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Cardinals fail to pick new pope in first vote
ROME — Black smoke poured from a chimney at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel late Tuesday, signaling that a new pope had not been elected in the first round of voting by a conclave of cardinals.
The 115 cardinals will reconvene Wednesday and are scheduled to hold four votes each day until two-thirds of their ballots bear the name of the same man.
No new pope was no surprise — a pope has not been elected on the first ballot in centuries.
After each vote, the Vatican will release smoke from a chapel chimney. Black smoke means no two-thirds majority, so no new pope. White smoke means we have a winner. Many hundreds braved the rain and cold in St. Peter's Square on Tuesday to see the almost-inevitable black smoke that signaled the end of Day One of the conclave.
An almost-equal mix of journalists, tourists and locals filled about half of the large circular piazza. Groups of nuns sang songs, children played games and lovers kissed.
Undeterred by the damp chill or inconclusive papal conclave result, Bridget Lyons, 20, said she planned to return daily until the new pope is elected.
"I'm Catholic, so it's important to be here; it's history," the student from Cleveland said. "I wouldn't miss it."
In contrast to the 2005 election that selected Pope Benedict, which came on the heels of a massively attended funeral for John Paul II, the crowds outside were sparse during the day.
Standing closest to the St. Peter's balcony, where the new pope will meet the masses, was the Herrera family from Queretaro, Mexico. In contrast to the throngs of vacationers, they made the trip to Rome solely to see the new pope elected.
"We are Catholics, and this moment means a lot to us," said Monica Herrera, flanked by her husband Ernesto and young daughter, Regina. Behind them hung a Mexican flag. They plan to stake out this prime spot for as long as the conclave lasts in order to be front row when history is made.
"John Paul had a lot of charisma, and Benedict was very scholarly, so the next pope has big shoes to fill," she said. "He'll have to be modern, and have the strength to confront the church's many issues. We are in a moment of crisis now."
As to who might ascend to the throne of St. Peter, Herrera's bet is "on an Italian," she said with a smile. "I think after a German and a Polish pope, they want it back."
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Before entering the Sistine Chapel, the cardinals charged with making that decision on behalf of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics attended a special Mass in St Peter's Basilica. In his homily, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, referred to the "beloved and venerated" Benedict XVI and his "brilliant" pontificate.
The cardinals entered the chapel, took their individual oaths of secrecy in Latin. Then came the traditional order of "Extra Omnes" – "Everyone out" – that instructs support staff to leave and signals the official beginning of the conclave.
The cardinals vote in prayerful silence. Although many use social media to connect with the faithful, everything about this historic exercise is old school. Each receives a card with the heading "Eligo In Summum Pontifem," meaning simply "I Elect as Pope." Beneath, they handwrite their choice.
The fact that a pope wasn't picked doesn't mean the conclave's first day was a waste, experts said.
The first day "establishes the spiritual aspects of the conclave," said Matthew Bunson, a religious scholar and author of We Have a Pope! Benedict XVI. "That happens through the procession into the Sistine Chapel and the constant prayers asking for the guidance of the Holy Spirit."
But perhaps more significantly, it clued cardinals in to who's trending.
"They learn from that first vote who the leading contenders are and what level of backing they have," said Bunson, noting that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's strong support at the outset of 2005's conclave led to him becoming Pope Benedict in just four ballots.
"If someone gets lots of votes on the first ballot, the momentum could take hold and this could be over quickly," said Thomas Reese, analyst for the National Catholic Reporter, adding that the winner will need two-thirds — or 77 — of the 115 votes. "On the other hand, if someone gets to 60 fast, but then stalls, that could require a lot of negotiations to see who's going to compromise on their candidate."
Reese said what partly paved the way for John Paul II's revolutionary election as a Polish pope was that votes were split between the two leading Italian cardinals, resulting in a winning third path. Although presently Milanese Cardinal Angelo Scola is often mentioned as among the leading "papabili," U.S. Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York also received his share of press of late.
But whenever the new pope is elected, spokesman Lombardi warned that it may take a while before the throngs of faithful and tourists waiting in St. Peter's Square see the new pontiff. That's because the next man to sit on the throne of St. Peter plans to stop in the Pauline Chapel to pray before alighting on the balcony to face the masses.
"It could take longer than last time," when it was almost an hour before Pope Benedict appeared, Lombardi said. "Especially if the new pope immerses himself in prayer."
What politicking does occur between balloting sessions will be contained to walks, dinners and late-night chats at the Casa Santa Marta, a five-story building inside the Vatican's imposing walls that houses all of the red-robed electorate. But when there finally is a majority vote, the world will know thanks to smoke signals.
But hey, if you can't be there when the vote comes down, follow @PopeAlarm on Twitter for the results.
Far from the bustle and tourism of the Basilica, retired bus driver Pietro Boccamazzi, 77, goes to church ever day at Rome's St. Anastasia Church. "I love whoever is pope," he said, but added that an Italian pope would be best. "No disrespect disrespect to other nations. But the church is here (in Italy) for a reason."

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It really is no secret that Republicans want to make it harder for people to vote. Some are even up front about it.
In 2011, Mike Bennett, then a Republican state senator from Bradenton, told his colleagues during a debate on an elections bill that voting shouldn't be easy: "The (African) people in the desert, who literally walk two and three hundred miles so they can have the opportunity to do what we do, and we want to make it more convenient?" (His Africa comments were rated a "Pants on Fire" falsehood by PolitiFact.)
Well, Bennett got his wish. In 2012 Florida voters resembled those in the Third World. In a disastrous election that caused President Barack Obama to remark "we have to fix that," people in Miami-Dade County waited up to seven hours to vote during a contracted early voting period prescribed by the 2011 law. On Election Day, some voters were on line past midnight. And now Bennett is the newly elected supervisor of elections in Manatee County and has since defended the law.
Then there's Charlie Webster, who was Maine's GOP chairman when he made the paranoid charge last year that the state should repeal Maine's same-day registration because it's "how the Democrats have managed to steal elections." Webster's deluded assertion to the Portland Press Herald was that the state's ease of registration allowed Democrats to bus in "Job Corps people," referring to a federal job training program for low-income young people. "(Democrats) move 'em around to wherever they have a tough seat," Webster claimed.
Equal frankness came from New Hampshire Republican lawmaker William O'Brien, who as state House speaker last year pushed for a law to end the state's same-day voter registration and prohibit most college students from using their school addresses to vote. He was caught on tape telling a tea party group the change was needed because young people end up "voting as a liberal." The effort failed.
Since the midterm elections of 2010, almost every state where Republicans took political control made a concerted push to make voting harder for groups whose demographics lean Democratic, such as minorities and college students. Republicans publicly claim the rules are to prevent voter fraud — a problem that essentially does not exist for in-person voting. But Jim Greer, the disgraced and indicted former Florida Republican Party chairman, admitted that Florida's early voting limits were to tamp down Democratic votes, not due to any problem of voter fraud.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonprofit group specializing in election issues, no fewer than 25 new laws and two executive actions passed in 19 states over the last two years to make it more difficult for eligible Americans to vote. Courts came to the rescue by blocking many of the most restrictive laws. But these aggressive state efforts to reduce voter registration, contract early voting and raise burdensome voter ID requirements, show the states can't be trusted. For the integrity of America's democratic process, a national response is called for.
America needs to modernize and standardize elections by passing a new motor voter-type law. That law passed in 1993 to expand the franchise by telling states to make voter registration available in motor vehicle offices and social service offices.
In Congress, the Voter Empowerment Act is a 21st century fix to our election mess. Among other advances, the act would automate voter registration in a way that could bring more than 50 million additional eligible voters onto the rolls, while saving millions of dollars and reducing opportunities from fraud, mistakes and manipulation. Voters would stay registered even if they moved, since registration updates could be instantaneous.
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- (adj) (of a person) at the point of death; "on examination she was moribund and dehydrated"
- (adj) (of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigour; "the moribund commercial property market"
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A youthful sportsman reclining on a bank, blowing a salute to the game on his hunting horn, his spaniel by his side with various birds including a brace of English partridge, and a black grouse; a beach with elegant figures on horseback beyond.
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Dirk Stoop was born between 1615 and 1621 in Utrecht, although in many sources, following Waller, his birth year is given as 1610. He was the brother of Maerten Stoop, the painter of battles. His activity as an artist is first recorded in Utrecht between 1633 and 1635; in the latter year he followed many of his contemporary artists in moving to Italy, where he was resident for a decade until 1645. It is likely that he associated with the distinguished Italianate landscape painter Jan Both (d.1652) in Rome at this time: the two artists occasionally collaborated on hunting scenes. Both and Stoop were contemporaries and both were born in Utrecht.
His return to Utrecht is likely to have been in 1647, although he seems to have been itinerant, not residing there fully until about1660. In the following year he departed for Portugal., where he was active in the court circles around Catherine of Braganza, following her to London after her marriage to King Charles II in 1662. Stoop stayed in London until 1665, and executed a number of royal portraits, topographical landscapes and hunting genre scenes.
By 1667 Stoop was in Hamburg, where he recorded in a dispute with the local painters' gild (under the name of "Rodrigo Stoff"). He settled in Hamburg for fifteen years, only returning to his native Utrecht in 1682. He died there four years later.
The present painting is a recent discovery, the artist's signature having been over-painted at some point, probably in the 19th century, presumably for nefarious reasons – that is, to pass it off as the work of the more famous painter Jan Weenix, to whom it was previously attributed.
The picture is ambitious within the artist's versatile oeuvre, and shows a thorough knowledge of human and avian figure-painting, as well as a grasp of the dune-landscape which enjoyed a vast popularity in the mid-17th century.
It seems highly likely that this is intended as a hunting genre-scene, rather than as a portrait of a sportsman, and that the picture was composed in the studio from previously-executed drawings. The presence of various breeds of birds which inhabit very different habitats (eg the black-grouse is a bird of wild moorland edges, whereas the songbirds are more typical of lowland farmland) make it unlikely that these were the bag of a single day's sport in a single coastal location. It is tempting to suggest that the picture was executed in England, where the black grouse was widespread in the 17th century, but this cannot be a dogmatic assertion since the breed was (and is) occasionally found in the Netherlands and North Germany. Likewise presence of the grey-leg or English partridge would suggest that this is one of the pictures painted in England after the artist's arrival in the train of Catherine of Braganza.


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A major trend in mobile technology heading New Zealand's way is the use of apps by retailers to create virtual shop windows for customers, says the head of an app development company.
Sulabh Sharma, managing director of Auckland-based Sush Mobile, said New Zealand was lagging behind countries like the US where big retail chains were devoting more time and resources towards developing mobile apps.
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Apps were now considered to be key to the future success of the retail sector, attracting potential customers from much further afield, he said.
Speaking at this month's South by Southwest Conference in Texas, Walmart's senior director of mobile and digital strategy Wendy Bergh told crowds her recent focus had been on "taking advantage of the way mobile can really bring the web into the store".
The Walmart philosophy was to have an Augmented Reality (AR) experience that was useful and interesting to the customer and not just a novelty, she said.
Sharma said the advantage to retailers of launching an app was that it would keep the customer in-store, rather than being lured away after Googling the product.
Consumers were becoming more and more forward by researching products before they purchased.
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"Mobility in retail is still under-used here compared to the US," he said.
"I think once someone brings this to the market the others will follow."
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The Mount Sinai Medical Center has adopted an enterprise-grade mobile care-coordination mobile app called Cureatr, which was designed by a resident at the Mount Sinai Hospital, Joseph Mayer, MD. Mount Sinai has signed a multi-year contract to roll out the app to Mount Sinai clinicians.
"Mount Sinai is the first major academic medical center to adopt Cureatr," said Dr. Bruce J. Darrow, Chief Medical Information Officer of The Mount Sinai Medical Center. "The adoption of the Cureatr app demonstrates our commitment to using new health-information technology to improve quality and coordination of care. "
"We are proud that its creator is one of us, a physician who trained as a resident in our hospital," said Leonard Achan, Chief Communications Officer for The Mount Sinai Medical Center. "Mount Sinai fosters a culture of innovation and is home to many creative and entrepreneurial clinicians and researchers."
The cloud-based mobile app, designed for use with iPhones, Androids, tablets and other hand-held devices, employs a special HIPAA-secure group text messaging system that improves communication between team members who coordinate care of patients with complex medical conditions.
Dr. Mayer co-founded Cureatr in 2011 with Alex Khomenko, the former Director of Engineering at 23andMe. Dr. Mayer and Mr. Khomenko now serve as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer, respectively. Dr. Mayer acknowledged many individuals at Mount Sinai for their support, including Darrow and Achan, as well as Mark A. Callahan, MD, CEO of Mount Sinai Care, LLC (Mount Sinai's ACO); Kumar Chatani, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer; Mark DeLaney, Vice President, Information Technology; Erin S. DuPree, MD, Chief Medical Officer; Dr. Wayne Goodman, MD, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; and Ronald Rieder, MD, a Professor of Psychiatry who served as Dr. Mayer's Residency Director.
"It is a great honor to have our provider communications platform adopted by Mount Sinai, known worldwide for innovation, with the only accountable care organization in Manhattan linked to an academic medical center," said Dr. Mayer.
The app was pilot-tested for months by Mount Sinai clinicians in a pilot program at the hospital, and is also used at The Institute for Family Health (IFH), a Mount Sinai affiliate led by Neil Calman, MD, Co-founder, President and CEO. Because Cureatr enables both intra- and inter-institutional communication, users at affiliates such as IFH and large group practices are able to securely message Mount Sinai practitioners for referral and follow-up care.
Dr. Mayer developed the app to solve the day-to-day challenges he and his colleagues experienced while treating patients, including reaching the right care-team member at the right time and communicating with him or her effectively, and navigating the many complex day-to-day clinical workflows at a hospital such as Mount Sinai. "Outside of the electronic medical record system, physicians, nurses and other care team members have no mobile tools built specifically for their care coordination challenges," said Dr. Mayer.
Cureatr was featured at the New York Digital Health Accelerator's first Demo Day on Wednesday, May 8 at The Times Center in New York. Cureatr was one of eight out of 250 applicant companies to receive a $300,000 grant for the development of the app. The NYDHA is run by the Partnership Fund for New York City and the New York eHealth Collaborative and was designed for growth-stage companies developing products for providers and patients in the care coordination, patient engagement, and health care analytics fields.
The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Established in 1968, the Icahn School of Medicine is one of the leading medical schools in the United States. The Medical School is noted for innovation in education, biomedical research, clinical care delivery, and local and global community service. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 14 research institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and by U.S. News & World Report.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2011, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital 16th on its elite Honor Roll of the nation's top hospitals based on reputation, safety, and other patient-care factors. Of the top 20 hospitals in the United States, Mount Sinai is one of 12 integrated academic medical centers whose medical school ranks among the top 20 in NIH funding and U.S. News & World Report and whose hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 560,000 outpatient visits took place.
For more information, visit http://www.mountsinai.org
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Cureatr, Inc.
Cureatr is the nation's fastest growing mobile care coordination solution for healthcare providers. By combining HIPAA-secure text messaging with workflow navigation tools such as critical lab alerts, patient event notifications, and disease-specific checklists Cureatr makes it easier for doctors, nurses and other care-team members to provide high quality care for their patients. The solution, which is available as an Android, iPhone, and Web app, was designed at the point-of-care to improve care coordination around the most important clinical pain-points. Led by a physician trained at Columbia, the former Director of Engineering of 23andMe, and the former head of sales at athenahealth, Cureatr focuses on making critical day-to-day tasks easier for all care-team members, while improving standardization and reporting for health system executives.
For more information, visit https://cureatr.com/.


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Mészáros offers masterful analysis of the forces behind the expansion of inequality and unemployment, the return of imperial intervention across the globe, the growing structural crisis of the capitalist state, and the widening ecological crisis along with the hope offered by the reemergence of concrete socialist alternatives. This powerful and provocative new collection defines the challenges and burdens facing all who are committed to a more rational and egalitarian future.
Today Mészáros's theoretical insights are becoming a material force, gripping the masses through various world-historical developments, including the 'Bolivarian Revolution' of Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Ted Minnis, The Friends of Harvard Water Polo Head Coach, has announced the hiring of Cassie Churnside to the men's and women's coaching staff. Churnside comes to Cambridge from the SET Water Polo Club in Irvine, Calif., where she was the head coach of SET 16U and the assistant coach of SET 18U.
"I am very excited for Cassie to join us in Cambridge," Minnis said. "She will be an incredible addition to the Harvard water polo family and will bring a great source of knowledge and skill to the coaching staff this season and moving forward."
Churnside, an Orange, Calif., native, helped to lead the Stanford Cardinal to the 2011 and 2012 national titles. Aside from her national success in the pool, Churnside has a wealth of coaching experience.
Before taking over at SET, Churnside was an assistant coach at Laguna Beach Unified School District. During her tenure, her teams won the Division I CIF championship, Orange Coast League championship and the Triple Crown Tournament championship. During her four years as a student-athlete in Palo Alto, Churnside also worked as a camp counselor and coach for the Cardinal.
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The Hague Transavia Grand Slam | 15 - 20 July 2014
Lausanne, Switzerland, April 7, 2014 – This year's Long Beach and Transavia Grand Slams just got more interesting with the historic announcement that the two events will carry a pot of $1 million in prize money.
For the first time ever in the FIVB's history, two of the Grand Slams on the beach volleyball calendar will have a prize pot of $1 million, while the other eight will feature a total purse of $800,000 – nearly double the prize money of $440,000 on offer for Grand Slams in 2013.
Never before has such high prize money been distributed in a beach volleyball tournament with the winners receiving a cheque of $70,000 and runners-up $52,000 in both the men's and women's tournaments of these Grand Slam events.
This year's Transavia Grand Slam will be the first time that multiple locations will be used for pool play rounds in a FIVB World Tour Grand Slam event. The Hague Beach Stadium in Scheveningen will be the main venue, while additional pool play will be held during the week in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Apeldoorn – the four cities that will also host the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in 2015.
The prize pot is also a boost for the organisers of the Long Beach Grand Slam, which returns for the second straight year for the double-gender FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam after a decade away.
"This is a momentous year for beach volleyball and we want to support our players as well as to help grow beach volleyball," said FIVB Beach Volleyball Commission President Vicente Araujo. "The increase in prize money will help to raise the profile of the game and will only serve to strengthen our sport over the long term."
The FIVB has also confirmed that Chennai, situated on the south east coast of India, will host the ninth Open event on the 2014 beach volleyball calendar from November 25 to 30. While this is the city's first time hosting an FIVB Open event, Chennai has held FIVB Challenger Beach Volleyball tournaments in 2008 and 2010. More recently Chennai was the venue for the Asian Beach Volleyball Championship, which were held there in May last year.
The dates of the La Reunion Open have now also been confirmed by the organisers, with the second and final tournament for men only this year set to take place from December 3 to 7.
A record $10.2m in prize money, 10 Grand Slams, an inaugural FIVB Grand Slam Final and 11 Open tournaments are the highlights of this year's record-breaking 2014 beach volleyball calendar.
With the aim of providing athletes with more opportunities to participate, the FIVB confirmed a total of nine double-gender Grand Slams - with another Grand Slam to be added - for the 2014 season, supplemented by a further six double-gender and five single-gender Open tournaments, which represents a significant increase on the 10 Grand Slams and four Open tournaments which featured along with the World Championships in 2013 and carried total prize money of $6.4m. The previous record prize money for a season was $7.5m in 2011.
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This is the third post from my assignment in the Philippines for Arts Aftercare. You can see all of the posts from this trip by clicking on the Arts Aftercare tag. For those of you who are just joining in, the following portraits are of people who have been affected in some way by sexual exploitation. Some of the people are volunteering, or caring for survivors, some of the people are survivors, and one person is simply family member of a victim of sexually exploitation.
Some of my favorite moments in the Philippines were when I was able to walk through neighborhoods, and photograph people in their homes. It took several days before I was able to find transportation, and arrange times with people, but once I was able to establish some trust and familiarity, things began to fall into place. I only wish I had more time in Manila to take more of these. I have intentionally left out some of the names for various reasons.
The mother in this family is a volunteer at Samaritana, where she teaches women how to sew. I photographed them at their home just outside the garbage community in Manila.
Jonathan Nambu is the co-director of Samaritana with his wife Thelma. They were our wonderful hosts while we were in Manila. I photographed him at his home in the backyard.
This young woman is in the Samaritana program for women who have been sexually exploited. She lives in a small home with a large number of her family members along with extended family.
This is the girls father (pictured above). He collects recyclable garbage for a living, and has a small shop in the front of the family's home.
I was able to spend quite a bit of time with Krys on this trip, and got to know her a bit more than others. She works at Samaritana, and spends a good amount of her time on the streets at night forming relationships with pimps, and women who are being exploited. She has such an amazing heart, and her story is deeply moving. This shoot was especially fun, because we got to ride a trike, transfer to a jeepney, and then take a long walk to get to her apartment where this portrait was taken. I'm a sucker for a good trike ride on the deadliest highway in the world.
This woman also works at Samaritana, and she lives in a squatter community, which is like nothing I have ever experienced before. A squatter community is exactly as it sounds. People build homes right on top of, and next to each other, regardless of who owns the land. Power lines and other resources are spliced, and it looks a bit like controlled chaos. From a photographic standpoint, one thing I love about many of these images, is that there was often only one natural light source in each home, which provided a single stream of beautiful light to work with.
Survivor in the Samaritana program, photographed in her friends home.
I shot all but one of these images on my Vanguard tripod. It was fun to work this way for a change with natural light. It made me slow down and take a different approach. I even slowed down my breathing, to accommodate the timed exposures. I feel a deep connection with each of these images, and I also feel a different kind of appreciation for these because of the process. I am really looking forward to creating more work like this at some point.


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by Lou Mancinelli
In the early 1990s, when the economy turned sour, Wyndmoor resident and acoustic blues musician Andy Kimbel, then an airline pilot, was placed on furlough, or a temporary leave of absence. The pilot, and father of two, who went to Lower Merion High School and graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, located in Florida, in 1978, had spent more than 1,000 hours teaching others to fly at the North Philadelphia Airport and countless hours working as a commercial and freight pilot, but now he had lots of free time.
"I thought the furlough would only be for a few months," said Kimbel, 55. So he "grabbed his guitar" and started playing open mic nights in 1992 at the Samuel Adams Brew House, then located at 1516 Sansom St. in Center City. (It's now home to the Oyster House.)
His girlfriend at the time, Susan, whom he later married, urged Kimbel to play the open mic since he'd been playing music since he was 9. In the sixth grade, he played Rolling Stones-inspired rock 'n' roll with The Dimensions, his first band. But that was more than 25 years earlier, and now Kimbel had an acoustic guitar, not electric guitars, amplifiers and drums.
"I didn't know any songs," said Kimbel. "I made up the pieces as I went along. I was simply waiting for the airline to call me and give me my job back. I had no intentions, it wasn't even on my radar, to go out and make playing guitar my livelihood."
But Andy's Americana finger-picking and flat-picking (using a pick) style evoked positive responses from crowds. Before, he "was the guy at the party with a guitar." Now, he was backing up friends at open mics around Philly, and soon getting asked to play his own gigs.
In 1992, the same year he started playing open mics, the owner of the Samuel Adams Brew House offered Kimbel a paying gig. One paying gig led to another. A year later, Kimbel discovered his love of using metal finger picks expanded from classic rock like Buffalo Springfield, the Who and Bob Dylan to bluegrass musicians like Doc Watson after Andy attended the Nashville Full Moon Bluegrass Jam.
After the festival, an organizer invited scores of musicians to a large farm where all-night jamming ensued. Kimbel was hooked on that style of music. When he returned to Philly, he bought his own metal finger picks from Eight Street Music. "I still have that recording from the first time I tried to use the metal picks," he said. "It's full of expletives from me missing notes."
It took about a year to become confident with the metal picks. By 1993, Kimbel was hired as the weekend night house musician at New York City's The Improv, a comedy club in Midtown Manhattan that sometimes hosted HBO showcases. It's fitting that one of Kimbel's early paying gigs was in an improvisational club since his own music career started with Kimbel passing around yellow legal pads to audience members. He would ask them to write down one-line lyrical phrases, and he would use the audience's words to form lyrics to original songs.
In 1993, Kimbel was forced "with the most difficult decision" of his life, when Executive Jet, now Netjets, a corporate airline, offered him back his job as a pilot. "Was I going to give up music and go back to playing the guitar for fun?" he asked himself. One night, during the process of making the decision, he played a packed house when he looked at all the people in the crowd "there to see me… I knew I could make a difference on the stage."
And that's where he's been ever since. He started getting more press, newspaper write-ups and jobs, toured and was featured on radio gigs like WXPN's Folk Show with Gene Shay. In 1994, he was offered a record deal with First Choice Records, and recorded his first album, "Time Moves On." In 1995, he was featured on the front-page of the Philadelphia Inquirer's "Weekend" Edition.
In 1999, he started an opec mic at The Point in Bryn Mawr. At first, four or five people came out. Soon, there were 60 people every Tuesday night "waiting to play one song in that atmosphere." An unknown Amos Lee, who has since opened for Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello, used to frequent The Point.
"It used to be Andy and Amos," said Kimbel about the days when The Point's open mic drew only a few people. In 1999, Kimbel also put a band together, the Andy Kimbel Express, when the owners of KatManDu (Philadelphia and Trenton locations) wanted a band to play while their patrons ate dinner. The Express played 20 Saturday nights at KatManDu and toured. Kimbel plans to book more dates with the Express in the future.
For now, Kimbel hopes he can bring some of his open mic success to the O'Towne Tavern, located on Plymouth Road in Oreland, where he hosts an open mic every Tuesday night. Musicians sign-up for the event online beforehand, and Kimbel arranges the night so there is a variety of musical styles.
In May, he'll host "Oreland Idol," a mock American Idol competition. The winner will receive three hours of professional studio recording time, among other things. On May 24, he'll host an all-Bob Dylan open mic in honor of Dylan's 70th birthday.
These days, Kimbel focuses more on selling his music on the internet. He is planning a tour of radio stations and house concerts. His song, "Red Hot Blues," has been downloaded almost a half-million times. "You can play a show in Lima, Ohio, and 50 or 60 people show up and pay $15 and buy CDs," he said about house concerts. (He played one in Mt. Airy last fall.) "You can make $600 or $700."
As for open mics, he's been involved in two that Philadelphia Magazine awarded "Best of Philly" — at the Samuel Adams Brew House in 1996 and at The Point in 1999. "Because I owe my career to that, I host them," said Kimbel. "How else can someone who wants to play get out and play?"
More information at www.andykimbel.com or for The O'Towne Tavern, 100 Plymouth Ave., Oreland, 215-481-0111, www.otownetavern.com.


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Welcome to The Castle Hotel in Taunton – your hotel in the heart of Somerset.
The Castle is one of the most renowned 4-star hotels in England. It is also one of Great Britain's most historic, with origins stretching over 1000 years. For more than 60 years, it has been run by three generations of the Chapman family.
Sitting at the gateway to England's West Country, The Castle provides an ideal mix of town centre convenience with easy access to some of the most breathtaking landscapes that the South West has to offer.
We are within easy driving distance of several Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, including the Blackdown, Brendon and Quantock Hills as well as Exmoor National Park. There are also plenty of historic houses and grand gardens to explore around us, and the Museum of Somerset lies on our doorstep.
The Castle offers 44 comfortable hotel rooms with free Wi-Fi throughout. We are a child friendly hotel with bedrooms large enough to accommodate young families. Our 12th Century rose garden, with its original moat wall, is a great place for children to play and explore. Why not enjoy an afternoon tea in the sun while they do so?
Couples looking for romantic getaways and weekend breaks would be hard pressed to find a better retreat. And we love foodies… Castle Bow, the hotel's flagship restaurant, is a firm favourite with locals and travellers alike. Head Chef, Liam Finnegan and his team use the very best regional produce to create fantastic seasonal dishes. Residents and non-residents are welcome to join us for dinner.
Whether you are seeking an exciting holiday activities for the family, a business stay, wedding or conference venue – The Castle Hotel is the perfect choice.
Make your next West Country visit memorable… stay at The Castle Hotel.
Tel: 01823 272671 | Map and Directions The Castle Hotel, Castle Green, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 1NF


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REAL IMPACT needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 148 designs submitted by 42 freelance designers.
We are a new business opening soon and we need a logo for use on our web-site, letterhead, marketing material, and external building signage.
Real Impact Health Solutions: Psychological and Allied Health Services
Real Impact Health Solutions will provide Psychological and Allied Health Services (i.e., physiotherapy, massage, acupuncture, speech pathology, naturopathy, homeopathy, meditation, yoga, hypnotherapy, etc) in the Docklands, Melbourne, Australia. We are a collection of experienced but fresh and genuine practitioners who love what we do. We offer individual and group consultations. We are professional, yet friendly. The Docklands is Melbourne's newest suburb and is on the waterfront. Our web-site (http://www.realimpact.com.au) currently tells you about the psychological services we offer.
- Abstract and Modern
- Natural colours - e.g., the different shades of natural greens and yellows of leaves
- Nothing medical or traditional
- something fresh
- evolve
- simple
- use all the words of our brand name
- professional yet friendly/welcoming
- format = logo is required in editable Illustrator (.ai) format with editable fonts included
- no photos - graphic designs only
- no flowery designs
- nothing "boxed in"
- nothing medical or traditional
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Les Drus and Aiguille Verte from the Tour Ronde, France
Les Drus and Aiguille Verte from the Tour Ronde - Shot at sunrise whilst a cloud inversion sat in the valley - working on a ski shoot with the legendary Glen Plake...
Biancograt of Piz Bernina (4049m) at sunrise, Engadine, Switzerland
Taken from Piz Morteratsch
Matterhorn from Hirli, Switzerland
I was walking down from the Hornli hut after guiding a client up the Matterhorn. Just as the path swung down out of the sunlight I noticed the rock on the right horizon looking like a little a crazy little figure pointing at the stars!
Moon rising over the Aiguille Verte, Chamonix, France
Dent Blanche North Face from the Weisshorn, Switzerland
Dent Blanche (4357m) North Face seen from the Weisshorn at sunrise. Beautiful to see from this angle. Has anyone ever seen the North face look so dry before though?
Aiguille du Chardonnet, Chamonix, France
Matterhorn and a stormy sunset. Taken from Mischabeljoch Bivouac, Switzerland
Moody stormy sunset over the Matterhorn from Mischabeljoch Bivouac! I should have worked out at this point that the fine forecast was going awry for our traverse of the Taschhorn - Dom ...!!
Weisshorn at sunrise from Castor, Zermatt, Switzerland
First light of dawn catching the majestic Weisshorn above Zermatt last weekend. Seen from Castor on the Italian border!
Mont Blanc Massif at sunrise from the Weisshorn
Mont Blanc at sunrise from the Weisshorn (4506m)... Do the clouds give an idea how windy it was?!!... it was -10ºC also... I had to crouch on the ground to hold the camera still enough to get the shot with the wind!
Zinalrothorn (4221m) NW face at sunset from the Tracuit hut
I had been waiting all evening hoping the clouds would clear from around the summit and they did for just a few minutes before sunset! Love it when that happens!
Mont Blanc and Mont Maudit from Tête des Français, Aosta, Italy
West Face of the Aiguille Verte (4122m) and Les Drus at sunset, Chamonix
Riedji hamlet, high above the Zermatt valley, Switzerland
Would you build your house here? This is the hamlet of Riedji, a tiny summer pasture 600m above the Zermatt valley in Switzerland. It is only accessible on foot by a steep and narrow path. The oldest of these buildings was built in 1508 and the roofs are tiled in massive stone slabs.
It does beg the question why? Or does it - I would love to have a retreat like that to hide away for a week, cook over a log fire and do some drawings! Gets you dreaming right?!
Matterhorn at sunrise from the Dent Blanche, Switzerland
September 2017 - "Several people have asked what the North Face conditions are like... this was Tuesday from the Dent Blanche. It's snowing again right now though. Still needs quite a lot of warm snow and freeze thaw for mixed conditions to come good both Zermatt Matterhorn and Chamonix I think!"
Eiger and Kleines Fiescherhorn at sunrise from Finsteraarhorn, Switzerland
North Face of the Matterhorn from the Arben bivouac hut (Obergabelhorn), Zermatt, Switzerland
Aiguille Verte and Drus at sunset, Chamonix, France
Mont Blanc (4808m) West Face at sunset. From from the summit of Petit Mont Blanc, Val Veny, Italy
Incredible views from the summit of Petit Mont Blanc & lovely hike to a remote bivouac. The scale of this face is incredible - 2400m from the Miage glacier to summit.
It reminded me of the long route up the Tournette spur in the centre of this face that Valentine and I climbed a few years ago which resulted in some nasty black frostbitten toes.
Jungfrau and her shadow at sunrise, Switzerland
South face of the Mont Blanc massif at sunrise, Courmayeur, Italy


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Many things in the current IT world are based around hard facts, solid experience and studied techniques. Unfortunately this tends not to be the case when it comes to application developers making database decisions. This is not a criticism of application developers per se, their expertise lies in the app technology, but more a problem with development process and a misunderstanding of the role of the database as the underpinnings of data oriented (as opposed to object oriented) application architecture.The general process of modern agile application development proceeds along fairly set lines of iterative feature based and hopefully test driven development. This approach of getting something working with a suite of tests around it which enable rapid refactoring and rapid development run counter to most Big Design Up Front (BDUF) methodologies, most notably the much maligned waterfall model and the general approach taken to most database driven methods. To truly be an agile database developer in this brave new development world implies a level of clairvoyance beyond most of us, and requires an understanding of future application direction and projected data growth which is beyond that which can be expected of application developers and their product managers. To ignore this difference in requirements of the agile developer and the data modeller/DBA will invariably lead to scalability and performance issues as the project moves forward through its multiple iterations.
We are not saying here that the focus and philosophy of the agile development team and that of the database designer/administrator are incompatible, more that there is a difference in the needs and aims of the two groups and that this difference needs to be recognised as such. This is not always the case in the necessary drive to shift development paradigms. The larger the project, the more apparent this becomes. Changing code is not the same as changing data. A database at the core of a complex multi tier application will usually be supporting many different access paths, from the OLTP requirements of a running user driven application to the reporting requirements of management and maintenance as well as a suite of custom administration interfaces, data feeds in and out as well as the requirements for failover and disaster recovery, and refactoring, recoding and changing requirements is not as simple as that of single parts of the overall codebase.
While there are database methodologies to support agile development, generally the current processes have database design/deployment/administration as worrying separate, and the realms of all the pieces of getting a product from the back of a restaurant napkin to global server deployment need to incorporate the whole iterative development process. We should not be in the position of giving the DBAs the code to deploy when the iterative cycle ends. This is simply unacceptable from an architecture and process point of view. What we have here is a series of failures in using the best people for the job.
As mentioned above, application developers are not generally the best people to be structuring and modelling the data. Data structures, no matter how well abstracted, are fundamentally tied to the underlying technology. Sensible design and architectural decisions can only happen if the data specialists are incorporated into the agile development teams themselves. We can, and need, separate database administration teams, but also, these teams must be part of, or have significant input into the development process, else all roads lead to project misery, to poor use of software/hardware and the continuation of the ignorance loop, as mistakes in data structure and design are rarely fed back up to the original designers. Adding features to code and refactoring as we go works for code, it rarely works in practice for data. It is not so much the new features that is the problem, it the short-termism which the process unconsciously encourages which lies at the heart of the problem. Large data volumes require a degree of foward planning that is often lacking from our short Sprint focused design decisions.
Ignoring data modelling disasters, most projects start off with a fairly well understood and structurally sensible data structure (bear with me here) for the first few iterations of the system. These first set of requirements generally have the data model supporting them happily. The issues only usually really arise as the codebase and feature list grows, along with the growing datasets. Data structures that support smaller volumes of data do not necessarily scale linearly and a lack of understanding of the changing nature of the system will cause problems for the future of the application due to information not flowing back from the DBAs about the current state of the system, as well as the new demands being placed on it from the continuous feature development of the agile processes. Changing requirements are all part of the agile world, and are part of the power of this type of development, and additional features pose less of a problem than feature modifications, but the focus of short iterative steps can easily lead to a loss of focus on the greater need of the ability of the database and the datamodel itself to support the changing application.
In conclusion, for our agile data development processes to succeed, we need to use the skills where they are best suited. Database abstraction layers need to be tested by the database specialists, not in isolation, but within the application context itself, and any fundamental design decisions should be made by the people who understand the systems involved, at all levels.


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Senior Lizzie Abbott has helped Harvard to a 4-2 start with six goals, three assists and five steals (photo courtesy Harvard Athletic Communications).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's water polo team travels to the MAAC/East Challenge in Princeton, N.J. Feb. 25-26. The Crimson will square off against Wagner, Villanova and Iona to conclude a run of seven consecutive games at Princeton's DeNunzio Pool.
The Crimson (4-2), which has won at least four of its first six for the third consecutive season, is paced by a pair of aggressive goal-scorers and a team effort on the defensive end. Aisha Price and Devan Kennifer, a two-time All-America selection, lead Harvard on the offensive side. Aisha Price has tallied 19 goals, while Kennifer has added 17 tallies and a team-high 10 assists. Defensively, ten Harvard players have registered five or more steals, led by Kennifer with 23, as the Crimson is allowing just 6.7 goals per contest. Ariel Dukes has made 36 saves in four games and Jasmine Griffin has stopped 17 shots in two starts.
Last Time Out
Harvard won three out of four at the Princeton Invitational Feb. 11-12 with wins over Bucknell, Villanova and Colorado State. Aisha Price, who leads Harvard with 19 goals, was named the College Water Polo Association (CWPA) Southern Division Player of the Week after an impressive weekend at the tournament. The junior found the back of the cage 13 times, scoring at least two goals in each contest, and added four assists and 10 steals during the four games.
Senior co-captain Chelsea Beck scored 20 goals during four games at the Bucknell Invitational Feb. 18-19 to earn MAAC Player of the Week honors, but the Seahawks (4-7) dropped three of four at the tournament. Beck, a senior from Reading, Pa., leads Wagner with 24 goals this season, while Senior Becca Hannings has added 19 assists. Junior Laura Karbach has played all 11 games in goals, totaling 25 steals and saving 10 shots per contest.
The Wildcats (0-7) are a familiar foe for Harvard this season, as the two teams have met twice in 2012. The Crimson downed Villanova, 13-1(recap), in the second game of the season and 14-3 (recap) at the Princeton Invitational Feb. 25.
The Gaels (2-0) have been off since Feb. 4 when Iona swept a pair of games at its own invitational. Iona built a 13-8 lead entering the final frame in the second matchup of the tournament before Harvard tallied six goals in the last eight minutes, but the Gaels added two of its own and the Crimson's comeback bid fell one goal short as time expired.
Next Up
The Crimson will host four of five scheduled home games next weekend at the Harvard Invitational March 2-4. Harvard's only other contest at Blodgett Pool is April 10 against Hartwick.


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Future challenges
A colossal amount remains to be done – challenging our clients, and therefore us. It seems certain that once these objectives are achieved, they will be replaced by new ones. As companies grow in size, most chairmen and CEOs become concerned that their organisations may become flabby, slow to respond, bureaucratic and sclerotic. Any sensible business leader aggressively resists this phenomenon; we all seek the benefits of size and scale without sacrificing the suppleness and energy of a smaller firm. And, for the first time, new technologies now make this possible on a global platform. WPP wants the scale and resources of the largest firm together with the heart and mind of a small one.


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Members of L.A.'s film music elite mingled with weather-beaten eco-warrior sailors and neo Edwardian fashionistas amid costumes from Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" Tuesday night at the multi-textured unveiling of musician-arranger-composer Ysanne Spevack's ambitious music-fashion-film-beauty concept, the Coldwater Project.
There are many layers to Spevack's Coldwater Project, but in a nutshell, it's a collection of 13 songs, each with accompanying short film, charity affiliate and brand sponsor. It's a novel way to approach an album release but one that reflects the do-it-yourself, collaborative-yet-individualized spirit of our times.
"The lesson of this entire album is to just be yourself," explained Spevack, wearing a powder pink Alexander McQueen silk chiffon dress and custom-made shoes by high society shoe designer Terry de Havilland, who had reached out to Spevack and asked her to be his "shoe muse."
Guests included director James Eckhart (brother of Aaron), visual effects guru Nick Brooks ("The Matrix," "Twilight"), graphic novelist Grant Morrison ("Batman Returns," "The Invisibles") and L.A. "celebrity shaman" Shaman Durek, among the first to encourage Ysanne to step out of the background and to sing. Longtime collaborator Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins was unable to attend "because he is on tour, which is a really good reason not to be here," joked Spevack in front of the guests at Culver City's lavishly appointed new Century Guild gallery space, from whose walls hung the art of contemporary artist Gail Potocki, as well as titans Gustav Klimt, and Alfonse Mucha, alongside Flapper frocks and Leonardo diCaprio's tux from "The Great Gatsby."
The first song from the collection is "The Mermaid Song," recorded with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, whose accompanying fashion film was shot in the Art Deco apartment that has housed stars such as Gloria Swanson and Groucho Marx. The film showcases the jewelry of Russell Lownsbrough (Vivienne Westwood's go-to jeweler) alongside the paintings of Gail Potocki, who also appears in the film, in which Spevack wears couture by Alexander McQueen and Terry de Havilland.
LUSH cosmetics created a mermaid-shaped bath bomb (ingredients include sea salt and seaweed) especially for the project, and every time a fan purchases a bath bomb or pays $2 to download the song and film, all proceeds will go toward the charity Sea Shepherd, which works to protect marine life." *
Purchase the song, film and LUSH bath bomb on May 13 at www.Ilovestrings.com.
* A previous version of this post incorrectly described Sea Shepherd's current mission.
Des Kohan hosts fashion designer Dusan
"The Great Gatsby" looks and merchandise
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MUSTANG HOOFPRINTS: Mustang Booster Club plans for membership drive
The Mustang Booster Club (MBC) is in the initial stages of planning for this year's MBC Membership Drive.
The membership drive will begin the last week of April and will continue up to Smokefest which begins Aug. 15.
The committee has new events and activities focused on enhancing the MBC packages and donor appreciation throughout the drive and during the athletic seasons. The Membership Drive committee is looking to offer special booster club incentives for families with young children to get involved with the MBC.
We will continue to provide greater details as we get closer to the kick-off event of the MBC Membership Drive in late April.
Drown SMSU Golf Classic
Save the date! The 29th annual David and Carol Drown SMSU Golf Classic will be held Friday, June 20, at the Marshall Golf Club.
The Golf Classic is the next Mustang Booster Club fundraising event, and the Golf Classic Committee will be convening in the next couple of weeks to begin the planning for this great event.
For all your information on NCAA Division II postseason competition, the Mustang Booster Club and SMSU athletics, go to www.smsumustangs.com.
Upcoming SMSU athletic events
The SMSU Wrestling team (12-5 overall, 6-2 NSIC) qualified four wrestlers for the NCAA Division II National Championships that will be held this Friday and Saturday, in Cleveland, Ohio. Justin Reinsma (133), Kyle Begin (165), Jacob Begin (174) and Cole Wilson (285) all qualified in the NCAA Super Region 3 Tournament hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma two weeks ago.
You can follow the National Championships via live stats and webcasts of the bouts at SMSUmustangs.com. Good luck to Coach Nelson and our four wrestlers as they look to earn the right to stand on the podium as All-Americans at the NCAA Division II National Wrestling Championships.
Track and Field
The SMSU Women's and Men's Indoor Track and Field teams will begin training for their outdoor season, which begins March 29 at the Dakota State Open in Madison, S.D.
Women's Tennis
The SMSU women's tennis team (2-5, 1-4 NSIC) is in Mesa, Ariz., this week for seven non-conference matches that started on Tuesday and continues through Friday. Today, the Mustangs will battle Dixie State (Utah) at 1 p.m. and Mesa Community College (Ariz.) at 6 p.m.. On Friday, SMSU will conclude their spring trip by playing Colorado Mesa at 10 a.m. SMSU will continue their NSIC schedule on March 22 when they head to Bismarck, N.D., to compete against the University of Mary.
Wheelchair Basketball
The SMSU wheelchair basketball team (15-17) went 1-2 at the NWBT Championships on the campus of Texas-Arlington this past weekend. The Mustangs opened the tournament with a 33-69 loss to the University of Alabama. SMSU would rebound in game two beating Edinboro (Pa.) 48-31. The Mustangs season came to an end with a 31-69 loss to the University of Illinois.
The National Wheelchair Basketball Association announced this past weekend that SMSU player/head coach Derek Klinkner was awarded the Frank Brasile Sportsmanship award for the 2013-14 season.
The award's namesake, Frank Brasile, is a former commissioner in the Intercollegiate Division of the NWBA. He has been active in the sport for decades. The award is voted upon by the head coaches in the NWBA college division. Klinkner is the second SMSU player to receive the award in recent years. Kyle Timmerman, a native of Minneota, earned the award in both 2010 and 2011. Congratulations to Derek on being recognized by his peers for displaying great character and sportsmanship while representing SMSU.
The SMSU baseball team, 6-4 overall and 5-1 in Tucson Invitational play this week, will battle Mayville State (N.D.) today in a single game. The Mustangs on the trip to Tucson, Ariz., have beaten Northern State three times, Concordia (Neb.) and Malone (Ohio) with their only loss coming to California State, San Bernardino 5-10. SMSU will conclude its spring trip with a doubleheader against Concordia-St. Paul on Friday and a single game against Minot State on Saturday.
The Mustang softball team, 2-10 overall and 2-6 on their spring trip which has taken them through Alabama to Winter Haven, Fla., is in the middle of a 12-game schedule at the Rebel Spring Games. The Mustangs have fallen to Ohio Dominican, Wayne State (Mich.), Glenville State (W.Va.), and Southern Indiana while beating Ferris State (Mich.) and Maryville (Mo.) on the trip.
SMSU has a doubleheader today against Southern Indiana at 12:00 p.m. and Hillsdale (Mich.) at 2:30 p.m. Southwest will conclude competition on Friday with games against Glenville State (W.Va.) at 10 a.m. and Florida Southern at 1 p.m.
Women's Golf
The SMSU women's golf team is in Daytona Beach, Fla., this week hosting the SMSU Spring Invite at LPGA International Golf Club on Thursday and Friday. SMSU heads south over spring break each year to begin their spring season of competition and practice in warm weather. The Mustangs have four tournaments scheduled for their Spring Season concluding with the NSIC Spring Championship and NCAA Central Region Championship.
Good luck and safe travels to all of our SMSU teams competing this weekend!
Go Mustangs!
Trivia Contest
Congratulation to Landon Erickson who provided the correct response to last week's Mustang Hoofprint's Trivia Question: What was the last year the SMSU Wheelchair Basketball team won the National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Championship?
The Mustangs have won the NWBT Championship three times in 1981, 1983 and the last time was in 1986.
Trivia Question
Who was the last SMSU baseball The first person to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com with the correct answer to this question will receive an SMSU T-shirt. pitcher to throw a no-hitter?


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After numerous delays along the way, openSuse Linux 12.2 on Wednesday finally made its long-awaited debut.
"Two months of extra stabilization work have resulted into a stellar release, chock-full of goodies, yet stable as you all like it," wrote openSuse community manager Jos Poortvliet in a blog post early Wednesday.
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It's still less than a year since we saw the launch of openSuse 12.1.
Now, faster speeds, an improved infrastructure, and fresh polish on existing features are all among the enhancements this latest version brings, Poortvliet said.
Ready for a quick rundown? Here are five key new improvements you'll find in the new release of this popular Linux distribution.
1. Speed times four
Improvements in four areas are behind openSuse 12.2's faster speeds. First is the addition of the Linux 3.4 kernel, which includes "a faster storage layer to prevent blocking during large transfers," Poortvliet said. Meanwhile, glibc 2.15 boosts the performance of many functions, particularly on 64-bit systems, and Systemd 44 enables faster booting. Last but not least, KDE 4.8.4 makes the desktop more responsive, he added.
2. A more advanced infrastructure
Now included in openSuse 12.2's more mature infrastructure is the GRUB2 bootloader by default. In addition, "we've begun the process of revising and simplifying the Unix filesystem hierarchy to improve compatibility across distributions, and during startup and shutdown Plymouth 0.8.6.1 provides flicker-free transitions and attractive animations," Poortvliet explained.
3. A more polished desktop
Along with Gnome 3.4 comes smooth scrolling, a reworked System Settings app, and an improved Contacts manager, Poortvliet noted. Xfce 4.10, meanwhile, offers an improved application finder, while the Dolphin file manager is "both prettier and faster," Poortvliet said. Then, too, there's the Btrfs file system, which comes with improved error handling and recovery tools.
4. A raft of apps
Included among openSuse 12.2's software lineup are not just X.org 1.12, with its support for multitouch input devices and multiseat deployments, but also Mozilla Firefox, GIMP 2.8, LibreOffice 3.5, Krita 2.4 for painting and illustration, and Tomahawk Player for music.
5. Cool stuff
Last but not least, openSuse 12.2 includes a number of cool scientific tools offering math applications such as numeric computation, plotting, and visualization, for example. The Stellarium astronomical simulator "lets you explore the night sky without a telescope," Poortvliet explained, while "programmers will enjoy version 1.0.2 of Google's Go language as well as the latest C++ language standards implemented in GCC 4.7.1 and Qt Creator 2.5."
Ready to take openSuse Linux 12.2 for a test drive? You can download it for free from the project site.
This story, "5 key new improvements in OpenSuse Linux 12.2" was originally published by PCWorld.


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Finished the season 13-2 overall, including a 6-1 mark in the Ivy League ... Posted his first career victory with a 3-0 win over Christopher Wilkinson (Williams) in the No. 7 position Nov. 18 ... Defeated Brian O'Toole (Dartmouth), 3-0, and Robert Galluccio (Middlebury), 3-0, in the No. 8 spot Nov. 30
Before Harvard:
Member of squash and track teams at the Belmont Hill School … Captained squash team as a senior … U.S. Junior National Team member …. Owns No. 2 under-19 ranking … Boston Globe All-Scholastic in 2010 and 2011 … Two-time Independent School League MVP … Earned All-ISL honors in four straight seasons … Helped Belmont Hill School finish fourth at nationals in three straight seasons … As an individual, finished second in Scottish Junior Open … Played for the United States against Canada in Battle of the Border … Cum Laude Society … U.S. Squash Scholar-Athlete … National Latin Exam Prize … Member of school's elite singing group … Other interests include golf and watersports.