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Chile Makes It Illegal to Use Toys to Market Food [POLL]
There are going to be a lot of disappointed kids screaming from the backseats of their parents' cars in fast food drive-thrus all across Chile, as the government is cracking down on a new law making it illegal for restaurants like McDonald's, Burger King and KFC to include toys with their kids meals.
Chilean Senator Giudo Girardi filed a formal complaint with the health ministry on Wednesday that claims that these restaurants are still using toys to lure in children more than a month after a ban on these practices was put into place.
"These businesses know that this food damages the health of children and they know that the law is in effect. They're using fraudulent and abusive means," Girardi said.
In addition to fast food establishments, the complaint also targets manufacturers of cereal, popsicles and other products who are infamous for using toy items to sell their products.
The law was written because according to Giradi, nearly a quarter of Chile's six-year-olds now suffer from childhood obesity.
"These corporations threatened that if the law was approved there would be no more money for children's foundations, the sick, or athletes, but we were finally able to create a great alliance between the civil society and scientists to defeat these lobbyists," the senator said.
In 2010, the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a lawsuit against McDonalds for using toys to market its food to kids, but the claim for dismissed.
Last year, San Francisco banned restaurants from handing out toys with meals high in fat, salt, and sugar, but McDonalds found a way to get around the band by charging a small fee to have a toy included.
Incidentally, both US cities assisted with the creation of Chile's new "junk food law."
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Unit 4.7 Using Concrete Examples
Several demonstrations of basic chemical concepts are presented,
from computer animations to nuts-and-bolts type presentations.
Both help students visualize new concepts.
Video program cues: 41:25 57:26
Water dissociation
"Let me show you an example of an acid-base
reaction, which occurs just in liquid water
we start
off with two water molecules which just hit one another.
They aren't bonded together but they have a fight, and a
hydrogen atom is involved in a tug of war between the two
oxygens. What is actually moved from one molecule to the
other is the hydrogen atom, not the electrons. It's like
a flea jumping from one dog to the other. You don't see
the flea, but you can see the itching...."
Dr. Roy Tasker
Associate Professor, Univ. of Western Sydney
Electrolytes in solution demonstrations
Irene Walsh teaches about conductivity of strong and weak.
Electrolytes in solution, as well as about the dissociation
of water.
Morikawa, T.; Williamson, B. E. (2001)' Model for Teaching
about Electrical Neutrality in Electrolyte Solutions, 'Journal
of Chemical Education, Vol. 78, No. 7, pp: 934-936.
What are real chemicals?
Teachers forum
"We have to break this notion
that you are not really doing chemistry unless you are using
'real' chemicals. I mean, what is a real chemical and what
is not?"
Caryn Galatis
Thomas A. Edison High School, Virginia
"We have to start letting everybody know that everything
is a real chemical. Vinegar is a real chemical, lime juice
is a real chemical."
Dr. Michael Clarke
Duke Ellington School for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
"And that anything can be dangerous if it is used in
an incorrect way."
Sharon Walton
Watkins Mill High School, Maryland
"The kids have this misconception, too. If it is around
the house then it is not chemicals."
Caryn Galatis
Thomas A. Edison High School, Virginia
"Thats one that I love to address by giving them
pH strips to take home. Let them find out that the chemicals
that they have at home have a higher concentration than
anything that we are allowed to give them in the lab by
the safety rules. I think that the idea that everything
else is not chemicals, causes them to have this divorced
world of chemical systems, which is not part of real everyday
Tom Pratuch
Annandale High School, Virginia
"Here is a challenge that we have, though: If we are
going to talk about household chemicals as a basis for their
understanding of chemistry, we should also have to teach
students how to apply some of the techniques and tools that
chemists use in the lab to working with these materials.
What we are trying to do is to use these everyday substances,
and give the kids the opportunity to use the tools that
traditionally chemists use."
Dr. Leslie Pierce
Thomas A. Edison High School, Virginia
"It can be a simple lab as the one that we do in the
observation on pH, once we learn what acids and bases can
do. They can try out a lot of acid-base indicators; they
can then extend it to thin layer chromatography, which is
a very common technique, and spectroscopy. Vegetables and
fruits and their colorful components can be used for a lot
of different things."
"To get them to accept whatever your data is, and the
conclusion that you then reach, based on the analysis of
whatever you actually measured, and then explain the discrepancy
if in fact it is obviously discrepant from what it should
be. Focusing on such thought skills and affecting their
way of thinking is more than just chemistry."
Sanger, M. J.; Greenbowe, T. J. (1997)' Students' Misconceptions
in Electrochemistry Regarding Current Flow in Electrolyte
Solutions and the Salt Bridge, 'Journal of Chemical Education,
Vol. 74, No. 7, pp: 819-823.
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Tech Investing In 'Center For Graduate Studies'
SOCORRO, N.M. September 30, 2009 – New Mexico Tech will be modernizing the university's graduate programs, thanks to a $2.86 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
The Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans program is a Title V program. The Socorro university qualifies for the grant because it recently became qualified as a Hispanic-Serving Institution.
The funds will be delivered in yearly amounts of about $584,000 over five years.
"This couldn't have come at a better time," Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Peter Gerity said. "We haven't finalized plans for how to implement our plan because we're still recovering from the shock that we got it. To get $2.8 million over five years is a dream."
Gerity, the principal investigator for the project, said the grant implementation teams convened Monday, Sept. 28, to plan these initiatives:
Updating Technologies
|Dr. Dave Westpfahl using a 'smart classroom' in the Distance Education studio in Cramer Hall for his Orbital Mechanics class. The class is part of the growing aerospace engineering discipline. Wednesday's class included several New Mexico State University students listening to the lecture. The new Title V grant will allow Tech to install six new 'smart classrooms' around campus. Photos by Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech.
- Banner upgrades that will include graduate programs
- Six new "Smart Classrooms" scattered across academic programs
- 14 Graduate student lounges/learning spaces
- Faculty training on using Smart Classrooms
- 10 Learning Communities linked with Technical Communications
- New courses in communication and presentation skills
Center for Graduate Studies
- Renovate Fitch Hall to expand and enhance graduate office
- Introduce English as a Second Language courses
- Thesis/dissertation workshops
- Critical reading workshops
- Create outreach program for Hispanic undergraduates
"This allows us to address a whole slew of issues we've never had the resources to do, especially now in times of economic crisis," Gerity said. "We have a unique opportunity to address improvements and upgrades."
The graduate programs have exploded at New Mexico Tech over the past decade. In 2001, Tech had 332 graduate students. This fall, 593 graduate students are enrolled at New Mexico Tech.
"The distance ed programs, the Master's of Science Teaching and all the graduate programs are growing like crazy," Gerity said. "And we don't have the infrastructure to keep up with it – systems, facilities and personnel, which are all the things this grant funds."
Gerity said the implementation teams will address the three areas covered in the grant proposal: technology, curricula and developing a Center for Graduate Studies.
The most visible changes will be six new "smart classrooms" scattered across campus among the graduate programs. These high-tech enhancements will be state-of-the-art multi-media presentation systems that include distance education capabilities.
"This is going to be huge, in terms of pushing our classroom technologies forward," associate vice president Dr. Scott Zeman said. "This grant is very broad and ambitious."
|Physics professor Dr. Dave Westpfahl uses the 'smart classroom.' Using a stylus, Westpfahl can 'write' on the digital whiteboard at right. The screen at left displays the distance education students in attendance, Westpfahl's notes and allows them to submit questions.
"This will bring our classroom technologies into the 21st century," Vice President Dr. Ricardo Maestas said.
Another visible change will be the renovation of the second floor of Fitch Hall, the home of the Graduate Studies Office. The Center for Graduate Studies will include meeting space, a lounge and a computer lab dedicated to graduate students. The grant also will allow the university to convert the position of Graduate Dean from part-time to full-time.
Grant funds will also create a graduate student lounge in each academic department. Program director Dr. Dave Westpfahl said the new lounges will boost morale and collaboration for graduate students, as well as serve as a recruiting tool. Westpfahl is the chairman of the physics department, which created a graduate student lounge years ago.
"When prospective students visit and see students working together, they see that our department is collaborative," he said. "That gets people's attention."
Currently, the graduate programs are not fully integrated into the Banner software system, which serves as the clearinghouse for all undergraduate student information. The new grant will allow Tech to expand and upgrade Banner software to better serve the needs of graduate students and faculty. Zeman and Maestas said this behind-the-scenes improvement will have significant impact in administering the graduate program.
"This will totally change how we do business within the graduate program," Maestas said. "We will be able to electronically track students instead of using pencil and paper."
Just two years ago, Tech wouldn't have qualified for a Title V grant, a program that is solely for minority-serving institutions. Outgoing Vice President of Student and University Relations Dr. Ricardo Maestas spent much of his five years at Tech pushing the Admission Office to improve Tech's Hispanic enrollment and recruiting.
Those efforts paid off in the fall of 2007 when Tech first hit the 25 percent threshold of Hispanic students. To qualify for Title V grants, Tech had to maintain that level for two years.
"A lot of people worked hard to put together this grant proposal and assure that we were successful in getting these funds," Dr. Daniel H. Lopez said. "But without Dr. Maestas' untiring work – along with his support staff – over the past five years, we would never have even qualified for this sort of federal assistance."
Maestas finished his service to New Mexico Tech on September 25 to start his new position as president of Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas.
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Planning a winter wedding or know someone who is? These favors, flowers, and treat ideas embrace the season while maintaining the air of sophistication you expect from a fancy fete. From a bouquet of ivory ranunculus and tallow-berry branches to DIY hot cocoa takeaways, these ideas should inspire an elegant and cozy wedding that'll keep guests in a festive party mood all night long. (Think holiday parties too!)
- Dessert Table, Red Velvet Cupcakes Catering
- Rustic Pinecone Wedding Centerpiece, Brides.com
- Wonderland Boutonniere (also works as a placecard holder), Etsy
- French 75s with frozen berry garnish, Matchbook Magazine, Nov. 2012
- Bouquet of ivory ranunculus, parrot tulips, anemones, cotton sprigs, and tallow-berry branches, Martha Stewart Weddings
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Olivier Alary
Olivier Alary is a musician who is known under the title of his musical project 'Ensemble'. Born in Toulouse, France, Alary consolidated his early experimentations with vocal, ambient and distorted recorded sounds by completing a BA in Sonic Art as a complimentary component of a BA in Architecture. In 2000, Ensemble released their experimental pop debut Sketch Proposals (Rephlex Records). After several remixes for Björk, Alary co-wrote the song Desired Constellation on her album, Medulla and has since produced her 2005 album, 'Triumph of a Heart'. Alary's musical project 'Ensemble' has recently released a second self-titled album which features folk-pop vocal pieces featuring Cat Power and Dinosaur Jr's Lou Barlow. Alary has also worked with the on music projects with the Berlin-based trio 'Chlorgeschlecht' and has composed music for dance, film and installation art.
Selected Discography
- 'Sketch Proposals', debut album on Rephlex records
- 'Sun in my mouth recomposed by Ensemble', Ensemble's 1st Björk remix ('Vespertine')
- 'Cocoon retangled by Ensemble', Ensemble's 2nd Björk remix ('Vespertine')
- 'Mouth's Cradle recomposed by Ensemble', Ensemble's 3rd Björk remix (Medulla)
- 'Desired Constellation' on Björk's album ('Medulla')
- 'Chlorgeschlecht – Unyoga' (Honorary mention at the Ars Electronica 2004)
- 'ensemble : ensemble', second album on FatCat records
- 'Disown, delete' (E.p) on FatCat records
Selected Projects
- 'Up the Yangtze': Soundtrack of the feature length documentary directed by yung Chang and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. 2007
- 'Bascule', Soundtrack for David Wampach's dance piece Bascule for the 'Printemps de Septembre' Art festival, Toulouse, 2005
- 'Proposal 9', Soundtrack for 'New Skin' an installation by Doug Aitken, for 'Sonic-Process', MACBA, Barcelona; Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2003
- 'Ephemere', Soundtrack for 'Radical Fashion', Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2001
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Houston Texans Head Coach Gary Kubiak Collapses On Field At Halftime And Taken To Hospital
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston coach Gary Kubiak collapsed leaving the field at halftime of the Texans' game Sunday night against Indianapolis and was taken by ambulance to a hospital.
Kubiak hunched over and dropped to his knees at the 24 yard line and was immediately surrounded by medical personnel. He was lifted off the field on a stretcher and taken by cart to the ambulance.
NBC reported on its game broadcast that defensive coordinator Wade Phillips said Kubiak was taken to the hospital for precautionary measures.
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Maggie and the others in Friday team would like to welcome you to the Friday soup lunches……although to be fair you can buy far more than soup at this weekly event.
As well as soup, served with crusty bread, you can also buy toasties, roll and sausage, baked potatoes and a variety of cakes. In addition starting with the 2017-2018 session, there will be a special "dish of the day" each week.
A plate of home-made soup with bread and a mug of tea or coffee costs only £2.50. Prices of other items are in line with this, so its easy to buy a low cost light lunch with good food and company every Friday.
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Kelli Willis of Goessel is a full-time mother of three, works two jobs part-time, and somehow finds time to continue her education through classes online and at the Butler Community College Marion campus.
"It's very stressful and multiple times I wanted to quit," Willis said. "But my kids understand and are all for me finishing college. I am doing this to better myself and for my family."
Willis graduated from Brown Mackie College in Salina years ago with a degree in travel and tourism, but she really had an interest in criminal justice.
"After high school I went to Hutchinson Community College, Colby, and then Brown Mackie, but what I really wanted to do was enroll in the FBI academy," she said. "Plans changed along the way, and finally in the fall of 2010 I decided to pursue education in criminal justice."
Willis said her interest in criminal justice stemmed from a desire to help others get their lives back on track, to work with juveniles who were in trouble and needed help straightening their lives out.
"I've just always been real interested in all the laws and aspects of criminal law," she said. "I'd love to be a parole officer or just an advocate for young people."
Somewhere along the way of raising three children currently ages 15, 12, and 7, and working to support them, Willis's plans changed again.
"An opportunity came up where I currently work for a dietary manager position," she said. "All I had to do to secure the job was get the additional education I needed."
Willis is currently studying at Butler Community College, Marion campus three nights each week, taking algebra and fine arts classes to complete her degree. In April, she enrolled in dietary managerial courses online through the University of Florida.
"I should be done with all of it by the end of March," she said. "That's when I have to go to Kansas City to take the dietary manager exam, and with my classes completed I should be ready."
Willis said taking classes in Marion has been a real benefit for her.
"Online classes are great for some things," she said. "I just found that I needed to be in a classroom with an actual teacher for the harder classes. The ethics, sociology, and algebra classes just go better if I am around other people working through the same stuff. I get a better grade that way."
Willis expressed appreciation for the teachers and staff at the Marion campus of Butler Community College.
"They are just very supportive and always want the best for you," she said.
Support is also available for the online classes Willis takes, but at a more impersonal level.
"If I have a question, I just have to e-mail," she said. "I like it because I can work at my own pace, and with my schedule, that is really important, but everything is totally online and there is no personal help, what you see is what you get."
Willis said she had one year from the date University of Florida accepted her enrollment money to complete 32 lessons in the dietary managerial track.
"It's pretty easy," she said. "But it depends on your own honesty. You have to be honest with your instructor that you actually do the work, or you won't learn anything."
Willis looks forward to next spring when she will have earned her associate degree. Though she will not take her dietary managerial test until April, she begins working full-time in that position in January.
"It's been really hard to have to miss my kids' school activities on evenings I have class, so I am really looking forward to being done," she said.
She does not rule out taking more criminal justice classes in the future, however.
"I do really like learning," she said. "I might be able to take one class per semester online. You never know how things are going to turn out."


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A Happy New Year with Caring and Consistent Home Care
As 2014 draws to a close, we have some time to reflect on the 365 days that have passed and the upcoming New Year. This is the time to think about what we have learned and things we might have done differently in the past year. Whether or not the past year was successful, it is nice to think that the New Year brings a clean slate.
Many people use the New Year as a reason to create resolutions for better health. This is a wonderful excuse to eat cleaner, less processed foods. Make a promise for more vegetables and lean meats, and you will see a difference. If you are resolving to become more active and to involve exercise in your weekly activities; this is a very good resolution. If an elderly loved one is looking to incorporate more physical activity into their weekly routine, then consider some moderate forms of exercise. Exercise doesn't have to be strenuous to count. During the cold winter months, simple activities such as a stroll around the local shopping mall can be the boost of energy your elderly loved one is craving. When time constraints in your schedule make it difficult to accompany and transport an elderly loved one, you can count on caring and consistent home care from Senior Helpers of Fountain Valley. A highly trained and compassionate caregiver will provide the daily assistance your loved one needs to go about their day with meal preparation, medication reminders and even transportation to and from local events and locations.
The New Year is a great reminder to count the days spent with family and loved ones. If you find that you were unable to visit with loved ones as often as you would have liked, make a resolution this New Year to coordinate and attend more family functions. If you are concerned that an elderly loved one is spending more time alone than either of you would like, consider the many benefits of in home care. A daily visit from a caregiver to check on your loved one and to offer conversation is very beneficial to someone who may not receive as many visitors as they would like. Caring and consistent home care provides an elderly loved one with companionship and your family also receives peace of mind.
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Last week I posted an open letter to the Association of University Teachers (UK) from Emanuele Ottolenghi. Emanuele has more on the AUT boycott campaign and his proposed response - "We should all wear the badge of shame that the AUT wants to impose on our Israeli peers with great pride and in the full confidence that we are not only in the right, but that truly free academia stands on our side and against the AUT." - in this comment on National Review Online.
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'clear sound'
'The e280 looks identical to the e250, with an iPod-esque vertical orientation, mechanical backlit scroll wheel and glossy black casing.'
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'Nice color screen.'
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'High price point'
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'entire playlist'
'very cool looking device'
'Travel and exercise friendly.'
'No AC adapter in package.'
'additional memory capacity and support'
'The Sansa e250 is the 2GB version of the e200 line of MP3 players.'
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Facebook F8 has made clear that the digital world is now powered by social operating systems. It's all changed. The below post was previously published at paidContent, and is republished here for DigitalQuarters readers.
SOS – The Social Operating System
How the Social Web Has Rewired the Digital World From the Ground Up
In the wake of Facebook's F8 mega-event, with its parade of product, feature, and platform announcements, I'm struck by the recent major inflection that has social networking penetrating more and more completely into our digital lives.
Indeed, social networking has moved from something that's a destination activity, to something that is ever-present throughout every digital experience. And, no doubt, Facebook will continue this rapid progression.
My awareness that social networks have seriously and profoundly journeyed into our lives began with the startling statistics that I published in June: the searchable Web is shrinking (by 9% in consumers' monthly time spent over a recent one year period); while the social Web is growing (with a matching 69% increase in time spent on Facebook specifically).
But the change has since intensified, as Facebook's share of consumer attention has increased even further, and as Web sites the world over race to recruit Facebook "fans" and "likes."
In addition, the trendline has also become increasingly clear and sharply etched in recent months with the LinkedIn IPO; and with the Google+ Project, as even mighty Google vies for relevance as a social fabric that helps weave our world together.
Putting it all together, I'm seeing a restructuring of the stack: a new layering of how media is created, distributed, and experienced, different from the first generation of the Internet.
It's the rise of what I've come to view as the "social operating system (Social OS)." And I think it changes everything for media and other companies online.
The New Way News Travels
Unlike the analog world, where content and distribution companies have largely fixed channels (licensed spectrum; contracted cable distribution; stable subscription bases; theater outlets; and other distribution power), digital content isn't channelized. It's itemized.
That means digital content has to earn an audience – item by item. The first generation of digital media publishers turned to search engine optimization to solve that, with an endless and constantly escalating set of editorial and technical tricks to bait search algorithms to rank them highly. This became de rigeur for every digital publisher; even as it spawned an arms race to find an audience.
But now that social is ubiquitous, the nature of distribution changes for media companies. And now, instead of having to reinvent the distribution wheel every day for every page, publishers can rely on a system far more powerful than the search engine to sort, select, and rank content. That system is part human, and part technology – but it is 100% social.
The Social OS sits at the boundary between content and the people who consume it. It provides a layer of functionality that lets Web companies focus on their unique content and the experiences that they offer – while earning distribution, not via channels, but via people. And, in the process, they earn, not a mechanistic relationship with an algorithm, but a real relationship with their audience.
None of this was possible until very recently.
The Internet was too immature: both in terms of technology, and audience. Indeed, it's only since this decade started that we've had the social network and mobile technology in combination with literally billions of users online; this mix lets people connect to each other, and allows content to flow effortlessly from one consumer to the next.
And it's this combination of technology (networks like Facebook and Twitter); content (with providers like Apple, NetFlix, and YouTube, not to mention the hundreds of blogs and media companies); and, most significantly, real people online to spread all that goodness, which makes the Social OS work.
The New Common Medium For Transmission
That's why each Social OS is defined, first and foremost, by who's on it, and what the connections mean. But beyond that, each social operating system can make identity, personal information and interests, relationships, and other data and actions available to applications. And third, and most importantly, is the role of the Social OS as distributor. Because Social OS's have transformed the primary navigational coordinates of the Web from document-to-document links to person-to-person, the Social OS becomes the medium for propagation.
As recently as a few years ago, large media companies saw some parts of this wave coming, and they thought the answer was for each of them to build their own proprietary social network. But relationships between people aren't proprietary to media; rather, they are the conduits through which all media travels.
And that puts in perspective what Mark Zuckerberg recently said, about how media is the next big application for his Facebook Social OS:
"Some of the earliest examples we've seen are with games. It just leads to massive disruption. And I think, over the next 2, 3 years, we're going to start to see that in more and more industries, and the next ones I would expect are going to be media-type industries."
Or, as we say at my company, Wetpaint, we are becoming the Zynga of publishing, leveraging social operating systems like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to build a powerful media business on top of them.
Reinventing the Media Industry For a Social World
The rise of the social operating system has two implications for old (and even some new) media companies, who are mostly still trying to figure out what to do with all this. If the idea isn't to be a social network, then how do they use Social OS's to make their business more successful?
Social maven Jonah Peretti, co-founder of Huffington Post and CEO of BuzzFeed, points out that different social networks specialize in different content: Facebook users share "what you want your friends to think you like … content you can wear as a badge of honor," while Twitter is a platform for topic curators and wholesalers in the information trade, and LinkedIn has a strictly professional domain.
For its part, YouTube has its own character: with most consumption anonymous, it's largely an open public repository, and much of the networking that forwards YouTube videos from person to person happens via email, Facebook, and other networks.
And, as Google gets into the fray with its Google+ Project, presumably it is meant to specialize in closed groups, when full public exposure isn't in order. If it works, it will likely find its best traction in topics like health & wellness, parenting, or certain hobbies.
For media companies, the key is knowing which Social OS's to bet on; and then tuning content, packaging and distribution for them.
For celebrity entertainment and gossip at Wetpaint, we know Facebook is a natural match for mass consumer promotion. On the other hand, for industry analysis, like my blog posts, I'm not surprised that Facebook is relatively unimportant: for most of my readers, my posts wouldn't fit in among family photos and Farmville accomplishments. Twitter and LinkedIn do far better for heady topics like the future of media.
High Stakes: The Future of an Industry
The last decade of audience fragmentation and content de-bundling on the Internet has ravaged media, particularly in a world characterized by fierce competition for the love of Google's robots.
When Mark Zuckerberg recently spoke at a Facebook event in Seattle, he said:
"The last 5 years have been about connecting all these people. The next 5 years are going to be about all the crazy things you can do now that these people are connected, and I think it's going to be cool."
In a world powered by social operating systems, the prize is that, when we execute well, we get to be hooked into people's lives. Media companies can earn constant places in consumers' newsfeeds, along with a button asking them to consider sharing their experience every time they see us. I think that's going to be cool.


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the intellect of man is
forced to choose
perfection of the life, or
of the work
and if it take the second
must refuse
a heavenly mansion raging
in the dark
when all that story's
finished, what's the news?
in luck or out the toil has
left its mark;
that old perplexity an empty purse
or the day's vanity,
the nights' remorse
WB Yeats
Jumping into a jungly river in Tena, Ecuador.
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"Moreover, Subhuti, when a bodhisattva practices generosity, he does not rely on any object--that is to say he does not rely on any form, sound, smell, taste, tactile object, or dharma--to practice generosity. That, Subhuti, is the spirit in which a bodhisattva should practice generosity, not relying on signs. Why? If a bodhisattva practices generosity without relying on signs, the happiness that results cannot be conceived of or measured. Subhuti, do you think that the space in the Eastern Quarter can be measured?"
"No, World-Honored One."
"Subhuti, can space in the Western, Southern, and Northern Quarters, above and below be measured?"
"No, World-Honored One."
"Subhuti, if a bodhisattva does not rely on any concept when practicing generosity, then the happiness that results from that virtuous act is as great as space. It cannot be measured. Subhuti, the bodhisattvas should let their minds dwell in the teachings I have just given."
Chapter 4 of The Diamond Sutra translated on The Joygae Order Of Korean Buddhism homepage
Generosity for the sake of generosity. :)
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This package should allow even someone with little or no experience with Korean teas a nice primer by allowing for cross comparisons between: producer styles, yearly trends (or the very least an idea of how Korean green tea degrades after aging), different grades, and different types of Korean tea (balhyo v.s green).
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Well, we knew it was inevitable. It appears that one of my personal favorites sites on the internet, AllOfMP3.com, may finally be in a position to be shut down. While many figured what they were doing was okay by Russian standards, our friends in the Russian police force felt otherwise. Now they are under criminal copyright investigation due to their pay-per-megabyte music model. Say it ain't so! Hey, as long as they leave MP3Search alone, I'm good.
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The iPod photo Gets Upgraded
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Continuing with the iPod coverage, Apple has also updated the iPod photo line. There isn't much to it, but here are the details:
The 40 GB iPod photo is no more. In its place is a slim, trim 30 GB model which retails for a cool $349 USD. The 60 GB model remains, but costs only $449. Just yesterday, the 40 GB iPod photo was $499, so this is a nice price point. Let's see if it actually kick starts the photo into moving off shelves a bit more. Also, Apple is apparently going to release software next month that will add more functionality to the iPod photo:
Get the most out of your iPod photo. Coming in March, new software lets you:
- Choose new slideshow transitions on the go
- Upload photos directly from your camera using the optional iPod Camera Connector accessory, also arriving in March
The New iPod mini 6 GB
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We all knew that it was just a matter of time before Apple announce an iPod mini with a larger capacity hard drive. What wasn't expected, though, was that they would also keep the current mini line virtually intact. Apple's new iPod mini now holds 6 GB of data, and has a very nicely upgraded battery that lasts for about 18 hours per charge. The gold color has been removed from the lineup as well. Silver remains, and the green, pink, and blue models pick up more vibrant shades along with icons on the click wheel that match the color of the iPod. The 6 GB iPod mini sells for $249 USD, while the 4 GB version has its price bumped down to $199 USD.
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Wired News has a nice little feature on some of the highlights to this week's Toy Fair in New York. Pictured here is a car model with interchangeable pieces allowing you to create a hybrid minivan-truck or SUV-sports car. Other cool items on display include a laser-based trip wire, and a powered skateboard. You'll also find pics of an enhanced bubble-shooter gun: it spits out bubbles with vapors injected into it (nontoxic of course) that, when popped emit a quickly dissipating, whitish fog.
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Nissan Advances Camera Technology In Cars
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This reminded me a little bit of the scene in I, Robot where Will Smith's character decides to not let the car do the driving for him. Nissan recently developed technology that will allow vehicles to auto-correct their path when detecting an accidental shift in lanes. It's nice to know that the car will not auto-adjust if the driver uses their turn signal, indicating an intentional lane change. Cooler still, a series of cameras planted on all sides of the vehicle will give drivers an "arial" view of their car on the dashboard, so as to make parking easier. Maybe now I can play my PSP while driving.
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Anti-Panti: Make Your Thong Be Gone
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Behold, the Anti-Panti. Those polka dot looking things up there are actually 4" discs of cloth which are sticky on the underside. The point here is that the ladies will be able to stop wearing panties altogether, and instead stick these things in the crotch of their pants. No more panty lines, because you are no longer wearing panties! It's like wearing a pad all the time, but with designs like Tiger, Camoflauge, and even Jesus. Wow.
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Mobiblu DAH-220 Cassette Flash MP3 Player
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Lifetime VOIP Service For $999
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While companies like Vonage are charging $24.99 per month for VOIP service, Massachusetts-based RNK Telecom is offering lifetime VOIP phone service for a one-time fee of $999 USD. That's right - for a cool G, those in Massachusetts can make unlimited local and long distance calls. The fee also includes calls to 22 countries as well. While $999 sounds like a lot, it comes out to about 39 months of Vonage service. Of course, the other factor here is the question of how long will this company be around? If they happen to go under in three years, you are out of service and out of one thousand bucks. And even if they do stay in business, are you saying you plan on staying in Massachusetts for the rest of your life?
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Vin Diesel and Paris Hilton's Voicemail Hacked
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How secure is your cellular phone's voice mail? If your cell phone provider is T-Mobile or Sprint PCS it may not be as secure as you think. Recently hackers have found a way to access your voice mail by simply spoofing your phone number using caller ID spoofing systems such as CovertCall and Telespoof. Sprint and T-Mobile give users the option of enabling auto voicemail login where the user may log in to their voice mail automatically when calling from their own cell phone. The authentication system is simple – it uses the user's caller ID to validate the number. If the caller ID matches your cell phone number, then it will log you in automatically. To prove that this is what hackers doing, they were able to access Paris Hilton's voice mail as well as Vin Diesel's voice mail after the events of this past weekend.
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WASHINGTON — They came after midnight, two or more armed individuals so deft that they cut telecommunication cables in an underground vault and outsmarted security cameras and motion sensors at the power substation in a remote corner of Santa Clara County.
At daylight, FBI agents began poring over time-lapse photographs from the surveillance cameras. But the photos revealed only staccato muzzle flashes from a semiautomatic weapon and sparks as shots hit rows of transformers. There was not a face, not a shadow, of who was doing the firing.
The shooters disappeared into the gloom minutes before the first police car arrived.
The military-style raid on April 16 knocked out 17 giant transformers at the Metcalf Transmission Substation, which feeds power to Silicon Valley. The FBI is still working the case, and agents say they are confident it was not the work of terrorists.
What they do not have is a motive, fingerprints or suspects.
But theories are piling up. Was it a modern-day Monkey Wrench Gang bent on eco-terrorism? Was it a test of the vulnerability of the U.S. electrical grid? Was it a dress rehearsal for a larger attack to come?
Was it an inside job by disgruntled Pacific Gas and Electric Co. employees? Was it related to the bombing of the Boston Marathon across the country only 13 hours earlier? Was it aimed at killing power in Silicon Valley, as one official wondered, "maybe somebody trying to knock down service to Google or something?"
Utility officials quickly rerouted power around the site, and nearby power plants picked up the slack, so there was no major blackout. And no one was injured. But it took utility crews nearly a month to repair the damage.
Four Democratic senators, including California's Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, on Friday urged utility regulators to beef up security at power plants and substations around the nation. They said the "sophisticated attack" was a "wake-up call" about threats to crucial infrastructure.
"We ought to be hyper-alert," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose), whose district includes the substation. "These were pros."
Counter-terrorism officials have repeatedly warned of a potential cyberattack that could disable or crash electric grids, causing outages and billions of dollars in damage, and federal authorities and utilities have rushed to beef up their digital defenses. But the assault 15 miles southeast of San Jose was decidedly low-tech.
Law enforcement sources and others briefed on the investigation say the gunmen fired 120 rounds from a high-powered rifle and that nearly every shot hit the transformers 40 yards away in a 20-minute period.
The transformers began to leak tens of thousands of gallons of oil. They overheated and shut down, but did not explode.
The attackers managed "to disable these transformers without blowing them up and attracting attention," Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) said on "Fox News Sunday."
Officials say the attackers brought night-vision scopes for their weapons, used heavy wire cutters to snip fiber-optic cables in a below-ground bunker and knew the specific manholes to open to reach the right cables.
The team briefly disabled the 911 emergency system and phone lines. They set off a motion detector by the fence before leaving, but the facility sits beside U.S. 101, a convenient escape route.
They were "clearly knowledgeable" about the layout of the substation and its communication systems, said one federal official, who, like others, was speaking confidentially because the investigation is continuing.
The perpetrators arrived shortly before 1 a.m. and were gone 52 minutes later. Apparently the first call to authorities came from a driver speeding by on U.S. 101. He alerted police in Gilroy, about 20 miles south. "Fireworks" were coming from the substation, he said.
An operator at the Metcalf Energy Center, beside the substation, placed an emergency call about the same time.
Then the trail went dry.
"These guys took pains to make sure they would not be detected," a federal official said. "And they got away."
Sources said investigators had found no fingerprints on the shell casings, no matchable boot prints and no tire tracks from getaway vehicles.
A four-minute black-and-white surveillance video, which the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office posted online, shows little more than a line of trees and flashes of light along a chain-link perimeter fence, possibly including a waving flashlight.
No phone calls, emails or letters have claimed responsibility, "at least none that are credible," one official said.
No composite drawings of possible suspects have been released. Few clues have emerged since local authorities issued a brief news release hours after the attack saying that "no suspect information is available."
"Everything now plays into motivation," an FBI official said. "You know what happened but not yet who might have done it. So a couple of key thoughts come into play. How sophisticated were they, and what was their intent here?"
Dozens of facilities linked to the nation's three major electric grids, including transmission towers and substations, are vandalized each year. But those incidents generally involve disgruntled workers, bored target shooters, copper wire thieves or disturbed individuals.
In November, for example, a federal grand jury indicted Jason Woodring of Jacksonville, Ark., on charges of sabotaging energy facilities in central Arkansas. Court documents describe him as a methamphetamine addict who owned two rifles, three shotguns and ammunition. After he was arrested, Woodring was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
In 1990, the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment warned that utilities were "vulnerable to saboteurs with explosives or just high-power rifles."
Authorities are fairly certain that the assailants in California were not drunk hunters or bored teenagers on a late-night lark.
"They knew what they wanted to target, they had an objective and carried it out," said Jon Wellinghoff, who was chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the time of the shooting. "You don't learn from a video game how to target an AK-47 in those kinds of conditions as precisely as these people did."
R. James Woolsey, who headed the CIA from 1993 to 1995, agreed. "This was not just half a dozen teenagers who got hold of their father's hunting rifles and had too much beer," he said.
He noted it occurred in mid-April, the same month as the 1993 Waco siege, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1999 Columbine High School and 2007 Virginia Tech massacres, as well as the Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and wounded more than 260 others a day earlier.
"Maybe whoever was doing it was looking for a double hit," Woolsey said.
In the earlier attacks, the assailants were arrested or killed. Whoever shot up the Silicon Valley substation remains free.
"We'd definitely like some arrests," said Stephanie McCorkle, spokeswoman with the California Independent System Operator, the nonprofit corporation that manages most of the state's power grid. "We'd all sleep better then."
Times staff writers Brian Bennett in Washington and Marc Lifsher in Sacramento contributed to this report.


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Lola Alvarez Bravo was Mexico's first woman photographer, and her work is exceptional both for its remarkable range and its compelling quality. She played a vital role in the Mexican cultural scene, as an inspiring teacher of photography, as friend of innumerable artists and writers (many of whom she photographed), and as owner of the gallery that presented the first solo show by her friend Frida Kahlo, the subject of some of Alvarez Bravo's most powerful portraits.
She began making photographs, under the tutelage of her then husband, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, in 1926, Lola achieved her own aesthetic during the 1940s and '50s, especially in portraiture and street photography. In these engaging images she found a way to reveal a lyricism in the world around her, producing quiet reveries on life lived in the moment.
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Qwertyuiopasd wrote:daftbeaker wrote:Someone is quite welcome to buy their own copies of everything written by Darwin, Dawkins, Pratchett and Sharpe and burn it all. I can either throw a massive incoherent rage and shoot people or I can accept that they did what they wanted with their property.
That's not exactly a fair comparison. You don't believe (and keep in mind I mean a very strong belief) that those books are written by, or at least inspired by God, and that it's the most central message in the entire universe.
I was just taking the closest approximation. If someone burnt my stuff I would promptly set about them with my cane. Burning their own stuff may well be a waste of books but it's their decision and my getting annoyed about it is a choice, as is any subsequent action of mine.
Qwertyuiopasd wrote:One interpretation of Karzai's statement is "It really doesn't accomplish anything to burn the Qu'ran, except to piss off people with guns. It's also really insulting to many of us who won't necessarily do anything violent about it, so for both our sake, and the sake of world peace, could you not do that?"
I read it as "I'm a Muslim. Despite there being a massive war with huge deaths to remove my country from a theocracy, I'm hell-bent on installing my own version of a theocracy." Destroying a Qu'ran may be an insult to Muslims, it is no more an insult to a country than me blowing my nose.
Qwertyuiopasd wrote:I would agree with Yudhoyono, too. Perhaps not with those same words, or any implied violent/forceful actions, but I personally won't be satisfied until everyone realizes and agrees that this kind of behavior is stupid and unhelpful, and doesn't do it.
And it's stupid and unhelpful because? It's the same thing as Draw Muhammad day, which I think you were in favour of (can't check, the thread's been pruned). It's a gesture designed to piss off Muslims and remind them that not everyone believes what they believe, that their reactions are overblown and stupid.
Qwertyuiopasd wrote:And as far as Petreaus's comments, I'm not going to defend any actions of the U.S. in the middle east, but from their perspective, what they're doing as the military is necessary, and burning Qu'rans isn't. I mean, no one wants to go to war in general terms, we do it because the results we're looking for outweigh the cost, at least from the perspective of the people in charge. Burning the Qu'ran is a net loss. It doesn't accomplish anything in the middle east, it only is fuel for the fundamentalists, and will increase violent acts against U.S. soldiers, and possibly others.
I objected to the idea that burning private property in the US is going to put coalition troops in more danger than they were already in or that it's somehow worse than murdering people trying to get the wounded to safety.


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Dear Annie: Many years ago, I was raped. Back then, there weren't any rape counselors. I confided in my sister but never reported it. I learned to live through it.
A few years later, I was stunned to see this same man at my nephew's college graduation party. I told my sister this was the man who had raped me. She said she had never seen "Nick" display any violent tendencies and that she and her husband had many business dealings with him.
He then showed up at her place for another party. His presence brought back all of my suppressed fears. I was frightened, cried and left, but not before I shared my experience with my two grown nephews. My sister was livid that I told her sons about the rape. I said they deserve to know who their parents' friends are. Nick was chummy with my nephews, and it made me sick.
My fears began to fade when I learned that Nick was moving out of state. My husband and I also moved away. My sister never confronted Nick about me. But when I came back to visit a few years ago, I saw pictures of her 50th birthday party, and there was Nick, seated with her family, having a great time.
My sister is now 68. Looking through her Facebook page, I saw Nick in several recent photos of her with her friends. I am terribly upset that she continues to associate with this man and apparently doesn't care how I feel. How do I work through this? I don't want to ruin my friendship with my sister. — Still Scared
Dear Still: Your sister prefers to deny that Nick raped you, because it allows her to maintain a relationship with a man with whom she has business dealings. It's good that you have moved far enough away to limit contact. We also suggest you steer clear of her Facebook page, where you are likely to see photographs of Nick. But please know that it is never too late to get counseling. Contact RAINN (rainn.org) and ask to speak to someone.
Dear Annie: Cremation seems to be getting more popular, but advisory notices from the cremation societies all say that there is at present no way of extracting DNA from cremains.
I feel the funeral homes should be obligated to preserve a DNA sample, even if it is a lock of hair. Some years ago, a woman named Anna Anderson claimed, probably sincerely, that she was Grand Duchess Anastasia from the Czarist Romanov family. A DNA sample proved otherwise. She had been cremated, and no one ever would have known the truth, but fortunately, a body part from an earlier operation had been preserved.
I realize that was an unusual case, but it did solve a mystery, and there may be others waiting to be solved. Perhaps people could make a provision in their will that a DNA sample be preserved. — P.J.
Dear P.J.: You are correct that DNA is destroyed during the cremation process. However, we don't necessarily agree that the burden of extracting a DNA sample should belong to the funeral homes, and a provision in a will would be heard too late. In potential criminal cases, the police handle it. Otherwise, if someone wants their DNA preserved, they can do it on their own or notify family members to take a sample before consigning the body to the funeral home.
Dear Annie: I agree with your response to "Worried" that he shouldn't be so upset about his girlfriend's risk-taking behavior based on her age.
However, I wish you had addressed the issue of the lady's constant changing of the meeting times. This shows a total lack of respect and consideration for her partner. This relationship will not last based on this issue alone. — No Procrastinator
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I don't think it's any better, just different.tehkory wrote:Why is this idea better than just giving RPP skill-boosts at a given level, given that that can achieve much the same thing with less math/calculation/complications? It sounds nice, but isn't "RPP gets you skills" the core of both systems?
The main difference is that instead of buying a 10 point skill boost for a 2 rpp you could get around 150 skill points (for a new character only). The intent is basically what Bones pointed out.
Yes, the basic premise is 'RPP gets you skills', I just thought it was worth considering allowing for a bit of carry over between characters (as far as skill points went). It's a bit of a reward to you for rolling a new character, or us saying that we respect the time you put in to build up the skills on your previous character, it sucks that he/she died, maybe giving you a bit of a skill boost will help you feel better.
An average to good player has around 2 to 3 roleplay points, so this would allow them to hold on to some of those hard-earned skill points.
I could be all wet though, and part of the allure for grinders is the actual grinding of skills. But I would think if that was the case, they could choose not to take these skill boosts and grind away.
I'm neither for or against this idea at the moment. Merely considering it and asking your opinion as well.


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Since then she started several projects along with other musicians, also attending to music schools. but school did not really fulfill her musical needs, nor did the bands or projects she belonged to.
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Comedians Headline Saturday's Showby Howard W. Hewitt • October 12, 2007 Share:
Two nationally-known comedians will headline a comedy show Family Day weekend at Wabash College.
Tim Cavanaugh and John Garrett will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Chapel. The Student Senate sponsors the visits as it's national act. A second comedy show will be held just two weeks later when Chicago's famous improvisational troupe the Second City Players will appear.
"The SCAC wanted to try something different this semester, and save money with a few smaller acts that we think will be similar in quality to the one big show," said SACC co-chair John Moore. "It allows us more flexibility to try new ideas, both this semester and in the spring."
Cavanaugh and Garrett are both national touring comedians. Both are also well known for frequent appearances on the nationally-syndicated Bob & Tom Radio Show out of Indianapolis.
Cavanaugh is known for his song parodies. His short songs earned him a permanent spot on the Bob & Tom Show in 1997. He continues to share his parodies regularly. He has appeared on Comedy Central, The Showtime Comedy Club Network, and on a prime-time ABC special, George Schlatter's Comedy Club.
For fans of the truly weird, Cavanaugh has also been a frequent contributor to the Dr. Demento Show. Cavanaugh has headlined at comedy clubs across the nation for more than 20 years. Besides his Bob & Tom appearances, he's also appeared frequently on the Dann7 Bonaduce Show (think Partridge Family) out of L.A.
Garrett, a form CPA, makes good use of his business background in his comedy material. "I realized that I found more enjoyment in making fun of corporate American than I did in being a Senior Financial Analyst," he says on his website.
Garrett, a Notre Dame graduate, also tours the nation's comedy club and does many private events. He blogs from the road about his comedy travels across the nation.
Students with a valid ID will be admitted free to the show. Any one else can see the two comedians for $5.
The Student Activities Committee will also host a Casino Night later this semester with lots of prizes. Moore reports the group is also in final negotiations with a popular rock band for the spring National Act.
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One of the most accomplished players in SCU history
2010 WCC Player of the Year and NCAA tournament qualifier
Won two collegiate tournament titles
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2010 Southern California Golf Association (SCGA) Amateur Champion
2010 Male Amatuer Athlete of the Year, San Jose Sports Hall of Fame
AS A REDSHIRT SENIOR IN 2010-11: Competed in all 12 events for the Broncos as the lone senior on the team … won the Desert Intercollegiate with a 213 total that included rounds of 74, 70, and 69 (his second collegiate tournament victory) … finished 3rd at the Palouse Cougar Collegiate with the best event total of the season for the SCU golf team of 204 (-12) that included rounds of 67, 71, and season best 66 (-6) … tied for 4th at the St. Mary's Invitational with rounds of 69, 71, and 77 … finished 9th at the Anteater Invitational with rounds of 71, 70, and 78 … tied for 11th at the Del Walker Intercollegiate shooting 74, 72, and 70 … tied for 18th at the UTA/Waterchase Invitational with rounds of 72, 72, and 74 … tied for 19th at the WCC Championships where he shot 73 and 82 in the first two rounds, but finished strong with a third round 68 … tied for 26th at the Pacific Invitational with rounds of 75, 72, and 69.
AS A REDSHIRT JUNIOR IN 2009-10: Selected as the 2010 West Coast Conference 'Player of the Year' ... named to the All-WCC First Team ... won the 99th California State Amateur Championship in the summer of 2010 ... 2010 Southern California Golf Association (SCGA) Amateur Champion, not only breaking the Amateur's scoring record with a 16-under-par 268, but became the first person since 1942 to win the event concurrently with the California State Amateur ... the previous SCGA Amateur scoring record was 14-under-par 270, which was set by Tiger Woods in 1994 during his first SCGA Amateur win at the par-71 Hacienda Golf Club ... the SCGA Amateur-California State Amateur combo win has only happened three times in the events' simultaneous 99-year history: Dr. Paul Hunter in 1921, George Von Elm in 1925 and Johnny Dawson in 1942 ... finished the fall season ranked 60th nationally by Golf Week and among the NCAA leaders in scoring average (69.4) … tied for 2nd at the Del Walker Intercollegiate with a season best 66 (-4), followed by a 68, and 67 to finish with a very impressive total of 201 … finished 2nd at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate with rounds of 71, 71, and 69 … finished 3rd at the BancorpSouth Intercollegiate with rounds of 69, 73, and 68 … tied for 4th at the Braveheart Classic with rounds of 79, 69, and 68 … tied for 5th at the Spartan Classic with rounds of 69, 68, and 71 … finished 6th at the Anteater Invitational where he shot 69, 68, and 75 … tied for 6th at the WCC Championships with rounds of 77, 72, and 73 … tied for 7th at the Herb Wimberly Intercollegiate with rounds of 70, 67, and 70 … tied for 8th at the Turtle Bay Resort College Invitational with rounds of 75, 69, and 70.
AS A JUNIOR IN 2008-09: Redshirted the season due to health reasons.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2007-08: Competed in nine of ten events for the Broncos and was very impressive … won the UCI Anteater Invitational with rounds of 68, 68, and 72 (won on a three hole playoff) … tied for 4th at the Fresno State Classic with rounds of 70, 71, and 69 … tied for 6th at the Purple and Red Invitational with two under par rounds of 71 and 70 (two round tournament) … tied for 11th at the UH Hilo Invitational with rounds of 70, 69, and a season low round of 66 … tied for 11th at the SCU Invitational with rounds of 73, 69, and 73 … was named to the All-WCC First Team for the 2007-08 Season ... earned WCC Player of the Month award for his play in March.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2006-07: Competed in five events for the Broncos as a true freshman … best finish of the year was tying to 21st at the Callaway Golf Invitational with rounds of 72, 74, and 74 … also tied for 43rd at the CordeValle Intercollegiate with rounds of 74, 75, and 69.


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