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Flights to Narvik
SAS, the largest airline company in Scandinavia, offers international flight tickets to Narvik, Norway.
Harstad and Narvik are two towns in the north of Norway, centrally located in the area - Harstad on the west coast and Narvik on the east. You can fly into the Harstad-Narvik airport to reach both towns.Both Harstad and Narvik offer scenic landscapes as well as a number of activities that make them worth a visit. The area around the Harstad-Narvik airport itself is surrounded by a number of white sandy beaches, hiking trails and beautiful fjords. There are direct flights with SAS to Harstad-Narvik from Bodø, Oslo, Tromsø and Trondheim.
Harstad sits on Norway's largest island, Hinnøya, and is an important cultural center in the area. Every June, the city is host to the Festival of Northern Norway, one of the most important arts festivals in the country. The festival aims to showcase the cultural diversity of Norway's far north. Thousands of people attend the festival each year, which features both professional and amateur artists across a number of disciplines, including music, theater, dance, film, fine arts and more.
While in Harstad, you can explore the Trodenes Peninsula to learn about the history of the area. Visit the Trondenes Historical Center, and you'll find exhibits on the history of North Norway from the Viking-era through today. Nearby is the Trondenes Church, built in 1150 by King Øystein. Also in the area is the Adolf Gun, one of the largest land-based guns from World War II. Harstad is also a great town from which to view the aurora borealis (Northern Lights) and, during the summer, the midnight sun.
Narvik is a seaport located on the Ofotfjord north of the Arctic Circle. The city is an important port for the whole northern region—thanks to the Gulf Stream, Narvik's harbor remains ice-free year-round, despite its northern location. The city is surrounded by panoramic views of beautiful forests, fjords and mountains. Outdoor activities are extremely popular here. In the area, you can ski, snowboard, hike, rock climb, mountain bike, paraglide, go whale watching, play golf and more.
One of the main attractions in Narvik is the Ofoten Railway. This train ride takes you from Narvik to the Swedish border and covers stunning scenery as you climb through the mountains towards Sweden. In town, you can also ride the Narvikfjellet Cable Car up Fagernesfjellet Mountain to get majestic views of the surrounding mountains and fjords.
What's up in Narvik
Hiking is a way of life. Rent a hut and start walking.
Famous Hurtigruten tours the Norwegian coastline. Daily departures from nearby Harstad.
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Today at Colliding Universes
Colliding Universes is my blog about theories about our universe.
Major media, imagining themselves sober, think there are many universes, not just double vision
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"MOVING ON" doesn't mean I'm leaving Stampin' Up! or you, but it does mean I'm moving my blog from right here on TypePad to right here on WordPress. The new blog name is StampinG With Blythe. (You don't need to capitalize that "G".) There are quite a few reasons for the move but the main one is putting a "g" in my blog name.
It might seem a small thing but I'm guaranteed it'll be worth the effort. This blog, Stampin' With Blythe will remain open for several months, maybe longer. ALL previous posts have been migrated to the new blog. All new posts will now be posted on the new blog. Again: www.stampingwithblythe.com.
I'll still be stamping in My Country Loft Studio. I'll still be having classes in my home or yours. I'll still be stamping at the Mi Wuk Library on the 3rd Thursday of the month, 1-3 p.m. I'll still be available via email (blythe@stampinwithblythe) or phone (above in my banner) or via my online store here.
Ahh......email! I have also updated my email to reflect the addition of the infamous 'g'. firstname.lastname@example.com. You can use either one since both are now 'live'. As soon as I make new business cards, however, the firstname.lastname@example.com will be on them.
You'll be seeing a new banner and totally refreshed blog set up. And the exciting thing: I have done it totally by myself! I've had lots of guidance from John Sanpietro and his blogging boot camps (all of them over the years!) and my daughter-in-law, Khris Cochran of DIY Bride. I actually think she breathes WordPress (my new blog host). Yes, she's a guru. There is still some fine tuning to be done; it'll all be sorted out as I find something that needs tweaking. Feel free to let me know if a link doesn't work. I'm going cross-eyed trying to catch all the possible glitches.
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Sheryl Sandberg had an opportunity to be CEO of LinkedIn in 2006, but turned down the job, she reveals in her new book, "Lean In".The book isn't out yet, but Tom Gara at the Wall Street Journal landed an advanced copy and has been peeling out some of the most interesting nuggets.
Sandberg says that in 2006, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman approached her about being the CEO of LinkedIn. At the time, she was 37, and she had been at Google for five years.
She was definitely interested in a new challenge, but running LinkedIn may have been too big of a challenge. She still wanted to have another child and so she passed on the job.
Smart move! She later became COO of Facebook, acting as a powerful second in command for Mark Zuckerberg.
LinkedIn and Facebook are both fantastically successful companies, and it's hard to say if LinkedIn would have done better, or worse under Sandberg, but let's assume it did the same.
From a purely financial standpoint, Facebook has worked out very nicely for Sandberg.
At the time of the IPO, we estimated Sandberg's Facebook shares as being worth $1 billion. Since the stock slipped, those same shares are around $700 million today.
When LinkedIn IPO'd, we pegged Weiner's shares as being worth $200 million. The stock has done well and right now, those same shares would be worth $292 million.
The caveat with those numbers: It looks like Weiner has had some more shares vest, and is probably worth a little bit more.
The other thing to note: Both of them are filthy rich, doing good work, and seem very happy with how this all worked out. So, what's a few hundred million between friends?
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Genealogy Cruising – Why I Am A Fan!
Below is my original post – I have now discovered Day 6 and Overview blogs written by Aimee which give her final points on her experiences during the cruise. Max and I found the smoke free side of the ship early on and I don't think either of us will go close to only gaining .5kg like Aimee!
The other point that I sadly neglected to make in my original post was to thank Alan, Anthea, Alona, Rosemary and Aimee from UTP and Jacqui from Clean Cruising for all their hard work organising a smooth running program all week. Thanks everyone.
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Well I am just back from my first ever genealogy cruise on P&O's Pacific Dawn and I could go again tomorrow. The inaugural Unlock The Past (UTP) history and genealogy cruise in conjunction with Clean Cruising was a success from my perspective on a number of fronts.
This is in contrast, however, to the strangely negative view of UTP staff member Aimee who did daily blogs while on board – see Day 1 Part 1, Day 1 Part 2, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5.
Internet was expensive on board and I was having my annual time out from my laptop and the Internet just to prove to my loved ones that I am not addicted!
Had I accessed the Internet while on board and been aware of the content of Aimee's daily blogs, I would have challenged her views and done my own blog. I acknowledge that everyone views things differently but I think if UTP does this again, they do need to have a blogger who is actually a genealogist to get a better overview of how the cruise was perceived by the primary attendees. I hope other attendees will blog their opinions as well.
Perhaps my different view is because I am more than twice Aimee's age and while I probably do fit into her description of genealogists/family historians with a 'wild, purposeful look in their eyes', I also have a history background (as Aimee has) and find that the two disciplines can quite nicely complement each other. Even my partner who has neither discipline, found the sessions he attended interesting.
I also enjoyed the opportunity to meet Twitter and email friends in person and it is also nice to see that a few of my cruise friends are now trying out Twitter.
I had been on two previous cruises (back in 1975 and 1976 – my first ever overseas trips) so the difference this time was simply staggering. It was everything I enjoyed back then and more. Amazing where 36 years can go! The food was great, service was terrific, entertainment was non stop and there was onboard shopping too. Take all of that and add an interesting program of history and genealogy talks plus being able to network on a daily basis with genealogy friends from around Australia and New Zealand, I was constantly having to decide what to do next.
Talks were held in the International Show Room (huge room which left speakers disconnected from the audience I felt), the Dome (easily the most chilly room on the ship and not well designed for easy viewing of the screen) and the Captain's Lounge (an on board wedding chapel which was my favourite as it was much more intimate with the drawback of only having 50-60 attendees at a time). There were also theme meetings over lunch and dinner, smaller group meetings around the ship and much discussion over breakfast, coffee and cocktails.
The cruise primary program offered a range of speakers and talks and once on board further talks were added as UTP was allocated time in the Captain's Lounge. The only issue with the latter was the limited number able to attend but the more popular sessions were repeated. I would like to see these additional offerings added to the primary program on the UTP website as a permanent record of what the full program was during the cruise.
Some of the speakers had also been presenters on the November UTP Roadshow and I had heard their talks before so deciding what sessions to attend was a little easier for me but those who hadn't attended any of the Roadshows it was a tough choice.
I personally enjoyed listening to Cora Num (handouts on her website click on the gopher), Mike Murray, Jeremy Palmer (handouts on his website), Ron Austin, Helen Smith (new book on one of her shipboard talks – UTP publications available from Gould Genealogy), Leigh Summers, Carol Baxter and Jan Gow. I personally didn't get to many of the Captain's Lounge talks due to the limited numbers.
My own presentations were well received and I was given feedback over various meal sessions, in the lift, on the innumerable stairs, on deck and even on shore. Two of my presentations are on my website in the Resources area (scroll down to Presentations) – Google Your Family Tree: Tips & Tricks and Online Trends in Family History but unfortunately you wont' have the additional commentary that accompanied my talks.
Max and I got a bit of a buzz hearing my public talk on Genealogy on the Cheap being announced on the ship's TV program and also in the ship's newsletter. Cora Num was the other presenter who gave a public lecture on Beginning Your Family History.
The three places visited, Noumea, Lifou and Port Vila, were interesting and I was somewhat surprised that there hadn't been more development over the last 36 years but then perhaps that is a good thing for the island people! I always love travelling to different countries and observing their history and customs. I bought the obligatory fridge magnets to record my travels.
I must also thank Rosemary and Eric Kopittke for coming to our rescue when our digital camera totally filled up (who would have thought Max would take that much footage?). They lent us a USB cable so that we could download the photos and videos to my laptop so that Max could continue his enthusiastic filming of just about every moment!
For those on the ball, yes I did take my laptop on the cruise with me but that was so that I could review my talks before presenting them and I will also admit to doing some data entry into my Legacy program while Max was off on a quad bike ride. Other than that I was computer free!
While I learnt new things from the various presenters, I think it is the personal networking opportunity to discuss research issues with others that was the most valuable part of the cruise. With so many experts on board, even those not presenting, it was easy to refer people to someone who could assist with their questions. The seven days seemed to go remarkably fast and it was all over far too soon.
After disembarking we went back to Mum's place and in the afternoon, we drove up to Mount Cootha and saw the Pacific Dawn berthed at Hamilton. We arrived just in time to see her depart and watched as she went under the Gateway Bridge. After a quick coffee, we went back up to the lookout area to see her at the mouth of the Brisbane River and sailing out into Moreton Bay. I found myself wishing I was still on board with all my genealogy friends! Would I do it again – most definitely!
I totally enjoyed the cruise as well and the same as you would love to repeat it all again. It was great to be among like minded people. My fear was that maybe some of the talks/presenters would go way over my head but I was extremely happy that everyone presentered in an easy to understand format.
Great summing up of the week, Shauna! I would be hard pressed to think of anything negative about the cruise & the conference, but I did come with an open mind & was ready to enjoy anything. I will be going on a 'normal' cruise in future so I can experience a full itinerary of touristy things, but the chance to do this genealogy cruise was fantastic.
I am an avid cruiser so was intersted in hearing about the event, thanks for your report. I am giving serious consideration to the NZ cruise but also want to head back to Rootstech next year…my dilemma is that my dollars can only stretch so far.
Hi Shauna,
I am saddened to read that you thought my blogs to be negative, and indeed that they would even come across that way, as I value your opinion. Hopefully my final blog, http://www.unlockthepast.com.au/blog/35/2011/unlock-past-cruise-march-2011-overview
will convince you otherwise (it was written before I thought about reading yours). I tried to be as honest as I could be, and obviously my sense of humour wasn't recognised in some of my comments (referring, of course, to genies having a 'wild look in their eyes'). I meant no offence to anyone and presumed it would be taken light-heartedly, as with the rest of my blog. My interest is primarily in history and not genealogy, though hopefully as I made clear, the genealogy talks were quite interesting, especially yours and Cora's, which were presented more towards people like me without a genie background.
Thanks Aimee – I have now added your final two days of cruise blogs at the front of my original post. It is good to know that you did enjoy yourself and I am impressed with your ability to resist the food temptations. You may have been the only one!
Thanks for giving us an alternate view of the cruise, I'm sorry I couldn't go!
I would love to be able to go on one of these one day. Maybe when my family is older . . . . sounds like fun!
Yes Shauna I do intend to put up the full program for the record when I get back to Adelaide. Also links to talk notes online and maybe some testimonials we have received. I have just caught up with the blogs after driving to Coffs Harbour and back to further planning for the NSW Expo 2011 Coffs Harbour (a great venue and great local support).
Loved reading about the cruise :-))) Wish I could have joined you but have not figured out how to be in 2 places at the same time.
I am not a twitter nor facebook person but couldn't resist reading yours Shauna. I thought it was a great cruise and thoroughly enjoyed myself the whole time, ashore and aboard. I couldn't resist visiting Aimee's site after reading yours! It was great to catch up with you again and hope to see you later today at the Kedron-Wavell Services Club. Bring on the next Cruise…
I have also written a blog of the cruise – available at http://jennyalogy.blogspot.com/
There was one person who actually LOST weight on the cruise. My husband, who is not interested in genealogy, and who religiously ate only fruit and dry toast for breakfast, salad for lunch, and usually salad for dinner. He also walked around the ship purposefully each day for at least 45 minutes. He's lost 1.3kg. Not bad going!
Thanks for putting your presentations on your Web site – and thanks for visiting my blog and adding a comment to my report of the cruise. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who preferred eating at smaller tables!
The dilemma with tables was that often more than 10 wanted to be in on the discussion. They varied on the recent cruise, depending on location and participants. Also between lunch and evening. All I attended (each with 10 seats) were OK. Smaller tables are clearly better, but we had to cut off many at 10 and in a couple of instances chose to repeat the topic. The November cruise will be entirely different program wise. I expect the Vollendam's "table topics" to often occur outside meal times in smaller breakout rooms – with the program pretty well fixed before the cruise.
Thank you Shauna for a great read with your blog it encapsulated the cruise brilliantly – My friend Deb and I thoroughly enjoyed the conference, although we were a bit brain dead at the end – and having to leave the ship at 6.35am on Saturday morning was a bit traumatic – we spent 5 more nights in Brisbane, before returning to Sydney – all in all had a wonderful time, and didn't gain any weight either.
Thanks Shauna for all your contributions, the presentations and the blog. My non-genie husband even attended your first talk on the different sailing conditions, then and now and he enjoyed it.
Working from a home office where I rarely get to talk to people face to face I had a wonderfully social week and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Even tho some of the venues and arrangements available to the conference were not always ideal, I thought Alan and his team did an amazing job to surmount so many obstacles.
The first week back at work was something of a rude shock and I've only just had some time to look back over all my notes and read the blogs. Like Shauna I decided to stay off the Internet when I saw the prices! it neve hurts to give my "mouse"arm a little rest 🙂
Just wanted to let Shauna know she wasnt the only one who had that view of Aimee's blogs. I saw the attempt at humour but in general thought they were overly negative and I was left wondering why someone not interested in genealogy was reviewing a genealogy cruise.
I think Aimee meant well but I wouldn't want to go on the cruise she described. I am further perplexed by her final blog (link in her post above) as I wouldn't have expected a positive conclusion from reading the previous ones.


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Candide over Nebraska
Once I flew through a thunder/lightening storm in Nebraska, naked, in a 1948 Stinson 4-seater cloth airplane with my schizo-affective (schizophrenic plus bi-polar) boyfriend - who was a 3-pack a day chain smoker. I was naive...
I did not realize how seriously mentally ill he was - that came a few years later after he had a psychotic break. At this point, he was simply quirky, introspective, and made peculiar statements. Some people thought he was profound.
I met Sigmund through some mutual friends. What I noticed is that he was quiet, handsome, had a degree in aviation and a minor in meteorology. He was funny and sweet and said very unpredictable things. He was unabashedly eccentric but at that time, to me, being unusual was a ringing endorsement. I was not interested in status quo men. Then he told me that he had his own airplane... a pizza delivery guy who just happened to have an airplane. This really peaked my curiosity.
He took me to see it. It was a 1940's Stinson, canary yellow, with a brown pin-strip down the length of the plane and two large supported wings. He showed me how he put the gasoline in the wings of the airplane - how much he loved the smooth steel propeller - how the exterior of the plane was made of cloth. He pressed the backside of the plane with his index finger and it indented slightly then sprung back to it's taunt position like a drum. Inside, the cabin had dark blue plastic seats and carpet and a busy array of old fashioned dials. There was a chrome embossed Saint Christopher medallion pressed into the dashboard and tiny chrome ashtrays on the doors - just like a classic car from the same era. It flew about 100 miles an hour... not exactly speedy, but way cooler than the 54 Buick my former boyfriend had, by a landslide.
The following week he invited me to fly with him to Minnesota to get some cheese. I packed a few things and he threw a tent in the back of the plane. I developed a routine for flying with Sig in the Stinson: I put in my earplugs; steadied my shades; located my barf bag and closed my eyes in preparation for take-off. The engine made a deafening noise and everything vibrated wildly. My assumption was that Sig was an excellent pilot but this was based on virtually no experience with private planes. He chain-smoked - as did I, but I was not cognoscente of the facts -- cloth wings, ash sparks - go boom, fall down. When he was flying he lit cigarettes with cigarettes and stacked them neatly perpendicular to allow for maximum room to extinguish multiple butts. Once we were in the air he told me that I needed to keep the smoking down because it was dangerous. A few minutes later he lit another cigarette. The engine was very loud and I was searching the landscape for markers on an aerial map so we could tell where we were. Switching views between the terrain below and the map in the cabin made me motion sick. The only thing I could do to keep from throwing up was to stare at objects inside the cabin.
For some reason he wore a miner's lamp on his forehead. Once we were somewhere over northeastern Colorado he started shifting around. He got up and took off his shirt, then his pants and finally his underwear. He was naked with the miners lamp, dark sunglasses and a cigarette clenched between his lips in a grimace. I asked him why he took his clothes off and he just chuckled and urged me to join him in nakedness. At first I protested and said something stupid like, what if someone sees us, and he pointed out that there was no one up there. Trapped by the logic, I gingerly agreed. There we were flying over the Bible Belt, butt-naked, chain-smoking, laughing and spotting highways, ravines and towers over the great plains of America.
The Stinson wasn't capable of flying above the clouds like a jet (or Sig was afraid to), so we were flying just under them. There was an eerie fascinating glow to the sky. At one point he became very concentrated and quiet, not giddy anymore and he stopped smoking. I noticed that he was sweating, shifty and nervous. Out of the windows, I could see lightning bolts in the clouds around us. I watched a large flash of lightning happen out my window. My long hair became static and the air felt thick and different. I realized that there were probably five or six clouds that were discharging lightning around the little cloth plane we were in. Sig yelled, "We're going to have to land because we could get killed in this storm." We had just crossed-over the border of Colorado toward a small town in Nebraska. Sig maneuvered through the storm down to the little rural airport. I was mesmerized and enthralled at how beautiful lightning looked up-close but was disappointed that I had to put my clothes back on.
There was a clearly marked landing strip in the little airport that was dotted with tiny blue lights on both sides. Once we were on the ground it became apparent that the airport was closed for the night. Sig secured the plane to something (I can't remember how now - but it wasn't very windy - small planes like that can blow away in strong winds), and we started to look to see if there was anything to eat... maybe a vending machine or a diner within walking distance. It took a few minutes for us to realize that we were essentially locked-in behind a tall barbed wire chain link fence that stretched around the entire airport complex. Sig dragged the pup tent out of the back of the cabin and pitched it on the grass right next to the blue lights on the runway. We found a pay phone and called Pizza Hut for a delivery to the airport. They slid a hot pizza box under the locked gate at the entrance and took our $20. We carried it back to the tent and ate it in the blue glowing grass. It was a completely surreal moment of calmness. A caretaker of the grounds came across our little campsite as he made his rounds in a golf-cart. He freaked out at first, then laid off the Barney Fife routine and just let us sleep there. In the morning we flew the plane back to Denver.
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ATLANTA, Ga. – The Brandeis University women's basketball team defeated host Emory University, 75-72, today as the Judges outscored the Eagles, 8-2, over the final 3:25. In the process, Brandeis improved to 13-11 on the season and 7-6 in the University Athletic Association, clinching their first winning season since 2009-10 and locking up a position no worse than fourth in the UAA after being selected last among the eight teams in the league's preseason poll. Emory falls to 16-8, 5-8 UAA.
Brandeis put three players in double figures. The Judges' starting front-court of rookie Maria Jackson (Rochester, N.Y./Hilton) and senior Nicolina Vitale (Clinton Township, Mich./Chippewa Valley) led the way, combining for 29 points, 15 rebounds and 12-for-24 shooting. Jackson was the team's top scorer with 15 points on 6-of-10 from the field, while grabbing seven rebounds. Vitale pitched in with 14 points, hitting 6-of-14, while leading the Judges with eight caroms, four on the offensive glass.
The Judges also got key contributions off the bench from a pair of sophomore guards. Samantha Mancinelli (Durham, Conn./Coginchaug Regional) scored a career-high 13 points, hitting 5-of-8 from the field, with five rebounds. Niki Laskaris (Swampscott, Mass./Swampscott) added nine points, hitting three of the team's four 3-pointers. Brandeis outshot Emory, 47.5% (29-61) to 35.3% (30-85), for the game and 54.2% (13-24) to 31.8% (14-44) in the second half.
Emory was paced by Savannah Morgan, who led all players with 21 points, but Morgan needed 26 shots to get her points, hitting 9-of-26 overall and 3-of-6 from beyond the arc. Morgan also led the Eagles with nine rebounds (three offensive). EU's Selena Castillo also reached double-digit scoring but needed a plethora of shots to get there, scoring 12 points on 5-of-18 from the floor with a 3-pointer and a free throw. The Eagles owned large margins on the offensive glass (24-14) and in turnovers (17-8), but they were unable to take advantage owning just a 15-14 edge in second-chance points and trailing 14-13 in points off turnovers.
Brandeis got off to a frigid start, missing 10 of their first 11 shots and trailing 13-4 less than six-and-a-half minutes into the game after a Morgan jumper. Laskaris kick-started the Judge offense with her first trifecta on the next possession, and the Judges eventually went ahead, 25-24, on a Mancinelli lay-up with just over seven minutes remaining in the half. Mancinelli had a steal on the next Emory possession and turned it into an assist on Julia Scanlon's (Long Valley, N.J./West Morris) lay-up that made it a three-point lead. Brandeis was still ahead, 31-28, on a Kasey Dean (Southbury, Conn./Pomperaug) jumper at the 4:13 mark, but Emory embarked on a 12-4 run to take a five-point lead before Brandeis's Janelle Rodriguez (Peabody, Mass./Peabody Veterans) nailed a 3-pointer with 31 seconds left to make it a 40-38 lead for the Eagles at the break. Mancinelli and Vitale each had eight points in the first half, while Morgan had 16 before the break.
After Jackson and Vitale scored the first two buckets of the second half for the Judges, the stanza saw six ties and nine lead changes. The largest lead for either team was five points, following a Vitale jumper with 7:46 left that made it 65-60 in favor of the Judges. Emory answered with the next seven points, sparked by a Fran Sweeney 3-pointer and capped by a Castillo lay-up with 4:11 to go that made it 67-65, Emory.
Brandeis rookie Paris Hodges (Southampton, N.Y./Southampton) hit a pair of free throws after two offensive rebounds, squaring the game at 67-67 with 3:46 to go. The Eagles pushed the ball up the court and Castillo scored just 12 seconds later and drew a foul in the process. Her three-point play gave EU a 70-67 lead, but the home team would hit just one more bucket the rest of the way. Rodriguez got to the line and hit both to get Brandeis within one point just nine seconds after Castillo's hoop.
After Hodges corralled a defensive rebound on the Eagles' next possession, she drove the length of the floor and hit a lay-up with just under three minutes to go, giving Brandeis the lead, 71-70. Hodges also drew a foul, but was unable to convert the bonus. The Judges had another opportunity to increase their lead from the line, but missed twice, allowing Morgan to give Emory a brief 72-71 lead with two minutes to go. Brandeis answered at the other end, with Rodriguez feeding Jackson in the paint for what proved to be the game-winning lay-up with 1:43 remaining. The Judges were able to hold Emory to just one shot the rest of the way, with Hodges coming up big with a defensive rebound and a steal. Brandeis hit just 2-of-4 free throws down the stretch, but their terrific defense was able to preserve the win.
Brandeis will close out the regular season against rival NYU next Sunday afternoon at 12 noon. Emory travels to the University of Rochester next Saturday, also at noon.


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I started TTC back in 1995 with my now ex-husband. I tried Clomid for about 6 months and then went on to have 2 goes at IUI both -VE. I then split up with my husband as I discovered he was having an affair whilst we were having treatment he said the affair made him feel more of a man
I have now been TTC with my fiance who's 41 and has 3 grown up children from a previous marriage for about 20 months, We have our first consultation for IVF at the Wessex Clinic in Southampton on the 12th May. I just cant wait to get started now but im also scared as well.


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Social Network Overload
How often have you checked your social media accounts today? Feeling unplugged is a problem for many people. Social Network Overload from mylife.com talks about how people are addicted to social media, and what they rather do than give up their Internet lifeline.
Afraid you're missing something important on your email, Facebook, Twitter, or other accounts? You are not alone. Two out of three people feel the same way. In the same survey, three out of five people wished there was a solution to monitor their various communication options.
Here's an interesting infographic based on a survey by Harris which illustrates a growing trend—social media overload
The isometric illustrations of people and the data visualizations are fun, and the light-hearted data makes this one appealing to share. The design is missing the URL to the infographic landing page, so that readers can find the original when they see thie infographic posted on other sites.
Found on The Undercover Recruiter and Visual Loop.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Exploring Reasoning and Proof
|Try It Yourself: Factors of 24 | Extending the Activity | Problem Reflection | Your Journal
In this section, we will take a look at your own, rather than your students', reasoning about a problem and your methods of proving mathematical statements. As you work through the activity, pay attention to your reasoning methods, the vocabulary you use while thinking about the problem, the questions that come to mind, and any new mathematical insights you develop. This exploration is meant to assist you in reflecting on your own methods related to reasoning and proof, which will help you later when considering how to increase your students' abilities regarding reasoning and proof.
We multiply two or more whole-number factors and get a product. The area of a rectangle with a whole-number length and width can be thought of as the product of two factors. In this Interactive Activity, you will build rectangles that have a given area, and then compile a list of all the possible factors of the given number. Then, most importantly, you will attempt to prove, or explain, how you know that you have found all the possible factors.
Use the following Interactive Activity to find all the factors of 24.
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By Andrew M. Seaman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People may think hookah is a safe alternative to cigarettes, but a new study shows hookah users are still exposed to cancer-causing compounds.
Laboratory tests have suggested risks from hookah, also known as water pipes. But the new study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention is the first to link real-life hookah use to exposure to nicotine and other harmful chemicals, researchers said.
"One of the main reasons for doing this study is water pipe smoking is becoming much more popular - especially among younger people and college students," said Gideon St.Helen, the study's lead author from the University of California, San Francisco.
Water pipes consist of a long tube attached to a glass or plastic container that holds water. The tobacco, which is flavored with fruits and sugar syrup, is burned using charcoal. The smoke passes through the water before being inhaled.
Users often believe that the water filters out the toxins in the smoke, but Thomas Eissenberg, who was not involved with the new research, said that's not the case.
"What the water does do is not filter the smoke, but cools the smoke so it's very easy to inhale," said Eissenberg, of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, who has studied water pipe smoking.
Hookah is often used in a group and a session usually lasts about an hour, according to past research.
For the new study, the researchers recruited 55 people from the San Francisco area who almost exclusively smoked hookah. They were asked to abstain from smoking any nicotine products during the week before going to a hookah bar for the study.
The participants provided three urine samples: one before smoking hookah, one immediately after and another the next morning.
After analyzing participants' urine samples, the researchers found that nicotine levels increased 73-fold following the hookah session.
They also found significant increases in other compounds that have been tied to increased risks of heart and respiratory diseases and to lung and pancreatic cancer.
"It's always been a question by water pipe users - blogs and online reviewers - whether the results we get from the lab generalize to a real-life setting," Eissenberg told Reuters Health. "This puts that to rest."
It's difficult to translate the findings into risks for a given hookah smoker, St.Helen said. But he did say users are "increasing (their) risk of cancer and other tobacco-related diseases."
"If you're not smoking cigarettes because you're worried about tobacco-caused diseases, you should also not be smoking water pipes," Eissenberg said.
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1lqjeaQ Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, online May 16, 2014.


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BE needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 35 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
A large urology practice needs a logo, and, business card, The logo can be incorporated into the name, be positioned to the side or front of the name, or the design of the name can be to logo. The logo does not necessarily need to look "medical". I would like it to be simple and a little contemporary. If possible it should look good in color or black and white. I would like to see one color, two, color and three color designs.
Urology Health Specialists, LLC
I need a logo , and business card
We are a urology practice in a northeastern metropolitan city in the USA. Our style is professional and we are looking to develop a unique look that is consistant at each office and on all types of communication. The majority of our clients are over 50 years of age. I described what I am looking for in the design above
- The logo must fit the business
- The business cards must have our name the address of the office phone fax and e mail on them
- The logo should be attached to the name or near it
- The colors I want to see one color two color and three color and i am open on the color (no yellow)
- if there is a tag line it needs to be short and fit under the name...
- Silly pictures
- cartoon like images
- child like characters
- nothing to busy looking
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The Texas Pledge of Allegiance
A few days ago, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an Establishment Clause challenge to the Texas pledge of allegiance. In 2007, the Texas legislative added the words "under God" to the state's pledge. In evaluating the Establishment Clause claim, the court relied in part on the endorsement test, which asks whether a reasonable person, aware of the history and context of the challenged practice, would conclude that the government was endorsing religion. The Fifth Circuit held that a reasonable person would "conclude that the pledge remains a patriotic exercise" and that the new version "acknowledges but does not endorse religious belief." Most courts to decide the issue have agreed with the Fifth Circuit.
I do not. Am I an unreasonable person? Before you answer, consider some feminist critiques of another reasonable person standard – specifically the reasonable person standard in Title VII sexual harassment cases. Early sexual harassment plaintiffs would have their claims dismissed when courts held that a reasonable person would not find that the work environment was hostile or abusive. For example, a court dismissed a claim even though it conceded that the humor in the workplace was "rough-hewn and vulgar" and that sexual jokes and "girlie magazines" were plentiful.
Feminist commentators identified three problems with these early sexual harassment decisions. First, feminists noted that due to societal inequalities that affected men's and women's life experiences, men and women have different perceptions of what constitutes harassment. For example, because women are at much more risk of sexual violence than men, sexual conduct that may seem like harmless fun to reasonable men can seem like a threat of violence to reasonable women. Second, feminists pointed out that the courts tended to equate the reasonable man's reaction with a reasonable person's reaction, and that this male norm was invisible to the usually male judges applying it. In other words, judges were unaware that they were presenting a subjective male perspective as an objective universal perspective. Third, the failure to recognize use of the unstated male norm perpetuated male privilege and power asymmetries instead of rectifying them – the actual goal of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Each of these critiques applies equally to the Fifth Circuit's analysis of "under God" in the pledge. First, just as your sex may inform your evaluation of sexual harassment, your religion may matter when evaluating government endorsement of religion. The phrase "under God" may seem perfectly harmless and totally nonsectarian to Jews, Catholics, Protestants, and Greek Orthodox. Such a reading is less likely if you are a Hindu, or a Buddhist, or an atheist, however, and do not worship or believe in God.
Second, the reasonable person in current Establishment Clause analysis is really a person belonging to the Judeo-Christian tradition. Like the unstated male norm in early sexual harassment evaluations, this unstated norm is presented as the universal, objective norm and is often invisible to those applying it. Thus, the Fifth Circuit can concede that a state reference to God "may not reach every belief system" but nonetheless still characterize it as "tolerable attempt at acknowledging religion without favoring a particular sect or belief."
The third feminist insight — that the failure to recognize the unstated norm perpetuates power asymmetries and privilege — is also true here. Just as tolerance of sexual harassment made it easier to exclude women from the workplace and reinforced their second-class status, the proliferation of state invocations of God makes it easier to exclude religious outsiders from the political and social community and reinforces their second-class status. Yet one of the major goals of the Establishment Clause is supposed to be to protect religious minorities from precisely this result.
For more, please check out my new article: Ceremonial Deism and the Reasonable Religious Outsider, 57 UCLA L. REV. 1545 (2010).


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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2013, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Repeated traumatic brain injuries can significantly increase suicide risk for people in the military and the danger appears to continue throughout the soldier's lifetime, according to the a new study from the University of Utah.
Though one such injury is already associated with depression and post traumatic stress disorder, the report published online Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry, a specialty journal of the American Medical Association, reveals new information about the effect of additional brain blows.
"We've know for a while that [traumatic brain injury, or] TBI is associated with increase suicide risk," said lead author Craig Bryan, associate director of the National Center for Veterans' Studies. "What we were seeing is that having multiple injures is even more pernicious."
The study could also have implications for other people, like football players, who get multiple TBIs commonly known as concussions.
"The idea for this actually came from people in the general public. It was a question that was asked a lot," said Bryan. "No one has ever looked at this notion of multiple TBIs."
U. researchers used a database created in 2009 after they studied 161 military personnel stationed in Iraq and evaluated for a possible TBI in 2009.
They found one in five 21.7 percent of service members who had suffered more than one traumatic brain injury had ever entertained thoughts of suicide. For those with one such injury, the portion dropped to less than 7 percent, and down to nothing for those who didn't have a TBI.
When they were asked about suicidal thoughts over the short term, or previous year, the results were similar: 12 percent of those with multiple injuries had thought about taking their own lives, compared with 3.4 percent of those with one injury and zero for those with none.
Up next are more detailed studies on the effects of the injuries, and studying what interventions work to prevent suicide in the long run. Researchers studied the patients during a six-month period as service members thought to have suffered a TBI were referred to an outpatient clinic at a combat support hospital in Iraq. Diagnosis was made by a clinical psychologist; soldiers with moderate to severe injury were evacuated and not included in the research.
For the study released Wednesday, patients were divided into three groups and studied based on the number of similar injuries they had suffered.
A traumatic brain injury is caused by a bump, blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain. It is considered the "signature injury" of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts due to the prevalence of improvised explosive devices and other similar weapons.
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Top Ten Ways to Make Your First ACA Accreditation Visit a Success
- Delegate sections of the Standards out to other staff to prepare. For example, have your Waterfront Director take the Program-Aquatics section (PA).
- Do the mandatory standards yourself. Find out which ones apply to your camp and make sure you're going to take a "yes." Missing just one will cause you to fail. To avoid extra laborious paperwork and lots of headaches, get it right the first time!
- Remember, you must include EVERY specialized activity. Make sure each activity -- gymnastics, bicycling, archery, etc -- has a documented supervisor, written operating procedures, safety orientation, and so on. Tip: see #1 above. Check the box on page 186 to see if any more of your activities should be scored.
- Call your standards chair or your assigned visitor with your questions now! You don't have to wait until the day of the visit. It's not like taking a final exam. Ask questions.
- Gather blueprints, agency policies, insurance records, etc. from your main office and have at camp.
- Gather your written policies, copies of certifications, etc. into ONE place. A notebook works well for many policies and procedures. Put them in order according to the standards. You don't want to run all over camp during your visit just to find individual pieces of paper. Get organized!
- Double check your mandatories. It's worth all the effort you put into it to be sure you've got them ready!
- Double check your written material. Each standard marked with written documentation is required. Make sure you understand what is being asked for. Call with your questions!
- Check with your visitor/local office about arranging a time to complete the required Camp Self-Assessment review. Additional written documentation can be reviewed at the same time. There are a variety of ways that the visit process can work for you.
- Relax and be prepared to learn from your visit! Remember that your visitors are your peers. They are "camp people." They know what it's like to be in your shoes. The ACA accreditation process is set up to help you, not hurt you.
Resources to Lean On
- Local standards chairperson
- National standards staff
- Resources from the Bookstore
- What to expect during your camp's visit. . .
- Contact a colleague or use ACA's Camp Database to locate others with similar issues & concerns - same clientele, same programs, etc.


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Grow the tastiest heirloom tomatoes in your neighborhood! From planting seeds to saving seeds, learn successful techniques for growing healthy heirloom tomatoes from heirloom expert Marie Iannotti.
Throughout this class, you'll get the techniques and tips you need to enjoy a bountiful harvest of heirloom tomatoes, with instruction from expert gardener Marie Iannotti. Learn about unique heirloom varieties, and discover which type will grow best in your geographic area. Then, get started with seeds as you learn how to plant, repot and even light your seedlings for robust growth. Next, expertly transition your plants to the outdoors with proper mulch, homemade pesticides and routine pruning to help them thrive. You'll even uncover the benefits of companion planting and learn about the various support structures available for your plants. Finally, find out how to harvest your fruit, store your crop and save your seeds for rich tomatoes, year after year. Plus, for tomato lovers short on space, Marie will share tricks for container gardening and demonstrate how to make an upside down tomato planter!
If you're not delighted with your Bluprint experience, we'll make it right or give you a full refund.


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Lincoln Navigator '97-'02
Failure of your heat and/or A/C in your Navigator is due to the failure of your blend door.
Heater Treater replaces the cheap, plastic blend door with steel. Replacing the blend door with the same plastic part from the manufacturer WILL result in continued problems — the same system design problem that caused the failure in the first place WILL happen again.
Heater Treater attacks the root cause of the failure by constructing hardware that is designed to meet the rigors of normal operation of the HVAC system, and last for the life of the vehicle.
If you feel uncomfortable installing the repair yourself, go Here to find a HeaterTreater certified garage near you.
Do you have the problem?
The usual symptom is an inability to effectively control the temperature in your car. Note that this symptom can also be caused by a bad temp control knob, and this is a common failure. Please check carefully before considering the blend door fix.
The blend door hangs on a vertical axis, so turning a sharp corner, or fiddling with the fan speed can swing the door into the hot or cold position randomly. While the symptoms are fairly conclusive for blend door failure, the only way to really check it out is to remove the blend door actuator motor and look at the axle.
The Plenum box is the same as the F150 pickup truck and the Ford Expedition and video's for those products will be applicable to your vehicle. The SUV's are a little harder to work on than the trucks since you have to remove the center console between the front seats.
The Heater Treater Kit does the following:
- Replaces the plastic blend doors and axle with steel components.
- All work is done through the glove box opening and no disassembly of the dash or evacuation of the AC system is required.
- Tools required are a screw driver, pair of pliers, and a Dremel tool (purchased at any Target or hardware store).
- Includes detailed instructions and all hardware required to complete the fix, including dremel bits and metal tape to seal the cut.
- The repair will take about an 90 minutes the first time, and once you have experience, about 45 minutes.
- No extensive mechanical skills are required.
- The instructions are dual-level, for mechanics and a "Instructions for Dummies" version.
- The fix is really easy and MUCH preferable to disassembly of the entire dash and engine cooling systems.
- We provide customer support via email or phone if required.
Aluminum vs Steel air doors
We are the industry engineering experts on air doors and have been in business over ten years with multiple vehicle application. Early on we evaluated aluminum doors and found some obvious and not so obvious issues.
- Aluminum would appear to be lighter and less stressful on the actuator motor...not true. As we all learned in Kindergarten physics, if you have a fat guy sitting in the center of the see-saw, it doesn't have an impact. Rotational stress is a function of distance from the axis. Our doors are heavier, but the bulk of the weight is in the axle which has no impact on required torque. In fact, the added axle weight actually stabilizes movement.
- The actuator motors have waaaay more torque capacity than required for this application, and actually is the root cause of the common failures. We've been doing this across multiple models and have never seen an issue with motors wearing out or breaking with steel doors.
- Welding aluminum plate is problematic and we saw issues early on with doors breaking at the periphery of the weld pattern. Aluminum plate changes physical characteristics from the extreme heat associated with welding and becomes weaker at the weld point. This is why aluminum plate is riveted, not welded on airplanes. Welding is OK on aluminum structural components that can withstand the heat, but not plate.
- Aluminum is "springier" than plastic and can vibrate in the air flow producing a humming noise. It's generally not an issue or even annoying, but the resonant vibration can further weaken aluminum welds.
- Our steel plate is more rigid and gives a more reliable and consistent seal against the extents of movement.
We've seen comments that my plastic door lasted 10yrs or more and I"ll just replace it with another plastic door and get 10 more years of service. On the surface that sounds logical, but it's not quite true.
The failure is due to the weakness of the plastic door and the torque applied by the actuator motor during the calibration process which is an automatic function that can't be controlled. The original battery in the vehicle was the minimum that the supplier could provide and lowest cost. You never see a Ford advertisement that says "buy our vehicle because we use better batteries than Chevy". However, aftermarket battery sales companies want to provide a battery that will last longer and perform better since they have to stand behind their product. It's common to go from a 55CCA OEM battery to a 70CCA replacement. You'll notice brighter headlights, quicker starting, more start power on those cold days, and power windows that go up/down faster.
This impact also shows up on the torque applied during the HVAC calibration process and will break a new plastic door much faster than the original door. The calibration is a function of on/off cycles of the engine and depending on usage, expect a replacement door to last only 12-18 months. Even a metal connection on the replacement air door to the motor will fail because the plastic stop points on the box will break, transferring force to the plastic door again. Our metal doors replace all the plastic components with steel and the doors are strong enough to withstand any forces that the system applies and will be a permanent fix to the system.
If you are selling the vehicle and just want it to work long enough to get rid of it, cheap plastic is a viable solution. If you need longer term performance, steel doors are the way to go!!
The following videos demonstrate the Heater Treater installation process for all Ford Expeditions, Ford F150′s and Lincoln Navigators. The video demonstration is performed on the F150.
Our apologies in advance. The videos are amateurish and probably too long. Feel free to skip through the boring sections. It will take about as long to do the fix as to watch the video.
Full instructions with pictures are included with the kit, so between the instructions and the video, the job should go fairly smoothly. From some of our customers comments, the hardest part is getting up the nerve to make the first cut into the box. Once you've made the commitment, the fix goes smoothly. If you ever have a reason to do a second repair, it will be very easy.


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The California Museum opened on Sept. 9, 1998 through a unique
partnership with the State of California as a private non-profit
institution focused on California history and culture. Under the
development of the Secretary of State's office, the Museum was
created to be the public showplace for contents of the the
California State Archives.
In 2003, former First Lady Maria Shriver began working with the
Museum to expand its vision and mission. In 2004, "California's
Remarkable Women" opened as the first of her many collaborative
efforts with the Museum. Since then, the Museum's exhibitions
have continued to emphasize stories not presented to reflect all
aspects of California's diverse population and culture,
with an emphasis on the contributions of women and
under-represented groups.
In 2006, former First Lady Maria Shriver and Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger became Honorary Co-Chairs of the Museum and
co-designed the California Hall of Fame as the Museum's annual
gala and an official award from the Governor of California.
In 2011 after the change of administration, Governor Edmund G.
Brown, Jr. and First Lady Anne Gust Brown became Honorary
Co-Chairs of The California Museum and the California Hall of
Fame. As active leaders, the Governor and First Lady continue to
work with the Museum in the selection of California Hall of Fame
inductees and bring their appreciation of California history and
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Manti Te'o says he's the victim of "girlfriend" hoax
Updated 11:20 p.m. ET
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Notre Dame said a story that star Manti Te'o's girlfriend had died of leukemia a loss he said inspired him all season and helped him lead the Irish to the BCS title game turned out to be a hoax apparently perpetrated against the linebacker.
Notre Dame Fighting Irish Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick held a press conference late Wednesday about the apparent hoax Wednesday after Deadspin.com said it could find no record that Lennay Kekua ever existed.
"This was a very elaborate, very sophisticated hoax perpetrated for reasons we can't fully understand," Swarbrick said.
CBS News and its morning program, "CBS This Morning," were among the many news outlets that reported on the "hoax" girlfriend's death. "CBS This Morning" will have an update on the report Thursday.
The Notre Dame athletic director insisted "several things" led him to believe Te'o did not create the girlfriend himself after the university's investigation into the situation, led by a private investigative firm.
"Manti was the victim of that hoax. He has to carry that with him for a while. In many ways, Manti was the perfect mark because he's the guy who was so willing to believe in others," Swarbrick said. "The pain was real. The grieving was real. The affection was real."
By Te'o's own account, she was an "online" girlfriend.
"This is incredibly embarrassing to talk about, but over an extended period of time, I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online. We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her," he said in statement.
"To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating."
"In retrospect, I obviously should have been much more cautious. If anything good comes of this, I hope it is that others will be far more guarded when they engage with people online than I was."
The linebacker's father, Brian Te'o, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press in early October that he and his wife had never met Kekua, saying they were hoping to meet her at the Wake Forest game in November. The father said he believed the relationship was just beginning to get serious when she died.
Swarbrick likened the situation to the 2010 movie "Catfish," in which "young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship" with an allegedly young woman that turns out also to be a hoax.
The university said its coaches were informed by Te'o and his parents on Dec. 26 that Te'o had been the victim of what appeared to be a hoax.
Someone using a fictitious name "apparently ingratiated herself with Manti and then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had tragically died of leukemia," the school said.
Swarbrick said the investigation revealed "several" perpetrators, although the exact number is unclear. He said the university became convinced of the hoax based on "the joy they were taking...referring to what they accomplished and what they had done."
Te'o talked freely about the relationship after her supposed death and how much she meant to him.
In a story that appeared in the South Bend Tribune on Oct. 12, Manti's father, Brian, recounted a story about how his son and Kekua met after Notre Dame had played at Stanford in 2009. Brian Te'o also told the newspaper that Kekua had visited Hawaii and the met with his son. Brian Te'o told the AP in an interview in October that he and his wife had never met Manti's girlfriend but they had hoped to at the Wake Forest game in November. The father said he believed the relationship was just beginning to get serious when she died.
The Tribune released a statement saying: "At the Tribune, we are as stunned by these revelations as everyone else. Indeed, this season we reported the story of this fake girlfriend and her death as details were given to us by Te'o, members of his family and his coaches at Notre Dame."
The week before Notre Dame played Michigan State on Sept. 15, coach Brian Kelly told reporters when asked that Te'o's grandmother and a friend had died. Te'o didn't miss the game. He said Kekua had told him not to miss a game if she died. Te'o turned in one of his best performances of the season in the 20-3 victory in East Lansing, and his playing through heartache became a prominent theme during the Irish's undefeated regular season.
"My family and my girlfriend's family have received so much love and support from the Notre Dame family," he said after that game. "Michigan State fans showed some love. And it goes to show that people understand that football is just a game, and it's a game that we play, and we have fun doing it. But at the end of the day, what matters is the people who are around you, and family. I appreciate all the love and support that everybody's given my family and my girlfriend's family."
Te'o went on the become a Heisman Trophy finalist, finishing second in the voting, and leading Notre Dame to its first appearance in the BCS championship.
He was asked again about his girlfriend on Jan. 3 prior to the BCS title game, saying: "This team is very special to me, and the guys on it have always been there for me, through the good times and the bad times. I rarely have a quiet time to myself because I always have somebody calling me, asking, `Do you want to go to the movies?' Coach is always calling me asking me, `Are you OK? Do you need anything?'"
Te'o and the Irish lost the title game to Alabama, 42-14 on Jan. 7. He has graduated and was set to begin preparing for the NFL combine and draft at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., this week.
Four days ago Te'o posted on his Twitter account: "Can't wait to start training with the guys! Workin to be the best! The grind continues! (hash)Future"
Te'o's statement also said: "It further pains me that the grief I felt and the sympathies expressed to me at the time of my grandmother's death in September were in any way deepened by what I believed to be another significant loss in my life.
"I am enormously grateful for the support of my family, friends and Notre Dame fans throughout this year. To think that I shared with them my happiness about my relationship and details that I thought to be true about her just makes me sick. I hope that people can understand how trying and confusing this whole experience has been.
"Fortunately, I have many wonderful things in my life, and I'm looking forward to putting this painful experience behind me as I focus on preparing for the NFL Draft."


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Colorado teen arrested in killing of Jessica Ridgeway
WESTMINSTER --Westminster police have arrested a 17-year-old boy in the kidnapping and slaying of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway.
Austin Reed Sigg was arrested at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday after police received a tip that led them to a home near Ketner Lake Open Space, according to a news release from the Westminster Police Department.
"This morning the Ridgeway family was notified of this arrest," Westminster Police Chief Lee Birk said. "We hope and pray this arrest gives them some measure of closure in dealing with their horrible loss and tragedy."
Authorities said charges will be filed against Sigg for the May 28 attempted abduction of an adult jogger near Ketner Lake, which authorities confirmed earlier this week was connected to Jessica's kidnapping and murder.
Sigg's mother, Mindy Sigg, told the Associated Press that her son turned himself in.
"I made the phone call, and he turned himself in. That's all I have to say," said Mindy Sigg, before she broke down in tears and hung up.
Sigg will be charged with two counts of murder in the first degree and a second-degree kidnapping charge, among others. He will make his first court appearance Thursday at 8 a.m.
"Every parent in every Colorado community will rest a little easier tonight," Gov. John Hickenlooper said in a news release. "While we still mourn the death of Jessica Ridgeway, we are relieved an arrest has been made and the pursuit of justice can continue. We are especially grateful today to law enforcement officers at all levels for their quick action in this case."
According to police documents, Sigg is a student at Arapahoe Community College. On March 23, he won second place in the Crime Scene Investigation division of the Health Occupation Students of America State Leadership Conference competition.
According to arrest documents, Sigg lives about a block west of Ketner Lake Open Space and about 1½ miles south of where Jessica Ridgeway was snatched from the street as she walked to school the morning of Oct. 5.
A search warrant was being served on the home Wednesday, Westminster police investigator Trevor Materasso said.
Austin Caisse, 17, is a student at Standley Lake High School and said Sigg used to attend there.
Caisse has known Sigg since elementary school, although he said they have been out of touch the last year.
When Caisse heard the news of Sigg's arrest, he said he thought, "God, don't let it be him," then "Why?"
Caisse said Sigg "was always egotistical, but I never thought he would go this far." He added, "I'd expect him to get into a fight before leaving high school -- not murder someone."
He said Sigg was really into Japanese culture like anime, and liked to play computer games. The two shared an interest in collecting knives.
"We got into a lot of verbal fights," Caisse recalled.
He remembered that Sigg had a girlfriend for a while and thought he was "really nice to her and treated her well." He described Sigg's family as "awesome" and said they were very generous with Sigg, whom he described as "brilliant."
On Monday, police confirmed a link between Jessica's disappearance and the attempted abduction of an adult jogger on Memorial Day near Ketner Lake. That woman told authorities a man attempted to cover her face with a chemical-soaked rag.
The woman said she initially jogged past the man before he grabbed her from behind, "trying to put a rag over her mouth. She said the rag had a chemical smell on it. She was able to get away and call 911 from her cellphone," police documents say.
Staff writers Yesenia Robles and Ryan Parker contributed to this report.


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The presence of water and other volatiles is critical to life as we know it, yet the origin and abundance of water on Earth remains an exciting and hotly debated question. With the rapidly increasing knowledge on protoplanetary disk evolution and the hierarchy of exoplanetary systems, the importance of possible pathways for delivering volatiles to warm rocky planets is becoming more important than ever.
This workshop discussed the origins and abundance of volatiles on Earth and other rocky planets in the Solar System and explored their implications on the formation and habitability of exoplanetary systems. An important element of the meeting was to discuss how to best utilize JWST and other upcoming facilities to explore the origins and distribution of volatiles in the Solar System and in protoplanetary disks.
The workshop brought together planetary scientists, cosmo- and geochemists and astronomers to discuss various facets of this interdisciplinary question. In particular, talks covered the water/volatile budget of Earth, observations and models relevant to the delivery of volatiles, observations of volatiles/ices/organics in protoplanetary disks, model predictions for the volatile budgets of exoplanets, and the astrobiological significance of volatile elements.
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
- Ted Bergin (Univ. Michigan)
- Geoff Blake (Caltech)
- Mark Clampin (GSFC)
- Fred Ciesla (Univ. of Chicago)
- Drake Deming (GSFC)
- Dante Lauretta (Univ. Arizona)
- Hal Levison (SwRI)
- Michael Mottl (Univ. Hawaii)
- Michael Mumma (GSFC)
- Reika Yokochi (Univ. of Chicago)
Organizing Committee
- Daniel Apai (STScI, Chair)
- Bernard Marty (CRPG, France)
- Michael Drake (U Arizona)
- Davide Fedele (JHU)
- Karen Meech (U Hawaii)
- Stephen Mojzsis (U Colorado)
- James Muzerolle (STScI)
- Ilaria Pascucci (STScI)
- Paule Sonnentrucker (STScI)
- Hal Weaver (APL)


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Free folk
The free folk are a race of people who live beyond the Wall. They are more commonly referred to as "wildlings" everywhere south of the Wall.
There are tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of free folk split into hundreds of cultures, tribes, clans, villages and raiding parties, some reasonably cultured, others savage and hostile. The free folk refer to themselves in that way to difference themselves from the "kneelers," the people south of the Wall, subject to lords and kings. The free folk view the "kneelers" as lacking freedom, whereas the people of the Seven Kingdoms to the south view the "wildlings" as lawless and primitive killers, rapists and thieves.
The Wall which separates the free folk from the rest of the Westeros in many ways defines them. Due to their isolation, they remain a free people, free of states, free of nobles, kings, and laws but those of their own choosing, following whatever leader they please.[1] They believe that the gods made the earth for all men to share and when the kings came with their crowns and their steel swords, they stole it - by claiming it was all theirs and theirs alone.[2]
Their society is made of many tribes and clans, spread across hundreds of small villages, each with their own peculiarities and customs; some recognize chieftains, and others exist in a perpetual state of conflict, warring against each other and themselves. The free folk place importance in a man keeping his word. [3]
Most free folk have never made any considerable technological advancements. They are harsh people who live in harsh lands, although some are reasonably cultured, such as the Thenn people who live in tightly knit communities in the far north, or the people of Hardhome, which is the closest place the free folk have to a city. Some are semi-nomadic loners, held down only by their own needs. Raiders from the Frozen Shore or the more savage clans of the ice-river feed on the flesh of other men. There are even cave dwellers that dye their faces blue, purple and green.[1]
There is very little in the way of law or property rights in the lands of the free folk. They take what they can and keep what they can defend and have little interest in marriage.[1]
The free folk keep to the ways of the First Men, and though there are many languages beyond the Wall the Old Tongue of the First Men is the most common one.[4]
The free folk do not hate northmen as much as they hate the "crows" of the Night's Watch, who represent the gate keepers holding them beyond the Wall. The free folk do not spare brothers of the Night's Watch, unless they break their oaths and prove it.[5] However, the two groups are not beyond some form of cooperation, as lost brothers have been aided by free folk and the Watch is not beyond taking free folk children and raising them to be members of the Watch.
In keeping with the spirit of free folk independence, women are welcome to take up arms and fight alongside men. Such women are called spearwives, and are known to be every bit as skilled and ferocious as their male counterparts.[6]
In marriage, the men are expected to be quite forceful with women, going so far as stealing them from their home or clan. The women, in turn, are expected to put up a fight every step of the way.[1] It is believed that a true man will steal a woman from afar to strengthen the clan. Men must steal daughters, but not wives of other men. When the red wanderer is within the Moonmaid, it is considered a propitious time for a man to steal a woman.[7]
While "stealing" may be very different from the idealized courtly love of Westeros, at its core it establishes a male's strength and determination, as well as a female's independence and ability to defend herself.
Naming of a Child
Because infant mortality is common in the harsh environment Beyond the Wall, it is believed to be bad luck to name a child before he or she reaches two years of age. [8] A temporary milk name or nickname can be given to a child prior to the official naming.
Women who wed brothers, fathers, or clan kin are believed to offend the gods, and are cursed with weak and sickly children.
Raiding south of the Wall is a large part of free folk culture. Raiders start at a young age, as little as twelve years.[7] Raiders either climb the Wall or use little boats to cross the Bay of Seals around it. Climbing the height of the Wall is an exercise that can take most of a day and rangers often find the broken bodies of those who have fallen.[9]
To climb the Wall, the free folk use the aid of huge ladders of woven hemp, boots of supple doeskin spiked with iron, bronze, or jagged bone, small stone-headed hammers, stakes of iron and bone and horn, and antlers with sharpened tines bound to wooden hafts with strips of hide serving as ice axes.[9]
Over the decades, with the weakening of the Night's Watch, the free folk have found it much easier to either climb the Wall or paddle small boats through the Bay of Seals, growing bolder they raid as far as the Umber lands, the northern mountain clans or even Bear Island, instead of the usual villages and holdfasts in the Gift.
Raiders cross the Wall to steal swords and axes, spices, silks, furs, and any valuables they can find. They are known to take women in any season to carry them off beyond the Wall.[2]
Most free folk warriors still wield weaponry forged of stone, wood, and bronze, such as stone axes and flails, fire-hardened spears and lances, and bows of wood and horn. Their bows are outranged by the yew longbows of the south, but can seemingly shoot an arrow as high as seven hundred feet.[10][4]
The free folk do not mine nor smelt and there are few smiths and fewer forges north of the Wall; the only metal armor that they wear are bits and pieces looted from dead rangers. Most will wear boiled leather or sewn sheepskins and use crude round shields of skin stretched over wicker, painting them with figures such as skulls and bones, serpents, bear claws, twisted demonic faces, and severed heads.[5][10][11]
The Thenns are more well-armed and armored than most free folk, with bronze helms, axes, short stabbing spears with leaf-shaped heads, shirts sewn with bronze discs, and plain unadorned shields of black boiled leather with bronze rims and bosses.
Free folk horses are surefooted, but scarce.
Recent Events
The free folk tribes have been unified under Mance Rayder, the King-beyond-the-Wall, a former member of the Night's Watch who fled the Wall, betraying his sworn brothers. Mance gathered all the free folk around him and set them all on the move south to the Wall, fleeing from the Others.
Upon reaching the Wall the free folk attempt to breach the gates at Castle Black and are defeated, in what is later known as Battle of Castle Black, by the Night's Watch and the surprise appearance of Stannis Baratheon's army. Though many fighting men were lost, a large part of the host regathers around Tormund Giantsbane. Eventually, the free folk are allowed to pass through the Wall and settle in the Gift by the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Jon Snow.
Notable Free Folk
Famous warlords styled King-beyond-the-Wall
- Raymun Redbeard
- Bael the Bard
- the Horned King
- the brothers Gendel and Gorne
- the legendary Joramun
- Mance Rayder, captured after the Battle of Castle Black and allegedly burned at the stake by Stannis Baratheon.
- Craster, held a keep near the Wall and gave begrudging aid to rangers. Murdered along with Lord Commander Jeor Mormont by rangers after the Battle of the Fist of the First Men.
- Dalla, wife of Mance Rayder. Died in childbirth during the Battle of Castle Black.
- Harma, called "Dogshead", an infamous female raider and cynophobe. Killed during the Battle of Castle Black.
- The Lord of Bones, mocked by rangers (and some free folk) as "Rattleshirt", a sadistic raider who wears armor made of bone. Captured after the Battle of Castle Black.
- Orell, a raider and skinchanger. He was killed by Jon Snow while his mind inhabited an eagle. A part of his consciousness became permanently trapped in the eagle, causing it to hate Jon Snow.
- Osha, free folk woman taken captive by forces of House Stark south of the Wall. Spared execution in exchange for service, she became a guardian and companion to Rickon Stark.
- Styr, the Magnar of Thenn, chieftain of the Thenns, a warlike free folk tribe. Killed during the Battle of Castle Black.
- Tormund, known as "Giantsbane", among many other things, a raider prone to tall tales.
- Val, sister of Dalla. Imprisoned after the Battle of Castle Black. Became known as the "Wildling Princess" due to her regal beauty.
- Varamyr "Sixskins", a diminutive skinchanger who is accompanied by three wolves, a snowbear and a shadowcat. After Orell's death, Varamyr took control of his eagle and used it to scout during the battle of Castle Black. Melisandre killed the eagle while Varamyr inhabited it, causing him to go mad.
- Ygritte, red-haired lover to Jon Snow. Killed in the Battle of Castle Black.
- The Weeper, an infamous wildling raider.
These are a free folk indeed.[12]
- Jon Snow
"These are wildlings. Savages, raiders, rapers, more beast than man."
Now, a dog can heard a flock of sheep, but free folk, well, some are shadowcats and some are stones. One kind prowls where they please and will tear your dogs to pieces. The other will not move at all unless you kick them.[13]
- Val
References and Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 15, Jon II.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 41, Jon V.
- ↑ SSM:WILDLINGS IN THE NORTH (April 23, 2001)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 64, Jon VIII.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 68, Jon VIII.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 51, Jon VI.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 26, Jon III.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 46, Samwell III.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 30, Jon IV.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 A Storm of Swords, Chapter 55, Jon VII.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 73, Jon X.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 7, Jon I, p 75.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 21, Jon V.


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In March 2015, Yemeni President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi was removed from office during a civil war with the Shiite Houthis movement. The Houthis were led by former President Ali Abdullah Saleh who was removed from power during the 2011 Arab Spring. Neighboring Sunni Saudi Arabia viewed President Hadi's removal as a threat and responded by conducting airstrikes against the Houthi's in Yemen. Saudi Arabia's allies, including the U.S., U.K. and Egypt, suspected Iran was behind the Houthi uprising and responded by providing military aid to the Saudi armed forces. The United Nations declared the airstrikes a violation federal law after several hundred civilians were killed in the first month of the airstrikes . Proponents of the intervention, including Secretary of State John Kerry, claim that the Houthis are being supported by Iran and U.S. intervention is necessary to maintain the balance of power in the region. Critics argue that the U.S. should not be involved in a conflict which has killed hundreds of innocent civilians. See recent Yemen news
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Former Retriever standout Andy Gallagher was named assistant men's lacrosse coach at UMBC in the fall of 2009 and has been elevated to the position of associate head coach.
"It's great to have Andy Gallagher back as an assistant coach at UMBC," Zimmerman said at that time. "During his playing career, Andy consistently demonstrated outstanding leadership skills and a terrific feel for the game of lacrosse, playing the game with an incredible sense of passion and determination. The Retriever program is fortunate to have a person of Andy's character on board and looks forward to continued growth and development."
Gallagher served as the director of student activities and assistant boys' lacrosse coach at his alma mater, DeMatha Catholic High School, from August 2008 until accepting the position at UMBC.
The Rockville, Md., native showed tremendous courage and skill during his playing career at UMBC. He suffered torn ACLs in each of his first two playing seasons (2003 and 2004), but recovered to cap his career with an All-America citation in his senior campaign of 2007. He captained that team, which became UMBC's first-ever to advance in NCAA Tournament competition, and amassed 35 goals and 51 points in his senior season.
For his career, Gallagher recorded 98 goals and 146 points, and he is currently ranked 11th on UMBC's all-time scoring list. He earned America East First- Team honors as a sophomore midfielder in 2005 and second-team recognition at attack in 2007.
Gallagher's older brother, Matt, captained the 2004 UMBC squad and earned four letters from 2001-04. His younger brother, Danny, lettered in lacrosse at the University of Maryland.
Gallagher earned his bachelor of arts degree in sociology and minored in history. He was also an active participant in UMBCfs "You Can Make a Difference" mentoring program and the "Ride with Pride" program for disabled children at the Maryland Equestrian Center.
He currently resides in Catonsville, MD, with his wife, Sarah, and their daughter Annabelle (2).


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The United States runs a grant program that is meant to provide support to small businesses with technologically advanced and innovative ideas, intended to stimulate scientific industry. In 2002, a ruling was made that prevented small businesses that already received significant funding from investment firms from also obtaining these government funds. Recently the National Research Council formed a committee to revisit this ruling and determine whether excluding well-funded small businesses from these grants winds up excluding some of the best ideas that small businesses have to offer.
The Small Business Innovation Research program, created in 1982, is intended to provide federal funding to high-tech start-up companies. The awards are competitive and meant to stimulate technological advancements that can ultimately be used by government agencies. SBIR funding has played a critical role in supporting some projects in their early stages. Startups can also obtain funding from business angels, state governments, universities, and other sources, but these groups can become more conservative as the economy dips. The SBIR program provides a consistent source of funds that doesn't fluctuate along with the economy.
In 2002, the Small Business Association ruled that SBIR funding could no longer be awarded to companies who were not held 51 percent or more by individuals—that is, if venture capital firms or other private equity groups had a controlling interest in a company. This ruling effectively meant that small companies could opt for SBIR funding or be deeply involved with private investment firms, but not both.
Proponents of the ruling say that this makes the distribution of SBIR funds more fair: companies that are already fairly well-funded don't get more money, while firms that couldn't win venture capital may still get money to develop. Helping businesses that are growing on their own would be contrary to the purpose of small business funding. However, the National Institutes of Health and biotechnology companies have argued that the rule is denying money to the projects that are the most interesting.
The NIH turns out to be correct on at least one level—the companies that are most affected by the rules are the ones that have the most promising technologies. If an idea is both practical and innovative, it makes sense that firms would want to invest in the project. In its studies, the committee found that companies that receive both venture funds and SBIR funds are slightly less likely to eventually market their developments for commercial use but, when they do, their products sell very well.
Companies developing technologies that don't draw the interest of venture capital firms but do receive SBIR funding commercialize more often, but their developments don't sell nearly as well. In effect, this current rules seem to be punishing the most promising and profitable projects for being so viable.
One of the additional goals of the SBIR program is to encourage long term commercialization of federal research. The goal is apparently not being fully met because of the limited commercialization potential of the projects that receive SBIR funds. The committee also found that the government isn't just being mean to the smart kids in class; they're hurting themselves too. By not investing in the most promising projects, the government is denying itself the biggest return on its investments and access to new, cost-effective technologies that it can use.
The committee ultimately recommended a change to the policy. They suggested either restoring the terms of the funding to its former state by removing the 2002 restriction, or adding a provision for the venture-funded companies that are being adversely affected by the current rule.
The one notable gap in the logic of the report is the assumption that all companies interested in SBIR funding are at the peak of their potential. Removing the restriction on controlling interest entirely could be bad news for small but promising companies that can't yet get attention from venture capital firms, ultimately preventing them from reaching the point where they could receive private capital. The SBA would have to exercise care to ensure these companies continue to receive funding if it decides to heed the committee's recommendation and rethink its ruling on firm-owned companies.


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