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Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill blamed an anxious second-half performance for his side's morale-crushing 1-1 home draw against Luxembourg.
O'Neill is still chasing a first win after five games in charge of the national side and failure to take all three points in a game that saw them have three goals disallowed, as well as striking the post through Chris Brunt, will take some getting over.
"I'm extremely disappointed, it's a game we clearly should have won," said O'Neill. "We had numerous chances in the first half to add to the one goal we had and we played poorly in the second half, although we did have chances to add to the score."
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"We had the chance just before their goal to go 2-0 and we hit the post. We don't take that chance and we drop two points from the game."
Asked to assess where his side went wrong after the interval, O'Neill blamed looser passing and a growing sense of nervousness among players who have now not won for nine matches.
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"Subsequently we got a very disjointed performance and gave the ball away too easily, which gave them a bit of hope.
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BOSTON, Mass. - The women's track team competed in the New England Championships this weekend at Boston University. MIT finished in a three way tie for 27th place in the 32 team field. The University of Connecticut won the competition in convincing fashion. UConn accumulated 181.83 points, while second place Northeastern University earned 116.
Highlights were few for MIT, but freshman Adrienne Bolger provided one in the 1000 meter run. She completed the race in 3:00.68 and placed sixth, while Erin Ballard of Northeastern University took first with a time of 2:55.57.
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By Bonnie Goldman
How did you find out you were HIV positive? Do you remember where you were?
It was really a coincidence. I was not expecting such a test result. I was still doing my research in anthropology in a rural community in La Paz [Bolivia]. Part of my research was to participate in the coffee harvest with the local people. While doing this, I got an injury on my hand. This injury then became more and more infected. So I went to the lab, because I thought I had a tropical disease, because I was in the tropical part of Bolivia.
My older sister knew I had been -- I am -- a rape survivor. I experienced rape in 1998. She suggested an HIV test, among many others. All of those came back negative that day, except the HIV test.
What year was this?
It was in 2000. It was a total surprise to me, because I didn't expect this test result. All the information I ever had on HIV -- which was not a lot, anyway, in Bolivia -- I never listened to. All the HIV information was referring to the so-called "risky" groups, referring to men who have sex with men, sex workers and drug users. In that context, I thought I didn't have any risk because I was not a member of these groups. I had a partner for nine years. So I thought I was not at risk.
I was also not prepared for the test. I then received a free counseling session. It was a real shock for me.
Who did you first talk to about this?
I talked to my sisters, especially the one who had the idea of doing the test. I blamed her. I said, "This is your fault, because I'd rather not know." But actually, it was really good that she suggested it, because I also was to discover that I [tested] HIV positive maybe three or four years after being infected. This gave me the chance to change my habits and to start treatment early enough; I never got sick, like being in bed. I think I have been HIV positive for nine years now. I never got so ill as to be in the hospital.
Many of my friends in Bolivia discovered they were HIV positive only in the hospital, and only when they were about to die. So my relatively early diagnosis was, at the end, an advantage. But at that moment, I couldn't rationalize; I didn't yet have an understanding of that.
I was very angry, because the information we had been given was that people who had HIV could die in three months. That's really what I thought was going to happen to me. I was so depressed. Even though my older sisters tried to help me and explain it, for three months I was isolated and really ... I didn't know what was going to happen until I decided to talk to my family. I decided that their response was going to determine what I was going to do. If my family ever rejected me, I was going to kill myself. After they responded with a lot of love, I decided to live.
I told them after three months. My father is a pastor in an evangelical church in Bolivia. He's very well known. I knew this was not what the pastor expects to happen to his daughters. We are three sisters. I am sure no father expects this to happen with his children. So I knew this was going to be a very difficult situation for them to understand, but I had to tell them, because I thought I was going to die. I wanted to explain.
Then my parents told me that they didn't care about what happened in the past, and how I got HIV -- they didn't ask me any questions. My parents told me, "You are our daughter, and we love you and we will love you, three months, six years, ten days ... however long you will live, we will be with you." That really changed my mind. Since that moment I decided that it was worth living, even with HIV.
Did you expect them to say anything different?
I thought they were going to be a little disappointed. I thought they were going to exclude me from the house, because, being in the context of an evangelical community, this could be really shameful for a pastor. I thought they were going to at least ask me difficult questions: How did you get HIV? What did you ever do to get HIV? They were so wise; they didn't ask me these questions. At the end, I told them the story, but in that moment, they just showed me love. I was really expecting that they would reject me, or at least confront me with my mistakes. I felt that I may bring shame to the leadership of my father, because he was the pastor. He is currently still the pastor. That was a really difficult time for me, but they were full of love, and that really changed the response. There was no judgment from them, actually.
Do his congregation and other people in the community know that you're positive?
That couldn't happen at that moment, because we all were afraid to do this. What could be the reaction of the congregation if they knew the daughter of the pastor had HIV and AIDS? Or AIDS, as it was only known at the time. We were very afraid that people wouldn't be able to continue trusting the leadership of my father, and there would be many complications. We didn't tell them for three years. We were not planning to tell them at all, but in those three years, I started to become a leader on the Bolivian Network of People Living With HIV and AIDS [RedBoL], and I started to become a public speaker, first on radio and maybe in some meetings, some small meetings.
At some point I knew I had to confront the issue of speaking publicly about my HIV. I had started speaking on TV, because I was already a leader. We had a family meeting, and we decided that we were going to tell the congregation in 2003. If they didn't react as we expected, we were going to say that they were not real Christians, because a real Christian would not reject. If you follow the example of Jesus, there is no space for rejection, but only for love. We told them, and the response of the congregation was so amazing, something we never expected. The congregation, from that moment on, became the main support of my family and me; they were amazing and they really showed us the love of God.
Did they want to know how you got infected?
I told them in the beginning. I didn't try to keep any secrets. I didn't want to lie. I think for me it was more complicated to have some people who knew I was positive and other people who didn't know, and maybe some people who knew how I got HIV. That was more stressful for me. So I decided I would tell everyone how I got HIV, and I would start telling them that I did get HIV through sexual intercourse -- as 90 percent of the HIV-positive people in the world did -- and if they then wanted to go away, or they wanted to stop being my friends, or they would reject me from their community, then it's their problem.
I decided to do that, and people reacted very well, because when you bring the truth, there is also life. They couldn't deny their own risk, the congregation. Everyone that I talked to afterwards didn't have anything to judge against me, because they were also in those situations of risk; but they were lucky enough not to get HIV. So instead of judging me, people started to support me so much. So I became more and more well known in the media in Bolivia, and internationally, after that.
When you did tell the congregation, did you just stand up in front of the congregation? How did you do this?
I did, after the main message in the service. We talked to the person who was going to offer the message, the meditation, that day; we asked him to prepare a portion on how Jesus treated a woman that was found in sin. [In the story], everyone wanted to stone her, and Jesus said, "Who of you that wants to kill this woman are free of guilt?" Then everyone ... nobody would [stone] her anymore.
We asked him to prepare a portion on this, and after his preaching, I just stood up in the front of the church and I told them, "I have something to tell you." I told them how I came to be in this place. I told them I was living with HIV already three years. I told them that I considered that God, if I had made any mistakes, He did forgive me. I told that I needed their support. If I was bringing shame to the congregation by saying publicly that I am HIV positive, I told them to forgive me, but that is something I had to do. There was no information, and people were dying in Bolivia who didn't have medication. To help these people, I had to be public about living with HIV. I told them that as soon as I started to work with other people living with HIV, I realized how much this could be a mission that God gave me, based on my mistakes, mainly, based on lack of information and ignorance. It was a mission that I was bringing good outcomes from. The congregation said, "Will you forgive us? We were so indifferent with your needs. We didn't ask about your health. We are not working on HIV with our congregation. We have to repent, not you." That was very, very surprising for me and my family.
Wow! What a moving story! How big is the congregation?
It has about 200 members. It has similar congregations in different neighborhoods in the city. So at the end, all the congregations in the other neighborhoods also knew because we sent them my testimony. They all read this and they all were aware of this, and all of them reacted with love.
Wow. Do you think this caused many people to get tested for HIV?
I don't know, because people are still, in Bolivia, thinking that maybe this "won't happen to me," and there is so much denial, even in the government. No. You don't listen to anyone speaking about HIV, except us -- those who are already living with HIV. Our president, our leaders, ignore the issue of HIV and how important it is. We are in a total denial right now in Bolivia. We have started to challenge that with our congregations. Some of them decided to have a special workshop on HIV and AIDS. They said they needed to learn about this. Other people wanted to work on HIV prevention, and others are working with people who have HIV.
Surely they cannot be the same after listening to my story, because I was a daughter of the pastor. Since I was born, the congregation was in my backyard. If anybody had reasons to disobey God's voice, if you want to call it that, it was not me. That's how God's grace operates: He precisely is able to forgive us everything. That's why my testimony is called "Grace for Grace" -- how I did receive grace from God, and I only understood what his grace was about when I got my HIV-positive test result.
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Courageous lady!
Gracia your story is inspiring, I could relate to your story. I'm also HIV positive I was also in a state of shock when I found out my results in 1999 and the reason for that was because I didn't go to the doctor so I can get tested I went to accompany a friend because she felt that her boyfriend was cheating on her so I went to give her support. While we were their I said to my friend I never got tested before now that I'm here I matters well. When we go back for the results in 2 weeks I get the results and the doctor told me it was positive I couldn't believe what I heard. My friends result was negative I requested for a second testing and a third they all came back positive. I didn't want to believe it either because I never consider myself in the risky group category. So I thought... I always been a family woman my strength was God second was my kids I would look at them and say to myself I can't leave them they are still young and the thought of having to think that someone else has to raise them was more devastating for me. I said to myself they are my responsibility to take care of them my job is not done and when they get older I would share my story with them. Working with Harm Reduction has helped me with my ignorance. Many people think that they are not at risk like yourself and me because they are not a drug user or they are not a sex worker or sleeping with a men who's having sex with a men. You and I thought that having sex with one or two guys we might not put our self at risk. Our stories should inspired everyone to use protection at all times because it only takes one person in order for someone to become positive. HIV doesn't discriminate just like drugs it doesn't matter if you are black, white, rich or poor. We are here to educate others how to protect them self because if they don't they would be just like you and I. Someone is out their not caring about someone Else's body or they just don't know about they Owen states. Everyone must get tested
Gracia is such an inspiration! Amazing woman...
is it possible to live with hiv without medication?
don't worry i know that god will help you in fighting with that disease you encounter right now and i wish you'll be fine..just always pray....god will always be there for you..
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Gracia you are blessed and look forward and see that there is nothing impossible for you to have your own family. All is well. God bless you.
Im a HIV positive Asian male with healthy outlook, would love to find someone who would love to have child together. If we are HIV positive, our child does not have to be HIV positive, but can have a more positive future and understanding.
Gracia is my sister, we love her so much, and I want to tell every body who sees this page, that God's love is above all, if you can't be sure of your family's love, your health in future years or anything else, be sure about this YOU ARE PRECIOUS TO GOD AND HE LOVES YOU, HE wants only your happiness and your salvation, trust him and when ever you feel is too mucho for you, let him do the hard job and carry your worries, he loves you no matter what, that's what makes my sister wake up every day and that's what gives us (her family) enogh strength to keep the hope and love to her. Your life is not worhtless if you let your self be hugged by GOD's arms and cry your pai and let him take care of you, we'l be praying for you where ever you are... feel our love to you too.
En realidad estoy impresionada con tu testimonio,
se lo que se vive cuando te diagnostican, yo no vivia con mi familia estaba viviendo en otra ciudad. En realidad la noticia fue peor que bomba yo tenia una pareja por 3 meses y nos separamos despues me entero que esta enfermo empece a visitarlo y empezamos a ir con medicos para que lo consultaran y asi fuimos como 6 meses a medicos diferentes yo me entere porque el se agravo y fallecio sin yo saber que el era portador 5 años antes.
Cuando el fallece ese mismo dia su mama me comento que habia fallecido de sida, es como si el mundo se me hubiera venido encima.
Creeme a sido algo dificil esta situacion porque no se como decirselo a mi familia de hecho todavia no lo hago solo lo saben pocas personas de mi familia solo 3 hermanas.
Lo mas triste es que un dia le dije a mi pastor lo que me estaba sucediendo y el comentario que me dijo primero por causa del pecado. Bueno entiendo que fue cierto porque no estaba casada, pero con el tiempo me preguntaba como estaba y una ocasion me dio tristeza porque me dice no se lo digas a nadie porque la iglesia no esta preparada. Y escondiendo las cosas y sin hablar del tema será peor. En realidad es duro, pero ahora tengo paz en mi corazon porque he descubierto cosas maravillosas de la vida. Se que un día me voy atrever a decir toda la verdad.
Muchas gracias por tu testimonio y que Dios siga
usando tu vida como hasta ahora.
Gracias por este espacio. Es la primera vez que lo escribo y creeme es como un proceso.. Mil gracias.
Hey! I am happy to read about Gracia testimony, i know her, we have met several times at conferences but i never know her story. I wish we Ghanaians can also have not just a Pastor's daughter but a christian who could come out and tell the church and the whole christiandom about what it is like living with HIV/AIDS and it crosses everywhere even in the church. God bless you Gracia, i wish i have the kind of courage to do the same in my church. Never give up
my name is christina maietta, I was diagnosed in 1989 june. I found out three months later I was pregnant. I didn't know what to do. I don't believe in abortions, so I prayed to GOD what to do? To make a long story short she lived for 15 1/2 years and passed away in oct 2006 ! if anyone can relate to me contact me at email@example.com
WOW u have been so bold and i was so proud to say for your deeds and your activities. Keep it up Gracia!
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Sunday, February 10, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PST)
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Join us for a 5k fun run and walk.
The official event will start at the Walnut Creek Sports Basement and complete a 3.1-mile loop through Heather Farms. After the event there will be bagels, coffee, and hot chocolate inside the store that you can enjoy while receiving 10% off all of your purchases.
Do you have a little one in your life who wants to join in the festivities? Bring them along. We have a1-mile trot for our Little Cupids too!
Proceeds from this race benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. With your help, our team will raise $50,000 to beat cancer!
8 a.m. Registration, packet and bib pickup. Everyone who arrives in costume will be high-fived!
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10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Post-race food, hot chocolate and coffee inside Sports Basement in the community area. There will also be a shopping party. With your race entry you'll get 10% off at Sports Basement all day!
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1881 Ygnacio Valley Rd
Walnut Creek,
Sunday, February 10, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PST)
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By big boobs, I mean above a G cup and by small back I mean 30-34 back, which is actually very hard to find – I have noticed that a lot of the companies that cater for big boobs don't go beyond a G cup and if they do, their back sizes start at 38.
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May, 2008
An Interview with Anthony E. Lang, M.D.Jack Clark Chair in Parkinson's Disease Research
University of Toronto
Director, Shulman Movement Disorders Clinic
Toronto Western Hospital
Q: You have proposed the concept of Parkinson's diseases (plural). Why?
A: "Parkinson's disease" is really a clinical syndrome characterized by the onset in adult life of a slowly progressive neurological disorder manifesting certain typical signs and symptoms. People with Parkinson's disease almost always show an initial excellent response to treatment with levodopa, the dopamine precursor that has been the mainstay of therapy for 40 years, but this initial response is typically complicated by the eventual development of side effects such as "on-off" motor fluctuations and abnormal involuntary movements called dyskinesias.
Over the last few years we have come to recognize that this same clinical picture can be caused by a number of single gene mutations, or may be associated with certain genetic risk factors. While the most common neuropathological correlate of the syndrome is a degenerative process with alpha synuclein protein aggregates in Lewy body inclusions and Lewy neurites, certain genetic causes have been associated with other neuropathological changes, most notably the absence of Lewy bodies. In my view, as long as we are relegated to defining the disorder clinically, it is best to acknowledge that we are not dealing with a single nosological entity, but instead with several disorders with distinct etiologies, all capable of causing the same clinical picture.
Q: You have likened the "dopamaic view of Parkinson's disease" to the Ptolemaic view of the universe. Why do you think it's time to abandon this view?
A: The discovery of dopamine deficiency in Parkinson's disease was a remarkable and critical milestone. The subsequent development of Levodopa replacement therapy was truly a modern miracle of neurotherapeutics and has had a tremendous impact on the quality of life of people suffering from Parkinson's disease. The combination of these advances clearly warranted the Nobel Prize [Swedish scientist Arvid Carlsson received the Nobel in 2000 for this work].
Attempts to more effectively treat the dopamine deficiency or manage the long-term complications of Levodopa therapy have dominated efforts to further improve the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Such efforts, however, fail to acknowledge the fact that Parkinson's disease is far more than a degeneration of the nigrostriatal dopamine system. Instead, it is a widespread process involving multiple brain systems, including those involving noradrenaline, serotonin, acetylcholine, and other neurotransmitters.
Moreover, as the disease progresses, patients develop a number of symptoms that respond poorly if at all to dopamine replacement therapy. These symptoms—now commonly believed to occur due to involvement of non-dopaminergic brain regions—account for a very large proportion of the disability seen in the later stages of the disease.
Therefore, just as man needed to move beyond the Ptolemaic belief that the earth was the center of the universe around which the sun and planets revolved, I feel that we now need to go beyond the belief that dopamine is the center of the Parkinson universe.
This has important implications for clinical care and research. For example, I believe it is misguided and naïve to presume that creating an unlimited supply of dopaminergic neurons from embryonic stem cells for transplantation into the Parkinson striatum will have a major impact on the management of large numbers of patients. Even if completely successful, this approach to therapy would have little impact on some of the more disabling symptoms of later-stage Parkinson's disease.
Q: In terms of patient care and quality of life, why is it important to distinguish between dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic symptoms?
A: Consistent with the idea that Parkinson's disease is far more than a dopamine deficiency syndrome, recently it has been suggested that the disease begins in the lower brainstem and olfactory tract, and may only involve the dopaminergic substantia nigra of the midbrain after it is well established in other regions. This genesis could account for what have been termed the "pre-motor features" of Parkinson's disease (i.e., symptoms that may be present long before the development of the classical motor syndrome), including loss of sense of smell, constipation, sleep disorders, and behavioral/personality changes.
As the disease progresses and regions other than the substantia nigra become affected, a number of symptoms that fail to respond to dopamine replacement therapy become apparent. These non-dopaminergic symptoms include "motor" symptoms (speech and swallowing dysfunction; certain abnormalities of gait; and postural instability that makes falls more common) and "non-motor" features (bowel, bladder, and blood pressure abnormalities; sensory complaints such as pain; and psychiatric problems including depression and, most notably, cognitive decline). "Parkinson's disease dementia" (PDD) is a term recently introduced to acknowledge the very common eventual occurrence of dementia in patients with Parkinson's disease.
Patients in the later stages of the disease may still have problems due to dopamine deficiency, and the majority experience Levodopa-related complications. But these problems often take a back seat to the non-dopaminergic features, which come to dominate the clinical picture and significantly impact patients' quality of life.
Q: You have stated that we stand on the verge of a new era in Parkinson's disease therapy and that we will see "a brand new face" of the disease. Please explain.
A: The expected "new face" of Parkinson's disease relates to what could be considered eras in the management of the disease. In the Pre-Levodopa Era (up to 1970), dopaminergic motor features predominated, and because there was no effective control for these disabling motor symptoms, the non-dopaminergic features were overwhelmed by them. Patients typically died before many of the non-dopaminergic symptoms became very evident. In the Levodopa Era (1970 to the present), treated Parkinson's disease became a new disorder, not only manifesting dopaminergic signs and symptoms, but also unexpected motor complications and other side effects (such as psychiatric side effects). With increasing longevity and better control of the dopaminergic features, the non-dopaminergic features have become much more evident and often predominate in the later stages of the disease.
For example, the kind of results that have been demonstrated recently with deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN DBS) show us what I expect will be possible in the foreseeable future for the majority of patients with Parkinson's disease, using a combination of new medical and surgical therapies. The best candidates for DBS are those who have an excellent response to Levodopa prior to surgery with little or no Levodopa-resistant (i.e. non-dopaminergic) manifestations, but who are experiencing disabling Levodopa-related motor fluctuations and dyskinesias. Patients with the best outcomes from this treatment have a resolution of the motor complications, show little in the way of the clinical manifestations of parkinsonism, and may be able to withdraw from dopamine replacement therapy altogether.
Unfortunately, the therapeutic benefit of DBS combined with any ongoing medication slowly declines over the course of five or more years of follow up. This decline is most notable in the same clinical features that become resistant to chronic Levodopa therapy in non-DBS patients (i.e., the non-dopaminergic motor features). In addition, patients begin to develop new symptoms that were not present at the time of surgery, including apathy and cognitive decline (i.e., non-dopaminergic non-motor features).
The responses seen in STN DBS suggest that we are now on the verge of a new stage in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, which might be termed the Non-Dopaminergic Era. In this era, dopaminergic features will no longer be the major consideration in the disability; rather, non-dopaminergic features will dominate the clinical picture—a new clinical face for Parkinson's disease. This expectation underscores the need to move away from the "dopamaic" thinking of the last three decades, move beyond concerns about nigrostriatal dopamine deficiency, and concentrate our efforts on the persisting unmet therapeutic needs. These include the treatment of the cognitive dysfunction and other non-dopaminergic, non-motor, and motor symptoms.
Most importantly, we require better understanding of the pathogenesis of the disease, which will hopefully lead to the development of effective neuroprotective therapies capable of slowing or even halting the progression of the disease and preventing its development in at-risk individuals.
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NOME, Alaska — Dallas Seavey won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Tuesday evening, becoming the youngest musher to win the nearly 1,000-mile race across Alaska.
Seavey turned 25 on March 4, the day the race officially started north of Anchorage. He was the first musher to reach Nome, his nine dogs trotting into the Bering Sea coastal community at 7:29 p.m. Tuesday.
The winner greeted family and friends briefly, then turned to hug his dogs.
"They mean the world to me," said Seavey, of Willow, about 50 miles north of Anchorage.
He finished in nine days, four hours and 29 minutes.
The previous youngest winner was the race's only five-time champion, Rick Swenson, who won his first Iditarod at the age of 26 in 1977. Swenson, now 61, is in this year's race, and was running in the middle of the pack.
Asked about his record-breaking victory, Seavey said it's been a goal since he started racing competitively in 2009.
"When you put your mind on something … good things will happen," he told the crowd under Nome's burled arch finish line.
"Dream big!" he said as he sat with an arm around each of his two lead dogs, who wore their own yellow floral garlands. "Go for it! Why not?"
Seavey said his race strategy was to build position carefully.
"We built a monster that couldn't be stopped," he said, adding there was "no reason to let it out of the cage early."
It's a family affair for the Seaveys. Dallas' father, Mitch, 52, won the race in 2004. He was racing in seventh place when Dallas crossed the finish line.
This year, Dallas' 74-year-old grandfather, Dan, is running in his fifth Iditarod to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Iditarod Trail. His trip to Nome is being sponsored by the Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance to highlight the rich history of the trail.
"It's kind of what we do," Dallas Seavey said when asked about that legacy.
Two of 1978 winner Dick Mackey's sons have also won, Rick Mackey in 1983 and Lance Mackey from 2007-2010.
Dallas Seavey was the first musher to leave White Mountain after completing a mandatory eight-hour layover to rest his dogs. The second musher out was Aliy Zirkle, and Seavey maintained his lead for the last 77 miles of the trail from White Mountain to the finish line in Nome.
Dallas Seavey has been described by his father as "fiercely competitive." The former Alaska high school wrestling champion, who also spent a year at the U.S. Olympic Training Center before turning his attention back to dogs, was the first musher to reach the White Mountain checkpoint at 12:14 a.m. Alaska time.
Sixty-six teams began the race on March 4. Eleven mushers have scratched, including the latest, Tom Thurston of Oak Creek, Colo. He left the race Tuesday afternoon in Unalakleet over concern for his dogs. He was down to eight dogs when he scratched.
Among the 55 mushers left on the trail are 12 rookies. Brent Sass is doing the best among the rookies, at 13th place on Tuesday.
The 32-year-old is originally from Excelsior, Minn., but moved to Fairbanks, where he operates Wild and Free Mushing, his kennel and guiding business.
Sass got a surprise when he arrived at the Unalakleet checkpoint on Sunday. His high school friend, Mike Coumbe of Minneapolis, flew to Alaska to cheer on his friend – with an unusual twist. He attempted to dye his naturally dark brown hair to match the black and yellow team colors of Sass's kennel.
It didn't go that well, and instead he wound up with mostly yellow and green patches, in varying patterns.
"It turned it into a zebra and a seal, I guess, from what I'm hearing," Coumbe said Monday after arriving in Nome for the finish.
"We tried to do black and yellow and it turned out into a bunch of different colors with stripes and polka dots, but so far, everybody's liking it," said Coumbe, who is also a co-host of the satellite television show "Bowhunting Addiction, TV."
Brent's dad, Mark Sass, has spent the last three months cheering on his son at various checkpoints in several races, including the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod.
He's taken three months off from his remodeling contracting business in Minneapolis, and said he's put 5,500 miles on his truck in that time following races.
Mark Sass is a recreational musher, and loves to celebrate his son's accomplishments. "He just loves doing it, and he's not going to do it at the expense of his dogs," he said. "He's a true lover of the sport. And he loves what he does; that's pretty neat. I'm proud to be his dad when I can say that."
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Port Katerinettaburg
Gateway to Zwuyala
The life of cities tends to follow a natural cycle, over the course of centuries: first, a golden era of glory and greatness, followed by decadence, vice, and corruption, which leads the city into an age of ruin and destruction. Port Katerinettaburg, on the other hand, is a city ambitiously pursuing all three phases simultaneously - glory, decadence, and ruin. From its position at the head of the Tugrezi River, it commands trade between the Dark Continent and the ravenous markets of Spindlewick across the Vriendelike Zee. Brave explorers set forth from the city in grand expeditions to discover the secrets of Zwuyala, from the lost canyons of the Rim Valleys to the hidden cities of the Rau Jungle. And yet, despite its youth and wealth, its stone walls are crumbling, its taverns are dens of corruption and vice, and it shudders with death and horrid tropical diseases beneath the shadow of Grootklipsnoep Mountain.
Theme and Mood
Theme: Civilisation and Barbarity
The Empress Katerinetta, for whom the city is named, was famed for her courteous manners, her outrageous beauty, and her fondness for the Soleillaise style of wearing leather boots made from human skin. Port Katerinettaburg considers itself to be an outpost of civilisation on a dark continent filled with savagery and barbarians, but within its walls people as cruel as any orc can be found. Is the 'civilisation' they claim to bring truly an improvement?
Mood: Gateway to Adventure
Stationed as it is on the edge of the Dark Continent, there is a sense in Porkatzburg of being on the verge of something amazing; the way the plant life springs up in every nook and cranny, the glint of a pterodactyl soaring in the breeze, the constant tension between the city and the surrounding countryside. The local newsheet, the Items of Note, is often filled with vivid imagery and reports brought back by expeditions into the heart of Zwuyala. Rumours are constantly flying about lost cities of gold, forgotten gods, and glorious opportunities to find fame and fortune.
The Sights
The wealth of a continent flows through the docks of Port Katerinettaburg, but you wouldn't know it from a quick glance. Dark and crowded, the port district of Porkatburg is the heart of its economy, and of its corruption. Where the murky waters of the Tugrezi flow into the Friendly Sea, native dockworkers scurry to and fro loading fast clippers and enormous galleons with coffee, gold, spices, and other treasures, and drunken sailors stumble from tavern to brothel to sewer, only occasionally pausing to vomit between stops.
The Poisonous Frog
Every city has one. It's the tavern where mysterious strangers in dark cloaks go to seek assistance from unstable mercenaries in unusual quests for gold and experience. In Port Katerinettaburg, that tavern was the Poisonous Frog, up until the point at which it was acquired by Jasmyne Spellman, a young woman with an entirely different idea of what a tavern should be. Murky dank corners have been replaced by al fresco dining under brightly coloured parasols, tankards of ale have been replaced by frilly drinks with pieces of fruit on the side, and the regular clientele have become entirely confused.
Katerinetta University
Founded thirteen years ago by an alcoholic wizard and his imaginary friend, Katerinetta University has since bloomed into a formidable learning institution, in the same way a fungal growth grows into a formidable festering cyst. The University, which currently has a faculty of two and a student body mainly consisting of voodoo dolls, would barely merit a mention were it not for its extremely large and useful library, available to members of the public who are willing to brave a campus that serves mainly as a battlefield between the two archchancellors.
PrinzAlbert Marktplatz
It is said that anything in Zwuyala can be bought at PrinzAlbert, for the right price. An enormous market sprawls across the platz, selling everything from rare spices and exotic perfumes to bizarre curses and oppressed slaves. Colorful tents, exotic scents, and herds of slaves and beass are the dominant sensations within the market. The Governor turns a blind eye to the activities at the PrinzAlbert; as long as it brings wealth to the city he cares little for the sordid details.
Grootklipsnoep Mountain
Though it lies beyond the city walls, th mighty Grootklipsnoep dominates the city. It rises above the city like a god above the Coin, casting it in shadow when the season is right and shining like a brilliant emerald thumb with the evening light. Buried within the mountain lie enormous deposits of rock treacle and stalag toffee, mined by goblin slave labour and shipped off to the confectioneers of Spindlewick.
Johannz Haus
Nestled at the foot of Grootklipsnoep is Johannz Haus, the governor's mansion. Decorated in the Classical Revival style, its majestic white columns and balustrades glisten in the morning sun. From here, the Imperial Governor, Sir Frederick Willhelm de Botha oversees His Imperial Majesty's domain; at least, he does in theory. In practice, he tends to throw the sort of decadent parties that would make old Reman emperors frown, and leaves the practical administration of the colony to merchants and crime lords.
Personages of Note
Sir Frederick Wilhelm de Botha II
A forgotten cousin of the previous Emperor, packaged off to Zwuyala to avoid causing trouble in more important lands, Governor de Botha is a large, fat man with a broad smile and a fondness for exotic women. Despite his fondness for depravity, he makes an effort to present himself a kind and just man to visitors and Imperial agents. If confronted with an uncomfortable situation, he will sincerely promise to do something about it, palm it off to one of the clerks, and then forget about it at the next opportunity.
Colonel D. Jonne Mosterd, 3rd Neuhumbrien Foot
When D. Jonne Mosterd surveys Port Katerinettaburg from his vantage point in Fort Voetreut, he sees a thriving city carving out civilisation from savage wilderness, peaceful and content. His lieutenant, Meester Bodie, strives to maintain this delusion, as he and the rest of the garrison profit quite nicely on the bribes of bandits, criminals, and pirates. Occasionally, they mount a minor punitive expedition against one of the local tribes to given Colonel Mosterd an excuse to "show Johnny Savage the taste of Imperial steel", or simply to distract him from some more serious events in the city.
Xi - The Savage
The city's most powerful crime boss was once a tribesman in the deep Yalahadu Desert, living in the simplest conditions imaginable... but he was happy. That was before the gods saw fit to crash an ornithopter into his village. Within the ornithopter was a magic flask - an alchemist's flask, filled with a potion of invulnerability. The tribe's shaman deemed that the potion was the work of demons, and bid Xi to carry the flask to the edge of the world and hurl it into the void.
He never made it to the edge of the world. Instead, he fell victim to a deeply peculiar institution of civilisation: slavery. Captured by raiders from another tribe, he was sold in Port Katerinettaburg as a sewer cleaner. After several months of abuse, he succumbed to temptation and drank from the flask. When they found the overseer's body, it was not a pleasant sight.
The potion changed Xi. Though its physical effects faded quickly, Xi had tasted power and cruelty, and he couldn't give it up. He became an enforcer for a dockyard gang, and swiftly climbed the ranks of the criminal underground.
Today, Xi rules the city's lowlife with an iron hand. He enjoys the comforts of civilisation, and maintains a beautiful townhouse in the city's wealthy quarter, but enjoys torture and cruelty even more. To cross him is to be marked for a fate worse than death.
Lady Rozelda Rozenheim
One of the most famous adventuresses of the age, Lady Rozelda Rozenheim, the Delving Duchess, makes her permanent home in the fashionable end (i.e., the part without black people) of Port Katerinettaburg. Despite her reputation for adventure, while in town between expeditions, she appears every part the perfect socialite, with the kind of refined beauty that takes a team of trained professionals hours to achieve. The Annual Adventurers' Widows and Children Ball is the event of the social season in Port Katerinettaburg.


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Borrowing a bit from DICE's Battlefield franchise, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare's newest mode Gardens and Graveyards puts you on in the backyard with 23 other players in an objective-based throwdown.
As you can see in the footage above, narrated by producer Brian Lindley, Gardens and Graveyards has a bit in common with both Rush and Conquest mode from Battlefield. The Plants must defend various gardens around the map, while the Zombies must attempt to overtake the garden and raise tombstones before time runs out. Should the Zombies win enough of the encounters, there's a very special endgame waiting for them... which we won't spoil down here. You gotta watch the video to see just how nuts-o it gets.
Over on Major Nelson's blog, Lindley chatted about the Xbox exclusive, and where the developers drew their influence when creating the wildly different PvZ title. "We've taken inspiration from a lot of different games, including Team Fortress 2," Lindley said. "But I think it is difficult to compare Garden Warfare to one specific game. That said, as a 3rd person shooter with a variety of different classes, Garden Warfare sometimes reminds me of the Star Wars Battlefront games from a few years back."
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The 15-member India squad for next month's ICC Champions Trophy will be picked in Mumbai tomorrow and it would be interesting to see whether the selectors give a chance to axed senior players such as Virender Sehwag.cricket Updated: May 03, 2013 12:27 IST
The 15-member India squad for next month's ICC Champions Trophy will be picked in Mumbai on Saturday and it would be interesting to see whether the selectors give a chance to axed senior players such as Virender Sehwag, who does not figure in the 30-member list of probables chosen earlier.
When the selection panel, headed by Sandeep Patil, named the list of probables on April 6, two prominent names -- Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh -- were missing from it.
Since then, the two senior cricketers' form in the ongoing T20 League would have been monitored by the selectors.
It remains to be seen whether the duo have made enough of an impression with their displays in the T20 League to force their way into the final squad for the June 6 to 23 tournament to be held in the United Kingdom.
As per the ICC rules, the selectors have the option to choose players from even outside the probables list announced for the ODI tournament, to be held in England and Wales.
The list contains four openers -- Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Gautam Gambhir and Unmukt Chand -- and it would be interesting to see whether Sehwag makes it as one of three openers likely to be chosen in the final 15.
Similarly, for the spinners' slot, there are five claimants in R Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Ravindra Jadeja, Jalaj Saxena and Parveez Rasool.
Whether Harbhajan can force his way back after showing some good form in IPL remains to be seen.
There are seven middle-order batsmen, four wicketkeepers -- including Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who is expected to be named the skipper -- and 10 medium pace bowlers in the probables mix. India and South Africa are scheduled to kick off the contest on June 6 at the Sophia Gardens at Cardiff, Wales in a Group B match.
India are to take on the West Indies at the Kennington Oval in London on June 11 and then conclude the four-team group engagement on June 15 against arch-rivals Pakistan at Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka form Group A.
The top two teams from each group would progress to the semi-finals scheduled on June 19 and 20 at the Kennington Oval and Sophia Gardens respectively with the winners advancing to the June 23 final to be played at Edgbaston.
This would be the first international engagement for the team after the conclusion of the four-Test series against Australia on March 24.
The list of 30 Indian probables: Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Gautam Gambhir, Unmukt Chand, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, Ajinkya Rahane, A Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav, M S Dhoni, Wriddhiman Saha, Dinesh Karthik, R Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Ravindra Jadeja, Jalaj Saxena, Parvez Rasool, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashok Dinda, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Irfan Pathan, Vinay Kumar, Paveen Kumar, I C Pandey and Sidharth Kaul.
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ANAHEIM – Vancouver Island-based salmon company Skuna Bay hosted a cooking challenge at The Catch in Anaheim last week.
Five Southern California and Nevada chefs, including Andrew Sutton from Napa Rose in Anaheim, competed for a chance to cook alongside a James Beard-nominated chef during next month's Kentucky Derby. Besides Sutton, chefs competing were Eugenio Martignago of West in Carlsbad, Christopher Eddy of Campanile in Los Angeles, Kenneth Fazel of Tender Steak & Seafood at the Luxor Las Vegas, and Chris George of Roy's in Pasadena.
During the two-hour competition, chefs cooked salmon dishes from recipes approved by Skuna Bay, a new Kentucky Derby sponsor. After the two-hour competition, judges declared Sutton the winner. Sutton called his dish a "celebration of Orange County."
He prepared the salmon four ways, using citrus to enhance each tasting. Sutton, who has never competed in a formal cooking challenge, said he was nervous as the winning dishes were being announced.
"I had four different dishes, so it was a bit risky," he said.
Judge Florent Marneau, chef and owner of Marché Moderne in Costa Mesa, said he was impressed with the way the chefs handled the pressure in the kitchen. The chefs were rated for their butchering skills, as well as their dishes' flavor, presentation and originality. He called Sutton's salmon dishes "clean" with a nice "progression of flavor."
Fazel nabbed second place. He and Sutton will move on to an April 18 semifinal contest to compete against regional winners from Vancouver, Denver and Napa. (4/15 Update: Celebrity chefs Stephanie Izard and Jennifer Jasinski will judge Sutton and four other chefs at the semifinal contest at Drago Centro in downtown Los Angeles.)
The winner of that competition will join an East Coast chef in Louisville, Ky. Both will be paired with prominent chefs who recently were named finalists for the upcoming James Beard Awards.
The winner of the final competition will be announced at the annual Taste of Derby food event May 2. The grand prize winner will get a full page ad in Saveur magazine.
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Replacing many older aircraft ground servicing electrical systems, solid-state frequency inverters (SSFI) are primarily being used these days as a cost-savings initiative. Because the older systems were based upon a central rotating frequency changer (motor-generator) that operated 24/7, the energy and maintenance costs have become excessive. Point-of-use frequency inverters have lower operating and maintenance costs as they are energized only when needed.
Point-of-use SSFIs are intended to be installed as a permanent part of the facility power distribution and wiring system. The facility power system provides the input to the SSFI where it is rectified to direct current (DC), and through oscillator-referenced solid-state switching components, inverted into a new frequency, namely 400 Hz. A flexible, special-purpose power cable attached to the aircraft power distribution system feeds this 400-Hz power to the aircraft using a unique plug-and-socket arrangement. The cable may be configured with single or multiple conductors for each phase and the neutral. In all configurations, it has two interlock conductors as a safety measure that prevents the cable from being energized until the connector is sufficiently seated in the aircraft receptacle. It does not contain an equipment grounding conductor (Photo).
Source characteristics. Aircraft ground servicing power is identical to that provided by the aircraft generators — a 115/200V, 3-phase, 4-wire, wye-connected electrical system. According to the "400-Hz Fixed Power Systems Design Guidebook," the system "should be grounded at some point; to a metal underground water pipe, or the metal reinforcing bars of a building, or the grid system of the airport ramp. The grounding electrode conductor must not be any smaller than one-half the cross-sectional area of a phase conductor."
Because SSFI units commonly contain an output line contactor as well as overcurrent protection, they also serve as the service disconnect. Military Standard 704E, Revision E, 1991, defines the electrical system as a "single-phase or 3-phase wye-connected grounded neutral system having a nominal voltage of 115/200V." Therefore, it's clear that the installation of such a system must be treated as a derived electrical system.
Because the required output must be in a "grounded wye" configuration, the NEC grounding requirements for derived electrical services must be followed. As per 250.4(A)(1), "Electrical systems that are grounded shall be connected to earth in a manner that will limit the voltage imposed by lightning, line surges, or unintentional contact with higher-voltage lines and that will stabilize the voltage to earth during normal operation."
Failure to properly ground the neutral conductor is an NEC and OSHA violation. As per 29 CFR Part 1910, Subpart S — Electrical, 1910.304(f)(3)(i), "For a grounded system, a grounding electrode conductor shall be used to connect both the equipment grounding conductor and the grounded circuit conductor to the grounding electrode. Both the equipment grounding conductor and the grounding electrode conductor shall be connected to the grounded circuit conductor on the supply side of the service disconnecting means, or on the supply side of the system disconnecting means or overcurrent devices if the system is separately derived." Unfortunately, the aircraft service cable does not contain an equipment grounding conductor.
For example, recent noise voltage measurements on a 180kVA frequency inverter found to be missing the system bonding jumper resulted in maximum and minimum voltage measurements of +17.2V and -19.9V. On another poorly bonded system, these measurements yielded a maximum voltage (peak) reading of +3.61V and a minimum reading of -4.36V. After the bonding jumper and fittings on this second system were replaced, the maximum voltage (peak) reading dropped to +0.31V, and the minimum reading dropped to -0.18V.
Load characteristics. Electrically speaking, there is little difference between steel hulled ships, metal frame manufactured housing, and today's modern aircraft. All have electrically conductive skins or frames; the difference being the medium in which each travels. Each can contain any mixture of electrical machinery and complex electronics. However, apparently as a weight-saving practice, only the aircraft, with its grounded wye electrical system is allowed to permit load current flow on the metallic structure. In fact, it is common practice to provide single phase, 115V, 400-Hz electrical power to any conceivable load using a single conductor, the return current thus flowing across the structure. Both commercial and military aircraft generally use the structure both as a ground plane and as a neutral conductor.
Commercial aviation in the United States uses a bonding cable only when fueling with the cable connected to the fueling source as opposed to an earth ground. An earthing connection is not used when the aircraft is at a boarding gate or otherwise receiving ground power from a frequency inverter.
The risk of electromagnetic interference (EMI) damage from excessive common-mode electrical noise is clearly stated in IEEE-Std 1100, Section 4.4.5, as having three distinct types of occurrences: Type I, signal-data disruption; Type II, gradual hardware stress and latent failure; and Type III, immediate hardware destruction.
A Type I, signal-data disruption occurrence, for example, could happen when a keypad data entry (as part of preflight preparations) is corrupted by noise, such that part of the binary data group is forced to an incorrect value. Unless the input is checked for validity, or the word is transmitted multiple times, an improper flight data signal could be transmitted as an input to flight control electronics systems.
An example of Type II gradual hardware stress and latent failure could be a failure that seems to indicate faulty software, but is in fact marginalized operation of solid-state data devices, damaged by EMI but still attempting to function normally. It would be very difficult to determine the difference.
An example of Type III, immediate hardware destruction, would be an avionics device not answering a data bus poll, thus requiring an equipment change. Such damage to solid-state devices can be detected by inspection of failed units using micro-photography. Substrate metal migration is known to form with as little as 5V of noise, thus leaving an indelible signature that may not necessarily be reduced by post incident fire or impact.
The system. Good engineering requires that load characteristics, including any unusual peculiarities, be carefully considered during the design and installation process of new electrical services. The sketches attempt to illustrate individual cases that should be considered. Above all, you must remember that, unlike all other electrical systems, aircraft systems are prone to use the structure (skin and/or airframe) as a current-carrying conductor. This places special emphasis on proper installation and monitoring of premises voltage system sources.
Figure 1 (click here to see Fig. 1) shows a typical aviation installation in which a static bonding cable is not required. This case has the highest possibility of inducing common-mode electrical noise resulting from an improper system bond into the mission avionics as it can develop relatively high common-mode voltages.
Figure 2 (click here to see Fig. 2) shows a typical installation in which a static bond strap is required. Use of the static bond cable reduces common-mode noise by referencing the aircraft structure to earth ground, but provides a current path for neutral currents. Such currents will circulate in a facility as long as the service flex cable is attached to the aircraft — whether or not ground power is applied.
Figure 3 (click here to see Fig. 3) shows the same scenario as Fig. 2 with the addition of a ground-fault sensor. This is a simple means of monitoring static ground cable current. The function of the fault sensor is to monitor the resulting net current difference and ensure that if pre-set limits are exceeded, an automatic shutdown of the SSFI occurs, including activation of a visual alarm. In this scenario, potential damage to aircraft internal wiring would be detected early. Here, the ground fault is detected while still on the ground, at relatively low fault current levels. Because aircraft center fuel tank fires while on the ground are not unknown, and structure-borne neutral currents are the norm, this becomes an excellent way to minimize risks of fire.
Figure 4 (click here to see Fig. 4) shows another scenario, in which an inadvertent ground loop may be formed. Again, a simple ground fault monitor might detect this situation and avoid a catastrophe. Any premises electrical system-powered aircraft service cart used during ground operations may induce a ground loop, resulting in circulating currents via the aircraft structure. If the attachment hose or other appendage is electrically conductive, the premises 480V, 60-Hz equipment grounding conductor may come in contact with the 400-Hz neutral conductor. This would allow current to circulate over the structure ground bonds. Should a fault then develop, or be pre-existing in the service cart insulation, the resulting possible high current flow through the aircraft structure could significantly raise the risk of fire.
Checks and balances. Aircraft are unique, electrically dependent industrial processes that must correctly interface with aviation premises permanent wiring systems. Unfortunately, the special requirements presented by aircraft may not be universally understood. Like other electrical devices covered by the NEC that act to change the system voltage and/or frequency, such as electric vehicle charging stations (Art. 625), electric welders (Art. 630), and electric welders (Art. 669), SSFIs should be properly installed as per the NEC. In other words, all SSFIs should be installed as a derived electrical service. Failure to do so is a violation of NEC, OSHA 29CFR 1910 Subpart K, and possibly state-specific OSHA rules.
McClelland is a principal engineer, Mishap Prevention & Hazard Abatement Programs, Integrated Systems - Maritime Systems Sector, General Dynamics Information Technology, San Diego.
Sidebar: Aircraft Grounding Issueson the Ground
Fixed aircraft ground power units, known as frequency inverters, are often installed improperly in an aviation facility.
These electrical systems are used to supply 400-Hz electrical power to aircraft parked inside maintenance hangars or on flight lines. They also may be installed in Avionic R&D or repair facilities. Such systems fall under the National Electrical Code (NEC) section 250-20(D) as a derived electrical system as it is permanently attached to (and derived from) the facility 60-Hz electrical system.
As a derived system, it must have a system bonding jumper that effectively grounds the neutral point of the frequency source to achieve a predictable limit for overvoltage conditions. Failure to configure these systems as derived electrical systems using a system bonding jumper may contribute to voltage instability and excessive electrical noise. Due to the unique configuration of the aircraft power distribution system, this has the very real potential to damage the solid-state components of the aircraft avionics equipment. Compliance with NEC, coupled with employing a simple ground-fault alarm system, can improve safety.


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Photography Seminar Zooms In on Current Events
Following a year filled with protests, marches and building occupations due to fee hikes and budget cuts in the 2009-10 academic year, an idea clicked for computer science professor Brian Barsky to introduce a freshman seminar that used a hands-on approach to learning about current events and renewed the activist spirit on campus.
Barsky had previously been teaching "The Art and Science of Photography" for about seven years through the freshman seminar program, which allows professors to teach a specific topic to a class of around 15 to 20 students. The original class focused on technical aspects of photography and what goes into an effective photograph as well as the history and artistic movements which affected the art.
However, his new class, "Photographing History in the Making" - which began last semester and starts up again this semester - included in its discussion the history of past protest movements on campus and current events, such as fee hikes and budget cuts on campus. Students in the seminar were given a subscription to The New York Times to stay on top of current events.
"Some of the objectives of this course is to learn about photojournalism and documentary photography as well as the role of photography both to show what is happening in an unbiased and neutral way and as a vehicle for activism," he said.
Barsky said that in a course based on current events, he is often "at the mercy" of the news in order to decide what events will be a big focus - in the fall he focused on the 2010 midterm election and the Oct. 7 protest.
Students in the seminar last semester took photographs of the campus every week that would be evaluated and discussed in class. On certain days, like the Oct. 7 protest, the class met beyond its regularly scheduled time to take photos.
Barsky said one of the goals of the course was to understand current events through a more hands-on approach, rather than simply lecturing students about current events.
"This is a new kind of laboratory. Instead of the chemistry lab, our campus is our lab," he said.
The course was meant in part to educate and present multiple sides of discussions that dominated much of the new students' first semester, according to Barsky.
"I wouldn't say it made me more liberal or more conservative," said freshman Nicholas Chang, an electrical engineering and computer science major who took the seminar last semester. "It led me to want to think about things more, when I read the news, to actually ponder what it's saying, how it affects me and how it affects other people."
Though Barsky is a computer science professor, he said that he has had a passion for photography for years. While he said this type of course is different from what he is used to teaching, he considers it part of his responsibility as an educator to teach students to be engaged in the civic process.
"As an international student, I enjoy this class especially because it offers me a chance to learn what 'democracy' means to America," said freshman Tianyu Guan, who took the class last semester, in an e-mail.
Alluding to the pictures from the Free Speech Movement in 1964 that his students studied in the course, Barsky speculated that photos taken in the class could one day serve other individuals as historical documents.
"Perhaps after the next 46 years have passed, students will be interested in looking at photographs taken way back in 2010," he said.
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The Washington Post has a very revealing article about the failed debt negotiations last year:
Obama, nervous about how to defend the emerging agreement to his own Democratic base, upped the ante in a way that made it more difficult for Boehner — already facing long odds — to sell it to his party. Eventually, the president tried to put the original framework back in play, but by then it was too late. The moment of making history had passed.
In other words, they had a deal, then Obama tried to unilaterally change it in his favor, and killed the whole process by his bad faith. What a shock.
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