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Former NBA center Shawn Bradley, who is 7-foot-6, was distraught after his custom-made Trek road bicycle was stolen last week.
But thanks to some good detective work, the bike was returned to him on Thursday.
Since the bike is far too big for the average person to ride, Bradley speculates that the thief planned to pawn or sell it. It's valued at between $6,000 and $10,000.
Authorities found the bike after conducting a random search of a home in Murray, Utah, where Bradley has a house. Thirty-four-year-old Joshua Carter was arrested for the crime.
"It's just kind of a weird story. It's not like I can go down to the bike shop and buy a new bike. It'd be the same if my clothes were stolen," Bradley said.
Bradley began cycling after he gained weight following his retirement. Since then, he's shed some of the pounds. He was just happy to get his beloved bike back.
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This is the last month for It's Sew Easy Bee-ing Green Bee. Diane requested blocks about home. She sent some bold colors and patterns in her fabric, so I added some gray, white and the window fabric to make this:
I finished my last quarter for the 3x6 Bee in July, but I volunteered to make an angel block, so this is my last block for that bee. I pulled out my sketchbook and drew a block of quarter square triangles and then drew a few lines and erased a few others and came up with this:
And the May Moms Bee finished last month but I was
I used all of the brights in the second block and added a few to balance the block to my eye. I love how she chose a lot of white background prints which adds an extra visual layer to this block. My eye has to scan it closer to see that pattern, and I love it.
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The rest of the 840 Series SSD
There's more to Samsung's 840 Series SSD than its 21-nm TLC NAND. Heck, there's more to the NAND than the fab process and the number of bits per cell. Like the last two generations of Samsung SSDs, the 840 Series' flash memory conforms to the Toggle DDR NAND specification. This standard was jointly developed with Toshiba and is an alternative to the ONFI flash spec backed by Intel, Micron, and Hynix.
Toggle DDR is capable of executing reads and writes on both the rising and falling edges of a data strobe, hence the DDR moniker. Synchronous ONFI NAND has a similar double data rate driven by an external clock cycle. That external clock is always running, while Toggle DDR turns on its data strobe only when transfers are taking place. As a result, Toggle DDR chips should be more power-efficient at idle than their ONFI counterparts. We'll put that notion to the test a little later in the review when we probe the 840 Series' power consumption.
Although Samsung has equipped its SSDs with Toggle DDR NAND for a couple of years, the 840 Series is the first to use flash chips compliant with version 2.0 of the Toggle standard. The initial spec allowed for transfer rates up to 133 MT/s, a ceiling that's been bumped up to 400 MT/s for Toggle DDR2. That 400 MT/s limit nicely matches the maximum data rate of the ONFI 3.0 specification, by the way.
To support the 840 Series' faster NAND, Samsung has cooked up a new revision of its proprietary, triple-core SSD controller. Like the 830 Series' MCX controller, this new MDX chip has eight memory channels and ARM9-based processor cores. Multiple cores are used to prevent background tasks like garbage collection from slowing the drive's performance with user workloads. The firmware controls which tasks are assigned to the individual cores, and there's some flexibility to shuffle the load around.
Samsung always makes a point of highlighting the fact that its controller technology doesn't use SandForce-style write compression. A little compression mojo might not be a bad idea given the inherent endurance handicap associated with 21-nm TLC NAND, though. Compression allows fewer blocks to be written to the NAND, reducing the write amplification factor and leaving more write-erase cycles in reserve. This approach biases performance toward easily compressible data, but there are ways to reduce the write amplification factor without resorting to compression. SSDs can also wring more life out of their NAND with smarter error correction and signal processing algorithms. Alas, we couldn't pry any specifics from Samsung regarding its use of those techniques.
We do, however, know that the 840 Series attempts to extend its lifespan by reserving more NAND capacity as spare area available only to the controller. The drive's 120, 250, and 500GB capacities are a bit lower than the 128, 256, and 512GB you might recall from the 830 Series.
Lower capacities usually hint at the presence of RAID-like schemes that protect against physical flash failures. The 840 Series doesn't arrange its NAND in a redundant array, though. Samsung restricts NAND-level redundancy to its enterprise-grade drives. It does, however, endow the 840 Series with full-disk encryption support.
Despite the fact that the 840 Series is aimed at the mainstream market, the family doesn't include anything below 120GB. Perhaps that's because the base model's street price is already quite low, at just $100.
If you think that's low, check out the sequential write speed ratings for the various members of the 840 Series lineup.
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Ouch. The 250GB model's 240MB/s maximum sequential write speed doesn't inspire confidence. To put it in perspective, consider that the old Samsung 830 Series 256GB is rated for 400MB/s sequential writes. That drive has the same write speed rating as its 512GB sibling, but there's a sizable gap between the 250 and 500GB versions of the 840 Series. I suspect the larger 840 Series drive uses a greater number of NAND dies, allowing it to exploit more parallelism within the controller. We've asked Samsung to reveal the size and number of NAND dies for each member of the 840 Series but are still awaiting an answer.
For what it's worth, the performance of contemporary MLC SSDs tends to plateau at around 256GB. TLC NAND can serve the same capacity with fewer dies, but it looks like the 840 Series 250GB doesn't have enough dies to take full advantage of the controller.
Of course, the NAND dies aren't the only memory chips onboard the 840 Series. The drive features DRAM cache memory used primarily to store lookup tables. This low-power DDR2 cache also serves as a landing pad for some incoming host writes. The 120GB model has a 256MB cache, while the higher-capacity flavors sport 512MB.
We'd love to show you a gratuitous close-up of the 840 Series' DRAM cache and other chips, but Samsung has locked down the case with pentalobe screws straight out of Apple's playbook. (We're in the process of obtaining the tool required to crack open the case.) In some ways, the drive bears an eerie resemblance to the iPhone 5. The case is black; it's rectangular with rounded corners; and a chamfered edge runs around the rim. At just 7 mm thick, the 840 Series should be slim enough for Apple, too—and for folks looking to upgrade thinner notebooks that can't accommodate the 9.5-mm cases that house most SSDs.
Speaking of upgrades, the SSD Magician utility that accompanies Samsung SSDs is one of the best around. There's secure-erase functionality, of course, plus optimization routines and a built-in benchmark. The integrated flashing utility can reach out and grab updates directly from Samsung, and the overprovisioning can be tweaked to allocate more NAND capacity as spare area. Don't get too excited about that cloning icon, though. It refers to a copy of Norton Ghost 15 that's included only with drives sold as part of upgrade kits.
If you want to keep tabs on the health of the 840 Series' TLC NAND, drilling down in the System Information section of the interface reveals an estimated lifetime display based on SMART data. After hammering our drive with several days of testing, the needle remains close to 100 percent. Speaking of testing, it's time to see how this puppy performs.


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Bunn Writes Two Generations of ULTIMATE COMICS WOLVERINE
Cullen Bunn isn't staying away from Wolverine for long. Earlier this month, on the same week that his last issue of the character's Marvel Universe solo book went on sale, Marvel announced a new Ultimate Comics Wolverine four-issue miniseries, written by Bunn and with art from IDW veteran David Messina, plus covers by Arthur Adams. And yes, even though the original Ultimate Universe Wolverine has been dead since Ultimatum, he'll be playing a part in the March-debuting Ultimate Comics Wolverine, thanks to the magic of flashbacks. In the present day, the book will chronicle the adventures of Jimmy Hudson, Wolverine's biological son who was raised by James and Heather Hudson and first introduced in 2010's Ultimate X. Newsarama talked with Bunn, who's also launching Fearless Defenders as a new Marvel NOW! series in February, about Ultimate Comics Wolverine, and why it's his most personal Marvel work yet. Newsarama: Cullen, Ultimate Comics Wolverine is still pretty freshly announced, I think it was made public nearly the same day your last issue of Wolverine proper went on sale…
Cullen Bunn: I think it was. I don't think that was intentional, but it was kind of kismet, I guess. [Laughs.]
Nrama: This is your Ultimate line debut — how much of a fan have you been of the Ultimate Universe over the years? And how do you see your writing as a good fit for the imprint?
Bunn: I've been following the Ultimate Universe since before I was working in comics. I was actually not reading comics [in 2000, when the Ultimate line started]. I had collected comics for years as a kid, and in my college years I kind of got out of comics completely. I happened to go into a comic book shop right around the time Ultimate X-Men had just came out, and I thought it was such an interesting idea. I loved the idea of this fresh take on these characters that I grew up loving, and I always felt, at least initially, like it was more of a realistic, real-world take on these superheroes, and I really liked that as well. I'm not going to say that was the only book that got me back into reading comics again, but it was definitely one of the first books that I picked up when I got back into reading comics.
I've been following the [Ultimates] and the [Ultimate X-Men] stories pretty regularly, on and off. I've kept up with it in trade or in single issues, one way or another, since that time.
Nrama: Reaching out to lapsed readers was one of the original goals of the Ultimate line, and it sounds like that was definitely the case for you.
Bunn: Yeah, it was. One of the things I like about the Ultimate Universe is that "dead is dead." In particular, it's interesting with Wolverine, since Logan died and we have this legacy character of Jimmy. It's not just "Wolverine Jr." He's a fresh take on the Wolverine concept, and I really like that.
Nrama: And this series is featuring both of them, correct?
Bunn: It is. The way I've structured it, you're going to see one of Logan's missions in the past, and Jimmy's going to be on sort of a mirror mission. Their two missions are going to run parallel with each other. The story weaves together, and it reveals some things about Logan, and a lot of stuff about Jimmy, in particular.
Nrama: Since you just got finished with a stint writing Wolverine in the classic Marvel Universe, how similar do you see his Ultimate counterpart? How differently are you approaching the character here?
Bunn: The Logan of the Ultimate Universe is definitely a little bit of a darker character. A little bit edgier. As I'm writing him, he's pretty similar — in my mind, at least — to the classic Logan. He's not wearing the yellow and black and things like that, especially in this story, but he's closer to the classic Logan than I thought he would be.
And that could just be my perception of him, because as I'm writing him, and as I'm writing Jimmy at the same time — Jimmy as Wolverine is so different from the current mainstream Wolverine character.Ultimate Comics
X-Men #1.Nrama: With Jimmy, even though he's been around for a couple of years now, it seems like there's a lot of room to explore. How attractive is that aspect of the character for you?
Bunn: That's a big part of it. It's interesting. You think about classic Wolverine, and there was always this mystery of where he came from, and who he was. And to some degree, we have that with Jimmy Hudson. All we really know about Jimmy and where he came from was this holographic message that Logan left for him. At one point in the message, it even says, "It's best you don't ask about your mom right now. Focus on other things." I think there's a lot of mystery involved with Jimmy, and that's really where this story came from. That was the seed of this series — let's explore some of the things that we don't know about Jimmy, and by extension, that's stuff we don't know about Logan and his past.
Nrama: This sounds like a pretty solidly solo mission for both — and not a story that includes too many other X-Men characters?
Bunn: Yeah, it doesn't. In the first issue you get some interaction with some of the other Ultimate Universe X-Men characters, Kitty Pryde in particular. But beyond that, it's pretty much a Jimmy Hudson story, and definitely a solo story with Logan. This is not a series where you're going to see, say, Captain America sweep in and interact with these characters. This is their story.
Nrama: David Messina is on art. [.] It's clearly early, but what are your thoughts at this point on the collaboration?
Bunn: He is really great. He's turned in the first half of the first issue so far, and it looks really awesome. He is a perfect choice for the Ultimate Universe, I think, and he's getting to do some really cool superhero stuff, but within more of a real-world vibe. I couldn't be happier.
I'm definitely approaching it as sort of a spy/thriller, black-ops type story. My high-concept pitch was "The Bourne Identity with Wolverine." It changes as I write it, but that's still a pretty good starting point for what I'm doing with this book.
Nrama: You told ComicsAlliance that this is a very personal story for you. To whatever degree you're comfortable, what more can you tell us about that side of the series?
Bunn: Jimmy Hudson was raised by James Hudson and Heather Hudson. They were his adoptive parents. My wife and I adopted our son a few years ago from China. And it almost haunts us sometimes — my son will never know his birth mother. My son was abandoned at an amusement park the day he was born. I always think about that with him. When he gets older — he's 4 now — what is he going to want to know about his birth parents? It's going to be very limited what he can find out, or what anybody can find out.
This story, a big part of it, is Jimmy learning more about his biological father, and then coming to grips with the idea of who his real parents are — his real parents being James and Heather. There's a big part of the story — without spoiling anything — about what would make Jimmy into Wolverine. Is it his biological father and his birth mother, who really had no bearing in his upbringing? He's such a drastically different character from Wolverine, and all of that comes from the people who raised him. I think it's an interesting story; about why Logan picked those two, what Logan may have wanted to see happen with his kid, and Jimmy's understanding of who he is, where he came from, and who had a hand to play in who he became. The mutant power, that's in his genes. His personality, and who he is as a person, came from his upbringing, and the time he spent with his mother and father.Ultimate Wolverine
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by Axel Torvenius.Nrama: It must be an interesting, and rewarding, process to apply that level of close personal experience to a story like this.
Bunn: I very rarely say, "I'm going to make a statement about this." I think when people set out to do that he becomes very forced.
When I sat down, just what I told you earlier, I said, "I'm going to write The Bourne Identity with Wolverine." As I started writing it, very early in that first issue, it hit me like a runaway train, and all of these other ideas started boiling up that changed the course of the story, and the notes I want to hit along the way, and where I want to end the story. I think, at the end of it, it will be a new status quo for Jimmy. He'll be different person, for sure.
Nrama: Though it likely might not always happen, it seems inevitable that a writer brings something personal to projects, even if it's completely unexpected.
Bunn: I think it is. Every writer brings their own personal side to every story. For me, this is the first of the books I've worked on with Marvel that meshed really well with that. It's a side of Jimmy's story that speaks to me on a very personal level.More from Newsarama:
- Who's Dead, Who's Evil: What Makes ULTIMATE Marvel Unique
- Is That Classic Nick Fury on an ULTIMATES Cover?
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VIDEO: Jason Collins signs with the Nets
Less than two months ago when they were 10-21 following a New Year's Eve thumping, one might have believed there was a better chance of seeing an openly gay athlete in a NBA game than seeing Brooklyn in the playoffs.
Now Jason Collins and the Nets will try to break down barriers together.
By signing the 35-year-old 7-footer to a 10-day contract, it could be said the No. 8 seeded team is clawing desperately to hold onto the last playoff spot in the moribund Eastern Conference.
"The decision to sign Jason was a basketball decision," Nets general manager Billy King said in the statement. "We needed to increase our depth inside, and with his experience and size, we felt he was the right choice for a 10-day contract."
And maybe if this were 10 or 20 years from now, that's all it would be, a line of agate type in the transactions column.
For now though, it is one giant leap for sportskind, if only because it is the official opening of the societal and cultural closet door.
"Jason told us that his goal was to earn another contract with an NBA team," said commissioner Adam Silver. "Today, I want to commend him on achieving his goal. I know everyone in the NBA family is excited for him and proud that our league fosters an inclusive and respectful environment."
Athlete Ally ambassador and Denver Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried said: "With Jason Collins signing with the Nets today, I believe our world as professional athletes will open up and become less ignorant of gay male athletes playing and more accepting and embracing of the whole situation."
It was back in April of last year when Collins revealed himself in Sports Illustrated to become the first openly gay male athlete in one of the four major American sports.
That announcement brought praise from President Obama, an invitation to the State of the Union address and a much higher profile than Collins had ever achieved with a 12-year NBA career in which he averaged just 3.6 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. Yet it didn't bring a training camp invitation from any of the 30 NBA clubs.
In the meantime, University of Missouri defensive end Michael Sam jumped into the headlines with his announcement that he is gay. Coming from the SEC co-defensive player of the year ahead of the NFL draft and from a 24-year-old at the start of his pro career, Sam's revelation was immediately considered much more a test of tolerance in the testosterone filled air of sports, even if it had been met with a collective shrug in his own college locker room last fall.
"We would accept it greatly and it shouldn't be a problem, man," Nets guard Joe Johnson told reporters last week. "We've got a veteran group and I think everybody is pretty comfortable in their own skin. It's about what he can do to help us out there on that court. That's what it's about."
Point guard Deron Williams said if Collins' addition would help the team, he's in favor.
"I think it's definitely going to be a media circus just because of the situation," Williams said. "But I think with the type of team that we have, veterans who have played with him before and know him, it shouldn't be a problem."
The Nets, in fact, are probably the most logical and comfortable fit for Collins. For one, team owner Mikhail Prokorov campaigned for gay rights during his presidential bid in Russia. What's more, veterans Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett are former teammates of Collins and Pierce was his most ardent backer when Collins came out last spring. Coach Jason Kidd also played alongside Collins with the Nets and will surely help foster an inclusive attitude.
"To each his own," Pierce said back in April. "It's probably going to open the door to many more. There's so many professional athletes, there's so many human beings, that are scared … because of the exposure of sports and what people might think about it. But I think what he did was a great thing, just to kind of open the door for other athletes who probably now are going to have the courage to come out."
There has already, of course, been an outcry from some on social media that it is all a story manufactured and overblown for a player whose career has been marginal at best. No one is interested, they say and post and tweet. Yet the fact they have read and posted and tweeted is the clearest contradiction of themselves.
Collins has put himself in the spotlight. However, the Nets also deserve credit for looking past any potential distractions to help shoulder the burden and make history.
Heat All-Star guard Dwyane Wade got the news and summed up what matters on the court about Collins: "One thing I know about him is he fouled very hard. …Welcome back."
For a chance to pull on the jersey, to lace up the sneakers, to try to help get the once forlorn Nets into the playoffs, smashing one previously unthinkable notion at a time.


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synapses are a mysterious thing... history and architecture, I've always had an interest in both.
Ok, let's try your luck once again, Pat.
This one's really tough, so if you're able to guess it, I'll have to start believeing you've got powers or something:
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SEATTLE — An Eastern Washington winery, La Pianta L.C.C., doing business as Frenchman Hills Vineyard, violated federal law when its vineyard manager sexually harassed a female worker employed at its facility in Othello, Wash., the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. This is the federal agency's second case filed this year charging sexual harassment against Pacific Northwest agricultural employers.
According to the EEOC's investigation, a Latina employee was targeted by the sole and highest-level manager at the farm for sexual harassment. He repeatedly isolated and intimidated her, and subjected her to intimate questions about her personal life, crude comments about her body, propositions and touching, the EEOC said. As the nature of the sexual harassment escalated, the worker felt the situation was so intolerable that she was forced to quit.
The worker, a 31-year-old mother of five children, explained that she had been desperate to find work. "I wanted to keep my job, I wanted to do my work and be left alone," she said. "But the fears and tension followed me home. And it got to the point where I did not feel safe at work."
Sexual harassment and constructive terminations (i.e., forced resignations) resulting from the harassment violate Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (EEOC v..La Pianta L.L.C dba Frenchman Hills Vineyard . (CV-09-1157-AC) after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement out of court. The worker will be represented in the lawsuit by the Northwest Justice Project, which is a partner in the AMPARO Project to empower farmworker women to be free from sexual harassment. The EEOC seeks monetary damages on behalf of the worker, training on anti-discrimination laws, posting of notices at the work site, and other injunctive relief.
EEOC Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo said, "We have found that throughout the country, women working in agriculture are often particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment. We hope that lawsuits such as this one will send notice to employers in this industry to end predatory sexual behavior and abuses of supervisory power."
EEOC San Francisco District Director Michael Baldonado added, "This employer failed to properly train its employees in order to protect against this sort of worker abuse. The EEOC will continue to focus on finding new and better ways to reach the most vulnerable discrimination victims, like farm workers, in order to halt this kind of illegal treatment."
Earlier this year in June, EEOC filed a lawsuit against Willamette Tree Wholesale, Inc. located in Molalla, Ore., alleging that Latina workers there were sexually harassed, threatened, and in one case, repeatedly raped. Also, this August, Wilcox Farms, which operates dairy and egg production facilities in Oregon and Washington, agreed to pay $260,000 to a female worker at its Aurora, Ore., facility and provide remedial relief to settle a federal sexual harassment and retaliation suit brought by the EEOC.
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Wabash Lands Grant To Aid First-Generation Students
by Jim Amidon
May 19, 2010
Wabash College has been selected as a recipient of a
Council of Independent Colleges
and Walmart Foundation "College Success Award" that will provide funding for pilot programs that will enhance the opportunities for success by the College's first generation students.
Wabash is among 30 CIC member institutions to receive one of the competitive grants to strengthen programming for first generation students. The newly selected 30 institutions and the 20 initial College Success Award recipients (selected in June 2008) will work together as a network to assist first-generation college students, learn from one another, and serve as models for other colleges and universities.
Wabash will receive a grant of $50,000 that will fund an experimental two-year program.
"The 20 colleges and universities selected for the initial awards in 2008 have done a great job in rising to the challenges of retaining and graduating first-generation students," said Walmart Foundation president Margaret McKenna. "The
Walmart Foundation
is proud to provide the opportunity for an additional 30 institutions to participate in the program and contribute to the growing body of knowledge on how best to support these students."
Wabash College is a liberal arts college with an enrollment of 893 men, of whom 60% are first generation college students. The College ranks high nationally in measures of student engagement, but has discovered that many first generation students are less likely to graduate in four years and to obtain academic honors, and less likely to take advantage of the full range of majors in the College, especially math and science. Wabash has begun addressing these issues with enhanced faculty advisor training, improved orientation, and better communication with incoming students.
Wabash has a long tradition of educating students who are the first in their families to go to College. "Wabash is noted for transforming the lives of all our students," President Patrick White said. "As strong as we already are in this important part of our mission, the College Success Award will help Wabash implement programs to support the learning and growth of first generation students."
Wabash students score highly on measures of student engagement such as the National Study of Student Engagement (NSSE). This is important, President White noted, because "Engagement with faculty and the College is key for retention and growth.
"When we analyzed new data gathered from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education (WNSLAE), we became aware that not all students were experiencing the same level of engagement," White said. "As part of our project, we will use WNSLAE data to examine more closely and improve the engagement experience of all our first generation students."
Using funds from the CIC/WalmartCollege Success Awards, Wabash will target 24 at-risk first generation freshmen in 2010-11 and 2011-12. The College will implement an Engagement Alert System (EASy) to provide early information about student academic and social progress, to support the faculty advising system, and to bolster student engagement with support systems, mentors, and peers.
Wabash will also build an alumni mentoring system connecting successful first generation alumni with the target group, providing each student with personal support, career development opportunities, and individual guidance for academic success.
"Our goal is to create a distinctive Wabash model for improving engagement, one that considers the fact that we have an all-male student body, that we have a connected alumni body committed to supporting student achievement, and that the Wabash ethos of student success can be strengthened for each and every student by enlisting the support of faculty, staff, and alumni to amplify engagement practices inside and outside the classroom," added President White.
A fall workshop will launch the mentoring relationship for students selected for Wabash's program. During the summer seven students will intern with their mentors while second semester another 10 will work locally with alumni mentors in work-study positions. Wabash will target the demonstrated needs of at-risk, first generation students who require academic, financial, and a wider network of human support.
Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of the College Cheryl Hughes will serve as director of Wabash's programs.
"This CIC/Walmart College Success Award fits directly with the work of the ad hoc Retention Committee, which aims to identify and support students who are at academic risk in their first year, especially those who are African American or Hispanic," said Hughes. "The award will fund one very important pilot program for eager and successful alumni to become mentors and role models for first generation students at Wabash College."
The CIC/Walmart College Success Awards program will include a national conference in 2011, online networking opportunities, and a final publication on best practices from both cohorts to be disseminated at the end of the grant period in 2013.
"Much attention has been focused recently on higher education as a key to making the United States workforce stronger and the country more competitive in the 21st century world economy," added CIC President Richard Ekman.
"Private colleges enroll comparable or higher percentages of lower-income and first-generation students to public institutions and they require far less subsidy by state governments to succeed in meeting these national goals," said Ekman. "Most importantly, nonprofit private institutions have moved beyond a focus on access to a record of unmatched success in retaining and graduating low-income and first-generation students."
According to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the six-year graduation rate of first-generation students at public four-year institutions is only 44 percent compared with 61 percent at private colleges and universities.
"In short, if we are to achieve the ambitious national goal of increased numbers of college graduates, the lessons learned from the experiences of private colleges will need to be heeded by national policymakers and others," Ekman stressed.
Wabash College
301 W Wabash Ave Crawfordsville, IN 47933 765.361.6100


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AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka blames… Mitt Romney??? for Hostess' demise.
"What's happening with Hostess Brands is a microcosm of what's wrong with America, as Bain-style Wall Street vultures make themselves rich by making America poor," Trumka said in a public statement. "Crony capitalism and consistently poor management drove Hostess into the ground, but its workers are paying the price."
Hostess Brands—a company started during the Great Depression—and Obama destroyed it. That has to qualify as an achievement of sorts.
"Trumka no go! Trumka stay with Sheriff Barack. Sheriff Barack first man ever whip Trumka.
Trumka impressed. Have deep feelings for Sheriff Barack."


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By Lang Whitaker, NBA.com
VIDEO: Heat hold off Bobcats' late rally to take 2-0 series lead
MIAMI — With 3:03 left to play in the first quarter of Game 2 between Miami and Charlotte, Bobcats coach Steve Clifford walked slowly up the Charlotte sideline from the bench toward halfcourt. His arms were folded, his head angled toward the court. If the floor were made out of dirt, he might have kicked it at that moment.
It wasn't just that the Heat were up 18-13 at the time, but that they were in the middle of a 10-0 run at the time, and the Bobcats weren't doing much to abate Miami's progress. Moments later, Al Jefferson would head for the locker room for treatment on a foot injury that left him laboring up and down the court like his shoelaces were tied together. The Heat compiled a 16-6 run to end the first quarter. For the period, the Bobcats had just one assist imbalanced against six turnovers. Kemba Walker's first points came with 6 minutes to play in the first half. By halftime, the Bobcats had rolled up 11 turnovers.
Before Game 1 of this series, Clifford talked about the importance of protecting the ball against the Miami Heat. During the regular season, the Charlotte Bobcats averaged 12.3 turnovers, the lowest rate in the NBA. During Game 1, the Bobcats piled up 15. Through the first half of Game 2, they totaled 12.
"You gotta give [Miami] credit, though," Josh McRoberts noted. "It's not like we were just out there throwing it around. They do a great job pressuring, trapping, playing their coverages to make it tough."
Despite all of this, the Bobcats hung around all night, making a game out of a game that probably didn't seem like it should have been much of a game. They protected the ball much better in the second half, adding just three more turnovers to their total. Jefferson gallantly played through the injury, though with every step the pain was painted not only on his face but across his entire body — Jefferson still logged 40 minutes and finished with 18 points and 13 boards. ("He's a tough hombre," said Miami coach Erik Spoelstra. "He's a tough guy. I mean, that is not an easy thing to fight though.")
By the end of the game, the Bobcats had the ball down three with 10 seconds left to play, but a broken play ended with a turnover and an eventual 101-97 win for Miami.
The Bobcats have looked tenacious against the Heat in spurts, but they haven't been able to sustain that production on either end of the court. In Game 1 of the series, according to SportVU numbers, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist held LeBron to one point on 0-for-4 shooting from the field in 5:10 of matchup time. The problem was foul trouble: Kidd-Gilchrist played just 14 minutes and finished with four fouls. In Game 2, Kidd-Gilchrist played 34 minutes and scored 22 points, but even with his best efforts, LeBron finished with 32 points, eight assists and six rebounds.
After a first-round playoff knockout in 2010 at the hands of the Orlando Magic, it took the Charlotte Bobcats four seasons, dozens of players, four coaches and two general managers to get back to the postseason. And it definitely got worse before it got better — in 2011-12, the Bobcats won just .109 percent of their games, a record for futility. Two seasons later the Bobcats finished with 44 wins and a rosy outlook: The Bobcats have both youth and cap flexibility on their side. Of course, having a bright future is cold comfort when you're down 0-2 to the defending NBA champs, and have lost 18 games in a row to the Heat.
After the game, I asked McRoberts if he could take anything positive from the loss — that even though they lost, they were within three with 10 seconds remaining.
"No." McRoberts said. "I mean I'm sorry to do that to your question, but no, I don't take anything positive from it. We didn't play that well. We made too many mistakes. We played horrible in the first half. You can't do that and expect to beat the best team. You can't beat the championship team with that level. So no, we want to win. We were disappointed."
"It's just more on us," Jefferson said of the Bobcats' situation. "We just got to get better and stop making so many mistakes that we should know better. Time and time over again. We gave them too many turnovers, 20 points off turnovers in the first half. That's all we gave them Game 1 and we gave that to them in the first half. We just got to slow down and just play the right way. We're letting them get us on our heels and we just got to get better in there."
"Honestly man, I think we're still really confident," Walker said. "We just have to learn from our mistakes. Our coaches do a great job at getting us prepared to play in these games and getting us prepared to win these games. We're going to go back home, we're going to go back to the drawing board, we're going to dissect these guys as well as we can, and get ready for the next one. I think we have a chance, man. I know these guys are defending champs, and it's not going to be easy. We're trying to win these games, and like I said, I think we have a chance."
McRoberts said he, like Walker, believes the Bobcats still have a chance in this series: "You got to, right? I mean, that's what we play for, that's what we're going to try to do. I'm not coming out guaranteeing anything, but we expect to win 82 times during the season and every time in the playoffs, too. That's the mindset you gotta play with."


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