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On Mother's Day, mother was away. For a 17-month-old boy, it is evidently an inconvenience to be the child of two poet-parents. On any given holiday, one of them can stray from Trenton's leafy capital neighborhood to give a reading in a place called New York City. And so Jehan - bushy-haired, bright-eyed and blessed with a too-wide smile - made do with the parent who was available.
Yusef Komunyakaa returned from the kitchen of the 5,000-square-foot, 100-year-old house with a handful of Cheerios, which he deposited on Jehan's play station. The little boy clasped a few pieces, looked up expectantly at his father, and waited for a word. A melody. A little life lesson.
Komunyakaa is a musical man, though he plays no instrument. His voice, mellifluous and deep, has a soothing quality. He proceeded through Jehan's lexicon, in which "Cheerios" comes out as if it spells "enchantment." There is "apple" and "ball" and "pear" and, for diversity's sake, "agua," which the astute Jehan understands as the Spanish way to ask for water. Variations on "no" turned the word from stern rebuke to a pleasant alternative. These sounds transfixed Jehan, and he stared contentedly at his 54-year-old dad.
In this musical admiration, the little boy was extending a family tradition. Music was the first poetry of his father. When Komunyakaa was a young man in Bogalusa, La., he made up his own lyrics to the songs he heard on the radio. Words that sounded good, and that came from the heart. It was, it turned out, a developing formula, influenced by the blues and the freedoms of jazz.
In fact, Alison Meyers, director of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, had emphasized the point when she explained why she chose Komunyakaa to lead off the 11th season this Wednesday evening. "My first connection with his poetry was on the page - it engaged me immediately with its uniqueness, originality of language and complex sensitivity. When I heard him read it only deepened my engagement. He inhabits his work. He has the capacity to be moved by the emotion of poems. He isn't performing. He has an organic connection, and a kind of musicality."
Little Jehan is not quite so eloquent in his appreciation. But one word, "Papa," was enough for the moment. And the boy seemed content that a stranger from Connecticut, if not his mother (Reetika Vazirani - author of "White Elephants") inhabited the living room and played with a toy. It was something called a Dell, and it opened up, like a clam. Jehan couldn't take his eyes off of it, and wondered what those words were.
They were words about a man whom Garrett Hongo, author of several acclaimed volumes, calls "the most original poet of his generation." Komunyakaa, a Princeton professor who has won the Pulitzer Prize and an array of other top poetry awards, is the author of 12 books, including the recent anthology, "Pleasure Dome" (Wesleyan University Press). It is a CV that clearly puts him among the most popular poets in America - an eye-opening circumstance for a man who has no intention of pandering to the reading public.
On the one hand, he is well aware of the standing of poets in American popular culture. When people ask him what he does, he replies in one word: writer. And then he hears, commonly, something like this: "Oh, you write novels. Have you written anything that's becoming a movie?" When he reveals he is a poet, he is likely to be asked, "Well, have you ever thought about writing a novel?"
On the other hand, Komunyakaa believes in the resources and innate abilities of readers who open themselves to poetry. It is his view that readers (or listeners) contribute to the poem, as co-readers, by bringing their own experiences to it. And so he is unusually harsh on his own words - slashing away at them, paring to syllables that matter. In this, he is influenced by Thelonius Monk, the late jazz composer and pianist, whom he referred to as a "technician of silence." Komunyakaa refers to silence as "part of the text," and argues that generally we all "say too much to little effect. Writers often do not trust the reader. We want them to understand every word and gesture - this extends to novel writing, and especially memoir writing. I've been asked to write memoirs many times. I've resisted. Memoir tells too much. It would take away from my creative effort."
His poetry relies on a certain level of "verbal innuendo," and does not resolve neatly. This isn't an impediment, even to an audience that doesn't qualify as poetry scholars. When I mentioned that the Sunken Garden attracts some who have little experience at poetry readings, and who worry they won't "get it," he argued on behalf of an inherent human capacity to get the point, in one way or the other - "people will go along with the musical language." He also related an experience in a manufacturing plant near Cincinnati. "I spent a whole day talking to people who'd been there 30 years, and I saw how individuals working at a factory could be drawn to poetry. They pulled out poems from their pockets to show me. They talked about Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes. I had assumed that workers were not reading poetry. But when I thought about it, it made perfect sense. In the 1930s, in the labor movement, workers were listening to folk songs and poets."
At the heart of Komunyakaa's own work are portraits from a period just as rich and difficult. As a young man, he went off to Vietnam with two anthologies of poetry in his duffel. As an information specialist, he reported on the "progress" of the war, but more than that, he recorded in his memory and his notebook scenes that, once translated to verse (beginning in the volume "Dien Cai Dau"), became as eloquent as any fiction and memoir that came out of Vietnam.
"I resisted the topic for so long. It was only 14 years later that I found a way to write about it. If I had written a year after, the work would have been different. I had to discover the importance of aesthetics, the importance of the images." Images are the key to the Komunyakaa body of work. Consider "You and I Are Disappearing."
The cry I bring down from the hills
belongs to a girl still burning
inside my head. At daybreak
she burns like a piece of paper.
She burns like foxfire
in a thigh-shaped valley.
A skirt of flames
dances around her
at dusk.
We stand with our hands
hanging at our sides
while she burns
Like a sack of dry ice.
She burns like oil on water.
She burns like a cattail torch
dipped in gasoline.
She glows like the fat tip
of a banker's cigar,
silent as quicksilver.
A tiger under a rainbow
at nightfall.
She burns like a shot glass of vodka.
She burns like a field of poppies
at the edge of a rain forest.
She rises like dragonsmoke
to my nostrils.
She burns like a burning bush
driven by the godawful wind.
In "Blue Notes," a book of his essays and interviews, Komunyakaa says, "I realized a kind of beauty in the overall landscape (in Vietnam). And many times that is what we have, beauty and violence side by side. We have been taught to see that as a contradiction, but, to me, contradiction is a sort of discourse. You have this push and pull in everything. It's underneath everything. That's what nature is about. And that is what creative energy is about. That's what the chemistry of the mind is about as well."
Vietnam, then, was an ideal subject - a place of stunning physical beauty, and where "we were creating more enemies than we could kill." It was the custom of the time - actually a custom that remains today - to portray the enemy as something less than human. "I never called anybody a `gook' or a `dink.' I had grown up with derogatory, negative terms. I felt insulted when I heard those words. I understood that one has to dehumanize the enemy before they're killed."
In his wartime job, he wrote about the intricacies and significance of Vietnam culture - a way to point out the importance of his own, and all cultures that are not "mainstream." As a black man, he was involved in a war that exploited his community. As a result, he felt an extra burden to address the war in his work. We were dehumanizing the Vietnamese, even as black soldiers were dehumanized.
"The literature that came out of the Vietnam experience erased the black presence, and it grew out of the inability to embrace black soldiers as citizens. It isn't the first time it happened in situations of war." Komunyakaa can recite contributions of black soldiers in all American wars, though popular histories largely ignore them.
His background and upbringing put him in a position to provide a rare historical service by documenting the black experience. He was able to maneuver and accommodate Vietnam in a way others couldn't. "Had I grown up in New York or San Francisco or LA, I wouldn't have adjusted to Vietnam. In Bogolusa (its name means dark waters), I explored everything I could explore in my rural environment."
And he had been - at least in spirit - something of an adventurer. Even at a young age, he decided that his given name, Joseph Brown, didn't adequately reflect his heritage. And so, over family objections, he changed Joseph to Yusef (reflecting traditional Biblical pronunciation) and Brown to Komunyakaa to honor his grandfather, who had that name until he left the West Indies. In "Mismatched Shoes," a poem in which he addresses this decision, he wrote:
"...My grandfather came from Trinidad
Smuggled in like a sack of papaya
On a banana boat, to a preacher's
Bowl of gumbo & jambalaya, to jazz;
The name Brown fitted him like trouble,
A plantation owner's breath
Clouding each filigreed letter..."
His childhood in Bogalusa did not offer a world of artistic encouragement. "I remember the first time I heard a live musician - a blind teenage boy. He had a goat tied to his wagon, and he was playing a guitar and singing the blues and spirituals. I thought, in a sense, he is an artist. I remember being quite taken with him. It influenced me to listen to the music coming out of the radio. The radio was shrine."
His own gravitation toward poetry was gradual. "My father was pragmatic, but my mother encouraged me to read. When she bought a set of encyclopedias, I read volumes A to P thoroughly." Extensive reading, he argues, is essential for every writer. In "Blue Notes," he says, "I do impress on my students the importance of reading everything - not just literature but also history, economics, psychology, philosophy - everything."
As a youngster, he read Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He said, "I was introduced to American literature (written by blacks) in what was termed `the Negro History Week,' which were brief moments in our education before we went back to the regular curriculum - history and literature dominated by Europeans. In the works of Langston Hughes I remember being struck by the surprises in his poetry, that it was close to a spoken diction, with blues - a metric shape."
In recent years, students everywhere have come to learn - and more than on special commemorative weeks - the contributions of black writers. On the other hand, some things have not changed.
When he came to Hartford to read to high school students a year ago, he saw something he hadn't even seen back in Bogalusa, "where blacks and whites were kissing cousins." Komunyakaa was shocked to see de facto segregation - nothing but black faces. "A throwback." There was another kind of segregation, too. After he looked around the room at Charter Oak Cultural Center and saw that the attendees were limited to one gender, he asked where the boys were. "They told me they were all at football practice."
Komunyakaa does not dismiss sports. When he considers little Jehan's future, he says he hopes the boy will inherit his sports interest and, perhaps, his own love of playing centerfield. ("It is a place of meditation, while waiting for a fly ball. Poets are in the outfield. A poet is definitely not a pitcher.") Of Jehan, he says, "Sports is something he can participate in, have fun doing, but he doesn't owe his life to the instruments of sports. There's a danger in that."
Surely, Jehan is not deprived in terms of being introduced to poetry and narrative. His father makes up little tales for him, and writes a few lines of verse regularly. Komunyakaa is an old hand at the obligations of nurturing a child. Jehan is his second. He also has a 32-year-old daughter, the product of his first marriage, who lives in Indiana. And he struggles for the time required to be a father, a teacher, a poet, a husband.
In fact, on the day we met, he moved back and forth between two images. One was life as a Princeton professor, living a dozen miles from campus in a beautiful old house on Trenton's loveliest street, with spacious plaster walls to display colorful work by Jacob Lawrence, Ed Clark and Romare Bearden, and bookcases of poetry, featuring Philip Levine, James Merrill, William Meredith, Galway Kinnell, Robert Hayden, James Dickey and Hayden Carruth, as well as other genres of works (he is currently reading biographies of Ho Chi Minh and Paul Robeson).
Here's the other image: life as an LSU professor in Baton Rouge, where a "great offer" awaits and where Komunyakaa would have to teach only half the number of courses he now teaches, allowing much more time for writing. When I asked him if he was staying or going, he just shook his head - there are obvious attractions in both places - but he must make a decision soon.
As he talked of it - of the work ahead and of the practical considerations of balancing everything - he looked at Jehan, who was, he thought, approaching nap time. "Maybe he's getting a little cranky." But before the interview ended, and father became lullaby-man, he revealed something of the poetry in the works - much of it exploring the minds of others.
Komunyakaa was in Australia, on sabbatical, when the Oklahoma City bombing occurred in April 1995. When he came back, "Everyone seemed so dazed. And then Timothy McVeigh's face surfaced out of all of this. Well, he must have told somebody. I kept thinking, what a burden it must be to have that information. What would it have been like to be his psychiatrist?" The poet was obsessed with the idea of responsibility - what if you know someone's terrible secret? What do you do with it? This is the subject of "Chameleon Couch," the title poem of a new volume in the works.
"The Autobiography of My Alter Ego" has so far taken 18 months. He is writing it from the point of view of a white Vietnam veteran speaking about his experiences and observations - "a composite of some people I've known. The intention is to address the complexities of the American culture through an individual who has witnessed certain things from many different points of view - and through my imagination. I realized this was the way to go - using the imagination, outside of the observed facts. One has to take the risk. I wanted an individual who returned from the war and never really felt at home. He began riding buses, crisscrossing the country. I wanted him to be literate, and informed by everyday experiences, and trying to come to terms with what he really knows. I needed to find the voice of the alter ego - to get slightly outside of myself, and yet create a voice that addresses some of my own concerns. I need a character to do that, the way a novelist might do it."
In recent years, Komunyakaa has also returned, in effect, to where he started - the lyrics he heard from the radio. He has written the words to accompany the music of several composers. Currently, he is collaborating with William Banfield on a piece based on the life of Edmonia Lewis, a 19th-century African American sculptor. He was drawn to her because of the drama and power of her work and because, "I suppose that she had the audacity to be an artist with black skin. It is an attempt to encapsulate certain moments of her creative experience, and also try to trace where her fears were."
Ten days after the Trenton interview, it was the turn of "Papa" to leave Trenton for New York City. The venue was the Makor/Steinhardt Center in Manhattan, a branch of the 92nd Street Y.
My own experience hearing Komunyakaa read until then was limited to a videotape I had borrowed from Alison Meyers. The tape, which recorded a California appearance several years ago, had worried me. I had a little trouble making out some of the poet's words. I had not mastered the Bogalusa-born dialect.
But at Makor, I learned how to listen to that baritone voice. At first, I watched the poet's face intently. He seldom looked down, searching for text - it was as if each piece was presented not from the podium but the soul. I closed my eyes, put myself in the place of little Jehan, and concentrated on the music of the mind.
Komunyakaa was one of two readers on the program that night, so his presentation was short. And yet in a brief period he had affected those assembled. He had told me, "Poetry is not an ad for the emotions." Well, why could you hear gasps when he read, "You and I Are Disappearing," as he described the burning girl? And then, during "Anodyne," I thought of him not so much as Yusef Komunyakaa but as Joe Brown, riffing in the manners of Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, or John Coltrane.
I love how it swells
into a temple where it is
held prisoner, where the god
of blame resides. I love
slopes & peaks, the secret
paths that make me selfish.
I love my crooked feet
shaped by vanity & work
shoes made to outlast
belief. The hardness
coupling milk it can't
fashion. I love the lips,
salt & honeycomb on the tongue.
The hair holding off rain
& snow. The white moons
on my fingernails. I love
how everything begs
blood into song & prayer
inside an egg. A ghost
hums through my bones
like Pan's midnight flute
shaping internal laws
beside a troubled river.
I love this body
made to weather the storm
in the brain, raised
out of the deep smell
of fish & water hyacinth,
out of rapture & the first regret.
I love my big hands.
I love it clear down to the soft
quick motor of each breath,
the liver's ten kinds of desire
& kidney's lust for sugar.
This skin, this sac of dung
& joy, this spleen floating
like a compass needle inside
nighttime, always divining
West Africa's dusty horizon.
I love the birthmark
posed like a fighting cock
on my right shoulder blade.
I love this body, this
solo & ragtime jubilee
behind the left nipple,
because I know I was born
to wear out at least
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Man shot at Grandview Park playground
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One man was shot in the middle of a park Sunday evening, and police searched through thick woods to find the attackers.
The shooting happened shortly after 6 p.m. near the playground at Grandview Park on Bailey Avenue. Pittsburgh police say a man in his 20's was hurt. Several other people, including children, were in the area but were not hit by the gunfire.
One witness said he saw a group of children run down a steep hill on the side of an unpaved hiking trail in the park moments after the shooting. Officers with rifles searched through those woods but have not made an arrest.
The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive.

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Banks reopened Thursday in crisis-stricken Cyprus after a 12-day closure, but not everyone joined the queues, as small enterprises all over the island appeared to be on the verge of going under and unable to meet payrolls.
Lines of 30 or more formed outside many of the banks in the capital of Nicosia and in Limassol, the second biggest city, when they opened their doors at noon. Bank officials limited the number of people allowed inside to 10 or a dozen at a time.
To avoid a run on the two biggest banks, clients were limited to withdrawing $330 a day. But they can't touch their deposits or savings or cash checks at least until next week, and possibly well after that, in what are said to be the first such capital controls in the 14-year history of the euro currency.
At Bank Laiki, which is to fold, and the Bank of Cyprus, which will be reorganized, depositors – who include individual savers, schools and universities, major corporations and Russian oligarchs allegedly laundering "dirty money" – might lose over 40 percent of their savings, or possibly more, beyond the insured amount of $130,000.
The International Monetary Fund and eurozone financial institutions imposed the onerous "bail-in" to raise $7.5 billion, as the Cypriot contribution to accompany $13 billion that the European Central Bank will inject to stabilize the country's banking sector.
Outwardly, Limassol, a port city of more than 180,000, appears to be thriving, with well-stocked shops and numerous fine restaurants. But for most of the tens of thousands who've moved here from formerly communist countries – there are at least 25,000 Russians – the bank opening gave little relief.
At Viva la Vida, a well-appointed Mediterranean restaurant with "very good food at very good prices," there hasn't been "a single customer in two weeks," said immigrant waitress Lilia Cepraga, 37.
"Russians were the best clients" at the Ukrainian-owned restaurant, said Cepraga, who was born in the former Soviet republic of Moldova. She's lived here 10 years and speaks six languages.
"I wake up every morning and read the Cyprus News," an English-language daily newspaper, "and I get a headache. If I don't get my salary, I could be out on the street. I don't know if I have enough to make a sandwich for my 12-year-daughter tomorrow," she said.
"Russians," a designation loosely accorded to nearly anyone from the former Soviet Union, are a major presence in Limassol, working in banks, shipping firms and as white- and blue-collar workers. They also will be among the biggest losers in the reorganization, under which Cyprus' second-biggest bank, the Bank Laiki, will fold into the biggest, the Bank of Cyprus.
At the outdoor terrace at the swank Four Seasons hotel overlooking the coast, cigar smoke wafted up from several tables Thursday as Russian businessmen discussed who the winners and losers would be in the crisis.
Sergei L., a Russian-born hedge fund analyst who asked that his last name not be used so that he might speak more frankly, moved to Cyprus with his wife and two children six months ago because of the high-quality English-language private schools and the beaches. "I like the environment. I don't like what is going on in the economy," he said.
He said the warning signs that Cyprus' banks had stretched beyond their capacity, by paying high interest rates and gambling depositors' funds in marked-down Greek government bonds, were visible two years ago.
"Our accounts are not in Cyprus," he said. "We are not idiots."
He said Russian oligarchs were among those likely to be the biggest losers when the two biggest banks took their "haircuts" on major depositors. But he said much of the funds were "not clear and clean. I don't feel so bad for them."
But other major Russian enterprises, including steelworks and other manufacturing industries, had deposited money in Cyprus because it earned higher interest and could be moved about much more easily than in the more regulated Moscow environment, he said.
Sergei said he wouldn't invest in Cypriot real estate because it was priced at some two and a half times the real value. "It should be totally distressed before I move" into the market, he said.
Limassol's Russian-speaking mayor, Andreas Christou, defended the presence of Russians and other East Europeans here as just another community, smaller in size than the Britons and Germans and followed by those of Israelis, Egyptians and other Arabs. He said allegations that Russians were using Cyprus as a money haven were nonsense.
"We are an open city," he told visiting reporters.
As for the allegations that Russian oligarchs use Cyprus to launder money, the former national interior minister said, "I think some operations might be under question" but "these operations are taking place all over the world."
"I don't agree to accuse all businesspeople, including Russians, as gangsters," he said.
The main surprise of the banks' reopening was how smoothly it appeared to go, at least on the first day.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades expressed his "deep appreciation towards the Cypriot people for the maturity and spirit of responsibility they have shown at a critical time for the stability of the Cypriot economy."
But many Cypriots see the harsh price imposed on savers and depositors as part of a plot by Germany and other northern European countries to seize financial advantage.
Even Christou, a relative moderate who's viewed as a contender for the top office on the island, seemed to buy into the conspiracy theory. He said Anastasiades' accession to the European Union's demands "was done under the extreme pressure of our European partner" and that many Cypriots thought it was "a punishment."
"To a certain extent, I agree," he said. "Somebody wanted to kill the international business in Cyprus, to expel Russians from Cyprus and to invite them to other financial centers.


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Re: Vipassanā: What Is Dissolution, Really?
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{{{sigh}}} Oh, well. But you already have seriously waded into those waters, up to your armpits. I think you have seriously missed my point. I am asking if there might be a possibility of something of value actually might be going on despite the seemingly problematic (for some) language used? It is a reasonable question that may open rather than shuts off possibilties for discussion.retrofuturist wrote:Greetings Tilt,Taking "we" as constituting "you", "I" and "others"... I've explained what I've done. I've side-stepped the whole issue by not wading into those waters in the first place.tiltbillings wrote:So, is this an expression of what is really happening, or is it just Mahasi Saydaw's imagination? Might there actually be something to what he is describing, or are we to reject it out of hand because we find the philosophical structure built up around the momentary dhamma notion overly clumsy?


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Supervisors endorse fire tax repeal bills, oppose surcharge bill
By Joe Naiman
For The Alpine Sun
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors endorsed two state bills which would repeal the $150 annual "State Responsibility Area Fire Prevention Benefit Fee" while opposing a state bill which would replace the tax with a 4.8 percent surcharge on all property insurance policies in California.
The supervisors' 5-0 vote April 23 directed the county's Chief Administrative Officer to draft a letter expressing the Board of Supervisors' support for Assembly Bill 23 and Assembly Bill 124, which would repeal the fire tax, and to draft a letter stating the supervisors' opposition to Assembly Bill 468, which would substitute the statewide surcharge for the tax.
In 2011 the California state legislature made property with habitable structures and in a firefighting State Responsibility Area subject to the State Responsibility Area Fire Prevention Benefit Fee. The designation of the assessment as a fee exempted it from the public vote on new taxes, although various homeowners and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association are challenging that in court.
"We think this fee is illegal," said Supervisor Bill Horn.
The tax includes homes and other structures within a State Responsibility Area but also within a local fire protection district or other fire protection public agency, although the tax is reduced to $115 per structure for property within a fire protection agency. Approximately 74,000 properties in San Diego County are within the State Responsibility Area.
No credit is given to property owners in fire protection agencies which have voter-approved benefit fees as well as local property tax revenue. The fee legislation did not include any enhanced California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Service.
"The state is stealing the money," Horn said.
The assessment affects 56 of California's 58 counties; Sutter County is mostly irrigated agriculture and has no CalFire responsibility area while San Francisco County consists entirely of the City of San Francisco and is covered by its city fire department.
The County of San Diego spends $15.5 million annually on fire protection, including $10.2 million which is paid directly to CalFire on a contract basis to keep stations in State Responsibility Areas open year-round and staffed by professional firefighters. "We for years have been picking up the responsibility of the state," Jacob said.
Since 1993 the county has spent approximately $230 million on measures such as brush clearing, new firefighting vehicles, an emergency radio network, evacuation plans, and two firefighting helicopters. The county's funding of those programs is derived from property tax revenue, including that from State Responsibility Area parcels.
"This also helps the cities," Jacob said, noting that the 2003 and 2007 wildfires which started in unincorporated areas spread to incorporated cities.
The county also made the CalFire division chief the fire chief of the San Diego County Regional Fire Authority.
The fee was first assessed on 2012-13 property tax bills. Tim Donnelly, whose district office is in Victorville, and Mike Morrell of Rancho Cucamonga authored the bills to repeal the tax outright.
Assembly Bill 468 was authored by Wesley Chesbro, who has district offices in Santa Rosa, Eureka, and Ukiah. "A.B. 468 gets rid of one bad tax and replaces it with another," Horn said.
"This is no better because it simply swaps one tax for another. The state simply needs to get its fiscal house in order," Jacob said.


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Left and Right Morphism Spaces
One more explicit parallel between left and right representations: we have morphisms between right -modules just like we had between left -modules. I won't really go into the details — they're pretty straightforward — but it's helpful to see how our notation works.
In the case of left modules, we had a vector space . Now in the case of right modules we also have a vector space . We use the same notation in both cases, and rely on context to tell us whether we're talking about right or left module morphisms. In a sense, applying "eats up" an action of on each module, and on the same side.
We can see this even more clearly when we add another action to one of the modules. Let's say that carries a left action of — we write — and carries commuting left actions of both and another group — we write . I say that there is a "residual" left action of on the space of left -module morphisms. That is, the space "eats up" an action of on each module, and it leaves the left action of behind.
So, how could act on the space of morphisms? Well, let be an intertwinor of the actions, and let any act on by sending it to , defined by . That is, first sends a vector to a vector , and then acts on the left to give a new vector . We must check that this is an intertwinor, and not just a linear map from to . For any , we calculate
using first the fact that is an intertwinor, and then the fact that the action of commutes with that of to pull all the way out to the left.
Similarly, if is an extra action on the right of , we have a "residual" right action on the space . And the same goes for right -modules: we have a residual left action of on , and a residual right action on .
It's a little more complicated when we have extra commuting actions on . The complication is connected to the fact that the hom functor is contravariant in its first argument, which if you don't know much about category theory you don't need to care about. The important thing is that if has an extra left action of , then the space will have a residual right action of .
In this case, given a map intertwining the actions, we define by . We should verify that this is, indeed, a right action:
using the fact that acts on the left on . Again, we must verify that is actually another intertwinor:
using the fact that is an intertwinor and the actions of and on commute.
Similarly, we find a residual right action on the space , and residual left actions on the spaces and .
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By Chris Wickham
LONDON (Reuters) - With oil becoming scarcer and more expensive, the economics of the industry may finally tip in favor of one of the most neglected areas of its business - the technology for cleaning up oil spills.
Despite efforts by scientists to find new and more effective ways to deal with spilt oil, there has been little fundamental change in the technology in the two decades since the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster that spilled 750,000 barrels of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska.
But as oil companies push into the environmentally pristine Arctic and deeper waters elsewhere, the pressure on them to demonstrate they can quickly mop up spilt oil will increase.
Big spills like BP PLC's 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico usually trigger a flurry of research, much like the acceleration in weapons technology in wartime, but history shows that industry and government enthusiasm quickly fades.
That loss of momentum could prove expensive. BP has already spent $14 billion on clean-up operations, paid out over $8 billion in claims and is offering a further $7.8 billion in settlement to those affected by the disaster.
A pair of materials researchers from Pennsylvania State University have come up with a novel gel that can absorb 40 times its own weight in oil and forms a soft solid that is strong enough to be scooped up and fed straight into a refinery to recover the oil.
The polymer developed by Mike Chung and Xuepei Yuan only interacted with oil in tests and the swelled gel contained no water, which solves the sticky problem of separating spilt crude from the water it pollutes.
Chung says existing absorbers like straw, and even corn cobs, can only hold about five times their own weight. They also pick up water along with the oil and become waste that has to be buried in special landfills or burned.
The Penn State scientists estimate their polymer gel could be produced on a large scale for $2 a pound, which is enough to recover more than five gallons of spilled oil worth roughly $12 based on a barrel price of $80.
"Had this material been applied to the top of the leaking well head in the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 spill, this... could have effectively transformed the gushing brown oil into a floating gel for easy collection and minimized the pollution consequences," the scientists said in their research paper on the new material.
Rival teams have applied nanotechnology to the problem to produce ultra-lightweight sponges that are oleophilic and hydrophobic - they love oil but repel water.
Daniel Hashim and colleagues at Rice University in Houston have found a way to turn carbon nanotubes - atom-thick sheets of carbon rolled into cylinders - into a sponge material that sucks up oil and can either be squeezed or burned to remove it. In either case the fire-resistant sponge can be re-used.
Hashim told Reuters he has some seed capital from companies and individual investors to develop the technology but there are plenty of hurdles ahead.
Aside from the need to develop a system to deploy the sponge material into an oil spill, "the most significant barrier is equipment cost associated with the scale-up process," he said.
If those hurdles can be overcome, the material could be useful in the Arctic because it retains its sponginess even in extreme cold.
Even celebrities are getting in on the act. In June this year, a U.S. jury ruled in favor of actor Kevin Costner in a lawsuit in which fellow actor Stephen Baldwin accused him of cheating in a multimillion dollar deal to sell oil clean-up devices to BP after the Gulf of Mexico spill.
Some industry insiders are candid about the problem. Writing in the Journal of Petroleum Technology in September, Michael Cortez, BP's manager of oil spill response technology, and his deputy Hunter Rowe warned the research push since the Gulf disaster could be short-lived.
The industry has ramped up funding to improve response technology after other major spills, they said.
"In all instances, however, after a few years of progress, conditions changed in the industry because of oil price volatility and other economic events, and spill response technology development and funding returned to previous levels."
More than twenty years after Exxon Valdez, when BP's Macondo well spewed out an estimated 5 million barrels into the sea, the flotilla attacking the slick was still using floating booms to contain it, specially adapted ships that pick it up by skimming the surface of the water, and controversial chemical dispersants.
There have been advances, not least in the gadgetry for tracking and imaging spills and deploying the ships. The booms are better designed, the skimmers are more efficient and the dispersants less toxic. Some in the industry think this is enough.
"We believe the current technology we have more than meets the need," said Simon Henry, finance director of Royal Dutch Shell, when asked by Reuters whether the company was increasing research spending as it pushes exploration into the Arctic.
Shell, which is Europe's top oil company, was forced to suspend the hunt for oil in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska this year after a giant metal box designed to help contain the oil in the event of a well blowout, was damaged during tests.
"We put most of our effort into ensuring there isn't a spill in the first place," said Henry, adding that a series of barriers, including the blowout preventer that sits on the sea floor at the well-head, are there to guard against "a very, very unlikely event".
Cortez and Rowe from BP argue that exploration in harsher and more remote environments calls for more cutting-edge spill response technology.
"The key to closing technology gaps and enhancing current technologies is to prevent the sense of urgency from being diminished," they said in their journal article.
Scientists are busy coming up with answers but in the end it will be the will of the oil industry and pressure from governments that determines how far and how fast these new technologies are taken up.
As for the novel oil-absorbing gel, Mike Chung is still waiting for the industry to call.
"There is a lot of interest in Petrogel technology for oil spill cleanup and recovery, but not from major oil companies," he told Reuters. (Additional reporting by Andrew Callus; Editing by xxx)


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With all these new BlackBerry 7 devices out it might be hard to remember that there are still a couple of devices that have yet to be even announced officially. One of those is the BlackBerry Bold 9790 or as I like to call it 'the refresh of a refresh device (9780).' The BlackBerry Bold 9790 will feature BlackBerry 7 and sport a 1.2GHz processor, NFC, 8 gigs of storage and a 5mp camera. This device is rumored to be launching at the end of the year.
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TELLURIDE, Colo. (AP) — A plane's landing gear collapsed as it arrived at the Telluride Regional Airport in Colorado on Sunday and skidded to a stop, but no injuries were reported among the 12 people on board, who included members of the team behind an upcoming book and documentary about famed author J.D. Salinger, officials said.
The twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 landed just after 1 p.m. and suffered damage to the left engine propellers and wing, the San Miguel County Sheriff's Office said.
Before the plane landed, members of the local fire department arrived at the scene to await its arrival after receiving advance notice that a light on the aircraft had shown its landing gear was not locked down.
There was no fire or smoke after the hard landing, but authorities said the aircraft suffered damage to the left engine propellers and the left wing. The 12 people on board included 10 passengers and two crew members.
"Salinger" author Shane Salerno, who was not on the flight, told The Associated Press that members of the film and book team were passengers on the flight along with family members of a person interviewed for the two projects.
It was not clear how many people connected with the film and book were on board.
"I am extremely grateful that everyone is okay," Salerno said in an email.
FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer said the aircraft was arriving from Denver when the left main landing gear collapsed.
The Los Angeles Times reported the team traveled to Colorado on Sunday to promote the Salinger documentary at the Telluride Film Festival.
The book is scheduled to be published this week and the film will air on PBS in January.
Sgt. Michael Westcott of San Miguel County said deputies gave the passengers a ride to the terminal building, where they retrieved their luggage and left the airport.
The National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the incident.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Kevin Harvick made it 2 for 2 at Speedweeks on Thursday by winning the first Daytona 500 qualifying race.
Harvick held off Greg Biffle over a four-lap sprint to win the first 150-mile Budweiser Duel. Harvick and Biffle also went 1-2 in last Saturday night's exhibition race.
"Man, we're just having a good time," said Harvick, who has his infant son at Daytona International Speedway for the first time. "Just relaxing, ready to race."
The starting field for Sunday's season-opening Daytona 500 is set by the results from the pair of 60-lap qualifiers.
The first race Thursday was dull until Denny Hamlin brought out the only caution with seven laps remaining. Hamlin lost control of his car, spun into Carl Edwards and triggered a four-car accident that also collected Regan Smith and Trevor Bayne, who had a dominant car early in the qualifier.
"I know what the wrecks look like now, I am really familiar with them," said Edwards, who was also wrecked in Wednesday's practice.
Juan Pablo Montoya, who infamously crashed into a jet dryer during last year's Daytona 500 to trigger a massive fuel fire, stopped for minor repairs during the caution.
Montoya restarted the race in 13th with four laps remaining, but rocketed through the field to finish third.
"It was time to go," he said.
The bulk of the race seemed to be one long parade of NASCAR's new Gen-6 race car. Unsure of how the cars handle in packs, and when the drivers choose to side-draft, most of the field in the first race played it conservatively.
"The choice was obviously made by a bunch of us to run around in circles and just make laps," said two-time Daytona 500 champion Michael Waltrip, who needed a clean race to guarantee a spot in Sunday's field.
"I'm just trying to make the race. There were a lot of people that just wanted to get through some laps and understand what was going on. There were some of us that would have run like that until they threw the checkered just to make the race. And then there were some that decided it was time to go, and they made it work."
Waltrip is racing in a special Sandy Hook Special Support Fund paint scheme, and his car number has been changed to No. 26 as a tribute to the 26 students and teachers killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.
"There's a lot of people up in Connecticut with a smile on their face right now," Waltrip said.
Danica Patrick started on the pole for the first race and simply need to keep her car intact to hang on to her front row starting spot in the Daytona 500. She raced a little at the start of the duel, then faded back in the field and wound up 17th out of 23 cars.
"What I really feel like I need to do is go down to the Harvick bus and see what he's doing," she said. "He's got it going on down here."
Patrick became the first woman in history to win a pole at NASCAR's top level when she qualified first for the Daytona 500.


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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portuguese financial markets surged Monday following a weekend decision to allow the fragile coalition government to remain in charge, eliminating for now the prospect of snap elections and more political uncertainty.
Lisbon's PSI 20 stock index was up 2.4 percent in late afternoon trading while government bond prices rose sharply, causing borrowing rates to fall. The interest rate on the benchmark 10-year bond — what the government would pay to borrow money from the open market — fell 0.45 percentage points to 6.29 percent.
Investors got a boost of confidence after President Anibal Cavaco Silva late Sunday said the best option for Portugal is for the coalition to stay in power. It nearly fractured on July 2 when Foreign Minister Paulo Portas offered his resignation. Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho sought to save the coalition by offering Portas a position as his deputy.
Cavaco Silva did not say whether he would accept Portas' nomination to the new post. But his decision put on the backburner the possibility of holding early elections amid broad public discontent over harsh austerity measures the government has pushed through to abide by the terms of its 78 billion euros ($102 billion) international bailout.
Cavaco Silva will probably formally endorse the coalition in coming days, allowing the government to submit a confidence motion to Parliament that is expected to pass, said Antonio Barroso, a London-based analyst with the Teneo Intellience. Portas would take over economic coordination in his new role.
Passos Coelho said he and his coalition partners must now rebuild the confidence lost following infighting over how to deal with austerity and deep economic misery.
"We have a new reality and we must live in accordance with what we have and not with what we would like to have," he said.
Analysts expressed doubts that his government will survive for long.
"While imminent elections are now doubtful, this government is unlikely to last until 2015," when the next general elections are due, said Rahman Mujtaba, of the Eurasia Group political risk consultancy.
The two main parties that make up the coalition have been at odds over austerity and will have a difficult time implementing painful economic policies that are expected to make life even more difficult for Portugal's citizens. A proposal outlining reforms that must be implemented over the next two years will probably be submitted to Parliament sometime after the summer, Mujtaba said.
"Both parties are expected to stagger on trying to implement the bailout agreement as the Portuguese president decides on what steps to take next," said Michael Hewson, an analyst for London-based CMC Markets UK. "This failure to adopt consensus is becoming all too familiar in the politics of southern Europe."
The coalition also has to agree on a budget for 2014 in the fall and local elections will take place on Sept. 29, representing the first electoral test for the coalition.
Hewson said investors remain concerned that Portugal may not be able issue new debt next year. The country could be forced to seek another bailout if it is unable to comply with a plan for it to exit its current rescue program in 2014.
Clendenning reported from Madrid.


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Messi's Hat Trick Sends Argentina To Russia
Argentine soccer ace Lionel Messi scored 3 times to single-handedly help his national team qualify for the 2018 World Cup. Argentina defeated Ecuador 3-1 yesterday. Messi's hat trick came on the final day of South American qualifying. The 2-time World Cup champions barely avoided missing out on the FIFA party for the first time since 1970.
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Intelligence isn't easy to measure. Artificial intelligence projects can rely on various tests, like the Turing test and games of skill (eg. poker, chess,
thermonuclear war, go) for comparing human intelligence to silicon-based machine algorithms. There are tests for animals, but it's a bit harder to coax some animals into taking various tests (maybe they're smarter for not wanting to participate). The Flynn Effect shows (but doesn't explain) that human IQ scores have been increasing over time, but is everything actually getting smarter? Here are just a few more examples of smart animals we've found.
- In fables and other stories, crows are usually pretty smart, but how smart are they really? Let's give them some tests! Previously, we've seen crows that have been able to figure out how to make and use simple tools, and some crows can apparently solve 8-step problems. [url]
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hickenb Posts: 3Just drove 333 miles,fill was 10 gallons. Looks like that is 33 M.P.G.2006 Spectra EX with 3000 miles. Seems good to me.0
sheerwater Posts: 4I know for a fact I don't get anywhere near what it said on the window sticker when I bought the car a year and a half ago. The best highway milage I have gotten has been 26MPG and I usually get 20MPG driving around town.0
theolus Posts: 1I drive 38 miles a day round trip to work.. I now have 22K miles on my EX. In mixed driving I usually get 30MPG... My last tank was mostly highway with three people I got 33MPG.... My highest MPG was a 252 mile trip by myself which was only highway- 36MPG.... The more miles I put on my spectra, the better the mileage seems to get.... When I first got it, I would get 26 - 28 in mixed driving... I am very pleased with my mileage on this car... In most cases I equal or exceed the EPA estimates....0
I hope you're right because I just bought the 2006 Spectra 5, I drive 100 miles round trip to work and so far with 3000 Miles on it I'm only getting 26 MPG.
That's nowhere close to the 34 MPG they advertised.
I thought the Milage would improve after a few thousand Miles,I have my fingers crossed but after 3000 Miles I've stopped holding my breath... :confuse:0
Good news about My Spectra5.
When I first purchased this Car I was worried about the Gas Millage after reading this post. Well, Here are some nubers and they are very good! This is mixed driving with the majority being my 100 Mile Commute to work Mon-Fri, driving 15 Miles to the Grocery and just puttering around tow visiting Family and Friends. I can't wait to go on a long trip where it's all Highway Miles. Anyway, here are the numbers, I've calculated every tank since I bought the Car and averaged the numbers. The last Odometer was today at the Gas Station.
As you can see, as the Spectra breaks in the millage is increasing at a very nice linear rate.
I'll keep posting here as the Miles rack up! :shades:0
Before everynoe calls B/S on the fact that the numbers on My first post and the one I just made hang on, is because the Millage was at 2,800 Miles and I hadn't filled up till I had 3,122 Miles.
The Millage took quite a nice leap between fillups and as I said, I'm averaging tanks, using Thousand Mile increments as a benchmark. :P0
prosource1 Posts: 234DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT IS ON THE WINDOW by the EPA. These are not accurate and most people get 20% less due to real world conditions. Noone drives 50mph all the time on flat ground. If you are getting anything over 20 in city driving and anywhere near 30mpg around town, you are doing well.0
I just filled up and did the math on the last tank.
I filled up at a different Gas Station (Sell vs Marathon)
The Tank of Shell Gas actualy made My milage drop!
I only got 24 mpg on Shell Gas!
There was no difference in Driving habits, everything was the same pertaining to the other Tanks exept the fact that I filled up at Shell.
All I can say is no more Shell for this Car! :P0
Was the Shell formulated with ethanol and perhaps your other gas was not?
Here in my part of Virginia, ALL gas is 10% ethanol for the summer - that has lowered my mileage. :mad:0
Very good point! I'll have to check and see, it wasn't advertised as being a mixed blend.
The drop in Millage would be OK if the price was allot lower, but it isn't and that sucks!
I know it's not the Car. My last tank the milage went back up to 31 mpg so it has to be something with Shell's blend.0
The ethanol formulated gas here is not any lower in price, if anything it's higher ... let us know.0
spectraman Posts: 255I computed a record 35.9 mpg with my Spectra last night over 150 miles.
I made 3 40+ mile trips on the highway, and then decided to fill up early. I even squeezed extra gas in after it shut off. Cruise control was used a lot, and the A/C was off for at least one of the runs. Four people were in the car for two of the trips though.
The funny thing is, the previous mileage check which included heavy A/C use and no highway driving only came in at 23 mpg. I also ran the tank down to nearly empty before filling.
I can definitely vouch for the highway/cruise control effect on MPG!
Btw, my car has 24k+ miles on it, and the automatic trans.
Great! I hope that when Fall gets here and I can run without the AC I'll see a big improvement in Milage.
With the new rotary compressors car manufacturers use today I'm not sure if the Millage would improve that much though.
I had a 68 Chevelle Malibu and I could get a 10 mpg increase by turning the AC off and rolling the Windows down.
Of course, the AC compressor was almost as big as the engine in My Spectra...0
I have 3500 miles on my 2006 Spectra 5 and so far I am averaging 30 mpg with daily driving and have obtained as high as 36 while highway driving but the norm is usually around 33-34 mpg. I should note that I use my A/C a lot but also am easy on the throttle. I usually shift around 3200-3800 RPM and always use the cruise control on the highway. The lowest I have ever gotten on the highway is 29 mpg with 3 adults, 2 kids, a full load of luggage, the AC on and going over a mountain pass.
So far I am thrilled with the gas mileage and the car.0
Update. Just got back from a weekend road trip. My best average on a tank of gas was 37.5 mpg while traveling a relatively flat stretch of highway with no a/c on setting the cruise at 64 mph. My worst was 30 mpg while loaded up with camping gear and climbing a lot of hills.0
smalltown Posts: 75I have a 2005 Spectra5 with a little over 30,000 miles. My "check engine" light would come on and go off in a day or two a few times a month for the past 3 or 4 months. The dealer was finally able to isolate it to a bad CO2 sensor. After a replacement under warranty, my mileage improved a little. On the highway it went from 29.5 to 32.5 MPG. In town MPG went up about 5%.0
I've gotten anywhere from about 24 to 38. I need to update my MPG chart, I was keeping an overall tally but I stopped about six weeks ago. I believe I will get 40 or better in strictly highway driving, if I don't have to use E10.0
OK, I found and updated my graph paper.
First tank was 36.6, and from there I've gotten 31.0, 21.9 (two tanks of E10), 31.9, 30.7, 26.2, 29.6, 33.7, 29.5, 39.9, 31.1, 35.5, 32.5, 26.1, 37.2 on last tank.
Total of 3729 miles, 115.76 gallons = 32.2 MPG overall.0
I get anywhere for 27-32. Mostly shorter trips, but have taken it on some longer trips and can't get any better than 32.
Could be that I don't have cruise but for some reason on my 06 it wasn't installed.
Even though it has been on every automatic that I see. What's up with that KIA?0
Cruise is optional on most/all Spectras. Mine had it ($250) and pinstripes ($0) but it was not standard on most Spectras.0
But I have yet to see it on a manual transmission car(which I have).
Test drove an automatic before I bought mine, and it had cruise.0
I have a 2008 Kia Spectra5 5 spd manual transmission.I am getting around 30 MPG running around town and 35 on the HWY running at 78mph on cruise control im sure if I slowed it down to 65 or 70 it might have gotten around 38 to 40 MPG... The only Modification I made was to add a K&N air filter which increased the air flow to the engine. I plan on adding a cold air intake to it which will boost the Horse Power and also allow even more air flow to the engine which will increase the fuel economy.0
cmhj2000 Se, Pa.Posts: 381Increasing air flow will not improve the mileage on an EFI engine.0
Since my 37.2, I've gotten 25.9, 28.6, 29.0, 24.3 (winter snows begin), 27.9, and 33.4 on the last tank. Overall average at this point is just under 32.
I would expect at least 35 on a road trip, and given a 14.5 gallon tank, that gives a stretch-out range with one gallon reserve is over 470 miles.
At 38 MPG that makes 513, and 40 give you 540. IMO that's doable.0
bbb99 Posts: 58How much did you guys pay for your spectra? They are advertising 09's for $7900.0
Be careful with that one it must not have anything but an engine ... Be sure to find out what its got. If you can get the SX model it will have a few more sporty upgrades body kit 16 inch rims etc.. Mine was 18500 but with my trade in I got out the door for 12,500....0
This will be an LX stick w/o air. Base model.
That's a good price, lowest I've seen them around here is about $10,000. Figure $1,000 for AC as a dealer-added option, you're still getting a new car for 9 grand. Hard to beat that deal.
These purchase price posts should go in the purchase price thread. There is one specifically for that topic.0
harley4jcs2 Posts: 1This type of add is well know as bait & switch..Legally they have to have one BUT I can guarantee, U will never see it nor will they actually sell it..They need it to run the add..I would suggest that U not do business with this type of scum dealer. NOW to the actual topic of the thread.......Just bought a 07 with 44k on the clock. Paid 5K for the little squirt. Drove it 200 miles home at 70-80 MPH and it returned 35.6 MPG..YAHOOOOOO0
marley0730 Posts: 2Long drive -- averaged 35 MPG. As for city, maybe 30? Still haven't made a marker for short trips and calculated.
What a great little car: New '09 Spectra EX.
With Cash for Clunkers, we got it out the door (with an $8500 discount) for $10097, including taxes/fees.
Should've low balled the dealer -- car salesman said Kia doesn't do it, which I wasn't really buying.
Sticker price/MSRP was $17250 (plus $1100 taxes/fees) -- not sure why it ended up as $10097, but we'll take it.
If you're curious about our discount, it was $3500 factory offer, $4500 clunker and $500 credit union membership.0
jharrelson Posts: 1July 09 .. I bought an 07 Spectra with 42000 miles on it, from Reno Kia for a total "out-the-door" price of $7000 with $500 trade-in.. and it came with a year warranty, plus I bought a three year extended warranty.
it was originally an Enterprise Rental car that dealers bid and buy in groups of 10 or 20 vehicles and then have big "Blow Out" sales to attract customers into their dealerships.
So Far - So Good... no problems and am totally satisfied with the car and price I paid.0
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WINSTON SALEM, N.C. – This weekend's Hilton Garden Invitational allowed multiple King athletes to keep warm despite the snowy outdoor conditions. Hannah Witt and Spencer Frantom heightened the temperature around the tracks with blazing speeds in their respective events to bring victory and topple school records. Multiple members of both Tornado teams set new personal records in their final meet before the first-ever Conference Carolinas Indoor Track & Field Championships.
Junior Hannah Witt (Mountain City, Tenn.) earned a victory in the women's 5,000-meter run and at the same time surpassed the provisional national qualifying mark. She crossed the finish line in 17:27 (adjusted) which also toppled to standing school record. This is the second school record she has broken in as many weeks after setting the new benchmark in the women's 3,000-meter run (10:23.78) at last week's Liberty Open.
Spencer Frantom, a junior from Morristown, Tenn., set a new conference best in the men's 5,000-meter run. His sixth place finish in 15:13.59 is now tops in Conference Carolinas meanwhile setting a new school and personal record in the event.
Tia Nelson (Brooklyn, N.Y.) also set a new conference best in the women's 200m dash. In a field of over 90 runners, the freshman finished in the top third of the competition with a time of 26.32. Her time was good for 29th position in the final standings.
King dressed four to compete in the women's shot put and three set new personal records with their throws. Freshman Kayla Gash (Cleveland, Tenn.) hit 10.24 meters while Shayla Goins and Melissa Arnold hit 9.07m and 8.86m, respectively. Maegan Henry (Bluefield, Va.) was the top King finisher in the event with an 18th place finish on an 11.76m toss.
On the men's side of the shot put, sophomore Tom Lampkin (Troy Grove, Ill.) and sophomore Johnathan Dunn (Bland, Va.) also set new PRs. Lampkin rounded out the top-10 with a distance of 10.02m. Dunn placed 12th with a best throw of 9.40m.
Freshman Brent Swiney also set a new personal record in the men's 3,000-meter run after placing 24th (8:58.05) in a field of over 60 runners.
The Hilton Garden Invitational served as the final meet before the first Conference Carolinas Indoor Track & Field Championships. The championships will be held in Winston Salem, N.C. as part of an ongoing JDL Fast Track event on Feb. 16.


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The local public library is generally a pretty great place for young families, with free storytimes and loads of books to entice young readers. But one public library is catching some serious flack for sending the police to a young girl's home because of two overdue library books, reports CBS Boston.
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In Charlton, Massachusetts, a police sergeant appeared at the home of 5-year-old Hailey Benoit because her family had failed to return two library books, which were months overdue. After the sergeant left, little Hailey burst into tears out of fear that she would be arrested.
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Topeka (WIBW) - Hosting the Sunflower State Games cross country 5K race is a dream come true for Dr. Doug Iliff, his wife Dorothy and land that had humble beginnings.
Dorothy says they didn't want the property to be developed with houses, so they decided to put trails through it.
What started as a place where Doug could run and Dorothy could walk kept getting bigger. Dough says as Dorothy kept cutting trails, they soon realized they'd be able to carve out a 5K course.
The result, Iliff Commons, is tucked in northeast Shawnee County, just west of K-4 on NE 31st Street.
Dorothy says the initial route followed deer trails through the woods. Now, the path follows mostly prairie for the first mile, a loop around mowed grass. The highlight of the section is Ad Astra Ascent, which offers a view of downtown Topeka, including the Capitol dome.
The second time around, you'll head into the woods, where wood-chipped paths will take you up and down hills and over creek crossings. Dorothy described the three main hills as "substantial." In fact, the first of them, dubbed Santee Ascent, has a rope alongside because some people need assistance to make the climb.
Maintaining the course is a workout in itself. Dorothy uses a 21-inch Snapper push mower. Doug says it takes her eight miles of walking every week, sometimes every five days. She also spends hours cutting back any brush, low limbs or vines. She says a type of honeysuckle on the property is a particular problem.
"It takes a bit of work," she says, "but it's all good therapy!"
You don't need to wait for a formal event to take on the challenge. Iliff Commons is always open.
Doug says that, as a physician, he encourages exercise, so this gives people a nice place to do it.
Dorothy agrees, saying, no matter what a person's fitness level, they can elect to walk the prairie trail for an easy effort, to challenge themselves with a jaunt into the woods to explore.


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Poetry in The Branches Workshop: Teen Poetry Workshop with Corie Feiner
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Analysis of the effect of p16 and tobacco pack-years (p-y) on overall (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) for patients with oropharynx cancer (OPC) in Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) protocol 9003
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Ultima Vez Modificado: 7 de junio de 2010
Authors: M. L. Gillison, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- There is a growing body of evidence that Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection plays an important role in the pathogenesis of a subset of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (SCC).
- HPV related tumors are characterized by the presence of HPV DNA within the tumor and are predominantly observed in younger patients with cancers of the oropharynx (Gillison et al. JNCI, 2000).
- Several retrospective analyses have been published suggesting that patients with HPV positive tumors have better prognosis than HPV negative tumors (Weinberger et al JCO, 2006).
- A prospective clinical trial published by Fakhry et al. (JNCI, 2008) enrolled 96 patients with locally advanced SCC of the oropharynx and larynx treated with induction chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiation. The authors reported a marked difference in 2 year overall survival favoring the HPV positive patients [95% vs. 62%, p = 0.005; Hazard ratio (HR) for death of 0.36, 95% CI 0.15-0.85].
- Ang et al. (NEJM, 2010) recently published an analysis of 720 patients enrolled in the RTOG 0129 trial, demonstrating that patient HPV status and tobacco pack years are independent predictors of overall survival (OS) and progression free survival (PFS) in patients treated with concurrent chemoradiation.
- In the current analysis, the authors evaluated whether similar differences were observed when OPC patients were treated with radiotherapy alone in RTOG 9003.
- The RTOG 9003 was a multi-institutional phase III randomized trial which compared 4 different radiation fractionation schemes (standard fractionation, hyperfractionation, accelerated fractionation with split course, or accelerated fractionation with concomitant boost) in the treatment of patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer. The results of this trial have been previously published by Fu et al. (IJROBP, 2000).
- The current study was an unplanned retrospective analysis of patients enrolled in the RTOG 9003 trial, to evaluate HPV status and tobacco use as prognostic factors in HNC patients treated with radiation alone.
- The analysis included only patients with OPC since prior work indicates that this is the predominant subsite for HPV related HNC.
- Tumor HPV status was determined by a surrogate, p16 immunihistochemistry (?70% expression positivity).
- The IHC was performed on archived tumor specimens that remained available from the RTOG 9003.
- Patient tobacco use data was self-reported in surveys that were obtained at the time of the trial.
- The primary endpoint of the analysis was 5 year OS by p16 status.
- Secondary Endpoints included PFS and patterns of failure.
- Five-year OS and PFS were estimated (with 95% confidence intervals [CI]) by the Kaplan- Meier method and compared by log-rank test.
- Hazard ratios (HR) for OS (death) and PFS (progression or death) were estimated by Cox-proportional hazards models.
- 646 of the 1,068 patients enrolled in the RTOG 9003 trial had OPC and were potentially eligible for consideration in this analysis.
- 29% (190/646) of the OPC patients had available tissue that could be evaluated for p16, and 39% of these were found to be p16 positive.
- OS/PFS outcomes were similar for patients with/without p16 data.
- Patients with p16 positive tumors were more likely to have better Zubrod Performance status (PS), absent anemia, and T1 stage.
- There were no differences in assigned treatment between p16 positive and negative patients.
- P 16 positive patients were more likely to be non-smokers (21 % vs. 5%, p = 0.0007).
- Overall median pack years of tobacco use was high (38 p-y), but was lower in the p16 positive group (29 vs. 45.9 p-y, p=0.016).
- With a median f/u of 9.3 years, p16-pos OPC patients had better 5 year OS (49.0 vs. 19.6%, p<0.0001; HR 0.43, 95%CI 0.31-0.61) and 5 year PFS (43.6 vs.19.0%, p<0.0001; HR 0.45, 95% CI 0.32-0.63) when compared to p16 negative patients.
- At 5-years, local-regional failure was lower for p16 positive OPC (30.5 vs. 54.9%, p<0.001).
- However, there were no significant differences between p16 positive and p 16 negative patients in rates of distant metastases (11.1 vs. 13.0%, p=0.71) or second primary tumors (SPT, 13.8 vs. 11.4%, p=0.40).
- When pack years of tobacco use were analyzed as a continuous variable, the hazard of death (OS) or progression and death (PFS) significantly increased by 1% per pack year of tobacco smoking (for both OS and PFS, HR 1.01, 95% CI 1.00-1.01, p<0.002), after adjustment for Zubrod PS, T stage, N stage and p16.
Authors' Conclusions
- P 16 status and tobacco pack-years are strong independent predictors of OS and PFS in patients with OPC treated with radiotherapy alone.
- Patients with p 16 positive tumors have approximately half the risk of death compared to p 16 negative patients.
- Risk of death increases by approximately 1% per pack year of tobacco use.
- The relative hazard of death or progression by p 16 status and pack years of tobacco use appears to be independent of treatment with radiotherapy or chemoradiation.
- The absolute rates for OS, PFS, and SPT observed in this patient group may be compromised in part by higher cumulative pack years of tobacco use in patients enrolled a decade before those in the RTOG 0129 trial.
Clinical Implications
- There is a growing body of evidence in the literature that HPV status is a significant prognostic factor for patients with head and neck cancer.
- The current study was an unplanned retrospective subset analysis of patients enrolled in the RTOG 9003 trial, to evaluate HPV status and tobacco use as prognostic factors in HNC patients treated with radiation alone.
- The authors used appropriate statistical methods to control for potential confounders between the two comparison groups. However, the results of the study are still limited by the retrospective nature of the study and that evaluable tissue was only available for 29% of the patients in the original RTOG 9003 trial.
- The results of the study further support the findings previously observed in patients receiving combined chemoradiation in the RTOG 0129. HPV status and pack-years of tobacco use were again found to be strong independent predictors of OS, and PFS.
- The prognostic value of HPV status and tobacco use history appears to be independent of therapy with either chemoradiation or radiotherapy alone.
- These factors should therefore be considered when designing future clinical trials for head and neck cancer patients. Further efforts to provide education regarding the relationship of HPV to cancer development may also be important from a public and social health standpoint.


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Mayoral hopeful John R. Connolly embarked Wednesday on an aggressive and emotional counterattack against what he called attempts by his opponent's supporters to portray him as an out-of-touch political elite.
With less than a week before voters go to the polls, Connolly dispatched an e-mail to supporters in which he declared, "Marty Walsh keeps playing games when it comes to who I am and what I stand for." Walsh, a state representative who has positioned himself as the working man's candidate, has frequently referred to Connolly as a "corporate lawyer" and noted that the city councilor comes from a politically connected family.
Connolly reached out to supporters on the same day that a new University of Massachusetts Amherst poll found his once-healthy lead in the race appears to have evaporated and that Walsh now holds a 7-point lead.
For his part, Walsh has maintained that he is not running a negative campaign and that attacks on Connolly's family history are out of bounds.
"I'd rather lose with dignity than win through negative campaigning," Walsh told reporters Tuesday after the final televised debate of the campaign. "I have absolutely run a positive campaign for the last eight months, and I'm going to continue to run a positive campaign for the next six days."
During that debate, Walsh repeatedly invoked unflattering references to lawyers and said, "We don't need another lawyer in City Hall."
Labor-funded groups working on Walsh's behalf have focused on Connolly's background, questioning the validity of the three years he spent teaching, emphasizing his work as an attorney, and noting his family's political connections.
Connolly and his wife, Meg, dealt head-on Wednesday with what they regard as unwarranted attacks.
At a morning event billed as a celebration of women business leaders, Connolly stood silently as his wife expressed anger at what she called "fictional" portrayals of her husband as untrustworthy. She then disclosed publicly for the first time that she was diagnosed with lymphoma, a blood cancer, during their engagement.
Campaign officials said the disclosure, which Meg Connolly used to highlight her husband's loving support, was unplanned and unscripted.
"There are some people who are trying to write their own story about John's life," Meg Connolly said.
The Connollys have taken particular offense at mailers sent out by Working America, the political arm of the AFL-CIO, and the Greater Boston Labor Council that labeled Connolly a "son of privilege" and said he "doesn't understand working class people."
"I think it's a shame that we're in a campaign that my character and background have been viciously attacked to the point that my wife would feel she needs to share stories that we would prefer to keep private," John Connolly said, after giving his wife a hug and a kiss.
Walsh swiftly decried the mailers about two weeks ago and has repeatedly distanced himself from them since.
'I grew up in Roslindale. I never knew that was a place of privilege until two weeks ago.'
"Our families, we are friends — very close. We are having a mayor's race. And there is no personal attack on my part," Walsh said Wednesday.
Walsh brought up Connolly's political lineage during the candidates' final televised debate Tuesday, noting that Connolly's parents had held government positions.
Connolly's mother, Lynda, spent 15 years as a district court judge, and his father, Michael, spent five years as a state representative and 15 years as secretary of state.
While acknowledging his family is politically connected, Connolly notes he is not exactly a Kennedy.
"I grew up in Roslindale. I never knew that was a place of privilege until two weeks ago," Connolly said Wednesday.
Connolly said that he is still paying off loans he took out to attend law school and that his family of five lives in a modest home in West Roxbury.
Born and raised in Boston, both candidates attended private high schools before entering worlds in which their families held valuable connections.
"In this case, neither of these guys is a particularly financially privileged guy," said Larry DiCara, a former city councilor and student of local politics. "In fact, Marty actually made more money in recent years than John."
As Connolly prepared for his political career, Walsh entered the building trades with a job in the union run by his uncle. After two years as a laborer, Walsh took the first of what became a series of well-paying positions in union leadership.
In 2012, Walsh made more than $250,000 from his state representative salary and his six-figure paycheck as head of the Boston Metropolitan District Building Trades Council, an umbrella group that represents unions of ironworkers, electricians, and others. Walsh resigned from the union post when he launched his mayoral bid, but retained his position as president of Laborers Local 223 union, which paid him roughly $3,500 in 2012, according to tax documents provided by his campaign.
Connolly earned close to about $91,000 in 2012, the bulk coming from his $87,500 city salary and $3,500 coming from a partnership in a law firm, according to tax documents.
For his part, Walsh has rejected suggestions on the trail that his race or financial means have provided him with privilege.
During an Oct. 2 forum hosted by the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers and several other groups, Walsh drew jeers when he rejected the premise of a question asking how he would work to be aware of his own "white privilege."
"I came from . . . I live in Dorchester. I don't know if I agree . . . that's white privilege," Walsh said, before further clarifying his comments in response to another question. "There are challenges in neighborhoods, and I'm not blind to that. And there's discrimination in neighborhoods, and I'm not blind to that."Meghan E. Irons of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Wesley Lowery can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @WesleyLowery.


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