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We started with a catch-up with the guys since last week. Drew's getting settled with the new house, the new baby and all that domestic goodness. Greg went on a comic book shop tour in the Atlanta area, visiting six shops. He used a site called Comic Shop Locator to find them, and some of the places he went to were pretty funny.
Next, an update on Affiliate Improv!, the new monthly webinar series that kicks off this Saturday, January 28th, at 2pm Eastern. It's an extension of the three-time Affiliate Summit session that I've helmed, and it's totally free to attend. We demonstrate effective brainstorming and show the process of going from idea to action list. Plus, attendees get inside info on the sites, services and techniques we use on our own sites to blow them up and attract attention. Come check us out and spread the word, won't you?
We covered Affiliate Summit Central, coming up in May. I'll be there, Greg will be there, Drew is on the 'maybe' list. The Emcee for #ASC12 was announced today and she seems like an awesome choice. Her name is Heather Romiti. None of us know her yet, but going by her bio and the trust that Shawn & Missy have placed in her, we're sure she's fantastic.
One of the more popular and well received sessions at Affiliate Summit West 2012 was Mastermind Groups Exposed: Success in Affiliate Marketing by Eric Nagel, Todd Farmer and Tricia Meyer. I recently got an invitation to join a mastermind group, and thought I'd bring up mastermind groups as a segment. I didn't realize Greg would have so much to say on the matter! (Sidebar: you know what I just realized as I was typing these show notes? All three of them are Pinnacle Award winners now that Tricia won her award at West 2012. How cool is that?)
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A round-up of stories on Washington wine from March 1st to 7th. See previous round-ups here.
From around the country…
The Miami Herald writes about Pacific Rim's 2008 Vin de Glaciere.
The Great Falls Tribune writes about an upcoming wine festival.
From the blogosphere…
Paul Gregutt writes about Walla Walla wineries cited for selling alcohol to minors. He also writes about Seven Hills library wines offered by Full Pull.
The Spectator writes about Washington distilleries.
Table Talk gives three ways to celebrate Washington wine month.
Northwest Whites writes about Syncline's 2009 Gruner Veltliner.
After Dark writes about Northstar's Big Dipper project.
SunBreak writes about Taste Washington.
Wine Peeps writes about a Taste Washington preview. They also write about the 2009 Columbia Riesling and 2006 Washington Syrah.
Blabbermouth.net writes about the new Insania release from Geoff Tate.
Nectar Tasting Room and Wine Blog gives a pay-per-view class on Social Media.
Lucha Vina pits Washington against France.
Woodinville Wine Update writes about Hestia Cellars moving.
WINO Magazine writes about Taste Walla Walla.
Wine Saints does a video post on Bartholomew.
Write for Wine writes about Syrah.
Under the Grape Tree writes about Next Cabernet Sauvignon and wines from Novelty Hill.
Parallel Winos posts about CZ Cellars Storm Front.
From the locals…
Writing for the Seattle Times, Paul Gregutt writes about recent Washington wine casualties.
Seattle Metropolitan writes about Washington wine month.
The West Seattle Herald writes about a cask wine program at Locol Barley and Vin.
Gig Harbor Patch writes about whether air is a good thing for wine.
The Bonner County Daily Bee writes about refillable bottles.
The Yakima Herald says outlook is sunny for valley tourism.
The Tigard/Tualatin/Sherwood Times writes about crafting your own wine at Tigard Wine Crafters.
The Tri-City Herald writes about Walla Walla wineries cited for selling to minors.
The Bellingham Herald writes about WineTrails author Steve Roberts.
The Tri-City Herald writes about Taste Washington.
KEPRTV writes about Walla Walla wineries citied for selling wine to minors.
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Wow! The A 'Big Dipper' Merlot is on the rise at Walla Walla's Northstar Winery article was very well written and a great read. I also always love seeing fellow beer brewers making wine :-).
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Micah, agreed on the Big Dipper story. Thanks for the heads up on the Renton Patch piece. My searches missed it. I'll make sure to include it in next week's round-up.
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Back in 2008, Hillary Clinton committed so many management sins it was hard to keep track of them all — yet none was worse than failing to establish a coherent, functional chain of command.
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People around Clinton say the once-and-perhaps-future candidate will learn from those mistakes if she runs again. But that will be easier said than done — and the initial roster of possible Clinton '16 staffers, culled from interviews with people in the Clinton and Obama orbits, reveal just how tough it will be to balance loyalty with the imperative of empowering young, talented newcomers.
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One indication Clinton's team might lean toward the latter in 2016: She is likely to soon start posting to the soon-to-be-activated @hillaryclinton on Twitter, signaling her first personal foray into the medium outside her official State Department account, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Who worked with Clinton to develop a social media strategy over the last four years? Katie Stanton — a young Twitter executive, former Obama campaign tech team member and State Department internet guru — who exemplifies the archetype of a new-era Clinton team member.
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Arriving at Yucca House National Monument leaves a lot to the imagination.
But that's half the fun of visiting this unexcavated ruin that keeps its secrets from when it was a thriving village 800 years ago.
Managed by Mesa Verde National Park, Yucca House (once known as Aztec Springs) is a series of sagebrush-covered mounds and depressions in the shadow of Sleeping Ute Mountain.
"Increasing interest in the site caused the park service to begin offering tours," said Jill Blumenthal, an interpretive ranger with Mesa Verde National Park. "Not a lot of research has been done on the site, but it has the potential for new discovery and could answer a lot of questions."
Blumenthal warns our group of seven to be wary of rattlesnakes and avoid trampling pot sherds that litter the undeveloped and remote monument, which is surrounded by private farmland north of Towaoc.
Don't expect the perfectly preserved and displayed kivas, towers, rooms and walls of the Mesa Verde cliff dwellers.
This is Yucca House. There are no signs on how to get there, the trails are faint and undeveloped, there are no exposed structures, save one stabilized wall, and no bathrooms, shops or eateries.
No interpretive signs means taking the guided tour is a must.
Indeed, to the untrained eye, Yucca House is unremarkable, but closer inspection while listening to the narrative backstory of a guide is intriguing.
The 35-acre Pueblo site includes 600 rooms, more than 100 kivas, several towers, multiple plazas, unexplained structures, and one great kiva.
"It was a significant village along the Montezuma Valley, a major transportation corridor to the Mancos and San Juan Rivers and around to Mesa Verde," Blumenthal says.
A crumpled rubble pile at the village entrance rises to a circular stone tower in the mind's eye: "Watching the comings and goings of the community, for defense, for astronomical study, nobody knows for sure."
A productive spring flows through the middle of the complex, and is protected by defensive walls and enclosed structures, an indication that residents were intensely protecting their water source at Yucca House.
Upper House rises above the village, a three-story Great House that is a mystery to archaeologists because it does not fit the timeframe of Pueblo III (1150-1300) and has Chacoan characteristics.
The purpose of a rare bi-wall structure surrounding a kiva is also not understood.
"Will this all be excavated?" asks Deepa Vijay, a New Jersey tourist.
Blumenthal says that is an ongoing debate within the park service. But right now there are no plans to excavate Yucca House.
"There are mixed feelings on that. It is well preserved now because it is not well known and people have stayed away," she says. "Inventory has been done; now managing the people who visit is the next step."
Noninvasive fieldwork was conducted on the site in 2000 in cooperation with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez. The project mapped all visible architecture using modern techniques and was the first official map made of the site in 100 years.
Interestingly, the first map of Yucca House was created in 1878 by William H. Homes as part of a U.S. Geological Survey, and it is not far off from today's modern one.
The tour shuffles across an ancient plaza, admiring individual piles of black-on-white pieces of pottery. One large decorative piece is part of a serving bowl that would have been shared during group feasting.
But the fact the sherds have been collected and moved into piles speaks to the need for more attention at the site.
"They have been disturbed and are now out of context so it takes away from research," Blumenthal says. "It has low visitation, but because of the Internet it is increasing and the park service is recognizing that better care is needed here."
Currently local landowners help keep watch over the site and allow for access, but it is not an ideal situation.
"Our hope is to have land for parking that is specifically part of the monument and not where it is now – in someone's driveway," Blumenthal says.
Yucca House culture is contemporaneous with that of Mesa Verde and its ancestors. The Hopi tribe's unique Tewa language has words referencing the site, and elders from the Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico have oral tradition about the village.
"It has a clear connection to the Pueblo people today," Blumenthal says. "It was a home of their ancestors, and the fact that it is still here relatively untouched and preserved as a national monument is special."
The next available tours of Yucca House are Sept. 10 and 19. A 2-3 hour tour begins at the Colorado Welcome Center and participants carpool to the site 8 miles south of Cortez.
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Cal Poly (9-9, 5-3 Big West) found itself trailing 49-47 with 13:04 remaining in the game after Josh Greene made a lay-up to break the tie but the Mustangs took over from there, going on a 28-15 run to end the game. Eversley hit the go-ahead 3-pointer to make it 50-49 and Cal Poly never looked back.
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Philly.com, the most popular news web site in Philadelphia, announced today that National Hockey League Hall of Famer Bernie Parent will join "The New Voices." Parent, nationally recognized for his successful career in hockey before an eye injury forced his early retirement in 1979, will be featured as contributor and columnist in his new role with Philly.com. Since retiring, Parent has become a dominant figure in the business community, inspiring audiences with his message on hard work and dedication.
"Bernie is one of the most legendary players in Flyers history who personally inspires me by the strong bond that he shares with so many in the community through his mentoring and leadership." said Lexie Norcross, Director of Interstate General Media, parent company of Philly.com. "We are thrilled Bernie will be part of Philly.com and know that he will instantly entertain and motivate readers."
"Readers are going to feel empowered and motivated in their daily lives when they experience Bernie's insights through the written word. From his book, to his motivational speeches, Bernie is raising the bar in this new platform and we're absolutely thrilled that he has agreed to become a columnist at Philly.com. Bernie brings an inspirational vision of how hard work and dedication can bring success even in the most difficult circumstances -- our readers are about to experience and learn about one of America's most influential sports-turned-business personalities," said Matt Romanoski, Executive Producer for Sports, Philly.com.
"I am very grateful to have this opportunity to be a contributor to "The New Voices" of Philly.com." said Parent. "I have always believed the fans of Philadelphia played a big role in the Flyers winning the two championships. I am forever grateful for their support. Philly.com provides a great forum for me to interact and share my life experience with the great people of Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey."
Parent is author of Journey Through Risk and Fear, a self-empowerment and motivational book that encourages readers to visualize goals and find a purpose while dealing with fear and risk. He is also a motivational speaker that encourages business professionals to reach their desired goals.
"The New Voices" is a platform that will soon debut on Philly.com and will feature notable national and local leaders addressing a wide and diverse range of topics. "Our goal, at Philly.com is to reach across the full breadth of our region's ideas, its people and their lives," said Steve Alessi, Vice President, Digital Advertising and General Manager of Philly.com. "Relevance and reach can be overused terms, but "The New Voices" reflects our desire to transform and deepen the traditional relationship between a media company and its community."


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(By Joyce H. Newman) The recent decision to postpone the reopening of the Canadian border to beef imports is a very good decision for consumers and the environment.
The recent decision to postpone the reopening of the Canadian border to beef imports is a very good decision for consumers and the environment. Early in January 2005, just when the U.S. Agriculture Department said it was planning to lift its ban on sales of young Canadian cattle in the U.S., two new confirmed cases of cattle afflicted with "mad cow" disease were found in Alberta, Canada. Even worse, the second cow contracted the disease after new feed regulations designed to prevent its spread were put in place in 1997.
To protect our meat supply, so much more needs to be done that it makes you wonder if it is really safe to eat beef here in the U.S. According to food safety advocates at Consumers Union, less than one percent of the 35 million cattle slaughtered every year are tested for safety and the U.S. Agriculture Department is not using the most sensitive and up-to-date testing methods that are used in Europe and Japan, known as the "Western blot" test.
Moreover, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) still allows cattle remains to be fed to other animals, such as pigs and chickens, whose remains can be fed back to cows. Food safety advocates say that even the remains of an animal known to carry a form of mad cow disease could go into rendered feed under current FDA rules.
The danger: if blood and scraps harbor infectious material, or if contaminated feed is accidentally mixed with cattle feed, cattle could sicken and pass along disease. So it is more important than ever to know where your beef is coming from and to check how it was produced. To do this consumers need much better information on the label than they are now getting. Consumers today know where their hats or their hand lotion comes from, but we still don't know where our meat is coming from. Congress has delayed implementation of "country of origin" labeling for meat until 2006, and who knows what may happen before then.
The safest choice at this time is to eat beef from cows that were not given conventional feed, thereby avoiding the possibility of contamination by animal parts. That means shopping for beef labeled either "Certified Organic" or "Biodynamic." Consumers may have to shop around a lot to find beef with either of these labels, say the experts. But the labels mean that an animal has eaten only grass or organic feed, which cannot contain animal matter. Even more important is the fact that the certified meat actually can be tracked -- every stage of organic production is recorded so that the meat is traceable. Some reliable suppliers of beef that is "Biodynamic" or "Certified Organic" are listed on The Green Guide website: www.thegreenguide.com
An award-winning broadcast journalist and new media executive whose credits include a wide range of environmental and "green consumer" websites and programs, Joyce H. Newman is a Trustee of the Green Guide Institute, a nonprofit, independent publisher of consumer health and safety advice, product reviews, and shopping tips. She currently heads Newman Productions, specializing in strategic communications for a variety of national nonprofit organizations.
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Michael Douglas is drawing raves as he auditions for the real life role of cancer survivor.
The screen legend is planning his next starring role, attracting Oscar buzz, and from a picture of the star and his family at Disneyworld over Thanksgiving, looking his most vigorous in months. Just a month ago, supermarket tabloid photos showed Douglas after a grueling chemo regimen looking frail and much older than his 66 years. But the latest image offers hope that Douglas might be on the mend three months after announcing he had stage four cancer of the throat.
"He's very optimistic," Stephen Galloway, a reporter who interviewed Douglas for the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter, told NBC. "He said the odds are 80 percent there will be a complete recovery. He sounds great, he looks great; everyone around him is very, very optimistic."
Douglas underwent three intensive chemotherapy sessions and another seven weeks of daily radiation treatment, which he told Galloway felt like he "had been through a hellhole." But the stricken star's father, legendary actor Kirk Douglas, told "Entertainment Tonight" that his son had regained his appetite and was feeling "feisty" again.
It's been a crazy year for Douglas. He's starred in two movies, "Solitary Man" and the long-awaited sequel to his Oscar performmance, "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps." His son Cameron Douglasbegan serving a five-year prison term for drug dealing in April. His ex-wife usuccessfully sued him for profits from the latest "Wall Street" movie.
Then came the cancer bombshell. He announced on "Late Show with David Letterman" that he had a malignant tumor on the base of his tongue and humbly asked the shaken host for a hug. In the weeks that followed, he kept a low profile as he endured painful treatment. But Douglas told The Hollywood Reporter the ordeal has brought him closer to his father, wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and his children.
"Cancer has shown me what family is," said Douglas, who regularly makes the 180-mile drive from New York to Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp, where Cameron Douglas is being held. "It showed me a love that I never knew really existed."
Over Thanksgiving, Douglas felt good enough to take Zeta-Jones and their children, 10-year-old son Dylan and 7-year-old daughter Carys to the "Wizarding World of Harry Potter" attraction at Universal Resorts in Orlando, and Disney World. After a year of highs and lows, Douglas even rode a roller coaster with his kids.
Douglas is preparing to tackle the role of Liberace in a biopic on the entertainer's life next year. As for his cancer, he'll find out how well the treatments have worked when he undergoes a medical scan in January.


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Ready for a big night on the town
a few hours into the popular Moulin Rouge, patterned after the 2001 jukebox musical film directed, produced and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. This one-of-a-kind gala, black-tie event benefits the Baptist Cancer Center of Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas. The La Soiree committee is busy putting all of the finishing touches on the event planned for Jan. 28, and it's sure to be a fashionable and fun happening.
"This is the fourth year for La Soiree," said Kristie Young, Baptist Hospital's executive director. "The event was created to help raise funds, and to raise the visibility of the hospitals in the community. We wanted to make sure we did everything first class to reflect the level of care that the hospital provides for its patients." Young added that the first event was held after Hurricane Ike and that on that night, they had to compete with three large weddings in the area. "We really had to sell the concept of what we were doing that first year," said Young. "La Soiree is not your typical Sunday afternoon fashion show. It is New York meets Southeast Texas."
Chairs for one of the area's most anticipated events are Dr. Gene and Dawn Isabell (right), along with Scott and Tammy Crutchfield, and they are working hard to make sure this La Soiree is one to be remembered for years to come. There will be surprises aplenty to entertain the guests throughout the evening. Festivities will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a cocktail hour and silent auction that will feature a variety of items sure to catch the attention of every guest. The highlight of the evening will be a high-end fashion extravaganza with professional and local models who will strut the walkway and show off the latest trends for the upcoming season. Following the fashion show, the Motion Band from Dallas will have guests up on their feet and singing along.
Blinc Productions will produce the fashion show. This firm produces the fashion week in Houston and fashion shows across the country. Lindsay Briggs, a professional model from Page Parkes, and Beaumont native Mary Henderson Grimes will be wearing clothing from Ella & Scott, YaYa Club, Jackie's, Bella Bella, and Jos. A. Banks. Beaumont's own Barbara Quinn will serve as maestro and open the show, which will also feature selections from the collection of local fashion icon Betty Greenberg. Also from Beaumont is Irene Ramirez, a retired model who is the clinical manager at the Charline and Sidney "Chief" Dauphin Cancer Screening and Prevention Center.
This engaging fashion show will also feature local dancers from City Dance, West Brook High School Stars Senior Officers, Lamar University Dance Team, Baptist Hospital's own mother-daughter singing sensation Robin and Katie Whitney, and family member Debbie Pallone to perform a number from the popular "Moulin Rouge" soundtrack.During the big event, the Evelyn M. Lord Humanitarian of the Year Award will be presented to an individual in the community who has made a meaningful impact on Baptist Hospitals. This award was created last year in recognition for former Beaumont Mayor Lord's service to the Baptist Cancer Center.
Young said that funds raised would support the Baptist Cancer Center, which includes the Charline and Sidney "Chief" Dauphin Cancer Screening and Prevention Center and the Julie and Ben Rogers Cancer Institute. Monies raised from past galas helped fund the breast health expansion at the Dauphin Center, which was completed at the end of last year. In addition, La Soiree donations assisted with a makeover of the Rogers Institute and helped establish a family room on the oncology unit at Baptist Hospital.
More than 90 committee members have pooled their efforts to see that this gala is truly exciting, helpful to the community, and one not to be missed. "The silent auction has some wonderful items in it," said Young with enthusiasm. "These folks have been working for months on all of the details, and we truly want it to be the best event in town."Ticket and table sponsorships for the event are available by calling (409) 212-6110. Tickets for are $150 each, and table sponsorships range from $1,500 to $50,000. View auction items at www.biddingforgood.com/bhset on the Web.
Brenda Cannon Henley can be reached at (409) 781-8788 or at brendacannonhenley [at] yahoo [dot] com.


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Cut List for a Bee Hive Frame Jig
To build a frame jig for bee hives, first break it down into its individual components and follow these instructions on how to cut those frame-jig components.
Lumber in a store is identified by its nominal size, which is its rough dimension before it's trimmed and sanded to its finished size at the lumber mill. The actual finished dimensions are always slightly different from the nominal dimensions. For example, what a lumberyard calls 1 inch x 5 inch lumber is in fact 3/4 inch x 4-1/2 inch.
The Material column in the following table lists nominal dimensions, and the Dimensions column lists the actual, final measurements.
|1″ x 5″ knotty pine
|4″ x 1-3/8″ x 1/2″
|These are spacer cleats for the frame retaining panels.
|1″ x 5″ knotty pine
|16-7/8″ x 4″ x 3/4″
|These are the retaining panels that hold the frames in
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Bandwidth restrictions can affect the memory
Don't let aging systems slow you down
Every now and again, a conversation at the pub goes somewhere interesting.
One of the more junior sysadmins in our group recently took over an aging small business network. The company is absolutely dependent upon an archaic piece of software for which virtualisation was the only available route to increasing the application's speed and responsiveness.
The problem is that this is always a trap.
Once you've managed to virtualise the application, thus bringing the speed benefits of modern hardware into play, the powers that be tend not to consider expensive options such as upgrading to an application written during this century.
To make matters even more interesting, our valiant hero has been tasked with doubling the speed of the application while expanding it to serve twice as many users . And he can't replace any of the virtual servers.
He did, however, recently get approval for a network and storage upgrade.
So the virtual servers from early 2007 running the application from 1999 on the database from 2000 got brand new 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBE) setups and a hybrid flash/disk SAN from 2011.
Familiar symptoms
All the bits communicated and there was some marginal improvement in speed. But most of this beautiful new dual 10GBE network upgrade was sitting idle. The database system just wouldn't fully utilise what should be a screaming storage system.
The symptoms looked eerily similar to a difficulty another pair of sysadmins were having with a white-boxed Hadoop setup they were building. They simply could not get their Namenode to talk to the rest of the system faster than about 14Gbit/s, despite having a 4-up 10GBE card teamed.
The conversation turned to technical speculation and a couple of pints later we had diagnosed the problem: both groups were trying to use old Opteron 2000 series servers to get up to – or past – the 20Gbit/s barrier, with the second group even trying to hit 40Gbit/s.
Problem 1: those old boards use PCIe 1.x. That means that even the x16 links only go 32Gbit/s in each direction. A 4up 10GBE card is pretty pointless here.
Problem 2: even if you could find enough PCIe 1.0 x16 links on these servers to deliver 40Gbit/s of data into the system's RAM, the maximum real-world output for a dual-channel DDR2 server of that era is about 60Gbit/s. Quite apart from the PCI-E bus issue, there is no possible way to do work effectively on that much raw input.
Prepare to jump
Even modern systems are facing such constraints. My beloved Intel quad-port 10GBE cards aren't going to give you a simultaneous 40Gbit/s in a single direction. They are PCIe 2.0 x16 cards, and with PCIe 2.0 x16 limited to 32Gbit/s in a single direction, you simply cannot flatten all links on those cards at the same time.
The next generation offers more of the same: PCIe 3.0 delivers 126Gbits/s per x16 link. Flanked by emerging 40GBE and 100GBE adapters, this sounds great – until you run into the memory bandwidth bottleneck yet again. Your average quad channel DDR3 server will only give you about 333Gbits/s.
The moral of the story is that the sum of your system design can easily be less than the sum of its parts. If you need to make the jump to 10GBE – and many of us do – don't try tacking it onto aging hardware.
Even if you don't need the CPU speed increase a server chipset refresh brings, you will probably need it if you want to increase your I/O. ®
This article has been correct to give the correct speed for PCIe 1.x: 16 lanes at 2GBit/s per direction gives a total of 32GBit/s in each direction.
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The new range of Brembo Xtra brake discs is characterised by special drillings which combines the appealing aesthetic effect with brilliant performance and effective braking in all conditions. Developed by the R&D department on the basis of its experience with car manufacturers and the racing world, the Brembo Xtra range is characterised by holes in the braking surface that can provide significant improvement to the brake system performance. The sporty look of Brembo Xtra, enhanced by UV coating, is combined with the guarantee of maximum reliability in terms of durability, performance and safety.
To each his own Xtra!
In order to obtain a powerful and safe product, during the design phase, the Brembo technician studied the number, size, shape and position of every hole for each specific brake discs of the Xtra range. The Brembo Xtra discs passed all tests on the dynamometer bench as well as on road.
Compact, Medium, Coupé and SUV car models are some of the applications selected for the Brembo Xtra range. The result is the most comprehensive and updated range of sport brake discs available on the market.
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The holes produce a scraping effect that cleans the surface of the pad from hazardous material deposits, thus preventing that even the slightest amount of ferrous material – that comes from the brake disc wear- can sediment on the friction material of the brake pad.
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The holes serve to prevent water film that may form on the braking surface. Even when driving on slick roads the brake system responds effectively already at the first braking.
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|Kent Lakes Reaches Out to the U.S. Troops, April 2007
After viewing the saddening television clips of our U.S. Troops in Iraq, and after listening to Bob Woodward discuss the suffering of our service men and woman, SeniorNet coordinator Vivian Rosato and the Kent Lakes SeniorNet Volunteer group in New York were inspired to act! This April, the SeniorNet group compiled and sent a Care Package to the American Forces stationed in Iraq. The staff at SeniorNet HQ were sincerely moved by this project, and plan to also send our own package and we think that other Learning Centers may be interested in sending packages as well.
If you and/or your Learning Center would like to participate, we encourage you to gather items that our service personnel find difficult to obtain and that the military is not furnishing to the troops. A Kent Lakes volunteer, Marcy Kristeller, has family in Iraq and her son-in-law suggested the following items: dry goods; baby wipes; shampoo; soap; toothpaste; toothbrush; female hygiene items, chips and pretzels. If you want more suggestions and information, please reference the nonprofit group, www.anysoldier.com. There also are links on that site to AnyMarine.com, AnySailor.com, AnyAirman.com and AnyCoastGuard.com.
You may also use www.anysoldier.com to locate a volunteer soldier's address where you can send a package. (It would be ideal for all participants to send packages to different addresses; therefore we are not listing a specific one here.) All of the individuals listed on anysolider.com are volunteer soldiers who work with the program. If you write Attn: Any Soldier in the address line with the volunteer's personal information below, they will make sure that the package goes to a soldier who receives little or no mail. The package contents most often are shared among the entire group of soldiers and so the volunteers list specifically what the troops around them need or want. Therefore, you can even personalize your package for that particular group of soldiers.
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Virtual Biopsy May Allow Earlier Diagnosis of Brain Disorder in Athletes
Dec 01, 2010, 12:01 ET
CHICAGO, Dec. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In a study of ex-pro athletes, researchers found that a specialized imaging technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) may help diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disorder caused by repetitive head trauma that currently can only be definitively diagnosed at autopsy. Results of the study were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
"The devastating effects of brain injuries suffered by pro football players who repeatedly suffered concussions and subconcussive brain trauma during their careers have put the spotlight on CTE," said Alexander P. Lin, Ph.D., a principal investigator at the Center for Clinical Spectroscopy at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "However, blows to the head suffered by all athletes involved in contact sports are of increasing concern."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 3.8 million sports- and recreation-related concussions occur in the U.S. each year. In addition, subclinical concussions—injuries that cannot be diagnosed as concussions but have similar effects—are often unrecognized.
Studies have shown that individuals who suffer repetitive brain trauma are more likely to experience ongoing problems, from permanent brain damage to long-term disability.
CTE is a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated brain trauma and marked by a buildup of abnormal proteins in the brain. CTE has been associated with memory difficulty, impulsive and erratic behavior, depression and eventually, dementia.
"Cumulative head trauma invokes changes in the brain, which over time can result in a progressive decline in memory and executive functioning in some individuals," Dr. Lin said. "MRS may provide us with noninvasive, early detection of CTE before further damage occurs, thus allowing for early intervention."
In Dr. Lin's study, conducted in collaboration with the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE), five retired professional male athletes from football, wrestling and boxing with suspected CTE and five age- and size-matched controls between the ages of 32 and 55 were examined with MRS. In MRS, sometimes referred to as "virtual biopsy," a powerful magnetic field and radio waves are used to extract information about chemical compounds within the body, using a clinical MR scanner.
The results revealed that compared with the brains of the control patients, the brains of the former athletes with suspected CTE had increased levels of choline, a cell membrane nutrient that signals the presence of damaged tissue, and glutamate/glutamine, or Glx. MRS also revealed altered levels of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), aspartate, and glutamate in the brains of former athletes.
"By helping us identify the neurochemicals that may play a role in CTE, this study has contributed to our understanding of the pathophysiology of the disorder," Dr. Lin said.
For example, the amino acid and neurotransmitter glutamate is involved in most aspects of normal brain function and must be present in the right places and at the right concentration in order for the brain to be healthy — too much or too little can be harmful.
"Being able to diagnose CTE could help athletes of all ages and levels, as well as war veterans who suffer mild brain injuries, many of which go undetected," Dr. Lin said.
Results of CSTE neuropathological studies of retired football players and other athletes have led to significant changes in the NFL, as well as collegiate and youth sports. Recently, the researchers found evidence of CTE in 21-year-old Owen Thomas, the University of Pennsylvania football captain who committed suicide in April 2010.
Coauthors are Saadallah Ramadan, Ph.D., Hayden Box, B.S., Peter Stanwell, Ph.D., and Robert Stern, Ph.D. Dr. Lin's research team is led by Carolyn Mountford, D.Phil. Other collaborators include Ann McKee, M.D., Robert Cantu, M.D., and Christopher Nowinski.
Note: Copies of RSNA 2010 news releases and electronic images will be available online at RSNA.org/press10 beginning Monday, Nov. 29.
RSNA is an association of more than 46,000 radiologists, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and related scientists committed to excellence in patient care through education and research. The Society is based in Oak Brook, Ill. (RSNA.org)
Editor's note: The data in these releases may differ from those in the published abstract and those actually presented at the meeting, as researchers continue to update their data right up until the meeting. To ensure you are using the most up-to-date information, please call the RSNA Newsroom at 1-312-949-3233.
For patient-friendly information on MRI and MRS, visit RadiologyInfo.org.
- MR spectroscopy may allow the diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) before death.
- CTE is a degenerative brain disorder caused by repeated brain trauma, including concussions and multiple blows to the head, such as those found in contact sports.
- Approximately 3.8 million sports- and recreation-related concussions occur in the U.S. each year, and 22 professional football players have been diagnosed with CTE.
SOURCE Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)


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If you know me, then insecure is not the first adjective that comes to mind.
But like almost every human being, I naturally have some insecurities. I have a horror of being over-dressed. Strange though it may sound, nothing makes me want to shrink up and die more than being out of place because I am too dressed-up or decked out.
And like many people, to counter my insecurity, I take it too far in the opposite direction and prefer the security of being casually dressed. Unlike my mother who is always impeccably put together.
Consequently, I rarely wear skirts or dresses because, to me, they give the impression that you are trying to make an impression even if it's just to go the store, or out for a meal, or to the office. (And I wonder why my daughter has an aversion to skirts and dresses … hmmm … Go figure.)
So what does his have to do with shoes, you say?
I love shoes. I obsess about shoes. I have a Pinterest board littered with exquisite examples of them. I used to spend hours as a teenager designing imaginary shoes, my school books filled with doodles.
I also detest breaking in new shoes. Blisters are one of shoes' many way of punishing us. When I do wear any shoe with a heel more than one inch, I quickly me realize I'm not as young as I used to be, as I always wake up the next day with my hips feeling like they are back to front, my knees tender and my back shrieking.
And yet I look around me, especially at the feet of my colleagues at work who effortlessly and beautifully sport gorgeous, stylish and dramatic heels, day in day out, with grace and style and confidence. Without grimace or clumsiness – or appearing overdressed. Or complaining of achey backs and joints.
I want to be able to do that. But I'm scared of looking like I'm trying too hard, looking like a phony or a mutton in sheep's clothing. At the core, I'm scared of drawing unwanted attention to myself. Heaven forbid I should look womanly, a by-product of arching your feet, extending your calf muscles and having to walk with an exaggerated sway, like Joan from Mad Men.
I know this is ridiculous. So I am taking baby steps to remedy my insecurity. A large part of this is my road back to finding the woman that's been buried under the messy morass of motherhood. She's in their somewhere but most of the time does not have the time or energy to make an effort. Looking presentable is accommodated through safe, colorful, always comfortable clothes, plus lots of lovely jewelry and a smile. But this Mom has started taking measures to reclaim herself, including reinstating the pre-party before an evening out, ensuring she is not harried and can linger over her choice of clothes and preparations.
Last week, I took my therapy one step further. Having waiting several months, scoured though many web pages, catalogs and pins, I finally splurged on new shoes. I didn't go all-out Jimmy Choo (the dollars don't stretch that far!) and I didn't select anything ridiculous or, heaven forbid, impractical. I played it safe and, don't laugh at me, shopped at Clark's, seeking assurance that my feet and posture were in the trusted hand of a sensible brand.
I love the shoes I bought, Even the sales assistant remarked they were the only ones that didn't look like Clark's. I wore them out to dinner that evening, with jeans, of course (just in case anyone was looking.)
On Monday, it came time to get dressed for a day-long business trip. Here goes, thought I. I selected a dress – a safe, black, comfortable one, already tested once for its non-attention drawing values. I strapped on the heels, walked gingerly like a new-born deer to the mirror. A leggy trollope looked back at me. You fake, she sneered. Do you think you are still 20? What are you trying to prove? My stomach lurched. Off came the heels, replaced swiftly with some safe shoes.
I kicked myself all day for not having the balls to do it.
The following two days, I made up my mind to give it another shot. Day 2, I wore the heels but under the cover of pants, a safer combination. Day 3, I took a deep breath and wore a skirt and heels.
I felt very self-conscious. And tall. I also felt powerful, confident, and dare I say, womanly.
But the funny thing was, I don't think anyone even noticed. So maybe, just maybe, I actually fitted in more and it's my casual wardrobe that's doing me a disservice?
I'm not going to be found sashaying in my new heels every day, that's for sure. You'll still find me in my comfy, safe flats/clogs/boots. But I'm determined to strap on my heels and even a dress from time to time, and wear them with my head held high, my tummy sucked in and a subtle sway of my hips.
Maybe someone will notice? Maybe I won't be terrified of that? After all. What's wrong with a little attention?


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|In this segment, we'll listen in on a phone call from Atlantis to Antarctica, to check in with researchers studying organisms that live in extreme environments: one group of scientists is working with the submersible Alvin, studying organisms living in hot, wet environments; the other group is in Antarctica checking out what lives in cold, dry places. We'll talk with both groups about the research they have in common.


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Listen to the latest podcast, featuring biological anthropologists, Dr. Julienne Rutherford.
Julienne Rutherford earned her PhD in Biological Anthropology from Indiana University in 2007. She is an assistant professor of Women, Children, and Family Health Sciences and adjunct assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is currently the President of the Midwest Primate Interest Group. She is also the Biological Anthropology Section editor for Anthropology News. She was named a Leadership Fellow by the AAA in 2011, and was the 2013 recipient of the American Society of Primatologists Legacy Award. She was recently named the UIC Researcher of the Year "Rising Star" in the Clinical Sciences.
Rutherford's research revolves around a central interest in the dynamic maternal environment in which a fetus develops. She is primarily interested in the primate placenta as a signaling interface between mother and fetus. She works with both humans and non-human primates to address questions regarding the effect of maternal ecology (nutrition, life history experience, behavior) on placental morphology, metabolic function, and gene expression and downstream sequelae for offspring health both postnatally and later in life. She has published her multifaceted research in American Anthropologist, Placenta, American Journal of Physical Anthropologists, American Journal of Primatology, American Journal of Human Biology, Obesity, and Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences. She recently co-edited the volume Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective. Her research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Society of Primatologists.


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In the past few years everything about the book business has changed, and with it the role of the rep, or district manager, as many are now known. In part that's a reflection of how ordering has changed, especially with the increasing adoption of Edelweiss, the interactive publishers' catalogue service.
"I used to buy everything and see what stuck," says Terribeth Smith, who left her job as children's buyer for Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati two and a half years ago to become district manager in the Midwest for Scholastic. "Buyers want things more tailored now. There are fewer people [working] in stores, and my job is finding the next big book."
In conjunction with the change in how booksellers buy, notes Kathy Faber, director of sales for HarperCollins Children's Books, "for a number of years there's been a shift toward using the sales call for a much larger role, to sell through." Reps have a variety of techniques to do just that.
Tried and True
"There's nothing as effective as a rep saying, 'You have to read this book,' and putting it in someone's hand," says Jeanette Zwart, v-p of sales at HarperCollins. Harper's sales reps, like those of other houses, tweet about favorite titles and can even create custom catalogues on Edelweiss based on the buyer's orders to hand out at presentations for store staff, or at rep nights, which might be attended by librarians, reviewers, and local bloggers. With Edelweiss, reps also can create sell sheets of key titles that stores can post in their break rooms or circulate so staff can see what books are coming up.
Even before Twitter came on the scene, Zwart notes, "Reps were expert at capturing the spirit of a book in very few words." But it's not just the meaning of a book that has to be distilled nowadays. "There's so much information and it's hard to prioritize. Even with digital catalogues, they prioritize the information," says Zwart, referring to the electronic notes that both field reps and telephone sales reps place for their buyers on Edelweiss.
The reps may be just one piece in a national push that includes special mailings and kits, and pre-pub dinners to highlight new authors, such as the ones HarperCollins held for Lauren Oliver (Liesl & Po), Veronica Roth (Divergent), and Colin Meloy (Wildwood). But they are an important one. As Zwart points out, "Reps are the ones who know the right person to read the galleys. They can advocate with publicity and say, 'My market is not on your tour and it should be.' "
If reps act as "buzz agents" (Zwart's term), then booksellers are responsible for translating the buzz into sales. While independent bookstores represent a relatively small slice of the book market, roughly 6%, Faber says that for individual titles getting this kind of major indie push, their share is northward of 25%.
Like many of her colleagues, Susan McConnell, director of children's sales and marketing for Publishers Group West, finds that personalized selling has become even more valuable in the digital age. "All the new bells and whistles are great," she says, alluding to Twitter and Facebook. "Frankly I think the tried-and-true works. When you get down to it, it's about the books and getting kids to read."
McConnell encourages PGW's publishers to host breakfasts, lunches, and dinners with booksellers, librarians, and reps, and is planning one of her own at PGW's offices in Berkeley later this summer. "We're always looking for new ways to sell books," says McConnell, who works with stores on author visits, teen reading programs, and co-op, to name just a few promotions.
That's not to say that sales calls aren't effective. "I use Edelweiss to tag my books and put in notes, and I send my f&gs ahead of time," says Holly Ruck, a field sales rep in the northeast for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. If booksellers also do their homework in advance of her appointment, that frees her to talk about how to sell the books. One of her pet peeves is when buyers don't take notes when she's trying to give them ideas based on successful strategies at other stores. "As a rep, you want to be used for the knowledge you have. Your rep is seeing on average 40–80 stores," she says.
'Our Eyes and Ears'
For reps to be effective, information between reps and booksellers has to be a two-way street. "Reps are our eyes and ears on the ground," says Beth Ineson, director of field sales and distribution clients for HMH. "It's important to us to keep reps on the road to bring that information back to us. Numbers don't tell the whole story." She relies on rep feedback from booksellers for everything from sales strategy to jacket images. Sometimes it can be as simple as a rep passing on the comments in a call report, like the ones the staff at Children's Book World in Haverford, Pa., put on Post-its on the f&gs they read before the sales call.
"I very much believe in the rep-store relationship," says former Random House adult rep Rebecca Fitting, who co-owns and does most of the buying for Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y. "You do what you can to help them know your store, and then you listen to their recommendations. The more valuable information you give to your reps, the more likely you are to get in their call reports. The more your store is talked about, the more you're on publishers' radar." Two recent rep suggestions that she's adopted are to hold an educators' night and to add staff picks to the store's e-newsletter. At newly opened Parnassus Books in Nashville, bookseller Karen Hayes, former national accounts manager for Random House, says that what she appreciated most from reps was getting the store ready by helping with the painting. Over the holidays many came in and helped wrap books for customers.
Many Heads Better Than One
At most publishing houses the field reps stay in touch with each other by phone and e-mail. The seven children's reps at Scholastic work closely with each other and with publicity and marketing. Reps are also encouraged to run with their own ideas. New England district manager Nikki Mutch promoted her fall 2011 favorite, Pie by Sarah Weeks, by offering to throw a pie party for the store that hand-sold the most books during the first two weeks of October. RJ Julia in Madison, Conn., won the party, which has since been expanded to include pie for customers as well as store staff. For Mutch, who especially enjoys creating events, planning for how best to promote the season's books begins the moment she sees the list. "When I look at our list," she says, "I think about which accounts are going to love each book."
Collectively, Scholastic reps are also behind promotions like the Readers Roundtable, which enables two buyers per area to attend a conference call with the author of a newly released title. Two weeks ago, debut novelist Augusta Scattergood described the backstory for Glory Be to 14 buyers, who wouldn't have been able to meet her in person. Reps also collaborated on a Hunger for More prepack promotion with books for readers who liked the Hunger Games trilogy and want to know what to read next.
Social media obviously plays a key role in how reps interact with booksellers. Kate Sullivan, a children's rep in New England for Random House for the past 25 years, credits Twitter and Facebook for "enhancing" her job. "One thing I noticed is that I could tweet with authors, publishers, librarians, and teachers, people I don't normally talk to, and subtly talk about our books. You can create a buzz," she says.
"As much as we talk about books, there's always more to know," adds Sullivan, who enjoys the immediacy of Twitter. Twitter helps her pick up on trends by seeing what authors talk about with each other. She can then pass this information on to her buyers. She also sees booksellers in her area, like Suzanna Hermans, co-owner of Oblong Books & Music in Rhinebeck, N.Y., use Twitter and Facebook not just to announce author appearances but to sell signed books. "If a bookstore puts out something interesting," she says, "I'll retweet it. There are a lot of really cool YA bloggers out there. That's where the conversation happens."
Part of the conversation also takes place on blogs like Random Acts of Reading, which is administrated by Sullivan and two other Random House children's field reps. All nine Random reps contribute to the blog, which is heavily weighted toward Random House. Every Monday, it runs a feature on the new books that will be out from Random the next day. But Sullivan says that it is not a corporate blog. A recent post on bullying, for example, included books from other houses.
No matter how much selling has changed, "people still have to fall in love with a book," says Harper's Zwart. Sales efforts are designed to increase the odds of booksellers and book readers doing exactly that.


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Oh, you thought I was going to name a favorite author, didn't you? That will never happen. LOL My reading tastes are just as eclectic as my musical tastes. I like everything from young adult to Stephen King at his goriest so to name a single favorite author is not possible. And I imagine most of you would agree to that. Unless you're a fan of Stephenie Meyer, in which case you're not reading this blog. You're in line to see New Moon, again, somewhere right now. LOL
I digress.
While I do have a lot of favorite authors, what grabs MY attention? Author sites.
If the site loads fast, the author's latest book is out there on the front page for me to drool over, navigation is easy enough for me to understand at 1 AM when I actually have time to surf the net and am half asleep. If I find a book I like and the site has it going on, and I'm hooked. I'm clicking through to buy that book. Why? Because aside from getting a good story, I know I can count on that author to make it super easy for me to buy it. The less I have to click, the better I like it.
Want to bet on how many readers out there are just like me?
A good site grabs my attention more than 200 Yahoo promo posts, the author's rant about toothpaste on Twitter, or that invitation to Farmville on Facebook (and you WON'T get me to play that, sorry! LOL) I don't have time to do the contest thing, the chat thing, or to follow blogs. A good site is there, up-to-date, and constant. Ready whenever I am. Now we're talking. =)
What will turn me away at an author site? 1) not being able to find what I want in 5 seconds (television and the internet have given us all ADD, let's be honest), 2) not being able to get in the site because the flash promo is stuck or didn't load properly, or 3) finding the site hasn't been updated since April.
Ever feel like that?
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I've got print books to give away readers. =) I'll do some author prizes too. But talk to me.
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WEST WINDSOR, N.J.—The Ivy League-champion Radcliffe heavyweight crew capped an outstanding season with a ninth-place varsity finish and 12th-place team showing at the NCAA Championships, which wrapped up with a day of extremely close racing Sunday on steamy Mercer Lake.
The Black and White finished third, just three hundredths of a second out of second place, in the varsity eight petite final, fifth in the varsity four petite final and fourth in the second varsity eight third-level final. Radcliffe totaled 32 points in the team standings for its best showing since placing ninth in the team competition and seventh in varsity racing in 2008. The varsity four's 11th-place overall finish in was Radcliffe's best in that event since the national championship season of 2003.
Virginia won the NCAA team and varsity titles, and Michigan was the runner-up in both competitions. Southern California took varsity bronze, while California, Princeton and Ohio State rounded out the top five teams. Ivy squads also placed 10th (Yale), 13th (Cornell) and 14th (Brown), as the Ancient Eight matched the Pac-12 for the most teams in the 16-school field.
"I don't have any regrets about how any of our boats raced today," said head coach Liz O'Leary. "As a team, our first goal was to be competitive in the Ivy League, and we were proud to take that to a national level and compete the way we did here. Our team just raced so hard."
The Radcliffe varsity eight trailed early on, but moved back through the field in impressive fashion, trailing only UCLA at the midway point. The Black and White continued to move on the Bruins with Stanford in close pursuit as those three boats separated themselves from Ohio State, Cornell and Yale.
The Cardinal edged the Black and White in the sprint, finishing in 6:29.86 to Radcliffe's 6:28.89. The Black and White was just 1.4 seconds behind first-place UCLA and avenged a dual-season loss to Ohio State by 2.8 seconds. Ivy rivals Cornell and Yale rounded out the field.
The first five boats in the varsity four petite final raced closely throughout the 2,000-meter course. Radcliffe was the first boat to the 500-meter mark, just about a foot ahead of Wisconsin and Cornell. The Black and White and Badgers remained in front of the field at the midway point, with Notre Dame and UCLA joining the fray.
All four of those boats were nearly level with Cornell close behind with 500 meters to go, but UCLA quickly surged ahead. It was a sprint to the line from there. The Bruins had the most left, winning in 7:23.89. Radcliffe finished in 7:27.26, four-fifths of a second behind fourth-place Cornell and barely two seconds back of runner-up Notre Dame. Ohio State won the varsity four grand final.
The four-boat second varsity third-level final was an even tighter race. For much of the first half of the race, Radcliffe sat in third, six seats behind leader Notre Dame, two back of Cornell and one ahead of Michigan State. The Irish and Big Red pulled ahead by another seat in the third 500 meters, as the Spartans drew level with the Black and White.
Radcliffe and Michigan State moved on the leaders in the sprint, but Cornell hung on to second place by one-tenth of a second over MSU and three-tenths over Radcliffe. The Black and White finished in 6:49.20, trailing winner Notre Dame by 2.2 seconds. Michigan won the second varsity grand final.
"It really is remarkable how fast it is and how much inches matter," O'Leary concluded. "Our team is resilient, they're tough, and they're young. They'll take this back to Cambridge, and we'll see what we can continue to build."
Virginia 87
Michigan 82
California 78
Princeton 77
Ohio State 67
Southern California 66
Washington 62
Stanford 40
Yale 38
Wisconsin 34
Harvard 32
Cornell 31
Brown 25
Notre Dame 20
Michigan State 15
Varsity Eight
Grand Final
Virginia 6:18.72
Michigan 6:22.09
Southern California 6:25.06
Princeton 6:25.90
California 6:27.19
Washington 6:29.11
Petite Final
Stanford 6:29.86
Radcliffe 6:29.89
Ohio State 6:32.69
Cornell 6:33.86
Yale 6:39.75
Third-Level Final
Wisconsin 6:34.67
Michigan State 6:36.10
Brown 6:38.32
Notre Dame 6:40.33
Second Varsity Eight
Grand Final
Michigan 6:37.04
Ohio State 6:38.94
California 6:40.85
Princeton 6:42.61
Virginia 6:44.97
Petite Final
Southern California 6:42.97
Washington 6:43.26
Brown 6:45.41
Wisconsin 6:45.81
Stanford 6:46.64
Yale 6:47.58
Third-Level Final
Notre Dame 6:47.00
Cornell 6:48.9
Michigan State 6:49.00
Radcliffe 6:49.20
Varsity Four
Grand Final
Ohio State 7:13.09
Virginia 7:15.18
California 7:21.15
Yale 7:23.53
Princeton 7:26.23
Washington 7:29.20
Petite Final
Notre Dame 7:25.35
Wisconsin 7:25.57
Cornell 7:26.48
Radcliffe 7:27.26
Michigan 7:33.75
Third-Level Final
Southern California 7:32.59
Brown 7:33.35
Michigan State 7:33.95
Stanford 7:35.33