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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-An eight-year veteran of the coaching staff of one of the top NCAA Division III baseball programs in the nation has been named head baseball coach at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Bob Prince, who has been an assistant coach at Southern Maine since 2003, will succeed Bob Curran, who resigned after the conclusion of the 2011 season.
Prince has helped the Huskies advance to the NCAA Division III New England Regional Championships three times during his tenure. USM won the LEC regular season championship in 2009, and tied for the regular season title in 2006.
At Southern Maine, Prince was responsible for providing coaching and administrative assistance to Head Coach Ed Flaherty, who has led the Huskies to 770 wins, 19 post-season appearances and four spots in the NCAA Division III World Series in 26 seasons as head coach. Prince served as Southern Maine's hitting coach, and oversaw the Huskies' offense for a team that regularly appears in the national rankings.
A native of Wells, ME, and a 1992 graduate of Southern Maine, where he earned a bachelor's degree in communications, Prince was a three-time American Baseball Coaches Association All-American as an outfielder, and helped lead USM to three appearances in the College World Series and their first national championship in 1991. A four-time member of the All-New England, All-Northeast and All-Eastern College Athletic Conference teams, Prince was named ECAC Division III Northeast Player of the Year in 1991, and played a year of professional baseball in Holland after his graduation. He holds records for the most doubles (63) and highest career batting average (.414) at Southern Maine, was named to the USM and State of Maine Halls of Fame, and was selected as one of the Sports Illustrated top 50 Athletes of the Century from Maine. He also served as the Huskies' equipment manager and intramural director.
Before joining the staff at Southern Maine, Prince served as an assistant at St. Joseph's (Maine) from 2000 to 2003, working with another nationally-ranked NCAA Division III program. He also was an assistant coach with the Sanford Mainers of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, one of the top collegiate leagues in the country, from 2000 through 2002. Prior to his collegiate coaching career, Prince served as the head coach at Wells High School and Traip Academy High School, and as head coach of the Southern York Breakers American Legion team.
"I am very excited to have Bob Prince as part of the Corsair family," said UMass Dartmouth Director of Athletics Ian Day. "As a player and as a coach, Bob has achieved success, and I am confident he will achieve that same level of success at UMass Dartmouth."
"It is an honor for me to join the UMass Dartmouth athletic family as the head baseball coach," said Prince. "I'm excited and thankful for the opportunity that UMass Dartmouth has given me and my family, and I'm looking forward to carrying on the rich tradition of Corsair baseball under (former Head) Coach (Bruce) Wheeler and Coach Curran."


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If Union Gen. George Gordon Meade had had his way, the battle that changed the course of the Civil War would have taken place on Maryland soil.
A fight in a Pennsylvania crossroads town called Gettysburg wasn't in his plans for July 1, 1863. Nor was the Confederate commander, Robert E. Lee, looking for a fight that day and in that place. But the chance encounter of a Confederate unit in search of supples and Union cavalry on patrol foiled Meade's plans to set a trap for Lee in Carroll County.
What might have gone down in history as the Battle of Taneytown — or the Battle of Big Pipe Creek — never happened. Instead the three-day battle took place about 15 miles up the road and across the state line. It would end in a Confederate defeat, after Lee's attempt to storm Union-held Cemetery Ridge ended in the bloody repulse of Pickett's Charge.
A century and a half later, the Battle of Gettysburg still grips the imagination of scholars and ordinary Americans. Over the next week, an estimated 200,000 people are expected to jam the area for dozens of events that commemorate the battle. That includes a ceremony Sunday, followed by a procession to the national cemetery established after the battle.
Adam Goodheart, a historian at Washington College in Chestertown, said the story of Gettysburg — particularly Pickett's Charge — continues to resonate with Northerners and Southerners alike. "That moment becomes the war in miniature — that here there were gallant Confederates who were brave but ultimately serving a lost cause, hurling themselves against Union forces that would turn out to be unconquerable."
Goodheart, author of "1861: The Civil War Awakening," does not buy that interpretation, which became popular in the decades of national reconciliation after the war. In his view, Union victory in the war was hard-won and far from inevitable. And Gettysburg, he said, is overestimated as a turning point.
Nevertheless, it was the bloodiest clash of armies ever to take place in North America. While it ended in Northern victory, there were points when the Union teetered on the edge of catastrophe.
While the epic battle was fought in Pennsylvania, Maryland played a central role in the campaign. It was through Maryland that Lee invaded — hoping to undermine political support for the Lincoln administration by dealing the Union a defeat in the North — and it was through the state that he retreated. More than any other Civil War battle, it was a fight that pitted Marylander against Marylander — particularly at Culp's Hill, site of the Maryland monument honoring soldiers who fought on both sides.
In some ways, however, it's the role Maryland almost played that is most fascinating.
On June 30, 1863, Meade was preparing a strong Union position just south of the Mason-Dixon line. The new commander of the Army of the Potomac planned to position his troops south of Big Pipe Creek to intercept Lee's Army of Northern Virginia if it struck en route to Washington or Baltimore. Early on July 1, he assigned his corps commanders positions along that line.
"Meade wanted to fight in Maryland," said Allen C. Guelzo, a Gettysburg College historian who this year published "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion," a well-received account of the campaign. The creek line and bluffs on the south side of the creek provided an easilly defended position, he said.
The position Meade chose was better than the one his army found at Gettysburg, according to Ronald A. Church, a Carroll County amateur historian who has written about the Pipe Creek Line. Meade's plan also would have made it difficult for Lee to escape in a retreat, he said.
Church, a retired county public works official, led a reporter on a tour of the planned 20-mile line, which would have stretched from Middleburg in the west to Manchester in the east. Some points along the line look much as they would have in 1863, he said, except that much more of the land would have been cleared of trees — allowing lookouts on the heights to spot a Confederate advance.
The line also blocked all three of the roads Lee could have used to march on Baltimore or Washington from Gettysburg, Church said. It offered excellent supply lines by road and rail as well as the flexibility to shift units along the line to meet points of attack.
"If Meade's plan had come to fruition, this would have been the Cemetery Ridge of Taneytown," Church said.
The Pipe Creek Line would become a historical footnote rather than a major battlefield, largely because of the actions of Union Gen. John Reynolds, a Pennsylvanian eager to defend his state from the Confederate invaders. He disregarded Meade's wishes and pushed his 1st Corps to Gettysburg, where on July 1 it came to the support of Union cavalry that collided with an advancing Confederate division.
Reynolds lost his life that morning but got his fight. Once the battle was joined, Guelzo said, Meade could not back down. It was the residents of Gettysburg rather than Taneytown who would hide in their cellars as the battled raged.
Over three bloody, sweltering days, the Union and Confederate armies pounded each other at a series of then-obscure places whose names are now synonymous with hallowed ground: Devil's Den, Little Round Top, Cemetery Hill, Culp's Hill.
On the second day of the battle, the Rebels came close several times to crashing through Union lines and delivering what might have been a war-ending blow to the Lincoln administration. But each time, a countercharge blunted the Confederate attack.
On July 3, Lee overplayed his hand by ordering Gen. George Pickett's assault, which failed amid horrific casualties. There was a brief Confederate breakthrough, but it was quickly sealed up, and the surviving Southerners staggered back to their lines in defeat.
The accidental battle at Gettysburg inflicted at least 46,000 casualties — split roughly evenly between the two sides. Almost 8,000 men were killed in the three days of the battle. The North's casualties were appalling, but the South lost a greater percentage of its strength. On the night of July 3, Lee ordered a withdrawal to Virginia.
In the days that followed, Lee's campaign of invasion turned into a desperate retreat across Maryland. The armies fought a series of smaller battles over the next week or so — at Boonsboro, Funkstown and Williamsport.
Four months later, Lincoln traveled to the battlefield, where he delivered a speech that did not go down in history as the Taneytown Address.
Contrary to popular belief, Gettysburg did not seal the fate of the Confederacy, Goodheart said. Nor was it the only crushing blow to the South that week.
"The fall of Vicksburg [on July 4] was actually a more unequivocal and absolute Union victory than Gettysburg," he said. Even then, Goodheart added, the outcome of the war would remain in doubt for more than a year. It would take the September 1864 fall of Atlanta — ensuring Lincoln's re-election — to make a Union victory inevitable.
Lee continued to fight until April 1865, when he was trapped at Appomattox, Va., and surrendered. After the war, admirers sought to absolve him of blame for the Gettysburg defeat and to put the onus on various subordinates. Modern historians haven't been so kind, noting that the fateful decision to order Pickett's Charge was Lee's alone.
After an initial burst of acclaim in the North, Meade's reputation faded as the public learned more about the pivotal role of able subordinates. According to Guelzo, a big difference in the battle was that Meade's supporting cast — generals such as Winfield Scott Hancock and Gouverneur Warren — showed initiative while Lee's did not.
"Here's a case in which the great military leader [Lee] finds his greatness boomeranging against him. He was so great that everybody was looking at him to make the great decisions," Guelzo said.
While Civil War historians have not been kind to the irritable, overcautious and moody Meade, nobody could erase the fact that Gettysburg was a pivotal victory achieved while he was in charge. It is perhaps fitting that the most populous Army base in the state where he wanted to fight the biggest battle of his life is Fort George G. Meade.
"In the final accounting, Gettysburg was a victory, for George Meade, for the Army of the Potomac, and for the Union," Guelzo writes. It was, he adds, "decisive enough that after Gettysburg, the sun never shone for the South again."
More on Gettysburg
Gettysburg anniversary events: http://www.nps.gov/gett/planyourvisit/150th-anniversary-events-2013.htm
Historic battle photos: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Gettysburg+battle+photos&qpvt=Gettysburg+battle+photos&FORM=IGRE#view=detail&id=E474EABD64BCFBC344F203F463DB7DB29C3211D2&selectedIndex=85
National Park Service photo gallery: http://www.nps.gov/gett/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm
Gettysburg battle timeline: http://www.visit-gettysburg.com/the-battle-of-gettysburg-timeline.html
Gettysburg campaign timeline: http://www.civilwarreference.com/battles/campaign_detail.php?campaignsID=217
Maryland Civil War Trails: http://www.civilwartraveler.com/EAST/MD/gettysburgCampaignMD.html
U.S. Army history of Gettysburg campaign: http://www.history.army.mil//html/books/075/75-10/index.html
U.S. Army interactive battle map: http://www.army.mil/gettysburg/flash.html
Events at Gettysburg national park
•Living History Camps: Union and Confederate re-enactors will present demonstrations near the Pennsylvania Memorial and at Pitzer's Woods on Monday through Wednesday.
•Key Moment Programs: On Monday through Thursday, park rangers will present programs at locations where key events occurred.
•Hikes: From Monday through Thursday, park rangers will lead hourlong hikes on phases of the battle and its aftermath.
•Battlefield Experience Programs: Park rangers will provide programs on critical moments at the approximate time they occurred 150 years ago — including a march Wednesday across the field of Pickett's Charge.
The Pipe Creek Line: An Overview: http://www.gdg.org/Research/People/Meade/church.html


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STERLING — With the number of cases of influenza on the rise in Colorado, Sterling Regional MedCenter is enacting measures to protect patients and staff.
Visitors under the age of 12 are restricted from visiting patient care areas at the hospital. Children under 12 are most likely to carry and spread influenza. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one of the best ways to protect patients, hospital staff and other visitors is to implement visitation restrictions for children.
Patient care areas include patient rooms, medical imaging, speech, occupational, and physical therapy, and outpatient services. Children may be in the public areas as long as they are accompanied by an adult. Public areas are waiting areas, the lobby, cafeteria and Gift Shop.
According to Sara Quale, public relations specialist for Banner Health, the hospital wants to ensure the public is informed about the restrictions to avoid issues with patients who may typically bring their children with them, as the children will not be able to accompany them into the treatment room and can not be left attended in the waiting area.
Exceptions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please contact Infection Preventionist Katie Ruff, (970) 521-3107, Phylis Helgoth, (970) 521-3180 or the administrative rep on duty for the hospital.
Quale added that the hospital also asks those who have cold– or flu-like symptoms to delay visiting patients in the hospital until they are feeling better.
Hospital leaders will announce when the restrictions are no longer necessary.
The flu is a contagious disease and contributes to more than 36,000 preventable deaths annually in the United States. Young children, people 65 years of age or older, pregnant women and people with conditions such as heart, lung or kidney disease or a weakened immune system are at high risk for getting the flu, which can cause fever and pneumonia and make existing medical conditions worse.


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Deployed Airmen Elect Best Squadron Mom
|By U.S. Air Force Capt. Nora Eyle
Special to American Forces Press Service
|BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, July 12, 2007 Senior Airman Jennifer Cianfrocca may get the most mail at Camp Cunninghams post office here, but her care packages are not just for her alone -- they are also for everyone with whom she works.
Cianfroccas mother, Mary Pierce, from Las Cruces, N.M., has made it her mission to care for her daughters entire unit, the 354th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron. She sends up to four boxes a week to ensure that the A-10 pilots and their team have enough Cajun Trail Mix to hold them over until the next shipment.
They know my mom by name at the post office back in Las Cruces, Cianfrocca with a smile. Some days Ive even received three packages from her. Everyone in the squadron is really appreciative of all my mom does. They cant wait to see what (she) is going to send next.
The squadron elected Pierce as Best Squadron Mom by majority vote a couple of weeks ago and as a thank you for all she has done for them, the Bulldogs sent her a beautiful arrangement of flowers.
We recently awarded Pierce the Best Squadron Mom award because her incredible efforts have been great for our morale, especially for our first-time deployers, said Air Force Lt. Col. Kevin Anderson, 354th EFS commander. These reminders of home make the deployment easier and the fact people are thinking of you while youre away is a good feeling."
Pierce, an American with Disabilities Act coordinator for Dona Ana County, spends her own money on the packages she sends to Afghanistan. Even though her family is scattered across the country, she said everyone sends packages.
I even have co-workers who give me money to buy goodies or who bring me stuff to send over, Pierce said. Everyone supports our [servicemembers]. Jennifer is a personal connection to them.
Pierce said she asks her daughter constantly about what the squadron needs to make their deployment a little easier.
I always knew Id send care packages but didnt know what to send, she said. Id wander through Wal-Mart thinking How about this? and just throw things in the basket. I know that Jennifer shares with her squadron, the maintenance units and the Special Forces units, so I need to send a lot of stuff.
As far as food is concerned, Cianfrocca said Starbursts are a big hit with the crowd, and most people enjoy the Cajun Trail Mix because they cant make the jalapeño popcorn mixture they have at home.
Did you know that the post office has two sizes for flat rate boxes that you can stuff up to 70 pounds into? Pierce asked. And the boxes are free! Its an incredible savings and benefit that I utilize to send more boxes of goodies. Two or three times a week, I pack up a couple of the flat rate boxes, go to the post office and mail them off.
For the fourth of July, Pierce sent holiday decorations so the squadrons Airmen had a reminder of home during the holiday.
The decorations were great, Cianfrocca said. We convinced a lot of people to try on the party hats,
Pierce said she is not the only one in her area sending care packages to the troops. The post-office clerk told her several other local mothers also send lots of care packages to entire units stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I consider it a privilege to support the Bulldogs, Pierce said. They are the best of the best. They are brave, courageous and so very dedicated to their mission. Jennifer made an excellent choice when she joined the Air Force. I am so very proud of her.
(U.S. Air Force Capt. Nora Eyle is assigned to 455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs)
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Magic returns to rivalry with Jays in Boston's win
Napoli drives in three runs, including winner, in back-and-forth-affair
TORONTO -- For Red Sox fans who go back a couple of decades or more, Friday night's contest against the Blue Jays probably had them reminiscing about the teams' fierce American League East rivalry in the late 1980s and early '90s.
Only this time, Wade Boggs, Ellis Burks and Roger Clemens weren't playing for Boston. And Roberto Alomar, Joe Carter and Dave Winfield -- the Toronto stars of that era -- have long since retired.
At last, the buzz is back between these AL East rivals, and the Red Sox edged out the Blue Jays, 6-4, in a thriller in front of 45,328 at Rogers Centre.
If John Farrell's decision to leave the Blue Jays' helm after just two years to manage the Red Sox created much of the high-voltage energy that was prevalent on Friday, that's fine.
Nobody is ever going to complain about a postseason atmosphere in April.
"Again, this game is always going to be about the players," Farrell said. "Given the circumstances, the fans had fun with it. It was a great crowd. The energy they created, it was just an outstanding night. It was a great atmosphere to play this game in."
And as Farrell alluded to, players made the difference in this game, not the manager.
For the Red Sox, Mike Napoli was particularly big. After going 2-for-14 in Boston's opening series in New York, the first baseman drove in three runs, including a two-run homer in the top of the fifth that gave his team a 4-1 lead.
"It was a fun game," said Napoli, who also drove in the winning run with a groundout in the eighth. "The crowd was really into it. It was a good game on both sides."
Considering the Red Sox went 2-for-19 with runners in scoring position, Napoli's homer was critical.
"It always feels good to hit a homer. I haven't been feeling too good at the plate," Napoli said. "My timing's been off a little bit. But I'm working every day with it and feeling better and better every at-bat."
Though Napoli's homer -- the first of the season for Boston -- seemed to give the Sox momentum, this game swayed back and forth.
The Jays chipped their way back from that 4-1 deficit and completed the comeback when Jose Reyes, who had four hits on the night, drilled a solo homer to tie the game in the seventh against Junichi Tazawa.
"I'll tell you what, Reyes obviously showed his abilities tonight," Farrell said. "[Tazawa's] split-finger on a 1-0 pitch just didn't get quite the depth and stayed in the middle. [Reyes is] a pretty electric looking player for sure."
But there was no deflation in Boston's dugout. Jonny Gomes pinch-hit for Daniel Nava and jump-started an eighth-inning rally with a one-out walk. Dustin Pedroia drilled a double to left-center, putting runners on second and third with one out.
"You know, Dustin is one of our leaders, there's no question about it," Farrell said. "I think the key was Jonny Gomes getting on base, reaching via the walk. Dustin is such a good hitter. He gets into good counts consistently. When he squared the ball up, I thought it had a chance to get out of here. He does so much for us, whether it's at the plate or in the field. He is certainly one of the guys we look to for leadership."
Then it was Napoli's turn. He didn't go deep this time, but his grounder to third, which Maicer Izturis made a terrific play on, was enough to get a run home and put the Sox ahead for good. After fielding the ball from his knees, the only play Izturis had was at first, where he narrowly got Napoli.
"I was just trying to put it in play somewhere, especially with two strikes," said Napoli. "Just do what happened, try to make something happen. Jonny got a good read at third base going on contact. It was a big run for us."
Will Middlebrooks gave the Sox some insurance by smashing a solo homer to left off Jeremy Jeffress to open the ninth.
"I was looking in," said Middlebrooks. "Normally, guys who throw hard, they'll go soft away, and they'll come hard in next pitch and try to beat you."
It was a so-so first start of the season for Sox lefty Felix Doubront. He went five-plus innings, allowing nine hits and three runs before he exited with a runner on and no outs in the sixth. Doubront walked none and struck out six.
The lefty took a no decision while Tazawa, despite giving up the long ball to Reyes, picked up the win.
The Red Sox are off to a 3-1 start.
"For those who maybe only see our dugout on TV, the amount of positive comments and guys pulling for one another, this is a very good group that's coming together pretty darn quick," said Farrell.
And one thing a tight-knit team can usually do is thrive amid a hostile crowd.
"You know, hostile environment, that's huge for the home team, it really is," said Gomes. "You get those little goosebumps going to the plate with the house going crazy. At the same time, it's a quick character check with the boys coming in from the road. It's a good character check right out of the gate."


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Versatile Sanchez claims utility role on bench
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Following Sunday's 8-2 loss to the Royals at Camelback Ranch, White Sox manager Robin Ventura announced Angel Sanchez as the team's utility infielder to start the 2013 season.
It was assumed that Sanchez, a 29-year-old Rule 5 selection from the Angels, stood as the frontrunner with his ability to play shortstop as well as second and third. And Sanchez feels he fits in nicely.
"I like the chemistry, how everybody treats everybody," Sanchez said. "I'm really excited to be here. Everybody treats me good.
"It's been a challenge for me to prove to them what I really can do. It's been fun to be here and I'm doing my very best."
Sanchez has played 184 Major League games, including 110 for the Astros in 2011. So, the 29-year-old understands the big league experience. He plays a very aggressive shortstop defensively, which could lead to a few mistakes, but the White Sox have liked what they've witnessed.
"Angel is going out about his business the right way," said White Sox third-base coach Joe McEwing, who works with the infielders. "He's done his work. He's prepared for every situation when that situation arises."
"I'm comfortable at every position, second, short and third base," Sanchez said. "That's why you get your work in during Spring Training. You do all the stuff to get better during practice."


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O Love that wilt not let me go,
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
That in thine ocean depths its flow
May richer, fuller be.
O Light that followest all my way,
I yield my flickering torch to thee;
My heart restores its borrowed ray,
That in thy sunshine's blaze its day
May brighter, fairer be.
O Joy that seekest me through pain
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
And feel the promise is not vain
That morn shall tearless be.
O Cross that liftest up my head,
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust life's glory dead,
And from the ground there blossoms red
Life that shall endless be.
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The rodeo clown who wore a Barack Obama mask during a show at the Missouri State Fair has been permanently banned from performing at the event ever again.
The Missouri State Fair apologized for the weekend rodeo stunt mocking Obama that has been slammed by state officials from both parties.
The state fair commission unanimously approved the motion, according to a statement.
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The day's top national and international news.
Video of the state fair incident aired by NBC affiliate KSHB showed a rodeo clown standing in the middle of the arena wearing an Obama mask, while an announcer rallied the crowd into a frenzy by saying, "We're gonna smoke Obama, man."
A bull was unleashed from the bullpen, but the Obama clown left the arena about 15 minutes later after the bull got too close, according to The Associated Press.
Spectator Perry Beam told KSHB that the crowd "went wild" during the stunt.
Beam said he witnessed another clown running up to the one wearing the Obama mask and played with the lips on the mask.
"Like an effigy, at a Klan rally," Beam told the "Today" show by phone. "There would have been no reason to mess with his lips if he would have been a white president."
Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill called the rodeo antic "shameful" and "unacceptable."
"I condemn the actions disrespectful to POTUS the other night," tweeted Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder. "We are better than this."
The Missouri State Fair agreed in a statement to NBC News that the performance was disrespectful. "We strive to be a family friendly event and regret that Saturday's rodeo badly missed that mark."
Lt. Gov. Kinder sent a follow-up tweet calling for Gov. Jay Nixon to take action.
I love the @MoStateFair and will attend this week. I implore @GovJayNixon to hold the people responsible for the other night accountable. — Peter Kinder (@PeterKinder) August 11, 2013
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The Role Of Curation In Journalism
from the don't-knock-it deptJay Rosen points us to an article out of France that takes a stab at presenting what a modern internet-era newsroom should look like. The point that I find most interesting, that helped clarify a few different ideas for me, is that it splits "journalism" into three distinct categories, all of which have a role in the newsroom:
- Reporters -- who go out and do first person reporting -- creating original stories, not just reposting rewritten wire copy.
- Columnists -- who "start conversations and give stories another perspective."
- Curators -- who "'cover' the news by sorting, verifying and editing live everything good existing on the web and in the media. They make link journalism, they make the news more accessible."
Unfortunately, for the most part, newspapers seem to look down on "curating" as if it's some sort of lesser form of journalism, and this is a sticking point that they're going to need to get past if they want to understand how people engage with the news today. These days, everyone is a curator of the news in some fashion: they share news, comment on it, post about it, etc. But they also look to the "pros" to add more value to it as well. But if the traditional press looks down on this function, they won't do a particularly good job of it. It's sometimes tough for a press who used to want itself to be "the final word" on every story to admit that others may have reported it better/faster, as well as the fact that sometimes it's better to involve the community, rather than treating the community as riffraff waiting for the word from the god-like journalists.
If a newsroom were set up with a focus on those three roles (I would add editors as well...), with the understanding that they work together as a team to both bring the most information and community to a particular story, I doubt we'd see newspapers struggling as much as they are today.
Filed Under: curation, journalism, links, newspapers, reporting


text: Dustin Pedroia missed the 2009 All-Star Game to be with his wife, who was about to give birth to their first child. Tonight, Bobby Valentine had to abruptly pull Pedroia from the game, telling him mid-inning that Kelli had gone into labor and that he had to vamoose immediately. Alas, shortly thereafter, Valentine set the club record for ejections in a season and the Red Sox lost, 5-4, so the timing really couldn't have been better.


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Lamar named to Princeton Review's 'Best 296 Business Schools: 2013 Edition'
Lamar University has been recognized by Princeton Review's "Best 296 Business Schools: 2013 Edition" for its exceptional MBA program in the College of Business. Of the 296 business schools, 280 were from the U.S. and 16 were international.
"We are among the top 296 business schools nationally and internationally," said Jeff Dyson, MBA director. "Management knowledge, organizational perspective, and analytical skill and ability are all important things we focus on for the students in our business school. Our mission is to make students who attend Lamar's MBA program relevant and competitive not only in business, but in life."
"Our MBA program is shockingly affordable, and also very diverse and very engaging" said Dyson. "Our enrollment is doing well right now. We are at about 70 percent domestic and 30 percent international students. The competitive MBA admission requirements help us ensure that we get the right people in the program."
Princeton Review, an American-based standardized test preparation and admissions consulting company, selects business schools based on institutional data collected and their academic programs. The school rankings are derived from an 80-question survey given to students attending the schools and take into account how those students rate their experiences with the institution, MBA program, campus life, student body, and faculty.
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business conducted a review of Lamar University students to report on student involvement regarding academics, student-faculty relationships, and campus life. Dyson said when Lamar's MBA program had their AACSB review, one of the strong points of the review was that students told the reviewers that the access to faculty members at Lamar is incredible. Many students reported that faculty members know them by name and care about them personally; because of that, the students view them as credible sources.
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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).
This is the legacy Bug Tracking System for the POV-Ray project. Bugs listed here are being migrated to our github issue tracker. Please refer to that for new reports or updates to existing ones on this system.
FS#227 - Fixed Vector Limitations
Opened by Jim Holsenback (jholsenback) - Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 12:21 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Thursday, 18 May 2017, 10:47 GMT
See this documentation entry for more details.
If the concern seems to be the multiple calls to alloc (on push_back, with lock of allocator), what about:
# using a normal vector (s0 and s1 in media.cpp circa line 700)
# with s0.reserve(lights.size()) and s1.reserve(lights.size()) before the copy in the for loop.
For the other case of FixedSimpleVector, I found only :
* trace.h, where it seems to support a replacement in typedef with normal vector (should I expect some leaks ?)
* frame.h, untested so far.
work in progress.
Please don't work on this: It is an extremely fragile construction and only Chris and I know all the details and side effects and rationale for the way it is. It is a workaround, but it isn't there because it is easy to fix, but because it is really, really hard to fix well.
For the record, benchmark get a slow down on change of frame.h (from 2:35 to 2:48)
Other changes did not had a significant impact. (but media might not be part of benchmark)
- Field changed: Status (Assigned → Shelved for peer review)
- Field changed: Due in Version (3.70 release → Undecided)
Changing the state of this task instead of blindly porting it to github as is. Original wiki link is dead, and other than seeing a discussion about some tricky memory allocation/performance issues I'm lost.
For the records, the whole issue is about artificial limits to certain features, due to the use of FixedSimpleVector<> to avoid excessive memory allocation/deallocation overhead.
The corresponding hard limits are configured via the *_VECTOR_SIZE macros in /source/core/configcore.h.
- Field changed: Status (Shelved for peer review → Tracked on GitHub)
Now tracked on github as issue #292.


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Building on and for Knoppix II
The Knoppix Live CD (http://knopper.net/knoppix/) is an excellent way to try out Linux on any PC with a CD-ROM drive. It won't store anything on your PC (unless you ask it to) and doesn't mess up any existing installations of Linux or Windows.
In this article, I'm going to describe how to build ROLF to run on Linux assuming a PC booted from an unmodified Knoppix 6.2 CD.
When done, you should have a working ROLF desktop being displayed in a window, able to run a few native ROLF programs and even some RISC OS programs, in a limited way. Simply by copying the directory into which you've installed ROLF to some permanent storage (a hard disc or a memory stick, for example), you can use the build again without having to go through the steps I describe.
Set up a build environment
Knoppix, unfortunately, doesn't include all the tools needed to build ROLF, so we have to get them from Debian first. (If your Linux system already includes these tools, you can obviously skip this step.)
First, get the full list of packages that are available:
sudo apt-get update
Then update the compiler to include the C++ compiler, needed to build the Server part of ROLF (the libraries are all plain C, but to build them, you need libtool).
sudo apt-get install build-essentials
sudo apt-get install subversion
sudo apt-get install libtool
sudo apt-get install pkg-config
After that has been done, the compiler will still refuse to compile C++ programs because it can't find cc1plus, for some reason. The simplest way to fix that is to add the path to the (just installed) cc1plus file installed to the PATH environment variable.
export PATH=$PATH:$(dirname $(find /usr/ -name cc1plus 2>/dev/null | head -n 1))
Now, to get the source code:
svn co https://ro-lf.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ro-lf/ROLF/rolf
(If you don't expect to make any changes to the code, you can instead use:
svn export https://ro-lf.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ro-lf/ROLF/rolf)
Change directory into the downloaded code and run configure (not as complicated as a normal configure script):
cd rolf
./configure --appsdir=$(pwd)/Apps --prefix=$(pwd) --tarballs=$(pwd)/tarballs/
Knoppix (or Debian) have all their shared libraries taged by their version number; to make the files linkable, we need to do this:
mkdir lib
ln -s /usr/lib/libz.so.1 lib/libz.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 lib/libjpeg.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 lib/libpng.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 lib/libfreetype.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 lib/libstdc++.so
ln -s /usr/lib/libmagic.so.1 lib/libmagic.so
Similarly, the build requires a set of include files [This bit needs an update!]
Specifically, the files needed are:
From zlib:
zlib.h, zconf.h
From libpng:
png.h, pngconf.h
From file:
From libjpeg
jpeglib.h, jmorecfg.h, jconfig.h
From freetype 2:
Update the config.mak file created by configure to point at the libraries and includes:
sed -i 's/CFLAGS.*$/& -L$(CFGDIR)\/lib/' config.mak
sed -i 's/CFLAGS.*$/& -I$(CFGDIR)\/my_includes/' config.mak
Now you should be able to build ROLF:
Assuming all goes well with the build, the next step is to collect the resources needed in one place.
You will need:
- Fonts (at least FreeSerif.ttf; the default font)
- Tool and Icon sprites (I use Chris Wraight's Steel theme, from here: http://www.lym.iconbar.com/downloads/steel.zip)
- A mimemap.txt file (if you're going to use RISC OS software)
- and a !Boot file, to load them all (like the one below)
mkdir -p Resources/fonts/{FreeSerif,FreeSans,FreeMono}
ln -s /usr/share/file/ Resources/
cd Resources/fonts
for i in *; do for f in $( find /KNOPPIX/ -name $i*.ttf ); do ln -s $f $i/ ; done ; done 2>/dev/null
# This one is needed for the Terminal application:
cp `find /KNOPPIX/ -name default8x16.psf* 2> /dev/null` .
cd .. # Resources
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/lib
export PATH=$PATH:`pwd`/bin
#Uncomment the next line if you need a log of what's happened (useful for debugging)
# ROLF_WIMP_LOG=/tmp/rolf_wimp_log \
ROLF_RESOURCES=`pwd`/Resources \
ROLF_VNC=800x600:2008 \
That should have the effect of printing:
VNC Server waiting for connections on port 2008.
New file descriptor 3
New Opaque bitmap VNCFrameBuffer, 800x600
In another terminal window, type:
vncviewer localhost:2008
... and a colourful window with an icon bar and a couple of drive icons should appear!


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Thanks to consumer preferences and technological advances, the Renault-Nissan Alliance is making zero-emission mobility a reality for consumers around the world.In December 1898, the battery-powered Jeantaud Duc became the world's fastest car with a speed of 63.15 km/h. Electric cars were seen as modern, safe and convenient. But within a couple of decades, oil companies had created an ecosystem of wells, refineries and pumps to take advantage of the energy density and abundance of petroleum. Carmakers shifted focus, concentrating overwhelmingly on the gasoline-powered internal combustion engines that dominated the twentieth century.No trend can last forever. In the past decade, political tensions among oil-producing and oil-consuming nations have exposed the danger of relying on one single, non-renewable fuel source. Air quality has eroded to dangerous levels in some cities. Noise pollution escalates. Irrefutable evidence of climate change accompanies rising CO2 emissions. Socially and environmentally responsible citizens - particularly young people - are demanding clean alternatives to conventional cars. Automakers have achieved admirable increases in fuel efficiency by improving internal combustion engines and by introducing hybrid cars that occasionally switch to batteries. But the only way to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from the transportation sector is to build vehicles that do not consume any petroleum whatsoever. Fortunately, advances in lithium-ion technology allow us to move into the era of zero-emission transportation - starting right now. Unlike gasoline-powered cars, electric vehicles consume nearly any form of energy - including abundant hydropower and the growing supply of renewable solar and wind power. As these renewable energy sources increase, CO2 emissions will shrink further. Climate change, consumer preferences and advances in technology: these are some of the reasons the Renault-Nissan Alliance decided to mass-produce electric vehicles, becoming the first car group in more than a century to make zero-emission cars affordable, convenient and fun.At the end of 2010, after a decade developing the compact laminated lithium-ion battery pack, we started selling the Nissan LEAF. More than 25,000 people on three continents have driven more than 35 million miles in Nissan LEAFs, saving at least 800,000 gallons of petrol. That is the equivalent of 7,300 tons of CO2 that have not been emitted. And most people who buy the Nissan LEAF say that it has replaced their conventional car for daily use. In 2011, Nissan sold more than 22,000 LEAFs, now the most popular zero-emission car of all time. Renault introduced two additional zero-emission models for Europe and Israel - the Renault Fluence Z.E. and the Renault Kangoo Z.E. van. We also started trials of a Nissan light commercial vehicle, the e-NV200. In 2012, we are introducing Renault's Twizy urban two-seater vehicle and Renault ZOE subcompact. By 2016, the Renault-Nissan Alliance is aiming to have sold 1.5 million battery-powered vehicles. Our long-term vision is to help create a sustainable society where zero-emission ? Pictured: (Above) Renault's line-up of electric cars for 2011-12 From left to right: Twizy, ZOE, Fluence Z.E. and Kangoo Z.E.(Left) The all-electric Nissan LEAF was named 2011 World and European Car of The Yeartransport and mobility 131
Pictured above: The LEAF to HOME system developed by Nissan is coming soon. It can provide a power source for homes in times of power blackouts and can help shift towards a non-peak power /smart electricity use pattern that can be coordinated with solar power generation in the future. Pictured facing page: Carlos Ghosntransportation is mainstream. This is our ethical imperative - and a calculated business move based on consumer preferences and tougher environmental mandates. By 2020, the EU wants CO2 emissions cut by 20 per cent compared to 1990 levels. By 2020, the US wants CO2 emissions cut by 17 per cent compared to 2005 levels. Given these trends, the status quo is no longer tenable: Zero-emission transportation will play an important part in a sustainable planet. The Renault-Nissan Alliance's vision is larger than zero-emission cars themselves. We are refining vehicle-to-grid technology, which allows an idle EV to return power to the grid at peak times and recharge with cheaper, off-peak electricity. We will help customers use their batteries to power their homes and, eventually, recycle their batteries. We are making even longer-range batteries more affordable. Furthermore thanks to a strategic cooperation with Daimler, we are bringing fuel-cell vehicles closer to reality every year.We work closely with governments, universities, utility companies and non-profit organisations. Many countries offer cash rebates for customers who buy zero-emission vehicles. Such subsidies boost consumer awareness and acceptance of clean cars. Other incentives include free parking, the use of bus lanes, free electricity for EVs and EV-only zones in cities. In the short term, such benefits make zero-emission vehicles competitive with conventional vehicles, whose costs have been amortised for a century. As manufacturers ramp up production of zero-emission vehicles, economies of scale will reduce the need for incentives. Electricity is abundant. Communities are adding charge points in office complexes, parking structures, residential areas and along highways. Forward-thinking governments, universities, multinational corporations and entrepreneurs are building fast charging networks or even battery switch systems, so drivers can "charge and go" in about the same time it takes to gas up. Utility companies are adding renewable resources to the grid, making the carbon footprint of electric cars lower and lower. We are optimistic about the future. Despite economic turbulence since 2008, governments have not slashed incentives or eliminated investments in critical infrastructure upgrades. Debt crises and unemployment will no doubt dominate discussions at the G8 summit in Chicago 132 transport and mobility


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Categories: Slash Pairings > McKay/Sheppard Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
John Sheppard is flying high; he's just been made a Lt. Colonel in the Air Force, and is deemed important enough to be given assignments at Area 51. It's there that he meets Rodney McKay, and there that he jeopardises his new Rank.
This is an old challenge, moved to the new category today, so that's why it might seem a little dated. Anyway, it popped into my mind after reading Leah's plea for challenges followed by JBTrek's "Duet" links post way back in...October '05, I think: John and Rodney are in a relationship (can be well established or all shiny and new), when the events of "Duet" happen. This leads to angst and confusion for John, Rodney and Carson as hidden feelings are brought to the fore. I'd like this to end with John and Rodney inviting Carson into their relationship (any excuse for a threesome *g*)...possibly with a bit more angst when Carson thinks it's just a one off deal. So, there it is. Not particularly challenging as I expect everyone will think of this. And I shall probably have to wait a while til the eps been shown, but meh...At least the little lightbulb won't be lonely anymore :).
Categories: None Characters: Carson Beckett, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
Atlantis is being prepared to leave Earth, the Pegasus Galaxy has been selected as its destination, and the Ancients that have decided to leave, are saying goodbye to those who have decided to stay. John is one of the Alteran's that has decided to go, excited at the prospect of a New Galaxy. During the journey, he meets another Alteran; Rodney. There's something between them from the beginning, something that develops as they finding a planet, and start colonising Pegasus.
Categories: Slash Pairings > McKay/Sheppard Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay
John Sheppard has never been more pissed, six weeks Samantha Carter has been in Atlantis, and in that time, Rodney McKay has been following her around like a Puppy. John never sees him, and when he does, he either talks, or daydreams about her. Now John can appreciate that Carter is hot, and smart, and a good person, but he's still jealous, and is more than a little disturbed by that.
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vim has been complaining about lack of syntax files for perl for some versions now, and I had assumed that the syntax files had been removed for space saving. However I was making a custom tonight and decided to add the syntax files back in, to my surprise they are mostly there except for pod.vim so I think this is a bug rather than the space saving I had assumed. Could pod.vim be added to /usr/share/vim/vim80/syntax please?
Vim is missing pod.vim in syntax
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Cartesian equation:
y = cx2 - log(x)
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|Caustic curve wrt another point
The case here is where A is on a straight line and was studied by Arthur Bernhart.
Pierre Bouguer was a French scientist who was the first to attempt to measure the density of the Earth using the deflection of a plumb line due to the attraction of a mountain. He made measurements in Peru in 1740. A more successful use of this method by the astronomer Maskelyne placed the density between 4.5 and 5.
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Most Americans best remember Marian Anderson for her conscience-grabbing concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939 after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall, an arena that, from 1935 to 1952, opened its doors to white artists only. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, appalled at the Hall's racist action, opened the Lincoln Memorial for Anderson's concert. As Abraham Lincoln's statue watched over her from behind, Anderson gave an extraordinary performance that will go down in history as one of the most dramatic civil-rights spectacles ever.
Growing up in Philadelphia's "Negro quarter" in a single rented room with her parents and two sisters, Anderson overcame racial and economical boundaries to become a highly acclaimed contralto. At the age of six, Anderson sang in the choir of the Union Baptist Church, where she became known as "baby contralto." Despite her sporadic musical education, the unique sound and extraordinary range of her voice continued to impress listeners by the time she turned sixteen. In fact, her neighbors were so impressed that they raised enough money for her to study under Guisepe Boghetti, a well-known voice teacher.
While studying under Boghetti, Anderson won the opportunity to sing at the Lewisohn Stadium in New York by entering a contest held by the New York Philharmonic Society. She also received a Julius Rosenwald scholarship allowing her to train abroad in England, France, Belgium, Holland, the former Soviet Union, and Scandinavia. In 1935 her performance at the Salzburg festival earned her worldwide recognition and a compliment from Italian conductor, Arturo Toscanini, who told her, "a voice like yours is heard only once in a hundred years."
Upon her return home, Sol Hurok, the famous impresario, signed her on to tour here in the United States, which were extraordinarily successful. Among the honors she received were the Spingarn Medal, a Doctor of Letters from Howard University, and an invitation from President and Mrs. Roosevelt to sing at the White House making her the first African-American to entertain here.
The 1950s brought Marian Anderson more well-deserved recognition as both a talented singer and an influential diplomatic force. In 1955 her strength as a classical vocalist won her the role of Ulrica in Verdi's "A Masked Ball," making her the first African-American soloist at the Metropolitan Opera. That same year Anderson was given the position of goodwill ambassador by the State Department. Her travel itinerary included a concert in Israel in 1955 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and a ten-week concert tour of the South Pacific and Asia in 1957, a tour that appeared on the CBS television series, "See It Now." As a member of the United Nations Trusteeship Committee, Anderson helped ensure the well-being of over 100 million people living in U.N. trust territories in Africa and the South Pacific.
In 1961, Anderson returned to Washington to sing the national anthem at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration. Two years later, she encountered President Kennedy again when he bestowed upon her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This honor came appropriately one year before her farewell concert tour, which she opened, ironically, at Constitution Hall, and ended on Easter Sunday 1965 at Carnegie Hall.
Anderson spent her retirement on a 155-acre farm in Danbury, Connecticut until she moved in with her nephew, Oregon Symphony music director James DePriest in 1992. She died here on April 8, 1993 at the age of 96.


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COUNCILS, utility companies and government bodies have all agreed to work together to fund the £125m solution to Oxford's flood problems.
After a three-hour long flood summit in Oxford yesterday, they agreed to set up a "sponsorship group" which will be made up of representatives of as many bodies as possible and lobby for funding for the Western Conveyance.
Bodies such as Thames Water, Network Rail, First Great Western and the Highways Agency all expressed their support and commitment to continue working with Oxfordshire's councils to tackle the issue.
Oxfordshire County Council has said it will now try to unite as many of these organisations as possible into the group.
County council leader Ian Hudspeth said: "It went very well in terms of getting everyone together and making sure they all fully understand the issues around the Western Conveyance.
"I think the sponsorship group is very important because it is an awful lot of money that we need and we have got to make sure everyone is involved.
"The group will drive the funding push and make sure everyone is on board. It also means it won't just be one party coming forward with this idea, it will be several."
The Western Conveyance would be a four-mile long channel running from Seacourt Stream in Botley to Sandford Lock south of Oxford.
During flooding the channel would carry flood water round to the west of Oxford.
It would be accompanied by flood defence schemes in Abingdon to make sure that it doesn't have a knock-on effect further downstream on the Thames.
Barry Russell, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire area operations manager for the Environment Agency, said: "I thought the summit went fantastically well and was a great opportunity to get everyone together.
"The project is on Defra's six-year programme and I think the ongoing challenge is to bring the money into the equation.
"The sponsorship group is absolutely key and it will be the energy behind this to corral others to bring what they can to the table, secure their commitment and enable us to move forward."
The Western Conveyance – also known as the Oxford Relief River – went out for consultation three years ago but has never progressed due to lack of funding.
Now £38m has been earmarked for the scheme from the Environment Agency and another £12m would come from the Thames Regional Flood and Coastal Committee which is made up of flood authorities across the Thames region.
This leaves a shortfall of £75m (including the Abingdon schemes which will come under the Western Conveyance) which has to be found before the scheme can go ahead.
It would be as wide as the River Thames and it is believed that it would prevent both Abingdon Road and Botley Road from closing due to flooding, as happened this winter.
£125m scheme to protect the city.
THE Western Conveyance channel, would start at the Seacourt Stream in Botley and run to the west of the city diverting water away from Oxford to rejoin the Thames four miles downstream at Sandford-on-Thames.
Officials have said it would be roughly the width of the River Thames.
Government minister Eric Pickles and county council leader Ian Hudspeth watch pumping operations last month to keep homes in Bullstake Close, off Botley Road, from flooding
Councillors concerned about the impact on Abingdon were also assured yesterday that the scheme will be accompanied by measures to make sure it won't increase the risk of flooding in the town.
At the moment it is estimated it will cost a total of £125m – £123m for the channel itself and £2m for associated work at Abingdon – but a £75m funding shortfall still remains to be plugged.
'Plans could transform boating facilities'.
ABINGDON-based marine engineering firm Green Boat Services has said the Western Conveyance could transform boating facilities in Oxford.
Marine engineer Jon Ody has said the scheme would be of economic and social benefit to the whole of Oxfordshire.
He claimed it could be used for a whole host of water sports, as well as making up for under-provision of boating facilities in Oxford.
Jon Ody and Sam Dent on the Thames at Abingdon
Mr Ody said: "Under most normal circumstances the Western Conveyance could host a multitude of leisure activities including punting, canoeing, rowing and angling, and in times of high flows could be transformed for use as a safe and secure white-water rapids course on a par with the National Watersports Centre near Nottingham.
"Oxford is a hub for boaters, forming an essential north-south link in the national waterways network, and in the foreseeable future, visitors will escalate, as the Thames & Severn and Wiltshire & Berkshire canals, both currently under restoration, are reopened. Usage of the Thames in Oxford is set to increase, and the infrastructure required for such usage must be correspondingly increased."
Sam Dent, business manager of Green Boat Services, added: "The flood alleviation programme is intended to protect the area but we should look at the longer term economic benefits it could have for the area as well."


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This month we'll take a look at the candidates.
Featured today are the candidates for the Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology Undesignated Seat #3: Purnima Mankekar and Kristin Yarris.
Responsibilities of the committee members include:
- Monitor gender discrimination within the discipline
- Pursue greater parity for women in the discipline by means of:
a. monitoring, including gathering information that illuminates issues that effect the diverse women in anthropology as well as efforts to obtain existing comparable survey data,
b. advocating, including bringing findings before the Association's members, in the form of resolutions, when appropriate and
c. educating, including distributing brochures, meeting with department chairs, setting up an interactive presence on the internet/web and writing periodic updates for the AN.
- Identify forms of sexual harassment in all settings where anthropologists work and learn including the varieties of biases that complicate issues regarding race/ethnicity, gender stereotyping and preferences, class, and disabilities.
- Interact on an ongoing basis with the Association's long range planning process on issues of gender parity.
Click here to learn more about the Committee on Gender Equality in Anthropology.
Purnima Mankekar
My research is in the anthropology of gender and my career displays the convergence of my scholarship and activism. I have invested a great deal of energy at both my institutions, Stanford (1993-2006) and UCLA (2007-present), in monitoring and advocating for greater gender equity at all levels. I am committed to mentoring women students, students of color, and my junior women colleagues, and have a proven track record in this regard. I am a member of the UCLA senate as well as of the UC-wide senate where I monitor and advocate for gender equity, particularly with reference to women of color and queer/transgender students and faculty. I am now ready to apply my knowledge and experience to contexts wider than my home institution. As a long-standing member of the AAAs, I am excited about an opportunity to get more involved in the functioning of the organization, especially with regards to equity within our discipline. Being appointed to the Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology will provide me with a terrific opportunity to do so. I look forward to being part of a team that is committed to working on gender equity issues in our discipline over the long term.
Kristin Yarris
I am committed to gender equity within our discipline and would use my research skills, professional experience and institutional position to help advance the CoGEA's objectives. I believe the CoGEA should advocate for gender equity at various institutional levels within our discipline by working with students, tenure-track and non tenure-track faculty, administrative staff, practicing anthropologists and AAA governing bodies. I am committed to inclusivity in our discipline more broadly and support CoGEA's efforts to achieve parity and equity for sexual, racial, ethnic, social class, and cultural minorities as well as for people living with disabilities. I would help advance CoGEA's efforts to advocate for gender equity by researching the policies advanced by faculty and staff unions and other advocacy efforts and would seek to disseminate this information widely to AAA membership and beyond through the CoGEA. Other ideas I have for achieving gender parity within our discipline include advocating for family-friendly and healthy workplaces through leave and benefits policies, expanding institutional support for caregivers of dependent relatives, and monitoring gender disparities in specific outcomes such as time-to-tenure or ratio of tenured to non-tenured faculty in order to remedy these disparities.
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Oh dear dear, my laptop is broken, I only bought it in January so the nice men are coming to take it away tomorrow for up to 14 days!!!! This is not good at all. We do have a spare computer but it is old and temperamental. It will probably do me a lot of good to have a cleansing but the thought of only checking emails once a day horrifies me. I have probably become a bit to reliant on having my laptop practically next to me while I paint so I am trying to see this as a positive thing.
Sadly and coincidentally it coincides with the start of a brand new series of Big Brother. Now don't get me wrong I do not normally watch rubbish TV at all, in fact I don't watch hardly any, we prefer scrabble and cards but Big brother just seems to hook me! I missed numerous beautiful sunsets at the bottom of our garden last summer much to Seans dismay because of the dreaded programme and I am promising not to get sucked in this year. So tonight as the housemates go in I am going to go for a Sauna and swim and hopefully if I don't watch the first I will not get hooked. So I am saying hello Summer, I hope to see you this year!
So instead of checking blogs every evening or generally surfing and internet shopping I will have to do other things. Like make 200 metres of bunting for our marquee. I am slowly building a lovely collection of gingham spotty and floral fabrics and have begun to start cutting but boy is this going to be a job and a half! Any quick tips would be grateful, but buying is not an option, far far too expensive when you work out how much I need.
I wanted to show you my lovely house quilts which arrived from the lovely Kajsa at Syko but I haven't yet worked out how to get photos downloaded. So instead the image above is from Lee Page Hanson that was saved on this old computer. He is fairly local to me and has a studio in Manchester craft centre, which is always a nice day out. I own one of his pieces which a lovely couple gave me for my birthday last year, take a look at some of the other designers in the craft centre.
I must go now to finish some pieces of Padstow for Whistlefish galleries to publish as prints.
I will be back soon, I promise, and Julie.....you are oh so welcome! xx


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Why do Koi (and Goldfish) Change Color? Colin – Sunbury, OH
You've now created the perfect pond habitat and begun to add fish. Multiple trips to the pond store scanning the tank to find just the perfect one to bring home. Some have spots, some red, some orange with black streaks. At least you've found the perfect one, black and white pattern with orange freckles on the face. You make your purchase and carefully introduce your new friend to the pond. Everything is going great until one day a few months later you notice that those freckles disappeared and the perfect pattern is changing to white. What happened? Did the fear of the heron turn him white as a ghost? Is there something you did wrong? Luckily, most of the time it's nothing too serious. Let investigate a few possible causes.
Sun exposure: If you are in a climate where you experience a cold winter and your koi have been hiding out in your pond waiting for spring you may notice your koi are a little lighter in color once the spring time thaw sets in. This is common because koi do not receive a lot of exposure to the sun over the winter months. Once they get back into the routine and the sun begins to shine this color will usually return.
Genetics: Most koi come from parents that were not identical so the same rules apply. Some coloration is dominant and some recessive. This could also change with time the same way your hair color changes. Someone born with red hair may turn blonde or brown as they grow older. This is just a natural part of growing up.
Stress: Stress factors such as predators, parasites, water chemistry or water quality may affect coloration. A quick change in pH due to overwhelming organics or over population would cause a stressful environment which may cause a color change. Be sure to test your water, address water quality issues if necessary or treat the pond with pond salt, water conditioner or fish disease control. Watch your fish for behavior clues to determine if they are stressed.
Food: What type of food do they eat? Inexpensive bulk food may not contain as many vitamins and nutrients which may affect coloration. This does not necessarily mean the fish are unhealthy but they may not be receiving enough vitamins to support their color. Try feeding them food such as Pond Logic® Growth & Color fish food, which supports coloration or even include fruits and vegetables such as oranges. Koi will love the citrus and this could greatly enhance their color.
Once you've addressed all these possibilities sit back, relax and enjoy your koi. The color may have changed but their playful personality will still be the same!
POND TALK: Have you ever had your koi change color?
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Leigh and Leslie Keno are a lot like talent scouts who spot supermodel potential in grocery-store clerks. Their seemingly X-ray vision cuts through the hype, or lack thereof, as they judge whether an object has what it takes to become an antiques superstar. As country kids growing up in New York state's Herkimer County, they spotted beauty and history in centuries-old clay crocks, rusty barn-door hardware, and painted furniture caked in layers of dirt, all affordable because their value wasn't completely understood.
Leslie, left, and Leigh Keno are sitting pretty on a rare rosewood version of the "DCW" chair, circa 1950, by design duo Charles and Ray Eames. Oliver, the Brittany spaniel, seems bemused by it all.
Today, the Keno brothers hunt for furnishings from all periods and styles that they believe have both staying power and potential for financial growth. Looks that grab them? Hold the rosettes and ruffle carvings. They're looking for spare elegance devoid of decoration, which describes both a crystal-clear Lucite chair and a Lancaster County Amish quilt. They're aiming for fresh, classic beauties with potential for long-term growth in the far-off future—or, at least, to avoid depreciation. And it's their proven ability to pluck pretty pieces out of obscurity that turned them into The Antiques Roadshow's favorite appraisers.
But how to predict whether a particular style has the power to endure? "Good design doesn't have to be old, but it has to reflect the period in which it was made," says Leslie. "Great new forms, some very beautiful things, are being created right now or were made in the last 50 years."
To spot emerging trends, the Kenos keep an eye on museum exhibitions, auction prices, and recently released design books that catalog new discoveries and current scholarship.
So what's still affordable? Here, the Keno brothers identify undervalued styles and periods worth investigating.
Photo: Bryan McCay
Forget Italian "starchitects" and Scandinavian hipsters. The real superheroes of postwar design are American artisans who created supercool furniture at prices young couples could afford. "You hear so much about the Europeans, but Americans were great at mid-century design," says Leigh Keno. Powerhouses like Charles and Ray Eames, Edward Wormley, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen (who moved from Finland to the United States as a tweenager) enjoyed a surge of popularity that peaked in 1999. But prices have since flattened as design devotees chase the neo-neo thing.
"Americans from the 1950s and '60s have suddenly fallen off the radar," adds Leslie, who recently snapped up a rare rosewood version of the Eames "potato chip" chair, formally known as the "DCW" (Dining Chair Wood)—it's the chair shown here—for $2,100 at Treadway/Toomey Auctions in Cincinnati.
"Eames was truly a visionary," enthuses Leslie. "He designed not only the chair but the molding machine to make it. He even developed plywood leg splints for the Navy."
The Kenos suggest that design buffs scout for modern classics close to home. For instance, Edward Wormley worked for Dunbar Furniture, located in Berne, Indiana. And head for Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in search of design masterpieces by Paul Evans. Some of the biggest bargains? Paul McCobb's brass-and-wood furniture, George Nelson's fiberglass chair, and Warren Platner's wire chair.
Photo: Courtesy of Cowan's Auction House
Pop artist Andy Warhol blew minds when he turned Campbell's soup cans into art, but his taste in furniture was surprisingly classical, harking back to ancient Greece and Rome. American classical furnishings made between 1815 and 1840—the last great period of handmade furniture—are also called Neoclassical and Empire. It was a time when American artisans, borrowing from French and English sources, turned out klismos chairs, card tables, and recamiers, some brushed with green-based paint to simulate aged bronze and made from the finest figured woods ("rosewood and crotch-grain mahogany from the tropics," says Leslie).
The retail price, however, is bargain basement. "You can buy classical furniture by the pound right now," notes Leslie, only half-joking. At regional auction houses, he reports that sideboards go for $1,500 and game tables for as little as $800. The 1815 sideboard with figured mahogany shown here sold at auction for $4,025. Even signature pieces like 7-foot-long sofas with carved claw feet can be found for $800. The other big bonus? There's no fooling around. "You just don't find fakes because there's no money in it," he says.
But, be forewarned, the reopening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's expanded Greek galleries may spark a new love affair with this cool, classy style.
Lancaster County Amish quilt "Rainbow Stripes"
Photo: Courtesy of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum
Forget the old patchwork bedcover from Little House on the Prairie. If you're after maximum wall power for minimum bucks, check out Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) Amish quilts made before 1940. "The best look like Rothko paintings," opines Leslie, who admires the deep, saturated colors and geometric shapes—diamonds, squares, and bars. Currently, the market for Amish quilts is so sleepy that neither major auction house handles them. Retail prices range from $1,000 for a 1940s light-colored, rayon cloth model to $10,000 for a 1920s rare, red diamond-in-a-square wool quilt. The best pieces are stitched together with black thread.
Lancaster County Amish quilt "Center Square"
Photo: Courtesy of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum
"There's a lot of new research going on," says historian Jonathan Holstein, who, in 1971, curated Abstract Design in American Quilts, the ground-breaking Whitney Museum show that was the first to exhibit quilts as paintings.
Lancaster County Amish quilt "Bars"
Photo: Courtesy of the International Quilt Study Center & Museum
There's also a new museum, the International Quilt Study Center & Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, slated to open in April. The museum owns more than 2,400 quilts from 24 countries and includes quilts donated by Holstein, who penned A Quiet Spirit (Fowler, 1996), the seminal essay on Lancaster quilts. "The market bottomed out in the 1990s and can only head in one direction," says Leigh.
Photo: Courtesy of Sollo Rago Modern Auction House
Traditionalists may not imagine that see-through style mixes with mahogany, but clearly it does. "Lucite lightens up a dark room," says Leigh, the master of mahogany, who sees nothing incongruous about stocking up on high-end plastic treasures, including a set of dining chairs with carved Lucite splats. "Lucite isn't new," reminds Leslie, who has spotted crystal-clear coffee tables, chairs, and desks at Salvation Army stores and thrift shops. Dismissing it as '70s kitsch is a big mistake, he says. DuPont introduced clear plastic under the brand name Lucite (also called Plexiglas and Perspex) in the 1930s. And when a piece pops up at auction, design groupies go the distance. For instance, Shiro Kuramata's "Miss Blanche" armchair, made of red roses embedded in clear plastic, soared to $318,000 at Christie's London last year.
The trick is to load up on Lucite before it shows up at mid-century design auctions with a price that reflects its rock-star status. For instance, the club chair shown above by Vladimir Kagen sold for $420 (set of four, $1,680) in 2007 at Sollo Rago.
The "Miss Blanche" chair by the late, great Shiro Kuramata soared to $318,000 at auction, but most Lusicte is still affordable.
Photo: Courtesy of Christie's
How to recognize vintage Lucite (most of which isn't branded)? Hollywood glam (think plume-shaped backsplat chairs by Grosfeld House) indicates early vintage while later styles take more fluid forms. Vintage pieces often show their age, but stay away from discoloration and cracks. "Take out a magnifying glass and look for wear—very fine scratches," advises Leslie. "Some pieces look like an ice-skating rink before the Zamboni comes out."
California designer Dorothy thrope's Lucite pretzel-shaped candlesticks went for $400 a pair in 2006.
The Kenos don't buff out age spots, but most modernists buff back to slick transparency. "Unlike wood grain, Lucite is a blank material," points out Richard Wright of Chicago's Wright auctions. "The only thing to care about is design."
Photo: Courtesy of Sollo Rago Modern Auction House
Best known for dangling mobiles, artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) also designed carpets (made in Guatemala), some of which can be found for less than $3,000. "Look for decorative objects by A-list artists," Leslie counsels.
Produced by Leigh Keno and Leslie Keno
Photography: Bryan McCay


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Baldwinsville Jenni-Lyn Watson lived to dance.
In her memory, her family is holding a golf tournament to help others who share the same passion.
Jenni-Lyn Watson, a 2008 Liverpool High School graduate, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, Steven Pieper, in November of 2010 while she was home on break from Mercyhurst College, where she was studying dance. Pieper is currently serving a 23-year-to-life sentence in prison.
The golf tournament, to be held Saturday, July 20, at Radisson Greens in Baldwinsville, raises money for the Jenni-Lyn Watson Memorial Fund.
"The fund is used to create opportunities for local children and teens that have a passion for dance and the arts but cannot always afford the cost of the specialized training," said David Watson, Jenni-Lyn's father. "Jenni-Lyn was a nurturing girl who cared for those around her, loved dance, people and life. This is promoted by the fund because it allows us to continue her spirit of helping others and promoting the arts, dance in particular."
The fund is administered by the Central New York Community Foundation. This year, the Watsons hope to sponsor a summer intensive and begin sponsorship of dance lessons for one to two dancers locally.
The golf tournament is the largest fundraiser for the fund, having raised some $37,000 since its inception three years ago. The tourney is the brainchild of Ed Ventrone, a member of the Liverpool community and a friend of the Watsons'.
"Ed Ventrone… wanted to do something to help us, so he reached out to us in December 2010 with an offer to run a golf tournament to help raise money for the Jenni-Lyn Watson Memorial Fund," Watson said. "Each year, we hope for 36 teams, but we typically have about 30, or 120 golfers."
Registration for the tournament begins at 11:30 a.m. with a shotgun start at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, July 20. Rain date is July 21. Teams of four can register for $400, which includes course fees, lunch and dinner. Dinner alone can be purchased for $30. Organizers are also looking for hole sponsors (prices range from $100 to $1,500) and gift basket donations. To register or for more information, contact Ed Ventrone at 430-8775 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Watson said he thought his daughter would approve of the effort.
"Jenni-Lyn always loved a party," Watson said. "She loved to have fun, 'hang' with friends and get to know others more. Jenni-Lyn planned and organized gatherings and parties for her friends in elementary school, middle school, high school and college. She would love this."
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