text: Sellinger School names new accounting chair with expertise in fraud, forensics January 18, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos The Loyola University Maryland Sellinger School of Business and Management has named Bobby E. Waldrup, Ph.D., new chair of the department of accounting. Waldrup will assume his new role at the conclusion of the 2012-13 academic year. Waldrup's extensive pedagogical experience and related scholarship on forensic accounting and fraud investigation position him on the forefront of the accounting field, which has evolved significantly over the last decade. "I'm confident Dr. Waldrup's tremendous leadership will drive innovation in our accounting program and prepare students for dynamic careers that will require them to anticipate future industry disruptions of similar scale and scope to recent high-profile accounting scandals that led to the creation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act," said Karyl B. Leggio, Ph.D., dean of the Sellinger School. "The new strategic vision he brings adds immeasurable value to Loyola's accounting curriculum and the Sellinger School as a whole." Waldrup comes to Loyola from the University of North Florida, where he is currently a professor and associate provost in the Coggin College of Business. Since 1998, he has also held the position of associate dean at UNF and taught managerial, cost, and forensic accounting, along with auditing theory. While at UNF, he has traveled to Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Rome, and Florence to teach accounting to students studying abroad. His additional experience in academia includes a year as chairperson of accounting and CIS at Delta State University and three years as a visiting assistant professor of financial and managerial accounting at Hardin-Simmons University. He also spent two years working in the internal audit department of Amerada Hess, an integrated oil company. "The Sellinger School of Business and Management is nationally respected for the quality of its programs and faculty, and I am thrilled and honored to become a part of that heritage," said Waldrup. "The accounting faculty shares a deep commitment to preparing students for the challenges and opportunities of today's business environment which is becoming both increasingly global and interconnected. My teaching philosophy is one of self-reflection where students come to understand not only the science but also the societal implications of the accounting discipline. The triple bottom line–people, planet, and profit–is a natural extension of the Jesuit educational tradition." "Businesses today, more than ever, are dealing with complex issues in rapidly changing environments, and it's critical for our accounting students to develop the skills necessary to face those challenges," said Christine D. Aspell, '90, chair of Loyola's accounting advisory board and audit partner at KPMG LLP. "Dr. Waldrup's experience and presence here will make that possible." Waldrup has published more than 30 papers on fraud, forensic accounting, ethics, internal control, and teaching technology, and presented many of those papers at professional conferences. He is a member of the American Accounting Association, the Accounting Historians Society, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Throughout his career in academia, he has been heavily involved in university committees on issues ranging from student fees to faculty enhancement. For over a decade he has given his time to teach continuing education courses both in the university setting and at accounting firms. He holds a Ph.D. in accountancy from the University of Mississippi and an MPA in professional accountancy from Mississippi State University. He is also a certified public accountant (inactive) in the state of Mississippi. When Waldrup arrives on campus he will relieve Andrea Giampetro-Meyer, J.D., who is serving as interim department chair. Giampetro-Meyer will continue in her role as chair of the department of law and social responsibility.


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Thief Made $70,000 a Week Crawling on Movie-Theater Floors — Dollars and Sense
It took some serious slithering, but Anthony Johnson was able to steal as much as $70,000 a week from unsuspecting movie-theater patrons.
According to an accomplice who turned on him, Johnson would purchase a ticket for a movie that women were likely to see. Then he and a female partner would crawl around on the floor of the dark theater, plundering the purses sitting at the ladies' feet.
He would take things like iPhones and sunglasses, which he would sell at discounted prices. But he really cleaned up when he was able to grab an ID and a credit card, which allowed him to collect big money through cash advances at casinos and to make retail purchases. Johnson could score $70,000 in a good week and about $30,000 in a bad one, according to the accomplice.
The FBI, who says Johnson had been doing this since 2007, eventually got involved and began to build a case against the 49-year-old. On Monday, a jury convicted Johnson of seven counts of unauthorized use of an access device, such as a credit or debit card, and two counts of aggravated identity theft. He faces up to 14 years in jail when he is sentenced in January.

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The important thing to remember is that there's a reason a quarterback is transferring.
Sometimes, it works out brilliantly -- like with Russell Wilson going to Wisconsin -- but often expectations get out of whack when a college team brings in a new quarterback from another program. Fans get excited enough about backup quarterbacks when the starter struggles; bringing in new blood from elsewhere is something entirely different. It's an unexpected surprise, usually involving a quarterback who just "wasn't given a fair shot" by the coaching staff, or another excuse along those lines.
But as the years go by, the transfer market gets bigger and better. One reason is that touted quarterbacks have become increasingly impatient when stuck behind a starter. Everyone wants to play, and play early, and it's rare that a quarterback is satisfied waiting his turn for two or three years. The other is the graduate transfer rule, passed in 2006, that allows players who graduate with eligibility still remaining to finish their careers elsewhere while entering grad school -- without having to sit out a year. Wilson is the biggest success story among graduate transfers, and now we're seeing quarterbacks who graduate in three years, with a redshirt included, and move to a new school with two seasons of eligibility remaining, making college football's free-agent market even more valuable.
Of course, reasons for transferring are all over the map, as are the actual results.
Aside from Wilson, the best transfer in recent history was Ryan Mallett, a five-star recruit from Texas who began his career in Lloyd Carr's pro-style system but had no place in the offense when Michigan brought in Rich Rodriguez. Mallett transferred to Arkansas, sat out a year, then posted two seasons with at least 3,600 yards, 30 touchdowns and an average of nine yards per attempt. His second season ended with a Sugar Bowl bid, and he was drafted by the Patriots.
There have been plenty of middle-of-the-road type moves, and then there are also the cautionary tales. Rob Bolden, Joe Paterno's first opening day true freshman starter, left Penn State after losing the job to former walk-on Matt McGloin, but instead of aiming for an easier path to playing time, he ended up at LSU, where he failed to crack the three-deep last year and moved to wide receiver this spring. Other similarly regarded recruits have gone through similar struggles, like Phillip Sims (Alabama to Virginia to Winston-Salem State), Mitch Mustain (Arkansas to USC) and Jake Heaps (BYU to Kansas). For a compendium of notable transfers in recent history (not including those who passed through the juco ranks first), click here.
So while it's important not too expect too much out of most transfers, the 2014 season in particular appears primed for an influx of impact moves behind center, including both graduate transfers and undergraduates who have sat out the required one season. The list could have even been bigger: Former USC QB Max Wittek spent the spring visiting other schools (most notably Texas and Hawaii), but he reportedly won't graduate until the fall semester now; and there's LSU's Stephen Rivers -- the brother of Philip Rivers -- who decided to leave the Tigers in February but has not officially settled on a destination, although rumors have tied him to Vanderbilt.
Here are this year's key (non-juco) transfers at quarterback, ranked by potential impact:
1. Jacob Coker, Alabama (from Florida State)
Rarely is a preseason top-five team dependent on a transfer, because rarely does a team like Alabama need someone else's backup to fill an obvious hole. Alabama recruits five-star prospects at every position, meaning it's usually deep everywhere, and it's not often that someone like Nick Saban will let quarterback depth become a problem. Because this is Alabama, though, when an immediate need springs up, the Crimson Tide get only the best that the transfer market has to offer.
Coker has been the recipient of incessant praise, despite limited playing time, and in retrospect he's been considered overlooked as a three-star recruit coming out of high school in Mobile. It's not as if his time spent as a backup is an indictment of his talent: There literally may not be one quarterback in the country who would have beaten out Jameis Winston for the Florida State starting job last offseason. Not wanting to spend another year behind Winston, upon graduating this spring in three years, Coker made the obvious choice, deciding to switch to the other best program in the country, in his home state, and automatically become the favorite for the starting job with AJ McCarron gone and no Winston-like opponent to worry about.
The job won't be handed to Coker, but after an underwhelming spring from senior Blake Sims and redshirt freshman Cooper Bateman, and given that David Cornwell is a true freshman, it's not hard to see the writing on the wall -- no matter what Nick Saban says. This should be Coker's job to lose. We haven't seen much of him, as he attempted 36 passes last year, mostly in garbage time, but fortunately an enterprising citizen put together all of his 2013 plays, including the Florida State spring game, and uploaded it to YouTube:
It seems pretty difficult for Coker to live up to such massive expectations at this point, but ultimately, his job could be a lot harder. Alabama has won national titles with Greg McElroy and AJ McCarron, two very good players who also aren't transcendent talents. Should Coker win the job, he'll be tasked mostly with avoiding mistakes and keeping the Alabama engine running.
He has the best running backs in the country to hand off to (T.J. Yeldon, Derrick Henry, Kenyan Drake), arguably the most talented wideout (Amari Cooper), an obvious breakout candidate at tight end (O.J. Howard) and a solid offensive line that returns three starters. The presence of Lane Kiffin as the new coordinator is a never-ending wild card, but this isn't an Alabama team that will need to rely on Coker to win games by himself. If he brings a bit of mobility that Alabama hasn't really had to the table, combined with a 6-foot-5, 230-pound frame and a strong arm, then all the better. Given the history behind it, a Winston-Coker showdown in the playoff could be a whole lot of fun.
2. Jacoby Brissett, N.C. State (from Florida)
For some inexplicable reason, N.C. State has become Transfer Quarterback U, beginning with Russell Wilson. After three successful years as the Wolfpack's starting QB, Wilson became college football's most famous graduate transfer, going to Wisconsin after spending his offseason time dabbling in professional baseball. Wilson went on to set an NCAA record for single-season passing efficiency with the Badgers, leading them to the Rose Bowl before going on to NFL glory.
Then, former Colorado State starter Pete Thomas transferred to N.C. State after the 2011 season, sat out the required year, played in nine games last year and is now transferring to Louisiana-Monroe. Former Arkansas backup Brandon Mitchell left for N.C. State last year as a graduate transfer and shared time with Thomas. And upon getting lost in the incoming transfer shuffle, Manny Stocker transferred out to Tennessee-Martin. Mitchell was a senior, so he's gone, while Thomas was out of luck as soon as the season ended and Brissett became eligible to win the starting job. In fact, Brissett was immediately named the starter in December, erasing any doubt about who's in charge this offseason.
A former four-star recruit at Florida who played sparingly in two seasons in Gainesville, Brissett is expected to provide a much-needed spark for the Wolfpack offense after a brutal first year of rebuilding under Dave Doeren. Doeren got the job through his success at Northern Illinois, where he oversaw high-powered offenses with a pair of mobile quarterbacks in Chandler Harnish and Jordan Lynch. While Brissett isn't going to be the same sort of star as a runner -- one of the reasons he lost the Florida job was because coaches considered Driskel a better runner -- he is mobile for someone with a 6-foot-4, 236-pound frame and provides a strong arm and a quick release. For an offense that ranked 100th nationally in yards per play and had more interceptions (15) than passing touchdowns (14), Brissett is a welcome change of pace who may be able to push the Wolfpack back to bowl eligibility after a frustrating season in which they went winless in the ACC with an 0-4 record against in-state rivals Wake Forest, North Carolina, Duke and East Carolina. It really can't get any worse, and while two transfers didn't work out last year, there's reason to believe the third time's a charm.
3. Gunner Kiel, Cincinnati (from Notre Dame)
The Todd Graham of quarterback recruits, Kiel originally committed to home-state underdog Indiana, then switched to LSU, then ultimately signed back home at Notre Dame … where he was unhappy behind Everett Golson, causing a transfer to Cincinnati that ended up occurring just before Golson's suspension last spring. Now finally established with a new team -- coach Tommy Tuberville told SI.com that Kiel was "pretty deflated" by the time he got to Cincinnati -- with three years of eligibility remaining, Kiel has had a year to settle down and learn the offense under Tuberville while he sat out. He's in good position to win the job, with Brendon Kay gone and sixth-year senior Munchie Legaux still rehabbing his knee after suffering an injury last September.
Rated by many as the No. 1 quarterback recruit in the class of 2012, Kiel has an opportunity to shine for the Bearcats, who have been left out of the Power Five conferences but are one of a handful of favorites for the Group of Five's automatic bid to one of the major bowl games in the playoff rotation. He's surrounded by talented players, including an All-America candidate at left tackle in Eric Lefeld, plus a solid, experienced group of backs and receivers. Cincinnati is a pretty stable place to land for someone who's yet to settle into a starting role and has been through so many ups and downs without even seeing the field, and while he'll be thrown into the fire early with first-half road trips to Ohio State and Miami, if he develops as expected he can have the Bearcats in position to win the American Athletic Conference. As just a redshirt sophomore, he still has a lot of time to establish himself as the top pro prospect everyone thought he could become.
4. Michael Brewer, Virginia Tech (from Texas Tech)
The Hokies offense can't get much worse, and any outside help is a reason for optimism. They ranked 12th in the ACC in yards per play, and that was with a three-year starter at quarterback in Logan Thomas, who never seemed to improve and also never got much out of those around him. With Thomas gone, the Hokies were left with a wide-open QB race thought to be led by senior Mark Leal, before sophomore Brenden Motley took a surprising lead during spring ball. Now, both will have to overcome the addition of Brewer, a graduate transfer who still has two years of eligibility remaining.
Brewer was expected to be Kliff Kingsbury's starting quarterback last year, but preseason injury problems limited him -- a back injury he later claimed was misdiagnosed -- and buried him behind the Red Raiders' freshmen. Blocked from going to another Big 12 school, he ended up in Blacksburg, which, despite the offensive problems of late, is a solid landing spot. For one, he has a pretty clear path to the starting job. Two, the offense doesn't need to suddenly become Texas Tech-like and score 50 points per game. This is a defense-led team with the nation's best secondary and an active front four, and even a jump from awful to mediocre on offense will make the Hokies frontrunners in the ACC Coastal. Brewer can help achieve that goal, especially if the running back situation led by Trey Edmunds, J.C. Coleman and Marshawn Williams finally stabilizes around him.
Brewer represents a startling change from Thomas for second-year offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler, as Thomas was a 6-foot-6, 254-pounder who led the team in rushing in 2012. Brewer stands just 6-foot-1, 185 pounds and surely won't lead the team in rushing, although he does have some mobility. He actually played in high school under acclaimed current Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris, meaning he'll undergo an odd jump from Morris' version of the spread to pass-happy Texas Tech to an offense that went 5-of-26 passing in last August's opener against Alabama.
5. Wes Lunt, Illinois (from Oklahoma State)
For as bad as Illinois has been overall, the offense actually wasn't terrible last year. In fact, coach Tim Beckman wisely hired former Western Michigan coach Bill Cubit to run the offense, and Cubit took the unit from last in the Big Ten in yards per play to fourth. Gone is four-year starter Nathan Scheelhaase, an inconsistent but versatile threat, leaving a competition between senior Reilly O'Toole, who has seen the field a decent amount for a backup; sophomore Aaron Bailey, a dual-threat former four-star recruit; and Lunt, who looked like Oklahoma State's quarterback of the future as a freshman in 2012 before injuries opened the door for Clint Chelf to take the job.
Lunt opted to transfer, and after controversy over Mike Gundy's restrictions, he ended up back in his home state of Illinois. With the Cowboys, Lunt played in seven games, completing 61.8 percent of his passes for 1,108 yards (8.5 yards per attempt), six touchdowns and seven interceptions. He even attempted 60 passes in his first start against an FBS opponent, throwing for 436 yards with four touchdowns and three picks in a loss at Arizona. Based on what we've seen, Lunt seems like the obvious choice and is ahead in the race right now, although it will be interesting to see if Bailey, the former prized recruit, eventually pushes him. If he does hold the job, fortunately Lunt gets four offensive line starters back, along with the solid backfield duo of Josh Ferguson and Donovonn Young, because he'll be dealing with an entirely new receiving corps. He'll need all the help he can get, given that the Illini -- who have won just one conference game in the last two years -- face road trips to Washington, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Ohio State, which may make bowl eligibility an insurmountable goal.
6. Tyler Murphy, Boston College (from Florida)
There were some brief flashes early last season, when Murphy replaced the injured Jeff Driskel, where it looked like maybe Murphy could provide some sort of spark to a lifeless Gators offense. Alas, that was merely a dream; nothing could save that offense. Florida struggled all year no matter who played quarterback, from Driskel to Murphy to Skyler Mornhinweg, and with Driskel back healthy, it's not surprising that Murphy opted to spend his senior year elsewhere.
Boston College is a logical fit for three reasons: 1) four-year starter Chase Rettig is gone, with no obvious replacement waiting in the wings; 2) the Eagles are coached by former Florida offensive coordinator Steve Addazio, who helped recruit Murphy to Gainesville as an unheralded two-star recruit; and 3) Murphy happens to be from New England as a Connecticut native. Murphy graduated in December too, meaning he participated in spring practice and was already able to secure the starting job.
Murphy has always flown under the radar, and he likely would have passed through his college career anonymously had Driskel not gotten hurt against Tennessee last September. Murphy had never attempted a pass until then, and ultimately he finished season with 1,216 yards, six touchdowns, five interceptions and 61 rushing yards in seven games. Now, he takes over a passing game that was merely a footnote last year thanks to Andre Williams' 2,000-yard rushing season. If losing Williams isn't bad enough, the Eagles must also replace top receiver Alex Amidon, who had nearly half the team's catches and was the only player with more than 14. Even without Williams, it's likely that Murphy will mostly be asked to manage games quietly, because Addazio is a Muschamp-style power football enthusiast.
7. Brandon Connette, Fresno State (from Duke)
No transfer, should he win the job, has bigger shoes to fill. Yes, McCarron was an important face of the program at Alabama who won two national titles, but the team's success didn't revolve around him. At Fresno State, all Derek Carr did was throw for more than 12,000 yards in three seasons as a starter, including a national-best 5,083 yards and 50 touchdowns as a senior. Not only does Fresno State lose the most famous last name in school history, but also gone are receivers Davante Adams and Isaiah Burse, who totaled 213 catches between them in 2013 alone. Needless to say, regression can be expected for the Bulldogs, who must rebuild while facing a daunting early-season trio of games at USC, at Utah and vs. Nebraska.
Junior Brian Burrell is the in-house favorite to replace Carr, but Connette, a graduate transfer with one year of eligibility left, may be the best bet. Although he comes from outside Fresno State's system, he has by far the most on-field experience of the Bulldogs' quarterbacks, as he split time with Anthony Boone at Duke, completing 90 passes for 1,212 yards, 13 touchdowns and six interceptions last year while rushing for 337 yards and 14 touchdowns as a short-yardage specialist. Even if he isn't the full-time starting quarterback, it's pretty clear he'll get on the field in some capacity, adding some different wrinkles to an offense that previously piled up points behind the precise passing of Carr.
8. Matt Joeckel, TCU (from Texas A&M)
TCU's offense was a mess last season, and an inability to win close games ended up causing a spiral that resulted in an embarrassing 4-8 record in the program's second year in the Big 12. After off-the-field issues for Casey Pachall forced Trevone Boykin into the starting job in 2012, the combination of the two struggled last year with a combined 13 touchdown passes and 17 interceptions. Pachall is gone, and now the job won't simply be handed to Boykin, a junior, because Joeckel graduated from Texas A&M and elected to play his fifth season in Fort Worth. The brother of former All-America left tackle Luke Joeckel, Matt Joeckel is most known for starting last year's Texas A&M season opener against Rice because of Johnny Manziel's one-half suspension. He completed 14 of 19 passes for 190 yards and a touchdown against the Owls, then threw only 18 passes the rest of the season -- giving him 48 attempts for his Aggies career.
Defensive-oriented coach Gary Patterson opted to cobble a bunch of pieces together from various Texas schools to fix the offense: Joeckel joins as a transfer from A&M, while the new co-offensive coordinators are from Houston (Doug Meacham) and Texas Tech (Sonny Cumbie). Expect an up-tempo spread attack, given who Patterson hired, and while Boykin offers more versatility because he can run, neither coordinator comes from an offense that depends on the QB to move the chains with his feet. In other words, the 6-foot-4, 240-pound Joeckel -- who at Texas A&M played for coaches in the same Air Raid universe -- should feel right at home. Boykin will play no matter what, shifting to a slash role that he often played last year, if Joeckel wins the job.
9. Kendal Thompson, Utah (from Oklahoma)
A lot has changed since last Oct. 12, when Travis Wilson played a solid game to lead Utah to a shocking upset of Stanford. A concussion and a subsequent health scare over a pre-existing condition ended Wilson's season early, but despite doubts about his future ability to play football, he was cleared to return before spring practice and appears set to take the field for his junior season.
Coming back from the health scare, Wilson faces a very different situation: Former Wyoming head coach Dave Christensen is the new offensive coordinator, and there's new competition in the form of Thompson, a running quarterback who could be a solid fit in Christensen's attempt to push the tempo out of the spread. Thompson never really got a chance to win the Oklahoma job last summer because he broke his foot in August, taking him out of the running behind Trevor Knight and Blake Bell. Thompson's upside may be high, but there is not a clear path to the job yet. If Wilson's healthy and remains cleared, it's his job to lose.
10. Andrew Hendrix, Miami, Ohio (from Notre Dame)
Hendrix has been buried on the Notre Dame depth chart his entire career, whether it was behind Tommy Rees or Everett Golson, and there was no way he'd see the field as a senior, with Golson back from suspension and the touted Malik Zaire pushing him. So Hendrix made a practical graduate transfer move to the RedHawks, following Fighting Irish offensive coordinator Chuck Martin, who's now the head coach in Oxford. After losing the solid Zac Dysert following the 2012 season, the Miami passing offense plummeted from 22nd nationally to 121st. Needless to say, it shouldn't be difficult for Hendrix to win the job, especially given that, despite being a newcomer, he's the only one familiar with the offense. Getting playing time is one thing, though; actually leading the RedHawks to success is another. They finished 0-12 last year, as one of only two teams that couldn't even average 10 points per game.
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Let's talk about epidurals. These guys are popular. In fact, some patients want them before they're even in labor. Some women come in so painful they grip their nurse's arm and growl, "I want my epidural NOW! Do you hear me?" You bet, honey, loud and clear. However, epidurals aren't as simple as throwing a dart at your back. It's a process. It's anesthesia. It's your spine. No matter how painful, surly or desperate you are, we're methodical about epidurals.
Believe me when I say, you don't want us to botch your epidural.
For that one woman out there who doesn't know what an epidural is, here's your definition: epidurals are God's gift to laboring women who don't want an un-medicated birth. It's numbing medicine that virtually eliminates labor pain. Labor continues, just without the gut-wrenching pain. A small tube (catheter) is placed in the epidural space outside your spinal cord, attached to a medication pump and a continuous dose of glorious, pain-numbing medication is supplied until shortly after the baby is born. Whoever thought this up is a flippin' saint.
Certain procedures have to be complete before we can actually "do" your epidural. First, you have to be admitted to the hospital (a bunch of computer and paperwork). Then we start an IV and dump in at least one liter of IV fluid. We run blood tests to make sure an epidural is safe for you. If all systems run smoothly, we can get you ready quickly. We're motivated—we don't want you to be in pain and we do want you to quit growling. The trick is, our patient has to cooperate (easier said than done when they're in big pain and freaked out); the IV has to go in smoothly and the lab has to run your lab work ASAP. Believe it or not, these things usually go off without a hitch.
The next step is getting the anesthetist or anesthesiologist involved. If they're already in the hospital, you're lucky. Most big hospitals have at least one on their maternity unit at all times. They'll review the prenatal records, start their own paperwork and interview the patient to make sure she's healthy enough for an epidural. Then it's show time. It takes anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes (on average) to place an epidural catheter. It's a "blind" procedure—the anesthetist can't see what's under the skin. He/she has to find the exact space by feel. He/she's going to be careful with that spine and take his/her time, no matter how painful the patient is. Once the catheter is in, the anesthetist injects numbing medicines (the same family of drugs used at the dentist) and in 10 to 15 minutes, the pain is gone. Women still feel pressure but a good epidural eliminates most pain.
Here are a few things about epidurals that most women either didn't read about or weren't paying attention to during class.
1. The worst part about getting an epidural is the shot the anesthetist gives to make the skin numb. It's like when you go to the dentist and you get a shot of novacaine. Same concept. The anesthetist gives a lidocaine injection into the skin and surrounding areas before he/she places the catheter. It stings for 10 seconds then the rest of the procedure doesn't really hurt. It feels weird but almost everybody finds getting the epidural is way easier than they thought it would be.
2. Epidurals lower your blood pressure (BP) so we dump in lots of IV fluid to avoid it. Some patients still drop their BP, making them feel dizzy, nauseous, and crappy. If that happens, the nurse turns mom on her side, dumps in more IV fluid and might give Mom some oxygen. Mom might barf. Oh well, it happens all the time. Occasionally, BP drops low enough that Mom needs medicine to temporarily elevate it until enough IV fluid can get in to fix the problem. Sometimes, baby's heart rate is affected by the low BP and slows down dramatically. Most of the time, mom and baby recover quickly.
3. You can't pee when you have an epidural. This one always catches Moms by surprise. Your legs are numb so you can't walk to the bathroom. Your bladder is numb so you can't tell when it's full. The sphincter that keeps you from wetting your pants is numb so you can't voluntarily release pee. Every few hours, your nurse will slip a catheter (yet another tube) into your bladder, empty the urine and voila, you've peed. Does it hurt? Nope, you're numb.
4. Epidurals work with gravity. If you spend your whole labor lying on your left, more medicine drips down your left side, making it number than your right. If you sit straight up for a long time, your butt gets numb and the rest of your abdomen gets less medication. Your nurse will help you change positions occasionally.
5. Epidurals aren't perfect. Remember the part about "blind" procedures. We can't see that every nerve ending is getting bathed with medicine. Sometimes there's a "window" of pain—an area that doesn't get numb. If it's intolerable, you can have the epidural redone.
Some babies won't wait for an epidural. Remember, it's not a dart in the back. We know you're in pain. We're sorry. The good news: your baby will be here in no time—then the pain's over. And the good times begin.
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The University of Mary Washington volleyball team dropped a 3-1 decision to Carnegie Mellon University and a 3-0 match at Johns Hopkins University on Saturday afternoon. The Eagles close the regular season with a 16-15 record.
Mary Washington fell to Carnegie Mellon, 25-18, 19-25, 23-25, 22-25. Christine Tran had 20 digs, Kaitlyn Wickersham had 13 kills and 16 digs, junior Ellen Smethurst added 14 kills, and senior Tola Adebanjo scored 10 kills.
The Eagles then fell to Johns Hopkins, 25-19, 25-18, 25-19. In that match, Tran had 10 digs, Wickersham had seven kills, and Karissa Herrick scored six kills.
Mary Washington will host St. Mary's College in the first round of the Capital Athletic Conference tournament on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.
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How well do you know the Code? Think you can spot violations the original installer either ignored or couldn't identify? Here's your chance to moonlight as an electrical inspector and second-guess someone else's work from the safety of your living room or office. Joe Tedesco, who has a knack for finding shoddy electrical work, did the dirty work and found this mess. Now it's your turn to identify the violation.
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This energized equipment was sitting on a trash bin at the rear of a hotel. This is a dangerous arrangement and exposes the trash vendor and hotel employees to a very serious hazard. I personally informed the chief electrical inspector of this mess while at the 2005 NEC adoption session, which took place during the NFPA annual meeting last May.
The violations are obvious. There's no support for the equipment, and open and loose fittings violate many requirements in the Code, starting with 110.2 and ending with Art. 430.


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It's a straightforward day in the Land of Opportunity as we bump all of about 8m to the rim of Cabo Corrientes, setting ourselves up to take the first eye of our long-baseline stereo image here. It's kind of a yawner, as these things go, since I have a shadow (Tara) doing all the real work. I kinda miss the days when I actually got to drive the damn rover once in a while.
I do have one clever idea that makes me feel glad I showed up. Our post-drive imaging is a 3x1 NCAM, which is way more than we really need to support the 4m bump we'll do next. We pretty much know where it'll go, since it has to be perpendicular to the wide-baseline stereo images, so we don't have as much uncertainty about the drive direction as a 3x1 NCAM provides for. My moderately clever idea is to take a 2x1 in the likely direction and a 1x1 in the opposite direction, just in case we realize there's not enough room one way and we'll have to go the other way instead. Both directions are perpendicular to the imaging direction, so either one could potentially serve the purpose.
OK, maybe "clever" is overstating the case. I'm just trying to justify my existence, okay? Work with me, here.
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Mom Goes Shopping
by Shelly Hazard
A woman took her four kids shopping one afternoon. To keep peace, she said she'd buy one item each of their choice. As she shopped, she discovered that there were four extra items in her shopping cart that she hadn't added or approved. After leaving the store, they stopped at an ice cream stand for a snack. She bought each child got an ice cream cone and a drink. From the clues, determine the item each child got, the extra item each child snuck into the cart, the flavor of ice cream each got, and the type of drink.
1. Amanda, who had maple walnut ice cream, didn't get the fruit juice or the coloring book.
2. Sara didn't get the comic book or the doll but she did slip the board game into the cart.
3. The boy who got the toy car didn't add the action figure and didn't have strawberry ice cream.
4. Each child is represented by the following: the girl who got the doll, the boy who got chocolate chip ice cream, Chris, and the girl who got milk.
5. Sara didn't have vanilla ice cream. The boy who added the baseball cards got water to drink.
6. The child who got the computer game got iced tea. Larry didn't get water.
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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury residents on Tuesday voted 305 to 102 in favor of implementing a 1-percent local option tax on local sales, meals, rooms, and alcohol in order to raise revenue for a new in-town bridge.
Tuesday's vote was the final public endorsement needed by selectmen for the $16 million project, the centerpiece of which will be a new bridge that will span the Otter Creek at Cross Street.
Town officials and bridge backers were ecstatic with the results of Tuesday's vote.
"It's certainly a very strong show of support by Middlebury voters and a reasonable turnout for an off-time election," said Middlebury selectboard Chairman John Tenny. "We are grateful to Middlebury voters for their display of confidence and support here."
Barring a reconsideration petition seeking to change Tuesday's outcome, the local option taxes would take effect on Oct. 1 and would remain in effect for the next 30 years.
Middlebury officials are banking on the local option taxes to finance $7 million of the bridge project, with Middlebury College already having pledged to donate the remaining $9 million. The college's donation will come in annual increments of $600,000 during the 30-year bonding period.
"We are very thankful to the college," Tenny said. "The college made this effort possible."
Officials are confident the local option taxes, coupled with the college donation, will be more than adequate to pay down the bridge bond.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — Longtime Addison County farmer and Vergennes American Legion Post 14 member J. Francis Angier and his wife of 61 years, Madeleine, are looking forward to Monday.
All five of their sons will be at the Panton home of one of those sons, Philip Angier, along with their eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild, for a Memorial Day picnic.
Of course, Francis and Madeleine will have to leave their Williston home a little early to make that lunch date. Angier, 84, a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran who piloted a B-17 bomber for 33 missions over Europe in World War II, first has a chore to perform: He is the marshal of the Vergennes Memorial Day parade, Vermont's largest, which will begin at 11 a.m.
Post 14 information officer Henry Broughton said the Legion's parade committee chose Angier because of his sterling record in World War II, which included a seven-month stint in two Nazi prison camps after Angier's B-17 was shot down; his post-war service in the Vermont Air and Army National Guards; and his dedication to aviation, a passion that led him to write a 2004 book about his experience as a B-17 pilot: "Ready or Not: Into the Wild Blue."
Angier wasn't sure he deserved the recognition, but said he is happy to fulfill his duty.
"It was quite an honor. I'm just a hayseed farmer, you know," Angier said. "I think he has to choose someone, and I'm glad he chose me, or the group with him did."
It was back on the North Street, New Haven, farm on which Angier grew up that his interest in aviation was first sparked — all it took was one look upward.
"I saw my first airplane a few days before (Charles) Lindbergh made his flight … and I was hooked," he said.
By MEGAN JAMES
CHENGDU, CHINA — Meg Young had just handed her passport and bankcard to a teller on the second floor of the China Construction Bank in Chengdu a week ago Monday when the building began to shake.
"I made eye contact with the teller and we both started running," she wrote in an e-mail from China late last week.
Young, the teller and everyone else in the room dashed to a freestanding, stone spiral staircase, which swayed under their feet as they hurried to escape, pieces of the building dropping down around them.
"Once (we) got outside we ran toward the parking lot, where cars were rolling and bouncing as the earth continued to shake," she wrote. "It shook for two minutes and 58 seconds."
Young, who has been working in China with Ecologia, a Whiting-based sustainable development organization, since graduating from Middlebury College a year ago, was about 50 miles southeast of the earthquake's epicenter in Sichuan Province.
With a magnitude of 7.9, the earthquake tore through the south-central region of China around 2:25 p.m. on Monday, May 12, killing more than 40,000 people and injuring many more.
Though the destruction in Chengdu was relatively mild, the mountainous region to the west, in which Ecologia has been working to establish micro-financing programs, was one of the hardest hit.
"The sad thing is that this hit in an area where people are still locked into poverty," said Ecologia director Randy Kritkausky.
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Warsaw's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier can be found in a remnant of the Saxon Palace that once housed the Polish Ministry of War. The monument is dedicated to all the soldiers who died anonymously in the fight for their homeland. It was founded in 1925 in honour of those who had defended Poland in World War I and in the Polish-Soviet War.
The tomb contains the remains of one unknown soldier, a boy who was probably barely 20 years old when he died defending the city of Lwów (Lemberg). Jadwiga Zarugiewiczowa, a mother who had lost her son under similar conditions, was chosen to pick which unknown soldier would become the symbol; she pointed to one of three coffins that had been dug up in Lwów especially for this occasion. Next to the tomb are urns with soil from various battlefields. An eternal flame burns and there is always a guard of honour to keep watch.
The monument is located in the gallery which once connected the 2 symmetrical wings of the Saxon Palace. This used to be one of the city's most prominent buildings, but at the end of World War II the German Wehrmacht almost completely destroyed it in a retaliatory action. While there are still plans to restore the entire palace to its former glory – just like other parts of the city that had been destroyed in the war – for now the work has been limited to the gallery that houses the tomb. The monument was reopened on 8 May 1946. At that time the urns with fresh soil from 24 recent battlefields were added.
Józefa Piłsudski square
In 1923, a group of residents laid a stone slab outside the Saxon Palace to remember the nameless soldiers who had died in World War I and in the subsequent Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921). This was part of a 'trend': after the end of World War I in 1918, for the first time in world history, monuments began to emerge everywhere in honour of the Unknown Soldier. The initiative resonated with General Władysław Sikorski, who made sure that in the next 2 years a careful plan was devised to create a monument that would be part of the Palace. The monument was inaugurated on 2 November 1925: the coffin with the body of the chosen unknown soldier was first brought to St. John's Cathedral for a funeral mass. Then he was buried at the monument.


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Last month, I wrote about the Marantz SA-11S2 SACD player and felt it was another superb component from a company with an excellent track record in audiophile gear. I was so impressed with the SA-11S2 that I arranged for a review of two more components in the Marantz Reference series. I had it on good word that the SC-11S1 preamp and the SM-11S1 power amplifier were very special and competed with components positioned much higher in price. I needed to hear them for myself. Marantz shipped review samples of each unit. Needless to say, I was anxoius to set them up and didn't waste any time.
The SC-11S1 and the SM-11S1 are both beautifully built and finished in champagne gold; the same finish used on the other components in the Marantz Reference series. To say the build quality is impressive is the understatement of the decade. Robust power supplies and battleship casework make for a combined weight of nearly 100 lbs. It's not just the exterior of these products that are impressive as there is advanced, proprietary technology working on the inside as well. These are also two of the most user friendly and customizable high end components I have ever encountered.
The SC-11S1 preamplifier, or control amplifier as Marantz likes to call it, retails for $3199 and offers a plethora of user customizable settings, inputs, and features; most selectable by the supplied remote control. The SC-11S1 has six single ended inputs and two XLR inputs. There is one set each of Preamp Out RCA and XLR outputs. The unit also includes a headphone jack, defeatable tone controls and a few other cool, user friendly features, such as selectable Illumination Lamp to shine light on the buttons and switches in a darkened room. Overall, the SC-11S1 has a very neat, tidy, and ergonomic layout with a useful set of functions. The paper manual is extensively comprehensive and offers many set-up tips. The manual is also available for download on the Marantz website for more detailed information about the SC-11S1.
The SM-11S1 power amplifier, retailing for $4499, also offers single ended and XLR connectivity and an old style "port hole" display which provides a variety of information,. There is a speaker selector switch because the SM-11S1 has 4 pairs of high quality binding posts on the rear panel. The power ratings are 110 Watts into 8 ohms and 220 Watts into 4 ohms. For those who crave even more power, two SM-11S1 units can be configured for mono block use, doubling the power!
Set Up and Listening:
I decided to install the SM-11S1 first with my Audio Research SP16 tubed preamp. I am intimately familiar with the preamp and wanted to introduce one new variable at a time. I also used Kimber KCTG and DH Labs silver interconnects for consistency, as they have been in my system for a few months now. All connections were single ended. Thiel CS2.4 speakers were used for an upcoming review, so they were first up. I also had a pretty good idea of their sound quality as I had used them for several weeks with a tube amp.
I really don't like audio reviewer hyperbole, but this is one of the few times I can honestly say I was blown away. Specifically, I have never experienced such a controlled, natural, detailed and musical presentation from a solid state amplifier with out a hint, I mean not even a minute trace of dryness, sterility or edginess. Highs were silky smooth, sweet and presented with gobs of air. The SM-11S2 did not have a trace of any mechanical or electronic sound. As a tube loving audiophile, I can honestly say this amplifier would be an easy transition for me if I chose to give up tubes all together. During long, extended listening sessions, I now realize I never once concerned myself over whether I was listening to a solid state or tube design, as the music was always front and center. The tonal balance was so ideal, it was almost frustrating. All audiophiles by nature find something to complain about, or one aspect of the sound they wish they could tweak. Not this time. Bass, mids, and highs so wonderfully occupied their natural space that I wanted to change nothing. I then installed the SC-11S1 in place of my tube preamp.
I made sure to queue up a wide variety of music to see if the Marantz combo would retain its exquisite balance across multiple genres. First up was Works in Progress by the late, great genius Tim Buckley. This release was a posthumous collection of alternate versions, out takes and unheard compositions. The tracks on this CD were mixed from the original multitrack tapes and really sound amazing. The Marantz components allowed me to hear the depth of the performances, and again showed there is not a hint of dryness or transistor haze. This particular disc can trip up some systems, as Buckley's voice is so full of nuance and so unique. Lesser systems obscure certain details that give the listener cues into Buckley's vision. Little things like distance changes from the vocal microphone and lip purses are important to understand Buckley's intent. The Marantz setup handled this disc wonderfully.
Recently, The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street has gotten alot of press since it has now been reissued on a remastered CD, LP, along with unreleased material from those sessions. I compared the 2010 remaster to the Bob Ludwig 1994 version and I actually prefer the Ludwig master. The new version is louder; highly eq'd and seems to have been mastered for car stereos and iPods. Ludwig managed to maintain the scuzzy analog vibe of the original, but with plenty of funky details and coherence. Through the Marantz pair, the album absolutely rocked in all its sleazy glory. Guitars bit, vocals were exactly where they should have been, buried in the mix, and there was surprisingly solid bottom end.
Staying in the past, I got a copy of the Beatles mono version of one of my top ten albums of all time, Rubber Soul. Tacked on to the mono version is the "original" stereo mix. I say original because, outside of the Beatles Capital Albums Vol.2 box set, Rubber Soul has only been available on CD with the 1987 George Martin remix. He reportedly remixed it because he was never "happy" with the 1965 mix. Why? I have no idea. I always loved that mix and had an original as well as a late 70's LP pressing of it. The Marantz combo brought me back to when I was 13, listening to this album on my father's Quad ESL speakers driven by Revox and Quad amps. The magic of those times came flooding back. A new window of clarity and punch was revealed, much to my delight. One last oldie but goodie was Canned Wheat by the Guess Who, an overlooked album in the pantheon of classic rock, with a rerecording of "No Time" which was featured on American Woman. I was very pleased how modern and undated the recording sounded through the Marantz set up. Acoustic drum and guitars, keyboards, and electric guitar leads all occupied their proper place in the soundstage,with a clarity I had not experienced before.
Moving on to the present, the self titled reunion album by Stone Temple Pilots appeared in my mailbox and I was eager to hear how newly recorded, heavy hitting rock sounded through the Marantz gear. I was not disappointed. Being a fan of their older records, I thrilled by the familiar sound of the weaving guitar riffs, heavy bass lines and out of left field melodies sung by illustrious lead singer Scott Wieland. I was worried the album would suffer from over compression and pro tools hell like so many modern releases, but it did not. The Marantz gear did everything right on this one. Drums were slamming, vocals were front and center and guitars were gritty with real bite, not "hifi system" bite. I took a completely different turn on my final evaluation disc, Hamsa, by Bustan Abraham, a Middle Eastern ensemble that plays Arabic and Gypsy instrumental music. It is a very well recorded disc, with traditional acoustic instruments creating exotic, beautiful melodies over sensual rhythms. The Marantz gear handled it with absolute grace, preserving the timber of each instrument, but creating real drive.
Marantz seems to be putting out beautiful products these days in what I consider to be a bit of a renaissance. They have produced some superb sounding SACD players, amplifiers, and now even a universal Blu-Ray player in an effort to stay cutting edge. Their Pearl series of commemorative components were reviewed very favorably 'by my colleague (SA-KI / PM-KI ). This is clearly not a company resting on its laurels. Their Reference series of components, from my experience, clearly deserves that label, and I for one can't even imagine how good the flagship Reference stuff sounds.
I love the sound of tubes, or maybe more accurately, the sound of "tube magic". But I am not an absolutist. I own solid state amplifiers and have heard some that were very impressive but always had one chink in the armor or another. I now have found a solid state system I can easily live with and not worry. The SC-11S1 control amplifier and SM-11S1 power amplifier are made to an incredible standard, have the legendary Marantz name behind them, and in my opinion, are priced very fairly, if not under priced. I have heard far more expensive components that bored the pants off me. Not so here, these are some of the most musical solid state performers I have encountered. To be as thorough as possible, I used both components in various systems, including my in bedroom, driving Spendor floor standers and the results were just as remarkable. Even at lower volumes, all previously mentioned attributes remained.
The SC-11S1 is a fabulous preamplifier, with a ton of customizable features, a very neutral presentation, and excellent sound staging. The SM-11S1 power amplifier offers up a large soundstage, a near perfect tonal balance, and total authority over even hard to drive speakers. I believe it was the star of the show, and it does certain things no tube amp can do. It's exquisite, taut, and articulate bass pretty much blows away most tube designs, but what is most surprising are the liquid mids, extended, yet utterly relaxed high frequencies and holographic imaging. In case there is any doubt about how impressed I was with the SM-11S1, I have put it on my shopping list for purchase in the near future. Enough said.


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Sept. 1, 2010
This Month in Matador Athletics
We are BACK ... Bob Vazquez, Assistant Athletic Director for Media Relations, will offer his monthly insights on the accomplishments on the teams, coaches and student-athletes who compete for Cal State Northridge ... The monthly report includes upcoming key games, and a report on what other activities are happening in the Matador Athletic Department ... This month, an African safari that turns a bit scary ... A Cal State Northridge coach is honored for being the greatest track & field athlete in NCAA history ... It's time to hit the links!!!
Elephant Episode ...
Don't mess with 4 ½ ton elephants when you're in Africa ... Just ask Matador assistant soccer coaches Juan Plascenia and Derek Hanks. Both coaches, seven former and current members of the CSUN women's soccer team and CSUN professor Ed Jackiewicz were in South Africa during the summer to watch the World Cup matches. The group found time during their journey to go on a safari for three days into the wilds of Africa where they saw first-hand lions, tigers, giraffes, leopards, hippos and other wild animals roaming the country side.
During one expedition near Kreuger National Park, the situation got a bit tense and scary. The group came across a herd of elephants. Seemed harmless enough. A baby elephant started to approach the jeep in which Plascenia, Hanks and former players Katie Fox and Kelly Drenner and CSUN professor Jackiewicz were riding.
Elephants really have no predators so the baby elephant had no fear in approaching Plascenia, Hanks and the other CSUN passengers. However, adult elephants are very protective of their young and then all of a sudden, things got a bit dicey. Bear in mind that an adult elephant in the wild can weigh as much as 4 ½ tons and be as tall as 12 feet at the shoulder. The mother elephant started stomping her feet and started to run towards the jeep in which Plascenia, Lowe, Fox, Drenner, and Jackiewicz were passengers. The jeep started to move away at a fast pace, and then from out of the bushes a fully-grown adult male elephant (with large ears pointing backwards meaning anger) charged at the jeep in ambush mode. The angry four-ton elephant came within only a few feet of the jeep, and needless to say, the Northridge group was admittedly a bit unnerved about the encounter.
"Scared, intimidated were just a few of my thoughts," remembers Plascenia. "These elephants were not very happy. My reaction was ... we should get out of here, NOW. When a four ton elephant swings its trunk within a few feet of you, it's time to move on."
The jeep quickly drove away and the Northridge group looked back to see the elephants looking at us and stomping their feet."
Go to www.youtube.com and search for "Elephant Chase" to see a 26-second video of the nail biting fling with two angry four ton elephants.
Editors Note: In case you didn't know it, here are some interesting facts about elephants. In addition to their adult weight (around 4 ½ tons) and height (as tall as 12 feet at the shoulder), elephants really have no predators. There only real predators are humans and poachers. Elephants generally live from 50 to 70 years. The gestation period is 22 months, the longest of any land animal. At birth, an elephant calf can weigh as much as 260 pounds. Elephants can drink up to 15 quarts of water at a time. Elephants can reach speeds up to 25 mph.
Saluting Seilala Sua ...
She is one of the more popular assistant coaches in the Matador coaching family. She is also very humble in discussing her distinguished athletic accomplishments that include being the most successful athlete in NCAA track & field history, and her participation on the international scene as a U.S Olympian. Seilala Sua is currently an assistant track & field coach at Cal State Northridge, and has played a major role in helping the Matadors win five straight Big West women's team titles, and two straight CSUN men's titles. As a collegian at UCLA, Sua was a seven-time NCAA champion and 14-time All-American in the shot put, discus, hammer and javelin. Sua was also a member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic team.
For her distinguished efforts, UCLA will honor Sua and seven other former Bruin athletes and coaches with induction into the prestigious UCLA Hall of Fame on Oct. 1. The other new inductees include former Bruin All-American and current Philadelphia Phillies infielder Chase Utley and silver medal winner (2004 Olympics) marathon runner Mebrahtom Keflezighi.
So how does someone become the most successful track & field athlete in NCAA history? Seilala Sua started participating in track & field at age ten. Sua actually started as a softball player in Florida but her middle school also offered track & field.
At first, Sua disliked track & field and loved playing softball. But as time went along, Sua became very good at track & field, and started to enjoy the sport and its many different throwing events. Track & field also offered her a better chance at getting a scholarship to college.
"My father coached me in high school and my parents got me involved in a Junior Olympics camp in high school,"
remembers Sua. "From there it was full steam ahead in terms of an athletic career in track & field."
Her induction into the UCLA Hall of Fame should come as no surprise. She has all the credentials to join other former great UCLA athletes such as Jackie Robinson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Arthur Ashe, and coaching immortal John Wooden.
"I am honored to be a part of such a great group of Bruin Athletes in the UCLA Hall of Fame," said Sua.
Sua is also a devoted mom. She and her husband (Juan Carlos) are proud parents of an eighth-month boy, Solomon.
Congrats Seilala ... CSUN is proud of you!!!
Golf Gossip ...
OK, so you've taken golf lessons all summer long, and now you're ready to play golf with the skills of a Phil Mickelson and Jack Nicklaus (I won't mention Tiger Woods because he has so many issues on-and-off the course) ... Your improved golf skills qualify you to compete in the 2010 Matador Classic on Sept. 20 at the Woodland Hills Country Club ... Not only will you have a chance to show off your exceptional golf skills, but this annual event brings together more than 100 players to support the nearly 400 student-athletes who are competing for Cal State Northridge Athletics ... A Matador golfer, coach or a celebrity will join your foursome ... The entry fee includes green fees, cart, range balls, breakfast, on-course lunch, dinner, refreshments, individual prizes and team prizes ... The bottom line is EVERYBODY has fun and all the proceeds go to help CSUN student-athletes compete against the likes of UCLA, USC and STANFORD at the NCAA Division I level ... For more
information visit www.gomatadors.com
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Kenny Daniels and Willie Galick, the top two stars on last year's Matador men's basketball team, are playing professional basketball in Sweden ... When you work in Athletics, there are a lot of changes and CSUN was no exception ... With that in mind, Cal State Northridge welcomes new head coaches in women's basketball (Jason Flowers), baseball (Matt Curtis) and softball (Tairia Flowers) and their new formed coaching staffs ... Good luck this year, and to the other coaches that work for Cal State Northridge ... Go Matadors!!!
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European Commission
Press release
Brussels, 7 September 2012
Commission to recover €215 million of CAP expenditure from the Member States
A total of €215 million of EU agricultural policy funds unduly spent by Member States is being claimed back by the European Commission today under the so-called clearance of accounts procedure. However, because some of these amounts have already been recovered from the Member States and the Commission is reimbursing Spain following a Court ruling on a previous disallowance decision, the net financial impact of today's decision will be some €94 million. This money returns to the EU budget because of non-compliance with EU rules or inadequate control procedures on agricultural expenditure. Member States are responsible for paying out and checking expenditure under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and the Commission is required to ensure that Member States have made correct use of the funds.
Main financial corrections
Under this latest decision, funds will be recovered from Germany, Ireland, Greece, France, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Hungary, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The most significant individual corrections are:
Following last year's European Court judgement (C-24/11P) against a previous Commission decision to recover olive oil funds, Spain will be reimbursed €110.7m.
Member States are responsible for managing most CAP payments, mainly via their paying agencies. They are also in charge of controls, for example verifying the farmer's claims for direct payments. The Commission carries out over 100 audits every year, verifying that Member State controls and responses to shortcomings are sufficient, and has the power to claw back funds in arrears if the audits show that Member State responses are not good enough to guarantee that EU funds have been spent properly.
For details on how the clearance of annual accounts system works, see MEMO/12/109 and the factsheet "Managing the agriculture budget wisely", available on the internet at: http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/fin/clearance/factsheet_en.pdf.
Details of the individual corrections, by Member State and by sector, are given in the tables attached (annexes I and II).
Annex I : Clearance of accounts of EAGF and EAFRD
Decision 39: Corrections by Member state (In Million €)
Annex II : Clearance of accounts of EAGF and EAFRD
Decision 39: Corrections by Sector (In Million €)
The financial impact is lower due to amounts already withheld
Financial impact of the correction is taking into account the previous overlapping corrections and amounts already recovered by the European Commission
Financial impact of the correction is taking into account the previous overlapping corrections and amounts already recovered by the European Commission
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Notre Dame vs. UConn women: The matchups
Point guard
5-foot-7 Soph. Moriah Jefferson (4) vs. 5-7 Fr. Lindsay Allen (15): Jefferson is as solid as it gets, proving it again against Stanford with 10 points, two rebounds, four assists and five steals. Her experience in this spot is vital. Allen has set a team freshman record for assists (145; 3.9) and has a 5.8 assist-to- turnover ratio in the tournament. How she handles her first appearance in final will be a key for the Irish. Edge: UConn
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5-8 Sr. Bria Hartley (14) vs. 5-10 Soph. Jewell Loyd (32): This is it for Hartley. She is averaging 15.0 points, 3.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists in the tournament. She has scored in double figures in a career-high 23 straight games. Like Hartley, Loyd was named a WBCA All-America. She is as dynamic of a guard as there in the country, averaging 20.0 points and 8.0 rebounds in the tournament. She can dominate play at any time.Edge: Notre Dame
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6-5 Sr. Stefanie Dolson (31) vs. 6-3 Fr. Taya Reimer (12): Dolson is a two-time All-American who is averaging 12.2 points, 8.4 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.8 blocks in the tournament. She is a very physical presence in the paint. Reimer, a former UConn recruit, was inserted into a starting role when Natalie Achonwa tore the ACL in her left knee in the regional final. She had nine points, five rebounds and four assists against Maryland. Edge: UConn
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6-0 Jr. Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis (23) vs. 5-11 Sr. Kayla McBride (21): Mosqueda-Lewis has scored in double figures in all 16 career NCAA tournament games. She has resurrected her season during this tournament by averaging 16.8 points, 6.8 rebounds and 4.2 assists. McBride has hurt the Huskies in the past, averaging 21.5 points in the last four games. She has hurt the opposition in the tournament too, averaging 17.6 points, 4.0 rebounds and 4.8 assists. She is another dominant force for the Irish. Edge: Notre Dame
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6-4 Soph. Breanna Stewart (30) vs. 6-1 Sr. Ariel Braker (44): Stewart does not feel the pressure to live up to her title as national Player of the Year. She again led the Huskies in scoring against Stanford with 18 points and she is on her way to becoming the fifth player to win back-to-back Final Four Most Outstanding Player honors. Braker played just 11 minutes against Maryland in the semifinals (two points, two rebounds). Edge: UConn
Junior center Kiah Stokes had the game of her career against Stanford, totaling nine points, four rebounds and two assists in 22 minutes. Junior guard Madison Cable is Notre Dame's top reserve, averaging 6.8 points and 4.4 rebounds in 17.6 minutes in the tournament. Junior guard Markisha Wright broke out against Maryland, finishing with 12 points and nine rebounds in 23 minutes. Sophomore guard Michaela Mabrey has hurt UConn in the past with her 3-point shooting.Edge: Notre Dame


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Major/Minor: Environmental Studies
"Environmental Studies involves everything – from science and economics to policy and math. Combined with my double major in math, I feel like I can go anywhere I want and I'm not worried," says Amanda Pruzinsky '12.
Last summer she went to American Samoa, a South Pacific tropical island for a full–time paid internship. Amanda landed this job as a recipient of the prestigious Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship funded through the Office of Education in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The scholarship also provides monetary academic assistance for her junior and senior years in college.
In American Samoa, Amanda worked at the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary and the American Samoa Department of Commerce, and lived near her mentor in a house with four Hollings scholars. She produced a statistical Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and enjoyed giving tours of the Bay to official visitors.
"I learned a lot about adapting to another culture," says Amanda. "Living in a U.S. Territory, I had to be mindful of particular word choices when I wrote and met with people." After Samoa, she toured Australia and New Zealand and returned to NOAA's Silver Spring, MD, headquarters to present her findings along with other Hollings interns.
"With Environmental Studies you're not only helping people, but you're also helping the whole world. I don't just want a job to make a living. I really want to help people," says Amanda, who has a minor in Earth and Planetary Science.
As a junior she interned for the Maryland League of Conservation Voters in Easton, MD, with help from Dr. Munson, Professor of Environmental Studies. On campus, she is President of the Student Environmental Alliance (SEA) and is mentored by Tara Holste '07 from the Center for Environment & Society.
It was Amanda's first internship, sophomore year, that has influenced her senior thesis. The ten–week CANSAM Research program at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, exposed her to mathematical programs, 3D models, and a mathematical model to explain the spread of disease.
For her Senior Capstone Experience, she is designing a mathematical model to predict the spread of American foulbrood (AFB) syndrome that effects honey bees. This highly contagious bacterial disease can destroy entire honeybee colonies and remain viable for more than 40 years.
As an honors student, Amanda is a Douglass Cater Society Junior Fellow. She also holds three campus jobs including tutoring at the Math Center and running the film series.
After graduation she is considering working for NOAA or Teach for America. "I'm not one of those people who thinks that the first job I get is going to be my last. I just know I have to look around."


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Say hello to the ottoman, the new coffee table. Once a lowly afterthought placed at the end of a lounge chair — nothing more than a footrest, really — today's ottoman is establishing its dominion. Pushing its way past the traditional sofa-side table, this foam- and fabric-covered island — measuring from 2-by-3 feet to just shy of a twin bed — is the new design go-to, cherished for classic good looks and casual couch potato cultivation.
"The ottoman is a piece for relaxing, but the shape, style and upholstery can also add an unpredictable casual elegance to the room," says interior designer Barclay Butera. "They are very versatile. Many ottomans are on casters so you can just slide them out of the way if the kids want to set up their Legos when you're watching TV."
An even more obvious appeal: By definition and design, ottomans are a place where you can prop your stocking feet, a gesture that seems unseemly — not to mention uncomfortable — on a table.
"The more that you can sit sloppy in your own home, the better," says La-Z-Boy wonder Todd Oldham, who has nearly a dozen ottomans in his furniture line, including several storage models. "Ottomans allow you to do that."
For the space-challenged, he says, "any piece of furniture that can perform a double function is always a hit. You can replace coffee tables with ottomans and actually store your DVDs and kids' toys in them, without adding another piece of furniture. You can slide it next to a sofa and create a chaise, or an extra seat for guests."
Of course, there are downsides. Oldham recommends ottomans with high-density foam and tufted upholstery, "so you could actually sit on one side and the whole thing doesn't cave in."
Serving food and drinks also poses potential problems. "You do have to put snacks on a tray," he says, "or at least a nice open piece of Tupperware, so things don't spill."
Or, you can invest in a cocktail ottoman from the Vineyards collection, available at Henredon Home Furnishings in Pasadena, starting at $2,919. It has an upholstered top that slides forward to reveal storage space beneath. Henredon also has an oval ottoman by designer David Easton that has two small pull-out wooden tabletops for $2,047.
Sticker shock? Well, if you can settle for one pull-out drink caddy, the Larkspur Cocktail Ottoman from Bombay Co. starts at $299.
Crave the elegance of a French velvet oval with unicorn horn-styled turned legs? You'll want Donghia's Illusion, with a suggested retail price of $2,000. Want a cheap and cheerful place to sit and stash your stuff? Try the $229.99 rectangular CD Storage Ottoman in lipstick red faux leather from https://www.target.com . You'll even find animal-friendly acrylic zebra-print ottomans for $495 at Z Gallerie.
Classic ottomans with tufted leather or luxury fabrics tightly upholstered to show off ornate legs — the complement to Spanish architecture and European décor — are among the most prevalent styles. But modernists have not been neglected.
In keeping with the traditional tapered dowel legs of Atomic Age furniture, La-Z-Boy and Room &Board have round ottomans that are 3 feet in diameter and seem to be posing in miniskirts on four spiked heels. Even the conservative Thomasville offers the Lexi, a grouping of four wedge-shaped pieces that can be used as separate seats or formed into a 44-inch-wide circular ottoman.
How did this ottoman empire arise? The piece got its name from the ornate fabrics used to cover footstools that came from the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century.
Credit its current popularity to modular seating units — love seats, chaises and corner pieces sold in a set — which usually include matching ottomans. These sectionals have sped the acceptance of ottomans as alternatives to traditional living room tables, giving the space a unified look, says interior designer Stephen Saint-Onge.
"It used to be the sofa in the middle of the room with a console table behind it and a coffee table in front," Saint-Onge says. "People are now thinking in a different ways, moving furniture around and creating different seating areas. The ottoman taking the place of a coffee table is part of that."
For Tracey Briscoe Monroe, vice president of marketing and client services at an investment management firm, trading a coffee table for a Cambridge ottoman from Barclay Butera (with prices starting around $1,150) was an expense that has already paid dividends in "ease and comfort."
When she and her attorney husband, Sean, moved into their first home together in Studio City, they chose the property because it had two living areas. "One for his 55-inch projection TV, which I did not want to see every day," Monroe says, "and one that was more sophisticated for our mix of Mediterranean and traditional furniture."
For that latter room, they already had a good wrought iron table with a glass top. The only trouble was it kept getting in Sean's way.
"My husband was thrilled to get rid of the coffee table," Monroe says, laughing. "The ottoman is much softer. You don't have to worry about people running into it and hurting themselves."
At 28 inches wide and 45 inches long, Monroe's ottoman is "huge, the same size as a coffee table, if not bigger. Two or three people can put their feet up and you still have room for a tray."
It is the tray that may be the biggest draw of all. Shelter publication and home furnishings catalogs can't get enough of ottomans dressed with snuggly cashmere throws and trays laden with silver pitchers, framed photos, flowers and candles.
"It looks a little too deliberate," says Mark McMenamin, an editor who covers home décor for InFurniture magazine. "But, if we're talking about an ottoman that can suddenly become a serving station by adding a tray full of appetizers, it becomes functional, even improvisational, rather than froufrou."
Like it or not, the decorated ottoman is a particular form of home theater, a quick-fix Real Simple decorating idea for creating a setting for indulgence and intimacy that few can pass up.
For Carmen Lopez, who has a two-ottoman living room, resistance is futile. The western manager for advertising at People en Español magazine keeps books about interiors and travel on one side of the bamboo-trimmed ottoman she purchased at Nell's in Los Angeles, and her tray on the other.
"I change it with the season," Lopez says. "It's fun to get different things for the top of it. It's a serviceable surface, soft and sturdy, that you can decorate and put your feet on. It's one of those things I saw in a magazine or store years ago and thought that can work. Now everybody has them."
Monroe experiments with decorating her ottoman tray. She uses various candles and teapots that she collects for different moods and seasons.
"It adds comfort and beauty and completes the room," she says. "We've had every kind of coffee table, but this is by far the best for use. We're redecorating throughout the house, and I'm already thinking of how to use an ottoman in every room."
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Where to find them
Some ottoman resources, listed in alphabetical order:
Barclay Butera: 169 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, (323) 634-0200; 1745 Westcliff Drive, Newport Beach, (949) 650-8570; https://www.barclaybutera.com .
Bombay Co.: https://www.bombaycompany.com .
Donghia: https://www.donghia.com .
Henredon Home Furnishings: 520 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena; (626) 628-1000; https://www.henredon.com .
La-Z-Boy: https://www.lazyboy.com .
Nell's: 7407 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles; (323) 857-6697; https://www.nellsathome.com .
Room & Board: 1661 W. Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana; (714) 549-5995, (800) 301-9720 catalog sales; https://www.roomandboard.com .
Rowe: https://www.rowefurniture.com .
Target: https://www.target.com .
Thomasville: https://www.thomasville.com .
Vioski: 132 S. La Brea Ave., L.A.; (323) 937-7741; https://www.vioski.com .
Williams-Sonoma Home: https://www.wshome.com .
Z Gallerie: https://www.zgallerie.com .


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With the goal of promoting sustainable finance and a new kind of corporate governance, Mirova also supports various research initiatives.
Support for Two University Chairs:
the Energie et Prospérité (Energy and Prosperity) Chair was created in 2015 to clarify decisions made by public and private entities steering the energy transition. The research conducted is related to the effects of the energy transition on the economy (growth, employment, debt), different industries (transport, construction, energy production, finance), and their related means of financing. Housed by the Fondation du Risque, the Chair is supported by the ADEME, Air Liquide, the Agence Française de Développement, Caisse des Dépôts, Mirova, Schneider Electric, and the SNCF.
the Théorie de l'entreprise: modèles de gouvernance & création collective (Company Theory: Corporate Governance & Collective Creation Models) Chair. This Chair is directed by Blanche Segrestin at the Centre de Gestion Scientifique at the MINES ParisTech School. The Chair's research essentially deals with a vision of the company as a collective creation and re-vamping models and mechanisms for fair and solidary governance. Mirova is associated with research articles published by students at the Chair on governance issues.
Partnership with the University of Cambridge:
Mirova, represented by its CEO Philippe Zaouati, is a member of the Business Green Growth Group, established by the Ministerial Green Growth Group to take a stand and defend its financial and strategic vision of green growth, economising resources, and low carbon, in order to make Europe a leader in ambitious climate goals.
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Clarkson University's Peethamparan Receives Funding From New York State Pollution Prevention Institute to Study Green Concrete
Clarkson University Assistant Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering Sulapha Peethamparan has received a $30,000 grant from the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) for her research on cement-free "green" concrete.
The grant is part of a group recently awarded by NYSP2I to fund research and development projects focused on applied research designed to stimulate solutions that will help New York state companies remain competitive, while reducing their environmental footprint.
"This funding is designed to further stimulate research efforts and develop innovative solutions in the broad categories of sustainability and pollution prevention," says Anahita Williamson, NYSP2I director. Projects were selected based on their potential to reduce the environmental footprint of businesses in an effective and economical way.
"Traditional concrete is made by mixing Portland cement, water and aggregate," says Peethamparan. "The resulting product is a stable infrastructure material when exposed to water. In my research, I am investigating the stability of a new 'greener' cement-free concrete (CFC), when exposed to water."
The CFC is formulated by mixing a strong alkali solution, industrial byproduct fly ash and aggregate, without using any cement. Peethamparan will expose the CFC to water to evaluate the stability of this type of concrete to leaching. The dissolved ion concentrations of the water in contact with CFC will be analyzed periodically to check the concentration of the heavy metals or other metallic ions leaching out of the CFC.
"I hope that the preliminary data generated in this study will be useful in deciding the suitability CFC for water retaining structures, foundations and other infrastructures that may be in contact with water," says Peethamparan.
NYSP2I, as part of its ongoing research and development program, annually solicits proposals from faculty and staff at the institute's partner universities -- Clarkson University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University at Buffalo, and Rochester Institute of Technology -- that support both short- and long-term strategic research intended to drive innovative green technologies for organizations to implement. NYSP2I's efforts are driven by business and organizational needs and are designed to solve specific issues where the solutions result in transferable practices and technologies.
Current research and development priorities include the elimination or substitution of toxic chemicals, overall waste reduction, and energy-and-water efficiency opportunities in priority manufacturing sectors, as well as projects primarily benefitting the Buffalo area.
This year, NYSP2I provided seed funding to validate a research concept with the expectation that the principle investigator will pursue follow-on funding either from NYSP2I or another sponsor for each feasible research concept.
The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute is housed at Rochester Institute of Technology and provides statewide, comprehensive and integrated programming in technology research, development and diffusion, training and education aimed at making New York state more sustainable for workers, the public, the environment and the economy. NYSP2I was created in 2008 through a grant from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Additional partners include Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Clarkson University, State University of New York at Buffalo and New York's 10 Regional Technology Development Centers. To learn more, go to http://www.nysp2i.rit.edu .
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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Here's why many coaches, pressed on injuries, will begin answers with "I'm not a doctor, . . ."
Raiders coach Dennis Allen said running backs Darren McFadden and Mike Goodson suffered high ankle sprains in Sunday's loss to the Buccaneers. But while most consider that something that takes four-t0-six weeks to heal, Allen said he's not ruling either player out for Sunday's game at Baltimore.
According to CSNBayArea.com, Allen said X-rays and an MRI on McFadden came back negative, and he could still play this week. If you're confused, get in line.
Allen also said that defensive lineman Desmond Bryant was out of the hospital and resting, after leaving the game with an irregular heartbeat.