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Exchange your best practice ideas - Call for Presentations deadline extended!
The call for presenters for the Faculty Idea Exchange - Summer Conference 2013 has been extended! If you are a full-time or adjunct faculty member and have scholarship, insight, or ideas to share on the main exchange topics (Learning Communities, Technology in the Classroom, Adjunct Connectivity, or Student Diversity Awareness), please consider presenting at this conference. The Faculty Idea Exchange is scheduled for Friday, June 28, from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Center for Workforce Development. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.
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The "First Wednesday" gathering for the month of May has been rescheduled to the second Wednesday, May 8, from 8:15-9:00 in the Conference Center Ballroom (WD). In addition to the important recognition of Staff Employee of the Month, Dr. Harrison will use this time to provide an overview of the college budget for 2013-14. Dr. Harrison will provide some context, talk about where we're headed, and give you a chance to ask questions.
The Human Resources Department will host Open Enrollment meetings for full-time benefit- eligible employees. The meetings will be held on Wednesday, May 8, at 9:15 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. in WD Room 409 (Delaware Campus video conference DA 129), Monday, May 13, at 8:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. in WD Room 409 (Delaware Campus video conference MO 243) and Wednesday, May 15 at 8:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. in WD-407.
The Open Enrollment period is for medical, dental, vision, life and flexible spending accounts (FSAs) for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2013. The Open Enrollment period ends on May 31, and all changes to your benefit elections must be received in HR by 4:30 p.m. Any changes made during the Open Enrollment period will be effective on July 1, 2013.
Spring Semester Graduation is Friday, May 10
The Spring Semester Graduation will be held at a new location, the Celeste Center at the Ohio Expo Center/State Fairgrounds, 717 E. 17thAvenue—on Friday, May 10 starting at 10 a.m. The Commencement Address will be given by Tanny Crane, president and CEO of the Crane Group.
The 2013 Bike Challenge Is
Columbus State is participating in the 2013 National Bike Challenge. The Challenge started May 1 and runs through September 30, 2013. You can sign up for the Challenge and join the Columbus State team to earn trip and distance points for Columbus State in a friendly competition with other local organizations, colleges and business.
Go to nationalbikechallenge.org and click "Join" to become a new user, or join via your Facebook profile. Students and employees should select or enter "Columbus State Community College" for your "workplace" to have your rides counted in the Columbus State's. A handy mobile app makes ride-logging easier. Each month prizes will be given away to reward Challenge participants. The more you bike, the better your chance of winning (and the better the prizes) will be!
Befuddled by inappropriate student behavior in your classroom? Looking for strategies to diffuse and redirect bad behavior toward a focus on the class discussion? Join Carolyn Kaufman, associate professor of Psychology, on Thursday, May 23, as she shares how to understand and influence challenging students to motivate them to do what they need to do in the classroom. This session takes place in at 1:00 p.m. in CT 107, and is open to all employees. Please register in advance. For more information contact Rich James at ext. 2175.


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What Obama, Republicans get with a deal
It's not a perfect deal for the White House — but it's a worse deal for Republicans.
Democrats won't say it too loudly just yet, but the emerging budget agreement leaves Republicans with remarkably little to show for forcing the first government shutdown in 17 years: They barely nicked Obamacare and their poll numbers are in tank.
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President Barack Obama would get most of what he wanted. He had insisted that Congress reopen the government and extend the country's borrowing authority without any ideological strings attached. He held the line on the debt ceiling and Democrats are set to hold off Republican attempts to lock in next year's round of sequester budget cuts early.
But it's not the squeaky clean bill Obama sought.
( POLITICO's full coverage of the government shutdown)
There would be minor changes to the president's signature health care law. The White House and Democratic leaders will argue the Obamacare provisions were a one-for-one proposition — each party got a fix to the Affordable Care Act — and did not come as the price for raising the debt limit or restarting the government, according to Democratic officials involved in the talks.
The Obamacare provisions risk muddying the president's message, but the changes are so negligible that even House Republicans are grumbling that it's a clean debt limit increase.
Even if the potential Senate deal survives in the House — still very much an open question — Obama would soon be back fighting the next round with Republicans. The debt limit increase would last almost four months. It's less than what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) wanted but longer than what House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) suggested. And the next debt limit hike wouldn't be contingent upon a budget deal, as Boehner proposed.
( PHOTOS: Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid's friendship)
Above all, Democratic leaders think the potential deal allows them to make progress on their overarching goal: convincing Republicans that Democrats won't cave to debt limit demands.
The negotiations continued Monday night, and no formal announcement is expected until after Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) meet separately with their caucuses Tuesday. New sticking points could emerge, as they did late Monday on Obamacare, but both leaders closed the day by saying they were optimistic.
"We're doing our best to make everybody happy, but everyone knows we're not going to be able to do that," Reid said. "So everybody understand, we're doing the very best we can with all the frailties that we have as people and legislators."
( WATCH: Mark Halperin: GOP 'terms of surrender')
The proposal would fund the government until Jan. 15 and extend the debt limit until Feb. 7. The plan under consideration would also require larger bicameral budget negotiations to conclude by Dec. 13.
Republicans would secure a provision to force Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to certify that individuals receiving Obamacare subsidies meet the required income levels. The department's inspector general would later have to conduct an audit on the matter. This is a comedown from the delay in the medical device tax that Republicans had wanted after they had previously abandoned efforts to repeal the law, defund it and delay the individual mandate.
( Also on POLITICO: Senate talks raise pressure on John Boehner)
But sources said Monday night that the GOP would win that proposal only if Democrats secured the inclusion of a provision to delay the law's so-called belly button tax for one year. The tax, which was supposed to be levied against most insurance plans to help spread the risk for insurers who take on the sickest patients next year, would cost $63 annually per person covered by an insurance plan. The change could be a boon to unions, and Republicans were balking at what they were calling a carve-out for a favored Democratic constituency.
( Understanding Obamacare: POLITICO's guide to the Affordable Care Act)
The emerging deal would face a tough road in the House, where Boehner's leadership team, allies and rank-and-file lawmakers spent Monday saying that Reid and McConnell were crafting a crummy framework.

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Man, I am going to scream like a schoolgirl on helium when I find these at retail...
Anyone think we can get Lucas to postpone Episode 3 for another year or two, so we can keep up with all this OT goodness and love?!?
And the Falcon has been retooled to fit 3 figures??? Did I read that correctly? I wonder if there's been any work done on the inside. If its really big enough to fit at least Han and Chewie in the cockpit, then I may customize the interior also.
Additionally, the cockpit has been redesigned to fit the 3 ¾ figures more easily.
I almost had a heart attack after I saw pictures of these! This is definitely the most beautiful packaging I have seen since POTF2 came out. Even the new logo is sweet as hell. Damn, I pray that I can find these in stores.I'm too excited to look in this thread, but did anyone read the one sentence that stuck out on Hasbro's news page? It states, "For those that want to keep the product in the package, the figures will come with a Star Wars embossed outer clamshell." Now THAT is awesome news! That seems to be one of the first times I've heard them actually care about the carded-collectors out there.
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Nelson County: Off the (weather) map
As hurricanes peppered multiple coasts a few weeks ago, Nelson County resident Sue Stillman wanted to know the paths of the approaching storms.
It's understandable that Nelson residents might be a little nervous, considering how Hurricane Camille devastated the county in 1969 and killed over 100 people, about one percent of the county's population at the time.
What's not understandable to Stillman is why Nelson isn't on any weather maps– at least not on the channels she can get on satellite TV.
A few weeks ago, Charlottesville area satellite TV viewers were exulting because Dish Network started offering local NBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS stations. Stillman is a Dish Network customer, but her local NBC station is in... Roanoke.
"It's really, really bizarre," she says. "They're 90 miles from here. I don't eat, sleep, or shop there. And we're not on their weather map, while Channel 29 does put us on theirs."
Stillman wants to know: "Who made the decision that Nelson was in the viewing area of Roanoke, not Charlottesville?"
An act of Congress? Yes. Specifically, the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999– SHVIA– which allows satellite companies to offer local channels the way cable does.
The catch-22 for Stillman and other Nelsonians is that they have to live in the same market area as, say NBC29, to get Channel 29, and those markets are determined by Nielsen, the ratings people. Unfortunately, Nielsen has Nelson in Roanoke's market area– not Charlottesville's.
And Nielsen says it's not their fault Congress chose to use Nielsen research as the basis for the legislation.
"We scan the area in each county," says Sarah Jane Buenaventura in Nielsen Media Research. Based on the closest broadcast signals Nielsen picks up, "That's how we determine what market area it's in. You may be closer to one station, but we can't pick up its signal."
Buenaventura sympathizes with would-be viewers like Stillman, but says Nielsen isn't going to change the way it does its research to determine the 210 television markets in the country. (In the most recent Nielsen ranking of markets, Roanoke-Lynchburg is #67, with over 446,000 households, while Charlottesville jumps up a spot to #185, with nearly 70,000 households.)
Over at Dish Network, spokesperson Julie Popp says SHVIA is being debated in Congress, and she urges viewers to contact their congressperson and ask that satellite service be delivered the same way cable is.
Stillman has marginally better luck getting ABC and CBS from Lynchburg, 35 miles from her north-of-Lovingston home that's 29 miles south of Charlottesville.
But one problem remains: "Lynchburg doesn't put us on their weather map, either, and Charlottesville does," says Stillman. "I think the FCC should force the point and make news broadcasts put us on the map."
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Sutro Baths Adolph Sutro opens his Baths in 1896 with one fresh-water and six salt-water pools, 30 swimming rings, 9 spring boards, 7 slides, 3 trapezes, 2 diving platforms, 500 dressing rooms, hundreds of showers, thousands of bathing suits, a gym, a shoot-the-chutes, bucking broncos, and a museum filled with what Sutro calls "bric-a-brac" to "amuse and instruct".
"I must have it large, pretentious, in keeping with the environment, with the Heights, with the great ocean itself..."
-- Adolph Sutro, Engineer, Philanthropist, Mayor of San Francisco
Sutro Baths, Interior, ca. 1904
But it is the swimming -- and the scratchy wool bathing suits -- that San Franciscans and visitors who experience the joys of Sutro Baths will remember most.
"All around the echoing, enveloping sound of splash and laughter and shouts, the close feel of heat and high humidity, the engrossing smell compounded of saltwater, dampness, wet cloth, human bodies and frying hot dogs"
--John Allen, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
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May 2010 Journal of Geoscience Education
Volume 58, Number 3
Kim A. Cheek
JGE, v. 58, n. 3, p. 122-134
Seventy-nine studies in geoscience conceptions appeared in peer-reviewed publications in English from 1982 through
July 2009. Summaries of the 79 studies suggest certain recurring themes across subject areas: issues with terms, scale
(temporal and spatial), role of prior experience, and incorrect application of everyday knowledge to geoscience
phenomena. The majority of studies reviewed were descriptive and employed only one method of data collection and
response type. Eleven-fourteen-year-olds and university undergraduates were most commonly represented in the
samples. A small percentage of studies of geoscience conceptions of K-12 students made reference to standards
documents or a curriculum as justification for the research design. More directed descriptive studies, along with greater
parity between descriptive and intervention studies is needed. Greater attention to developmental theories of concept
acquisition, national standards documents, and intersection with cognitive science literature are warranted.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may10.html#v58p122
The Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program: A Model for Broadening Participation of Underrepresented Groups in the Physical Sciences through Effective Partnerships with Minority-Serving Institutions
Keivan Guadalupe Stassun, Arnold Burger, Sheila Edwards Lange
JGE, v. 58, n. 3, p. 135-144
We describe the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge program as a successful model for effective partnerships with
minority-serving institutions toward significantly broadening the participation of underrepresented groups in the
physical sciences. The program couples targeted recruitment with active retention strategies, and is built upon a clearly
defined structure that is flexible enough to address individual student needs while maintaining clearly communicated
baseline standards for student performance. A key precept of the program"s philosophy is to eliminate passivity in
student mentoring; students are deliberately groomed to successfully transition into the PhD program through active
involvement in research experiences with future PhD advisers, coursework that demonstrates competency in core PhD
subject areas, and frequent interactions with joint mentoring committees. This approach allows student progress and
performance to be monitored and evaluated in a more holistic manner than usually afforded by limited metrics such as
standardized tests. Since its inception in 2004, the program has attracted a total of 35 students, 32 of them
underrepresented minorities, 60% female, with a retention rate of 91%. Recent research indicates that minority students
are nearly twice as likely as non-minority students to seek a Masters degree en route to the PhD. In essence, the Bridge
program described here builds upon this increasingly important pathway, with a dedicated mentoring process designed
to ensure that the Masters-to-PhD transition is a successful one.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may10.html#v58p135
Pitfalls and Successes of Developing an Interdisciplinary Watershed Field Science Course
Andrea R. Pearce, Paul R. Bierman, Gregory K. Druschel, Christine Massey, Donna M. Rizzo, Mary C. Watzin, Beverly C. Wemple
JGE, v. 58, n. 3, p. 145-154
ABSTRACT At the University of Vermont, an interdisciplinary faculty team developed an introductory watershed science field course. This course honed field skills and catalyzed communication across water-related disciplines without requiring specific prerequisites. Five faculty (geology, engineering, geography, natural resources) taught the four-credit course, highlighting interactions between the hydrosphere, biosphere, and solid Earth. The course, based in the Winooski River watershed, followed the river from its headwaters downstream to its outlet in Lake Champlain focusing on data collection and analysis methods, while exploring threats to this freshwater ecosystem. This course was offered as a summer field course in 2007. Student learning was assessed using weekly summative assignments and final presentations incorporating field data and acquired knowledge. Attitude and knowledge surveys, administered before and after this first year, documented increased self-assessed learning, affinity for the field learning environment, and that the course provided training relevant to various disciplines. The fiscally unsustainable summer model, and course evaluations guided major revisions to the course. The second offering, in 2009, met weekly during spring term to provide students with context before a two-week field component. This field component was held immediately after classes ended to avoid the need to pay faculty summer salaries.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may10.html#v58p145
Using High-Precision Specific Gravity Measurements to Study Minerals in Undergraduate Geoscience Courses
Mark E. Brandriss
JGE, v. 58, n. 3, p. 155-165
ABSTRACTThis article describes ways to incorporate high-precision measurements of the specific gravities of minerals into
undergraduate courses in mineralogy and physical geology. Most traditional undergraduate laboratory methods of
measuring specific gravity are suitable only for unusually large samples, which severely limits their usefulness for
student projects involving minerals in ordinary rocks of the sort usually encountered by working geologists. To
overcome this limitation, a custom-built apparatus is described that, when combined with a precision analytical balance
of the type commonly present in academic research laboratories, can be used to determine the specific gravities of
samples as small as several milligrams. For a balance with precision to 0.01 mg, G can typically be measured with an
accuracy of ±0.01 or better for specimens weighing several tens of milligrams and ±0.03 or better for specimens as small
as 5-10 milligrams. The apparatus is easy to make and easy to use. It provides students with a simple and effective way
to use quantitative methods to characterize and identify minerals in hand specimen, including small single crystals
separated from common medium-grained rocks.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may10.html#v58p155
Assessing Factors that Influence the Recruitment of Majors from Introductory Geology Classes at Northern Arizona University
Thomas D. Hoisch, James I. Bowie
JGE, v. 58, n. 3, p. 166-176
ABSTRACTIn order to guide the formulation of strategies for recruiting undergraduates into the geology program at Northern
Arizona University, we surveyed 783 students in introductory geology classes and 23 geology majors in their junior and
senior years. Our analysis shows that ~7% of students in the introductory classes are possible candidates for recruitment.
Influential factors that weigh in favor of majoring in geology include good employability, good salary potential, and
opportunities for working outdoors, field work, observing nature, travel, and environmentally friendly employment. In
addition, students view a career as a geologist as potentially the most fulfilling of the science occupations and among the
more environmentally friendly. However, students perceive geology to be the least difficult of the sciences, and geology
occupations to be low-paying and low in prestige relative to the other sciences. These negative perceptions are a
problem for recruitment and may be countered by providing information to introductory students showing the salaries
of geologists in comparison to other science occupations, and by communicating the rigorous nature of the more
advanced geology classes.
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URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may10.html#v58p166
The InVEST Volcanic Concept Survey: Exploring Student Understanding About Volcanoes
Thomas L. Parham Jr., Cinzia Cervato, William A. Gallus Jr., Michael Larsen, Jon Hobbs, Pete Stelling, Thomas Greenbowe, Tanya Gupta, John A. Knox, Thomas E. Gill
JGE, v. 58, n. 3, p. 177-187
ABSTRACTResults from the Volcanic Concept Survey (VCS) indicated that many undergraduates do not fully understand volcanic
systems and plate tectonics. During the 2006 academic year, a ten-item conceptual survey was distributed to
undergraduate students enrolled in Earth science courses at five U.S. colleges and universities. A trained team of graders
scored 672 completed surveys, coding responses to each item with a score, out of 3, based on accuracy and
comprehensiveness. Questions requiring only basic content knowledge (e.g., terminology, volcano topology) received
more high scoring responses than questions requiring higher thinking and deeper conceptual connections (association
with plate tectonics, prediction of hazards and impacts on the environment). The mechanics of eruptions also appeared
to be poorly understood. Special attention was paid to students' alternate conceptions about where volcanoes are likely
to form. Male students, students highly interested in science, and students who lived in a volcanically active area
received significantly higher total scores than other student groups. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) majors also performed significantly better than non-STEM majors. Understanding the nature of student
comprehension and misconception may be useful for geoscience educators seeking to address student preconceptions
and promote conceptual change.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may10.html#v58p177
A Comparative Analysis of Online Learning Materials Aimed Toward Integrating Great Lakes Science Into the K-8 Classroom
Laura Eidietis, Elizabeth LaPorte, Sandra Rutherford
JGE, v. 58, n. 3, p. 188-196
ABSTRACTWe surveyed the use of Great Lakes online learning materials by a sample of K-8 teachers. Analyses tested for
correlation of use with 1) whether teachers learned about the resources in pre- or in-service education, 2) geographical
significance, and 3) whether teachers taught about the topics emphasized in the online learning materials. We compared
findings for the Great Lakes to an ocean resource (BRIDGE) and more general Earth System Science online learning
materials. Teachers reported using the Internet for teaching and planning. However, very few teachers reported using
Great Lakes materials, BRIDGE, and most of the generalized online learning materials. The exception was the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service webpage, used by >50% of respondents. Teachers
who learned how to use online learning materials in pre-service or in-service education were more likely to use them in-
service. There was no significant effect of geographic proximity to the Great Lakes or ocean on the likelihood that a
teacher used particular materials. Teaching about the Great Lakes was a necessary, but not sufficient condition for using
Great Lakes online learning materials. The results indicate that teacher education is a key to inclusion of specific online
learning materials in K-8 education.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/may10.html#v58p188


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|System: PS3, X360, PS2
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|Dev: Omega Force
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Namco Bandai Games
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Apr. 21, 2009
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by Amanda L. Kondolojy
The Gundam series has been around for the last 30 years, and with more than 20 different TV iterations, it is certainly a staple of the genre. Dynasty Warriors is also a staple in gaming, and it has earned a reputation as a hack n slash institution that, while showing its age in recent iterations, has been around since the days of the original PlayStation. Although the original crossover was met with fairly poor reviews, the follow up does a lot to correct some of the problems of the first.
One of the biggest criticisms of the original Dynasty Warriors Gundam was that there just wasnt that much to do. Sure, there were a few modes, but there werent enough Gundams they all seemed to run together. Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 really attempts to fix this aspect by upping the mobile suit roster past 60 and offering plenty of new characters as well. The game features some of the most iconic characters and their respective suits. You can expect suits and characters from as far back as the Orginal Gundam, all the way through more modern series like G Gundam and Gundam SEED.
Although there are plenty of different characters and suits to play with, the real area where Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 has been beefed up is in the modes section. There are three main modes: Original, Mission, and Versus. The Original mode is the games main story mode and allows you to experience key points of each anime series as they relate to specific characters and suits. Each character has about 4-5 different stages in their Original mode, and while each one has an admittedly thin plot, the Gundam series has never really been known for its epic plotlines.
The gameplay in the original mode is about what you would expect from a Dynasty Warriors Gundam game. You will have a big map with different enemy controlled zones. As a Gundam, you can fly over to each area, defeat all the enemies, and then turn it into a friendly green zone. Occasionally, a level will end with a boss battle, but defeating a boss is not that different from defeating drones, so there isnt much play variation.
The mission mode allows you to perform specific stat-bolstering missions while playing as any Gundam/Character you want, finding special parts to trick out your Gundam. You can also increase your relationship with other pilots as well as level up your own specific attributes. Each character has ten or more missions to complete; however, they all involve going around a map and changing red zones to green.
Unfortunately, this repetitive pattern is pretty much par for the course for the Dynasty Warriors. Though I was excited to see if the second Gundam-specific entry in the franchise would break the rigid mold that the Dynasty Warriors series at-large has set over the past ten years, in this respect I was sorely disappointed.
However, there was some reprieve from the hack n slash monotony in the versus mode. Although the games other modes can be played co-op, the versus mode is all about competition. There are three different versus battles that you can engage in: War, Sudden Death, and Hunting. War is the most complex of these modes, challenging you to complete more mini-missions than your opponent. The mini-missions normally entail getting a certain amount of combo hits or taking out a certain enemy. Completing the mission nets you points, while dying reduces your score. Completing a mission will also boost your attack stats while lowering your opponents stats.
Sudden Death mode is a little bit more simplistic, and challenges you to essentially kill your opponents as much as possible. You start out with a minimal defense bar, but as you take out other Gundams, the defense bar increases, which is a nice strategic element. The final versus mode is Hunting, which involves players who are assigned to either be a hunter or a target. Hunters gain points by taking down Gundams, and Targets earn points by running away. The player with the most points at the end is the victor.


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IRVING, Texas (AP) - Dallas running back DeMarco Murray is practicing again for the first time since spraining his right foot a month and a half ago. Nobody's saying whether that means he will end a six-game absence Sunday night against Philadelphia.
Murray was a limited participant in practice Wednesday and back on the field Thursday. Cowboys coach Jason Garrett says he was doing "more football" than at any point since getting injured Oct. 14 at Baltimore.
The second-year pro would only acknowledge a "good first day" in a playful exchange with reporters.
The Dallas running game has struggled without Murray. The Cowboys have gained 100 yards on the ground just once without him and have dipped to last in the league in rushing offense.
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Boehner wary of lame-duck deal
DEPEW, N.Y. — For everyone pining for a sweeping deficit deal after the election, Speaker John Boehner has a message.
Don't hold your breath.
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"I think that's difficult to do," Boehner said when asked about the prospects for a large-scale deficit deal in November and December. "You know, and frankly, I'm not sure it's the right thing to do — have a lot of retiring members and defeated members voting on really big bills. Eh, probably not the appropriate way to handle the lame duck."
Boehner's remarks represent the most public — and serious — signal from the speaker about how he's thinking about the lame-duck session of Congress. The comments could stoke further doubts about what kind of deal the parties can hatch in the critical weeks between Election Day and the new year. While the nation remains entranced by the races for the White House and Senate, Capitol Hill insiders are sitting tight, waiting for the legislative war that will decide tax rates on all Americans and the scope of federal spending.
Boehner isn't saying nothing will get done — in fact, he's not making any proclamations about the prospect of a compromise with Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and whoever occupies the White House.
What he is saying is that he thinks is that the time is too short for something large – and more significantly, that he's morally opposed to lawmakers with one foot out the door making decisions on behalf of the nation. That could seriously limit options for avoiding the so-called "fiscal cliff."
The speaker's remarks were a peek in the mind of one of the most important decision makers in Washington. What Congress decides to do about expiring tax rates, cuts to both defense and domestic spending, the debt ceiling and a host of other expiring provisions will reverberate not only in Washington but on Wall Street and around the world.
There's a whole menu of options available to Congress and the White House as they try to avoid the fiscal cliff. One, which Boehner seems to be ruling out, is to fashion a massive debt compromise in November and December.
The most likely scenario appears to be a short-term agreement to avert a massive shift in tax policy and federal spending, with a framework for the principles for a longer-term solution that would ride alongside. Whether Boehner's aversion to making decisions with lawmakers leaving Congress would prevent even the framework for a deal from being put in place remains to be seen.
The picture, of course, would change significantly if Mitt Romney wins. Capitol Hill insiders concede that the lame duck would present different challenges with a Republican preparing to move into the White House. Crafting a deal with a mostly red Washington could involve serious carping from conservatives if a deal strays too far from rock-ribbed Republican values.


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The first weekend of iPhone 5 sales were pretty disappointing for Apple.
Five million units sold might sound like a lot, but it was serious deceleration off of prior year iPhone sales growth and actually marked a decline in units sold per country.
It has become increasingly clear that the reason for the poor sales was not user demand, however, but the tiny piece of glass in this photo.
The iPhone 5's super thin screen:
A new report from Reuters says that Apple has three manufacturers of this screen lined up: LG, making eight million a month; Japan Display, making eight million a month; and Sharp, making six million a month.
This same report, from Reuters' Tim Kelly and Yoshiyuki Osada, says that Sharp is only now finally up to speed.
That means for the past couple months, the source for more than 25 percent of the iPhone 5 screens has been behind schedule.
One analyst quoted by Reuters says that almost all the phones sold so far have screens made by LG and Japan Display. If that's the case, then supply has indeed been severely constrained.
Correction: An earlier version of this post called the screen plastic. Then we called it glass. Both are wrong. By "screen" Reuters actually seems to have meant "display." I'm not a hardware specialist and I screwed it up. Sorry for the confusion.


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TVersity does everything that any self-respecting DVR can do and then some. You can stream media from any computer to your TV, browse international TV channels, create custom programming guides, and even get your music and movies on mobile devices when you're away.
TVersity Media Center takes a little time and patience to set up, and works best with supported mobile devices. But when it's up and running, it's one of the most fully featured media extenders I've seen. The app has all of the traditional features of a home media server, and can play back audio, video, and stream content from the Internet with ease. The software also works with your Nintendo Wii or your Xbox 360 to stream content to your TV, if the computer running TVersity isn't connected to it directly.
TVersity is new and the software is just getting off the ground. The application's default UI isn't much to look at, but it's definitely functional and allows you to browse your media easily. The app's real power is in how it allows you to customize your experience and how many mobile devices it supports. If the computer you're running TVersity on, or the system you're using to access TVersity has a browser that supports Flash, the UI is similar to the AppleTV, complete with black background and white highlighted text.
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Charting U.S. Congress from late 1800s to the present reveals Democratic legislators exhibit miniscule change in their basic liberal ideology while Republican legislators have become progressively more conservative since the late 1970s, according to http://voteview.com/political_polarization.asp a research and analysis study at University of Georgia Department of Political Science.
Coincidently, this escalating extremism of conservative lawmakers coincides with the beginning in 1970s America of the widening wealth gap between "haves" and "have less". One might postulate the booming wealth of upper echelon Americans triggered their "greed gene" and voile! — realization that to nourish the wealth disparagement, harsher, more extreme ideology/legislation was mandatory to maintain an eternal wealth = power advantage. It's an egg vs chicken head-scratcher yet consider wealth begets greed thus addictive greed begets appetite for power to nourish greater wealth.
Social psychologists, www.moralfoundations.org, identify specific moral foundations prevalent in a person's political position. Conservatives assign greater importance to Authority (rules and power), Loyalty (caste system?) and Purity (religion, intolerance) than Liberals, who value Purity as least important, with Fairness (equality) and avoidance of Harm (empathy) being paramount. When faced with a moral dilemma, Liberals value society above all; Conservatives tend to evenly value the five, but self-interest often prevails (see above wealth gap phenomenon).
Life experiences undoubtedly blur, magnify and alter inborn values, however one's moral matrix dominates. Perhaps distinguishing the innate value differences between the two ideologies won't foster harmony with one's political opposite, but understanding the motivation may diminish the maliciousness of the debate.


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Every year in Term 3 we celebrate the success of our Year 6 students with the annual PYP Exhibition. Arguably the most important assessment-based event of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP), the Exhibition represents over nine weeks' work for the students who have each chosen their own subject area to investigate.
The Exhibition requires students to engage in a collaborative inquiry process that involves them identifying, investigating and offering solutions to real-life issues or problems in the context of their local and global communities. It provides the platform for students to display the skills, attitudes and behaviours developed throughout their schooling experience in the IB PYP.
Every year we see a vast collection of print, multimedia, concept and interactive work be produced by the students and displayed in the school's Library Information Centre for the weeklong exhibition. Recent subjects and issues have ranged from Child Poverty and the challenges of Beef Farming, to the Impact of Technology on the Development of Artificial Limbs, and Professional Sport. Over the course of the Exhibition, Year 6 students conduct tours and explain their work to younger students before presenting a staged component in the Auditorium to their classmates, friends and families.
In recent years the Exhibition has featured a significant growth in digital media and resources, a result of Kristin's school-wide Digital Learning Programme. Most notable are the QR codes that feature on many of the students' displays. In last year's exhibition, these simple icons linked viewers to more than 100 digital documents and student-made videos related to their investigations. During the week of the Exhibition these videos were viewed over 2,000 times, and in more than 30 countries worldwide.


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Laughing, I took her hand and led her to the kitchen. She grabbed a slice of pizza and hopped up onto the counter where I had set her when I was making her breakfast. I caught a glimpse of her panties as my t-shirt lifted slightly. She took a big bite. "Mmmm."
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking, but not about the pizza. "Greasy enough for ya?" I asked as I grabbed a slice and hopped up on the counter across from her.
She tipped her head back and held the slice above her mouth. The cheese dangled from the corner of the slice, and as she lowered it down into her mouth, I fidgeted. She chewed slowly with her eyes closed, savoring it. Her lips parted, allowing her tongue to lick the sauce from them. Pizza had just become my favorite food.
Title: Out of Control
Series: Losing Control book 2
Author: Desiree Wilder
Publication Date: September 14, 2013
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
**Mature Content Warning** Recommended for ages 17+ due to language and sexual content.
Gia's fantasy about having a wild sexual encounter with a man who craves her has been fulfilled. Now she must face her own demons if she wants to hold onto him…
Gia begins to open up to Ethan about her troubled past and failed marriage. As a result she is finding out how fulfilling slow and easy can be. However, just as she's beginning to feel comfortable enough to share some of her secrets, something unexpected happens, her past begins to resurface. A past with a dark road, one with secrets so disturbing she'd rather be alone than have to face them again.
Ethan finally got to meet the woman he'd been fantasizing about for the last ten years and gave her the most carnal sexual experience she'd ever had…
Ethan reveals his secret to Gia about watching her go in and out of 'The Lock' every summer for the last ten years. He also comes clean about who he is. Now if she'd only do the same and be honest with him about who she truly is. He wants something more; he wants to build something real together. Gia surprises him by showing him how passionate fast and hard can be, but just as things are going as he'd hoped, Ethan realizes it may not be that simple. Gia needs to face her past…
Will Gia shut him out completely? Or will she finally let him see the real her?
Gia and Ethan's Playlist
Poison – Talk Dirty To Me
Tesla – What You Give
Pat Benatar – All Fired Up
Whitesnake – Slow An' Easy
Def Leppard – Lets Get Rocked
AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
Mötley Crüe – Kickstart My Heart
Trixter – Only Young Once
Ratt – Round And Round
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Cinderella – Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)
Skid Row – I Remember You
"Do you want some more wine, Gia?" Ethan asked from the kitchen.
"Are you trying to get me drunk?" I asked him, grinning to myself.
"I don't know, should I be?" Now he was looking down at me from the back of the couch, smiling.
"I don't know," I said shaking my head. "I get pretty horny when I get drunk."
"You mean, hornier than you usually are?" He held up his hand, which was already holding a bottle of wine. "I gotta see this." He filled my glass all the way to the rim.
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Total Control (Book 3) COMING SOON
Gia's finally had a taste of what her life could be like with Ethan, and boy what a taste he was, but can she face the demons she's pushed down so deep, that even she forgot how ugly they were, and live that life with him…
As Gia takes the first steps to finding herself again after years of depression and guilt, she feels hopeful. Ethan is everything she's ever wanted, and more. He's allowed her to open up and be herself for the first time in a long time. He's also awakened her sexually, but maybe too much. Can she harness the want to explore, the need to experiment, long enough to return to Ethan's arms and accept all that he so desperately wants to give her, or will she succumb to the temptations which always seem to be licking at her, like flames from a dangerous fire? Just as she thinks she's got it all under control, the ugly truth pays her a surprise visit.
Ethan finally has everything he's ever wanted. A successful business, a strong team, and a budding relationship with Gia, the woman of his dreams, but can he hold onto her long enough to show her that he's the man of hers…
As much as Ethan hates to be separated from Gia, he knows how much she needs the treatment she decides to ensue. He loves her sexual appetite and willingness to please and be pleased, but he wants so much more, he wants all of her, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Can he set aside his fear and jealous tendencies long enough to receive them from her, and when he's faced with the ugly, will he be able to handle the heartbreaking truth, or will it be more than he bargained for?
Desiree Wilder was born in South Dakota and grew up in a small town where she thrived in school and developed a love for reading and writing. Her younger days were filled hanging out with her older brother and younger sister riding bikes, playing board games and watching General Hospital. As a teen she became less interested in learning academics and became more interested in learning how to get into mischief without getting caught.
As an adult, Desiree loves cooking, shopping, reading, concert-going, camping and spending time with her crazy yet supportive family. She'd rather take the dirt road and crank up some eighty's rock or some good 'ol Hank Jr. than the paved fast track.
Just recently she started writing and something inside her came alive. It fulfilled her and unexpectedly took over what had become a robotic daily routine. She is a hopeless romantic and believes in love at first sight. Nowadays you can catch her doing 'research' for her next book at a concert or getting inspired for her next leading man in the romantic comedy section!


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2015 Outdoor: Competed mainly as a hurdler in the spring for UMBC... Set a season best in the 100m hurdles at the America East Championships with a time of 15.41... Had a season best time at the Morgan State Legacy meet with a time of 1:04.82 in the 400m hurdles.
2014-15 Indoor: Competed in the 200m and 400m dashes, as well as the 60m hurdles for the Retrievers... Set a season best time in the 200m dash at the Penn State Relays, finishing with a time of 25.86... At the Metro Team Challenge, she set a season best time of 58.39 in the 400m dash... Placed 10th in the preliminaries in the 60m hurdles at the America East Championships... She finished the event with a time of 9.12.
2014 Outdoor: Advanced to the finals of the 400m hurdles, placing sixth overall, at the 2014 America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Vermont… Clocked a career-best time of 1:02.87 in the event at the Morgan State Legacy Meet to grab the fourth spot in the UMBC record book… Placed second in the hurdle event on her home track at the Big Dawg Invitational at UMBC Stadium… Named to the America East Honor Roll.
2013-14 Indoor: Competed in the 200m dash and 400m run at the 2014 America East Indoor Track and Field Championships, advancing to the finals for the 400m event… Placed third in the prelims with a top season time of 56.87, and then finished seventh overall in the finals with a time of 58.76… The prelims time ranks as the fifth-fastest in UMBC program history… Also competed in the 60m hurdles during the winter season, clocking a top season time of 9.60 at the Terrapin Invitational.
2013 Outdoor: Placed 12th in the 400m dash and 16th in the 200m dash at the 2013 America East Outdoor Championships… Recorded her top 400m time of 58.57 at the conference meet at Binghamton… Helped UMBC win a silver medal in the 4x100 relay at the America East meet.
2012-13 Indoor: Competed in the 200m, 400m, and 500m events during the season for the Retrievers… Also ran in the 4x400 relay for UMBC at the Penn State Relays.
2012 Outdoor: Helped both the 4x100m (46.47) and 4x200m (1:38.04) relay teams break school records... Part of the 4x100m relay team which won the America East Outdoor crown... Finished sixth in the 200m dash and 13th in the 400m dash at the conference meet in Maine... Recorded a season-best time of 57.52 in the 400m at the Duke Invitational.
2011-12 Indoor: Helped the 4x200m relay team break the school record with a time of 1:41.38 at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational in New York... Finished seventh in the 200m dash at the America East Indoor Championships with a season-best time of 25.28... Placed eighth in the 400m dash at the conference meet in Boston with a personal-best time of 57.79 to move into sixth all-time in UMBC's record book.
Background: Named to the All-County First Team for 200m and 300m hurdles in 2011... Named to the All-County Second Team... Team won the WCAC Championships all four years... Received the four-year Varisty award.
Personal: Daughter of Melvin and Yvette Young... Has two sisters, Shannell and Candice... Majoring in media and communication studies... Born July 16, 1993.


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(AP) — Mark Mihal was having good opening day on the links when he noticed an unusual depression on the fairway of the 14th hole at Annbriar Golf Club in southern Illinois.
Remarking to his friends how awkward it would be to have to hit out of it, he went over for a closer look.
One step onto the pocked section and the 43-year-old mortgage broker was plunging into a sinkhold. He landed 18 feet down with a painful thud, and his friends managed to hoist him to safety with a rope after about 20 minutes. But Friday's experience gave Mihal quite a fright, particularly after the much-publicized recent death of a man in Florida whose body hasn't been found since a sinkhole swallowed him and his bedroom.
"I feel lucky just to come out of it with a shoulder injury, falling that far and not knowing what I was going to hit," Mihal, from the St. Louis suburb of Creve Coeur, told The Associated Press before heading off to learn whether he'll need surgery. "It was absolutely crazy."
Mihal said it was a real downer on what had been a fine outing.
With winter finally nearing an end, "it was the first day to get to play in a long time," he said. "So I wasn't expecting too much."
Golfing with buddies, Mihal was waiting to hit his third shot, some 100 yards from the pin on the par 5, when he noticed a bathtub-looking indentation about knee deep just behind him on the fairway. At just one over par for the round, the golfer with a 6 handicap was on a roll.
Mihal said he was completely surprised when the ground gave way beneath him.
"It didn't look unstable," he said. "And then I was gone. I was just freefalling. It felt like forever, but it was just a second or two, and I didn't know what I was going to hit. And all I saw was darkness."
His golfing buddies didn't see him vanish into the earth but noticed he wasn't visible, figuring he had tripped and fallen out of sight down a hill. But one of them heard Mihal's moans and went to investigate.
"He just thought it was some crazy magic trick or something," Mihal said.
Getting panicky and knowing his shoulder "was busted," Mihal assessed his dilemma in pitch darkness as he rested on a mound of mud, wondering if the ground would give way more and send him deeper into the pit that was 10-feet wide at the opening, then broadened out into the shape of a bell below the surface.
"I was looking around, clinging to the mud pile, trying to see if there was a way out," he said. "At that point, I started yelling, "I need a ladder and a rope, and you guys need to get me out of here.'"
A ladder that was hustled to the scene was too short, and Mihal's damaged shoulder crimped his ability to climb.
"At some point, I said, 'I need to get out of here. Now,'" Mihal recalled.
One of his golf partners, a real-estate agent, made his way into the hole, converted his sweater into a splint for Mihal and tied a rope around his friend, who was pulled to safety.
"I felt fortunate I didn't break both legs, or worse," Mihal said.
While disturbing, such sink-holes aren't uncommon in southwestern Illinois, where old underground mines frequently cause the earth to settle. In Mihal's case, the sinkhole's culprit was subsurface limestone that dissolves from acidic rainwater, snowmelt and carbon dioxide, eventually causing the ground to collapse, said Sam Panno, a senior geochemist with the Illinois State Geological Survey.
That region "is riddled with sinkholes," with as many as 15,000 recorded, Panno said.
The one Mihal survived has him debating whether returning to Annbriar is a long shot.
"It's a great course. I love the course," Mihal said, having played Annbriar a couple dozen times over the past decade. "But I would have a tough time probably walking down that hole again."
The 20-year-old course proclaims on its website that "each year new golfers are tested by our challenging 18 holes of golf."
There's no mention of its newest - and most challenging - hole.


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- Awesome: Mike Rankin makes a wordcloud from responses to my "Sympathy for the Devil" piece [Via]
- My old résumé site (c.1997) featured non-sequiturs flashing by above the text. Apologies to Douglas Coupland, Jenny Holzer, and anyone else whose text I ripped off. And no, I'm not going to show you the execrable rest of the site.
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- RIP Bob Noorda, designer of the classic NYC subway signs. (I've got an enamel "Bklyn Bridge" original hanging in my office. I used to change trains there when I first moved to NYC.)
- A headstone mourns the "soon-to-be-forgotten hyphen."
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Some guys just don't play by the rules. What's good for the masses gets wadded up and tossed aside in lieu of originality and character. When Kenny Wayne Shepherd decided it was time to build a hot rod, he bypassed the cookie-cutter fluff and jumped straight into the world of forgotten '70s Mopar-dom. Yeah, we're talking about that Kenny Wayne Shepherd—guitar rocker and bluesman extraordinaire. And yeah, we're talking about a '72 Dodge Charger.
The Chargers that get all the love are usually the '68-70 versions made famous by a couple good ol' boys by the last name of Duke. Neglected are their younger (and older) brothers, but the '72 had more than enough style and swagger to hold its own. When the body style changed in '71, besides shortening the wheelbase a couple inches and widening it, the look was completely different from its predecessor and people didn't really know what to think. As a couple decades passed by, the emissions-stifled B-Bodies were typically left untouched in the corners of a few junkyards. Castaways. Black sheep. It took the vision of someone like Kenny to mentally lift away the green hue of algae buildup and picture what could be done to make the car into a modern muscle marauder.
"I'm kind of drawn to cars that are underappreciated. That's been my quest in the past; the last few years have been to realize the potential in the cars that seem to get overlooked. That was like my '70 Plymouth Duster that was a cover car (Mar. '08). Nobody had really done a serious Pro Touring Duster, and I saw a lot of potential there. I felt the same potential was in this car."
As an enthusiastic car guy, Kenny's built a number of cars to keep his roddin' passion at bay. Although the years might vary on his rides, the dedication to the Mopar brotherhood has never swayed. This particular ride came his way in 2008 as one of those projects to be filmed and photographed throughout the process, but under the expectant eyes of the public, things got a little rushed. After the initial build, Kenny backed up and went through the whole process again, fixing the little details, tweaking the tweakables, and getting it just-so-right. He wanted to really showcase the unique style of the car.
"As far as Chargers go, the '71 to '74 is a bastard stepchild," he says. "They're very underappreciated. But the more I looked at this body style, the more potential I began to see. It's another situation where when I built this car, nobody had done a real Pro Touring version of the third-generation Charger."
That's not to say they are completely unknown in the high-performance world. King Richard Petty, who was known for being mostly a Plymouth guy, had a '72 Charger in his stable, which Buddy Baker drove, though there was also a version with the famous No. 43 on the side.
Kenny's project began with a trip to Ted Moser's Picture Car Warehouse (Northridge, California), which he tasked with the bulk of the build. Since Kenny's cars are built to actually be driven, they decided the number-one step in moving the car into modern ride quality was to install a Reilly Motorsports AlterKtion front K-member and suspension kit. Though the kit usually employs coilovers to handle the load, they paid homage to the past and built custom hidden torsion bars to spring the frontend. Axing the old steering box in favor of a rack-and-pinion and redesigning the mounting points to reduce bumpsteer really help the car stick to the sometimes less-than-perfect road conditions as Kenny eases down Mulholland Drive in the hills of Los Angeles. "One of the great things about the AlterKtion frontend and the RMS four-link rearend is that with those adjustable QA1s, you can dial it in. You can loosen those shocks up and it drives like a Cadillac. Or you can tighten them up and take it to the track, and it feels like a track car. It's a pretty versatile automobile."
And since there is a high probability of a cell phone-toting, toy dog-carrying starlet stepping out in his way, Kenny equipped the ride with road-race quality six-piston 14-inch Wilwood front brakes within the super-fat, low-profile meats.
"To be honest, I don't think any vintage car, no matter what you do to it, will handle exactly like a modern car, but I don't want it to feel like that because then it would lose part of the charm," he says. "Some of the appeal to me is the difference. We try to update it and make it safer, but I still want it to have some character."
To be sure that the car had enough power to make the chassis really work, Kenny picked up a late-model Mopar Performance Gen III 392 Hemi. The crate engine comes with all the go-fast goodies like a high-lift hydraulic roller cam, CNC-ported aluminum heads, forged crank and rods, a plug-and-play EFI system that's set up for big power, and of course the Hemi name that strikes fear into, and respect from, all in its path. With all that power right out of the box, he didn't see the need to throw a bunch of extras at the engine. "Everything is stock on the motor. I figured with 525 hp and 510 lb-ft of torque right out of the crate, it was pretty good for us. We've just been fine-tuning it a little bit and trying to get a little more out of it. The thing is, out here all we have is 91 octane and it was set up for 93 octane, so when we started running it out here we had some pinging. So we've just been trying to find the right areas where we need to pull a little bit of timing."
With that kind of power, it didn't make sense to hook it up to a lazy man's slushbox, so Kenny installed a six-speed Viper transmission and a Mopar-supplied Dana 44 with 4.10 gears to send the power to the pavement. A modern take on the infamous Pistol Grip shifter was created by Billet Technology and matched to his reach for comfort and performance.
Subtle styling cues were the theme for modifying the body. "Unless you're a Mopar guy, a lot of people don't know what the car is when they see it," he says. Even those in the know aren't always hip to the modifications right off the bat. "It takes even a trained eye a few times to look the car over to see what we did," he says. "We shaved the driprail moldings, keyholes, and side-marker lights, tucked in the front bumper, and with the rear bumper we smoothed and shaved the entire rearend. We molded the entire rear bumper into the body so there's no seam of any kind. We used '69 Charger door handles instead of the door handles that came on it."
Inside, the ride continues bypassing the mainstream. Kenny incorporated Chrysler Sebring convertible seats for the added safety of a built-in shoulder belt without having to install ricer-looking four-point harnesses. Keeping with the updated theme, the car sports a clean modern interior, air conditioning, cupholders, and a kick-ass stereo. "It's got everything except for safety airbags," he says. With all the work done to the car plus the original Detroit steel in place, there was a small weight penalty to pay, but it was compensated for. "The car is huge! I think it's like 18 feet long, and I don't even know how much it weighs, but that 392 Hemi just gets up and goes," Kenny says. "I built this car to drive the crap out of." And that's exactly what he's been doing.
As a world-renowned blues/rock guitar hero, Kenny is used to being treated a little different. Likewise, his '72 Charger also spends its life outside the lines of normalcy. Living outside the boundaries of 9-to-5 society is what puts both of them on the fringe. Perhaps that is why they make such a perfect match for each other as a pair of black sheep.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd's '72 Charger ain't your regular grocery getter—but it does that too.
By The Numbers
1972 Dodge Charger
Kenny Wayne Shepherd, 34
Los Angeles, CA
Type: Mopar Performance 392 crate engine
Displacement: 392 ci
Compression ratio: 10.5:1
Rotating assembly: steel crank, steel rods, hypereutectic pistons
Cylinder heads: Mopar Performance aluminum Hemi
Camshaft: hydraulic roller
Induction: Mopar Performance
Fuel injection: Mopar Performance
Headers: TTI
Output: 525 hp, 510 lb-ft
Transmission: Viper six-speed
Rear axle: Dana 44 with 4.10 gears
Front suspension: RMS AlterKtion K-member, torsion bars, QA1 adjustable shocks
Steering: rack-and-pinion
Rear suspension: RMS Street-Lynx four-link, QA1 adjustable coilover shocks
Brakes: Wilwood 14-inch six-piston SL6, front; 13-inch, four-piston SuperLite 4R, rear
Wheels & Tires
Wheels: Foose custom "Challenger" 19×9.5 front, 20×12 rear
Tires: 295/35R19 front, 335/30R20 rear


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Running is a very complex motion where all parts of the body interact. We humans come in different shapes and forms, differences that determines what works for us as runners.
Running should feel light, balanced and comfortable. Dare to trust your own feeling; it is your most valuable instrument when shaping your running.
Our approach towards enabling this is the Running Wheel, centered around a hub, with five spokes.
The pelvis is the Hub in Running and utterly it is from there all movements in your body can be derived. A correct and well-executed movement in the pelvis in interaction with your other body parts is the key to holistic Running, i.e. Full Body Running. Posture, lean, arms and cadence are technical details which correctly executed helps the pelvis to move in an effective manner, which eventually results in a correct foot landing underneath your hips, i.e. your centre of mass.
If you push too hard with your quads without right hip position, you will most likely end up overstriding with a heel strike. In order to generate a long powerful stride without reaching forward with your leg and overstriding, you need to focus on your hip position. Push hip forward, do not sit back.
Hip extension, is when you drive your upper thigh (and leg) backward after your foot makes contact with the ground. Hip extension acts as a throttle how fast you are able to run.
To get the body in a right alignment is the foundation of a good running posture.
Good posture is essential to create the right conditions to move in an efficient manner throughout all stages of the running cycle and enable forces to flow through the body without energy loss. Correct posture aim to maintain optimal balance, where gravity works in your favour.
In most disciplines there is no "free lunch". Everything comes at a cost. The good news for runners is that for running there is actually free energy to gain. Gravity is the free energy source – you just need to learn how to best use it. You want to shift your weight forward from the ankles in order to capitalize of the forward falling motion and transition that gravitation brings. Make sure that you do not bend at the waist. The lean should start at the ankle and involve the whole body.
Let the free running gravity work its wonders to your running and you will run more efficient and effortlessly than ever before. In your forward falling motion it is essential to maintain balance in each and every part of the running cycle in order to keep a good posture. Posture and lean create conditions for a correct foot landing.
When you get tired you want to avoid starting slouching. Think about yourself as having strings attached to your body, being pulled up almost like a puppet. Run tall, run strong, keep balanced and use the gravity to your advantage.
The body's interaction with the arms is of great importance to make use of torsional movement and find the right balance. The angle you have at the elbow, and how far you swing your arms in front and to the back of your body are technical details that has great impact on your running form throughout your whole body.
You want to avoid a locked angle or too large of an angle between the upper arm and forearm. It demands muscle power to keep this position, which normally results in too stiff arms and arm swing. It might also lead to that too large share of the arm's mass gets too much in front of the body, which in turn brings the upper body forward, which then ends up in a bent-over leaning position. The arm swing should be relaxed and natural. It is ok to decrease the angle of the forearm during the forward arm swing and keep the arm close to your body, as seen in the pictures below.
The arm swing sets the pace for the stride frequency (cadence). In addition, a larger movement in the arms allows for a greater rotation in pelvis and thereby enabling a longer stride length. Letting the arm swing higher up behind the body primarily enables the larger movement.
Legs and arms run together, if you increase the pace of your arm swing, then the turnover of your feet will also increase and vice versa. Cadence increase when the pace increases, but the difference should be relatively small and the guideline should be 180 steps/min. The right cadence give you the right condition to turn you stride in time at the front of the run cycle in order to have time to get your foot strike at the right place under the centre of mass (underneath your body). This will help you find the balance and correct timing in the run cycles all phases from air flight to stance phase and create stability for your running.
You want to avoid overstriding, where the foot comes into contact with the ground well ahead of the hips. In addition, overstriding is most commonly combined with a heel strike and a too straight knee causing greater braking forces and excessive impact forces.
Maintain a high Cadence is also the key to improve your uphill, downhill and crosscountry running.
Turnover of the feet or cadence is essential part of correct running technique. A quicker turnover means a more efficient run. Less friction and impact forces, which makes it easier for the muscles and joints.
Posture, lean, arm swing and cadence are all important factors that in fact determine how the foot strike will be at foot landing. When the foot strikes the ground it should have a pre-tension right before it strikes, which leads to a more stable but also softer landing and importantly the elastic energy is used to its full extent. Approximately 52% of the energy at foot landing can be recycled through the arch and Achilles' tendon.
Even though the preferred foot landing is on mid foot or close to mid foot, we believe discussions about whether the heel slightly strike the ground first or not should be toned down and rather the focus should be shifted to what leads to a correct foot landing – a correct running technique with an optimal pre-tension in the foot before foot strike. A heel strike that lands close to the hips (your centre of mass) and on a bent knee causes no significant over-braking or over-loading to the knee. Looking at running this way, a holistic approach, one can see how all parts interact with one another and help each other out through the whole running cycle = Full Body Running™
Remember, you take approximately 1000 steps per kilometer and each step carries a load of approximately three times you body weight, consequently an error in foot landing has huge impact over time for your long-term running health.
In our holistic view on running – Full Body Running with its hub and five spokes is the foundation when we build running shoes. The design and construction of our shoes can be derived from the natural running technique and the biomechanical laws that govern how the human movement when running, this is the last piece in the jigsaw-puzzle to make the "Salming Running wheel" roll as frictionless and balanced as possible.
Natural running shoes should be designed to facilitate for you to find the right running technique/form. At Salming, we apply what we call the "Rule of 5"
#1 light Improves running efficiency with approximately 2-3% per 100 g reduction in shoe weight. Lightweight shoes will cut minutes away from your PB on a half marathon.
#2 flexible Flexibility should imitate the foot flexibility in order to facilitate a natural running technique. You will improve training of biological structures with a flexible forefoot shoe design.
#3 flat Low Heel to Toe Drop facilitates correct foot landing at the ball of the foot. In addition you become more naturally balanced with gravity without adjusting body position. The arch area of the shoe should not be pushed up too much as it prevents the arch's natural cushioning and spring function.
#4 thin Improves sensory feedback from feet to brain. The foot automatically senses information from the ground contact with each and every step. With this data, your brain responds accordingly. If the midsole is too thick the sensory feedback gets distorted – it would be equivalent to put ski gloves on the hands when typing on a keyboard.
#5 comfortable Anatomic fit. A relatively roomy toe box is preferable so the toes are not pinched together. A tight toe box will deform the foot over time and lead to all sorts of problems. We want the foot to be able to function exactly as nature intended it too.


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... the fact that Tim's fat was a direct result of Leo leaving him on the front line was not lost on my 5yo. He got it on a very basic level, but I wouldn't be surprised if Leo had trouble putting others in danger in the future after getting a taste of the burden of command.
Heavy stuff under the surface makes for some fine toonage worthy of the Turtles comic heritage. Helps that they kept just the right amount of wacky too.
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Kelly wins CVU top performer weekly honor
For the second time this season Lipscomb sophomore middle blocker Alex Kelly has been named a top performer by the Collegiate Volleyball Update (CVU.com).
Kelly was honored for her play during the week of Oct. 20-26.
During that stretch the Lady Bisons beat Jacksonville 3-1 Oct. 24 and swept North Florida 3-0.
Kelly recorded double-doubles in both kills and digs in both matches. She had 17 kills and 18 digs against Jacksonville. She was credited with 12 kills and 13 digs against North Florida. She also had one service ace in each match.
This season Kelly has also been named Atlantic Sun Player of the Week three times (Sept. 22, Sept. 29 and Oct. 13).


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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC, is proposing draft recommendations that call for eliminating the sustainable growth rate, or SGR, formula, which sets payment rates for Medicare services. Although the AAFP is applauding the proposal to eliminate the SGR, which is accompanied by a positive payment differential to the Medicare conversion factor for primary care physicians, other recommendations from the commission are raising red flags.
MedPAC's draft recommendations(medpac.gov), which were presented during a Sept. 15 public meeting in Washington, call for repealing the SGR, a move the AAFP has been advocating for years. In addition, MedPAC is calling for HHS to establish more accurate work and practice expense values, which likely would result in shifting payments from overvalued procedural services to other services, such as those commonly used in primary care.
"Primary care has been conclusively shown to improve patients' outcomes, end fragmentation and duplication, and help rein in costs," said AAFP President Glen Stream, M.D., M.B.I. of Spokane, Wash., in a prepared statement. "By recommending that Congress repeal the sustainable growth rate formula on which Medicare payment is based and by calling for a positive payment differential to the Medicare conversion factor for primary care physicians, MedPAC clearly recognizes the immediate need to improve Medicare fee-for-service payment for primary care physicians.
"These are steps in the right direction," said Stream.
- The AAFP is praising the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC, for its recommendation to eliminate the current Medicare physician payment rate formula.
- The draft recommendations also take steps to better value primary care services.
- However, the 10-year payment freeze for primary care services that MedPAC also is recommending "will be catastrophic, severely challenging family physicians' ability to keep their practices open," according to AAFP President Glen Stream, M.D., M.B.I.
This move would create a payment differential between primary care physicians and subspecialists, and it recognizes the need to preserve payment levels for primary care services, said Stream, but a 10-year freeze on Medicare payments to primary care physicians "will not protect patients' access to care, a stated goal of MedPAC. Instead, it will threaten all patients' access to care.
"After years of meager, unpredictable Medicare updates and significant inflation, many family physicians struggle to maintain their practices," said Stream. "Freezing payments for primary care for even one year will be catastrophic, severely challenging family physicians' ability to keep their practices open, much less redesign them for becoming patient-centered medical homes."
Stream also said a payment freeze sends "a negative signal to medical students whose interest in family medicine has increased in the past two years as policy discussions placed greater emphasis on the high value of primary medical care."
Consequently, the AAFP is calling on MedPAC to recommend both a positive annual update and a positive payment differential to the Medicare conversion factor for primary care physicians during the next 10 years to demonstrate the importance and value of primary care in creating a better health care system.
"We would hope that, in deliberating the SGR repeal, Congress and the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction will build on MedPAC's recommendations, establish a payment plan that closes the income gap between primary care and subspecialist physicians and continue progress toward a reformed system that begins with the primary care, patient-centered medical home," Stream said.
MedPAC, meanwhile, plans to finalize recommendations on Medicare physician payment during its next meeting in early October before sending a final recommendation to Congress.
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Committee Opinion Number 678, November 2016
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ABSTRACT: Current sexuality education programs vary widely in the accuracy of content, emphasis, and effectiveness. Data have shown that not all programs are equally effective for all ages, races and ethnicities, socioeconomic groups, and geographic areas. Studies have demonstrated that comprehensive sexuality education programs reduce the rates of sexual activity, sexual risk behaviors (eg, number of partners and unprotected intercourse), sexually transmitted infections, and adolescent pregnancy. One key component of an effective program is encouraging community-centered efforts. In addition...
Committee Opinion Number 671, September 2016
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ABSTRACT: Over the past decades, the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has increased dramatically worldwide and has made pregnancy possible for many infertile couples. Although the perinatal risks that may be associated with ART and ovulation induction are much higher in multifetal gestations, even singletons achieved with ART and ovulation induction may be at higher risk than singletons from naturally occurring pregnancies. However, it remains unclear to what extent these associations might be related to the underlying cause(s) of infertility. Before initiating ART or ovulation i...
Committee Opinion Number 590, March 2014
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ABSTRACT: Patient care emergencies may occur at any time in any setting, particularly the inpatient setting. It is important that obstetrician–gynecologists prepare themselves by assessing potential emergencies, establishing early warning systems, designating specialized first responders, conducting emergency drills, and debriefing staff after actual events to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement. Having such systems in place may reduce or prevent the severity of medical emergencies.
Committee Opinion Number 535, August 2012
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ABSTRACT: Increasing numbers of women and adolescent females are incarcerated each year in the United States and they represent an increasing proportion of inmates in the U.S. correctional system. Incarcerated women and adolescent females often come from disadvantaged environments and have high rates of chronic illness, substance abuse, and undetected health problems. Most of these females are of reproductive age and are at high risk of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Understanding the needs of incarcerated women and adol...
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ABSTRACT: Although improvement in long-term health is no longer an indication for menopausal hormone therapy, evidence supporting fewer adverse events in younger women, combined with its high overall effectiveness, has reinforced its usefulness for short-term treatment of menopausal symptoms. Menopausal therapy has been provided not only by commercially available products but also by compounding, or creation of an individualized preparation in response to a health care provider's prescription to create a medication tailored to the specialized needs of an individual patient. The Women's Health...
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ABSTRACT: Postpartum tubal sterilization is one of the safest and most effective methods of contraception. Women who desire this type of sterilization typically undergo thorough counseling and informed consent during prenatal care and reiterate their desire for postpartum sterilization at the time of their hospital admission. Not all women who desire postpartum sterilization actually undergo the surgical procedure, and women with unfulfilled requests for postpartum sterilization have a high rate of repeat pregnancy (approaching 50%) within the following year. Potentially correctable barriers ...
Committee Opinion Number 205, August 1998
Tubal ligation at the time of cesarean delivery requires significant additional physician work even though the technical work of the procedure is brief. Informed consent by the patient requires considerably more counseling by the physician regarding potential risks and benefits of this procedure than is necessary with alternative means of sterilization and contraception. Also, many states require completion of special informed consent documents in addition to the customary consent forms required by hospitals. These forms must be completed before scheduling the procedure.
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Colorado Civil Justice League event ignites controversy
An attorney who has represented a dozen clients horribly injured when red plastic gas containers exploded says the Colorado Civil Justice League's notion that "lawsuit abuse doomed an American icon" is simply untrue.
That's the title of a speech scheduled to delivered Friday by Rocky Flick of Blitz USA, which manufactured the gas containers until filing for bankruptcy. Flick is the keynote speaker at the Civil Justice League's annual luncheon, which begins at 11:30 a.m. at the Four Season Hotel's Cottonwood Ballroom. The group will honor lawmakers who demonstrate a "commitment to personal responsibility and consumer freedom."
Attorney Diane Breneman of Kansas City disputed the statement from CCJL president Mark Hillman that Blitz was driven out of business by "personal injury lawyers who convinced courts and juries" that Blitz was liable when a "handful of ill-advised customers" poured gas on an open flame.
"Over 90 percent of my cases have involved children," Breneman said.