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PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 30, 2010) - January is national Radon Action Month and the
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency encourages everyone to test their homes for radon. January is an especially good time to test homes and schools because windows and doors are closed tightly and people spend more time indoors.
Unsafe levels of radon can lead to serious illness. The Surgeon General has warned that
radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. Only smoking causes more lung cancer deaths. By making simple fixes in a home or building people can lower their health risks from radon.
Radon testing is the only way to know if radon is present, since it is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas. Test kits are available in home improvement centers and hardware stores and cost approximately $20. The kits are simple to use and they include instructions for how to mail them to a lab for the results.
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2011: Sweeney played and started in all 21 games for Coker in 2001. He had seven shutouts and made 58 saves, finishing the season with a record of 18-3. He was ranked No. 4 in the NCAA in Goals Against Average (GAA) with a 0.61 GAA and was raned NO. 24 in save percentage with a .817 save percentage. He was a First Team All-Conference selection, a Daktronics First Team All-Region selection, and a NSCAA First Team All-Southeast Region selection. He was named the Conference Carolinas Men's Soccer Scholar Athlete of the Year and was a Capital One Academic All-American First Team selection.
2010: Sweeney played in and started all 18 games for the Cobras. He made 69 saves and finished the season with a record of 7-6-5, with six shutouts. Surrendering only 22 goals on the season, he finished with a goals against average of 1.17 per game. James was a Conference Carolinas All-Tournament Team selection.
2009: Sweeney had a outstanding freshman year earning Third Team All-Conference and Coker Freshman of the Year honors. He finished the season with a record of 11-4-3, with nine shutouts. Surrendering only 16 goals on the season, Sweeney finished with a goals against average of 0.82 per game. Sweeney was selected for Team USA during the summer.
High School: A First Team All-Conference selection and standout player at Huntingtown High School. James joined his brother A.J. on the Coker men's soccer team. A.J. graduated in 2009.

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Current US national cross-country champion Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Subaru-Gary Fisher) won the inaugural Mellow Johnny's Classic on a Gary Fisher Superfly 29er hardtail but chose a full-suspension Superfly 100 this time around to better cope with the course's relentless rocks.
Though offering 110mm of rear wheel travel – as compared to none – Horgan-Kobelski's Superfly 100 isn't much heavier than its non-suspended cousin. Frame weight is only around 2.2kg (4.85lb) thanks to a clever all-carbon construction and a svelte 44g carbon swing-link, and the complete build is an impressive 10.69kg (23.57lb) in full race trim with a CO2 inflator and computer. That's lighter than many riders' 26" hardtails.
Front triangle stiffness is very good, too, owing to the ultra-wide BB95 bottom bracket shell with press-fit bearings and a tapered head tube. And out back, the efficient modified single-pivot suspension design and clever ABP dropout pivots help keep wasted power to a minimum and also work to keep the rear end planted under braking.
The rear shock is badged as a RockShox Monarch 3.1 but the controls suggest it's a 3.3 model instead
In contrast to the stock Superfly 100, suspension duties are handled at both ends by team sponsor RockShox instead of the usual Fox Racing Shox bits. Bolted to the swing-link is an air-sprung Monarch 3.1 rear shock – which Horgan-Kobelski says he left in the mid-gate position the entire race – and up front is RockShox's latest Reba 29 XX World Cup fork, complete with a tapered carbon fibre 1 1/8"-to-1 1/2" crown and steerer assembly that team mechanic Matt Opperman says shaves roughly 140g as compared to the standard alloy version.
Old habits die hard, though, as team mechanic Matt Opperman says that Horgan-Kobelski runs a relatively firm 160psi in his rear shock, paired with a more standard 110/110psi positive/negative pressure up front.
"Jeremy runs his rear shock probably a little more firm than a lot of riders because he comes from a hardtail background for most of his career," said Opperman. "But he's been experimenting a lot with rear shocks so he's been getting progressively more comfort and with the issues with his back, this really works for him."
An 11-36T SRAM XX cassette is fitted to the Bontrager rear hub
Further aiding on the weight front is Horgan-Kobelski's SRAM XX component group, dressed in versatile 26/39T chainrings and an 11-36T cassette to better match with the 29" wheels' longer rollout. Lone substitutions include standard stainless steel Avid G3 rotors in place of the aluminium-and-steel XX units and a steel-caged SRAM Red road front derailleur bolted to the direct-mount tab on the seat tube with a custom mount made by high-end auto parts manufacturer and importer Stratmosphere.
A single Bontrager Race Lite bottle cage is fitted with T25 titanium Torx bolts
Keen-eyed readers will note Opperman's inclusion of Torx-head titanium bolts in several locations such as the water bottle cage and front derailleur cable anchor bolt. However, he quickly points out that while they do save a few grams, it's more for his own convenience than anything else.
"More so than anything they're T25s," he admitted. "We did shave some weight on this bike with the all-carbon crown and steerer tube on the BlackBox fork but other than that the XX stuff is so light there's not a whole lot of weight savings we can do with our sponsors. The stuff's all pretty light and durable."
Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Subaru-Gary Fisher) ran these fast-rolling and narrow Bontrager 29-0 tires for the Mellow Johnny's Classic
Horgan-Kobelski has famously preferred to run fast and relatively narrow tires on his 29ers and this latest Superfly 100 is no exception. Mounted around his Bontrager Race X Lite wheels are a set of lot-knob Bontrager 29-0 tubeless-ready clinchers measuring just 1.90" in width. According Opperman, Horgan-Kobelski at least opted to run a fairly conservative 33psi both front and rear to prevent pinch flats.
Hey Jeremy, what time is it?
Wrapping things up are a carbon fibre seatpost and low-rise bar plus a forged aluminium stem, all from Bontrager, light-yet-grippy ESI silicone foam rubber grips, a firm fi'zi:k Tundra k:ium saddle, a previous-generation crankbrothers Eggbeater 4ti pedals, slick Nokon red-anodized aluminium housing and sealed cables, a Cane Creek 110 headset, and a cheeky Trek Time Watch analogue clock.
Not to go unmentioned, either, is the custom stars-and-stripes paint job. As compared to the standard livery, the rich red, white and blue hues almost assuredly add back some of grams that were so painstakingly shaved away (paint is surprisingly heavy) but given how hard Horgan-Kobelski worked to earn that title last July, we doubt he minds much.
Complete bike specifications
- Frame: Gary Fisher Superfly 100, size XL
- Rear shock: RockShox Monarch 3.3
- Fork: RockShox Reba XX World Cup, 100mm travel
- Headset: Cane Creek 110, 1 1/8"-to-1 1/2" tapered
- Stem: Bontrager Race X Lite, 90mm x -17°
- Handlebars: Bontrager Race XXX Lite Riser, 630mm
- Tape/grips: ESI
- Front brake: SRAM XX w/ 160mm G3 rotor
- Rear brake: SRAM XX w/ 140mm G3 rotor
- Brake levers: SRAM XX
- Front derailleur: SRAM Red w/ steel cage, custom braze-on adapter
- Rear derailleur: SRAM XX
- Shift levers: SRAM XX
- Cassette: SRAM XX, 11-36T
- Chain: SRAM PC-1090
- Crankset: SRAM XX, 175mm length, 156mm Q, 26/39T
- Bottom bracket: Gary Fisher BB95 integrated
- Pedals: crankbrothers Eggbeater 4ti
- Wheelset: Bontrager Race X Lite TLR Disc CL 29
- Front tire: Bontrager 29-0 Team Issue, 29x1.90", converted to tubeless
- Rear tire: Bontrager 29-0 Team Issue, 29x1.90", converted to tubeless
- Saddle: fi'zi:k Tundra k:ium
- Seat post: Bontrager Race XXX Lite
- Bottle cages: Bontrager Race Lite
- Computer: Trek Time Watch
- Other accessories: Nokon derailleur cable and housing, Genuine Innovations/SRAM Big Air inflator
Critical measurements
- Rider's height: 70.3kg (155lb)
- Rider's weight: 1.85m (6'1")
- Saddle height, from BB (c-t): 798mm
- Saddle setback: 80mm
- Seat tube length, c-t: 533mm
- Tip of saddle nose to C of bars (next to stem): 610mm
- Saddle-to-bar drop (vertical): 90mm
- Head tube length: 135mm
- Top tube length: 638mm
- Total bicycle weight: 10.69kg (23.57lb)


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The small output of a small mind in a small corner of a very large world. Or, maybe the exact opposite...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
NoVA Blogmeet?
Does this date work?
Is there a better one?
Suggestions and comments welcome...
Turk? CJR? T-Bolt? Nicki? NFO?
Let me know...
14 comments:
- Old NFO said...
Either one works for me.
- November 10, 2009 at 11:10 PM
- Wai said...
Can I come?
Nov. 12 is no good; I'll be out hunting.
- November 11, 2009 at 12:39 AM
- Wai said...
Oh...11/21...It's a 5 hour drive for me and I'll probably need to stay overnight before heading back up. What should I bring with me?
- November 11, 2009 at 12:41 AM
- Sam said...
Can groupies attend?
- November 11, 2009 at 7:45 AM
- Newbius said...
Possible hiccup- Sweetwater Tavern is part of the Great American Restaurants" chain and this chain has a "no guns" policy. While it is legal in VA to openly carry a handgun in a restaurant that serves alcohol, if the facility asks you to remove it or depart then you must do so. I am thinking that there might be a more "gun-friendly" establishment in the Chantilly area that would welcome us if we are carrying. Or, we can go to Sweetwater...
- November 11, 2009 at 10:14 AM
- Newbius said...
Update- I sent an email to the CEO asking if the "no guns" policy is still in effect. Waiting on a reply. If it is, I think we should take our business elsewhere, and I will tell the CEO that our business is lost to his chain until his policy changes. This is the chain's website and it lists their restaurants, none of which will get any more business from me if they are still anti-gun: http://www.greatamericanrestaurants.com/
- November 11, 2009 at 10:59 AM
- Turk Turon said...
I'm in!
I have a strange work schedule: I work on weekends. Well, like they say,"It's a living."
But I'm free nearly every evening, seven days a week.
(Yeah, I know: "Mr. Popularity", right?)
- November 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- Boyd said...
Followed a link from Tam.
Champps in Reston is extremely gun friendly.
- November 17, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- Breda said...
Hmm. 6 hours for me.
- November 17, 2009 at 10:13 AM
- Turk Turon said...
Breda, it would be great to see you and Mike again. I met you guys at the Broadripple Brewpub in 2008, as I recall.
- November 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM
- The Armed Canadian said...
I'd be interested. I'm local to Chantilly.
- November 17, 2009 at 11:00 AM
- cjrmultigun said...
12/5 is better for me, I'm off at gun skool this weekend.
- November 17, 2009 at 2:47 PM
- igor said...
I second the question about groupies, though I never really considered myself as such, before....
And I DEFINITELY recommend a gun-friendly place. It is not that there is a shortage of these, here. I OC, here, though not in the wet or cold.
- November 18, 2009 at 5:51 AM
- Chris said...
Drat - someone finally gets a gunblog meet in locally and I'm out in the kitty-litter-box-istan. Hopefully it will be sucessful enough there will be a redo in early Feb while I'm back in Reston on R&R.
I have OC'd at the Sweetwater in Chantilly, but it was just me, not a large group.
- November 21, 2009 at 4:09 PM


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Williams sisters to play in Fed Cup playoff
White Plains, NY – Sister stars Serena Williams and Venus Williams will play some Fed Cup tennis for the United States next week when the Americans host Sweden in a World Group playoff.
The reigning Wimbledon and U.S. Open champion and world No. 1 Serena and the former top-ranked Venus will play Fed Cup together for the first time in 14 months.
The playoff will be staged from April 20-21 on an outdoor hardcourt in Delray Beach, Fla.
Team USA, captained by Mary Joe Fernandez, will also feature Australian Open semifinalist Sloane Stephens and Varvara Lepchenko. All four U.S. women are ranked inside the WTA's top 30.
Heavy underdog Sweden will field a team led by 54th-ranked Sofia Arvidsson, who will be joined by Johanna Larsson, Hilda Melander and Sandra Roma.
The Americans and Swedes have met four other times in Fed Cup, previously all in the World Group, with the U.S. going 3-1. Sweden won their last encounter, however, in Melbourne, Australia back in 1988.
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United States beats Sweden 3-1 to win gold at world junior hockey championshipNHL.com @NHLdotcom
UFA, Russia - Rocco Grimaldi scored twice Saturday as the United States defeated Sweden 3-1 to win the gold at the world junior hockey championship.
Vince Trocheck added an empty-net goal for the Americans, who defeated Canada 5-1 in the semifinal.
Filip Sandberg put defending champion Sweden ahead on power play early in the second period, but Grimaldi scored twice in a three-minute span to swing the game in the Americans' favour.
He powered from behind the net for his first, and then redirected Jacob Trouba's slapshot from the blue-line midway through second period.
Sweden pulled its goalie for an extra player with 1:42 left but failed to capitalize. Instead, Trocheck rounded off the win with 16.7 seconds left.
John Gibson made 26 saves for the victory and was named the MVP of the tournament. Niklas Lundstrom had 31 saves for Sweden.
"I couldn't be more proud of our players and staff," said U.S. coach Phil Housley. "And I'm also really happy for hockey fans in our country. This was a total team effort throughout the tournament. It was a very difficult challenge tonight against an excellent Swedish team."
It was the third title for the Americans, who also won gold in 2004 and 2010.
Earlier, Valeri Nichushkin scored in overtime to give Russia a 6-5 victory over Canada in the bronze-medal match.
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Vincenza Sloup, 84, of Hendersonville, died Thursday, November 15, 2012 at the Elizabeth House.
She was the daughter of the late Rufino and Angela Cutropi Santos. She was also preceded in death by her son, William Sloup in 2011.
A native of New York City, she was a resident of Henderson County for 25 years. She was a member of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and Apple Tree Hummel Club.
She is survived by her husband of 64 years, William J. Sloup; a daughter Maureen Bartolomeo of Albrightsville, PA; four grandchildren, William Sloup, Christina Tollison, Amanda Bartolomeo, and Dana Bartolomeo; a great-granddaughter, Lillian Tollison; and a sister Rose Haffner.
A funeral service will be at 12 noon on Saturday, November 24, 2012, in the chapel at Forest Lawn Funeral Home. The family will receive friends Saturday from 10-noon prior to the service. The family will also receive friends from 6-9:00 pm Friday in the chapel. Entombment will follow the service in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Mausoleum. Memorials may be made to Alzheimer's Association, 31 College Place, Asheville, NC 28801.
A guest book or sympathy card is available at www.forestlawnhendersonville.com. Forest Lawn Funeral Home is assisting the family with the arrangements.
Vincenza Sloup
Vincenza Sloup, 84, of Hendersonville, died Thursday, November 15, 2012 at the Elizabeth House.


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The size and composition of the European Commission are issues which were not resolved in the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) that culminated in the drafting of the Treaty of Amsterdam. A protocol on the institutions with the prospect of enlargement of the European Union (EU) was included in an Annex to the Treaties, specifying that, at the date of entry into force of the first EU enlargement, the Commission will comprise only one national of each of the Member States, provided that, by that date, the weighting of the votes in the Council of the European Union has been modified in a manner acceptable to all Member States.
The matter of the Commission's size was at the centre of the negotiations which culminated in the new Treaty, some Member States having a preference for reducing the size of the Commission and others favouring a Commission comprised of one national from each Member State. There was also a debate concerning the need to strengthen the role of the Commission President.
Article 213 of the Treaty establishing the European Community (EC Treaty) currently stipulates that the Commission must include at least one national of each of the Member States, but may not include more than two Members having the nationality of the same State. The current Commission, in a Union of 15 Member States, consists of twenty Members, including one national each from ten Member States and two nationals each from the five remaining Member States. The Treaty of Nice provides for this arrangement to be amended in two phases.
Article 4 of the Protocol on the enlargement of the European Union, annexed to the Treaty of Nice, specifies that as of 1 January 2005 the Commission shall include only one national of each of the Member States. The Treaty of Accession, signed in Athens on 16 April 2003, amended this provision because the new Commission will take up its duties on 1 November 2004 and will include, as stipulated, one national of each Member State.
The Protocol on enlargement also provides that, when the EU consists of 27 Member States, the number of Members of the Commission shall be less than the number of Member States. The exact number of Members of the Commission is to be set by the Council, acting unanimously, and Members will be chosen according to a rotation system based on the principle of equality, the implementing arrangements for which are to be adopted by the Council, acting unanimously and in accordance with the following principles:
This rotation system will apply as from the date on which the first Commission following the date of accession of the 27th Member State of the Union takes up its duties (i.e. in principle as of November 2009). In other words, the Commission which will take up its duties in 2004 will therefore be extended to include one national of each country which has joined the Union by that time.
Before the Treaty of Nice entered into force, the Commission was appointed by the governments of the Member States by common accord. The Treaty of Nice introduced qualified majority decision-making, which is a significant step forward. The President of the Commission is therefore appointed in accordance with a new procedure described in Article 214. The Council, meeting in the composition of Heads of State or Government and acting by a qualified majority, nominates the person it intends to appoint as President of the Commission. The nomination must then be approved by the European Parliament.
The Member States draw up a list of the other persons whom it intends to appoint as Members of the Commission, and the Council, acting by a qualified majority and by common accord with the nominee for President, adopts this list. The College is then subject as a body to a vote of approval by the European Parliament. After approval by Parliament, the President and the other Members of the Commission are formally appointed by the Council, acting by a qualified majority.
Article 215 was amended to take account of the introduction of qualified majority decisions in the appointment procedure. This article now also specifies the circumstances in which Members of the Commission cease to hold office, i.e. resignation, compulsory retirement or death. Save in the case of compulsory retirement, Members of the Commission remain in office until the Council has appointed a replacement or decided that the vacancy need not be filled.
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President's Initiatives Fund program updates
As WestConn President James W. Schmotter had hoped, the anticipation and excitement about new programs, ideas and possibilities was high around campus when the recipients of the President's Initiatives Funds were announced in January. Nearly nine months later, seven of the dozen programs selected to receive funding have been launched and the rest are well underway.
Here's a recap of what's taken place so far:
- Step into the World in New York City
"On a scale of one-to-10, I was hoping for a seven — and we got a 12," said Friar Mike Lasky of WestConn's Newman Center, describing how things went when he and Vice President for Student Affairs Dr. Walter Bernstein took nine WestConn students to New York City in March to learn firsthand about human rights issues.
The five-day New York trip, a President's Initiatives Fund program, was the result of a collaboration between WestConn and Franciscans International, a non-governmental organization (NGO), which "works on behalf of the poor for peace, justice and the care of creation at the United Nations in New York and Geneva." Timed to coincide with International Women's Day on March 8, the trip offered participating students the opportunity to learn about women's issues in the context of a larger global reality, Lasky said.
Nearly two-dozen students applied, via essay, for the 10 spots to go on the trip. Bernstein and Lasky selected the participants after reading the essays, which detailed what the students hoped to bring to — and learn from — the experience. Although they were mostly strangers before the trip, the students — whose majors ranged from political science to English, psychology to illustration, and communications to community counseling — successfully gelled as a group.
Together they toured the United Nations (U.N.) and received a briefing at the United States' Mission to the U.N. They attended NGO discussions about international women's issues, heard about human rights and immigration issues from Franciscan advocacy workers, enjoyed a performance of the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical "The Color Purple" and made a pilgrimage to Central Park's Bethesda Fountain — the first major commissioned work of art in New York City created by a female artist, Emma Stebbins, in 1868.
The students also actively participated in experiences designed to make a positive impact on the lives of individuals in the area, serving lunch at the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen — one of the largest in the world — and rolling up their sleeves at a youth program at the Henry Street Settlement, a social services, arts and health care resource on Manhattan's Lower East Side. They held an open screening and discussion about "Hotel Rwanda" upon their return to campus and plan to participate in a walk for Uganda in the fall, so the impact of the experience will continue long past the five days spent in New York.
"One student was blown away at the soup kitchen," Bernstein said. "She never realized people live this way. Being made aware of it was helpful to her. That's what is so powerful about experiential education in real-world settings."
Lasky agreed.
"It really opened the students' eyes to the plight of the poor in ways they had not imagined," Lasky said. "Educating the whole person includes a spiritual dimension and these students came away with an understanding of the fundamental dignity of the human person. I'm grateful to Dr. Schmotter for having the vision to make this possible."
- The World at Our Doorstep: A Series of World Music, Dance and Cultural Events
Nearly a half-dozen world music events took place between January and April 2006, thanks to The World at Our Doorstep: A Series of World Music, Dance and Cultural Events series supported by the President's Initiatives Fund. As many as five more are planned between September 2006 and May 2007.
Proposed by Executive Assistant to the President for Multicultural Affairs Barbara Barnwell, Director of Diversity Programs Daryle Dennis and Judith Cook Tucker, director of the Connecticut Folklife Project, the series seeks to "reflect, and draw upon, the ethnic diversity of the college and the community that surrounds it." Examples of the extent to which this is true are abundant.
In January, Gabriel Alegria and 4FutureMusic: Afro-Peruvian Jazz Fusion offered a master class for music students before performing before an appreciative audience of more than 550 people. February featured Gideon Ampeire, who conducted two workshops in the music and culture of Uganda for Black History Month. In March, Puerto Rican musician Lorena Garay spoke at a Women's History Month event before performing four days later with Trio Surcarci, a group featuring the traditional music of Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and Latin America. A Diversity Month performance featuring a Scottish Tartan Day celebration with Celtic artists MacTalla Mor capped the first group of World Music concerts in April.
The planned schedule for fall 2006-spring 2007 will feature even more examples of musical diversity. September will offer the Klezical Tradition, Eastern European Jewish music. October will bring Rossijanochka Folkloric Youth Dancers and music from St. Petersburg, Russia, as well as Chilean guitarists The Alturas Duo with special guest Javier Farias. In November, a Swiss or German folkloric performer will be featured during International Education Week. Preliminary plans are underway for spring 2007 artists to include a Chinese dance troupe, an African performance group, a mini Folklife Festival and more.
"One of the most satisfying outcomes of this series has been the outpouring of support from each highlighted ethnic group," Cook Tucker said. "They have been issued a heartfelt 'invitation to the party' and are attending the events in strong numbers. Hand-in-hand with their participation is that of the general public, which has embraced each performance, filling the venues to capacity. Many audience members have expressed delight in joining the celebration of the cultures found in our community. In particular, they have been excited to be part of a culturally mixed audience, and have been grateful to come onto campus for the events that firmly establish WestConn as a true 'People's University'."
- Student Writers' Conference
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt's keynote talk provided the exclamation point to a story of impressive achievements during the statewide conference for student and community writers held May 6 and 7 on the WestConn Midtown campus.
Professor of English Dr. John Briggs, a principal organizer of the writers' conference and sponsor of the President's Initiatives Fund proposal, said the May 6 program of group workshops, panel discussions and readings, capped by McCourt's public lecture, drew a robust registration of more than 120 high school, undergraduate and graduate students from across the state. The total marked an increase of nearly 50 percent from the student enrollment at the 2005 writers' conference at Central Connecticut State University. This year's event introduced a new second-day program of writing workshops open to the general public that attracted about 30 community participants.
Student participants in the May 6 conference workshops enjoyed the privilege of gaining insights into their craft and receiving critiques of their work from some 45 published writers, including faculty members from the four Connecticut State University campuses as well as guest faculty from outside the CSU System. The May 7 workshops for community writers were led by four award-winning professional writers: authors Pete Duval and Daniel Asa Rose, poet Vivian Shipley and screenwriter Hassan Ildari.
Briggs credited the success of this year's conference to the strong participation of faculty members from WestConn and other CSU institutions, as well as solid cooperation from WestConn's administrative and support services. He worked closely in planning and staging the 2006 conference with the principal co-organizer for the event, CCSU Poet-in-Residence Ravi Shankar.
Briggs said the conference succeeded in raising public awareness of WestConn's strengths in the teaching of creative and professional writing, and provided a welcome opportunity for faculty members to work with students "who are there not to get a grade, but because they are passionate about writing."
"Writers tend to see themselves, and are seen, as working in their garrets in a solitary exercise," he noted. "That certainly happens, but in other respects it's also about collaboration, gathering information, just knowing other people are going through the same kind of agonies you're going through. What we hoped to do at many different levels was to foster a sense of community among writers in Connecticut among students, faculty and professional writers."
Lisa Smith-Overton, a student participant in the conference, said she found the workshops on specific writing genres especially helpful.
"The smaller group setting contributed greatly in the constructive feedback needed for a 'struggling writer,'" she said. "I was able to make important contacts and received extremely useful advice in marketing my writing experience."
- Theater Collaboration with Teatro de Arte in Guayaquil, Ecuador
A troupe of 20 WestConn theatre arts students became the toast of Guayaquil this spring following their performance in Ecuador of a contemporary musical adaptation of the Shakespearean play "Twelfth Night," part of a collaborative theater project supported by the President's Initiative program, Guayaquil's Teatro de Arte and other Ecuadoran sponsors.
WestConn Theatre Arts Chairperson Frank Herbert and Associate Chairperson Sal Trapani organized the eight-day visit to Ecuador's most populous city in late April to present a series of technical and performance workshops at the Teatro de Arte and schools in the surrounding community. The visit was capped by the WestConn student troupe's staging of "Twelfth Night: The 1960s San Francisco Psychedelic Musical," which drew an enthusiastic reception at the Teatro de Arte and favorable reviews in Guayaquil's leading newspapers.
Herbert noted the WestConn group left a lasting mark on the Ecuadoran arts scene. In addition to the exhilarating Teatro de Arte performance before a sold-out house of 800, the workshops led by WestConn faculty and students reached out to as many as 1,500 students from elementary school to university level, and a gala reception sponsored by the U.S. consulate brought the WestConn guests together with leading arts, business and political figures in Guayaquil.
"From my perspective, it was a win-win situation," Herbert said. "Our students had the opportunity to experience another culture, to perform to a full and appreciative house. We had never presented a theater production to a non-English-speaking audience before, and we thought it would be a terrific opportunity to do so. We received a standing ovation."
Trapani found the "Twelfth Night" production's rich visuals, music and dance easily bridged the language gap between actors and audience. In lively exchanges with theatre-goers and with students and teachers at their well-attended workshops, he found Ecuadorans both perceptive in their understanding of the theater and eager to learn from their WestConn mentors.
"Our students discovered what it is like to be in a country where freedom is not so readily taken for granted, which reminded us how much we should appreciate what we have here," Trapani said. "They are culturally starved as well, and this gave us an opportunity to give something back. They were so appreciative for what we gave them — they didn't want to let us go!"
- Practicum in Global Business Environments
President James W. Schmotter led a WestConn mission to China in July for discussions with faculty and administrators at Sias International University, an important step in laying the groundwork for the Practicum in Global Business Environments project sponsored by the President's Initiatives Fund.
Schmotter was accompanied by Ancell School of Business Dean Dr. Allen Morton, Assistant Professor of Marketing Dr. Karen Koza and Enrollment Management Officer William Hawkins. The visit afforded an opportunity for team members to meet with Sias administrators and faculty including Shawn Chen, founder and chief executive officer of Sias. Representatives of the two institutions discussed appropriate criteria and logistics for future instructional collaboration between the Ancell School and the business management department at the six-year-old university in Henan, China's most populous province.
A central objective of the Practicum in Global Business Environments initiative will be to develop at least one marketing project each semester during the 2006-07 academic year, to be conducted in courses offered concurrently at WestConn and Sias. Each project team formed for course assignments will include students from both universities, who will use video conferencing, e-mail and other means of communication to collaborate on completion of assignments. Ancell faculty members also will seek ways to develop and incorporate team-teaching strategies with business department faculty at Sias.
The project builds upon the partnership forged in the spring 2006 semester to team Sias business students with WestConn students in the marketing department's capstone course, Marketing Management 490: Analysis, Planning and Implementation. Under the guidance of Koza, instructor for Marketing 490, WestConn students overcame logistical and technical problems in communications and differences in educational philosophy to work with their Sias counterparts on development of marketing plans for a Chinese bus company considering a foray into the U.S. marketplace. As part of the project, WestConn members of the team produced a four-hour, real-time presentation to their student colleagues at Sias. Partial funding was provided by the Davis Grant Foundation through the university's Center for Business Research.
One of the most successful experiments during the pilot project was the presentation of "The China Forum," a program that brought business professionals from the Chinese community to WestConn to share their insights on the commercial, social and cultural environment in their native country. Morton noted the positive response to the initial event, produced specifically for Marketing 490 students, has encouraged the Ancell School to consider organizing a new "China Forum" open to the entire WestConn community during the 2006-07 academic year.
Other WestConn faculty participants in the Practicum in Global Business Environments project include Professor of Marketing Dr. Ron Drozdenko; Donna Coelho, coordinator of community relations for the Center for Business Research; Associate Professor of Management Dr. Fred Maidment; Professor of Justice and Law Administration Dr. Charles Mullaney; and Xiaomei Gong, research librarian in the Robert S. Young Library.
- Danbury Global Heritage Project
Professor of Education Dr. Darla Shaw has been building bridges between the classroom and the community throughout her teaching career — and with support from the President's Initiatives Fund, she has brought some of Danbury's youngest and oldest citizens together in a surprising society of mutual admiration.
As a collaborative venture launched under the umbrella of Shaw's Danbury Global History initiative, fifth-grade students from Danbury's South Street School met with senior citizens at the nearby Elmwood Hall Senior Center to interview the longtime Danbury residents about their life experiences and recollections spanning more than half a century. Shaw, herself approaching her 50th anniversary as a teacher, knew the seniors had much to teach their young interviewers, and the curiosity to learn from the students as well.
"I really didn't know how this was going to work out," Shaw said, "but it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. The interaction between these two groups was remarkable — they showed the most incredible respect for each other."
The fifth-graders from South Street School returned several weeks later to read excerpts from the reports they had written for a class book to be presented to their new friends at Elmwood Hall. What happened next caught even Shaw by surprise: The seniors organized a visit in June to South Street School to learn first-hand from the fifth-graders about their elementary school experience. The overwhelming enthusiasm evidenced by young and old participants alike has persuaded Shaw to discuss fresh ideas for collaboration between South Street School and Elmwood Hall in the 2006-07 academic year.
The student-senior linkup is just one among half a dozen Danbury Global History projects that will continue well into 2007. Among the first to be completed is WestConn fine arts graduate student Betty Ann Medeiros' mural celebrating the legendary contributions to classical music of composer Charles Ives and soprano Marian Anderson, who had longstanding ties to Danbury. The mural will be unveiled at an artist's reception to be held in mid-November at the Ives Concert Hall in White Hall.
Deepening Danbury residents' appreciation of the rich history and immigrant experience of their community is the common theme in other projects including the collection and archiving of oral histories from longtime local residents, and the development of a Danbury history brochure to be used for community promotions and future walking tours. A chance encounter at a community aerobics class with nationally acclaimed cartoonist Orlando Busino inspired Shaw to propose a collaboration to create a book on Danbury's hatting industry suitable for students at the third-grade level, targeted for completion in spring 2007.
Shaw also has reached out to students and professionals in the performing arts. A theatrical reenactment presented this spring by WestConn students at Danbury schools portrayed scenes from the lives of Anderson, Ives and other notable figures in Danbury history. In October, WestConn will host the premiere of "Historical Ghost Tours," a mixed-media program of film and live performance sponsored by the Danbury Historical Society to feature six celebrated spirits associated with various campus and community sites. In a new production slated for March 2007, WestConn's theatre arts department will join with the new magnet school on the Westside campus to stage "Give My Regards to Danbury," a musical revue re-creating performances from the Great Danbury Fair prior to its closing in 1982.
"We're trying to make Danbury come alive for the children, for the immigrants in our community, for everyone," Shaw said. "Many people here have no idea of the importance of Danbury to the region, the state and the country."
The most ambitious endeavor in the Danbury Global History initiative is the project to produce a feature film about the Danbury hatting industry directed by Irv Jarvis, whose credits include a previous documentary about the Danbury Fair. Jarvis has begun researching historical and photo archives on the industry and conducted interviews with individuals connected to the major hatting companies, with the objective of completing work on the film by mid-2007 for marketing to PBS and other broadcast companies.
Shaw said the diverse projects currently in progress reflect her underlying educational philosophy that the learning experience does not end at the borders of the campus.
"My joy is working in the community, making contacts and bringing people together who wouldn't normally come together," she explained. "I love my students to go out into the community, because they will learn so much more than if they simply remain in the classroom."
- Global Academy in Puerto Rico
For Dr. Stacey Alba Skar, chairperson of the world languages and literature department, the debut this August of WestConn's Global Academy in Puerto Rico is about much more than a two-week immersion in the Spanish language — it's about experiencing the fullness of Puerto Rican culture and society, and bringing that experience home to classrooms across Connecticut.
Inspired by preparations for opening this fall of the new Western Connecticut Academy of International Studies Elementary School on the Westside campus, Skar began brainstorming with Professor of Education Dr. Darla Shaw to craft a proposal for a multi-disciplinary program designed to deepen cross-cultural understanding among current and future teachers at the elementary, middle and secondary school levels. The Global Academy gained the university's endorsement as the recipient of a President's Initiatives Fund grant, which provided major support for the Academy's launch with a two-week program in Puerto Rico from Aug. 7-21.
Skar designed a unique program that begins with instruction and field experience at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) at Mayaguez, followed by an intensive introduction to teaching theory and practice at a model school in Mayaguez serving students from kindergarten through grade 8. UPR-Mayaguez faculty members will lecture and lead field trips exploring Puerto Rico's politics, economy, ecology, social dynamics and popular culture, presented within the framework of a comprehensive language-immersion experience. The Global Academy will conclude with a week of pedagogy workshops, field observation and teacher shadowing at the Winnie's Active Learning Kids' School (WALKS) in Mayaguez.
Skar said the 16 participants in the 2006 Global Academy represent a cross-section of experience levels, from teachers in the field and recent education graduates to current undergraduate students preparing for a career in teaching. Levels of language proficiency vary just as widely, and Skar emphasized the program was structured to enable every participant to benefit from the experience of language and cultural immersion.
"They're not only going to be taking lessons in the language, but also in the sciences, business, art, history and more," she observed. "We wanted it to be a true cross-cultural exchange, instead of just taking Spanish in a different place."
"No matter what their discipline, they will be able to bring this all together to gain a greater cultural awareness when they come back and work with students in our local schools who come from Puerto Rico, Mexico, Ecuador and other places in Latin America," she added. "They also will understand better what it means for these students to learn a new language, and why it is not always easy to make the transition."
The selection of Puerto Rico for WestConn's first Global Academy program was especially appropriate, she added, since it afforded participating students an opportunity to "gain a better understanding of the complex and ambiguous historical and cultural situation of Puerto Rico, and its relationship with the United States. In the context of the current immigration debate, Puerto Ricans face ignorance among those who still assume that anyone who speaks Spanish is not part of the United States. From the Puerto Rican perspective, they didn't come to the U.S. — the U.S. came to them."
Skar received significant assistance in curriculum planning for the Global Academy from Shaw; Dr. Rick Asselta, the Jane Goodall Institute Roots and Shoots Program director who now resides in Puerto Rico; Judith Cook Tucker, director of the Connecticut Folklife Project and adjunct professor of music; and Dr. Maribel Acosta Lugo, a former teaching colleague of Skar who now serves on the faculty of the UPR-Mayaguez.
"I think it's one of the most important projects we've ever done here," Shaw said. "We were co-teaching in the classrooms, sharing our techniques and learning about their techniques. This is such a rich experience for someone coming back to teach in our area of Connecticut."
President's Initiatives Fund projects still on the drawing board or about to be undertaken include the following:
- Red River Project
Plans are well advanced for introduction of customized curriculum offerings in Vietnamese language, history and public policy during the 2006-07 academic year to prepare participating undergraduate students for a six-week research trip next spring to the Red River basin in northern Vietnam.
As coordinators of the Red River Project, Assistant Professor of History and Non-Western Cultures Dr. Wynn Wilcox and Assistant Professor of Political Science Dr. Christopher Kukk have set a busy instructional and research agenda over the coming year for a select team of students drawn from five academic disciplines. In the fall 2006 and spring 2007 semesters, students will take an introductory course in the Vietnamese language and an interdisciplinary research seminar, Globalization in Northern Vietnam, led by Wilcox and Kukk with guest lecturers from other disciplines. The seminar will explore development, water resource and globalization issues in Vietnam's Red River basin, stretching from the nation's agrarian heartland upriver to the heavily populated and industrialized delta region centered around Hanoi.
Students also will define and develop research proposals in preparation for their trip to northern Vietnam from May to July 2007. Under the guidance of WestConn faculty advisers in several disciplines, students will pursue their chosen research topics at relevant sites, ranging from anthropological field study in highland regions to archival research at Hanoi libraries on the history and development of the Red River region.
"This project will give students not only the ability to do primary research in the field, but they also will learn how to publish materials in this area," Wilcox observed. "We hope to present our findings at WestConn and Connecticut State University research conferences, and ultimately to publish the research papers from this project in an edited volume."
- The Challenges of Global Community: Immigration, Assimilation and Diversity, Past and Present
Documenting the immigrant experience in the Greater Danbury area over the past century is the primary focus of The Challenges of Global Community: Immigration, Assimilation and Diversity, an oral history project supported by the President's Initiatives Fund.
Associate Professor of History and Non-Western Cultures Dr. Burton Peretti, one of the lead faculty coordinators for the project, said initial project meetings have focused on planning specific course assignments during the 2006-07 academic year dedicated to recording oral histories of immigrants and their descendants in the Greater Danbury region. The goal of these assignments, confirmed for four classes in the fall semester, will be to train students in oral history technique and methodology and to begin the collection of immigrant interviews that will become the basis for creation of a western Connecticut oral history archive.
Peretti noted the project team also is exploring alternative technologies to determine the most effective choice for recording, transcribing and storing oral histories. An oral history Web page designed by WestConn librarians Jenny Innes and Veronica Kenausis will facilitate Internet access during field research. Adjunct Professor of History Shannon Doherty attended a conference in July on use of digital technology in oral history collection to gather useful information for future recordings.
WestConn faculty and student participants in the project are collaborating with area historical society and immigrant community representatives to organize for collection of oral histories over the coming year. Coordinated class assignments to document the immigrant experience in the region in turn will enable the university "to establish an online oral history repository by June 2007," Peretti said. A conference to be convened at the conclusion of the project will provide an opportunity for "participants and the wider university community to share the sum of the project's accomplishments."
In addition to Peretti, faculty coordinators of the immigration project include Associate Professor of History Dr. Marcy May and Professor of Sociology Dr. Steven Ward.
- Passport to Paideia: Global Citizenship at WestConn
WestConn students will journey to lands of learning far removed from their fields of academic specialization in a President's Initiative Fund project designed to encourage every participant to sample the rich diversity of the university's vibrant extracurricular life.
The concept for the Passport to Paideia: Global Citizenship at WestConn project took root when Associate Professor of Health Promotion and Exercise Dr. Jeffrey Schlicht and Professor of Social Sciences Dr. Robert Whittemore began to trade ideas about how to get students more involved in campus life outside the classroom, Schlicht recalled. Whittemore hit upon the novel idea of providing students with an incentive to attend extracurricular events in a wide range of fields by giving them a "passport to Paideia," a Greek term for the Hellenist ideal of "educating man into his true form."
Schlicht and Whittemore are exploring means to enable every WestConn student to create a permanent record of participation in any university event designated as a Passport to Paideia function. Students would scan their WestConnect IDs on a portable card reader as they entered the event, making a data entry that could be used for purposes such as issuing commemorative "postcards" confirming event attendance or creating a transcript of extracurricular activities to be entered in the student participant's academic record.
The objective is to define specific clusters of broadly similar extracurricular activities, and to use the Passport to Paideia program as a vehicle to provide incentives for students to attend a minimum number of activities in each of these cluster areas with a view to gaining a well-rounded extracurricular experience at WestConn. Inquiries to university departments about participation in the project are expected to be circulated during the fall semester, with a pilot test to be conducted in the spring and campuswide implementation slated for fall 2007.
Schlicht said the Passport to Paideia promises to bolster student attendance at a wide variety of campus events and generate valuable information for future event planning. But the most important beneficiaries will be the students themselves, he said.
"By participating in extracurricular events, you're learning outside the classroom — learning something outside your field that sparks your interest, and maybe inspires you to decide to explore that topic further," Schlicht said. "At the least, it makes you more aware of the world beyond your major."
- The WestConn European Institute for the Study of Arts, Humanities and Politics
WestConn students looking for a "life-changing" experience have less than a year to wait before they can attend the WestConn European Institute for the Study of Arts, Humanities and Politics next spring in Madrid, Spain. The month-long program in June 2007 will feature classes in Spanish language, arts, culture, history and politics at the College for International Studies in Salamanca, and at museums and historic sites in Toledo, Cordoba, Granada and Seville.
Participating students will receive room and board from a local host family, enabling them to fully experience the region's culture. They will participate in one of two relevant history classes: Modern Europe or Europe Since 1945; and one of two Spanish language classes: Introductory Spanish II or Intermediate Spanish - Language and Culture during their four-week stay. The courses will satisfy general education and language requirements at WestConn.
"Every student should have a chance to go see other cultures," said Assistant Professor of World Languages and Literature Dr. Galina Bakhtiarova, who proposed the European Institute along with Professor of History Dr. Michael Nolan. "Teaching a language is impossible without teaching the culture. This program will involve not only language but also other disciplines, making it truly trans-cultural," Bakhtiarova said. "It will be a life-changing experience."
- Thematic Guest Speakers in English 101
Professor of English Dr. Edward Hagan has been forced to postpone this project until 2007 as he has continued his recovery from injuries suffered in an auto accident in December 2005. The project will provide five notable guest speakers to lecture at English 101 sessions, for the purpose of stimulating group bonding and discussion among WestConn freshman enrolled in the megasection classes.
Looking back at what's been accomplished as a result of President's Initiatives Funds so far, Schmotter is pleased.
"I'm delighted with the progress of the projects funded by the President's Initiatives Fund. In New York, Puerto Rico and China, as well as in Danbury and Fairfield County, these efforts are providing engaging learning experiences that are indeed changing our students' lives."


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Butler district, which lies in the southeastern part of the county, borders on the state of Kentucky with the Big Sandy River as the dividing line. The surface is diversified, bottom land on the east with rolling hills in the western part. It is said good building stone abound in the entire district.
Many years ago coal was mined in the vicinity of Hubbardstown and conveyed to market by barges on the Big Sandy River. It is said that a vein ranging from 2 1/2 to four feet was found there, while below the surface a vein from 8 to 9 feet was found.
Salt was made in this district in the first quarter of the 19th century. Butler district was at one time covered with fine timber, mostly oak, which was used in the building of ships, but at present, timbering is not an industry.
The first settler seems to have been Samuel Short who built his cabin where the town of Fort Gay now stands about the year 1796. Robert Tabor, who followed him, patented a tract of land embracing 2,500 acres in 1798. Others who followed as settlers were Thomas Short, Samuel Hatten, William Adams, Peyton and Joseph Newman, John and Richard Grayson, Thomas Vaughan, Peter Loar, Benjamin Sperry and William Artrip. All these men seem to have found homes in Butler before the year 1800. Others who came in later years were Michael Burke, John Smith, Pleasant Workman, Joel Ferguson, James Bartram, William and Solomon Perry, Joseph Fulkerson, John Breedon, Jess Cyrus, John Deering, Jesse Stith, Goodwin Lycan, Samuel Smiley, John Thompson and Abraham Queen.
The first child born in Butler district was John Short, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Breeden) Short, born 1801, while the first marriage was that of Samuel Hatten and Nancy Campbell, in 1802; Rev. Darby Kelly, a Methodist minister, performed the ceremony. The bride's parents lived in Kentucky, and it is said that the ceremony was performed on a sand bar in the middle of Big Sandy River. The second marriage was that of John Smith and Elizabeth Vaughn, on Easter Sunday, April 18, 1813. The groom was dressed in a tow-linen cloth suit and a pair of moccasins made by his own hands. He afterward became very wealthy.
The first grist mill was built by William Thompson on the banks of Mill Creek, one-half mile from Fort Gay, and the first saw mill was built by Solomon Perry on Big Hurricane. Perry was a local Methodist preacher, carpenter and millwright.
A building for school purposes was erected in 1805 on the banks of Mill Creek, one-half mile from where Fort Gay now stands.
Who preached the first sermon cannot be learned, but Peyton Newman, John Lee and Marcus Lindsey were among the first ministers. These men, the first two Baptists, and the latter Methodist, were instrumental in organizing the first churches, many of which still survive.
Cassville was the first town incorporated and is now known as Fort Gay. A fire visited it in 1883 and laid almost the entire business section in ashes. Cassville was incorporated the 13th day of November, 1875. Jas. H. Marcum was the first mayor, John C. Romans, recorder, and William H. Frasher, Samuel Short, Calahan Beaire, Stephen M. Marcum and Wayne Ferguson, councilmen.
Butler district's wealth lies in its farms. It has as good farm lands as are found anywhere in the county. Its school buildings compare with any in the county and the district is only waiting the coming of better roads that it might be developed into a first class farming community.
Mrs. Amanda Osburn, well known local woman, celebrated her ninetieth birthday Saturday. Despite her advanced years, "Aunt" Amanda is one of the most active women of the community. She has been a resident of the county all her live and vividly recalls the Civil War days when business was suspended and the veterans answered the call to arms. She is a staunch supporter of Jeffersonian Democracy, and has kept in close touch with the political and social developments of the county.
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2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is MECOTY's 'Best Performance Coupe'
The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray – the most powerful and most capable standard model ever – received the prestigious title of 'Best Performance Coupe' at the Middle East Car of the Year (MECOTY) Award
DUBAI – The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray – which boasts the greatest efficiency of any sports car in the market – won in the 'Best Performance Coupe' category at the Middle East Car of the Year (MECOTY) Award. The event took place on 20 November at Dubai's Meydan Beach Club, Jumeirah Beach Residence.
The 2014 Corvette Stingray is the most powerful standard model ever, with SAE-certified 455 horsepower and 624 Nm – and 460 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 630 Nm at 4,600 rpm, with the available performance exhaust system. It is also the most capable standard model ever, with Z51-equipped models able to accelerate from 0 to 97 km/h (0 to 60 mph) in 3.8 seconds and achieve 1.03g in cornering grip.
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The all-new Corvette Stingray shares only two parts with the previous generation Corvette. It incorporates an all-new frame structure and chassis, a new powertrain and supporting technologies, as well as completely new exterior and interior designs.
"This is a remarkable win, especially given that MECOTY's awards selection process is led by a credible, diverse panel of expert jurors that exert strong influence on the Middle East's auto industry," said Ahmed Soudodi, Regional Brand Manager for Chevrolet and GMC. "Built on an all-new, lightweight aluminum frame, the 2014 Corvette Stingray strikes the perfect balance of technology, design and performance. It truly epitomizes the Stingray legacy and reflects the future of modern performance cars."
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MECOTY's acclaimed jury panel – comprising 14 of the Middle East's leading motoring journalists and commentators – selected the winning 2014 Corvette Stingray model based on a strict five-point scoring system. Scoring parameters included Design & Quality; Handling and Drivability; Safety & Durability; Performance & Capability; Technological Innovation; Emotional Appeal & Driver Satisfaction; Value for Money; Comfort & Practicality; Environmental Friendly; and Regional Appeal.
All nominated vehicles were test driven by the jurors to ensure precise scoring.
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Vicente has moved a stage closer to his Albion comeback.
The Spanish playmaker resumed training with the first team squad yesterday.
Depending on how he reacts he could be in contention for a place on the bench against Derby County at The Amex on Saturday.
Manager Gus Poyet revealed to The Argus: "He trained with us for the first time after training all last week with the development squad.
"He looked all right, normal. I don't know how his body is going to react. As you can imagine, the intensity of training with the kids is totally different to the intensity with us.
"Tuesday is usually a very hard day so we changed it slightly because of him. The first part was nice and steady, the last part quite hard, so he is going to feel it for sure. We'll see how he reacts."
Thigh trouble has restricted Vicente to one brief Championship appearance as a substitute so far this season, against Cardiff back in August.


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Edison-based RCG Global Services announced Thursday a management-led buyout together with Eos Partners LP.
According to the announcement, RCG's management team will continue to lead the company, and this transaction will position the company for future growth in complementary industry verticals and geographies, both internally and through acquisition. RCG was previously owned by Reliance Insurance. Signal Hill acted as sole financial advisor to RCG Global Services in connection with the transaction.
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MINNEAPOLIS – One by one, Bears players quietly filed out of the visitors' locker room Sunday and walked down a dark hallway to board the team bus.
Someone at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome had lined the concrete path with rubber mats to prevent anyone from slipping.
Too late.
The Bears have fallen, and it's anyone's guess as to whether they will be able to get up in time to earn a playoff berth. A 21-14 loss to the Minnesota Vikings marked the fourth loss in the past five games for the Bears (8-5), who fell behind by two quick touchdowns and could not recover.
Next comes the Bears' toughest test yet: A rematch against the Green Bay Packers.
"This is crunch time for us," said Bears defensive end Israel Idonije, who was part of a unit that allowed Vikings running back Adrian Peterson to run freely for 154 yards and two touchdowns. "The intensity has to pick up."
Otherwise, the Bears can pack up and forget about contending for a Super Bowl title.
Shortly after Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder took a knee to kill the final seconds off of the game clock, Bears coach Lovie Smith spoke with his players behind closed doors. By the time Smith stepped in front of a bank of microphones and TV cameras, he had turned his focus to next week's game and its significant implications for the Bears' playoff chances.
"I'm just thinking about us getting back on a winning streak next week," Smith said. "We're disappointed in how some of those games have gone. All of the games, really.
"We're disappointed in the game, but when you're disappointed like that and you have your rival coming up back at home, we have to rally. We feel bad, but then it's all on Green Bay."
Actually, it's all on the Bears.
Despite outgaining the Vikings, 438-248, the Bears trailed for all but 3:07 in a noisy building filled with 64,134 fans wearing mostly purple and gold. Peterson gashed the Bears' defense for 104 rushing yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter alone, and Bears quarterback Jay Cutler threw a pair of interceptions, including one that Vikings safety Harrison Smith returned 56 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter.
Add in dropped passes and a half-dozen injured players – including Cutler, who exited the game in the fourth quarter because of a stiff neck – and frustration accumulated faster than the several inches of snow that fell outside of the stadium throughout the game.
A pair of passing touchdowns from Cutler to Alshon Jeffery and Brandon Marshall were not enough to erase the Vikings' lead, nor were they enough to eliminate a nagging question: If the Bears are not good enough to beat the Vikings (7-6), then how will they fare against a Packers team that has beaten them in five consecutive games and in seven of the past eight games?
Bears defensive end Julius Peppers dismissed the doubters. As evidence, he pointed to how the Vikings snapped a losing streak against the Bears that had lasted for nearly four seasons.
"These guys hadn't beaten us in six times, either," said Peppers, whose voice rose slightly with a hint or irritation. "So it can be done. Streaks can be broken.
"We don't have to do anything heroic or superhuman to beat Green Bay. We've just got to go out and execute our game plan and play well from the start."
In other words, the opposite of what the Bears did against the Vikings.
A late-season rebound remains possible for the Bears in a conference that is crowded with playoff contenders. After hosting the Packers next Sunday, the Bears will wrap up their regular-season schedule with a pair of road games against the Arizona Cardinals and Detroit Lions.
Most likely, two more wins will be enough to lift the Bears into the playoffs.
The Bears want three more wins. At least a few players believe that they have no other choice.
"Right now, we just have to win out," Marshall said. "Forget the X's and O's. Forget the first 11, 12 games of the season. All of that doesn't matter at this point.
"We have the guys in this locker room that can get it done, and we can get it done."
Peppers echoed Marshall's "win-out" declaration.
"We've got three games left, and we're going to have to win these last three," Peppers said. "And that's fine. We can do that.
"We have a team full of veterans that understand where we're at. The confidence is not wavering. We're fully confident we can do it. We can pull them out."


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You can see our climate diagram above. July is the warmest month Dubai with average maximum temperatures of 42°. On the other hand, you could have temperatures dropping under 17° in January. The rainiest month is July while the driest month is May.
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Dubai is the most modern and progressive of the seven Emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates. It is a place of superlatives, with the world's largest mall, tallest building, fastest cars, and the world´s only 7 star hotel. It is one of the most visited city destinations in the world, even more so than Paris, perhaps due to the vast golden beaches and glamorous malls, all mixed in with the allure of Arabian Nights. The best time to visit Dubai is in the late Autumn or early Spring, just after and before the unbearably hot and humid summer kicks in. Wintertime is also pleasant, but can be a bit too cool for sunbathing. September is also the time of Ramadan, so note that during this time there will be certain restrictions on eating and drinking in public, and no alcohol will be served in bars during daylight hours. However this is also an opportunity to take part in the fast-breaking iftar feast, which is an Arabic banquet served up after dusk during Ramadan. Dubai is not your typical sun, sand and shopping destination in that it is essentially an Islamic country, and there are number of zero-tolerance laws in place regarding drink driving, drugs, and excessive public affection. However, don´t let this put you off, just be aware and Dubai will be a holiday to remember for all the right reasons!
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- Dubai is seemingly the fastest growing city in the world, going from one high rise in 1991 to over 400 in present day!
- Over 80% of Dubai´s population consists of immigrants, with many of these being of Indian descent.
- The Burj Dubai is the tallest building in the world and as tall as two Empire State Buildings atop each other.
- In summer, the temperatures go well above 40° C during the day, so people mostly stay indoors with the air-conditioning on.
- The world´s largest horses are found in Dubai.
Explore Dubai
The malls of Dubai definitely take shopping to a new level. Besides miles of shops (during summer power walkers are known to do laps of the air-conditioned corridors of the malls rather than brave the humid heat on the streets!) there are also plenty of entertainment options for those keen on shoes and labels. The Mall of the Emirates has an indoor ski slope, where you can ski and snowboard on real snow, or else sit in one of the surrounding restaurants and watch the action from above. The Dubai Mall is home to the world´s largest (of course!) aquarium, a great way to keep the children busy while mum indulges in some pampering. Dubai´s shops are mostly contained in malls, however along the strip in Jumeirah there are also countless boutiques and beauty salons which offer manicures, pedicures, facials etc at the hands of very efficient beauticians. Deira and Bur Dubai are Dubai´s oldest parts of town, and also the least touristic. Both lie on the river, which you can cross with an abra (very cheaply!) to reach Deira from Bur Dubai. The gold and spice souk, both traditional, bustling markets selling mostly gold jewellery and spices, but also all kinds of knock-off goods in back rooms, are both located in Deira, while Bur Dubai is home to the unmissable, and very Arabic, Bastakiya cultural centre.
For some beach time, head over to Jumeirah, which is one endless trip of beachfront and also is home to most of the Western expats in the area. The Madinat, very close to the Burj Al Arab, is a very popular but pleasant Arabic-style complex with shops selling everything from carpets to wooden camels and pashminas, and has many good restaurants with beautiful palm-fronded outdoor areas looking onto a man-made lake. For nightlife, check out Barasti, a very popular beachfront bar, or the Buddha Bar. On Fridays you could head to one of the hotel brunches, where you pay a fixed fee for as much food and drink as you can handle. These usually open at 12pm and finish at 4pm.
For the more adventurous (and not for the easily car-sick), there are some great dune-bashing safaris you can go on, where a driver will pick you up from a central Dubai location, then take you out into the desert to show off his dune driving skills at full throttle. After this exhilarating ride and a calming sunset, a feast of Arabian breads, vegetables and meats is served in a Bedouin-style camp nearby.
Getting Around Dubai
Dubai International Airport has a duty-free section in the baggage reclaim area where you can purchase alcohol. If you are staying in self-catering accommodation, this may be a good idea as otherwise you will not be able to buy alcohol in the special alcohol outlets without a residents permit. Most visitors get a taxi into town from the airport, as it is both relatively cheap and easy. However you can also get the Dubai Metro from Terminals 1 and 3, or a number of buses.
Getting around Dubai is easiest in a car, either a rental or by taxi, which are cheap. The Metro is another great option, and you can purchase a day pass for unlimited travel for just Dh 14. Buses are best for getting from one neighbourhood to the next, as the system is quite incomprehensible and the service infrequent.
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