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RICHMOND, Va. – Richmond was dubbed "Hoopstown USA" last spring after both VCU and the University of Richmond earned spots in the Sweet Sixteen of the 2011 NCAA Tournament.
On Friday night at a jammed packed Verizon Wireless Arena at the Stuart C. Siegel Center, the Rams took over the sole spot as mayors of "Hoopstown USA" with a dominating 73-51 win over the Spiders in the fifth annual Black & Blue Classic, presented by Farm Bureau Insurance.
"I'm really proud of the way our guys defended tonight," Head Coach Shaka Smart said. "Coming into tonight, we talked about the way we had to have a relentless effort on both ends of the floor for 40 minutes. I thought we did a really nice job defensively tonight holding a really good team to just 51 points."
Ram Nation truly showed up with a national television audience watching as the Black & Gold celebrated a school-record seventh straight sellout at the Siegel Center.
"I thought the crowd was once again phenomenal tonight," Smart said. "It was the loudest I've heard the Siegel Center in the two-plus years I've been here. I can't say enough about our fans, the students, the people that support us. It really gives us such a lift in games like tonight."
Senior Bradford Burgess scored in double-figures for the eighth straight games, finishing with 14 points, nine rebounds, three assists and three steals. Sophomore Rob Brandenberg also scored14 points in the win, marking the fifth straight double-figure game for the Gahanna, Ohio native. Junior Troy Daniels was the third Ram in double-digits with 13 points off the bench.
However, it was once again the defensive that told the story as the Rams held Richmond to their lowest point total of the season and forced them into 17 turnovers on the evening. It was the fifth time this year that VCU has held their opponents to 60 points or less.
"It all comes down to our defensive effort and focus," Burgess said. "If we can continue to lock in defensively and get stops, we'll have a chance in every game we play."
The game was full of runs early with VCU ripping off a 12-2 spurt capped by a three-pointer from Burgess to grab a 16-8 advantage with 11:34 to play. Richmond's Cedrick Lindsay responded by scoring eight of the games next 10 points to give the Spiders a 18-16 cushion.
Back came the Black & Gold with a 14-0 run ignited by six points from freshman Treveon Graham, which helped VCU head into halftime with a 35-27 lead.
Shots would fall early in the second half for the Spiders as Kendall Anthony connected on three treys as VCU's lead was cut to just two at 47-45 with 11:03 remaining.
Enter the VCU defense, which held Richmond without a field goal over the final 8:21 of the contest. Offensively, Brandenberg scored all 14 of his points in the second half and an alley-oop from Daniels to sophomore Juvonte Reddic nearly brought the house down and capped off a tremendous last 10 minutes for the Black & Gold.
Lindsay finished with a game-high 22 points, while Anthony was held to season-low 13 points for the Spiders.
The 22 point margin of the victory is the third highest margin of victory in the 66 game series between Richmond and VCU. The highest margin of victory was 34 on March 2, 1996 (VCU 89-55); the other game came in the same season, with VCU posting a 79-51 victory over the Spiders on Jan. 20, 1996.
VCU will now take the week to focus on final exams before opening up conference play with a visit from the Seahawks of UNC Wilmington. Game time next Saturday at the Verizon Wireless Arena is set for 7 p.m.


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Pettitte-Rivera duo a treat to be savored as clock ticks
NEW YORK -- On a cold and windy night in the Bronx, Yankees fans were treated to another page in their club's long and storied history.
For the first time since July 8, 2010, in Seattle, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera both pitched for the Yankees in a regular-season game. Just like Thursday night at Yankee Stadium, Pettitte started, Rivera finished, and the Yankees won, this time defeating the Red Sox, 4-2.
How many times this will occur again is up to the strange twists of injury and fate. Rivera has announced he will retire at the end of the season. Pettitte, who quit once already, isn't really sure what he'll be doing next year. Of this, though, one matter is certain: The '13 season will be it. So enjoy every last minute of it.
"It's special," said Pettitte, after throwing eight innings of one-run, eight-hit ball before Rivera came on and characteristically nailed down the ninth. "It'll be special for me watching him this year and know that after this he won't be closing any games for us. I'll savor it as much as I can. But we have a lot of work to do, a task at hand that we have to focus on, also."
The two have been working like this together almost exclusively since 1997, when Rivera became the Yankees' closer, save for Pettitte's three years playing for the Astros from 2004-'07. Since then, Rivera has saved 69 of Pettitte's 246 wins. Rivera's save on Thursday night stretched his all-time lead to 609 and was his first since April 30. He has had one in at least 18 seasons, tying another Major League record.
To put it all into perspective, the last time Rivera saved one for Pettitte during the regular season, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and esteemed public address announcer Bob Sheppard were still alive. Less than a week later, both men had passed away.
On July 19, 2010, Pettitte injured a groin, missed most of the remainder of the '10 season and then voluntarily sat out '11. Pettitte re-signed during Spring Training of '12 and by the time he returned on May 13, Rivera had already blown out his right ACL shagging a fly ball during batting practice before a game in Kansas City. Rivera missed the remainder of the season. A little more than a month later, Pettitte had his left ankle broken by a batted ball. He went on the disabled list for nearly three months.
This is the rough road these two baseball warriors have traveled leading to the events of Thursday night. This one was vintage.
"For this one, I waited almost a year to pitch again," Rivera said. "Andy was tremendous. That's the Andy that we know. It was wonderful."
It felt like old times, Yankees manager Joe Girardi agreed.
"It did a little bit," said Girardi, a teammate of both players from '96-'99. "As a fan, I appreciate what these two have done together -- the amount of saves that Mo has for Andy's wins, the amount of wins that Andy had, his postseason wins. I know I've caught both of them. I've managed both of them. But as a fan, it's really kind of neat to see."
Pettitte has 19 wins and Rivera has 42 saves in the postseason, both all-time records. Together in New York, they've won the World Series five times along with seven American League pennants. In the '10 AL Division Series against the Twins, Rivera locked down Pettitte's win in Game 2 at Target Field. That's a lot of history together.
"It's cool, there's no doubt," Pettitte said. "When we're done, we'll step back and realize how long we've been together and the great things we've been able to do together. And how blessed we were."
With Jorge Posada having retired after the '11 season and Derek Jeter on the disabled list, still recovering from a broken ankle, Rivera and Pettitte are the two remaining active members of the famous Core Four. Adding Bernie Williams, they all came up through the Yankees' system and have been a part of the most prolonged period of Yankees success since the Bombers of Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle won 15 pennants and 10 World Series titles from 1947-64.
As Jeter is so fond of goading Berra, that occurred before '69 when teams in each league simply won the pennant and then played each other in the World Series. During the much more difficult three-tiered playoff era in which Pettitte and Rivera have played, the Yankees have been to the playoffs an unprecedented 17 times in the past 18 years.
That's plenty of winning. And that's what the two teammates did again together on Thursday night.
"I expect to go out there and do good," Pettitte said. "And I love that Mo was out last year and he came back and he's healthy. When I was pitching last year, he wasn't out there. It's great to see him running in from that bullpen and closing games again. But it's not about old times. It's about the new guys we have on this team right here and pulling this thing together to win another championship."
Catch them while you can, because the clock is certainly ticking.

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Born and raised in Mexico City, Bryony Gomez-Palacio is a graphic designer and writer now living in Austin, Texas. She is co-founder of UnderConsideration—a graphic design firm and publishing enterprise all rolled into one—where she manages the behind-the-scenes of the online network compromised of Brand New, FPO, Quipsologies and The Art of the Menu. Bryony has co-authored four books with her husband and partner, Armin Vit—their most popular titles being Graphic Design, Referenced and the self-published Flaunt. Most recently, they conceived and presented the Brand New Conference, the Brand New Awards, the FPO Awards, and the made-to-order children's book The Adventures of You and I featuring her illustration work. Bryony enjoys conducting workshops and lecturing when not tending to her two young daughters.


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We wanted to take a minute to remember our friend, baker, and inspiration Marion Cunningham, whom we lost on Wednesday. She's famous for the rewrite of the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, but we remember her for her many other contributions to the table as well. Namely, writing salaciously about pancakes, championing a waffle recipe that is not to be beat, and, most importantly, being a strong spokeswoman for home cooking in her own quiet way.
Her dessert-for-breakfast Heavenly Hots, as Amanda once wrote, "clarify what's wrong with other pancakes," which, come to think of it, is much like she did with everything else. Starting with run-of-the-mill ingredients, she developed, tested and tasted so that home cooks everywhere could have the very best version grace their tables. Like biscuits (also Merrill's go-to recipe), say, or peanut butter cookies.
Marion's homemaking was always cut with a sharp sense of humor. An article from the Times points out that, while instructing how to crack a coconut in a recipe, she suggests to throw it on a patio. "That's how monkeys do it," she wrote, "and they are professionals." Which, as it happens, was -- and remains -- a very sounds argument.
The New York Times printed a poem in her remembrance, one that we think is very apt, and reminiscent of her no-nonsense, Crisco-using, cooking for the laymen ways. Which she did beautifully. Marion was, in short, the mother that lives on our cookbook shelves.
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Thank you for posting this information! I am watching the live feed of Sergey Fomin's talk on my tablet, and it works great. (Although for some reason, I can't get it to work on my work computer, but I think that might be because I don't have the latest version of Adobe Flash player installed there.)
- April 24, 2013 at 10:20 AM
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Sorry, the above comment was from me (Katya Z.). I have no idea why blogger didn't use my google account and posted it anonymously.
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Yes, google is misbehaving at times, I am seeing it at the other end too.
I sat through the whole Sergey's talk and really enjoyed it. If only I had been a bit more mathematically literate... But actually at least two of the four topics he discussed were quite elementary (which is not to say simple.)
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When one writer wrote about her teen daughter's bikini wax in British Vogue, it caused an uproar. Are your family's intimate grooming habits an oversharing bridge too far?
To be fair, the piece isn't controversial only because Rachel Johnson involves her daughter's pubes: rather, the excrutiating, painful level of waxing detail has many cringing — and it doesn't help that the author is sister of the Mayor of London. Quickly, some critics have described it as inappropriate and disrespectful. From the daughter's perspective, writes the Telegraph's Bryony Gordon, the piece is enough "to raise whatever hairs haven't been removed in a swish Mayfair salon." The Daily Mail even made the issue a point/counterpoint, asking, "Is it wrong for a mother to write about her teenage daughter's intimate waxing?" The never-restrained Liz Jones took the "Yes" position (although it should be said her condemnation quickly turns into a bizarre personal rant that reveals Johnson gave her a bad review then tried to make a lunch date or something.) Writes Jones, "A Brazilian wax involves a level of intimacy that only a gynaecologist should have. And Rachel Johnson has chosen to spew about it in the pages of Vogue."
The Daily Mail's "counterpoint" to Jones comes from a woman who proceeds to defend the original article by talking about her own 15-year-old's shaved vadge (which she glimpses in the tub) so she clearly doesn't share these reservations. Oh, and "Two weeks on and I still haven't broached it with her. I'm certain she knows that I know, but I'm too embarrassed to bring it up." Well, now she does.
My own issue with Johnson's piece — provided she OK'd it with her daughter, unlike Madam Mail — is that she misses a chance to have an interesting discussion about younger and younger girls conforming to the expensive, painful and porn-inspired grooming ritual. When she initially learns her daughter has had the Brazilian, Johnson bemoans that such young women are submitting to, as she puts it, "a pornographic aesthetic; an aesthetic that was persuading generations of girls and women that their own bodies, in their natural state, were, in some way, dirty and needed fixing up."
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Research Frontiers in Bioinspired Energy: Molecular-level learning from Natural Systems Workshop
Date of meeting: January 6-7, 2011
A two-day multidisciplinary workshop, organized by the National Academies' Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, was held to explore the molecular-level frontiers of energy processes in nature as inspiration for developing future energy systems. The workshop featured invited presentations and included discussion of key biological energy capture, storage, and transformation processes, gaps in knowledge and barriers to transitioning the current state of knowledge into applications, and underdeveloped research opportunities that might exist beyond disciplinary boundaries. Emphasis in the presentations and discussions were placed on molecular-level understanding rather than development of large-scale applications.
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Time scales and energy in biological systems
Leslie Dutton, University of Pennsylvania
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Progress Towards Synthetic Metabolisms
Steven Benner, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution
Ion translocation across biological membranes
Janos Lanyi, University of California, Irvine
Novel mechanisms of anaerobic methane oxidation
Rudolf Thauer, Max Planck Institute
Solar energy harvesting in the epicuticle of the Oriental hornet
Marian Plotkin, National University of Singapore
Energy production in biofuel cells
Kenneth Nealson, J. Craig Venter Institute
Microbes and the four basic strategies for life on Earth: What we can learn from what we know (and how to look for what we don't know).
Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA and U.S. Geological Survey
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"Tea Cakes For Tosh" is a sweet family story
As young Tosh's grandmother mixes her tea cake batter, she tells him that the story behind the recipe that dates many generations back to their Grandma Ida, a cook and slave at a Southern plantation.
The delicious food she made — collards, chicken, "make-you-dance biscuits" and ethereal tea cakes — were meant for her white owners. But sometimes, Grandma Ida made a few extra and tucked them into her pocket to "give the children a taste of sweet freedom."
But as his grandmother's memory starts to suffer, Tosh picks up the mantle of family storyteller and cook.
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Officer Maguire was shot and killed after interrupting a burglary while checking on storage lockers at State Street and Whitman Street, in Pullman. Two males were arrested in relation to the burglary, but were never charged with the murder of Officer Maguire due to a lack of evidence. Officer Maguire had served with the Pullman Police Department for nine years and was survived by his wife and two daughters.
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Officer Claar was killed in the line of duty, along with Whitman County Sheriff Levi M. Parnell, Deputy Gilbert C. Gallagher, and a civillian during what became known regionally as "The Easter Massacre".
On April 17, 1949, Pullman resident George McIntyre violated the terms of his parole by getting into a fight with another man, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Officer Claar spotted McIntyre at a filling station and attempted to arrest him. As Officer Claar returned to his car to retrieve his nightstick, McIntyre opened fire with a .22 caliber handgun, striking Officer Claar five times.
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What makes people happy and why it matters for development
The Guardian
Happiness economics is a new field that strives to find out what really makes people happy based on surveys asking citizens: "How satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?" or "How happy are you?". Rather than letting experts define what makes for the good life from an armchair perspective, happiness economics allows us to identify the factors that matter for people's wellbeing as they themselves experience it. When the original millenium development goals (MDGs) were formulated, happiness economics barely existed. Before 2000, less than five scientific articles a year dealt with "subjective wellbeing", academic speak for happiness and life satisfaction. Over the course of the past decade, though, their number has risen enormously. A World Happiness Report launched last year at the United Nations summarises the evidence to date.
The problem with data journalism
The recent boom in "data-driven" journalism projects is exciting. It can elevate our knowledge, enliven statistics, and make us all more numerate. But I worry that data give commentary a false sense of authority since data analysis is inherently prone to bias. The author's priors, what he believes or wants to be true before looking at the data, often taint results that might appear pure and scientific. Even data-backed journalism is opinion journalism. So as we embark on this new wave of journalism, we should be aware of what we are getting and what we should trust. Economics blogger James Schneider recently opined on how journalists highlight research, even if it's not credible, that confirms their argument and ignores work that undermines it.
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Smartphones are owned by one in five people and have changed how many of the world's most important industries work – from journalism to farming. But their production carries a cost; using more than 40 elements that are mined with untold environmental and social effects on every inhabited continent on earth. Use the interactive below to take a detailed look at positive and negative impacts your smartphone has made on people and planet
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The World Photography Organization announced the winners of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards for the Open, Youth and National Award categories this week. More than 70,000 entries were submitted to the competition from all over the world, according to a statement released by the World Photography Organization. The Open, Youth and National Award competitions were judged based on a single image, with photographers winning prizes ranging from Sony digital imaging equipment to trips to London to attend the Sony World Photography Awards ceremony and gala on April 30.
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Burma tries to reform its iron-fisted police
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As a mob of angry young men approached a platoon of fresh-faced police recruits on the dusty outskirts of Rangoon one recent day, the officers kept their cool. Even as the crowd started hurling water bottles, commander Thein Toe Zaw attempted to negotiate over a loudspeaker. His men calmly pushed the crowd back until it dispersed — no batons drawn or beatings delivered. Of course, this wasn't exactly real life. It was a training exercise at Police Battalion Camp No. 8, financed by the European Union, held under the watchful eye of Burmese police brass and European trainers. It was part of an effort to overhaul a police force that was employed by Burma's powerful military to keep rebels and dissenters in check during years of authoritarian rule.
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I was out other day with couple of buddies of mine in Jackson, MI and we decided to get a little something to drink at the local pub. We got start talking about high school and got pretty excited talking up a storm. 1 drink led to another and next thing you know we were taking shots and mixed drinks. From the help of alcohol we were feeling pretty good at which point my friend suggested we rent a limousine to take out to Detroit to take this get together to the next level. We all agreed and decided to rent ourselves a limousine. This is where things started to get interesting to say the least.. The limousine arrived quick, the owner and driver were both friendly and we decided to take it down to Detroit for some of the bars and clubs down there. It was super fun and exciting to be back with my friends again and we certainly felt that it was a special night with a limousine driver that was chauffeuring us around what a great treat it was. And I was very grateful for my friends to be showing me around like this, its been so long.
We arrived to the first club feeling pretty tipsy at this point but once we entered the venues we were fine and started dancing. I think moving around helps because after few more minutes I was feeling pretty fine again. We danced and got even more excited about what to do next. After 2 hours of dancing we got back into the limo and decided to go out to a restaurant. Yeah it was a great time and each time we were ready to take it to another level. So here we go again. Another one in the books. We got everything together and went to one of the best restaurants in Royal Oak.
This Jackson limo took care of us well.
There it was pretty crowded but given our state nothing we couldn't handle. My friend ordered some steak and I ordered some hamburgers. It was very delicious and I recommend everyone to go there. My friend spilled her drink and we had a great laugh.
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but sometimes a girl has to have fun. and its night like these that makes me really appreciate my life, being with friends and having a blast. I will be able to get more joy in the future when my business is doing well and I am filled with happiness inside and out. I get to do more good in the world.
What up this is pet nutrition there was another blog post I wanted to talk about everything situation I had with a business.where he was not returning my calls because we have not establish trust as a pet nutrition owner I want to let everybody know that I am a legit businessman when it comes to that lean part of that provide real value to my customers even though I may be late on my shipment sometimes. I am still the best choice when it comes to paying your tuition I have been 13 pack uneven load for a long time and I believe I am the right person to be delivering products around the world.
first I will start and then then I will expand into other states I am economical friendly and environmentalyes I do believe I have what it takes to be the number one supplier in Michigan last article I talked about help paying a old person there are products by using a limo company but that limo company got into a car accident, and had to get towed I'm business owner you can never be too careful about a lot of accidents happening to you it would be wise to plan for the unexpected and still go out there and make things happen I think you need to do whatever it takes to become successful.
to penetrate the market with your product you need to take ten times the action I am a firm believer and blue collar hard work I let my teammates tell me that I'm working too hard that tells me I'm doing something right UTU when it comes to pay me attention I'm the number one guy other people wish they can do business like I do I am always looking out for the best interest of myself first and then to other bubble everything else I put my family first I am a family man.
with him for a month other than pet nutrition I would like to take care of my nutrition and take the royal couple of months and I believe is good for me the temperaments help me regain strength in my bones my teeth and my energy levels go higher and higher every dayjust a blog post about my attitude towards business I want to let everybody know that I'm a serious business going there I take pet nutrition seriously how I started with paying your tuition was one day one time rather I had a dog that got very sick no matter what I did
even though they are better I took him to vet after vet I did everything in my power but he still will not get better so I decided to take matters into my own hands and decide a tree and myself and now the best decision I ever did because I came up with solutions that we're just incredible miraculous how would say the dog heal it in a few weeks and I was just happy I've got more things done I was a productive my dog was happy and my family was happy and my daughter was doing good day at school life was going great and then I realize that saving a dog if life was also saving my life bringing more joy to my life which I really really liked and people respect the fact that I can save dogs life.
this is why I am really big and kind you're sure sure I hope everybody feels the same and we know for today I think this is good for a blog post please continue to follow and you will hear more of me and hear more about my attitude and how I want to succeed how I want to get the place to buy gold dream never meant to be achieved and I am going out there and making things happen this is why I am in business for myself with a business owner I will never rest until I receive what I set out to achieve thank you.
Hey guys just wanted to report on my recent troubles trying to get Pet Nutrition, out there in the world.
You see I'm not much of a sales person so I do need the help all I can get. In my last article I talked about how I was having local limo owner deliver my products for me and yes that was all going so well for little while here is a picture of a happy dog because of our product!
Isn't that the happiest dog ever?
Well let me tell you an incident that made me not so much happy like the dog shown above. We were getting bunch of products together for our local client and getting ready to deliver.
Our limo driver arrived on time and picked up the goods for us, he was going to take it to Arlington Heights and we gave the invoices to him for him to get ready to ship.
He set off and it was snowing pretty bad but we felt confident that he will get the products delivered safe and sound.
The next 15 min we got a call from him saying that there was a strange ice patch on the road and his limo spun out of control. What the heck we thought. We thought he was a professional driver but apparently not.
So he was stuck in the snow with our products while our client is calling us wondering what the heck happened to her delivery.
The limo owner was really just unable to do anything about it so he called a towing company to come get him. And I guess they arrived on time and everything and got him out of the ditch thank god, well if that wasn't enough he began asking us to pay for the towing fee because it was our responsibility that he had to drive in the snowing and bad road condition.
Which we almost flipped the switch literally...
"Are you to tell me that it was our fault that you slid out of control into the ditch you Morronnn we almost said and we really wanted to. And sorry for keep saying we, in my mind I am talking with my dogs. Well I'm not in a relationship but I have the pets. But I digress anyways...
Yea so this is why I don't deal with humans they are pitiful and ridiculous. Instead of having the courage to admit to his mistakes, own up to them, and taking responsibility.
He had the audacity to claim that what happened to him was his mistake and he wants us to pay for the $150 towing fee! Thats more than what I will make from the pet product !!! How ridiculous is that!!!
Anyway to add insult to injury he was rude about it... jeeez
the nerve of these people.
What I did was I called up his manager, and the limo owner is actually half way decent human being, he was like "yea we're sorry I think our driver was really flustered, we will pay for the towing fee", so yea that's that at least the owner was normal.
While I understand the desire to want to blame somebody else, to do that to a customer is a big minus and he really should not be qualified to hold the job any longer.
Anyway after the whole crazy ordeal, my client go the products, they were very pleased, I explained to them the whole situation, and they understood, and I was able to make first of many sales. And I'm quite pleased about that.
So pet nutrition will continue as planned, I just wanted to report about the small hurdle, because its not always smooth sailing trying to start a business. ok i will stop now.
If you are interested in some of our home made pet nutrition products
shoot me an email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Hey everyone Its Pet Nutrition Products again, want to go over what has been happening as of late.
We are in the process of launching a new project where we partner up with local limo companies to delivery our pet foods and nutrition supplies to various elderly homes that can't get out and shop like the rest of us.
This will give us good opportunity to connect with the locals and have more of a say in the community at large and at the various events taking place, here and abroad. The more we do these things I feel that the more we become responsible individuals for rest of the community and I am a big believer in giving back to the community.
We want to make Pet Nutrition successful here is my goal for 2015
1. Earn $30,000 recurring income
2. Have enough money to go out and eat whatever I want
3. Excellent health, strong healthy white teeth
4. increased charisma and confidence
5. attracting new clients and business owners
6. complete an epic book for Mike Mew
It is a goal that is worth shooting for as I turn up my action taking and efforts I will eventually get there. I need to work on my focus during the day and staying out of Facebook. Success does not come to those who wait but for those that take consistent effort.
I am a success becomes I take the neccessarry actions each day to get there.
Even if there is stumbling blocks, I know I can dust my self off and get to the next level. I am the one that decides my future and now I am easily putting in 14 hour week days it is massive action time. There is no time for rest. wow I am in love with this process and working for 14 hours. I am getting after it. Yes I am amazing I just need to find my purpose. One of my purpose is become a role model for others. To become a role model for other asians. This is why I work so hard for myself and my business My purpose is tied to something greater. Something amazing.
And then pet nutrition will be taking off, partnering up with limousine company was the first step. One out of many that's coming a long the way. What I love about working with local limo company is that they are easy to deal with and handle. They just need the leads and I can help them get it. I make deals with them and I move on. I am a monster when it comes to pet nutrition, clean carpets, and limousines. It's a strange mix trust me I know but somehow my life experience has taught me a lot about each of these subjects.
I will be exploring more along the way.
The best pet nutrition we have available but how do we get it to our clients?www.petnutritionproducts.com
Hello guys,
Pet Nutrition Products is dedicating to teaching our lovely pet owners out there some tips of raising your lovely pets in the best condition.
I have been a pet owner myself for over 20 years and one thing I have learned is that the more love and care you give to your pets the better pets they become.
Interestingly that's how I see raising kids reflect that. It reflect the same thing back those lovely pets are smart and they won't lie or give you false reading.
A lousy pet reflects a lousy owner.
With that in mind, when keeping pets indoors, you have to understand that they most likely have fur and fur sheds. In doors the fur goes no where else but on the carpet where your kids are rolling around in.
This is a bad combination that can harbor some allergies and cause nasal blockages to your kids which can be damaging to their health and facial development.
I make sure that I give my pets all the best of the house but in return I have to remember that they will leave behind fur and other dust everywhere they go. How I get over this is to make sure I clean just as well. What I recommend is once a year or ideally twice a year, order professional carpet cleaning
here's some things that you will love about doing this.
Your carpet will last longer, feel better, smell better, look better, and your family will spend more time together because now the carpet feels great to lay in all day.
I became hooked when I first got it done few years back and have been getting it done twice a year now and have been pleased every time especially if you find a reputable company in the local area.
So if you own pets.
Look to keep carpet cleaned.
I swear the air inside the home starting feeling better too.
and my child seems to experience less allergies.
Clean carpet is awesome, and if you keep pets indoors look to getting professional cleaning every now and then.
Talk to you soon.


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[Ed. Note: Most of us who'd seen him at the Albuquerque Press Club last August, thought Rev. Prof. Robert Masterson had retreated to his miserable squat beneath the tracks of New York City's Grand Central Station. Apparently not. Get an atlas. We did our best to decipher and clean up the random verbal splashes…]
From the Alibi Flying Foreign Desk, Vijayawada:
The Interdisciplinary Global Seminar on Exploring the Cultural and Literary Nationalism of the Fourth World (Natives / Aboriginals / Dahlit)
Sponsored by UGC & APSHE
December 14 – 16, 2012
Department of English
Acharya Nagarjuna University
Andhra Pradesh, Guntur, INDIA
Foreign Gunslingers: Prof. Lee Maracle (Canada), Prof. Jay Hansford C. Vest (U.S.A.), Prof. Bruce Pascoe (Australia), Prof. Hone Sadler (New Zealand), Prof. Jo-Ann Episkenew (Canada), & Me.
VIJAYAWADA, DV Manor, MG Road: Dawn in Vijayawada brings nothing so much as more. And in India, more is more than enough. Enough is more than enough. Enough is too goddamned much. Or, to put it another way, nothing is better than everything.
Somewhere out there in the rising cacophony of coughs and hawks and two-stroke engines, a peacock is crying but where, to whom or to what, and for what reason? He's the last peacock awake in the city and he's looking for a date. First light means last call.
Just yesterday's ride from the airport was a capsule tour of everything I've ever seen or turned away from in every social studies documentary, Sally Struthers infomercial, every poverty pornographic yet uplifting tale of favela, barrio, ghetto, shantytown, hardscrabble urban life. Dust; diesel fumes; real honest-to-god pariah dogs, hairless and covered with scabs; naked and/or crippled beggars; an escalating verbal conflict; 17,000,000 shrines & temples & mosques & churches & monks & dervish & nuns & priests & gurus; soldiers/
Buffalo, singly and in groups, hobbled with a length of timber strung round their necks and dangling between their forelegs. Bicycles, tricycles, scooters, motorcycles, jitneys, busses, cars, pedestrians, counterfeit rice-burner road racers with all of the cowling and none of the power (they seem to top out at around 150cc) —all on the wrong, the British side of the road and some, maybe most, in the wrong lane, British system regardless, all of it, some of it, traffic, is pedestrian and/or oncoming; many men pissing on the side of the road; a naked toddler squatting to shit in the middle of the road; a dog doing much the same thing later on; barber shops and tea shops and coffee shops and cell phone shops and god-only-knows shops; clouds of smoke from roadside fires; sickle wielding women crouched in some kind of field cutting some kind of grass wearing turquoise and silver sari; kites (the birds) and jackdaws (I think they were jackdaws. Not sure really, but I've never typed the word "jackdaw" before and now seems a good time). The most basic of lists covering the most superficial of all the Indian stuff on or near that Indian "highway" in the middle of nowhere particular, India would take thousands and more thousands of words, and none of them are nearly enough. Buy your own goddamn National Geographic. I wish I could write that well.
Six out of seven foreign delegates to the "Fourth World/
Somebody said foreigners love Ganesh, and it sounds reasonable considering how many Ganeshi are sold at tourist shops in airports compared with how many flexi plastic Hanuman, the flying monkey god with plates of sweeties in his hands, hang from rear view mirrors, and it looks like he's flying around the mini-van offering up a plastic pastry. There is a drive-in theater in Vijayawada that's really mostly a walk-in with loudspeakers instead of car-speakers. Every morning at dawn, hundreds, thousands of people gather at the river to bathe and wash long sheets of aching color, the sari for today or tomorrow or the client. Twice now, I've raised my camera to my eye and then lowered it. Why even bother? How could it even be possible to reduce what I'm seeing to an electronic imprint of what I saw? Better to let these sights and sounds and shivering water burn themselves into my brain, a permanent magic-lantern slide inside my skull. Bruce Pascoe, another foreign delegate, describes the same failure of technology.
An atheist insinuates himself into the symposium and we ponder aloud how difficult it would be to be an atheist in a place like this one we are in, Vijayawada, in the middle of India where it's dripping with the iconography and images and calligraphy from dozens of religions and sects. I start looking around to ask him, the atheist, but he's disappeared. After reading his tracts and pamphlets, it turns out the atheists have regular meetings and leaders and maybe even a few rituals just like everybody else. Makes good sense, really.
Our last evening, when the rule for this trip had become, "It just gets weirder," in the pitch black night, the mini-vans veered away from the hotel and down a neon-lit, landscaped esplanade, the road to Haailand, the only Buddhist themed theme-park in this or any other plane of existence. Closed to the public and shutting down, we nonetheless got in, saw the mural of Siddhartha attaining satori beneath the bodhi tree, saw the last of the tourists getting their picture taken next to Siddhartha, and as the lights went out with alarming frequency, we saw the circular lay-out if the park, the wheels within the wheels, the water slide, and somewhere out there, instead of Alice's tea cups, spun the spinning lotus flowers. The Buddha Bar served cocktails and snacks. Another place served other snacks. There was a shopping mall. Then, totally lost in the circular park, returning again and again to the beginning in the hope of finding an end and if not an end, at least peace and compassion while wearing a bracelet that said "Entry Only," we finally did find the mini-vans and the mini-vans took us back to MG Road.
Really, it's airport, airport, airport, bus, hotel, school, bus, hotel, school, bus, hotel, school, bus, Haailand, bus, hotel, bus, school, airport, airport, airport and home. It seems but a beautiful dream now, and I am, sadly but obviously, getting too old for this. Still, it's really weird to be in one place and then another place and then back to where I started in such a short period of time. And it wasn't like going to Bowling Green, Ohio, which, weird as it is, can't come close to India, man. India.
Post Script: I want to know why the time zone in India is one hour and thirty minutes different than its neighbors'. It's just weird. Ninety minutes. The People's Republic of China has one time zone for the whole country which is a total pain in the ass except in Beijing, but it's still on the hour. Leave China through the east and there's a big jump back into real world time, but it's still on the freaking hour. Where do those thirty Indian minutes come from? Who put them there? How come? Or did they shave thirty minutes from an hour and, if that's what happened, where did those minutes go? Who's got them now?


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Nora, a local singer, told me that Ike Turner's old band was going to play a party in La Jolla. I showed up that afternoon and met Steph Johnson, another local musician. She was waiting for friends, so I took the opportunity to ask her about what was going on. She informed me that it was a benefit for the Jewish Community Center.
I walked in to the sound of honky-tonk piano. The guy playing, Ernest Lane, has worked with several acts, including the Monkees. Listening to the few songs he played prompted me to go out and find one of his CDs.
I listened as the band rehearsed "Rocket 88," the song that's considered the first rock tune.
The drummer had his son, who was wearing a Chargers jersey, standing near him. When they finished, I asked the drummer about his kid. "Well, it's my day with him," he said, "and he likes hanging out. He's usually on the computer. He goes to the South Park website." I said, "He probably knows more about computers than you." The guy said, "Oh, no. I'm a graphic artist."
The band members were talking about what songs to perform. One left the conversation for some tea. Another, one of the horn players, looked exhausted. I wanted to ask him if playing a horn wears you out more than, say, drums or guitar, but he went backstage.
When they started playing again, I listened to two songs. And then when Steph was harmonizing with members of the band JZMN, I slipped out.
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A few days earlier, I'd heard about a party for a woman named Nicole, who was turning 30. Bruce and Nate would be hosting the party at their condo in Hillcrest.
The invitation that a friend showed me stated the date that Nicole was turning 30. I showed up at the condo on that date and buzzed Nate's place but nobody answered. I thought it was odd to throw a party on a Thursday night, and I was surprised when I found parking so easily.
I called the friend who had told me about the bash. He laughed and said, "Yeah, there was some confusion about that. The party is actually tomorrow."
I headed out to play racquetball instead, figuring I'd skip that bash.
The next day, however, I'd no other parties to attend, and a friend and I were going to see a movie in Hillcrest at 10:30 p.m. So, I figured I'd hit the party for an hour before the movie.
I introduced myself to Nicole. She gave me a tour of the condo, which she and her fellow architects built.
She talked about growing up in Texas and playing sports. She ran the 400 and broke a few school records.
One of her friends came over and interjected, "You won't find a person with more energy and athleticism than Nicole. She once had a cast on, after a major surgery, and she still went dancing with us. She was really cutting up a rug. It was insane that she even wanted to go." Nicole invited me to go dancing with the group later in the evening.
Another guy told me that he'd seen her dance while she was wearing eight-inch heels.
I spoke with Nate and Bruce in the kitchen. They were holding their dog, Toto. Nicole walked over and said, "I like bigger dogs better. I want a sheep dog. Something big that I can wrestle."
A guy nearby overheard her and said, "Ohhh, girlfriend, I'll wrestle you!" I said, "I'll only wrestle ya if there's mud involved."
There were a few birthday cakes. I said to one woman, "Damn, they probably aren't going to cut these cakes before I leave." She laughed and said, "I try so hard not to eat cake. You guys can eat and gain weight, but for women it's tougher. Look how big I am." I said, "You look great." She smiled and said, "Are you straight...? I meet so many guys at Nicole's parties, and they're all muscular and good looking and I get all worked up...but, they're all gay!" I said, "Yeah, it's weird. Us heterosexual males, we don't care about staying in shape, do we?"
A woman named Stephanie introduced herself. She said I had met her at a party a few years earlier. I have a good memory, but I couldn't place her. When she told me that it was at a VFW hall in P.B. and that there was a drunk guy who kept pulling down his pants, then I remembered. One guy nearby said, "Why wasn't I at that party?"
I told her that I'd heard from a couple who was at that same party. They'd flown to Hawaii to get married. I also remembered a woman with a scar on her arm and a guy who worked as a producer on Punk'd. She said, "Yeah, he told you more stories about that show then he ever told us." I said, "Well, he was drunk by the time I got there. And, half the stories he told me he said I couldn't print or he'd lose his job."
When Toto ran by, I asked Stephanie if she had a dog. She told me about her coon hound, Dewie. She showed me a picture of the dog going to the bathroom and said, "I'm going to embarrass him by showing this photo to any of the girl dogs he brings back to the house." I said, "Are you kidding? Dogs sniff each others' butts. To them, a photo like that is porno."
Nicole came over and said, "Stephanie is the smartest person at our office. She runs the place." Stephanie smiled and said, "I didn't see you writing that down. I want you to quote her accurately on that."
Nicole said, "She's going to be single soon, hint hint."
They put candles on the cake and brought it out to Nicole. She looked as if she'd never eaten a piece of cake in her life. I grabbed a piece, and headed out to the balcony, which had an incredible view of the city.
I lit up a cigar and talked with a woman who works with a friend of mine. Her husband works in submarines, and she told me a bit about that. A military guy started asking technical questions about it. He then told a funny story about the war games his unit plays.
Stephanie came out for a cigarette, and we both admitted that we were afraid of heights as we looked over the edge.
I saw that it was time to meet my friend at the theater and that I was going to have to say goodbye to Nicole. I had heard her trying to talk people into going dancing later in the evening, and I didn't want to get talked into that, so I snuck out.
I heard from Nicole the next day. They went dancing until morning and she woke up the next day on one of her friends' couches. She didn't break any limbs.
More from SDReader
- More stories by Josh Board
- Cardinals, Steelers, Dangerous Dolphins — Feb. 18, 2009
- That '70s Party — Sept. 10, 2008
- Flattered and Scared — Nov. 3, 2005
- Stephanie Who? — Oct. 27, 2005
- Parked in a red zone — May 20, 2004


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In the Overview Guide we got a look at the Phoenix ecosystem and how the pieces interrelate. Now it's time to install any software we might need before we jump into the Up and Running Guide.
Please take a look at this list and make sure to install anything necessary for your system. Having dependencies installed in advance can prevent frustrating problems later on.
Elixir 1.5 or later
Phoenix is written in Elixir, and our application code will also be written in Elixir. We won't get far in a Phoenix app without it! The Elixir site maintains a great Installation Page to help.
If we have just installed Elixir for the first time, we will need to install the Hex package manager as well. Hex is necessary to get a Phoenix app running (by installing dependencies) and to install any extra dependencies we might need along the way.
Here's the command to install Hex (If you have Hex already installed, it will upgrade Hex to the latest version):
$ mix local.hex
Erlang 18 or later
Elixir code compiles to Erlang byte code to run on the Erlang virtual machine. Without Erlang, Elixir code has no virtual machine to run on, so we need to install Erlang as well.
When we install Elixir using instructions from the Elixir Installation Page, we will usually get Erlang too. If Erlang was not installed along with Elixir, please see the Erlang Instructions section of the Elixir Installation Page for instructions.
People using Debian-based systems may need to explicitly install Erlang to get all the needed packages.
$ wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb && sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install esl-erlang
To check that we are on Elixir 1.5 and Erlang 18 or later, run:
elixir -v
Erlang/OTP 19 [erts-8.3] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] [dtrace]
Elixir 1.5.3
Once we have Elixir and Erlang, we are ready to install the Phoenix Mix archive. A Mix archive is a Zip file which contains an application as well as its compiled BEAM files. It is tied to a specific version of the application. The archive is what we will use to generate a new, base Phoenix application which we can build from.
Here's the command to install the Phoenix archive:
$ mix archive.install hex phx_new 1.4.11
Plug, Cowboy, and Ecto
These are either Elixir or Erlang projects which are part of Phoenix applications by default. We won't need to do anything special to install them. If we let Mix install our dependencies as we create our new application, these will be taken care of for us. If we don't, Phoenix will tell us how to do so after the app creation is done.
node.js (>= 5.0.0)
If we don't have any static assets, or we want to use another build tool, we can pass the
--no-webpack flag when creating a new application and node won't be required at all.
We can get node.js from the download page. When selecting a package to download, it's important to note that Phoenix requires version 5.0.0 or greater.
Mac OS X users can also install node.js via homebrew.
Note: io.js, which is an npm compatible platform originally based on Node.js, is not known to work with Phoenix.
Debian/Ubuntu users might see an error that looks like this:
sh: 1: node: not found
npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
This is due to Debian having conflicting binaries for node: discussion on stackoverflow
There are two options to fix this problem, either:
- install nodejs-legacy:
$ apt-get install nodejs-legacy
- create a symlink
$ ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
PostgreSQL is a relational database server. Phoenix configures applications to use it by default, but we can switch to MySQL by passing the
--database mysql flag when creating a new application.
When we work with Ecto schemas in these guides, we will use PostgreSQL and the Postgrex adapter for it. In order to follow along with the examples, we should install PostgreSQL. The PostgreSQL wiki has installation guides for a number of different systems.
Postgrex is a direct Phoenix dependency, and it will be automatically installed along with the rest of our dependencies as we start building our app.
inotify-tools (for linux users)
This is a Linux-only filesystem watcher that Phoenix uses for live code reloading. (Mac OS X or Windows users can safely ignore it.)
Linux users need to install this dependency. Please consult the inotify-tools wiki for distribution-specific installation instructions.
Our First Phoenix Application
Now that we have everything installed, let's create our first Phoenix application and get up and running.


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The memory of a young man who was shot and killed last month in Spartanburg, S.C., lives on through family and friends. A web page he created was discovered after his death, and another has been created to honor his memory.
WOLFEBORO — The memory of a local young man who was shot and killed late last month in Spartanburg, S.C., lives on through family and friends. A page he created on causes.com was discovered after his death, and another page was created by friends and family to honor his memory.
David Allen Moholland was just 20 years old when he was fatally shot on May 20. His girlfriend, Erika Michelle Sutelman, 21, of Laconia, has been charged in his killing.
"He was a good son, a good kid, and a great brother," said Bob Moholland, David's father, in a recent interview with Foster's.
David Moholland has a younger brother, Brenden, who will be graduating from Kingswood later this month, then joining the Marines. "They were very close the last couple years. I was very happy about that," said Bob Moholland.
On the evening of May 20, Spartanburg police were called to the scene of a shooting. There they found Moholland on the floor of an apartment with a gunshot wound to his chest. A news release from the local police stated officers attempted to assist Moholland, but he succumbed to his injuries at the scene.
Sutelman reportedly admitted to shooting Moholland with a 12-gauge shotgun that was in the apartment. The incident report states that Sutelman claimed she thought the safety was on when she fired the gun, which was kept at the apartment for hunting and protection, according to Moholland's family.
"It's just senseless to us," David's father said.
Bob Moholland said that Sutelman was on her way out when the incident occurred. Jennifer Black, David's mother, said that Sutelman and her son had already broken up and that this trip may have been a final amicable way of severing ties.
"She was leaving and coming back up here," Black, who lives in Laconia, said Tuesday.
Black said she spoke with her son on the day of the shooting.
"We talked about how things were going and how happy he was," she said. "There was nothing wrong."
Sutelman was arrested May 21 on the charge of murder and is being held at the Spartanburg County Detention Center. She is scheduled to appear in the Spartanburg County Court on July 25 at 9 a.m.
"She was just a typical kid. I didn't see it. There was really nothing that would indicate something like this was going to happen," said Bob Moholland.
On May 1, David's family threw a party for him. It was a celebration for all that he had accomplished and all they hoped he would as they sent him south for a fresh start. He was there to look for jobs and build a life.
"David was a young man that was going to do things his way," said Bob Moholland, who described his son as very independent.
"We brought him to the airport on May 2. I told him 'Look David, you can do this' and we told him we loved him," his father said.
The friend David had been staying with in South Carolina had recently told Bob Moholland that things were going well, that David was on the right track.
David Moholland's life was cut short by the tragic incident, but his family is determined to keep his memory alive. Unbeknownst to family and friends, Moholland had designed a page on causes.com supporting four different campaigns he felt strongly about. His family, who discovered the page after his death, is now determined to bring attention to the causes that meant so much to Moholland.
That page can be found at http://www.causes.com/profiles/143957036.
His list includes lighting a candle for fallen soldiers, thanking a soldier, protecting animal rights, and breast cancer awareness.
"We'll keep it going," said Black, who just found out she may have breast cancer herself. The family is now looking into ways to help keep his fight alive. A Facebook page titled "We miss you David" was created as a way for those he left behind to share their memories of him.
"He touched a lot of people," said Bob Moholland. "The kid didn't have a bad bone in his body. He'd help anybody," he added.
"He's really a great kid," said his mother.
The family is continuing to cope with the loss of their son and brother.
"I have to be strong for (his brother)," said Black, who admits she checks in with him every day. "It was just such a shock," she said of her son's death.
"We'll deal with ourselves later," added Bob Moholland.
His mother reflected on a recent moment she shared with him. "He called two days before (the shooting) and thanked me for being a great mom."
His father added, "We had our differences, but David knew I loved him. I have no doubt about that."


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Morning Five: 04.09.12 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on April 9th, 2012
- Sometimes the coaching carousel is a strange creature. Later today, Trent Johnson will be announced as the next head coach at TCU. This would not be that notable except that Johnson is leaving LSU to take the job. Johnson has compiled a respectable 226-184 record in stops at Nevada, Stanford, and LSU, but that number is slightly inflated by three exceptional seasons at each stop where his team went 25-9, 28-8, and 27-8. Outside of those three seasons his record is 146-159. Now it may not be fair to exclude those three seasons because we could just as easily exclude his 9-20, 11-20, and 11-20 seasons, but it does point out some degree of inconsistency within his programs. Although Johnson still had a job at LSU perhaps he feared for his long-term security or had some issues with the administration there. In any event it does make an interesting situation when a coach left LSU to take over at TCU for a coach who went to Ohio, which is just about the exact opposite of what you would expect for most sports.
- After coaching at Florida International for three seasons Isiah Thomas was fired by the school on Friday. Thomas, who was a NBA legend as a player, but much less successful in his career afterwards, went 26-65. The initial thought that was perhaps with his name recognition and ties to Chicago he could bring in the type of players that would turn the school's basketball program around. Unfortunately that was not the case and the team stumbled to a 8-21 record this season. Thomas appeared to be disappointed with the school's decision and stated that he had been told he would get five years to turn the program around instead of the three years that he was given. Thomas like most coaches who are fired claims that he was on the verge of turning the program around with several key incoming recruits. It will be interesting to see if the incoming coach will be able to keep those recruits and how Thomas will be viewed if those recruits can live up to his claims.
- After being led by Charlie Coles for sixteen seasons before he stepped down one month ago, Miami (Ohio) is set to introduce John Cooper as its next head coach. After being turned down by Arizona assistant coach James Whitford, the Red Hawks elected to pursue the Tennessee State coach, who led his team to the OVC championship game just three years after taking over a team that went 14-16 his first season. Perhaps, the most memorable moment of Cooper's brief tenure at Tennessee State was their win over Murray State earlier this year giving the Racers their only loss of the regular season. Cooper will have a difficult task of following Coles, who was an icon within the program and the MAC. Fortunately for Cooper and the Red Hawks, we do not expect them to play Michigan any time soon.
- Later today, Eastern Illinois will introduce Jay Spoonhour as its next coach. Jay is the son of the well-known and well-liked late Charlie Spoonhour, who died of complications related to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis earlier this year. Spoonhour's coaching experience has been limited to time as an assistant at several programs and some time as a head coach at the junior college level including a national championship in 2001. His only head coaching experience came in 2004 when he acted as an interim coach for his father while at UNLV and went 6-3 during his brief run.
- Outside of the transfer of Trey Zeigler to Pittsburgh there was some significant player movement as a few players announced that their plans for the NBA Draft. In one of the more surprising decisions we have seen, Khris Middleton has decided to leave Texas A&M forgoing his final year of eligibility. Based on what we have seen on mock drafts/draft boards Middleton is probably a late first/early second round pick. Given his injury issues this season, we figure it would have been better for Middleton to spend another year in college showcasing his skills while he is healthy, but perhaps Middleton thought it would be better to get a contract before another injury occurs. The people of Columbus have reason to celebrate as sophomore Deshaun Thomas has decided to return to Ohio State. Thomas, who had a huge NCAA Tournament, was projected as a borderline first round pick. Now with Jared Sullinger out of the picture perhaps Thomas can showcase his skills on a more regular basis. With Thomas returning expect to see the Buckeyes in the top 10 next season as they return most of their offense outside of Sullinger and have the potential to replace some of his productivity with one of their two primary recruiting targets–Amile Jefferson or Tony Parker. The last piece of news comes from Alabama where Tony Mitchell and Charles Hankerson Jr were granted releases by the school. While we expect Hankerson to transfer we are uncertain on Mitchell, who could consider entering the NBA Draft although we would advise against it. The more likely scenario is that Mitchell, who had discipline issues at Alabama, could be headed to another school.


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The book I am working from (Introduction to Set Theory, Hrbacek & Jech) gives a proof of this result, which I can follow as a chain of implications, but which does not make natural, intuitive sense to me. At the end of the proof, I found myself quite confused, and had to look carefully at the build-up to see how the conclusion followed. I get the steps, now - but not the intuition.
The authors took sets $X$ and $Y$ and assumed injections $f: X \rightarrow Y$, $g: Y \rightarrow X$. Since $X \sim g[f[X]]$ and $X \supseteq g[Y] \supseteq g[f[X]]$, and $Y \sim g[Y]$, the authors went to prove the lemma that $A \sim A_1, A \supseteq B \supseteq A_1 \implies A \sim B$.
For the lemma, they defined recursive sequences $\{A_n\}_{n \in \omega}, \{B_n\}_{n \in \omega}$ by $A_0 = A, A_{n+1} = f[A],$ $ B_0 = B, B_{n+1} = f[B].$ Since $A_0 \supseteq B_0 \supseteq A_1 \implies f[A_0] \supseteq f[B_0] \supseteq f[A_1]$, we get from induction that $A_{n+1} \subseteq A_n$. Putting $\{C_n\}_{n \in \omega} = \{A_n - B_n\}_{n \in \omega},$ they noted that $C_{n+1} = f[C_n]$ (since $A_n \supseteq B_n$ inductively, $f[A_n - B_n] = f[A_n] - f[B_n]$). Putting
$$ C = \bigcup_{n=0}^\infty C_n, \text{ } D = A - C,$$
they noted that $f[C] = \bigcup_{n=1}^\infty C_n$, and that $h(x): A \rightarrow f[C] \cup D$ can be defined by sending $x \in C \rightarrow f(x),$ and $x \in D \rightarrow x$. It is clear that $h$ is one-to-one and onto.
Inductively, for $n > 0$, $C_0 \cap C_n = \varnothing$; it follows that $C_0 \cap \bigcup_{n=1}^\infty C_n = C_0 \cap f[C] = \varnothing$. We know that $C_0 \cup f[C] \cup D$ = A, and since all three sets are disjoint, we may conclude that $f[C] \cup D = A - C_0 = A - (A - B) = B$. Thus, our bijection $h$ maps $A$ to $B$, as we wanted.
What is the intuition here? What were H&J, or Cantor, Bernstein, etc. thinking when they went to prove this - the "high-level" idea? Is there a clearer proof, in the sense of thought process (not necessarily shorter)?


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David H. LevyChapter 1
Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who
Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.
Fitzgerald, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Do you three ever have a comet!" said Jim Scotti from the control room of his telescope. Shielded from the cold night atop a mountain in southern Arizona, Jim was looking at his monitor screen and beholding the strangest sight he had ever seen in the night skya train of several comets, each one coupled to the next by a thick layer of dust. Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker and I were in a room beneath our telescope, four hundred miles to the west on Palomar Mountain, also huddled against the wind and snow outdoors. We would not be opening the telescope this night, but thanks to Jim's confirmation, our cometary prey was already in the net.
Two nights earlier, the evening of March 23, 1993, Gene; his wife, Carolyn; and I were at Palomar Mountain Observatory, working on his Palomar Asteroid and Comet Survey. We were taking photographs of the skyas much of it as possible each monthin search of comets and asteroids. Gene's goal was to determine the rate of impacts in our corner of the solar system.
Gene had a dream. With all the craters, and crater-making objects he had seen, he wanted to cap his career by actually witnessing an impact, perhaps on some remote desert area in Australia, and then rush out and map the result. He talked about that dream often, and even might have been thinking of it on that evening of March 23, when a row of clouds put a stop to our observing. We walked outside, together with Philippe Bendjoya, an astronomer from France who was checking out our operation that month.
"I think we should keep on observing," I said, conscious that in an El Niño year, the onset of clouds likely meant that we would not get to use the telescope for several days.
Gene's reply had a financial twist to it. "There's David, ever the optimist!" he began. "But really, we spend some four dollars each time we slap a piece of film into that telescope. In the course of a year that might amount to some eight thousand dollars just on film. David, we're just going to have to wait this one out."
As we stood there silently, gazing up at what stars could be seen through the gathering clouds, I remembered the rude surprise we had received the evening before: we had to stop observing because our film had gone bad. Someone had opened our box of carefully prepared emulsion, exposing its contents to light. The films had been stored one on top of the next, so the uppermost films, which were completely ruined, served somewhat to protect the lower ones. We limped through the rest of that night with these damaged filmstheir centers were usable, but their edges were struck with light.
Our second night began on a better note. Armed with a fresh supply of film, we began work and kept on until those clouds rolled in. And here we were, waiting out what appeared to be the leading edge of another storm. I thought about last night's damaged films, and of Gene's financial argument, and had an idea.
"Gene, do we have any damaged films left over from last night?"
"Yes, I saved them for focus tests."
"Those films don't cost us anything," I continued. "If we use them, we have nothing to waste but our time."
We looked at the sky, then at each other. "Let's do it!" Gene bellowed. We rushed up to the dome. Gene gave me the filmholder, which I locked into place in the belly of the eighteen-inch Schmidt camera. He read me two coordinates, the right ascension and the declinationthe sky's extension of longitude and latitudeand I positioned the telescope. I looked through the eyepiece to locate the star on which I would guide the eight-minute exposure and was really surprised to see a bright glow. I looked hard and found the guide star, barely visible amidst the glow. I looked up and saw the problem at once: Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, was very close to the center of where I had pointed the telescope.
I suggested to Gene that because the partly clouded sky was so bright from Jupiter's glare, maybe we should move to another field of sky. But since this was the next field on our program, we decided to stick with it. "If you can't see the guide star at all," he said, "then we'll go somewhere else."
"No," I answered, "the star is faint, but I can follow it. We can stay here. I'm ready to go!"
Gene then waited until the clock's second hand was about to reach a quarter minute, and then began to count: "Five, four, three, two, one, Open!"
How to Learn a Lot in Four Minutes
Pulling on a lever, I heard a soft squeaking sound as the telescope's two metal shutters swung open. The exposure was in progress. Gene went downstairs to load another sheet of six-inch diameter circular film into its holder, then returned. For about three minutes, Gene could relax as I guided the exposure. We chatted casually.
These three-or four-minute chats were extremely useful times for us. While I can't recall what we talked about during this particular exposure, these times were golden opportunities to get caught up on news, to express our opinions about various subjects, or just to enjoy the night. Conversation was important during this time, especially as the night wore on and we grew tired. We also had a cassette recorder that played classical, jazz, country, or Australian music.
Sometimesespecially late at nightthe conversation would be just plain fun. When Carolyn and I observed together we got downright nonsensicalthe humor kept us going and made the long nights pass quickly. On our very first observing run together, Carolyn and I were at the telescope while Gene was in Pasadena as part of the Voyager 2 imaging team looking at images coming in from the spacecraft as it swung by Neptune's moon Triton. Carolyn had prepared two boxes of films for use that nightusing a film cutter to shape the films into six-inch circles, she then connected the boxes to a supply of "forming gas" of 92 percent nitrogen and 8 percent hydrogen, and placed them into an oven. In six hours, the films were hypersensitizedwhich meant that with our Kodak 4415 Technical Pan film, the hypersensitizing process increased the sensitivity of films to light by a factor of nine. Gene called the process "baking the cookies."
On that second night together, our program was proceeding faster than expected. Thinking that our supply of films was running low, Carolyn mused that we might actually have to stop before dawn if we ran out of hypersensitized film. So as Carolyn guided an exposure, I went downstairs, replaced the film, and retraced the twelve steps to the observatory dome. "Carolyn," I said plaintively, "I checked. We're completely out of film."
"I see," she replied.
"The film you have is the last one."
"But I think I found a way to use more film."
"What's that?"
"Two minutes to go in this exposure, Carolyn. Well, you know I've been using hypered 35mm film in my own camera ..."
"Well, I brought some. What I did was, I took four strips of the film, crunched it into the filmholder, and like that!"
Carolyn looked really puzzled. "How do I tell this nice man," she later admitted thinking, "who has come all this way to be a part of the program, that his idea is just plain dumb?"
Instead she said, "But David, when we develop these strips of film, how shall we know which one goes where?"
"Forty-five seconds, Carolyn," I noted the time remaining on the current exposure. "Well, we can put them together with Scotch tape and then I'd compare them with a nice star Atlas and we could figure it out." Really concerned now, Carolyn looked up from her eyepiece and noticed my wide grin.
"David! I think I've just been had!"
"Twenty seconds!"
We laughed about that one for years. It was the first of many moments of genuine laughter between us that helped make these moments so special. The best jokes came late at night. On another night I rushed up the twelve stairs to the dome to present Gene with a new film, only to realize that there was still a few minutes left of the exposure. "You're in a hurry!" Gene said, his nimble fingers pressing the buttons that guided the telescope. Since this particular exposure was in the eastern half of the sky, where the telescope tended to wander off its guide star, Gene was pressing the east and west guiding buttons every few seconds. With each press the telescope made a ssssst sound as it raced to catch up with the Earth's rotation, and a lower pitched bzzzt! if it needed to slow down.
"Well, maybe the night will go faster if I hurry," I admitted, quite out of breath.
"Well, I don't know. Did you hear about the old bull and the young bull?" Sssst, sssst.
I admitted that I hadn't.
"Well," Bzzzzt! "Damn! Wrong way." Ssssssssssssssssst. "Two bulls were standing at the top of a hill, an old bull and a young one." Ssssssst. "They were watching a herd of cows at the bottom of the hill, and the young bull was strutting around." Sssssst. Bzzzzt! Bzzzzzzt! "`I wanna charge down the hill and make love to the first cow I run into!"' Bzzzzt! Bzzzzt!
"The old bull looked out over the herd. `Well, you can do that. I will walk downhill slowly and sagely.'" Ssssssssst! "`And then I'll get the whole damn herd!' Damn!" Sssssssssssssssssssst!
"One minute, Gene!"
Usually our conversations were more serious, like the time I asked Gene what he thought of Frank Drake's famous equation on how common life is in our galaxy. The equation reads
N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL
where N is the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy capable of communicating with us. N is based on numbers and fractions that express the number of stars in our galaxy, the fraction of those stars with planets, the number of those planets that are Earth-like, the fraction where life took hold, the fraction where life evolved to intelligence, the fraction where life evolved to technological communication, and finally, the fraction of time a civilization is likely to last. The traditional Ns vary widely; optimists suggest several hundred thousand; pessimists say one.
I found that while Gene did think that N is more than one, he feared that it is very low. He explained that the equation leaves out one important factor that might reduce the value of N. A solar system must have at least one Jupiter-sized planet. "Jupiter works like a vacuum cleaner," he said. "The planet's gravity is so strong that it rids the solar system of billions of comets." These comets, he continued, are affected by Jupiter's gravity and are flung out of the solar system, or, in rarer cases, actually collide with the giant planet. Without a Jupiter in the system, comets would continue to rain down on Earth-sized planets, just as they did in our system when it was young. Without Jupiter, our Earth would still be a target for ten kilometer-diameter comet strikes at the rate of one per century instead of the present comfortable rate of one each hundred million years.
"Thirty seconds!" Gene interrupted his train of thought to let me know to get ready to close the shutter. With time running out for the exposure, I asked Gene how serious this consideration was. "Pretty serious," he answered. I think it brings the value of N pretty close to one. I don't think we are alone, but I do think that the development of advanced life forms is pretty rare in our galaxy.
In this way, I learned an awful lot of planetary geology in three- or four-minute segments.
Out of little stories like these were wonderful memories built. I learned more about geology, impacts, and the character of Gene and Carolyn during these short segmentsall while the telescope patiently gathering photons of stars, galaxies, asteroids, and cometsthan at any other time during our relationship. And Gene, Carolyn, and I never let the stories overstretch the exposures. Whatever jokes, stories, educational anecdotes, or other conversation was happening on this night of March 23, 1993, the time for the Jupiter exposure finally ran out as Gene called out "five, four, three, two, one, close!"
The Night Groans On
The sky clouded over again as we struggled through the next two images. Finally we had to stop. I went outdoors several times to check on the sky. We worried that if we did not begin the "bottom half of the inning" soon, we might have to scrap the set. The way our films work for comet discovery is that they detect the motion of a comet or an asteroid; it is in different places from one film to the next. When Carolyn stereoscopically studies a pair of films that are identical in every regard except that they were taken some forty-five minutes apart, she can see a moving object appear to "float" on top of the background of stars. What an elegant way to search for new worlds!
In order to see these new worlds, we needed two films of every area, and ideally the films should not be spaced shorter than forty minutes apart, or longer than about an hour. As we waited for the clouds, an hour passed from the start of the first exposure, then ninety minutes. Despairing, I went outside one more time. There appeared to be a small hole in the clouds, moving eastward. With a little luck, I thought, it would pass the Jupiter area and stay clear long enough for me to just get in the second exposure. Gene and I ran up the stairs, loaded the film, and reset the telescope. For a while I couldn't see the guide star at all, but after a few more minutes the break in the clouds reached the Jupiter region and the guide star just slightly appeared. I began the exposure and kept going for eight minutes. The clouds closed over again just before the end of the exposure. We struggled through the rest of that night, and on the following night we took a few more exposures before the heavier clouds moved in, shutting off our observing run for the next few nights.
A Unique Discovery
Even though we were not accomplishing much because of the weather, we were thoroughly enjoying each other's company this run. Philippe Bendjoya, one of the most delightful people we've ever shared the dome with, was interested in watching what we were doing, yet each cloudy evening he would assist me with my faltering French. Our late night dialogues covered politics, religion, even astronomyand were all en Français. So by the afternoon of March 25, we were a quiet but satisfied group, saddened only because the weather was keeping us from observing. Carolyn even looked up from her scanning, saying plaintively, "You know, I used to be a person who found comets."
"Used to be?" Gene asked.
On a few occasions, when she said those words, Carolyn would find a comet. She completed her scanning of the first night's films with no luck. It was time for Gene and me to head over to the nearby sixty-inch telescope dome, which housed the oven for hypersensitizing. By now the storm was raging, with high winds and light snow. We knew that there would be no observing that night, but we were going through the motions of hypering the film and preparing the night's observing plan, just in case.
We returned to our eighteen-inch telescope dome. With observing unlikely that night, 4 P.M. was the slow part of the afternoon. I continued working on my cloudy-day activity of writing a book called The Quest for Comets. Gene was catching up on his reading of a paper being prepared for publication. Carolyn was scanning the Jupiter field. Somewhat tired from the previous night's observing, Philippe was napping in the car.
Suddenly Carolyn stopped the steady movement of her stereomicroscope. She had just skidded past a fuzzy something that looked a bit like the fuzzy appearance of a distant galaxy. Was it floating? She backed up, increased the magnification, sat straight in her chair, and peered intently into the eyepieces. After a few seconds she looked at us. "I don't know what I've got, but it looks like a squashed comet."
As Gene walked over to look, Carolyn smiled at me. Was she being humorous? After all, she had just defined herself as a person who used to find comets! "No," she said, "there's something strange out there."
Gene studied the images carefully, then looked at me with the most bewildered look I've ever seen on the man. Now it was my turn. I saw two discrete images of what really did look like a comet someone had stepped on. At the center was a bar of fuzzy, cometary light, appearing dark of course, since we were using the original negative films. Stretching to the north of the bar were clearly defined cometary tails. "It's got to be a comet," I called out, "look at those tails!" Then I noticed the pencil-thin lines extending along either side of the bar.
Sensing the excitement, Philippe appeared. We told him what had happened and he, too, looked at this unique object. I prepared an e-mail message about the comet; then Gene and I logged into the computer service of the International Astronomical Union's Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. It was time to report our discovery to the center's director, Brian Marsden. After our initial message was cut off in midtransmission, we wrote this letter:
We got cut off on our last message to you (the one we logged directly to your computer service) so we are resending with more details.
The strange comet is located as follows:
[The numbers refer to the year, month, and date to five decimal places; the right ascension and declination in coordinates standardized to the year 2000; and the brightness of the comet at magnitude 14.]
The motion is west-northwest (not southeast as in the previous message) at about 7 arcminutes per day. The image is most unusual in that it appears as a dense, linear bar very close to I arcminute long, oriented roughly east-west. No central condensation [a thickening of the comet toward its center] is observable in either of the two images. A fainter, wispy "tail" extends north of the bar and to the west. Either we have captured a most unusual eruption on the comet or we are looking at a dense tail edge-on.
Right now we are sitting in the middle of a cloud with no hope of observing tonight, and we had very poor observing last night. Observers are Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker, David Levy, and Philippe Bendjoya."
After we sent this message, we left the observatory to head for the house we rented for the observing runs. During the drive back Gene suggested a possible scenario for the comet's appearance. The comet is close to Jupiter in the sky. Suppose the comet was physically near it in space, close enough to have been tidally disrupted by the planet? Maybe the comet's elongated appearance indicated that it had split apart. Like many of Gene's hunches, this one turned out to be spectacularly correct.
Confirming the Discovery
After our dinner break we returned to the observatory. The sky was hopelessly cloudy, so there was no chance of rephotographing the new comet ourselves. I called Jim Scotti, a close friend who was that night observing with the Spacewatch camera on Kitt Peak, west of Tucson, as part of a search for asteroids and comets, and told him that we had an unusual comet not far from Jupiter. When I gave him the two positions, he quickly realized that the comet was also moving in the same direction and velocity as Jupiter. He suggested that our "comet" was nothing more than a reflection of Jupiter's light in the telescope! He did agree, however, to try to get an image for us.
Concerned, Gene quickly took a straight-edge and extended the line that the comet drew in space toward Jupiter. The line passed just south of the planet. If it had been a reflection, Gene reasoned, the line should have gone straight to the big overexposed splotch that was Jupiter. In the meantime, Gene and I went over to the dome of the forty-eight-inch Schmidt, which housed the device we used to measure accurate positions of our comet. Jean Mueller, our friend who works the forty-eight-inch telescope for the Second Palomar Sky Survey, greeted us there and helped us measure the comet's discovery images. About two hours later we returned to the eighteen-inch.
Because the night was stormy, we brought our music downstairs; it was playing Beethoven's first symphony. It was time to call Jim. He picked up the phone and began to clear his throat. "Jim," I said, "Are you all right!"
"Oh, yes!" he got himself to answer, shakily.
"Do we have a comet?" Right at this moment, the opening chords of the final movement of Beethoven's first began.
"Do you three ever have a comet!" I repeated Jim's words as he explained that his telescope was showing at least several nuclei, all connected by dust, five tails, and two long pencil-thin lines (that turned out to be trains of dust) on either side of the nucleiall as the music lurched into the movement's opening crescendo of what we renamed Beethoven's Comet Symphony. Later, Jim reported to the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams:
It is indeed a unique object, different from any cometary form I have yet witnessed. In general, it has the appearance of a string of nuclear fragments spread out along the orbit with tails extending from the entire nuclear train as well as what looks like a sheet of debris spread out in the orbit plane in both directions. The southern boundary is very sharp while the northern boundary spreads out away from the debris trails.
At Palomar, the energy in that little room was extraordinary. We knew that our program had uncovered the most unusual-looking comet in history. Comets typically sport heads and tails; this one was a line consisting of several heads and tails. We were walking on the ceiling. In Gene's exhilaration that night, he had no idea that this comet's performance was only the overture, and that the comet's four-billion-year-long journey through the solar system was about to end in the most spectacular collision ever seen in the solar system. The coming event would grab Gene's lifework, confirm its significance, and blaze it over the front pages of the world.
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