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The Gunners, who head to Brighton for tomorrow's FA Cup fourth-round tie, have been linked with a string of players across Europe, from Barcelona's David Villa and Borussia Dortmund defender Mats Hummels, Montpellier playmaker Younes Belhanda to West Ham's combative midfielder Mohamed Diame.
Wenger, however, insists his main concern is about maintaining performance levels on the back of their midweek 5-1 thrashing of West Ham at Emirates Stadium, which kickstarted their Premier League campaign.
"What I worry about is getting the players who have been injured back fit, to get the players who play for this club to perform at full potential," Wenger said.
"If we perform at full potential we cannot expect any miracle from outside, we want to make things happen inside.
"If someone else can strengthen our squad, we will do it of course, but we have the resources inside to do well.
"We have two players in every position, that should be enough, plus the young players in behind.
"But if we find the top-class players in any position, we never refuse to strengthen our squad."
Wenger stressed Arsenal had not lodged any formal bids with their reported targets.
He said: "We have been linked with David Villa, like Chelsea, but there's nothing concrete there. We are not on the case."
On Hummels, the Gunners manager said: "No, I can't imagine Dortmund selling their defenders in the middle of the season anyway and we have not made any approach there."
Diame yesterday stressed he was happy at Upton Park, having only moved there from Wigan in the summer.
Wenger said: "We cannot come out with the names we are on. We have not approached West Ham on that."
Overall, Wenger is not a big fan of the January window.
"I think it should be all completely cut out or limited to two players," he said.
"It is unfair for the league that some teams who have played for example now twice Newcastle already have an advantage on teams who play Newcastle now they have bought six or seven players.
"You do not face exactly the same team so I believe the number of players you could buy should be limited."
Arsenal will be without captain Thomas Vermaelen because of a minor ankle injury tomorrow.
Midfielders Abou Diaby and Tomas Rosicky are back in contention.
Wenger has called for his men to continue where they left off against the Irons, running in four goals in the space of 10 minutes at the start of the second half.
"We wanted to respond and get the points because we have to make up some ground (in the Premier League)," he said.
"What is very important for me is the manner in which we responded.
"It was a continuity of the second half at Chelsea and from now on, it's important that we continue like that."
Wenger, though, will be taking nothing for granted against the Seagulls, who knocked Newcastle out in round three and are in the Championship promotion shake-up.
He said: "They play out from the back, have a lot of possession and a big South American influence with their manager, the players they have, and the way they play.
"You know you will face a typical away game in the Premier League."


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DUBAI (Reuters) - Animal Kingdom, ridden by Joel Rosario, held off a late charge by Red Cadeaux to win the $10 million Dubai World Cup by a comfortable two lengths at odds of 11-2 at Meydan on Saturday.
Red Cadeaux, ridden by Gerald Mosse, finished second nearly five lengths clear of Ryan Moore on Planteur who, like last year, came home third in the world's richest horse race.
Animal Kingdom, the 2011 Kentucky Derby winner trained by Englishman Graham Motion, held close to the pace for most of the 10 furlong race, taking over the lead from top U.S. mare Royal Delta in the final turn to give America victory.
"It's a tremendous horse. It's unbelievable," Rosario, who made his move 2-1/2 half furlongs out, said after the race on the synthetic track. "To win the World Cup - it's great."
"He broke well today and he put himself close to the pace and took himself where he wanted to be. In the turn for home he was like look around where is my competition so that was awesome," Rosario added after the race.
The five-year old chestnut, owned by Arrowfield Stud and Team Valor, ended a three-year drought for U.S.-bred runners in the final race of the night at the opulent Meydan course.
"He reminded me very much of the (Kentucky) Derby today the way he ran, it was the same kind of run he made home he just seemed so confident," Motion said.
Red Cadeaux, trained by Briton Ed Dunlop, was priced at 28-1 and Planteur, recently bought by a member of the Qatari royal family, was a 10-1 shot.
Asked about the prospects of running Animal Kingdom at Royal Ascot this year, John Messara, one of the owners, said: "There are risks and logistics involved."
"So we need to sit down (with a) cool mind tomorrow and have a bit of chat about it with (Team Valor CEO) Barry (Irwin) and Graham (Motion as to) where we go and what the risks and rewards are," he said.
Double Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic winner Royal Delta, 4-1 favorite and ridden by U.S. Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith, faded in the home stretch to finish 10th after leading for much of the race.
Last year's Dubai World Cup winner Monterosso, owned by the Godolphin operation of Dubai ruler and United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, was pulled out of the race earlier on Saturday.
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From China to the Congo, a new wave of volunteer science projects aims to allow amateur participants to actively gather data for the benefit of their communities.
Earthquake researchers have a problem. So do scientists trying to investigate the spread of deadly malaria. Whilst conservationists trying to get a handle on the state of illegal logging may have it worst of all.
What connects all of these is that when it comes to cracking some of their field's biggest issues, traditional science methods are not fully up to the task.
The earthquake researchers would like to have monitoring systems that fully span high-risk areas, but having enough research-grade sensors that cover hundreds of miles of fault lines would cost them millions and millions of dollars. Swiss malaria researchers need to run enormous numbers of calculations to simulate the spread of malaria worldwide; valuable information for governments deciding where best to spend limited resources on life-saving interventions. But the computing power to run it is too expensive. Whilst in the deep, lush forests of the Congo Basin having enough well-trained people to monitor illegal tree felling and poaching is almost impossible.
But science is changing. In the age of the internet it is waking up the idea of people power: the combined forces of thousands of ordinary connected volunteers can help collect or crunch overwhelming masses of data.
"There's so many people that can take part in this way, I think crowd-sourcing could almost be more important than the development of the Web," says Ben Segal, who has worked on many volunteer computing projects at the at the European Particle Physics Laboratory, Cern – and who mentored, among others a young Tim Berners-Lee, who would go on to invent the World Wide Web.
"Citizen science" is not a new concept. So-called "volunteer computing" projects have expanded rapidly since the launch of Seti@Home in 1999, a program that still uses the power of millions of ordinary computers in screen-saver mode to help search for signs of intelligent life in the universe. Tapping into aspects of computer processing power, such as recharging modes, and making use of previously wasted "cycles", desktops or laptops from people scattered worldwide can band together to mimic the number-crunching power of a supercomputer.
By the end of the last decade, several projects were using volunteer computing power for solving complex problems, ranging from cataloguing stars in the distant corners of the universe with Galaxy Zoo to predicting the complex three dimensional structures of protein structures with FoldIt. There is even a site (scistarter.com) devoted to the growing popularity of citizen science, where people can discover, take part in and fund research projects.
But those at the forefront of the field say that citizen science is now beginning to enter a new era. What has changed is a growing sense that participants can actively take part in projects, rather than passively allowing their idle computer to do the grunt work. "Their feeling is that science is too important to be left to scientists alone," says Francois Grey from the Citizen Cyberscience Centre, a collaboration set up in 2009 between CERN, the University of Geneva, and the United Nations, with seed money from the Shuttleworth Foundation.
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Grey's Citizen Cyberscience Centre is one of the main operations pushing citizen science into unexplored territories. One reason Grey says this is becoming increasingly possible is that the technology barrier is dropping, so more and more sophisticated hardware can be placed in citizen's hands.
One project the CCC supports – the "Quake Catcher Network", or QCN as it is known – epitomizes the trend towards ever-smaller, more nimble devices, based upon the latest chips. A customized external motion-detecting device with a USB plug turns peoples' ordinary desktops into automated earthquake detectors. Connect computers via the internet to a centralized system, or server, and you now have a wide-ranging system that maps an earthquake's aftermath.
The network has been tested in the San Francisco Bay Area, and sensors were sent to New Zealand following the earthquake in September 2010 to learn more about the occurrence of "aftershocks" – which are almost as dangerous as the main event itself. In November last year, researchers at Taiwan's Academia Sinica set up a server to monitor the quake-prone island that lies between the Eurasian and Philippine Sea Plates.
The sensors were developed by Elizabeth Cochran of the US Geological Survey and Jesse Lawrence of Stanford University an currently cost between $60 and $200 per sensor, a fraction of the cost of professional seismometers which can cost anything up to $100,000 apiece. The QCN devices only have a fraction of the sensitivity of research-grade seismometers, but what they lack in sensitivity, they more than make up for in sheer volume, says Lawrence. "With many more cheap sensors, instead of guessing where strong motions were felt by interpolating between research sensors, we should be able to know where strong motions were felt immediately, because we have (QCN) sensors there."
And soon there could be an army of mobile "quake-catchers", according to QCN's Carl Christensen. Smartphones are ideal for the task, as they already have built-in motion-detectors, gyroscopes, accelerometers, and GPS signaling. By summer 2012 QCN expects to release an app that turns your Android smartphone into a pocket-sized earthquake sensor. Soon after, they hope to send 1,000 sensor-equipped phones to places where a fault-line has just slipped.
Some of the hardware being adopted in other citizen science projects also hail from unexpected origins. A major advance in scientific computing came from the development of superfast 3D Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to run video games on Sony's PlayStation 3 console. GPUs can do 10 times more than an ordinary chip. Consequently, Dave Anderson, founder of the open-source software platform BOINC, foresees volunteer computing at an "exascale" level – about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second – 100 times more powerful than today's top supercomputers.
Gaming for gain
The scientific benefits of volunteer computing can be enormous, and consequently there are a host of efforts looking to capitalise on people's unused processing power. For example, malariacontrol.net simulates the spread of the disease on computer – helping governments decide how to invest most effectively on, for instance, bednets versus vaccines.
In 2005, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute's 40-strong office computers struggled to run the enormous numbers of epidemiological simulations needed to get "real-world" results. After turning to volunteer computing, they now have the computing power of up to 15,000 desktops working simultaneously. Nicolas Maire, a researcher for the organization, estimates that this figure is the equivalent of a single desktop computer operating between 800 and 1,000 years. "Realistically, it would have been unfeasible to do in any other way," he admits.
But it is not all serious work. Some of the most successful volunteer computing approaches have their roots in the world of gaming. Designers and software engineers are taking algorithms and game design principles and using them to solve longstanding scientific puzzles that require complex computer calculations. The programs they are creating encourage volunteers to donate spare processing power by turning it into an online game where people compete and collaborate with each other.
In FoldIt, for instance, players bend, pull and fold digital versions of protein molecules on their computer screens. Building the protein components needed for life involves a complex set of machinery in our cells translating information encoded in our genes into a sequence of amino acids, which are then wrapped and folded by into a three-dimensional form designed to carry out its required function. The amino-acid sequence dictates the shape the protein will eventually adopt, but even small proteins can potentially fold in a huge number of different ways, and so it is always a challenge for computers to figure out which of the many possible structures is the best one.
With around 240,000 registered players FoldIt is proving invaluable for researchers trying to solve the complex structural and folding patterns of proteins. Players can bend and pull proteins into their optimum shape, as long as they obey the rules of physics. The closer your attempts at protein origami adhere to those rules, the more points you get.
In recent months the game-playing volunteers have shown they can both actively predict protein structures and design new proteins. Last September, scientists reported the structure of a key enzyme that allows HIV to replicate, making it an obvious target for drugs. The precise protein structure had stumped them for almost 15 years, but the FoldIt community produced it within days. In January this year, gamers produced the first crowdsourced protein redesign – revving up the performance of an enzyme for one of the most important reactions organic chemists use to build compounds ranging from drugs to pesticides.
Another online program, Phylo, is advancing scientists' knowledge of genetics by making a game out of DNA matching. If areas of genetic sequence are roughly similar between species, it suggests strongly that they could have an important function. Finding them has been beyond the scope of computer algorithms. But earlier this month, researchers published a study where gamers outsmarted the best computers – they made the best possible DNA sequence match between up to eight species at a time.
Active citizens
Despite these notable successes, CCC's Grey is quick to point out that volunteer computing does not provide a universal solution. "There are certain problems you can crack with a supercomputer that would be hopeless with volunteer computing," he says. Supercomputers are best suited for problems where thousands of processors must communicate with each other and swap data frequently during a calculation, according to Grey. Volunteer computing works best on easily shared problems that are divisible into digestible pieces that can be worked on in any order at any time.
That said, the successes highlight how much volunteers want more of an active role in citizen science. Volunteers do not just want to contribute data passively to a study, they want to learn and develop as a result of taking part. Some projects have volunteer-run support, forums and message boards. Scientists, volunteers, and the open-source community gather at hackfests to find volunteer programming and computing solutions to science problems.
Cern's Segal says he has been struck by volunteer's appetite for learning on projects like LHC@Home, and that volunteer computing seems to attract a lot of retired scientists and teachers, as well as people with a degree in science who wound up doing some other job. "We've had a number of cases of people who put in hours of unpaid labour to help newbies," he says. "The advantage is that it can be self-policing, much like the original Wikipedia."
Getting extreme
But the deepest forests of the Congo Basin may provide a glimpse of where citizen science could be heading. An initiative aims to help pygmy tribes fight logging and poaching in this area by allowing them to document destruction and deforestation with games and interactive maps.
This initiative is part of the Extreme Citizen Science programme based at University College London, which officially launched in February this year. Headed by computer scientist and geographer Muki Haklay and anthropologist Jerome Lewis, the idea is to allow any community, regardless of their literacy to start, run, and analyse a scientific study – whether it is to advance interests, or to effect policy change. "We want to move citizen science from the educated to everyone," says Haklay.
Working in a part of east London called Deptford, Haklay and his colleagues set up a community project where individuals monitored the noise pollution coming from a local scrapyard. By creating a bank of local data that showed the operation was violating noise limits, the UK Environment Agency revoked the scrapyard's licence.
Lewis meanwhile is working with indigenous people in the Republic of Congo and Cameroon to develop data collection tools that can be used by non-literate people. In the 1990s, vast regions of forest in the Congo Basin were divided up and sold to multinational companies to mine resources. But by the mid-2000s, many of these companies wanted FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certification to signify products that are from responsibly harvested and verified sources, and they turned to people like Lewis for help.
So Lewis devised ways for monitoring what the indigenous people wanted to preserve, for instance, trees from which they harvest a particularly delicious and tradable species of caterpillar. People are equipped with touchscreen devices with icons for various options like "valuable tree" that they can select and tag with GPS coordinates. "What is good is that these maps will do the talking for communities," says Lewis.
However, there are still several fundamental issues to resolve with these types of projects. One is how you train people adequately for the task. Another is how scientists can ensure that the methods used and quality of data are robust enough when people have a clear stake in the outcome.
Making data-collection protocols, instruments and analysis as robust as possible can overcome malicious or accidental bias, says Haklay. "The importance of smartphones as scientific instruments cannot be underestimated in this context: GPS provides accurate time and good location; phone pictures provide location and timestamps (which are unlikely to be tampered by non-literate and technically challenged users), which provide you with evidence; and when they communicate with air pollution sensors or a microphone about noise level, for instance, you have a time stamped observation from an instrument."
Another concern is that there are simply not enough potential volunteers available. CCC's Grey points out that with only 40% of the population of China hooked up to the internet so far, that means there's potentially another half-billion about to join. Already a number of citizen science projects are trying to harness the large number of potential volunteers in China, and the first project devised by Chinese scientists launched in 2010. Researchers at Beijing's Tsinghua University, with the support of IBM's World Community Grid, set up Computing for Clean Water to use computing power from more than 50,000 volunteers to virtually design better low-cost, low-pressure water filters, which will hopefully make water purification cheaper and more accessible.
And this interest will only increase, says Grey. "I did the maths, and every second another Chinese person joins the Internet for the first time – and all of them could potentially donate computing time on their laptop or tablet or phone," he says. "So, when someone says there are just not enough possible volunteer computers out there, I say that at one new Chinese internet user per second, don't worry."
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Following a solid 7-6 record against tough non-Ivy competition this spring, the Yale men's tennis team opens up league play on the road this weekend when they face off against Penn and Princeton. With the No. 79 ranked player in the country in Brandon Wai and an excellent freshman class, the No. 73 Bulldogs are poised to contend for the Ancient Eight title this spring.
With three other Ivy teams--No. 75 Columbia, No. 70 Brown and No. 52 Penn--currently in the national rankings, the league is anyone's for the taking at this point in the season. Brown boasts the No. 66 ranked player in the country in Dan Hanegby, while Penn features No. 92 Jason Pinsky. Also cracking the top 125 in singles is Harvard's Ashwin Kumar, who is currently No. 101.
The Bulldogs will have to ride the leadership of No. 79 Wai, as well as their freshman talent, if they hope to contend. Wai has already amassed a 9-3 record in singles playing at No. 1, and has combined with rookie Jeff Dawson to post a 3-1 record at No. 2 doubles. Dawson has been impressive in singles as well, posting a 7-2 record in the No. 3 slot and an 8-4 overall singles record. Freshman Josh Lederman has also proved his mettle early on, amassing a 3-1 singles record in the No. 6 spot and combining with Wai for a 3-2 record at No. 2 doubles.
Rory Green has also blitzed his opponents thus far this spring with a 9-3 singles record and 7-4 doubles record with partner Rowan Reynolds. With this balanced lineup mixed with seasoned veterans and younger stars, Yale will look to stifle Hanegby, Pinsky, and Kumar and reclaim its first Ivy League title since 1993.
The Bulldogs will face Penn at 2:00 p.m. on Fri., Apr. 7, and Princeton at 12:00 p.m. on Sat., Apr. 8.
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The Free Press won 11 North Carolina Press Association Awards in Chapel Hill last week. (For the nimrod that continues to send in hate mail written in crayon, that�s all of your toes plus three fingers.)
The Free Press won 11 North Carolina Press Association Awards in Chapel Hill last week. (For the nimrod that continues to send in hate mail written in crayon, that�s all of your toes plus three fingers.)
Traditionally, I don�t attend these award shows because it involves around five hours of driving, hanging out with lots of dudes in berets and driving in a town where pedestrians cross the street with the velocity of molasses in winter. I don�t know if it�s the lack of red meat in their diet or the irreversible influx of northerners pouring in over the Virginia border, but these people routinely walk out in front of traffic.
Not only do they walk out in front of you, they�ll stop in the middle of the road and start having a conversation with people on the sidewalk AND get in a huff if you try to run them over.
Since I was able to rope my parents into babysitting Tax Deductions 1 and 2, I convinced The Wife to attend the awards banquet with me. This would be the first time both of us were away from the children overnight, and let me tell you � it was right on time. I�ve been about 3 feet away from enrolling both of them in West Point for the past few weeks, and their brochure is still hanging on my refrigerator.
The highlight of the awards ceremony was the chance to meet Carl Kasell of the �Wait, Wait Don�t Tell Me� radio show. Also, I must say the chicken tenders on the buffet were sublime, and watching Free Press Managing Editor Bryan Hanks fill the pockets of his sports jacket with them was priceless.
He wore that same jacket to work today, so we�re gonna grab a lint brush and some mustard and have a pic-a-nic.
After the awards ceremony The Wife and I, along with Hanks and his better half Tina, drove around Chapel Hill looking for a place to eat. I suggested the Top of the Hill restaurant, but Tina and Hanks didn�t want to eat there (honest to God) because of all the UNC memorabilia they�d be surrounded by while eating.
I defecate you not, that�s what they said. Tina is a diehard Duke fan, and Hanks is scared of his woman, so he played along with the insanity.
I myself am a UNC fan, but something happened earlier in the day that may have justified Hanks� position. As he was driving to a meeting on the UNC campus in Tina�s car (that features a giant �Duke� sticker on the back side window), he stopped to allow a student to cross the street. All of a sudden, the student looks up, notices the Duke sticker on the car and flips Hanks the bird.
If I�d been driving, that little schmendrick would�ve become a hood ornament.
We eventually found a restaurant that was devoid of sports memorabilia and had a nice meal � despite the fact that Hanks insisted the waiter address him as Der Kommissar. You haven�t lived until you�ve witnessed one grown man say to another, �Would you like some cracked pepper, Der Kommissar?�
At one point, I motioned the waiter close and whispered in his ear, �don�t turn around; Der Kommissar�s in town.�
During our meal, we noticed a rather boisterous group of newspaper people were having a good time near the back of the restaurant. When it was time to pay, we told the waiter we were part of their party, so sometime next week an accountant for the Shelby Daily Dispatch is going to wonder who charged 17 T-bone steaks to their company credit card.
While we were out of town, The Wife and I called home every few hours to check on the Tax Deductions. We warned my parents that TD No. 2 had been sleeping erratically as of late, but I told the wife that she�d probably sleep like a little angel for my parents � which she did.
�She slept till 6:30 a.m.,� my mama said. �She was no trouble at all.�
This made me simultaneously happy and a little ticked off. I�m glad that my parents didn�t have to call the fire department on our kids while we were out of town, but why can�t the little boogers sleep like that when we�re home?
Maybe making the little one sleep on the porch one night after writing on the wall wasn�t great parenting after all. Maybe my parents drugged them.
As we edged our way back to my parent�s house the following day The Wife and I agreed it was nice to get away for a while, but we really missed the children. When we picked them up from my parents' house they seemed glad to see us and all was well with the world.
The sun broke through the clouds while a herd of yellow butterflies made a rare March appearance and fluttered around each child�s head as if it were a portal to heaven. Birds chirped an insane medley of �Whistle While You Work� and �Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard� while a stray dog raised its leg not to relieve itself, but to salute me.
It was a good day.
Within three minutes of walking back into our home, TD No. 1 came down with a stomach ache that was apparently going to require anesthesia, while TD No. 2 decided it would be a good idea to play patty cake with the TV. When a fight broke out over which TD was sitting too close to the other one on the couch, everyone was sent to bed early.
In a startling display of self-preservation, one of the TDs hid the West Point brochure. It doesn�t matter though; as soon as I get all the Playdough out of the electrical sockets, I�ll plug in the computer and send off for another.
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A chosen group of shreds made their way to Mammoth, CA this week to take part in Snowboarder Magazine's Superpark 13 presented by Gatorade. Although plagued for days by unfortunate weather, builders brought it together to create features meant for the fearless and riders brave enough to dare. Though it's still early on in the Superpark stages, a sneak peek at what's left to come quickly emerged as riders began breakin' some off for themselves all before noon.
The features at Superpark are always well, super. There is a reason it's not called mini-park, or training wheels park, but Superpark; a place containing jumps to project you straight into 2010. Riders were treated to a variety of options built by Mammoth, Bear and Loon Mountain park staff, but it was Loon builders Brian Norton, Tom Peplinski, Noah Wildermann and Jay Scambio who created a jump that made most other park features in North America look like molehills.
To no surprise, riders were quickly divided into side-liners and standouts as they began settling into the park on some of the "smaller" jumps. Massive moves burnt into my memory card include Bjorn Leines' back 1 japan, Chas Guldemond's stalled out slowly spun front 3's and Pat Moore's consistently cutting edge moves. Local knowledge seeped from riders like Lonnie Kauk and other transplants who can be found mutilating the normal main park on a daily basis, but the freakishly large creation had still yet to be hit.
By far the most intimidating thing I had ever seen loomed to the left of the chair, tucked between the trees, and readily waiting to launch riders into space. East coast local and Loon lapper Brandon Reis commented that peering down the runway was like staring off the edge of the empire state building, which I translated into the word gigantic. After whispers wandered throughout the park, riders sacked up hard and began to sesh the beast.
Previous Superpark standout Chelone Miller let loose his inner lab rat and pointed it toward the Loon feature, somehow coming out completely unscathed. Before long, the pressure pushed onto the riders lurking in the shadows, bringing out the other freaks who also enjoy going gigantic. Canada's creature Dustin Craven got in on the action, playing with danger for a few hits of his own, but it was Jonas Carlson who silenced all with his ballsy moves. Opting for psycho over safety, Jonas put down a back seven on the beast calling it, "the most air he's ever gotten in his life."
The level of riding on day one may have surpassed expectations, but there should be nothing less expected from this seasoned pack. Stay tuned to snowboardermag.com for updates throughout the week including photos, videos and daily notes on the happenings at Superpark 13.


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I didn't exactly come from the "lofty halls of academia,'' as the saying goes — my father was a conductor on the Boston-Salem line and my mother ran the household — but my parents made sure I grew up knowing one thing for sure: I was attending college. Back in the 1950s, that was the golden dream of every immigrant family I knew on the North Shore, be the family Irish, Italian, German, Russian, Polish, you name it. It was the American dream in those days — that ordinary people, hard-working people with very little but grit and optimism to their names, could make better lives for themselves, and especially their children, by getting an education and putting that education to work in the real world.
Lucky for me and my parents, UMass-Amherst welcomed me to the Class of '57.
I still believe education is the American dream, and UMass is still a great place to go grab that dream by the tail.
Look, UMass is a terrific institution. Founded 150 years ago with a land grant from the US government, it's now New England's largest public research university, with 28,000 students and an in-state alumni base of 259,000 strong. Like other land-grant institutions, UMass was originally charged with educating students who could rise to meet the challenges of the industrial revolution. And has it ever! UMass is now a national leader in food science, sustainability, and climate research. In fact, UMass is ranked in the top 10 research universities nationwide for its commitment to innovation and leadership in sustainability. Its business and engineering schools are especially well-respected in their fields, and the university can boast of Nobel and Pulitzer prize winners, not to mention our country's current poet laureate. Its alumni roster includes renowned leaders from industry, technology, entertainment, law, and sports. And if all that wasn't impressive enough, consider that UMass's five campuses contribute more than $1.4 billion to the state's economy every year.
But here's the thing. You just don't hear people hyperventilate over UMass all that often. It's a very good school, you hear, or, "It's gotten so much better over the years,'' people say, "you can get an excellent education there.''
But superlatives? Not so much — and to my mind, the reason is simple. It's because UMass is, well, it's because UMass is in Massachusetts.
In other states — lots of them — the state university is the best game going. If you're smart and you don't have a particular urge to leave your familiar surroundings, you're thrilled to go to, say, the University of Texas, or Virginia, or Michigan, or Oklahoma, and many more. The education is top-flight and the price can't be beat.
But Massachusetts is in a league of its own when it comes to private institutions of higher learning. There's Harvard and MIT, of course, but then there are Amherst, Williams, Smith, Wellesley, Boston College, Boston University, Emerson, Tufts, Brandeis . . . the list goes on and on.
With that kind of wattage around, it's no wonder UMass's light has always been under something of a bushel.
It shouldn't be.
UMass can hold its own next to any state university in America in terms of quality education. But there's another reason too, and it's important. UMass does something very special for this state. It takes kids like me — kids for whom Harvard and MIT may not be an option for any number of reasons — and it gives them an outstanding education at an affordable price.
When I arrived in Amherst back in the fall of 1953, I was in many ways your typical teenager, a work in progress, you might say. I loved to play hockey and golf, and when it came to school, I figured I was pretty good at math and science. Then two UMass teachers changed the trajectory of my life. Professor George Richardson turned me onto chemistry, with his remarkable ability to bring the subject to life. Suddenly, I could really focus on academics! And E. Ernest "Ernie'' Lindsey, the first head of the university's chemical engineering department in the '50s, gave me the confidence not only to graduate, but to embrace my studies with previously untapped gusto. Later, his guidance and recommendations helped me earn the graduate fellowships that led to my PhD in chemical engineering and ultimately the launch of my career at General Electric.
Every April now, as part of a program we're involved with, my wife, Suzy, meets with seniors from Salem High, my alma mater, who will be attending UMass in the fall. Many of these kids hail from places like Cambodia, Iraq, Haiti, Guatemala. But their stories have a familiar ring to me.
Their parents work day and night, and as a family, oh, how they scrap, and oh, how they save, and oh, how they hope. They hope that they can live the American dream. They hope that UMass will appreciate how hard their kids have worked at school and at after-school jobs, how much they've contributed in sports and clubs, how they've volunteered at church or at the local nursing home, and they hope that one day UMass will say, "Yes, you are welcome here.''
Jack Welch, UMass Class of 1957, joined General Electric in 1960 and worked his way up to becoming the youngest chairman and CEO in 1981.


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by Mark Jagord, sports information assistant
SKILLMAN, N.J. – The Georgia College men's tennis team (9-4, 2-2 PBC) has been ranked No. 21 in the 2013-14 Division II Men's National Team Rankings by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Wednesday. Two Bobcat players from Germany also cracked the national rankings, one at singles and doubles, and another at doubles only.
Previously-unranked Yannick Hass (Troisdorf, Germany) vaulted into the top-50 at No. 33, and the previously-unranked doubles pairing of Hass and senior Alex Schubert (Frankfurt, Germany) also appeared nationally-ranked for the first time at No. 16.
"I'm very proud of Yannick and that his hard work has paid off with his highest national ranking in singles," said Bobcats head tennis coach Steve Barsby. "Yannick and Alex have stepped up big time at No. 1 doubles and hopefully can continue to move up the rankings as we come down the final stretch of our season."
From the time of the last rankings, Haas (10-3) has beaten then-nationally-ranked No. 28 Laurent Galarneau of Ferris State University, and last week became only one of two players to take a set from undefeated nationally-ranked No. 1 Bruno Savi of then-No. 3 University of West Florida. The Argonauts are now ranked No. 1.
The national attention falls on the heels of last week's regional rankings as the pairing of Hass and Schubert (10-3) jettisoned to No. 5 in the Southeast Region Doubles Poll, with the former hitting No. 11 and the latter No. 20 in the individual Southeast rankings.
Four Peach Belt Conference (PBC) teams remain ahead of the Bobcats in the national poll. Armstrong Atlantic State University (No. 5), Lander University (No. 7), Columbus State University (No. 14) and USC Aiken (No. 15) are the top-four PBC teams.
The Bobcats are in action Friday afternoon against No. 25 University of West Alabama at 2 p.m. at the Centennial Center Tennis Facility. The remainder of the men's tennis team's schedule pits the Bobcats against nationally-ranked opponents in their final seven regular-season matches with the last six against PBC opponents.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit GCBobcats.PhotoReflect.com to purchase photo prints from home athletic contests.


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Mom visits American detained in North Korea
SEATTLE — An ailing American who has been detained in North Korea for 11 months has had an emotional reunion with his mother for the first time since he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor, the family said Friday.
Myunghee Bae was allowed into North Korea to see her son, Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American Christian missionary, at a hospital where he has been held since August.
Bae's sister, Terri Chung, of the Seattle suburb of Edmonds, said Friday she had not yet spoken with her mother, but did hear from the Swedish ambassador in Pyongyang, who attended the visit. Photographs of the reunion depicted Bae, wearing vertical stripes of blue and white, embracing his mother and holding her hand.
"He said it was a very emotional meeting, that they had a reunion and that Kenneth did look better from when he was hospitalized on Aug. 9," Chung said.
Kenneth Bae, a 45-year-old tour operator and Christian missionary, was arrested last November while leading a group of tourists in the northeastern region of Rason. The government accused him of subversive acts.
He was transferred over the summer from a prison camp, where he largely farmed vegetables, to the hospital because he had lost more than 50 pounds. He also suffers from diabetes, an enlarged heart, liver problems and back pain, his family has said.
The ambassador reported that Bae has regained about 15 pounds since being hospitalized, Chung said.
"The rest he's been given must be helping," Chung said.
Though comforting, the visit did not necessarily give the family any greater hope that Bae might soon be freed: "We can only hope," Chung said.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the U.S. helped coordinate the visit through the Swedish embassy, which represents U.S. interests in North Korea because the U.S. has no diplomatic ties there.
Bae is a U.S. citizen but had been living in China for the past seven years.
A report by a Japan-based media outlet affiliated with North Korea, the Choson Sinbo, said Bae and his mother met for 90 minutes. As soon as she entered the room, she hugged Bae and wept.
Bae talked to the ambassador first and then met his mother, the report said. She had been met at the airport Thursday by the Swedish ambassador.
In a video statement before she left, Myunghee Bae, of Lynnwood, Wash., said her heart "was broken into pieces" when a prison interview with her son surfaced in July, because he looked so different. Her trip was expected to last five days.
"I want to see him and comfort him and hold him in person," she said. "I miss him so much."
Bae is at least the sixth American detained in North Korea since 2009. The others eventually were allowed to leave without serving out their terms, some after prominent Americans, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, visited North Korea.
Analysts suggest North Korea has used detained Americans as bargaining chips in a standoff with the United States, which long has pressed Pyongyang to abandon a nuclear program estimated to have a handful of crude atomic weapons.
Recent attempts by the U.S. government to free Bae have come up short. In late August, North Korea rescinded its invitation for a senior U.S. envoy to travel to Pyongyang to seek his release.
Bae, a father of three, was born in South Korea and immigrated to the U.S. with his parents and sister in 1985. He later moved to China, and a couple of years ago began leading small tour groups, mostly of American and Canadian citizens.
He led the groups into a "special economic zone" designed to encourage commerce in Rason.


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Student wounded in shooting at Tenn. school
JACKSON, Tenn. -- A 17-year-old student was wounded Thursday in a shooting at a Jackson high school, and another student was taken into custody, police said.
The 17-year-old was shot once in the left thigh outside of Liberty Technology Magnet High School and was taken by ambulance to Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. School officials said his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Police took a 16-year-old Liberty student into custody at his grandmother's house in Madison County.
The names of the victim and the suspect have not been released, and
police said the motive for the shooting is under investigation. Investigators said the victim was targeted by the shooter.
The shooting occurred at the front of the school at 2:21 p.m., a few minutes after dismissal time. Officials said the suspect left campus in a car. He was taken into custody about 30 minutes after the shooting.
Police, Madison County sheriff's deputies and the Tennessee Highway Patrol responded.
School buses were detained briefly at the school while police searched for the suspect, but buses and students were allowed to leave after the suspect was arrested.
Officials said there will be an increased police presence on the Liberty campus Friday.
Some parents said they did not receive an automated message from the school system to notify them of the incident.
Miranda Rayner said her daughter Morgan, a sophomore at Liberty, texted her when the shooting happened.
"I'm glad she's safe," Rayner said Thursday after picking up her daughter.
Morgan said her teacher told her to get under her desk as a precaution.


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Notre Dames Winter earns Player of the Week honors
OKLAHOMA CITY --- A combination of outstanding hitting and pitching have earned Notre Dame pitcher Laura Winter (San Diego, Calif.) the USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Week award the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and USA Softball announced today. The junior was 5-for-12 from the plate for a .417 batting average and maintained a 0.33 ERA from the circle, picking up three wins for the Irish over the week.
"It's truly an honor to represent Notre Dame as the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Week," said Winter. "I can't thank my teammates enough for all of their support behind me in the field, they always have my back."
Winter's exceptional performance began with a midweek matchup versus Michigan State. The right hander went seven complete innings in a 2-0 shutout victory over the Spartans. Winter's pitching heroics continued on Saturday as she recorded her second win of the week, this a 7-1 decision over conference foe Pittsburgh. The Irish ace remained perfect on the week with another shutout performance on Sunday as Notre Dame swept Pittsburgh with a 7-0 victory. Winter finished the week with 35 strikeouts in 21 innings pitched. She allowed just one run on eight hits in her three games in the circle.
A threat from the plate as well, Winter also contributed three home runs leading to a .533 on-base percentage and a 1.167 slugging percentage over the week. It all added up to four runs scored and eight RBI.
"Laura has completely changed her game this season," said Notre Dame Head Coach Deanna Gumpf. "She has found the offense that we always knew was in her. She's got confidence at the plate and thinks she can hit any pitch. Right now, she's a weapon offensively and defensively and she earned it, she had a great week."
This is the first USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Week honor for the junior and the first Player of the Week honor for a Notre Dame player in the 11-year history of the award.
2013 USA Softball National Collegiate Players of the Week
Week 1 (Feb. 7-10): Keilani Ricketts - Oklahoma - Senior - Pitcher– San Jose, Calif.
Week 2 (Feb. 11-17): BB Bates – UCLA – Senior – Outfield – Victorville, Calif.
Week 3 (Feb. 18-24): Mel Dumezich – Texas A&M – Senior – Pitcher – Whiting, Ind.
Week 4 (Feb. 25- March 3): Katie Keller – Louisville – Junior – Second Base – Livermore, Calif.
Week 5 (March 4-10): Ivy Renfroe – Tennessee – Senior – Pitcher – Jackson, Tenn.
Week 6 (March 11-17): Kaia Parnaby – Hawai'i – Senior – Pitcher – Bilgola Plateau, NSW, Australia
Week 7 (March 18-24): Raven Chavanne – Tennessee – Senior – Utility – Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Week 8 (March 25-31): Amy Letourneau – Northwestern – Sophomore – Pitcher/1B – Laguna Niguel, Calif.
Week 9 (April 1-7): Olivia Galati – Hofstra – Senior – Pitcher – West Babylon, N.Y.
Week 10 (April 8-14): Geri Ann Glasco – Georgia – Pitcher/Infield – Watkinsville, Ga.
Week 11 (April 15-21): Laura Winter – Notre Dame – Pitcher/Infield – San Diego, Calif.


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First of all i'd like to thank the community and of course Vladimir Romanyuk for their awesomeness.
I've been trying to record some space trips and sharing them on youtube, but i'm experiencing copyright troubles for some "ingame" music tracks.
So i'm comin here to ask if anyone got an answer about i should manage it.
- Wishing i could keep the original tracks of Space Engine.
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Some help needed please!
For the last three days my Internet windows and a couple of document folders have not been maximising properly. What happens is that when the windows are not maximised, I can stretch them so they take up the whole screen but when I maximise them, a gap of about 1/2 a cm is left across the top of the screen. You can see the maximised Outlook Express or document folder windows behind them becasue they do take up the whole screen when maximised. The bottom of the internet window is also chopped and by that I mean it is off the bottom of the screen so I can't see all the "status bar" but can only see a fraction of it.
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Bob Thomas, the publisher of z/Journal and Mainframe Executive magazines has just started the Mainframe Zone, a new blog about the mainframe, and it looks like something you should bookmark and check out regularly. Not only can you get great news about the mainframe there, but you also just might win a really cool t-shirt if you participate in Bob's contents.
Rather than stealing his thunder, I'll repeat what Bob just wrote to me:
"I have decided to do a mainframe-oriented blog titled the MainframeZone – please take a look at www.mainframezone.com. It's not that I was craving more work. Rather I am starting the MainframeZone to try to draw more attention to the IBM mainframe and as a rallying point for the mainframe community.
"In the MainframeZone I will primarily be an aggregator of important or cool mainframe-centric information that I think mainframe folks will find informative and interesting. For example, I will highlight other mainframe-centric blogs as well as new announcements, applications, users, etc. In addition, I am including two regular features; a Mainframe Trivia Contest and the Mainframe Hall of Fame. Winners and contributors will receive a "Mainframes Rule" T-shirt (you can see it on the blog now.) I will also be including stuff I find clever or amusing such as Wit & Wisdom quotes and my favorite New Yorker cartoons."
There's already some pretty cool stuff there, and looks like Bob is posting new material at least a couple times a week, so go have a look. I'm sure you'll like it.


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- Lindskov selected as 2014 Teacher of the Year
Timber Lake teacher LuAnn Lindskov, of Isabel, has been named South Dakota's 2014 Teacher of the Year. The high school math and science teacher was chosen from five regional finalists.
- Answering questions about Common Core
- SD Commission on Teaching and Learning develops model teacher effectiveness system
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Barstow School Addition
Private school educational facility supports academics and sets design standards for future
Design an educational facility that supports and enriches a distinguished private school's academic program, enhances the positive aspects of existing buildings, and establishes a standard of design excellence for future additions.
SFS designers consulted closely with Barstow School administrators to identify project goals to create a successful design and address practical issues of circulation, access and construction phasing.
The Barstow School's new lower school facility houses preschool through sixth grades and accommodates approximately 280 students in 18 classrooms. Extensive use of natural light, curved forms and classic, durable materials yields a warm, energetic teaching and learning environment and establishes a common design language for the school's future.


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WORCESTER — UMass Memorial Health Care will post a $57 million operating loss for the 2013 fiscal year, which hospital officials say will necessitate another round of layoffs, service reductions and cost cutting at the region's largest health care provider.
A UMass Memorial Medical Center memo sent to employees today reported that the nonprofit hospital system will record its first operating loss in eight years for the 12-month period that ended Sept. 30.
However, UMMHC will post an approximate $75 million surplus, when investment income and revenue from the sale of two units is accounted for, according to hospital spokesman Robert Brogna.
Dr. Eric Dickson, president and chief executive officer of UMass Memorial Health Care, first told the hospital group's 13,000 or so employees about the operating losses in an Oct. 18 posting on his blog, www.everydayinnovators.org. Dr. Dickson promises to continue talking with UMMHC's employees on his blog and via email about the coming changes.
UMass Memorial ended the 2012 fiscal year with a $53.4 million surplus, including an operating surplus of $5 million on total revenue of $2.29 billion. For fiscal 2012, it had $48.4 million in investment gains.
In fiscal 2013, the hospital group sold its clinical outreach labs to Quest Diagnostics Inc., and its home health and hospice program to the VNA Care Network and Hospice. UMMHC shed about 750 employees in those two transactions.
UMass Memorial president Patrick C. Muldoon wrote in his memo, "We've been talking about this for years — our leaders have been warning us about growing costs, falling patient volumes, the impact of health care reforms and our slow response to our changes. But the size of this loss and the speed at which it is affecting us is truly unmatched."
According to the memo, $34 million of the operating loss occurred at UMass Memorial Medical Center, which has three Worcester campuses: University, Memorial and Hahnemann.
Mr. Brogna said that what was driving the losses at UMMHC were increased costs; falling inpatient volumes at all of its hospitals; increasing observation cases at all of its hospitals; reduced reimburesment rates and other costs associated with health care reform.
Inpatient stays, which are more profitable, declined from 59,000 in fiscal year 2009 to approximately 53,200 across the UMass Memorial Health Care system, Mr. Brogna said.
But observation cases, in which patients are watched by doctors and hospitals in a hospital bed for some serious health issue but not admitted to the hospital, are on the rise — and hospitals are reimbursed at a far lower rate for observation cases.
Observation volumes at UMMHC rose from 9,500 in fiscal year 2009 to 15,791 in fiscal year 2013, he said.
UMass Memorial Health Care, in addition to its flagship Worcester campuses, also consists of Clinton Hospital, Marlboro Hospital, HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster and Fitchburg, Wing Memorial Hospital in Palmer, and a doctors' group with more than 1,000 doctors. The hospital group employs approximately 13,000 people.
In the memo, Mr. Muldoon wrote that employees should expect some "tough decisions about programs and services we offer, which will have an impact on the size of our workforce."
He wrote that the hospital group is "committed to finding ways to reduce costs while preserving as many jobs as possible."
He said that the layoffs and service reductions must be implemented within the next year.
UMass Memorial laid off 140 employees in September 2012 and shed 750 employees when it sold its clinical outreach labs and home health and hospice business units.
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This lily pond is in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney. Located on the southern side of the harbour these gardens have many rare and beautiful trees. On my previous visit many of the trees were being destroyed by a large colony of flying foxes (fruit bats). This time the bats have gone and the trees are recovering. Many places in the gardens have excellent views of the Opera House, the CBD and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It is a great place to bring a book to read while sitting on a shaded bench with a beautiful outlook.
There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.


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Meaning name Mert
Names › Egyptian › M › Me › Mer › Mert
Merab - Variant spelling of Hebrew Merav, meaning "increase, multiplication." In the bible, this is the name of the eldest daughter of King Saul.
Meaning name Mert
Meraud - Cornish name of uncertain derivation. It could be a Cornish form of French Méraud, meaning "emerald," or it may be a feminine form of Welsh Meredydd, possibly meaning "sea day" or "sea sun."
MÉraud - French surname transferred to forename use, derived from the word emeraude, meaning "emerald."
Merav - Variant spelling of Hebrew Merab, meaning "increase, multiplication."
Mercedes - Spanish name derived from a title of the Virgin Mary, María de las Mercedes ("Mary of Mercies"), meaning "mercies."
Mercia - Latin form of English Mercy, meaning "mercy."
Mercy - English name derived from the vocabulary word, meaning "forgiveness, mercy."
Mere - Maori form of English Mary, meaning "obstinacy, rebelliousness" or "their rebellion."
Meredith - English unisex name derived from Welsh Meredydd, probably meaning "sea day" or "sea sun."
Mererid - Feminine form of Welsh Meredydd, probably meaning "sea day" or "sea sun."


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There's More to this '69 Chevy than Meets the Eye
There's a shop in Burbank, California, that's like a portal to the past. Walk in on any given day and you'll see the walls covered with vintage automotive parts and the shop filled with a variety of traditionally inspired hot rods. At one end, you might find an authentic belly tank land-speed racer, owned by Old Crow Speed Shop. At the other end, you're likely to find Del Uschenko of Delmo's Speed & Kustom, working on a custom truck.
If we had to describe Del's build style in three words or less, we'd call it "subtle with clues." Something like a simple-looking '69 C10 with sun-faded original paint, but an impossibly low posture and some super-sized painted smoothies—indicates that it might not be that simple.
We got our first look at this truck at an open house at Delmo's Speed & Kustom. Soon after, Del put us in contact with its owner, Mason Wright.
Mason has been nuts about C10s since his parents bought him a '70 GMC SWB truck when he was a teenager. "It was hacked up a bit, but it had a decent interior, and it was fast, bagged, and low," he remembers. In 2001, he took the truck to C10 specialist Nate Porter to "unhackify my truck."
Mason eventually sold the truck, and when he started looking around for another C10 to build into a patina'd, bagged, slammed driver, Nate's Arizona-based Porterbuilt Fabrication shop was 400 miles from Mason's home in Long Beach, California. Nate encouraged Mason to contact Del for a truck with the look that Mason wanted.
Del's first contribution was to point Mason toward a '69 Chevy they'd seen for sale on Craigslist. Everything about it seemed good, minus the fact that it was located way off the beaten path in Tijuana, Mexico. "To sum it up," said Mason, "I fell in love with the truck and was back in Mexico four days later making the transaction."
How or when the C10, now nicknamed Nacho Truck, ended up in Tijuana in the first place is part of the story that may never be told. The body was virtually rust-free, except for a tiny spot in the bed, and time under the Mexican sun had given the stock Chevy gold paint just the right toasty patina that Mason was looking for.
When the truck arrived in Burbank, Del started by pulling the body off the 'rails and rebuilding the chassis. The most prominent external trait of the '69 is its belly crawl stance. Del's chassis work and lowering products from Porterbuilt—including their notch assembly, front dropmember, and bolt-on body drop—contribute to the low profile.
Porterbuilt also provided the tubular A-arms and rear trailing arms. Classic Performance Products modular drop spindles were added in front. The four-corner air shocks are AccuAir Suspension's e-Level kit. All Mason has to do is bleed the bags and Nacho Truck drops to the ground like a cat stalking a robin. Once the modifications had been made, the chassis was powdercoated. When Del reinstalled the bed, he raised the floor to fit over the chassis mods and modified the tubs.
The truck's second most prominent trait has to be the fender-filling, cream-colored wheels. The 22×9.5 and 20×8 Delmo Specials are modified Centerline Smoothies, painted and accessorized with Chevrolet center caps. Desert Hawk wide low-profile radials are 285/35R22 rears with 245/40R20s filling the modified inner fenders in front. A CPP master cylinder feeds 13-inch disc brakes to stop the front, with stock drums retained in back.
Packing the engine compartment is a 350ci small-block that once powered a '76 Corvette. Del rebuilt the Chevy for the C10, shooting it with a coat of gold and adding an Edelbrock intake manifold and four-barrel carburetor, topped with a factory 327 air cleaner. The valve covers are '54 Corvette pieces. A pair of block-hugger headers carry the exhaust out through Flowmaster mufflers. The 350 is backed up by a column-shifted 700-R4 transmission, also built by Del. A shortened driveshaft ties the trans to a Posi-equipped rearend.
The preserved style of the exterior is carried over into the cab. The quality condition of the truck gave Mason and Del the freedom to do exactly what they wanted—leave it alone. The gauges and steering wheel are factory. Reproduction Chevy truck deluxe seat covers feature grained vinyl with houndstooth inserts. One very unstock upgrade is the "amazing" (Mason's description) iPod-operated Rockford Fosgate audio system, including two-way speakers in the kick panels and rear corners plus a 12-inch subwoofer.
For as low as it goes, Nacho Truck is very drivable, a fact that Mason proves by driving the C10 as often as possible. He told us that his wife, Chelsea, deserves huge thanks for her patience during the buildup. As far as awards, he's earned some of the best: "a lot of snapped necks, heads bobbing, and thumbs up."


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Aerospace Conference Coming To Tech
SOCORRO, N.M. October 29, 2012 – The top minds in commercial space research programs will meet in Socorro for the second annual meeting of the Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation under the Federal Aviation Administration.
University researchers, private companies and federal officials will hold a conference on campus, including a poster session, invited talks, and tours. New Mexico Tech was invited to join the Centers of Excellence in 2010 due to Tech's facilities, research opportunities and curriculum in aerospace, astrophysics and mechanical engineering.
"This gives us a chance to show our colleagues and the FAA what capabilities exist in Socorro that can support commercial space," Vice President of Research Dr. Van Romero said. "The future of commercial space is very bright and this is a great opportunity for students to get in on the ground floor of this expanding economic boom to New Mexico."
Since 1990, the FAA has created nine different Centers of Excellence, with Commercial Space Travel being the latest, newest focus. Ken Davidian, the Director of Research for the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation, said these annual conferences are important for researchers to network, share ideas.
"For us as a new entity, it is useful to get together and get to know each other," Davidian said. "We've come a long way since late 2010 and, in large part, that's due to being able to get together and discuss how things are going."
Davidian said the main purpose of the Center of Excellence is to promote world-class research, meet the needs of the commercial space industry and help satisfy the FAA's regulatory and safety goals.
"However, the underlying theme is to develop tomorrow's space industry leaders and researchers," he said. "Student involvement is the whole point – to encourage more students to go into science, technology, engineering and math curricula."
Tuesday is considered "Day 0" of the conference, with a tour of Spaceport America and a student poster session in the evening.
After the Wednesday morning overview session, the research workshops deal with topics of space traffic management, transportation operations and payloads, human spaceflight research, and industry viability.
New Mexico and its universities have carved out a niche within the commercial space industry, Davidian said.
"California, Colorado, Texas and Florida are the top civil space states in the country – as far as jobs and infrastructure," he said. "New Mexico is unique for suborbital commercial space flight and there's a lot of work that NM universities are doing for the military programs."
New Mexico Tech specifically has much to offer the commercial space industry, as well, he said. He said Tech can contribute significantly in areas of energetic materials testing at EMRTC, lightning safety research at Langmuir Lab, object tracking at the Magdalena Ridge Observatory and lab work on designing new sensor technology.
"We have unique research capabilities in engineering, astrophysics and astronomy, and test capabilities at EMRTC," said Dr. Warren Ostergren, chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Tech. "We are uniquely positioned to support research in this area."
Ostergren said the annual conference provides an opportunity for the university researchers to share their work with colleagues and engage students.
Davidian said, "The interaction between the people generates innovation and great ideas. That helps disseminate the innovations from one university to another. It may sound cliché – but it's all about the people."
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech


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Nadal, Federer in cruise control again at US Open
Rafael Nadal crushed another opponent at the US Open on Saturday, only to see his title rival and likely quarterfinal opponent Roger Federer later record an even more convincing victory.sports Updated: Sep 01, 2013 11:36 IST
Rafael Nadal crushed another opponent at the US Open on Saturday, only to see his title rival and likely quarterfinal opponent Roger Federer later record an even more convincing victory.
Nadal beat Ivan Dodig 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, affirming his favoritism to win this tournament. The second-seeded Spaniard has lost just 21 games across three matches and has faced only five break points, saving each one of them.
Federer then emerged on Arthur Ashe Stadium and notched an even more imperious victory, dominating Frenchman Adrian Mannarino in a 6-3, 6-0, 6-2 victory that came in just 81 minutes.
The five games conceded brought Federer's tournament tally to 21 - the same as Nadal - and the Swiss has spent only 4-1/2 hours on court, making a mockery of fears that his career was on the wane after an early exit at Wimbledon and patchy form since.
"There's always a lot of pressure coming out here on this court to perform, because you never know if you're going to play well," said Federer, who compiled a 34-8 edge in winners, "but tonight was one of those nights."
The 38th-ranked Dodig beat Nadal at the hard-court tournament in Montreal two years ago. But Nadal is looking like the king of hard courts these days, with an 18-match winning streak on the surface.
"I am winning because I am playing well from the baseline and I am making the right decisions in the right moments," Nadal said.
Before they can play each other in the quarterfinals - in what would be their first ever match at a US Open - Nadal and Federer must negotiate tricky fourth-round matches.
Federer will face Spanish veteran Tommy Robredo, who ended the run of 179th-ranked qualifier Daniel Evans of Britain 7-6 (6), 6-1, 4-6, 7-5, while Nadal will take on German Phillip Kohlschreiber, who eliminated big-serving American John Isner.
"I don't look ahead," Federer said when asked about the looming Nadal clash, "even though I understand the urge of the press to try to go there already. I have gone through that my entire career, people talking about our matches even before the tournament started.
"We're used to it. We know how to handle it. Clearly I think we both hope it's going to happen this time, for the first time in New York."
Fourth-seeded David Ferrer needed nearly three hours to down 172nd-ranked qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin 6-4, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. His next opponent is No. 18-seeded Janko Tipsarevic, who also took four sets to knock off 20-year-old American Jack Sock 3-6, 7-6 (1), 6-1, 6-2.
Eighth-seeded Richard Gasquet and No. 10 Milos Raonic set up another fourth-round matchup with victories.
The losses by Isner and Sock meant wild card Tim Smyczek was the only American man left in the singles draw.
Unless Smyczek manages to beat Marcel Granollers on Sunday, there will be no Americans in the men's singles round-of-16; the first time that has ever happened in the US Open, dating back to 1881.
In the women's draw, second-seeded Victoria Azarenka took 2 hours, 40 minutes to close out Alize Cornet 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-2.
Serving on game point at 5-3 in the second, Azarenka pumped her fist and started walking off the court after the 26th-seeded Cornet hit a backhand into the net. The chair umpire had to get her attention to inform her that the line judge had called Azarenka's previous shot out - replays showed it landed inside the baseline. The umpire overruled the call, but they still had to replay the point.
"Are you freaking kidding me?" Azarenka howled to the chair ump. "What the hell are you doing?"
After the match, she put it this way: "That was the most ridiculous thing there is."
On her second try at set point, Azarenka hit a forehand wide to send the game to deuce. But she won the next two points to clinch the set, after all.
Then she dominated the third to advance to face 13th-seeded Ana Ivanovic, who beat young American Christina McHale 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 victory in 2 hours, 26 minutes. McHale served for the match at 5-4 in the second set and had two break points at 5-5.
While McHale lost, another young American Alison Riske pulled off an impressive scalp by cruising past former Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova 6-3, 6-0. The Czech had been in bed with a fever the day before.
"My body wouldn't let me fight," Kvitova said.
Simona Halep, seeded 21st, crushed No. 14 Maria Kirilenko 6-1, 6-0, setting up a clash with Flavia Pennetta, who beat 27th-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-5, 6-1.
No. 10 Roberta Vinci will face unseeded Camila Giorgi in an all-Italian match. The 136th-ranked Giorgi defeated 2009 US Open runner-up Caroline Wozniacki, who was seeded sixth, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.
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Check out the latest hot book series, The
Dreamfighter Chronicles.
Video Game coming soon!
The mobile game marketplace suffers from clutter,
and from the player's standpoint, low expectations. With
most games costing only a few bucks many of us have learned to
expect little and are satisfied with something that actually just
works. Sure, there have been a few great games that have come
along, but I've been hoping for a day when the iPod functions
more like a PSP than the ill-fated gaming phone, the Nokia
N-Gage. It had so much promise. Too bad you had to talk on
it sideways. Look, I am not saying the PSP is a tremendous success
cause it surely isn't. That hardware, however, is designed
to play games and it does so fairly well. Can't blame the
hardware for poor software.
Anyway, I digress. Games for the iPod have been
a mixed bag at best, with a few shining stars in an otherwise
dark sky. Well, Street Fighter IV shines like the freakin'
sun. I'd learned of its development about six months ago,
and would have been happy with something like looked like the
1991 arcade version of SF2. Well, let's just say
this goes way above and beyond that. SFIV looks like a miniature
version of the Xbox 360 game I have at home. It's that good.
Capcom put their time and effort into this game.
The first thing you'll notice are the graphics.
The opening movie blows up the screen. Yet, even with its quality,
it does not give you a hint as to how the game itself is going
to look. I've been teased by great game movies before, and
I put aside all expectations when it came to this. So, I decided
to jump right in. Even the game menus are crisp, and display plenty
of polish. I think that's the first thing you walk away
from this game with, the notion that Capcom really fine tuned
this game until it was worthy. And worthy it is.
There are eight characters to choose from, along
with four game modes, Tournament, Free-Sparring, Dojo, and Training
Room. A cool feature is the ability over a network to play against
a friend, not unlike what you can do with a PSP. All the modes
are customizable, though I suspect most people will stick with
the standard three rounds. The best option is Tournament mode,
which will feel a lot like playing in the arcade. I fired it up
and went into battle, choosing Guile, a character I know pretty
well. I wanted to not be overly critical about a control scheme
I highly suspected was going to be limited, at best.
You'd think by now I'd have learned
to keep such silly suspicions to myself, or eliminate them altogether.
There is a virtual joystick and four buttons (knocked down from
the six that were in the console versions) At first look, the
joystick appears too big, taking up too much of the screen, but
this is clearly done on purpose. Once I started playing, the stick
felt natural. Well, as natural as sliding my thumb across a flat
screen can. I was really impressed with the fluidity of the controls.
Guile reacted immediately, and there were few times where my move
didn't execute. I tried Dhalsim and Ryu as well, with the
same results. As a matter of fact, it seemed easier than using
the analog stick on my Xbox. Really. This is why Capcom took so
long to release the game. The controls were the most important
part of the game, and they wanted to make sure they felt right.
They d. Nothing to worry about here at all.
The in-game graphics are no match for the Xbox and
PS3 versions of the game but are far better than anything I have
seen on the iPod so far. I've played or demoed nearly a
hundred games, some costing a lot, some not, but this game looks
prettier than any of them. So, take that great control scheme,
add in amazing graphics, and in my opinion, you have the best
game on the iPod so far. Of course, you have to like the genre
to feel this way. All I can say is that I like fighting games.
I love SFIV for the iPod. I am still playing it. That says a lot.
The sounds are also impressive, between the character
noises, the ambient sound, and the music. It's electrifying.
Nothing I have played comes close to the fit and finish of this
title across the board. I played it through the speaker and everyone
around me asked what it was, that it sounded so good. When I showed
them the game, they couldn't get over it. No one could believe
an iPod could do something like this.
Obviously, I recommend the game to anyone who wants
to kill some time with their iPod. If they keep making games like
this for the platform, instead of the silly clones a la Gameloft
(not hating on them, just a fact) or word games and the like,
then the iPod truly can be a successful game platform. If this
is the future, then convergence has really hit its high point.
Here's to hoping.
Highs: Amazing graphics, perfect recreation of a
great console title. Controls are spot on, way better than could
be expected. Fit and polish are top-notch.
Lows: I found it to be a little easier than the
console version. Some features are taken out for the iPhone version.
Some might balk at the $9.99 price, but it's Street Fighter!
Overall: Don't miss out on the future of gaming
on the iPhone. If someone is going to challenge the handhelds,
and software like this keeps coming out, then the iPhone/iPod
might just be the perfect convergence appliance. I can't
imagine what this would be like on the iPad.
Score: 97/100
It is more confusing than ever these
days, trying to decide between buying a console or a PC for
gaming. One of our staff writers tries to help...
It's been about fifteen years since
gamers could play against each other online en masse. What
is the impact of online gaming and where is it taking us?
The never ending argument. One of
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Sep 14, 2009
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- First-year Tennessee Tech tennis coach Kenny Doyle is featured this week on The Capital Sports Report, a national sports blog written by Anthony Caruso. The interview with Doyle focuses on his playing career at Campbell University, where Doyle later returned to serve as head coach early in his career.
The Capital Sports Report has also done articles in the past on
Golden Eagle volleyball standout Kappy Lang, and is currently
preparing pieces about new TTU women's basketball coach
Sytia Messer as well as an update with this year's volleyball
Click here to read the entire interview.