?
This mesh crop top was just a quick make with basic front and back pieces and no hemmed edges. I am a lover of 90s fashion and was so inspired to make a crop top like this. Its just a cool way to add a bit of edginess to an outfit.
As you know from my recent post jewellery making is my new hobby. So I made two more hand chains to add to my collection. I really do enjoy making them,they just dress up any outfit and are great gifts to give by personalising it however way you like. I have posted one of handchains on Depop from two blog post ago. If your interested you can find me at Bira Belle.


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HS BASEBALL: Saturday, April 20 preview capsules
Preview capsules for today's District 2-5A and area baseball games.
When/where: 1 p.m. today, Ernie Johnson Field
Records: Coronado 20-10, 9-4 in District 2-5A; Lee 11-16, 6-7
Last game: Coronado 11, Odessa Permian 2; San Angelo Central 8, Lee 0
Last meeting: Coronado 17, Lee 0 on March 22
Notes: Lee enters this game in desperate need of a win as it sits a full two games behind fourth-place Amarillo Tascosa with three games to play in 2-5A. One of its games is against Tascosa, which helps, but because it still needs to make up a game to tie Tascosa in the standings, Lee likely needs to win out to reach the playoffs. That tall task begins today with Lubbock Coronado, the team that handed Lee its worst loss in district play in the teams' first meeting. Lee was nearly no-hit in that game and is expecting to see a challenge at the plate again in the form of Coronado pitcher Tyler Thorne, a Stanford signee, or Taylor Bridges, a Texas Tech signee. ...Coronado can clinch a playoff spot with a win and is looking to keep pace with second-place San Angelo Central, who is one game ahead of the Mustangs in the standings. Coronado visits Central in its next game.
Next: Lubbock Coronado at San Angelo Central, 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 26; Lee at Abilene Cooper, 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 26
When/where: 1 p.m. today, Rebel Field
Records: MHS 25-6, 13-1 in District 2-5A; Tascosa 15-14, 8-5
Last game: Abilene Cooper 5, MHS 3; Tascosa 3, Odessa High 1
Last meeting: MHS 3, Tascosa 2 on March 22
Notes: Midland High is coming off of its first loss in district play and its first loss since March 8 after falling at home for the first time this season in a loss to Abilene Cooper. Now, the Bulldogs visit Amarillo Tascosa, who has lost just once at home this district season, which was a 10-5 loss to Lee to close out the first half of district play. Tascosa is looking to stay two games ahead of Lee, who it still has to face on the final day of the 2-5A season. Midland High has already clinched a playoff spot, the No. 1 seed and a share of the district title this season. The Bulldogs will clinch an outright district title with the next win or San Angelo Central loss. ... Tascosa enters this game having won two straight after losing three of four. ... Midland High will finish its regular season in its next game, a home date with last-place Abilene High on Friday, April 26.
Next: Abilene High at Midland High, 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 26; Odessa Permian at Amarillo Tascosa, 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 26
When/where: Noon today, Blackburn Field
Records: Permian 10-19, 5-8 in District 2-5A; AHS 10-18, 1-12
Last game: Lubbock Coronado 11, Permian 2; San Angelo Central 9, AHS 1
Last meeting: Permian 8, AHS 5 on March 22
Next: Odessa Permian at Amarillo Tascosa, 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 26; Abilene High at Midland High, 4:30 p.m. Friday
When/where: 1 p.m. today, Nathan Donsky Field
Records: OHS 11-19, 5-9 in District 2-5A; Central 23-8, 10-3
Last game: Amarillo Tascosa 3, OHS 1; Central 9, Abilene High 1
Last meeting: Central 5, OHS 3 on March 22
Next: Odessa High at Lubbock Coronado, 1 p.m. Saturday, April 27; Lubbock Coronado at San Agnelo Central, 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 26
District 2-5A standings
District Overall
xy-Midland High 13 1 24 6
x-San Angelo Central 10 3 23 8
Lubbock Coronado 9 4 20 10
Amarillo Tascosa 8 5 15 14
Lee 6 7 11 16
Odessa Permian 5 8 10 19
Odessa High 5 9 11 19
Abilene Cooper 3 11 8 20
Abilene High 1 12 10 18
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched share of district title
Tuesday's Scores
Abilene Cooper 5, Midland High 3; Amarillo Tascosa 3, Odessa High 1; San Angelo Central 9, Abilene High 1; Lubbock Coronado 11, Odessa Permian 2; Lee was idle
Today's Games
Lubbock Coronado at Lee, 1 p.m.; Midland High at Amarillo Tascosa, 1 p.m.;Odessa Permian at Abilene High, Noon; Odessa High at San Angelo Central, 1 p.m.
District 4-3A
When/where: noon today, Moffatt Field, Snyder
Records: Greenwood 13-9, 2-5 in District 4-3A; Snyder 13-11, 3-4
Last game: Greenwood 5, Big Spring 2; Snyder 7, Abilene Wylie 4
Last meeting: Greenwood 1, Snyder 0, 8 innings on March 28
Notes: Greenwood kept its slim playoff hopes alive with a win against rival Big Spring in its last game. The Rangers, two games behind Big Spring in the standings, need to win out and need the Steers to lose out to even have a shot at the third and final playoff spot. A three-way tie with Snyder is also possible in that scenario if Snyder defeats first-place Sweetwater in its regular season finale. ... Greenwood defeated Snyder in extra innings in the teams' first meeting, which was the Rangers' first district win of the season. ... Snyder has won two straight coming into today after losing three straight dating back to that loss to Greenwood earlier in league play. Both teams will wrap up the regular season in their next games, with Snyder visiting Sweetwater and Greenwood hosting Monahans.
Next: Monahans at Greenwood, 7 p.m. Friday, April 26; Snyder at Sweetwater, 7 p.m. Friday, April 26
District 4-3A standings
District Overall
Sweetwater 6 1 14 11
Abilene Wylie 5 2 11 13
Big Spring 4 3 14 9
Snyder 3 4 13 11
Greenwood 2 5 13 9
Monahans 1 6 8 12
Tuesday's Scores
Greenwood 5, Big Spring 2; Snyder 7, Abilene Wylie 4; Sweetwater 10, Monahans 5
Today's Games
Greenwood at Snyder, Noon; Monahans at Big Spring, 1 p.m.; Abilene Wylie at Sweetwater, 4 p.m.


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Brian Bonar's mission in life has always been to increase the accessibility of information to the general public. Currenctly he serves as the CEO of Trucept Inc. Additionally he servers in various capacities at Smart-tek Automated Services, Inc., Dalrada Financial Corp, Allegiant Professional Business Service, Inc. and The Amanda Co., Inc.
Brian Bonar is alumni of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow where he obtained his undergraduate degree. He also has an MBA and doctorate degree from Staffordshire University, which is based in the UK.
In 2010, when Mr. Bonar was working as chief executive of Dalrada he won the Executive of the Year award for finance from Cambridge's Who's Who awards.
Every year the Cambridge awards selection committee chooses two male and two females to honor their academic accomplishments, professional achievements and leadership skills. Mr. Bonar has accumulated over 30 years' experience in the financial sector.
Bonar started his career at Adaptech Inc as Worldwide Sales Manager. He then moved to Benzier Systems between 1991 and 1992 where he was VP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing.
In 1992 he was offered a role in Dalrada as the Director of Technology sales. He served in this role from 1992 to April 1994. In April 1994 Bonar was promoted to Vice President, Sales and Marketing and a few months later in September he got another promotion to Executive Vice President.
From 1995 he served in Dalrada's board in addition to his other duties. Between 1996 and 1997 Mr. Bonar served as the President and CFO of Dalrada. He then took over as CEO in 1998 before being declared chairman of the board in 1999.
Bloomberg reveals that under Brian Bonar's impressive leadership Dalrada Financial group achieved many breakthroughs in the financial industry. Dalrada focusses on creating employee programs for various companies in the UK. Dalrada's programs increases the profitability and efficiency of the business.
Dalrada has enjoyed success creating plans for insurance companies, finance companies and business process outsourcing companies. Mr. Bonar helped Dalrada's clients protect their assets and manage their finances. Mr. Bonar left Dalrada with an impressive legacy and his work there is evident in Dalrada's success.
According to Market Watch, apart from his work at Dalrada, Brian Bonar has also done significant work in the tech industry. He has served as CEO of Imaging Technologies Corporation, a leader in development of digital imaging hardware and color management software. Imaging Technologies Corporation's most popular product is ColorBlind.
ColorBlind is a suite of image processing applications that enables both professional and novice users to create high quality images that are consistent and accurate across a wide range of software platforms.
Imaging Technologies Corporation sells most of its software to small and medium sized businesses. Imaging Technologies Corporation also has some ecommerce initiative under www.color.com and www.dealseekers.com.


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Gartner Identifies Four Key Vendor Risk Criteria Areas and What to Look for in Each
Enterprises are becoming more reliant on external vendors to provide goods and services necessary to run their businesses and maintain competitiveness, but reliance on vendors can be a risky proposition, especially with the current economic challenges, according to Gartner, Inc.
"As enterprises increase reliance on vendors for products and services, the more they become exposed to greater risk relating to delivery disruption or vendors' inability to deliver the goods and services for which they are contracted," said Helen Huntley, research vice president at Gartner. "It is crucial for enterprises that use external vendors to understand the risk factors that enable them to judge the exposure they have with each vendor should the vendor go under or face challenges that may lead to delivery disruption."
Ms. Huntley said that vendor risk management is becoming a core competency for organizations, and they should ensure that they have a contingency plan in place to support their business should the worst happen and the vendor supporting their mission-critical systems fails them. However, enterprises are advised to categorize vendors before assessing vendor risk, because not all vendors are the same. Some vendors may be categorized as tactical — those that are small in cost and exposure or operate in a commodity environment. Other vendors should be classed as strategic, because the enterprise has a high dependence on them, has high spending, and plans to increase business with the vendor over time.
Gartner has identified four high-level vendor risk criteria areas that enterprises should monitor for any indications that a vendor may be in trouble:
Organizational Risk
Organizational risk focuses on changes in personnel within the vendor organization. Changes in staff, especially at senior levels in the organization, can indicate vendor difficulties. The following events can be indicators of potential trouble:
- Management turnover, especially at senior levels in the organization and most notably the CFO
-President, CEO and chairperson of the board are the same individual or are related
-Large layoffs of vendor staff
-Routine rounds of staff reductions
-High employee turnover, and higher-than-normal sales executive turnover
-Senior executives selling off stock
-Significant increase in executives taking on multiple roles as others depart
-No outside board members
-Ties severed with partner firms
Financial Risk
Financial risk is risk associated with any form of financing or financial reporting. The following financial metrics or actions should be monitored for patterns, as no sign on its own is likely to be significant:
- Stock-price-related metrics
-Vendor credit rating
-Restatement of financials by filing a 10-K or other regulatory change form
-Declaration of bankruptcy
-Late filings
-Current ratio, debt-to-equity ratio
-Net income growth rate and cash flow
-Return on equity, return on investment, return on assets
-Cash in bank
-Vendor's inability to obtain financing or negotiate a loan to continue business
-Days sales outstanding
Support Risk
Support risk focuses on the risks that clients face when products or services are no longer supported or delivered to the standards outlined in the contract or set by vendors overall. Things to look for include:
-Layoffs of personnel critical to your business
-Decline in service-level performance and vendor's failure to meet service levels
-Decline in customer service and level of resources, lower skills and lack of support
-Customer turnover
-Product failures, spare shortages and lack of support for products
-Product deficiency
Strategy Risk
Strategy risk is focused on changes to a high-level set of directives that vendors use to articulate how they will achieve their missions. Abrupt changes to strategy could indicate vendor challenges, such as lack of alignment, financial difficulties or an overall weak vision. The following should be followed closely:
-Changes in sales and marketing approach, size and type of deals the vendor is targeting, strategic investments, product strategy, geographic strategy, vertical strategy or industry focus
-Arrival of new competitions that threaten the strategic basis of the vendor's business
Additional information is available in the Gartner report "Vendor Risk Management: Criteria You Can Use to See Whether Your Vendor is in Trouble." The report is available on Gartner's Web site at http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_search&id=943512&subref=simplesearch.
Gartner has launched a major research initiative: Strategic Vendor Management (SVM), which also encompasses Vendor Risk Management (VRM), to help clients understand these issues and create risk mitigation strategies when using external vendors. This new research area for Gartner includes focused reports on how clients can determine if their vendors are at risk of failure or disruption, how to create vendor risk mitigation strategies, and how derive maximum value from their vendor relationships.
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Stevil cajoled founders of some of our nation's most interesting bike brands (Blue Collar Bikes, Indy Fab and FBM) into spinning tales about the history of each brand, put together a buyer's guide of made-in-USA trail bikes, told the story of the old Mudflap cycling zine and allowed our regular editor to pen a column. Bama wrote us a nice poem, Rebecca Rusch told the story of bikepacking self-supported across Italy and Watts Dixon, one of our new guys, told yet another crazy character story that comes from running a local bike shop.
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Art can touch the emotions and sense of people around the world, but there are also other things that can touch people on a more sub conscious level. Many people consider perfumery to be an art. Choosing the right ingredients is no easy feat, and the different smells gained can touch our deepest emotions, from memory to pleasure and sometimes even sadness. It is estimated that 75% of human emotions are triggered by our sense of smell. Learn the secrets of perfumery with one of our perfumery courses.
What will I learn?
On a perfumery course you will learn how to choose your ingredients and create unique blends to make the perfect perfume. You will learn how to use natural ingredients along with alcohol and oil bases. To help you do this you will look at samples of existing perfume and study how they created their smell, this is where you will develop your good nose. There will be theory work too and this will give you the basics of the perfume world, you will learn; history of perfume, different fragrance ingredients, where ingredients come from, training your nose, different perfume notes.
There will be plenty of time allocated to individual, and group work, to apply everything you have learnt and to create your very own perfume. You will need to bring in your own ingredients, and remember it doesn't matter if you mess up, your tutor and course mates will be there with advice on how you can improve.
Why create your own perfume?
While most of us wear perfume and love the smell, unfortunately it's an expensive cosmetic. This is why creating your own perfume is a great idea, and a perfumery course will teach you everything you need to know about making your own unique scent. Making your own perfume will give you the perfect opportunity to create a smell that is right for you and having selection over the ingredients that you put in the perfume is also a huge benefit, particularly for those with sensitive skin. Many perfume manufacturers use synthetic products, but you'll have the power to choose your own natural ingredients, which will be healthier for you.
A career as a perfumer
If you are serious about becoming a perfumer, there are extra qualifications you can take that will greatly help your chances in your job hunt. To succeed as a perfumer you must possess a wide variety of skills and talents but you will also have to show you are qualified. Many employed perfumers are actually trained chemists so it will be a good idea to take an undergraduate chemistry course and postgraduate organic chemistry course. Once you have completed these you can then search around for trainee and junior position as a perfumer.
However it is possible to become a freelance perfumer. This would involve selling your own perfume in a shop, a local market or over the internet. This can be hard as you will be up against big brands but it is certainly possible if you build up a following. Just don't expect to earn a living to start with – it's more that you might get a little bit of pocket money out of your hobby before you make it big time.
What does perfumery involve?
Perfumery is a surprisingly complex skill to master. To successfully create perfume you will have to possess various skills and talents...
Imagination: To create unique perfume you will need a lot of imagination. You will need to create new smells and tap into emotions through creativity and imagination.
Patience: You will be mixing a lot of different ingredients and it may take a while to find the perfect blend. You will need patience and composure until you find the ideal perfume. Trial and error is key.
Know how: You will have to posses some chemical know how. You will be mixing chemicals to create different smells, so it is important to know which ingredients blend well, keeping note can help.
Endure failure: Creating perfume is a very difficult task. Creating a great smelling perfume that can appeal to lots of people is even more difficult. You will fail more than you succeed, but when you succeed it will feel amazing.
A good nose: You will need to have a good nose to know what smells good and what smells bad. Practising this by smelling other perfumes and training yourself to pick out the different ingredients will help you to learn what components go well together. Training your nose can be very similar to how you train your taste buds in a wine tasting course.


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See Your Hopes and Fears As Creations of the Mind with This Meditation Practice from Tibet
Within the ancient teachings of Tibetan Buddhism lies a meditation tradition for facing—and dissolving—our greatest fears and attachments in life. Now one of contemporary Tibetan Buddhism's most experienced and respected teachers, Tsultrim Allione, adapts this practice to the challenges unique to our time, on Cutting Through Fear.
Based on the traditional Tibetan practice of chöd (literally "to cut"), this method was developed by the legendary Tibetan yogini Machig Lapdron almost 1,000 years ago, and is practiced to this day in Tibet to treat mental and physical illness and as a path to awareness. Drawing from root visualization practices, Tsultrim Allione shares a four-step process that can help you meet and release what the ancient Tibetans called "demons"—fears and other unhelpful emotions and obsessions.
Today we all encounter the demons of addiction, compulsion, anger, and other difficult emotions, too often as a daily event. Now we have a rare and useful tool to stop struggling against them, and instead liberate them, with Cutting Through Fear.
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An incredibly powerful practice.
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While Canadian immigrants have higher education levels and are more likely to live in cities where earnings tend to be higher, they experience higher unemployment rates and lower incomes than their Canadian-born counterparts, according to a new report by RBC Economics.
If immigrants' skills were rewarded similarly to their Canadian-born counterparts, their total income would increase by $30.7 billion, or 2.1 per cent of GDP, according to Immigrant Labour Market Outcomes in Canada: The Benefits of Addressing Wage and Employment Gaps. This would also translate into an additional 42,000 jobs.
Immigrant Wage and Employment Gaps Widening
There was little difference between the unemployment rates of new immigrants and the Canadian-born in 1981, according to the report. But by 2006, immigrants who had been in Canada for less than five years had an unemployment rate of 12 per cent, compared to just 6.4 per cent for the Canadian born.
The unemployment rate was 8.4 per cent among immigrants who had been in Canada for five to 10 years and 5.4 per cent among immigrants who had been in Canada for more than 10 years. The overall unemployment rate for immigrants was 6.9 per cent.
In 2005, immigrants working full time in Canada earned an average of $45,000 a year, two per cent less than the average for Canadian-born workers. However, the most recent immigrants earned an average of just $28,700, states the report.
Looking back over the past three decades, immigrants who arrived between 1976 and 1980 earned less than their Canadian-born counterparts initially, but their earnings caught up rapidly and eventually surpassed those of the Canadian born.
However, the earnings gap for subsequent cohorts of new immigrants has widened — those who arrived between 1976 and 1980 earned 75 per cent of what their Canadian-born counterparts earned while those who arrived between 1991 and 1995 earned just 63 per cent. At the same time, wage growth has remained steady, leading to larger earnings gaps that persist for much longer.
Reasons for the Gaps
The report puts forward several reasons, based on other research, for the gaps in employment and income, including:
- Quality of education: One study found some differences in the skills acquired in other countries compared to Canada, but the study only looked at test scores of primary students and the RBC report states a more targeted measure of educational quality is needed before any conclusions can be drawn.
- Language skills: One study found immigrant literacy skills can account for the entire wage gap among high-school educated immigrants and university educated female immigrants, and about half of the gap for university-educated male immigrants.
- Discrimination: One study found job applicants with English-sounding names are 40-per-cent more likely to be called for an interview than applicants with ethnic-sounding names.
- Credential recognition: Surveys suggest many employers would discount internationally educated applicants because they don't know how to assess their credentials.
- Skills mismatch: One study found the mismatch between immigrants' skills and the needs of the Canadian economy could account for 14 per cent of the wage gap.
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These findings suggest immigrant outcomes can be improved through more extensive language training, faster credential recognition and other integration initiatives, concludes the report.
Read the full report: Immigrant Labour Market Outcomes in Canada: The Benefits of Addressing Wage and Employment Gaps


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In this part, we're going to talk about a couple of commonly used data types (the List and Option types), as well as pattern matching (a better, more readable alternative to an if/else statement).
The List is one of the more familiar data types in Scala. The syntax is slightly different, but overall the API is very similar to .NET.
You can create a populated list in one line:
Note that you do not need to declare the list type - it will be inferred by the items that are added. This is the equivalent of declaring the arguments explicitly:
Filter - C# Where()
Just like in C#, you can filter a list by any criteria:
Head - C# First()
Often you'll just want to grab the first item in a list:
In C#, it's pretty common to grab the first item that matches a specific criteria. In Scala, there isn't a function specifically for this purpose. Instead you'd just chain filter with the head function.
A few more mappings
I'm not going to go any further here - there hasn't been a function in C# that I haven't been able to find an equivalent for in Scala. Instead, here are a few more mappings, which I'm sure you'll be able to figure out without much hassle:
|count() or length
|nonEmpty or exists()
Full reference can be found in the Scala documentation. Note that you may want to check out Seq, Iterable, and any other classes in the inheritance chain for more restricted collection implementations. A List isn't always the right structure, but it's a good place to start.
Option - Better C# Nullable
At first, I thought that this would be a new concept, but then I remembered that we have a pretty comparable concept (Nullable<T>) in C#. The big difference is that the Option type works on all instances in Scala, and they should always be used in situations where a value would traditionally return null. This allows you to avoid the dreaded NullReferenceException/NullPointerException by prompting you to deal with both null and non-null cases when attempting to access the value.
You can create an optional value by wrapping it:
You can also wrap a null value:
Of course, these examples aren't very realistic, since you wouldn't typically wrap a value like this if you already know it's null or not. More realistically, you would wrap a value when you're calling a code that could return null (typically Java library calls – Scala libraries shouldn't return null):
Now that you have an Option instance, you'll likely want to transform it into something usable. If we were using .NET conventions, we would use an if/else statement:
In Scala, there are several ways to accomplish the same task. Most commonly, I use map in conjunction with the getOrElse method:
This example may be easier to conceptualize if you think of an Option instance as a list that is restricted to holding a maximum of one item. We're mapping a result, but that code will only be executed if there is an item in the list. Then getOrElse will do the inverse - it will only be executed if the Option instance is empty. We then surround the result in a print statement, and since both paths return a string, we'll get the same output as the C# styled example.
Also note that the map method is allowing us to transform the underlying Option instance from an Employee to a String, just as you can do with the Select method in .NET.
The fold method is actually even better suited to this particular task, although I don't find myself using it quite as often:
The first set of parenthesis takes one argument, which is the result if the value is empty. The second set handles non-null values, and passes the underlying value via lambda.
Pattern Matching - Better Switch Statements
In C#, I rarely ever use a switch statement, mainly because their usage is restricted to integral types only. If you want to do anything remotely complex, you'd typically have to use any number of if statements.
Pattern matching in Scala is what switch statements wish they could be. You can match on a variety of types and values.
Match by Class
Since we just talked about the Option type, we can start there. Pattern matching is yet another way the above print statement could be written:
Note that the above expression could instead be wrapped with the print() method as in previous examples - recall that everything returns a value in Scala.
Some and None are the underlying case classes that are returned when you wrap a value with Option(...). In the above example, we're asking it to match on whichever type was returned and to do something in each case.
- If the value is non empty (an instance of Some), name the underlying value e, then print the full name.
- If the value is empty (an instance of None), print that no employee was found.
Narrowing with if statements
You can further filter your matches with if statements:
In the above example, we're checking to see if our list is a certain length. If it's not, we can use the fall through case _ to handle a scenario we're not specifically checking for. Alternatively, you can use any variable name if you'd like to reference the value in your case statement body. It's important to include this if you have not exhaustively checked all scenarios, or else your code may throw an exception.
Case Classes in Pattern Matching
Recall that I mentioned Some and None are case classes. There is another special attribute of case classes that I didn't mention previously – their constructor arguments can be used in pattern matching. If we use our Person case class from above, we could combine the concepts from our previous examples to check if a Person is over the age of 21:
Advanced Usages
There are many more advanced usages that I won't be covering here. The most important thing to remember is that certain types will pass back underlying implementations that you can pattern match on, such as Option returning Some or None (another one that comes to mind is Either, which can return Left or Right). Keep an eye out for this when working in Scala, and you should be able to piece together the intended design of the data type.
Until next time
That wraps up the language comparison for now. While Scala does provide many, many more features and data constructs, these are the most common concepts that I've encountered while creating web projects, and hopefully will be enough to get you comfortable writing some code. Next time, we'll discuss how to create a web project in Part 4: Development Environment.
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