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Of all the gear that I reviewed last year, my favorite component by far was the Squeezebox Touch. Having instant access to all of my music, and high resolution downloads, was just a fantastic thing that led me to listen to far more, and varied, music that before. However, the one thing I always said about the Touch is that while I loved it, I wasn't going to buy one for my Dad since I'd have to install a PC server component, or hook up an external hard drive that I'd have to keep ripping his music to for him. For him, a simple, all-in-one solution would be what I would want.
Thankfully, Olive has just the component to do that. While they have been making music servers for many years now, their 03HD is their first full-featured server to come in under $1,000 with support for 24/192 high-resolution media. Would this be a solution that is much easier to use?
- Design: Music Server (Music Servers have Storage Devices Built-in, while Music Streamers do not)
- DAC: Cirrus Logic CS4351
- Networking: 10/100/1000 Ethernet
- File Format Support: MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC
- Sample Rates Up to 24 bit, 192 kHz
- Inputs: CD drive for Importing Music on Discs, Ethernet for Copying to Internal Drive or Playing from Another Music Server
- Outputs: Analog Stereo RCA, USB for External HD Backup
- Storage: 500 GB Hard Drive
- Dimensions: 2.6″ H x 17.4″ W x 12.3″ D
- Weight: 10.7 Pounds
- Olive
Design and Setup
The Olive 03HD was much larger in person that I expected from the photographs. The size of my five-disc SACD changer, the Olive houses a 500 GB hard drive to store your music, a CD-RW drive for ripping and burning albums, and a 4.3″ LCD panel for playback. The back panel is very minimalist with only L/R RCA outputs, a USB jack for making a backup of the drive, Ethernet for Internet Radio and Metadata retrieval, and a standard IEC power cord. Unlike the higher end models, there is no Wi-Fi, digital inputs, or digital outputs, but the integrated Cirrus Logic DAC can play material up to 24/192.
The front panel is also very clean, with your standard CD controls (Play/Pause, Forward, Back, Eject) in addition to a cursor control if you don't want to use the touchscreen. I did like the cool engraving of different musical genres on the top of the player, but I did wish the green plastic around the CD mechanism had been a more neutral color. The color display was a good size and relatively sharp, with enough resolution to display all the information on the current track during playback.
Setting up the Olive proved to be incredibly easy. I put it into my rack, attached all the cables to the back, and then setup the network. I like to use a static IP address so I can more easily access my components over the network, but had I chosen to use DHCP my setup would have been completed once the Olive was turned on. When you purchase the Olive they have a service to pre-load the server with your music, and the first 100 albums are included. While I didn't take advantage of this, their servers come loaded with some of the 24/176.4 HRx albums from Reference Recordings to help show off the ability to play back those higher resolution files. Being able to unbox a component, turn it on, and have music going in under 10 minutes was a very nice experience.
In Use
As wonderful as the included music on the Olive was, the first thing I wanted to do was load up my music. I started out by testing the importing of some CDs I had around. I set the Olive up to use FLAC so there was no loss of quality and began with REMs debut album, Murmur. Unfortunately, it detected Murmur as the Mobile Fidelity release and not the standard release, so it didn't grab the appropriate artwork. This worried me a bit as I thought it would be an easy album to start with, so I tried a few other albums I thought might be harder. Abbey Road from The Beatles was identified correctly as the 2009 stereo remaster, as was the 2010 mono version of Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home. After it got those correct, I tried for a compilation CD from a local Portland radio station, KINK Live 13. Surprisingly, the Olive detected this correctly as well. Other than the initial misstep on REM, which is easy as both albums have identical track lengths and numbers, the Olive never had an issue importing a CD I gave it.
Since I had already ripped all of my music to my PC, I wanted to be able to simply copy it over and not have to repeat the process. With the Olive, all I had to do was browse to the IP address in Windows Explorer, where an Import folder is visible. All that I had to do then was copy over my music library to this folder and the Olive automatically imported it (though copying 300 GB of albums takes a while). One thing that I did discover is that some people like to rip their albums as a single FLAC file for the whole album, and a CUE file that tells the software programs where the track breaks are. This allows for a bit-perfect copy of the album to be made later with no extra gaps between tracks or any other small changes. However, the Olive is currently unable to read the CUE file for these images and so you will just have a single FLAC file for the entire album.
In the cases where the Olive does identify a CD incorrectly, it offers a web interface called Maestro to let you correct this. Once you point your web browser to the Olive device, you can browse all of your imported music, edit and delete albums or individual tracks, and control playback on the Olive directly. Additionally Olive has apps available for iOS devices, like the iPhone and iPad with an Android version coming soon. I initially had some issues getting the iPhone version to work, but after getting the issue resolved quickly with their tech support, it was working and made searching the Olive library much faster and easier. You can quickly scroll through your lists of albums and artists, and jump right to a letter. On the iPad the interface is the same, just a lot more albums and artists are visible at once due to the larger screen area.
Of course, all of this doesn't matter if the Olive doesn't sound good when playing this music. I loaded up my music on the Olive and went straight to some of my favorite evaluation tracks. On the MoFi version of Natalie Merchant's "Tigerlily" album, I found that the soundstage of the Olive was a big more narrow and shallow than on the Oppo BDP-83SE. Her vocals were more forward than they were through the Oppo, though still remarkable clear. Bass notes were strong and detailed without being fat. At the very top end of the scale some violins and bells sounded perhaps a little bit thin and edgy, but not to the point of being harsh for listening.
While unable to compare it directly to anything else, as I don't own the titles myself, I did listen to the HRx material that Olive had preloaded onto the 03HD for me. Music that is recorded and mastered at 24/176.4 resolution is truly wonderful to listen to at home. Instruments have far more air and detail compared to their CD counterparts. Instead of just hearing the pluck of a guitar, you'll hear the string reverberate after the note has been played. The position of instruments in the soundstage is far more precise, and individual instruments keep their sounds instead of just blending together. It's often been said that downloaded music is the future, and if it's the same quality as this, I think we will all be happy.
On The Bench
The Olive 03HD was measured using 16/44.1 test tones recorded at -5 db using SpectraPlus. Higher sampling frequencies and bitrates were not used at SpectraPlus doesn't support those in Windows 7 currently.
On the 1 kHz test tone, the Olive shows very nice results; with 0.002% THD+N and a noise floor over 100 db below the test tone.
Results are similar with the 10 kHz test tone, with just a hair more distortion, but once again a very low noise floor.
The 19-20 kHz IMD test shows no visible B-A peak at 1 kHz.
Finally, the 60 Hz, 7 kHz IMD test has a very nice result of 0.0011% IMD and no sideband peaks.
The Olive 03HD shows very strong results on the bench with just slightly better performance than the Squeezebox Touch displayed.
After spending a few weeks with the Olive, I was a bit conflicted in my feelings for it but talking to Olive about it was a very good experience. I came to them with a list of things that I saw on the player that could use a bit of tweaking or improvements (support for the Album Artist tag on imported FLAC files, a better way to burn a CD) and they took those suggestions to heart, and will be trying to get them into the updated software as soon as possible. I also made a mention that there were some things about the interface that I would like to see tweaked in the future, and they were very open to discussing those with me. Some of those changes were things they had done in the past, but had changed to the current method after other users gave them similar feedback that they would like to see it handled differently.
Of course, no company can make a product that is going to be custom tailored to every user, or designed exactly how a user wants it to be. However, it's very nice to see a company that was as receptive, and solution oriented, to the suggestions that I put forth as Olive was. They want their product to be the best on the market, and will listen to what all their users have to say to make it that way.
I would recommend that people that are interested in a home music server that requires no computer backend or external drives check out the Olive 03HD, and even more so if you have an iOS or Android device to browse through your library from your listening position easily. It does what it advertises, sounds great, and is ready for the future of 24/192 downloaded music. Since many others and myself think that high resolution, downloaded music is the way of the future, the Olive is a great way to get there and still enjoy your current CD collection as well.


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Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels visited "The Tonight Show" on Tuesday, not to promote the opening of their next movie, but to promote the opening of the trailer to their next movie. "Dumb and Dumber To" doesn't hit theaters until November, but the reunited stars were doing their best to drum up interest in the followup that was 20 years in the making.
Since Jimmy Fallon rarely lets a guest drop by without having them perform in some way, Carrey and Daniels were soon drawn into the classic "Real People, Fake Arms" sketch.
Ostensibly, the sketch is a clip from an obscure Canadian soap opera called "Jacob's Patience." It's always set up as a job the actors did much earlier in their careers, and it has involved such Fallon guests as Steve Carell and Justin Timberlake. The main gag is that all the performers use mannequin hands instead of their real arms.
As Carrey told Fallon: "That was one of my better pieces of work, in fact I think it was my favorite I've ever done. ... I've almost forgotten about it."
In this sketch, Carrey and Daniels played fast food workers. And bonus points to Carrey, who snuck in a shout-out to the classic "Saturday Night Live" "Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger" sketch.
And though the stars seem to follow a loose script, not even Fallon seems to foresee getting splashed with "milkshake." If he'd known, he would probably have prepared with a water-proof microphone.

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The Governor General's Performing Arts Awards (GGPAA) are Canada's highest honour in the performing arts. The awards recognize a stellar array of artists and arts volunteers for their outstanding contribution to culture in Canada and abroad.
The Governor General's Performing Arts Awards were created in 1992 under the patronage of the Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn (1934-2002), then Governor General of Canada, and his wife Gerda. Today, we are honoured to have Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette as our patron.
Each year, Governor General's Performing Arts Awards are presented for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in the categories of theatre, dance, classical music, popular music, film, and broadcasting. These awards recognize artists who have made an indelible contribution to Canada and the world's cultural life. Recipients of these awards are nominated by the general public.
Two complementary awards are also conferred each year. The Ramon John Hnatyshyn (RJH) Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts, which recognizes outstanding contribution by an individual or group in voluntary service to the performing arts in Canada. This Award is also nominated by the general public.
The National Arts Centre Award, which recognizes the work of an extraordinary nature by an individual artist or company in the past performance year. Recipients are selected by the NAC Board of Trustees from a list of candidates proposed by a nominating committee of NAC artistic programmers.
The award recipients receive the following:
Lifetime Artistic Achievement: A $25,000 cash prize contributed by the Canada Council for the Arts and a commemorative medallion struck by the Royal Canadian Mint.
RJH Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts: A commemorative medallion from the Mint and a specially commissioned work by a Canadian artist.
NAC Award: A $25,000 cash prize from the NAC, a commemorative medallion from the Mint and a specially commissioned work by a Canadian artist
Photo: Ernesto Di Stefano (George Pimentel Photography)
The Governor General's Performing Arts Awards were created in 1992 under the patronage of the late Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn (1934–2002), 24th Governor General of Canada, and his wife Gerda.
The idea for the GGPAA goes back to the late 1980s and a discussion between Peter Herrndorf (now President and CEO of the National Arts Centre) and entertainment industry executive Brian Robertson, both of whom were involved at the time with the Toronto Arts Awards Foundation.
When they approached Governor General Hnatyshyn with their proposal for a national performing arts awards program, they received his enthusiastic support. "He became a tremendous fan of the artists receiving the awards each year, the perfect cheerleader in the early years of the program," recalls Mr. Herrndorf. The GGPAA were officially launched in 1992, with seed money from the federal government in conjunction with the 125th anniversary of Canada's confederation. The founding members were CBC/Radio-Canada, the National Arts Centre, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Canadian Conference of the Arts, with the generous support of the Department of Canadian Heritage. The first GGPAA recipients were announced on September 22, 1992, and the inaugural Gala was held at the National Arts Centre on Saturday, November 7, 1992.
In 2007 the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) joined the Awards Foundation as a creative partner, and agreed to produce a short film about each Award recipient (beginning with the 2008 laureates). After premiering at the GGPAA Gala, these original and engaging films are made available to all Canadians on the Web and in a variety of digital formats.
"The Governor General's Performing Arts Awards are the highest tribute we can offer Canadian artists," said Judith LaRocque, former Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage and former Secretary to the Governor General, in an interview on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Awards.
"Atlantic Canada is introduced to the talent of Western Canada, and French-speaking and English-speaking artists are introduced to each other and to new audiences. The Awards illustrate the magic of who we are as a country."
In the two decades since their inception, the GGPAA have grown in stature and developed into preeminent national awards.
The Governor General's Performing Arts Awards are administered by the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation, an Ottawa-based, not-for-profit charitable organization governed by a Board of Directors and administered by a small professional staff. The GGPAAF enjoys a dynamic partnership with the National Arts Centre (NAC) which has responsibility for the production of the annual gala performance and the event's fundraising activities.
The Foundation was created and incorporated in 1992 under the patronage of the late Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn (1934-2002).
Its mandate is:
To honour and celebrate the lifetime artistic achievement of Canada's outstanding performing artists
To raise profile among Canadians of the achievements and contributions of Canadian performing artists at home and abroad
To inspire future performing artists
The Foundation is responsible for coordinating the nomination and selection processes; organizing all special events related to the awards presentation including ceremonies in the House of Commons, at Rideau Hall and the National Arts Centre; and cultivating partnerships to enhance the profile of the awards.
The Foundation is federally incorporated as a registered charity. The Foundation's Board of Directors oversees policy, the allocation of funds and the final selection of recipients.
The Members of the Foundation are:
National Arts Centre (Founding Member)
Canada Council for the Arts (Founding Member)
National Film Board of Canada
About the National Arts Centre
The National Arts Centre collaborates with artists and arts organizations across Canada to help create a national stage for the performing arts, and acts as a catalyst for performance, creation and learning across the country. A home for Canada's most creative artists, the NAC strives to be artistically adventurous in each of its programming streams – the NAC Orchestra, English Theatre, French Theatre and Dance, as well as the Scene festivals and NAC Presents, which showcase established and emerging Canadian artists. The NAC also produces and hosts the annual Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Gala. The awards represent Canada's highest honour in the performing arts. The NAC is at the forefront of youth and educational activities, offering artist training, programs for children and youth, and resources for teachers in communities across Canada. The NAC is also a pioneer in new media, using technology to teach students and young artists around the globe, by creating top-rated podcasts, and providing a wide range of NAC Orchestra concerts on demand. The NAC is the only bilingual, multidisciplinary performing arts centre in Canada, and one of the largest in the world.
About the Canada Council for the Arts
The Canada Council for the Arts is Canada's national public arts funder. We champion and invest in artistic excellence so that Canadians may enjoy and participate in a rich cultural life. In 2016-17 we allocated $196.8 million dollars towards artistic creation and innovation through our grants, prizes and payments. We also conduct research, convene activities and work with partners to advance the sector and help embed the arts more deeply in communities across the country. We are responsible for the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, which promotes the values and programs of UNESCO to contribute to a more peaceful, equitable and sustainable future for Canadians. The Canada Council Art Bank operates art rental programs and helps further public engagement with contemporary arts.
About the National Film Board of Canada
Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation
Housed within the Canadian Museums Association
400-280 Metcalfe Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K2P 1R7 Canada
Nominations are open to the general public
Since 2008, the Mentorship Program unites a past recipient with a next-generation artist who has the opportunity to learn and grow from the experience and insight of their mentor. See more on the Mentorship Program.


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By Michael Maresh
Journal Staff Writer
The National Weather Service and a local meteorologist are predicting that Cortez and Montezuma County will receive its first significant amount of snow this weekend.
Meteorologist Jim Andrus said the weather pattern is changing with a low pressure trough moving into the area.
Storms in Southern California traveled east to Arizona to central and northern New Mexico before moving into the Four Corners area.
Snow was on the ground Friday afternoon.
Andrus said the Cortez area could see three to five inches of snow by late Friday afternoon.
The National Weather Service predicted up to three inches of snow could hit the area overnight.
The forecast predicted that Cortez would be caught in a range shadow and the weather would travel northwest to Cortez from Mesa Verde.
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The NWS is predicting a 30 percent chance of snow today and a 20 percent chance of snow on Sunday before decreasing to 10 percent Sunday night.
"It will be a weekend event," Andrus said.
He said Sunday's forecast of 20 percent, though, is not an optimistic number for measurable snowfall and expects the region to instead only receive snow flurries.
The snow is expected to be gone by Monday with temperatures increasing to 37 with cloudy skies, Tuesday and Wednesday reaching 39 and 40 degrees, respectively, with mostly cloudy skies.
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ATLANTA — Rarely will anyone in any NBA locker room praise the schedule, regular season or otherwise, as favorable to their cause. Too often the games come either sooner or later than needed.
The Indiana Pacers, however, are going to get exactly what they want after Saturday's humbling Game 3 loss to the Atlanta Hawks. The quick turnaround for Game 4, Monday night at Philips Arena (7:30 p.m. ET, NBA TV), provides the ideal platform for this would-be championship caliber team to show us that they are serious about being a contender in the Eastern Conference title chase.
They looked like anything but that Saturday night as the Hawks knocked them down and never let them get up in a 90-69 win that was historically bad for a team that showed up to Atlanta with a chance to take complete control of the series.
"I thought we had a chance to take total control of the series," Pacers forward and team leader David West said. "But live and learn, I guess. I'm glad we have just one day and not a couple of days to mull it over. I still feel like as long as we keep the turnovers low, the game is much more favorable to us. We just have to be more resolute in everything we do."
The one glaring advantage from Games 1 and 2, Paul George working against the defense of Kyle Korver at the start of games, changed in Game 3 when Hawks coach Larry Drew adjusted his starting lineup. Johan Petro moved in as the starting center and Josh Smith moved over to small forward, where he could spend his time focusing specifically on George.
The lineup tweak was not the difference, according to Pacers coach Frank Vogel. It was the mindset change of the Hawks and his team's inability to match that change, that cost them most.
"I thought their disposition was the difference in the game," Vogel said, "not the different lineup that they played."
Maybe. But the lineup change meant different looks for Al Horford, too, as he battled West more often than he did Roy Hibbert. HIbbert's length bothered the Hawks' big men in the first two games. He wasn't a factor in Game 3. Horford responded with 26 points and 16 rebounds, both playoff career highs.
"Their big lineup changed up the tempo and style of the game," said Hibbert, who finished with nine rebounds, eight points and two blocks in 24 minutes of action. "I've got to play stronger on both ends and make myself available in the post. Their big lineup makes a difference defensively because they're longer and they get their hands on more balls."
The Hawks used all of that to their advantage in Game 3 and are sure to try to duplicate that effort in Game 4. They sensed the Pacers were vulnerable early. They forced them into some uncomfortable positions and then watched as they uncharacteristically fell apart under the pressure (they turned the ball over 22 times).
Vogel is not nearly as worried about the schematic changes as he is about his team's intestinal fortitude. He's fostered a "hit first" attitude with his team, a mantra and style that led the Pacers to the No. 3 seed in the East this season. So it only makes sense that his team return to their roots for Game 4, while also cleaning up the slippage in the other areas that were obvious to anyone watching.
"We didn't bring the necessary sense of urgency [to Game 3]," he said. "Clearly, we had a difficult day offensively. We had difficulty with our screens, setting up, and executing. We had a tough shooting day from the perimeter as well. I think we were emotionally ready, but I think (the Hawks) just played with more desperation than we did. Playing on the road in the playoffs is very different than playing regular season games, very different than playing at home in the playoffs. We're a very young team … part of growing pains. To feel this, to experience this, we have to grow from these experiences and get better from it."
They have to do it overnight if they want to regain complete control of this series.


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I tried to come up with something else for this post. The Pilea mollis (?) 'Moon Valley' in my office is blooming, and if you get them wet and then put them back into bright light, the flowers will release little puffs of pollen for about fifteen or twenty minutes afterwards. I vaguely recall reading something attributing this to the change in humidity levels.
(Other Pileas do this too. P. microphylla is called "artillery plant" because the little puffs of pollen "smoke" are reminiscent of the smoke from artillery fire.)
I've tried to photograph the pollen-puffs a number of times for you by now. Just clicking the button on the camera and hoping to get a lucky shot of pollen discharging at exactly the right moment hasn't worked. Using the camera as a movie camera hasn't worked either -- whatever set of flowers I focus on will never erupt, even if all the others do, just out of camera range. I even tried using IrfanView to take out a series of frames from a movie, hoping that either I could stitch them back together into an animated .gif, or I could crop out the interesting parts and put them all together into a series of still images, side-by-side, but IrfanView isn't capable of creating .gif files, and the image quality wasn't good enough for the series of stills to show the process. So I guess I'll just have to keep trying. You'd find it really interesting, I'm almost certain, if I could figure out how to show it to you.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch:
I got a Breynia disticha 'Roseo-Picta' in October 2008. One of the appealing characteristics of 'Roseo-Picta' is that it has variegated leaves, in white, pink, red, and green. Mine, though, was pretty much always plain green. I assumed this probably meant that it had reverted to plain green (Sometimes the new leaves would come in reddish and turn green with age, but the white/pink variegation wasn't there.) due to lack of sufficient light.
However, all that's changed recently. The first cutting to start producing white and pink leaves got traded away about six weeks ago, but another one has started doing it too:
Still nothing from the parent plant (it occasionally produces leaves with a little bit of white flecking, but nothing as colorful as the above), but it's good to know the capacity is probably still there. The cuttings that have produced variegated leaves have been under shop lights in the basement, so I guess it must take a lot of light to get the variegation started.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Random plant event: Breynia disticha
I tried to come up with something else for this post. The Pilea mollis (?) 'Moon Valley' in my office is blooming, and if you get them wet and then put them back into bright light, the flowers will release little puffs of pollen for about fifteen or twenty minutes afterwards. I vaguely recall reading something attributing this to the change in humidity levels.
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I was out walking with a friend last year and he noticed that the nettles we were passing were erm... emitting pulses of pollen clouds. They are the same family as Pilea, of course.
- July 5, 2011 at 4:20 PM
- Bom said...
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Are you still using your Olympus? Have you tried shooting using the sports preset mode? That might make your shutter speed faster. Hope this helps you capture your pollen.
- July 5, 2011 at 6:42 PM
If your camera has a "sports" or "action" you might try that. In such a mode, the camera keeps snapping shots if you keep the button depressed.
Are the cuttings getting a different light intensity than the mother plant?
- July 6, 2011 at 8:46 AM
- mr_subjunctive said...
Bom / Paul:
My Olympus does have a sports setting, but the time it takes to focus and take the picture is just as long as on any of the other settings.
Yes, the Breynia cuttings and parent are in different spots -- the parent is in the northwest corner of the plant room, and the cuttings are in the basement under shop lights.
- July 6, 2011 at 10:07 AM
- Sentient Meat said...
Maybe this is a job for the video capability of your camera.
- July 6, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- Sentient Meat said...
Oh, whoops, you already addressed that. I read too quickly the first time.
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Albert Toft (1862-1949)
Gilt copper allow with inlaid stones
22 1/2 inches (57 cm.)
According to Robert Bowman, who points out that "this rare cast of Maternity is known to us in only one other version, also in gilt bronze, in thre Cyfarthfa Museum and Art Gallery in Wales," this work "closely relates to the high relief bronze Charity on the pedestal of the monument to Queen Victoria erected in Nottingham in 1905 and they were probably conceived about the same time. The composition with a baby held in each hand and the arrangement of her robe and looped hair are almost identical save in details."
"Maternity numbers among Toft's well received ideal works that included Fate-led (1890) and The Spirit of Contemplation (1901). They show the cnfluence of the Lantéri-Dalou tradition which Toft learn at the National Art Training School, with the symbolist overtons of his friend Alfred Gilbert" (117).
Photograph courtesy Robert Bowman
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The Paris Visit Metro Pass is a travel card pass that gives you Unlimited use of the Metro and the public transport services. It is valid for 1, 2, 3 or 5 consecutive days ine the zone 1-3 or 1-5 including ORLY & CDG airport and Versailles Estate.
Depending on which zones you select, Paris Visit pass allows you to travel on:
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- The Orlyval line (linking Orly Airport to the RER B);
- · The Montmartre funicular.
It is the best way to get around Paris and its region!
Paris Visit is on sale in 1, 2, 3 and 5 consecutive days can start any day of the week. Price is per pass, including taxes and services. Children from 4 to 11 years old half price, under 4 free.
Note: The Paris Visit Metro Pass is good from the first day of use (not from the date of purchase or delivery) until the last consecutive day. The day begins at 5.30am and finishes at 5.30am the following day.
Buying Paris Visit metro pass in advance saves you time and avoids last minute lines. Select a pass matching the length of your stay and the places you want to visit:
- Zones 1-3: Central Paris. This pass allows you to reach nearly any monument such as the Louvre, Notre Dame, and the immediate suburbs of La Defense and St. Denis Basilique, Le Bourget. RER trains within this zone are available as well as the lift at Sacre Coeur. Zone 1-3 are in light yellow on the interactive Metro map of Paris below.
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System: Metro, Bus, Tram, Montmartre funicular to Sacre Coeur, all transportation within the city limits (fare zone 1,2,3).
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Justin Rose led a parade of stars exiting the British Open.
GULLANE, Scotland — Two weeks after enjoying the perks of a U.S. Open champion, from dining with the prime minister to watching the Wimbledon men's final from the Royal Box, Justin Rose led a parade of stars exiting the British Open.
Rose shot a 6-over 77 Friday to finish with a two-day total of 152, missing the cut by two strokes.
He was joined by several former major winners, including Rory McIlroy and Jim Furyk, as well as a few others, like Luke Donald, Matteo Manassero and Nick Watney, ranked among the top 30 players in the world.
"Golf humbles you all the time," said Rose, No. 3 in the ranking.
The last U.S. Open champion to miss the cut at the British was Lucas Glover in 2009.
Two weeks of unseasonably warm weather and sunshine made the fairways in some places rock-hard and more than a few greens lightning-fast. Even players like McIlroy who grew up playing on links courses found the conditions testing their patience beyond the limit.
The Northern Irishman shot 75 to go with a first-round 79. Birdies were so few and far between that with his departure before the weekend already guaranteed, he celebrated one at No. 17 with an exaggerated fist-pump.
"That was a very big putt for me," he said, laughing.
The nickname for Nicolas Colsaerts coming into the Open was the "Belgian Bomber."
He can only hope someone doesn't change it to "Six-Putt."
That's how many putts it took Colsaerts to get the ball in the hole on the 15th green, where he ended up making a quintuple-bogey 9. He missed the cut by a shot.
"When you see it on TV it will look like a stupid situation but he was trying on every putt and he missed each time," said Michel Vanmeerbeek, Colsaerts' putting coach. "One of the best players in the world ends up looking stupid."
If it's any consolation, Colsaerts wasn't alone.
Zach Johnson three-putted from 10 feet, a putt from Billy Horschel went 30 feet when it was supposed to go only 15, and player after player walked off the green shaking their heads in defeat and amazement.
"Obviously, 15 was a bit of carnage, when I'm trying to two-putt from 10 feet," Johnson said. "That was just not easy."
Ian Poulter was happy just to get down in two on the green, where the hole was cut on a slope that was exposed to the wind.
"I managed to two-putt it, so I'm over the moon," Poulter said.
A day after he took British Open organizers to task for the setup at Muirfield, Phil Mickelson had a change of heart.
That came despite shooting a 74 that included a four-putt on the 16th hole, where Mickelson took three putts from inside 4 feet.
"When I made those comments yesterday, I wasn't being totally fair to the R&A because they've done a lot of things great this championship," Mickelson said. "The fairway width is a very fair width to get the ball in play. The rough is difficult and challenging, but it's not over the top.
"It's very fair in spots."
Mickelson said a day earlier that some of the greens were unfair because of the speed of the course and the pin positions.
"For me to single out just a few sketchy pin placements and not give them credit for all the good things they've done was not fair," he said.
The only thing defending champion Ernie Els liked less that his round of 74 was having to talk about it afterward.
Asked to talk about the conditions at Muirfield, Els said: "I don't need to be here. Ask your question."
After saying two greens on the back nine had dried out so badly they bordered on unplayable, Els was asked what he thought the setup crew from the Royal & Ancient should do about them.
"Water," he replied.
Grumpy as he appeared, at least Els didn't curse at the reporter like he did to another last month at the U.S. Open before declaring "I'm out of here."
Rash decisions on the course are rarely a problem for Mark O'Meara and Tom Lehman.
The two former British Open winners, 56 and 54, respectively, parlayed experience into scintillating opening rounds. Friday, though, was a different story.
O'Meara, the 1998 winner at Royal Birkdale, followed up his 67 with a 78; Lehman, who won at Royal Lytham in 1996, followed his 68 with a 77.
"I just played pretty poorly, to be honest with you," O'Meara said. "Bogeying the last two holes didn't help."
"Really ugly golf," Lehman said. "From the beginning to the end, just seems like I got progressively worse."
Lehman added "there's an element of patience that really suits that kind of course we had yesterday."
But he also conceded giving away yards and years to the rest of the field made winning tougher as the tournament stretched on.
"I think the good rounds are as good, but the bad rounds, you don't hit it as far or bring more of those bunkers into play or start to miss it a little bit. Bunkers that are out of play for the younger guys are in play for me.
"You kind of get it. Today is a good example."
If either golfer rallies on the weekend, he would become the oldest ever to win a major. Julius Boros, who was 48 when he won the PGA Championship in 1968, holds that distinction.
Jordan Spieth's win at the John Deere Classic last weekend made him the youngest player to win on the PGA Tour since 1931.
The 19-year-old was making a serious bid to become the youngest British Open Championship since 1868 — until he got reckless over the four closing holes Friday.
Spieth made just two bogeys in his first 32 holes to reach 3 under and stake out a spot near the top of the leaderboard. Then he went double bogey at No. 15, bogey at Nos. 16 and 17, and closed on a sour note by missing a 4-foot birdie putt at the last hole.
Despite the 3-over 74, he still was in contention at 143 heading into the final two rounds of the event.
"Yesterday I was, for some reason, extremely patient with just taking my 30-footers and just trying to give myself tap-ins and not worrying about making birdies," Spieth said. "Today I got to a point where I finally had enough and wanted to really hit it closer.
"And that," he added, referring to his closing stretch, "is what happens when you try."
Spieth was asked whether the frenetic pace of the last week might have contributed to the bad decision-making.
He said that wasn't a problem, and he wasn't worried about getting caught up reflecting on his initial breakout win, either.
"Partly because there's not great internet access for me here. But also because it's a major championship, and I'm right back into feeling the nerves of trying to compete out here."
With Graeme McDowell locking up a spot on the weekend, the rest of the field is advised to look out.
The Northern Irishman and former U.S. Open champion hasn't been a threat in either of the season's first two majors, missing the cut.
McDowell also failed to make the cut in five of the eight tournaments he's played since the Masters — but won all three when he made it to Sunday.
"Not like me to make a cut, so I'm pretty happy with that," he said after shooting an even-par 71 Friday, for a two-day 146 total. "Get your money on me now. ... I certainly didn't want to be sitting at home watching this on TV this weekend."
Despite playing links golf growing up, McDowell's record in nine previous Open appearances hasn't been stellar either.
But he appears to be trending in the right direction. His only top-10 finish in this championship came last year at Royal Lytham, when he tied for fifth.
"This golf course is going to get nothing but tougher and tougher.
"If I can go out (today) and shoot a number about, who knows? It's tough to see the leaders getting beyond 4 or 5 under par," he said. "Literally anything a little under par could win at this point."


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Apomys aurorae
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Apomys aurorae
Heaney, et al. 2011. Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences, 2: 45. Type Locality: 2 km S, 2 km W Mingan peak, Dingalan Municipality, Aurora Province, Luzon Island, Philippines, elevation 1305 m (15.46456d N, 121.38421d E)
© The Field Museum. Photograph by L Heaney and A Niedzielski.
Order: RODENTIA
Family: Muridae
English common names: Aurora apomys, Aurora forest mouse
Total length: 262-295 mm; tail: 129-153 mm; hind foot: 33-37 mm; ear: 18-21 mm; weight: 58-92 g. Apomys aurorae is one of the smaller species of the subgenus Megapomys, with a sharply bicolored tail that averages 98-100% of head and body length. Its dorsal fur is a rich, rusty reddish-brown; the ventral fur is pale gray at the base with tips that are white or white with a pale ochraceous wash. The hair on the dorsal surface of the hind feet is mostly white with scattered dark hairs.
Apomys minganensis, which overlaps at middle elevations in the Mingan Mountains, is darker both dorsally and ventrally than A. aurorae and has dark hair on the entire dorsal surface of the hind feet. Apomys aurorae is consistently smaller than the closely-related A. magnus in all external and cranial measurements, as well as having lighter dorsal fur with a distinct yellow tint. Apomys aurorae also lacks the dark tips of the dorsal hairs that are characteristic of A. magnus. Apomys sierrae, which occurs just to the north of A. aurorae, is quite similar, differing most clearly in cranial characters; no external features allow easy discrimination (Heaney et al., 2011). Apomys microdon overlaps extensively with this species, but is much smaller and has a proportionately longer tail.
Known only from the Mingan Mountains, Aurora Province, Luzon Island (FMNH, PNM; Balete et al., 2011; Heaney et al., 2011).
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Habitat and Ecology:
Currently documented from 733 m to 1677 m. In an elevational survey of the Mingan Mountains, Apomys aurorae was the most abundant small mammal species captured at 902 m, 1074 m, 1305 m, and 1476 m sampling areas. In addition, the species was captured at elevations 733 m, 1540 m, and 1677 m. The areas where the species was captured were in lowland dipterocarp forest, montane forest, and (at low density) mossy forest. This species is nocturnal and forages on the ground for earthworms, other invertebrates, and probably seeds. At middle elevations, Apomys aurorae occurs sympatrically with A. minganensis (Balete et al., 2011; Heaney et al., 2011).
© The Field Museum. Illustration by V Simeonovski.
Apomys aurorae is associated with montane and mossy forest in the Mingan Mountains, habitats that are not currently under threat.


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When Bender begins to feel jealous of Amy and Leela because they have parents, Professor Farnsworth builds two robot parents to make him happy. But it is not long before Bender bridles under his new parents strict rules and begins to behave like a rebellious teenager. To make matters worse, all of Professor Farnsworth's doomsday devices have disappeared and the disgruntled robot is the number one suspect.


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Three years ago, I wrote a column about why students drop out of high school. However, it wasn't based on traditional research data. Rather, this top ten list was derived from a questionnaire administered to dropouts in a Baltimore school district.
The high dropout rate continues to be one of the most alarming problems facing American education. What's so disturbing is that many of the reasons given readily fixable. I want to revisit that list... repeat some suggestions... and offer some updates.
1.Lack of family support and encouragement: Is coming to school every day... being fit for instruction... and completing homework assignments-- a priority? Teachers will tell you the added difficulties they face when support from the home isn't there. There is just so much they can accomplish from bell to bell; what comes before and after counts as well. Parent education and the use of social workers have been suggested as ways to tackle this problem.
2.Negative peer pressure. The best-intentioned parents have their hands tied when destructive "friends" enter the picture. Two remedies here. First, keep an open line of communication between parent and child at all age levels; start early— because these bonds are more difficult to form down the the road. Second, try to influence the friendships children form. This is a an excellent antidote to negative peer pressure. Though not a perfect correlation, I've found that students involved in sports, extracurricular clubs, and volunteer activities strike up the most positive relationships.
3.Bullying: Children who are bullied will not do well in school or won't come to school altogether. I've written and spoken extensively about this problem. Since this column first appeared, there have been considerable strides in tackling this problem, although it hasn't gone away altogether. Parents must work with their school systems to develop zero tolerance policies with regard to bullying with strict, non-negotiable consequences for offenders.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – For the 16th straight season, the No. 17 Georgia College golf team has qualified for the NCAA South/Southeast SuperRegional. Held at the par-72, 6,928-yard El Campeon golf course at the Mission Inn Resort & Club in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., the tournament is set for May 6-8.
Featuring 54 holes over the course of three days, defending SuperRegional Champion Georgia College needs to finish in the tournament's top five to advance to the NCAA Finals.
Bobcat golf brings an experience-laden squad, with the benefit of two seniors.
All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC) First Team selection Taylor Smith (Mansfield, Ga.) leads the Bobcats to battle with a team-low 73.5 stroke average, good for third in the PBC. Smith played in the region tournament for the first time in 2012, leading the Bobcats to the Championship by taking second overall at five-under.
Fellow senior and All-PBC Second Team pick Patrick Garrett (Kennesaw, Ga.) has a pair of All-American trophies to his credit, and a 74.8 stroke average this season. Garrett finished seventh at last year's SuperRegional, coming in three-under par.
Junior Bryan Fox (Roswell, Ga.) is second on the team among regulars with a 74.4 stroke average over his eight starts this year. Fox didn't compete in last year's tournament, but is coming off a team-best fifth-place finish at the PBC Championships.
Junior Victor Monte (Chantilly, Va.) narrowly missed the top-20 at the PBC Championship, coming in 22nd. Monte owns a 76.2 stroke average and is a returning starter from last year's SuperRegion win. 2012 National All-Freshman Team selection Ryan Trocchio (Norcross, Ga.) owns a 75.4 stroke average, and was third on the team in taking 28th at this tournament as a rookie.
Georgia College competes against an extremely tough field, featuring seven of the top-10 teams in the most recent GolfStat Division II Head-to-Head Rankings, led by No. 1 Nova Southeastern University.
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 www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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"School days, school days,
Dear old golden rule days.
O'read'n and o'rit'n and o'rithmatic
taught to the tune of a
hickory stick.
You were my queen in calico
I was your barefoot bashful beau.
And you wrote on my slate
I love you so, o'love you so
When we were a couple of kids."
This old familiar school song was written by Will D. Cobb
with music by Guss Williams in 1907.
Last year, I had an opportunity to visit and take some photographs of Forest Valley School, a one room school house, where my mom and her siblings learned their 3-R's, read'n, rit'n and 'rithmatic, back in the '30's and '40's. Forest Valley School, District 51, is located in Lincoln Township just southeast of Wilcox, Nebraska. This rural school house was built in 1880 and continued to operate until 1946.
The old school house ain't what it used to be! Forest Valley School stands in a grove of trees that once covered about 3 acres of land before it was cleared for farming. Today, Mother Nature is trying to reclaim the property. The weathered boards that once kept the cold out are slowly decaying. Most of the roof that covered the school entry, where the children kept their coats and lunch pails, is all but gone now. The school furnishings, that cost all of $13.25 back in 1908, are all gone. Vines and weeds are growing from the rooftop and putting their roots into the cracks. Three foot high grass surrounds it. And the trees are beginning to hide the building completely. The mosquito's were so thick in the grass, that I feared for my life, so I did not venture too close to the building.
The school has been closed since 1946. But, if you close your eyes and listen carefully, you can still hear the giggles of children hiding in the trees.
(photograph of Forest Valley School is privately held,
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So, given that the above yields an answer to the uptime question as "No", then we are left with 2 electrical protection modes: 1) The concept that UPS will protect your equipment from spikes, noise and so on. 2) Protection from brown-outs ( low voltage temporary conditions). A UPS that can give real protection MUST fully isolate all lines, hot, neutral, and most importantly ground. To effectively provide some useful protection against bad power conditions it must protect against a number of different conditions, many of which occur simultaneously. It is expensive to do this. There are essentially 3 major classes of UPS: Level 3 - Standby or Off-line design: Protects from : Power failure Power sag Power spike or surge on hot or neutral lines. Does NOT protect from: Undervoltage (Brownout) Overvoltage Line Noise Frequency variation Switching transients Harmonic distortion Approximate Cost for a typical 650VA/400W unit, enough to run 2 or 3 nodes: $ 160 Rather useless for protecting computers, I might add. All it really protects you from is short power failures. Level 5 - Line Interactive: Protects from : Power failure Power sag Power spike or surge on hot or neutral lines. Undervoltage (Brownout) Overvoltage Does NOT protect from: Line Noise Frequency variation Switching transients Harmonic distortion Approximate Cost for a typical 750VA/500W unit, enough to run 3 typical nodes: $ 270 Fairly good for this application, but not for absolutely mission critical equipment. Level 9 - Online UPS: Protects from : Power failure Power sag Power spike or surge on hot or neutral lines. Undervoltage (Brownout) Overvoltage Line Noise Frequency variation Switching transients Harmonic distortion Approximate Cost for a typical 700VA/490W unit, enough to run 3 typical nodes: $ 425 Probably overkill for cluster nodes. Maybe a good idea for a master node and mass storage/arrays. See: NO UPS can effectively protect you from really big surges and spikes, such as a transformer failure in the power distribution, or a local lightning strike. There is equipment designed to do that to a great degree, but it is not generally included in UPS equipment. The best methods of doing tat kind of line spike protection that I have seen usually involve large, centre tap toroidal transformers. See: http://www.oneac.com/powercon.html http://www.powervar.com/english/solutions/prod_spc_na_gg.asp Few UPS give any real isolation on the ground line. As the most spikes and noise occurs on this line, I question the usefulness in using a UPS as a filtering device in many cases. Batteries are expensive, and MUST be maintained and tested. Typically a UPS after 1 year has lost at least 40% of it's capacity. Ultimately it all depends on your budget. I do not consider anything less than level 5 worth considering. Assuming you DO want to add level 5 protection, you are looking at roughly $200+ per node for UPS protection. As a typical dual processor node goes for "around" $2000 nowadays, this means a 10% immediate cost overhead, plus as a typical rack of 1U machines and switches is about a rack full, and that the UPS equipment needed to keep these up for 5 minutes of reliable shutdown time takes about 6U, it means that you consume about 15% of your racks with UPS gear. If you are more comfortable with this , and can afford to give up 10% of your hardware budget and 15% of your space for UPS equipment, then it is not money wasted. In our experience we rarely see the addition or lack of UPS on clusters we build and support as having much significant effect on hardware failure rates. IF you use decent quality power supplies with good design and components, and sufficient capacity, they can run in a fairly bad brownout without issues. Good power supplies are worth the money, and personally I would recommend you look seriously at ensuring you get that criteria fulfilled first. I am sure lots of people on this list have their own experiences and beliefs, but in quite a few years of building hardware, as a designer, manufacturer and supplier of clusters and servers we are much more concerned with power supply quality than line conditions. The cases where we feel UPS is more vital is in industrial sites where the building current is subject to sever use and conditions, and in some areas, especially rural ones, where lightning storms and power failures are a regular occurrence. 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DEAR JOAN: I have several times bought ladybugs for my wife's roses to get rid of the aphids.
I don't put them on until nighttime. I water the plants first, then put them carefully on the plants, per container instructions. And the next morning I can't find a one on her roses.
Any suggestions? We try not to use pesticides and was hoping we could do it with ladybugs.
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Almost all of the ladybugs available at home improvement stores and garden centers are collected in the wild during hibernation. The seller extends the hibernation, so when the ladybug wakes up in your garden, it is genetically programmed to disperse. Also, ladybugs in the wild may carry parasites. You may inadvertently introduce this parasite to a region where it didn't exist.
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As for the aphids, ladybugs and green lacewings will take care of them, but you can help by simply scraping them off the stems with your fingers (I wear gloves) or setting your hose nozzle to "jet" and blasting them off. Once they are on the ground, they aren't very good at climbing back up to the new, tender growth. Also, as it gets hotter, the aphids tend to die off.
Because they are so easily controlled, I don't recommend pesticides. Be careful, too, when using rose food. Some of it has a systemic pesticide in it that, in effect, makes the plant poisonous to the insects munching on it. That sounds like a great idea, but it also can wipe out bees and other insects that collect the pollen.
DEAR JOAN: I'm in an 80-member community garden surrounded by a chain-link fence. Resident rats that live in our compost and storage structures right next door are procreating quickly, sustained by our tasty veggies.
We understand that survivors of baits have evolved to only take several nibbles out of each of our veggies, ruining a lot of tomatoes, cole crops, berries and anything except onions, so far. We hesitate to use poisons but wonder if baits on snap traps would work considering the tastier alternatives.
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DEAR JEAN: Rats breed at a much faster rate than even rabbits, so a small problem can quickly become a big one.
Please do not use baits or poisons. These are not safe as other creatures — birds, foxes, coyotes, dogs, cats — can also be poisoned if they eat the dead or dying rats. And poisons around a vegetable garden are risky.
Rats are opportunistic feeders and will go for your baited snap traps as well as your veggies. Bait with peanut butter or walnuts. If you use snap traps, place them beneath overturned boxes with a small opening cut into the side so that birds and other creatures can't get to them.
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In more LAC news, actor Jamie Foxx was injured while playing basketball in Philadelphia. While the injury was not as serious as the article makes it out to be (it was only a sprain), it reportedly did cut short filming at Holmesburg Prison yesterday, but the film is still on schedule. Read more…
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Valerie wrote:Anyway, as for not minding if you just suddenly woke up female one day... well, sure, if your body and mind changed together. If you woke up physically female but still psychologically male, would it be as easy to accept?
It's pure speculation on my part, granted, but I think so, yes. I imagine I'd be perfectly happy to have a female body, even though I do not feel uncomfortable in a male one.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennesee Tech softball team has been sidelined by weather more than any other Ohio Valley Conference team this season. While the Golden Eagles currently sit in the middle of the pack of the league standing, this week will prove crucial to getting into the post-season tournament. Tech opens the week at home, hosting a make-up doubleheader against Austin Peay on Tuesday afternoon, followed by a single game, non-conference tune-up against UT Chattanooga Wednesday night.
The Golden Eagles took their second three-game series of the season, claiming two-of-three games thanks to stellar defense by the infield to fend off a sixth inning comeback by the Bruins. Tech has collected a 7-5 conference record, placing the Golden Eagles second in the East division due to win percentage. Having postponed two doubleheaders, the Golden Eagles are roughly four games behind all other OVC teams.
Tech has powered its batting order, making small tweaks that have paid off. The Purple and Gold connected for 30 hits in last week's four games, including 12 in ther final game against Belmont. Sophomore Hannah Eldridge had three great outings for Tech, including a two-hit performance against #3 Tennessee where she hit a home run off one of the top pitchers in the country. Eldridge connected for three hits in the 7-4 victory over Belmont to clinch the series with three singles and three RBI in four at bats.
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- Tech is 18-19 overall this season after taking the series against Belmont.
- As a team, Tech is hitting .269, posting 151 runs scored, 125 RBI and a .336 on-base percentage through 37 games. The Golden Eagles average 3.54 earned runs per game.
- The Golden Eagle pitching staff combines for a 2.13 conference ERA allowing 24 earned runs in 79.0 innings pitched in the OVC.
- Five Golden Eagles have hit home runs [Bennett (3), Eldridge (2), Hooper (2), Sakamoto (2), B. Spalding (3), C. Spalding (2), Gibbs, Taylor].
- Senior Melody Christian opened the season on a tear, connecting for at least one hit in each of her first 11 games of the season.
- Cortney Fry extended a streak of her own at ETSU, connecting for at least one hit in four straight games, including two hits in each of her last two outings at Eastern Kentucky.
- Three players have scored 15+ runs for the Golden Eagles, including Christian, with a team-high 26 runs and is the team's stolen bases leader.
- Christian is fourth in the OVC with 14 stolen bases on 17 attempts.
- Freshman Madison Taylor has a .329 batting average, collecting a multiple career-firsts during the opening weekend, including her three hits, four putouts, and 2 RBI.
- Five Golden Eagles have recorded triples, including newcomer Chelsea Burgess.
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- First year head coach Bonnie Bynum picked up her first win at Tennessee Tech after the team downed St. John's, 4-3, on Feb. 9. The Golden Eagles defeated St. John's thanks to a walk-off single by senior Chanelle Spalding, marking the first win against the Red Storm in program history and the first victory of the 2013 season.


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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
I Can See For Miles...
...and miles...
That's basically what I like best about the geology of the area I live in (Nevada in general, the Basin and Range even more broadly), and as I've probably mentioned before, I moved west primarily to get away from what I perceived as an overabundance of biology over geology (see Dana's AW#29 post for more on biology v. geology). I also moved west to return to the general area I grew up in. I've stayed here ever since, except for a brief sojourn in that northern state known as Alaska (Yes, it's a state. Some people Outside — here in the Lower 48 — don't actually know that.)
And so begins my short but sweet post for Accretionary Wedge #29 (almost too late for an entry due to winter weather, winter un-wellness, and winter work), a Wedge which is being hosted this month by Ann at Ann's Musings on Geology & Other Things. The questions? "What Geological features about the area you call 'home' do you love? and what do you not like?"
I love the mountains. (Note the trees and above-tree-line alpine terrain, a sometimes underated or underexplored feature of the Basin and Range.)
I love the valleys. (Note the hot springs in the foreground, a nice and warm geologic feature of the Basin and Range.)
I love viewing the mountains from the valleys. (Note the prominent range-front fault, one of the many fascinating geologic features of the Basin and Range).
I love viewing the mountains and valleys from the tops of mountains whenever possible. (Note that you are looking at the south end of one of those huge Nevada-style, mid-Tertiary calderas to the left of Mount Jefferson, the third highest mountain in Nevada, and also that you are looking at the place where that green helicopter pilot left me out all night many years ago in mid-October. Brr.)
If there's anything about the geology of Nevada and the Basin and Range that I don't like, it's that there is just too much of it for me to see it all!
This post has been brought to you by the Basin and Range of Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona (primarily Nevada in this particular case). Basin and Range also occurs in Mexico, and I've seen a patch of it up in the Yukon (with Artemisia!). [And I forgot Utah!] More on the Basin and Range here. More on the range-front fault shown above here.
Basin and Range! Yeah!!
6 comments:
- Ann said...
Thank you for submitting this for Accretionary Wedge #29. I thought you would want to know AW 29 – "What Geological features about the area you call 'home' do you love? and what do you not like?" is now posted at Ann's Musings on Geology and Other Things.
- Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 1:56:00 PM PST
- Silver Fox said...
Thanks, Ann! I almost didn' make it.
- Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 7:07:00 PM PST
- Anne Jefferson said...
Gorgeous photos! I think I've got to spend more time in the Basin and Range.
- Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 7:25:00 PM PST
- Silver Fox said...
Thanks, Anne - and be sure to let me know if you happen to be passing through!
- Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 7:30:00 PM PST
- Jazinator said...
You skipped Utah as a basin and range member. I pretty much live on the very edge of the province. :-), love the photos. It is a pretty region.
- Friday, December 3, 2010 at 10:34:00 AM PST
- Silver Fox said...
How did I forget Utah!? You can see Utah from half way up the mountain in the third picture! Aargh.
I love the B+R. :)
- Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 5:26:00 AM PST


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DALLAS — Friday's game at Phoenix (10:30 p.m., ESPN) will be the 55th of the season for Pelicans guard Eric Gordon. That is significant because it is four more games than he managed to play in his first two injury-saddled seasons in the Big Easy.
The irony isn't lost on him. He's healthy, finally, but the teammates expected to lift this franchise back into the playoff hunt are not.
Starting point guard Jrue Holiday, an All-Star last season in Philadelphia, and Ryan Anderson, the 3-point shooting stretch-4, have played 56 games, total. Neither might play again this season. Starting center Jason Smith has played 31 games. He won't play again this season.
Tyreke Evans, paid an eye-popping $44 million for four years by the Pelicans last summer, has been hurt off and on. He's averaging a career-low 12.0 points a game while shooting 14.5 percent from beyond the 3-point arc.
Gordon hasn't blown anybody away. But he has shown steady improvement, if only sporadic spectacular bursts to the bucket. He describes his season as "OK," yet at 15.8 points a game and shooting 38.9 percent from deep, he's been the Pelicans' most reliable player outside of All-Star power forward Anthony Davis — who was added to the injured list Wednesday with a sprained left shoulder.
"I feel I can do more," Gordon told NBA.com. "I've had some big, explosive games this year. Now for me it's just all about having the ball a little bit more, shooting the ball a little bit more and being able to do all the playmaking that I'm used to."
His gains haven't stopped the team from again shopping him, something that eats at Gordon. As he walked from the American Airlines Center court to the team bus following Wednesday morning's shootaround, he said, "It is disappointing because … I am back to where I should be [physically] and will be. And just to hear stuff like that out there kind of throws you off sometimes."
Gordon has become a forgotten man on a losing team, his production not living up to his hefty contract (he has two years and $30.4 million left on it) and his fragile health serving as a trade deterrent. For his part, Pelicans coach Monty Williams says he keeps the faith that Gordon can revive an unfulfilled career after being the seventh overall pick of the Los Angeles Clippers in 2008.
"I've probably been the only guy that has [kept the faith]," Williams said. "I'm not backing off of that."
Throughout his six seasons, Gordon's career has been filled with more "what ifs" than accolades.
- What if the original Chris Paul deal in which the then-Hornets sent Paul to the Lakers had never been squashed by former commissioner David Stern — acting as the personnel decision-maker on the then league-owned team — and Gordon had remained with the Clippers to pair with Blake Griffin?
- What if he had never injured his knee, an issue that lingered and limited him to nine games during his first season in New Orleans?
- What if New Orleans, as Gordon asked, had not matched the max offer sheet he signed with Phoenix as a restricted free agent?
- What if he had never pleaded for New Orleans not to match and had simply, and happily, joined the franchise that coveted him?
"He has been through a lot, from the trade and things that happened in L.A. that were pretty disheartening for him, and then the stuff in Phoenix," Williams said. "That was a time where I'm sure he wishes he could go back and do some things differently. But … check everybody out at 22 and ask what would they do differently [in their lives]?"
Gordon is now 25 and wiser, and he's set a new course for himself, starting with a heavy-duty conditioning program following knee and ankle surgeries the past two years. He spent a large portion of last summer working out in Los Angeles at Athletes' Performance under the guidance of Jen Swanson, now the director of sports performance for the Chicago Bulls.
"I was there five days a week … five to six hours a day," Gordon said. "This is without basketball [activities]. It is all workout stuff to prevent injury. This is the best I've felt in a while."
He's missed just three games this season with a bruised hip after a hard fall against Sacramento. Which, of course, raises the biggest "What if?" of all.
What if Holiday and Anderson and Smith had all stayed healthy?
"Definitely there's a foundation here," Gordon said. "The crazy part is we're still having injuries while we're a young team and that's just something we've got to figure out because we've always had injuries since I've been here. So we still haven't played our full, collective unit since I've been here. But our foundation is good."
Having a full, healthy team in New Orleans with Gordon a big part of it likely won't happen until next season. And if Pelicans general manager Dell Demps shops Gordon this summer and finally finds a taker, it won't happen then.
"You never know," Gordon said. "Any player can get traded, I don't care how high or low your value is, any player can get traded at any given time. It's not like I do anything negative. I do play well and I do give a good, consistent effort every day.
"To me, it's all about how how we can make ourselves better and how we can win. That's all that matters."