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This is an excerpt from In Pursuit of Excellence by Terry Orlick.
We are all performers living the drama of life in different ways, in different contexts. We are all capable of pursuing our dreams and reaching meaningful goals. We all possess incredible strength when we draw on the full power of our focus. When we strengthen the quality and consistency of our focus, we add quality and consistency to our performances and joy to our lives.
Seven critical elements guide the pursuit of personal excellence: focus, commitment, mental readiness, positive images, confidence, distraction control, and ongoing learning. These elements combine to form the wheel of excellence (see figure 2.1), a puzzle of interconnected pieces that applies to every sport and performance pursuit.
Use the parts of the wheel that give you strength and focus. Choose to improve the parts that you believe can benefit from improvement. You can strengthen any part of the wheel of excellence at any stage of your development by deciding to do it and by focusing on making small improvements every day. After you have woven all the pieces of the wheel into their rightful place, the puzzle is complete, and the wheel runs smoothly, even in bumpy terrain.
Focus is the first and most important element of excellence. Focus is the core of excellence, the center of the circle, the hub of the wheel of excellence.
People who perform their best, or excel at the highest levels, have learned how to focus. To perform your best, you need to find a focus that frees you to be the way you want to be within your performance context and within your life. Excellence begins to blossom when you find ways to focus that connect you completely and absolutely with each step in the moment-by-moment process of your performance pursuit. A totally engaging focused connection frees you to raise the level and consistency of your performance.
Improving your focus allows you to continue to learn, experiment, grow, create, enjoy, and perform closer to your capacity. Excellence flows naturally when you develop confidence in your focus and know that your focus will take you where you want to go. Consistent high-level performance depends on consistent high-quality focus. When you develop, direct, and connect your focus, you strengthen all elements of excellence that add quality and consistency to your performance and joy to your life.
The other elements of excellence (commitment, mental readiness, positive images, confidence, distraction control, and ongoing learning) grow out of your focus, take direction from your focus, connect you and reconnect you with your mission, and make excellence possible. The combination of the seven elements in the wheel of excellence empowers you to become the person and performer that you have the potential to be. And each of these elements is within your personal control.
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The latest USDA peanut crop estimate shows production forecast at 3.47 billion pounds, up slightly from last year. The area for harvest is expected to total 1.19 million acres, down 2 percent from last year, and yields are expected to average 2,913 pounds, up 50 pounds from the 2006 crop.
Production in the Southeastern states, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina, is expected to total 2.47 billion pounds (1,236,050 tons), down by about 2 percent from last year's level. Expected area for harvest, at 866,000 acres, is down 7 percent from 2006. Yields in the region are expected to average 2,855 pounds per acre or about 145 pounds above2006.
In Georgia, where more than half of the U.S. crop is grown, production is forecast at 1.59 billion pounds or 1 percent less than in 2006. Yield per harvested acre is forecast at 3,050 pounds, up 270 pounds from a year ago. The good yield is a reflection of showers in late August, early September and irrigation. By the end of October, harvesting progress was about a week behind normal.
As of Oct. 28, peanut harvest was 55 percent complete in Alabama, 80 percent complete in Florida, and 57 percent complete in Georgia. Alabama lagged behind its five-year average by 22 percentage points, while Florida and Georgia lagged their five-year averages by 11 and 21 points, respectively. Peanut harvest in South Carolina, at 84 percent complete, was ahead of the five-year average by 10 points.
Virginia-North Carolina peanut production is forecast at 279 million pounds, down14 percent from 2006. Expected area for harvest, at 113,000 acres, is up12 percent from last year. Yield is forecast at 2,470 pounds per acre, down 730 pounds from 2006. As of Oct. 28, peanut harvest was 90-percent complete in North Carolina and 80-percent complete in Virginia, 8 percentage points ahead of their five-year averages.
Southwest peanut production, including New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, is expected to total 715 million pounds (357,600 tons), unchanged from last month but up 15 percent from 2006. The expected area for harvest in the region totals 211,000 acres, up 18 percent from 2006. Yields are expected to average 3,390 pounds per acre for the region, down 77 pounds from last year's level. On Oct. 28, peanut harvest was 56-percent complete in Oklahoma and 49-percent complete in Texas. Harvest was ahead of the five-year average by 2 percentage points in Oklahoma and 9 points in Texas.
Other U.S. crop production includes corn production, up 25 percent from 2006 to 13.2 billion bushels. All cotton production is down 13 percent from last year to 18.9 million 480-pound bales. Soybeans were down 19 percent from last year's record high of 2.60 billion bushels.

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Alexandra's Petite First Place
Name: Alexandra
Profession: Assistant to the Curator of Design at The Art Institute of Chicago
Location: Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL
Size: 250 square feet, early 19th century studio apartment
Years lived in: 4 months, rented
Alexandra's first home of her own reflects her thoughtful, keen sense of style through the prism of a small studio apartment. She thoughtfully utilizes a limited color pallette of white and pink with dark wood and black accents to create a sophisticated look that feels surprisingly spacious and inviting despite the limited square footage.
Thanks to a sharp eye for vintage furniture, help from family and friends and a little bit of luck, Alexandra has been able to outfit her pad on a budget- never spending more than 50 dollars on any one item in her home! Not only do her furnishings work well with Alexandra's feminine and polished taste, every object has its place and is appropriately scaled for the size of the apartment, creating spaciousness and warmth in a small environment.
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My Style: Eclectic, with a bit of glamour.
Inspiration: The era (early 19th century) and architecture of the building.
Favorite Element: The Hinks & Sons converted oil lamp from the turn of the century that I had repaired and restored in Lathrup Village, Michigan at Michael's Lamp Shop. I love the way it looks on the 1930s desk my Dad refinished.
Biggest Challenge: There are no electrical outlets in the bathroom, walk-in closet and the whole wall by the Murphy Bed. I guess that's what you get in an old apartment. Finding a solution to having no kitchen counter was also something that was a challenge, but luckily my mom found a narrow vintage table with wood cutting boards that flip up and down on the sides. Shockingly, there is enough room to leave them up all the time.
What Friends Say: Nobody has seen it yet!
Biggest Embarrassment: Where to start? My air conditioner, TV and extension cord wires. Oh, and the AWFUL fan and ceiling lights.
Proudest DIY: The curtain tie-backs I made using antique door backplates and vintage door knobs.
Biggest Indulgence: I haven't spent over $50 on anything. Yet.
Best Advice: I think it is great when you work with the elements and era of the space you are in and let that be your guide. If I was living in a loft, I would probably have completely different décor!
Dream Sources: Sotheby's and Christie's auctions.
Resources of Note: Estate sales, Antique stores, T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, my mom and sister!
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A Mount Vernon man charged with fatally stabbing three women was arraigned in Westchester County Court on Monday in two of the slayings.
Lucius Crawford , 60, of 7 Beekman Ave., was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of second-degree murder, a felony, and two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a felony, in the slayings of Tonya Simmons Dec. 4, 2012 and LaRonda Shealy Sept. 13, 1993. Mount Vernon Police have said he is the "closest we've had to a serial killer."
The new indictment replaces the existing murder charge against Crawford related to the fatal stabbing of Simmons and adds a new murder charge in the killing of Shealy.
Crawford was first arrested in December 2012 after he was accused of stabbing Simmons 19 times at 7 Beekman Ave., Mount Vernon. The two were seen going into the location, then the suspect left alone shortly thereafter, according to the Westchester County District Attorney's Office. He then called 911 twice telling them someone was hurt at the location.
Following his arrest, Crawford was questioned by Yonkers police, who said he confessed to the cold-case killing of Shealy in Yonkers and Nella West in the Bronx in 1993.
Crawford was indicted in the Bronx on Dec. 18, 2012, in the Oct. 23, 1993 stabbing death of West after a DNA match linked him to her body found on Liebig Avenue in the Bronx. The Bronx County District Attorney is prosecuting that case.
"Three women, all viciously and repeatedly stabbed to death," Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore said in a statement. "One victim was stabbed more than two dozen times, the other almost a dozen."
Crawford remains in Westchester County Jail and is due back in court Feb. 13.
He faces a maximum sentence of twenty five years to life in state prison on each of the murder counts.
Assistant District Attorney Patricia Murphy, Division Chief of the Superior Court Trial Division and Senior Assistant District Attorney Paula Branca-Santos of the Major Case Bureau, are prosecuting the case.
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The term Old Time Radio refers to the relatively brief period from 1926, when the National Broadcasting Company first began network broadcasting, until approximately 1960, when television became the dominant communication medium in the United States. During this time, radio was as popular and ubiquitous as television is today. It was amazingly varied in the types of programming it offered; many characters and programs were so popular that virtually everyone was familiar with them. Even today, recorded versions of these programs are still extremely popular and widely available, both from commercial outlets and from hobbyists. Behind the production of these programs was a complex technological and financial infrastructure that had to be developed virtually from scratch in a world unaccustomed to the rapid communication and technological marvels that we take for granted today. The Historical Dictionary of Old Time Radio provides essential facts and information on the Golden Age of Radio. This is accomplished through the use of a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the radio networks, programs, directors, producers, writers, actors, radio series, and radio stations. Entries on your favorite shows_The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, Dragnet, and Suspense_and actors_Bob Hope, George Burns, Gracie Allen, and Edgar Bergen_will have you jumping from one entry to the next as you relive old favorites and discover hidden treasures from the Golden Age of Radio.Childrena#39;s programs appeared early in the history of old-time radio, almost all of them being heard on Saturday ... As early as 1929, CBS produced a long-running Saturday morning childrena#39;s program, The Adventures of Helen and Mary, which consisted of the fairy-tale adventures of two young girls. ... The program was a good-natured mixture of stories, songs, and silly skits that young children loved.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Food and Drug Administration said Friday that her agency will add more inspectors in India to better monitor drugs from the country's burgeoning pharmaceutical industry, even as her agency also seeks closer cooperation from Indian regulators.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the FDA will expand to 19 staffers in India from its current 12, as the U.S. tries to assure the safety of medications from companies like Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. and Wockhardt Ltd. Hamburg spoke with reporters following an eight-day trip to the Southeast Asian nation, where she met with Indian health regulators and drug industry executives.
With sales of more than $26 billion, India's burgeoning drug sector has grown into the U.S.'s second-largest supplier of prescription and over-the-counter medications, behind only Canada.
But that growth has come with increased scrutiny. And in recent years the FDA has issued a stream of warnings letters and import bans to some of India's largest drugmakers over manufacturing and quality control problems.
The capstone of Hamburg's visit was a "statement of intent" agreement between the U.S. and India, in which both parties pledged to cooperate on safety and quality inspections. Under the non-binding agreement, Indian inspectors will be able to shadow their FDA counterparts as they inspect factories in India. The document is supposed to cover a 5-year preliminary period, though it's unclear how or when it might lead to more formal requirements.
Hamburg suggested during a press teleconference that India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare needs to become more engaged in regulation on both a domestic and international scale.
"India, as such a significant player in the global marketplace, really needs to be a full participant at the table," Hamburg said.
Several journalists for Indian publications questioned whether the FDA is specifically targeting Indian companies for enforcement, specifically the company's largest drugmaker, Ranbaxy Laboratories.
But Hamburg rejected that assertion, saying that the agency takes action against all companies that violate FDA standards, regardless of where they are based.
"If a company is manufacturing a product for sale within the United States, they have to meet our regulatory standards and requirements," Hamburg said. "What's happening in India is consistent with what happens in the United States and throughout the world."
Since 2008, the FDA has blocked imports from four different Ranbaxy plants in India, most recently the company's Toansa plant in the Punjab province, where inspectors found drugs that failed quality testing. In 2012, the company was forced to recall dozens of batches of its generic version of Lipitor after finding tiny glass particles among the ingredients used in production.
Last May the company's American subsidiary agreed to pay $500 million in fines and penalties for selling adulterated drugs and lying to federal regulators, the largest financial penalty ever against a generic drug company under U.S. law.


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Money Isn't Speech and Corporations Aren't People
The misguided theories behind the Supreme Court's ruling on campaign finance reform.
Go back almost a century, to the time when the modern corporation was created, and you'll find laws that prohibit or limit the use of corporate money in elections. And yet this week, a 5-4 Supreme Court struck down the limits that Congress passed in 2002 in this tradition in the case Citizens United v. FEC.
The majority's ruling unleashes a new wave of campaign cash and adds to the already considerable power of corporations. The court's main rationale is that limits on using corporate treasuries for campaigns are a "classic example of censorship," as Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority. To get there, Kennedy depends on two legal theories that blossomed as constitutional principles in the mid-1970s: money is speech and corporations are people. Both theories are strange, if not simply wrongheaded—why, according to the Constitution or common sense, would money be speech or corporations be people? The court has also employed theories not uniformly but, rather, as constitutional cover for dominance of the electoral system by corporations and by the wealthy.
The first theory appeared in a 1976 decision, Buckley v. Valeo, which invalidated some campaign-finance reforms that came out of Watergate. The Court concluded that most limits on campaign expenditures, and some limits on donations, are unconstitutional because money is itself speech and the "quantity of expression"—the amounts of money—can't be limited.
But in subsequent cases, the conservative justices who had emphatically embraced the money-is-speech principle didn't apply it to money solicited by speakers of ordinary means. For example, the court limited the First Amendment rights of Hare Krishna leafleters soliciting donations in airports to support their own leafleting. The leafleting drew no money-is-speech analysis. To the contrary, the conservative justices, led by Chief Justice Rehnquist, found that by asking for money for leafleting—their form of speech—the Hare Krishnas were being "disruptive" and posing an "inconvenience" to others. In other words, in the court's view, some people's money is speech; others' money is annoying. And the conservative justices have raised no objection to other limits on the quantity of speech, such as limits on the number of picketers.
The money-is-speech theory turns out to be a rhetorical device used exclusively to provide First Amendment protection for all money that wealthy people and businesses want to give to, or to spend, on campaigns. It also doesn't make sense under long established free-speech law. Spending or donating money to support or facilitate speech is expressive and deserves some protection. But money simply doesn't make it into the category of things that are and embody speech, such as books, films, or blogs. Traditional speech-law analysis would separate the speech from the conduct (or "nonspeech") elements of campaign spending and donation and allow considerable leeway to regulate the latter. Even as to "pure" speech, "compelling" government interests are overriding. And spending and donating money seem, among the traditional speech-law categories, a "manner" of speaking that the court has said usually can be "reasonably regulated."
The other basic theory supporting the ruling in Citizens United—the court's claim that, for some purposes, corporations are constitutionally, if not actually, people—comes out of the long history of the development of corporations. But the extension of corporate personhood to campaign speech is a controversial innovation of the conservative justices over the last few decades.
Corporations needed some rights usually reserved for people to function as legal entities, so that they could, for instance, make enforceable contracts and sue or be sued. But despite the common cultural personification of corporations—we can easily say "GM was embarrassed today"—they obviously don't and shouldn't have all the rights of people. For example, they don't have the right to vote.
In Citizens United, Justice Kennedy discusses business corporations as if they were clubs or political associations with political viewpoints and elected leaders. But corporate managers don't function as representatives or employees of shareholders, who have no say, no shared political views, and no expectation that their investments will be used for political ends. In the wake of the court's ruling this week, will some corporations pick a party or politics while others channel unheard of amounts of money to both major parties? Will investors be influenced by a corporation's political portfolio?
The Citizens United decision will make it harder to achieve reforms opposed by major corporations and change business as well as politics. Increasing the constitutional rights of corporations beyond their business purposes is really about increasing the rights and power of corporate managers. Government has enabled corporate managers to control huge accumulations of wealth without any personal risk—an arrangement that contributes to wild, bubble-producing economic swings and collapses. Citizens United invites that arrangement directly into politics and elections.
Both of these theories—that money is speech and that corporations are people—have an easier time than they should in courts and with the public, too, because they are posed as counters to censorship. Many of us, including me, haven't seen a free-speech argument we don't like, at least initially.
But some perspective: We limit speech—when it has nothing to do with wealthy people spending money—in many ways. (It wasn't protected at all until the mid-1930s.) You famously can't shout fire in a theater. You not-so-famously can't break the theater's rules, including rules about speaking, because you don't really have any First Amendment rights in a privately owned theater or at work. The First Amendment limits only government. And even where it is fully protected, free speech has not been absolute; it's subject to regulation when it undermines basic societal interests and functions, like voting and democracy. In the last few decades, the conservative justices dominating the court have also limited speech rights for demonstrators, students, and whistle blowers. They have restricted speech at shopping malls and transit terminals. Taken as a whole, the conservative court's First Amendment jurisprudence has enlarged the speech rights available to wealthy people and corporations and restricted the speech rights available to people of ordinary means and to dissenters.
In a largely unnoticed rewriting of speech law, the conservative justices have applied their theories and doctrines inconsistently and selectively, as they have money-is-speech. Some of the conservatives' recent innovations would seem to validate campaign finance laws. The "secondary effects" doctrine, for example, allows government to restrict speech if government can suggest a general, non-speech-related purpose, even if the real purpose is speech-related. The court ignored this doctrine in Citizens' United and other campaign finance cases—even though campaign finance reform is aimed not at speech itself, but at large amounts of money that skew, corrupt, and undermine elections.
The court's invalidation of campaign finance reforms over the last few decades isn't about censorship or suppressed speakers or viewpoints. At its core, this line of cases is about dominance of the political and electoral system by wealthy people and corporations and about legitimizing a political and electoral system that is unrepresentative, money-driven, corrupt, outmoded, and dysfunctional. Wealthy people and corporate managers shouldn't dominate politics or have more and better speech rights than the rest of us. That seems like an obvious truth. And yet the Supreme Court's recent decisions move us away from it.


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Interesting. How would everyone feel about Danny Granger as the 2nd option? Sign a max contract player and sign-and-trade Lee for Granger. Bosh and Granger sounds pretty good. We would have to trade Chandler (Rubio?)............
But for a clue as to how Granger views the big picture, take note of his responses in a recent HoopsHype interview. Asked whether he thought LeBron James would re-sign with Cleveland this summer or leave, Granger said, "If I was LeBron, I'd go to New York."
And why?
"New York is the media mecca as far as endorsements and being able to expand your personal net worth," Granger said. "The exposure you can get there isn't only nationally but globally. New York does all that for you."
Did another potential superstar just join the 2010 orbit with that statement? Only if the Pacers pursued the unlikely approach of trading their best player as part of yet another attempt at rebuilding. But remember that Walsh drafted Granger, remember how much he loves tall, long shooters and recognize how unpredictable free-agent movement is going to be come July 1.
If the Knicks struck out on LeBron and had to settle for Joe Johnson, would Walsh then shift gears, find a way to massage David Lee's $11 million cap hold into the equation by retaining his Bird rights, and pursue a trade for someone of Granger's stature -- perhaps even dangling Lee as the bait? Exploring contingency plans has always been one of Walsh's strengths.
While there have been no conversations to date about Granger, a person familiar with both teams' situations wouldn't dismiss it as a possibility. Given his comments about the benefits of playing in New York, Granger clearly wouldn't dismiss it, either.
"Everybody is up for being moved, especially the way this situation has gone," Granger said.
In the meantime, Granger has nothing to do but find his way to the finish line of another abysmal season in Indiana, pursuing the futile goal of refining and improving his game on a team going nowhere.
"Winning is the ultimate measurement of everything," Granger said. "This year we just haven't been doing it."
Some things never change.
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September 8, 2009
Staten Island, NY – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, the largest network of clergy and lay people dedicated to ending abortion, announced today two special initiatives regarding the Church's call for authentic health care. First, Priests for Life has created a special website at www.PrayerCampaign.org which features a daily Prayer to End Abortion as well as a Prayer for Our Nation's Health Care Reform. A second site, ProLifePrayers.org, serves as a special Facebook cause that is quickly becoming the largest pro-life prayer group in history. Fr. Pavone asks all priests to encourage their parishioners to join Facebook and sign up on this urgent cause.
The second initiative features the participants of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, the largest network of women and men speaking out about their own loss of children to abortion. The Campaign has joined the health care debate by producing a special video stressing that health care reform must not include an expansion of abortion, arguing that health care should serve women, not hurt them. Fr. Pavone urges all priests and pastors and pro-life organizations to share this video with the people they serve. See the video at: www.SilentNoMoreAwareness.org/healthcare.
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org


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The curtain is pulled back, like the famous scene in The Wizard of Oz, to reveal Billy Graham spouting an anti-Semitic rant with Richard Nixon on newly released White House tapes ("the gift that keeps on giving," quips former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee).
Graham and Nixon are heard agreeing that left-wing Jews dominate the news media. The Reverend then warns: "The [Jewish media] stranglehold has got to be broken or the country's going down the drain." He confides to Nixon that his Jewish acquaintances and colleagues–mentioning A.M. Rosenthal, then executive editor of the New York Times–don't know his true feelings.
"A lot of the Jews are great friends of mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm friendly with Israel," Graham tells Nixon. "But they don't know how I really feel about what they are doing to this country."
We're used to White Power rhetoric about breaking up the Jewish media monopoly spewing from trailer parks and compounds in Montana, not the Oval Office. And certainly not from America's favorite Reverend, a Pepsodent-smiling throwback to the era of Ozzie Nelson and Father Knows Best's Jim Anderson.
But what do those who were Graham's target–the major media players of 1972–make of his covert anti-Semitism and accusations of Jewish bias? I put this question to several of them who are still around, including Ben Bradlee; Carl Bernstein, a reporter for the Post who broke the Watergate scandal in June 1972; Leonard Garment, who was working in the White House as special counsel to the President; Marvin Kalb, who was CBS's chief diplomatic correspondent; Otis Chandler, then the publisher of the Los Angeles Times; Daniel Schorr, also a CBS correspondent, who would make Nixon's "enemies list"; television producer Norman Lear, whose show All in the Family riled Nixon; and Stephen Hess, Nixon's urban affairs adviser who now examines the interrelationship of the press, politics and the presidency at the Brookings Institution.
First: Not everyone was surprised at Graham's closet anti-Semitism. "He just showed that he was the pious hypocrite that we all knew that he was anyway," says Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who had served in the Kennedy White House a decade earlier. "Sinclair Lewis wrote about all those fellows in the great Elmer Gantry."
Journalist Carl Bernstein, whose reporting on Watergate for the Washington Post–one of the leading culprits of the purported Jewish media cabal–led to revelations of the White House tapes and made him anathema to the Nixon White House and its supporters, had actually admired Graham.


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NH native Cote to receive Horatio Alger AwardBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 17. 2013 4:15PM
MANCHESTER — David Cote was the first person in his family to graduate high school and took six years to get his degree from the University of New Hampshire after quitting twice.
For the past decade or so, he has served as chairman and CEO of Honeywell, overseeing more than 130,000 employees at the diversified technology and manufacturing company, based in New Jersey.
Today, Cote and 11 others will be announced as recipients of the Horatio Alger Award from the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Inc., a nonprofit educational organization honoring the achievements of outstanding individuals and encouraging youth to pursue their dreams through higher education.
"Dave Cote's unique background reflects his willingness to work hard and courage to travel a different path to success," said Tony Novelly, the association's president and CEO and 2000 Horatio Alger Award recipient, in a statement.
In a phone interview Friday, Cote, 61, said he was honored to receive the award and credited his parents for helping in his success.
"Good parents with good values who stressed values all the time," he said. "At the end of the day, all that repetition helps. I'm oftentimes asked who was your mentor or role model when it came to leadership development. I often say my parents."
He worked in his dad's Manchester garage as a teenager and recalled one hostile customer who yelled at his dad, who quietly absorbed the criticism.
"Sometimes in life and business, you've got to put your pride in your back pocket," he recalled his dad, Henri, saying.
"That's one that still stuck with me, and I use it today," said Cote, who visits New Hampshire three or four times a year and still owns property in Merrimack.
Born in Manchester, he has lived in Nottingham, Hooksett and Suncook over the years, graduating from Pembroke Academy in 1970. He inspired his mother, Georgette, to go to night school to get a high school degree and to attend college.
The award nomination form said a nominee "must have triumphed over humble beginnings and/or adversity in his/her early life. Adversity is considered any significant barrier to success that requires exemplary levels of dedication, hard work and courage to overcome."
In 2010, President Barack Obama named Cote to serve on the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, more commonly known as the Simpson-Bowles Commission.
Cote said he believes the commission's work prompted more leaders in Washington to discuss reigning in federal entitlement programs as part of an overall effort to curb budget deficits and reduce the federal debt.
"By and large, a majority of politicians understand the problem," he said. "It's a lack of political will out of fear their decision will be used against them."
In 2011, North Conway native Harry Patten received a Horatio Alger award. Patten was founder, chairman and CEO of National Land Partners LLC and Inland Management, according to the association's website.


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In Orberg's LLPSI he has:
Ego in terram eo multo pulchriorem, in patriam mean Graeciam!
I'm not sure about multo pulchriorem
I do know that multo emphasises pulchriorem and I believe that the sentence translates something like:
I am going to a much more beautiful land, to my own country, Greece!
My question is that the ablative 'multo' would seem to be masculine and 'pulchriorem' I take it is accusative feminine to agree with 'terram'. Is it the case, therefore, that the ablative 'multo' doesn't vary but is a phrase that doesn't agree in gender with anything but stands on its own? Is it a sort of ablative absolutely absolute - as it were..?


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By Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - A Kansas robber who helped seize a man's cell phone and wallet at gunpoint recognized the victim as an ex-convict he had served time with and gave the possessions back, police said on Thursday.
A Wichita, Kansas man reported that two young men approached him on the street late on Wednesday, one of them brandishing a large semi-automatic handgun, Wichita police Sergeant Joe Schroeder said.
The gunman demanded the victim's phone and took his wallet while the second man searched his pockets, Schroeder said.
"Then, he (the second man) realized he spent some time in prison with him. He apologized, shook hands and walked away," Schroeder said.
Although the victim went to police and said he knew one of the robbers in prison, the man said he did not think he could identify them in a suspect line-up, Schroeder said.
(Editing by Greg McCune and Eric Walsh)


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GENESIS Project: Desert PV Network to Meet Global Energy Needs
By Yukinori Kuwano, president of Photovoltaic Power Generation Technology Research Association (PVTEC)
My research on semiconductors goes back 40 years to when I joined Sanyo Electric at the beginning of 1960. At the time, transistors had been invented, and the shift from vacuum tubes to semiconductor devices was just beginning. From bipolar transistors to MOS transistors, ICs and LSIs, the pace of development was dizzying. At the time, my research focused primarily on increasing the stability of MOS transistors, but the oil shock of 1973 led me to begin research on photovoltaic cells using cutting-edge amorphous silicon (a-Si).
Over the course of 40 years and owing to the determination of a large number of hardworking people, the Japanese photovoltaics industry grew to be the largest in the world. I would like to share some of my personal thoughts about the development of photovoltaic cells and the photovoltaics industry, as well the connection to the semiconductor industry.
Irresistible Photovoltaic Cells
The photovoltaic cell industry is worth about $9 billion (U.S. dollars; Note 1), with Japan accounting for roughly half. Although we are now at the point where production of photovoltaic cells consumes approximately half of available raw semiconductor silicon, sales are still small compared to the semiconductor industry. Many people, however, myself included, find ourselves drawn to photovoltaics, because using photovoltaic cells we can get electricity directly from the sunlight that shines all around us. The sunlight that reaches the earth in just one hour is enough to supply the entire world's energy needs for a year. It is a non-polluting, unlimited source of energy. There is no other energy source like it.
Japanese Innovation—Early Applications of Photovoltaic Cells
Despite holding such promise, the road to practical application was difficult. Photovoltaic cells were invented in the United States in the 1950s, around the same time as silicon semiconductor devices. At first, photovoltaic cells were used in very high-tech applications—for example, to power satellites—and their price put them well out of the reach of average consumers. Later, even though the oil shock gave impetus to the development of PV projects in many countries, such as Japan's Sunshine Project of the 1970s, costs did not decrease, and photovoltaic cells failed to make inroads in consumer markets.
By the beginning of the 1980s, Japanese manufacturers started to look at the problem from another angle. Rather than focusing on power generation—an area in which photovoltaic cells were not competitive in terms of cost—they focused on developing an alternative to chemical batteries. The result was that photovoltaic cells became a power source for solar calculators (Image 1), a development analogous to the use of transistors in radios, and an application to which a-Si photovoltaic cells were particularly well-suited.
Later, as LSIs developed, photovoltaic cells were used in solar wristwatches, and today we have solar radio-controlled wristwatches. In my view, this was a joint success by the Japanese semiconductor and photovoltaics industries.
PV Technology Leads to the Development of a-Si TFT LCDs
However, the industry was still unable to get photovoltaic technology to the point where it was ready for use by the general public. Meanwhile, the arrival of a-Si TFT Liquid Crystal Display (LCDs) in the mid-1980s was a new development that would have a significant effect on the semiconductor industry. This new display was built on technologies originally developed for photovoltaics. My group produced a television from a TFT LCD we had developed and took it to an international conference where it was a hit. It was a new beginning for the Japanese semiconductor industry. The a-Si TFT LCD industry later underwent tremendous growth, developing applications ranging from displays for mobile phones and portable electronic devices to widescreen televisions, and has now grown to roughly $80 billion. For me, this was exciting leveraging of photovoltaic technology.
Photovoltaic Power Generation Expands on a Global Scale
In the 1990s, the years of research into the use of photovoltaic cells for power generation began to bear fruit. Efficiency topped 10 percent, and costs decreased. In 1992, changes introduced by the government made it possible for home owners to install photovoltaic panels on their roofs and sell surplus electricity back to power companies. The system that I installed on my own roof—the first such installation in Japan—is still steadily and reliably producing power today, 15 years later (Image 2).
The use of photovoltaic systems in private homes and large buildings is spreading throughout the world. Germany, in particular, has a feed-in tariff under which power companies purchase solar-generated electricity at prices approximately three times the rate for conventionally-generated electricity. Worldwide, photovoltaic growth has resulted in a shortage of silicon.
Meeting the World's Energy Needs
In the 21st century, the global economy has continued to expand and globalization has progressed. Economic prosperity has led to an affluent lifestyle for many people around the globe, and at the same time, the population has grown at a startling rate leading to ever-increasing energy consumption, high oil prices and worsening environmental problems. It is believed that between the years 2020 and 2030, a major disparity or "energy gap" will arise between the amount of energy we require and what we are able to produce from fossil fuels. To resolve this energy gap, new energy sources will be needed.
Among these new energy sources, photovoltaic power generation holds particular promise as it is green, unlimited and available anywhere in the world.
The GENESIS Project (Image 3), which I have proposed, illustrates the potential of photovoltaic power generation. Under this proposal, photovoltaic systems would be installed across the world's deserts and connected via superconducting cable. During daylight hours, these installations would generate power to meet the night-time energy needs of areas on the other side of the globe. At the current level of efficiency, only 4 percent of the area of the world's deserts would be needed to supply the energy needs of the entire globe.
High-Temperature Superconducting Power Cable—a Major Step Forward
In what I think represents a significant step towards being able to implement the GENESIS Project, Sumitomo Electric Industries has recently succeeded in developing a feasible bismuth-based high-temperature superconducting wire and cable. Previously, bismuth-based high-temperature superconducting wires had a cross section of 0.9 square millimeters and could only conduct about 10 amperes of electrical current. Now, not only can they handle 200 amperes at liquid nitrogen temperature (77 K), but they can be manufactured at lengths of over 1,000 meters. In July 2006, Sumitomo Electric Industries began a demonstration with the world's first long-distance underground conduit in Albany, New York.
Making Photovoltaic Power Generation on a Global Scale a Reality
When photovoltaic power generation is implemented on a global scale, the photovoltaics industry is likely to grow to 100 times its current size. However, there still remain many technological developments crucial to making this a reality. In particular, the combining of technologies and manufacturing processes from across the whole range of fields that SEMI supports, including FPD and nanotechnology, would lead to the achievement of more efficient, lower-cost photovoltaic cells. It is my hope that if we mobilize all of our resources, we will resolve the global environmental and energy problems facing humankind and realize a better standard of living for all.
New SEMI Photovoltaics Event: PVJapan 2008, July 31–August 1
PVJapan 2008 is a new, comprehensive event dedicated to all aspects of Japan's exciting photovoltaics industry.
Co-organized by SEMI and Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association (JPEA), PVJapan 2008 covers the entire supply chain from equipment and materials to manufacturing and installation. The exhibition and programs will provide excellent learning and networking opportunities for people from industry, academia and the general public. Please visit the new PVJapan website or contact SEMI Japan to find out how your company can exhibit and support SEMI PV activitiesin Japan.
Website: www.pvjapan.org
Note 1: All dollar figures have been converted from Yen at a rate of 120 JPY/USD


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In 2006, about 6 million of the 11 million hectares of oil palm plantations globally were in Indonesia. In many areas, these plantations are taking over rainforests, the natural habitat of endangered species such as orangutans.
Scientists estimate that less than 60,000 orangutans now remain in the wild on Borneo and Sumatra.
The palm oil industry, which is causing clear-cutting of forests, forest fires, and also facilitates greater access for hunters and traders, is one of the most important factors in the dramatic reduction of orangutan populations.


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European freshwater ecosystems encompass a varied assemblage of systems: lakes
of various sizes and depth; streams with different hydrological characteristics;
and wetlands, which by definition occupy a spatial continuum between aquatic
and terrestrial environments. Wetlands are heterogeneous systems ranging from
open-water surfaces to densely vegetated areas. Some wetlands are forested;
shrubs, grasses, or mosses dominate others. European freshwater systems have
been heavily subjected to and modified by damming, channeling, drainage, and
other hydrological alterations; they also are influenced by humans through land
and water use, pollution, erosion, and other factors.
The fundamental requirement for the existence of freshwater ecosystems is the
spatial and temporal distribution of water in the landscape. The impacts of
climate change on the future distribution and extent of these systems are analogous
to those discussed in Section 18.104.22.168. However,
apart from these impacts, changes in climatic parameters also will impact a
range of chemical and biological functions, which combine with physical parameters
to create the integrated ecological characteristics of future freshwater ecosystems
in Europe. During the past 150 years, the winter ice cover of streams and lakes
has declined, and in the northern hemisphere there has been a steady trend toward
later freeze and earlier ice breakup (Magnuson et al., 2000). Climate warming
is likely to exaggerate this trend, and the timing and duration of freeze and
breakup of ice in freshwater systems greatly affect inherent biological and
ecological processes.
In the arctic and subarctic, freshwater systems are particularly sensitive
to climate changeand most climate change scenarios indicate that the highest
and most rapid temperature increases will occur in these regions. Increases
in temperature may lead to changes in permafrost distribution (Anisimov and
Nelson, 1996, 1997), with concomitant impacts on hydrology. In many wetland
areas, permafrost acts as a drainage seal and promotes wetland development.
However, Camill and Clark (1998) suggest that high-latitude systems might show
lagged and complex dynamics in response to global warming, and local factors
may exert more direct control over permafrost than regional ones. The estimated
effect of climate change on average runoff in tundra regions is highly uncertain,
but if water levels decrease, connections between tundra lakes could be severed.
This would result in changes in community structure and possibly elimination
of seasonal migrants to shallow, ice-covered winterkill lakes. Climate change
impacts on ice breakup timing and intensity also will influence limnological
characteristics by regulating the supply and flux of nutrients (Lesack et al.,
1991). Furthermore, such changes impact the influx of sunlight, which is a key
factor in controlling primary productivity but also can have far-reaching effects
on higher trophic levels. The populations of arctic char (and presumably other
extreme coldwater fish species) are expected to decrease, especially in low-altitude,
shallow lakes (Lehtonen, 1998).
In the boreal areas, scenarios typically display warmer winters (e.g., a shorter
season of sub-zero temperatures). This would affect snow-cover conditions and
lead to changes in the timing and intensity of snowmelt events and runoff characteristics,
which would affect the ecological functions of freshwater systems. Wetland development
might benefit if larger fractions of precipitation fell as rain, but the impact
would depend on how temperature-induced higher evapotranspiration rates would
counteract this effect, as well as topographical characteristics of the landscape.
In response to higher temperatures, northern boreal populations of cyprinid
and percid fish species are expected to increase at the expense of coldwater,
salmonid species (Lehtonen, 1996). Shallow lakes would be most susceptible to
these changes because of their lack of thermal stratification. Total freshwater
fish production is expected to increase, but with the projected changes in the
composition of fish fauna, the recreational and commercial value of catches
will decrease (Lehtonen, 1996). A reduction in the spatial and temporal extent
of lake and stream ice cover as a result of warmer winters can decrease light
attenuation, which is a major limiting factor for production in boreal aquatic
systems. Such a change could be expected to cause shifts in the biota of lakes
and streams. It also can reduce winter anoxia that typically occurs in shallow
lakes. Haapalea and Lepparänta (1997) modeled future ice-cover distribution
in the Baltic Sea (which contains freshwater communities in the north). Simulations
with a warming of 3.6°C to 2050 reduced the extent of ice cover from 38 to 10%,
and a 6.6°C warming to 2100 resulted in no ice cover. The projected increase
in biomass productivity in terrestrial systems also would affect lakes and streams
because of alterations in the amount and quality of water and solid material
inputs. Organic matter inputs are expected to increase when plant productivity
increases and would be beneficial for heterotrophic organisms. Increases in
organic matter concentrations also result in effects such as reduced light penetration
(including damaging UV-B radiationSchindler and Curtis, 1997) and changes in
the vertical distribution of solar heating (Schindler et al., 1996). In lakes,
increased summer temperatures could lead to more pronounced thermal stratification,
resulting in reduced secondary productivity as well as anoxic conditions in
the hypolimnion. Warmer surface water can reduce the nutritional value of edible
phytoplankton, but it also may shift primary production toward green algae and
cyanobacteria, which are less favored by secondary consumers.
The dominating wetland types in the boreal regions are peatlands. Typically,
the vegetation pattern and composition of boreal peatlands are governed by moisture
regime rather than temperature and show high spatial variability in plant communities
caused by variation in topography. It follows that a change in water balance
could affect the function of boreal wetlands, including their carbon sequestering
and carbon storage functions. A study in Finland suggests that very nutrient-poor
peatlands can increase their long-term soil carbon accumulation after drainage
(Minkkinen and Laine, 1998). In more nutrient-rich peatlands, however, soil
carbon sequestering rates decrease and could shift to potential sources of atmospheric
CO2. Cao et al. (1998) have suggested that a temperature increase
of less than 2°C could enhance methane (CH4) emission rates from
boreal wetlands, but greater warming might lead to reduction of fluxes because
of decreasing soil moisture. Furthermore, field manipulation and laboratory
experiments in Finland have shown that enhanced CO2 concentrations
(560 ppm) can lead to a 1020% increase in CH4 efflux from oligotrophic
mire lawn communities (Saarnio and Silvola, 1999; Saarnio et al., 2000). It
is likely that boreal peatlands will expand further north into subarctic/arctic
areas where the topography after permafrost disintegration still supports wetland
In temperate Europe, the potential for precipitation decreases that result
in lower flow rates could have major implications for lakes and streams. This
could lead to changes in habitat and breeding locations of aquatic flora and
fauna. These hydrological changes have the potential to be more significant
for freshwater organisms than a temperature increase. The effect of warmer winters
that lead to less extensive ice cover of lakes is expected to affect Europes
temperate lakes and streams as discussed above. Wetlands in the temperate regions
of CEE are regarded as vulnerable to climate change (in combination with other
anthropogenic threatsBest et al., 1993; Hartig et al., 1997). In the past,
wetlands have been extensive in this areafor example, in the basins of the
Pechora, Severnaya Dvina, and Upper Dnieper Rivers and in Karelia they have
occupied 1030% of the area. Now, many of them have been converted to agriculture,
are affected by agricultural drainage, or are used in other ways, such as growing
reed for thatch and livestock feed or collecting peat as a fuel for heating
and cooking.
In the Mediterranean, the risk of acute water shortage in response to global
warming would have severe impacts on freshwater ecosystems in the region. Hydrologically
isolated systems, such as wetlands in topographical depressions, would be the
most vulnerable, whereas those situated along larger rivers and lake shores
might be less sensitive (Mortsch, 1998), although the extent of the latter may
decrease as a result of lower flow rates. Increased competition for diminishing
water resources also poses a potential threat to freshwater ecosystems. Although
precipitation may increase during the winterwhich is the main season for the
seasonal wetlands in this areathis probably will be accompanied by comparably
large increases in temperature, thus affecting net water availability. Summers
are predicted to become warmer and drier, which would lead to deterioration
of freshwater ecosystems (Haslam, 1997). Seasonal systems that presently can
cope with occasional or periodic drought will experience additional stress that
some species might not be able to survive (Brock and van Vierssen, 1992). The
fact that wetlands in many parts of southern and central Europe are scattered
in their location may prevent species migration to suitable climate conditions.
In general, wetland plants with short life cycles are better adapted for geographical
migration, indicating that this response is likely to occur faster in nonforested
wetlands than in forested ones.
The risk of increased fire disturbance of terrestrial biota also will have
consequences for lakes and streams in southern Europe. Freshwater systems adjacent
to burned areas will receive an initial increase in solute input after fire;
if the fire generates canopy gaps, the water bodies will be more influenced
by wind mixing, inducing changes in thermal and chemical stratification characteristics.
Europe is predominantly a region of fragmented natural or semi-natural habitats
in a highly urbanized, agricultural landscape. A significant proportion of surviving
semi-natural habitats of high conservation value is enclosed within protected
sites, which are especially important as refuges for threatened species (Plowman,
1995). Nature reserves form a similarly important conservation investment across
the whole of Europe. However, species distributions are projected to change
in response to climate change (Huntley and Webb, 1989), and valued communities
within reserves may disassociate, leaving species with nowhere to go (Peters
and Darling, 1985; Peters and Lovejoy, 1992),
The impact of climate change on a particular reserve will depend on its location
in relation to the climatic requirements of the species it accommodates. Sites
that lie near the current maximum temperature limits of particular species could
expect that if climate warms beyond those limits, species would become extinct
at that site. Conversely, sites that lie close to the minimum temperature limits
of species may assume greater importance for such species as the climate warms
(Huntley, 1999). In Europe, nature reserves tend to form habitat islands for
species in landscapes that are dominated by other land uses. The possibility
of species colonizing other habitat islands could be limited. As a result of
climate change, reserve communities may lose species at a faster rate than potential
new species can colonize, leading to a long period of impoverishment for many
The requirements of a future conservation strategy in the advent of climate
change have been considered by Huntley et al. (1997). They suggest that for
Europe, where large-scale range changes are projected, a network of habitats
and habitat corridors will be required to facilitate migration.
Questions that urgently must be asked are as follows: To what extent do rare
and vulnerable species in Europe rely on protected areas for their survival
in the present day? Do current policy measures being implemented throughout
Europe under the Biodiversity Convention take into account the potential impacts
of climate change? It will become increasingly important for conservation strategies
to be developed on a pan-European scale to protect species in parts of their
ranges that are least likely to be negatively impacted by climate change. Reevaluation
of conservation priorities and the role of reserves is required for individual
sites and in relation to national and international conservation strategies
(Hendry and Grime, 1990; Parsons, 1991).
Insects: Parmesan et al. (1999) analyzed data for 35 nonmigratory butterflies
with northern range limits in Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, or Estonia and
southern boundaries in southeastern France, Catalonia (Spain), Algeria, Tunisia,
or Morocco. More than 60% were found to have shifted north by 35240 km in the
20th century, consistent with the 120-km northward shift of climatic isotherms
reported in the SAR. This finding is contrary to the trend that might have been
expected as a result of land-use change: Habitat loss has been greater in northern
European countries over this period than southern ones. Scientific knowledge
of butterfly biology supports the inference that this shift is in response to
increased temperatures. Population eruptions of several species of forest lepidoptera
in central Europe in the early 1990s, including the gypsy moth Lymantria dispar,
have been linked to increased temperatures (Wulf and Graser, 1996), as have
northward range expansions of several species of Odonata and Orthoptera (Kleukers
et al., 1996).
Insect pests: Most studies concur that insect pests are likely to become more
abundant in Europe as temperature rises, as a result of increased rates of population
development, growth, migration, and overwintering (Cannon, 1998). There has
been little or no reported research at the level of pest population dynamics,
however, about potential responses of insect pests to increased CO2
(Cannon, 1998). Although changes in rainfall also could have a substantial effect
(Lawton, 1995), this is difficult to quantify, particularly given uncertainties
with regional precipitation scenarios. Migratory species may be able to extend
their ranges as crop distributions change. For example, a 3°C rise in temperature
would advance the limit for grain maize across much of Europe, which could be
followed by a northward range expansion by the European corn borer Ostrinia
nubilalis of as much as 1,220 km (Parry et al., 1990; Porter et al., 1991; Porter,
Birds: Climate change in Europe already has been demonstrated to be affecting
migratory wild bird populations. In the UK, 20 of 65 species, including long-distance
migrants, significantly advanced their egg-laying dates by 8 days, on average,
between 1971 and 1995 (Crick et al., 1997; Crick and Sparks, 1999). In general,
species show advancement in average arrival and laying dates of about 35 days
per 1°C. It is quite likely that birds will be able to adapt faster than most
taxa to such changes, given their mobility and genetic variability (e.g., Berthold
and Helbig, 1992). However, increased aridity in the Mediterranean region may
be detrimental to the trans-Saharan migrants that use the area for foraging
en route. Potentially great problems face the internationally important populations
of waterfowl that use a relatively limited number of sites for wintering or
while on passage in Europe. Where sea-level rise causes coastal squeeze on the
availability of intertidal feeding areas (because sea defenses prohibit encroachment
onto currently dry land), feeding resources available to wintering waterbirds
may become limited and lead to population declines (Norris and Buisson, 1994).
Arctic-breeding shorebirds are predicted to benefit in the short term as warmer
temperatures increase the numbers of their insect food supplies, but in the
long term they may suffer from the disappearance of their habitat as vegetation
zones move northward toward the limit of any land (Lindström and Agrell, 1999).
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Organisers: Anton Alekseev (Université de Genève), John Jones (University of Warwick), Bruno Vallette (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis) and Chenchang Zhu Bartholdi (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).
Workshop Theme
The notion of an operad was introduced in the late 60's in algebraic topology as a tool to encode higher homotopies. It enjoyed a renaissance in the 90's when M. Kontsevich and others used algebraic operads in deformation theory.
The passage from classical mechanics to quantum mechanics prompted the general mathematical problem of deformation quantization. In Poisson geometry, such a problem was solved by D. Fedosov for symplectic manifolds, by V. Drinfeld for Poisson-Lie groups, and by M. Kontsevich for Poisson manifolds. In 1998, six months after Kontsevich's original proof, D. Tamarkin gave another but purely operadic proof of the deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds, using the formality of the little discs operad, the Deligne conjecture, and the deformation-quantization of Lie bialgebras due to P. Etingof and D. Kazhdan.
The introduction of operadic graph homology in 1991 by M. Kontsevich allowed V. Ginzburg and M. Kapranov, and E. Getzler and J. Jones to develop the Koszul duality theory on the level of algebraic operads. This theory gives a conceptual explanation of the duality between commutative algebras and Lie algebras in Rational Homotopy Theory, developed by D. Quillen and D. Sullivan. It was also shown by M. Kontsevich, E. Getzler, and Y.I. Manin to share nice relationships with moduli spaces of curves, i.e. quantum cohomology and Frobenius manifolds. The operadic calculus play a key role in Quantum Field Theory in mathematical physics since it provides an algebraic way to control higher structures.
The goal of this conference is to cover the most recent and interesting developments of these fields of research.


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High Country Views, Big solar marches on
This fall, the federal government began putting serious muscle behind solar energy development on public land in the Southwest. In the past few months alone, the Interior Department has given the nod to nine large-scale solar farms in California and Nevada.
The feds have had good intentions to kick-start renewable energy development on public land for quite some time. The 2005 Energy Policy Act called for 10,000 megawatts by 2015. But until this fall, not a single solar project had been approved on federal land.
The nine projects to get the green light so far are significant. Together they could generate almost 4,000 megawatts – enough to power more than a million homes. But they're likely only the beginning. In mid-December, Interior released a 10,000-page document that, among other things, designated 24 solar energy zones in six southwestern states.
In this episode of High Country Views, assistant editor Cally Carswell talks with Judith Lewis, a High Country News contributing editor, about big solar's march onto public land.
You can catch High Country Views approximately every other week. Available via our RSS feed, and for download now through iTunes.


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CIU Men's Soccer Develops a Pyramid of Success
James Whitaker believes you should have a philosophy for what you do. And that includes soccer. That's why Whitaker, the Columbia International University men's soccer coach, has used the off-season to brainstorm with his team and develop a Pyramid of Success – building blocks of character traits and core values formed in a triangle, that keep the team as he puts it, "an, elite, effective, highly-functioning, God-honoring soccer family."
In addition, Whitaker says the pyramid keeps "everyone is on the same page and heading in the same direction."
"I really wanted for us as a team to come up with these ideas together and take ownership of them instead of me as a coach forcing these ideas on the players," Whitaker added.
The Pyramid of Success for the CIU Rams soccer team is modeled after the pyramid created by legendary college basketball coach John Wooden who won 10 NCAA national championships as head coach at UCLA.
While CIU's pyramid may reflect Wooden's in some basic character qualities, CIU's Pyramid of Success is based on CIU's biblical foundations.
For instance, at the bottom center of CIU's pyramid, representing the pyramid's foundation is the block titled, "Christ-Focused." Inside the block is its definition: "We submit our love of the sport of soccer, our pride and ambition to the cross. Christ is the Center of everything we do." At the very top of the pyramid is "Excellence."
"Excellence at the top is the result of the other core values below it," Whitaker explains. "This pyramid is the basis for everything we do in the soccer program here. These are the things we want to be about. This will serve to provide direction and guide us as we move forward."
Whitaker says new players will be expected to memorize the pyramid when they come into the program, and agree to uphold all it represents. He also says it will serve as a corrective device.
"If anyone deviates from it, it's up to the coaches, captains, and upperclassmen to hold them to that standard," Whitaker said. "This prevents the strain and struggles that go along with the process of creating a highly functioning team."
And Whitaker guarantees the Pyramid of Success will not collect dust – but is a blueprint for the future.
"The pyramid will be sent to prospective players," Whitaker said. "This is one way to make sure that the guys coming in know what we're about."
For more on CIU athletics, visit: www.ciu.edu/athletics. Also, see The Greenville News website and check out why Luke Brooks of Eastside High School in Taylors, S.C. chose to play soccer at CIU:


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Harry Bartnick, Foundation Studies, is included in the book 100 Boston Painters that features the work of well-established and upcoming artists.
Jennifer Barber, English. Her collection of poetry, Given Away, was published by Kore Press.
Eric Bellone, Government. His paper "Private Attorney-Client Communications and the Effect of Videoconferencing in the Courtroom" was accepted for publication in the Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology.
Tom Connolly, English, has had a chapter and an article published, both about playwright Eugene O'Neill: "Neither Fallen Angel nor Risen Ape: Desentimentalizing Robert Smith," in Eugene O'Neill's One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, and "Challenging Traditional Approaches to Eugene O'Neill," in the Ostrava Journal of English Philology. Vol. 4, no. 1, 2012.
Lin Guo, Finance. Her coauthored paper "Corporate governance and market segmentation: evidence from the price difference between Chinese A and H shares," was accepted for publication in Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.
Jonathan Haughton, Economics, had an article "Non-Tariff Barriers on Agricultural Trade within ECOWAS: Extent, Effects, and Trade Implications," co-authored with Suffolk University alumni Abdoulaye Seck, Lassana Cissokho and Kossi Makpayo, published in the Journal of African Economies. In addition, he had two working papers published by the World Bank: "Household Coping and Response to Government Stimulus in an Economic Crisis: Evidence from Thailand" (with Shahid Khandker, Gayatri Koolwal, and Somchai Jitsuchon) and "Appraising the Thailand Village Fund" (with Jirawan Boonperm, Shahidur Khandker, and Pungpond Rukumnuaykit).
Nina Huntemann, Communication and Journalism, is the coeditor of the essay collection Gaming Globally: Production, Play & Place, with Ben Aslinger. Palgrave 2013.
Abu Jalal and Shahriar Khaksari, Finance. Their case "Raising Capital in China" was accepted for publication in The CASE Journal (2012).
Abu Jalal and Alexandros Prezas, Finance. Their joint paper "Outsider CEO Succession and Firm Performance" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Economics and Business.
Micky Lee, Communication and Journalism, has published two articles: "A feminist political economic critique of women and investment in the popular media" in Feminist Media Studies and "Time and the political economy of financial television" in the Journal of Communication Inquiry. In addition, her essay "A feminist political economy of communication" was reprinted in the book Current Perspectives in Feminist Media Studies.
Montgomery Link, Philosophy, is the coeditor of a collection of essays Hao Wang, Logician and Philosopher, with Charles Parsons (College Publications). Link's translations and a survey article "Hao Wang's Chinese writings," coauthored with Richard Jandovitz, are included in the volume.
Anne Macdonald, Information Technology, published her first novel Deadlines are Murder.
Quentin Miller, English, published an essay "The Trouble with the Other N-Word" in The Chronicle of Higher Education. He also published a short story "Deep in the Brain" in Spilling Ink Review.
Lauren Nolfo-Clements, Biology, has published "Habitat Selection by Nutria in a Freshwater Louisiana Marsh" in Southeastern Naturalist 11(2): 183-204 (2012).
Stefan Platikanov, Finance. His paper "Corporate Investments and Learning,"co-authored with Nathalie Moyen, was accepted for publication in the Review of Finance.
Sebastián Royo, vice provost for student success, published two newspaper articles in Cinco Días: "Lecciones de Grecia e Irlanda" and "Las Elecciones en EEUU Empiezan Ahora."
Lisa F. Shatz, Engineering, has published "The Frequency Response of the Vibrissae of Harp Seal, Pagophilus Groenlandicus, to Sound in Air and Water" in the Jan. 22, 2013 edition of Plos One, a peer-reviewed, open access journal.
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What is Dark Energy?
Posted by Ethan on April 9, 2008
You've all heard these words before. Dark Energy. But what is it, and why are we stuck with it? Let me start by telling you a story. Imagine, for a minute, that you have a candle. You know everything about this candle, including how bright it is and how far away it is from you.…


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March madness trims the herd
The yearling cow elk started showing up in the yard the first week of March, and at first nothing seemed wrong. During the day she fed along the back fence; as evening approached, she came in closer to the house, nibbling on the first green sprouts of lawn before bedding down under the ash trees.
This happened for a couple of days. The main herd was not far way, a mile or so down valley, but the chocolate brown and blond youngster seemed to have no interest in rejoining it.
"Maybe she got kicked out," I said to my wife one evening as we ate dinner and watched our "pet" elk put its head down under the trees. She thought the animal was sick and called Kirk Madariaga, our local Division of Wildlife agent. Kirk said the young elk was likely starving to death, despite the green grass. Often the young elk and deer don't have enough fat reserves to see them through the transition from dry winter forage to green forage. "It's nature's way of trimming the herd," he said.
Nature's way peaks in March, just as winter relinquishes its grip. That makes sense. March is a crazy transitional month, a time when life and death live side by side. It's a time when the nation's sports fans are gripped with do-or-die, nail-biting college basketball games, when floods and tornados lash out, and when the obituary pages of the local paper seem to fill with people who let go just before the tilting of the globe.
Here in western Colorado, March is when ranchers hope that Mother Nature will forego the late spring blizzards that can turn deadly for their calves, which, in just a few weeks, have grown from small freshly dropped huddles in the fields to exuberant, long-legged toddlers. It's also the time when the birds return. Some have flown thousands of miles to reach their nesting grounds, on the promise that there will be something to eat when they arrive.
One spring a large flock of wood pewees descended on our town, driven down from the aspen trees by a late snowstorm. They perched quietly on windowsills, fences and shrubs, as docile and tame as caged canaries. The next day dozens of their almost weightless dead bodies littered the yards, victims of the weather and the neighborhood cats, which had never before seen — and probably never will again — the bird hunting so good.
Our little elk seemed to have a pretty substantial body, but Kirk told us to look for a hollowness in front of the hips. "If it's there, then this elk is on its last legs, and there is really nothing you can do. "
The hollowness was there. I brought out a pan of oats and hay; the elk got up, and walked away only a few yards as I set the pan down. She didn't touch the food, and lay down again. The next day she died, her head angled back at an odd angle, eyes glazed like milky ice. My son chained her hind legs to the 4–wheeler, and dragged her to the far corner of the field. Maybe the coyotes, eagles and magpies would gain some benefit from her carcass.
A couple of days later, I ventured up to take a look at the elk. On my way, I stumbled upon another body, this time a doe mule deer, nestled in the greening grass and the stiff brown stalks of last year's chickory. She almost looked alive, except her eyes were gone, and a blood-smeared bone from one of her hind legs jutted through her fur. The sickly sweet smell of death wafted in the air.
So much death. And so much life. All around me, the clear and sweet song of western meadowlarks rang out, declaring their intention to produce new life in the grass. And far above, the faint bugling of sandhill cranes on the move, in March.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].


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As part of the America's Cup Event Authority's ongoing commitment to support local businesses, today Mayor Edwin M. Lee and the Event Authority announced a local business outreach initiative to ensure San Francisco businesses benefit from the anticipated economic impact generated by the 34th America's Cup.
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Not far from where I live, in northwestern Montana, the land opens up and the people disappear. Skiing through tall trees toward a ridge, we see two ravens chasing a magpie through a glade up ahead. A moment later, three bald eagles appear, all sitting at the very top of trees. These normally quiet woods are alive with ravens, hollering like monkeys.
Something is dead ahead. We veer into the forest, where everything changes once we're off the trail. Our senses sharpen. The raspy calls of magpies go eerily silent. The eagles back off a little, flying to other trees. Trickster ravens try to lead us away from whatever they've been feeding on, leapfrogging between trees ahead.
Then my wife points her ski pole at a big cat track. It's crisp, but headed away. We slowly ski on, looking in every direction like wary deer. Near a big cedar, we find snow stained the color of watermelon and clumps of deer hair.
ot far away, we find the kill site. It's a blood-stained depression in the snow, surrounded by a mishmash of tracks. Behind a nearby Douglas fir, we see where the mountain lion inched toward the deer, each foot placed silently atop frozen snow. Then, in a flash, it pounced, probably seizing the neck from behind.
It happened fast. There was no fight, no tumble through the snow. In that one sunken depression, a life quickly ended. And a meal was secured.
But the lion didn't feed here. It stood for a few minutes as the deer bled, then dragged its victim away.
We cautiously follow the trail of hair and occasional drops of blood as it passes through low willows, over snow-covered logs, across melted-out tree wells. The kill must have happened hours earlier, near dawn, when the snowpack was frozen. Even when it was lugging the deer, few of the lion's footsteps broke the snow.
After nearly the length of a football field, we reach the secluded cache, tucked into a clump of saplings. It's not pretty: A young deer lies on its side. Its bright red ribcage is open and vacant, but for a pool of crimson, still warm-looking blood. The head, with hair so neat that it looks combed, is twisted backward on a broken neck. The nose is concealed in snow, but the ears are oddly erect, as if frozen in the moment when the deer realized something must be wrong.
The snow is flattened with lion tracks, stained with a blend of blood, urine and scat. A single set of lion tracks leads away, toward thicker woods.
We don't linger. We ski back to the trail, then watch as the birds reclaim the site. I'm sad to see the young deer's broken neck, knowing that it was feeding with its mother just this morning. Yet as a predator myself, I'm happy for the lion. The hard work of hunting is over for a few days. I can appreciate the earned meal, even the swift efficiency of the broken neck.
We return the next day. The ravens are still here, a raucous mob playing among the trees. But the deer, so near to life yesterday, has now become just a carcass. Its ribs are faded maroon, and its hair has lost all its luster.
There are no new lion tracks, but a fox has been by. Its tracks interweave on the snow with those of magpies, ravens and eagles. I think about how far the deer is spreading. It's now in the bellies of ravens, magpies, a fox. Somewhere, perhaps clear across the valley, its energy fuels the spread of an eagle's wings. It has become the lion, too, and will soon power the search for another deer.
But that's not all. A coyote will eventually arrive and tug away a leg. As the snow melts, mice will chew on the bones. This summer, the pine saplings will stretch upward, boosted by the mix of flesh and scat. Beetles and ants will prosper, then get licked up by a bear. It's all connected, a web woven by a mountain lion's hunger.
The deer comes away with me, too. I take it home in my mind and write about it, sitting here by the woodstove. I share it with you, my neighbors in the West. And maybe you feel what I do: the magic of this exchange, the rightful place of predators on the landscape and -- perhaps most of -- a deep sense of gratitude. Gratitude for being alive, well fed, and right here in the middle of this circle.
Tim Lydon is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He writes from Whitefish, Montana.
Note: the opinions expressed in this column are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of High Country News, its board or staff. If you'd like to share an opinion piece of your own, please write Betsy Marston at [email protected].


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On tonight's all new episode of the Real Housewives of New York City, the ladies head to Morocco!
On the 8th episode this season titled "Misfortune Teller," LuAnn hosts the ladies in Morocco, where she nabs Sonja and Ramona trying to secretly leave the property shortly after they arrive. Later, Jill runs into an old friend while shopping, and he invites the women to his birthday party, which features a fortune teller and a snake charmer.
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Watch What Happens Live – The guests tonight are Ramona Singer and news figure Willie Geist.
Meanwhile, in an interview with E! Online, Sonja Morgan briefly touched on her money and legal woes. Sonja filed bankruptcy last year and less than a week ago, a judge denied her appeal to get a $7 million judgment against her dismissed. Hannibal Pictures sued Sonja for agreeing to finance a movie, and then backing out of the deal.
"I had a slate of five films ready to go," explained Sonja of her production company Sonja Productions. "I had one movie in the can and another movie fell through and a big lawsuit."
Sonja adds that she was no longer able to finance the movie after she filed for divorce. "It was really hard on me…all while I was dealing with the divorce and I have a little child to take care of and a big house to maintain," she said. A preview clip of the new episode is below.


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Republicans don't like Rice appointment, but say they can work with her
Republicans don't like Rice appointment, but say they can work with her
Jun. 05, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans who have accused U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice of being part of a cover-up in the Benghazi attacks in Libya are offering a muted response to her selection to be President Barack Obama's new national security adviser.
Rice has been a lightning rod for Republican criticism over the Obama administration's initial explanations for the attacks that killed the U.S. ambassador and four others. Relying on talking points from the intelligence community, Rice said in television interviews that the attacks were likely spontaneous, which was later proven incorrect.
Sen. John McCain writes on Twitter that he disagrees with the appointment, but that he will "make every effort" to work with her on important matters. Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker, the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, says he has spoken with Rice, and looks forward to "working with her on shaping important foreign policy and national security issues."
The post of national security adviser is not one that requires Senate confirmation.
Rice will be replacing Tom Donilon, whose resignation had been expected.
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APPHOTO WX202: FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2013 file photo, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice speaks at a news conference at U.N. headquarters in New York. President Barack Obama's top national security adviser Tom Donilon is resigning and will be replaced by U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, marking a significant shakeup to the White House foreign policy team. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File) (12 Feb 2013)
APPHOTO NY121: FILE - National Security Advisor Tom Donilon speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in this May 17, 2012 file photo taken in Washington. A White House official said Wednesday June 5, 2013 Tom Donilon is resigning as President Barack Obama's national security adviser and will be replaced by Susan Rice. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) (17 May 2012)