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Dec.08.10 PLASTIKMAN RA's TOP LIVE ACT OF 2010 lit by TOUCHDESIGNER
Resident Advisor's announcement of the result of their reader's poll which selected the Plastikman Live shows of 2010 as the top live act of the year opened with the line
"Could it have been anyone else?"
This pretty much sums it up if you've experienced any one of the 15 shows which detonated at Timewarp in March, exploded all over Detroit in May, and maintained this momentum till the final KAPOW at WOMB in Japan this month leaving fans all over the world vibrating in some new cellular configuration.
For Techno enthusiasts, specifically the deep, rumbling, acidy Detroit variety there was no bigger event this year as Richie Hawtin resurrected Plastikman, his dark alter-ego, in what has unanimously been called the most mesmerizing, complex and technologically advanced live show in the history of Techno.
A significant part of this achievement goes to Derivative for providing the teamwork, technology and design that brought the visual element of the show to it's blinding, pulsating existence on the huge LED cage from which Hawtin operated throughout the year. I consider myself to have had the extreme good fortune (been lucky as shit) to have been on hand to document, write and promote on behalf of Derivative and to have experienced first-hand from inception to completion, the consistently ground-breaking and really hard work that went into this production from all sides. Everything it took to make it happen again and again.
Congratulations to the Minus crew and to the Derivative crew and looking forward to the next evolution!
+++ READ the DERIVATIVE-PLASTIKMAN PRESS RELEASE +++
+++ PICS and MOVIES FROM PLASTIKMAN at TIMEWARP +++
+++ MAKE VISUALS for PLASTIKMAN LIVE 2010 CONTEST +++
+++ more deets at the PLASTIKMAN VISUAL TECH blog +++
Aug.23.10 PLASTIKMAN 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Aug.21.10 PLASTIKMAN 11 | Ams, Holland, LOWLANDS
Bryant Place represented Derivative at the following 5 Plastikman shows so we asked him for his impressions from the trenches. This is what he had to say...
Although the Lowlands festival had the short end of the stick, in terms of production value regarding the stages and festival layout, there was ingenuity throughout the festival grounds. When I arrived at 7am, there was nothing ready for video, and at that moment I thought the day would be an uphill battle. Thankfully, the local screen crew was very responsive to my requests and although they took a long time to calibrate the screen and fix missing pixels, they provided a flawless service. Running off the momentum built by the yesterday's show the performance was amazing. The crowds response was terrific, again arguably one of the best performances to date.
Aug.20.10 PLASTIKMAN 10 | Hasselt, Belgium, Pukkelpop
This show reminded me of Coachella in that it was very well organized. We had to setup around 8-9AM. During the day, most of the crew hung out in our artist area, which was quite nice! I setup a TouchDesigner system next to Rich, and we rehearsed the show, going through the interactivity of the audio-visual system. We worked out his new controller start positions and got dialed-in for the performance.
Feeling confident in all areas, video, lighting, sound, backline, networking .. we actually started the show a bit early. Again, it was one of the best performances to date and Rich really played with the interactivity of the visuals throughout the show. Apparently many of the artists on tour at Pukkelpop, attended the Plastikman performance.
Aug.07.10 PLASTIKMAN 9 | Plock, Poland, AudioRiver
AudioRiver was a music festival situated on a sandy riverbed. Here we had some technical issues by way of our video technician and crew. Throughout the show, a few panels (2) were losing sync and glitching pixels. This we later learned was caused by the image processor sending too powerful a signal to the screen itself (think of this as audio distortion). Still, it was a full energy show and the crowd was wonderful.
Aug.06.10 PLASTIKMAN 8 | Saalberg, Germany, Sonne Mond Sterne
Photo: Bryant Place
Let's just say the ride had been interesting. I have had every curveball thrown at me in effort to derail the SMS show from happening. We worked throughout the day in a rainstorm with mud puddles the size of small lakes. An hour prior to show, the screen would not work. I had to move all video equipment to the backstage, where the system was plugged in locally. in the end, I made miracles happen, and the show ran as programmed. That is, until Rich had a power failure on stage (due to the rain) and shortly moved onto Spastik for the conclusion.
Jul.11.10 PLASTIKMAN 7 | Glasgow UK, T in the Park
June.20.10 PLASTIKMAN 6 | Barcelona, SONAR
What's become quite clear in the evolution of the Plastikman Live 2010 tour is that each show is reported to be better than its predecessors as the process of perfecting the individual elements and the cohesive whole continues. The Sonar performance was no exception. The Visuals and lighting at the outdoor venue in Barcelona were better than ever and according to Derivative's Jarrett Smith who's been present at almost all the shows to date, "the sound was really some of the best techno punishment of all time"! Here's a taste of it, shaky but authentic, videos shot from the crowd.
Next stop: T In The Park in Glasgow on 11 July -stay tuned!
May.30.10 PLASTIKMAN 5 | Detroit, Movement
Detroit, Movement, and the return of Plastikman (16 years after the legendary Spastik show at the abandoned Packard Plant in 1994) to the city that spawned techno was as good if not better than the highest of expectations - which ran pretty high...
This much-anticipated show, the fifth of 15 scheduled tour dates was the best yet by all accounts. It was standing room only and then just barely in Hart Plaza's vibrating main stage, an experience described as something like being in a throbbing sardine can not even sure if your feet were touching ground.
This amazing video shot by Dan Browne looks like a close encounter of a pretty intense kind! It begins behind the pulsating 'Thunderdome' to give a rare glimpse of the backstage area during the show, then circles around to settle deep in the congregation close up to the spectacle. I had asked Dan for his impressions and experience at the Plastikman show to which he replied:
"I would say that was possibly one of the most intense events that humans beings could have gathered en masse to witness, given our present evolutionary conditions.. makes it clear techno is the rock'n'roll of the 21st century. I was right in front of the bassbins and every cell in my body was vibrated into some new configuration... now i'll never be the same again..."
Reviews of the Plastikman show repeatedly emphasize that it was the most technologically advanced show in Movement's history... that Hart Plaza and most in attendance had never been anything like this before... that Richie Hawtin was making bold contributions to the evolution of techno... that it was all very exciting.
It should be stressed that the festival was a huge success with an estimated record-breaking crowd of 35,000 enthusiasts on the grounds opening day. The atmosphere on this hot, hot weekend was energizing, colourful, eccentric, vigorous, enveloping, very friendly and in many ways a revival rave's glory-days by optimistic new generations. Being there and part of it was memorable.
In closing, here's more of Dan Browne's footage from the trenches and the show's finale when the DJ himself emerges from behind his wall of lights. "Plastikman was always very connected to me being in the studio by myself," says Hawtin. "We built the stage like me being in the studio, locked away from everybody. [I] thought it was important to finally come out [at the end of the set] and take a step back to the beginning — me and one drum machine, playing around and tweaking something magical out of that. [The show] ended where it all began."
Plastikman Live @ DEMF, Detroit 2010. Derivative Visuals from isabelle rousset on Vimeo.
Next stop: Sónar June 18th -stay tuned!
May.25.10 PLASTIKMAN 3 & 4| Paris & Roma
I caught up with Bryant Place to get a first-hand review of the Rome and Paris shows where Bryant was visual tech for Derivative. According to Bryant and confirmed by the videos he shot which are posted here both shows were pretty spectacular and the visuals properly complemented by lighting engineer Mathias Vollrath's excellent work.
Plastikman Live @ Paris, Villette Sonique from CPU on Vimeo.
On Saturday May 8th Plastikman opened WE LOVE SONIQUE for an audience of about 3000 fans followed by a line up of M-nus artists - Magda, Troy Pierce and Marc Houle. The show took place at Grande Halle de la Villette, a huge vaulted cast-iron building in the rehabilitated old slaughterhouse district of the city.
The show in Rome took place 2 weeks later at Dissonanze in the equally opulent 20-story high Palazzo dei Congressi where Rich also performed a dj set to close the night.
Plastikman Live @ Dissonanze Roma, Italy from CPU on Vimeo.
Next stop Detroit and the 10th anniversary of Movement. This will be the first Plastikman show in Detroit since 1994, a bit of a homecoming, and the anticipation and expectations are running high on all sides. Stay tuned!
May.06.10 PLASTIKMAN 2 | COACHELLA
The Plastikman Live 2010 North American premiere took place Sunday April 18th at Coachella, the 3-day music festival attended 75,000 souls strong (and tanned) in the California desert.
How was it? Hands down spectacular, and an overview of the performance can be found here, but perhaps what resonates most are videos of the show shot by the audience (like the one above) and the 9 long pages of their uncensored reviews on the Coachella blog. Like this one: posted by Keo345 at 6:44am the day after the show:
Richie ripped my [edit] world apart.
Dark, evil, bombastic.
Gut-shaking, mind-wobbling, relentless bass.
That's all I can muster right now - hands-down the best set of the festival for me, if not the best in all my 7 years.
More later...
Richie ripped my [edit] world apart.
Dark, evil, bombastic.
Gut-shaking, mind-wobbling, relentless bass.
That's all I can muster right now - hands-down the best set of the festival for me, if not the best in all my 7 years.
More later...
Keo345 later qualifies his last post:
btw I was not on drugs.
I feel that is worth noting.
btw I was not on drugs.
I feel that is worth noting.
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Apr.11.10 PLASTIKMAN PREMIERE @ TIMEWARP
So here, as the team gears up for Coachella next weekend, cameraman Patrick Protz gives us the first official video footage of the renaissance of Plastikman, performing live for the first time since 2006 at Mannheim, Germany's legendary Time Warp festival.
Mar.22.10 PLASTIKMAN CONTEST WINNERS!
We are very pleased to announce the Plastikman visual contest winners!
Last week Derivative compiled all the Plastikman visual contest submissions and prepared them for Rich and Ali to review. They were very impressed with what they saw and join us in thanking the participants for their elaborate and creative submissions to the contest.
While we can't show the winning entries till after the Plastikman launch at Timewarp next weekend we would like at this time to announce and congratulate the 4 winners: Bryant Place (CPU), Jeffers Egan, Peter Sistrom and Achim Kern who will each receive a TouchDesigner Pro license with support/upgrades that will cover 077 and the release after. Congratulations and keep up the great work!
And the grand prize winner whose work will appear in Plastikman shows this year is.... drumroll... Achim Kern!! Congratulations to Achim who has also won a trip to one of the shows where his visuals will be performed.
We'll be posting detailed reports of the Timewarp show next weekend that will finally reveal the Plastikman setup, visuals and general vibe. At the same time there will be a full review of the contest, work submitted, the artist profiles and their experience so watch this space!
Mar.09.10 PLASTIKMAN TEKNIK REHEARSAL, MARCH 1-4, MANNHEIM
Here's the video teaser, short and sweet! Stay tuned for more secret details about the show later this week.
Plastikman Teknik Rehearsal from Ali Demirel on Vimeo.
Mar.04.10 MANNHEIM REHEARSAL
The Derivative crew spent 4 days in Mannheim working with Richie Hawtin and his team preparing for the inaugural Plastikman Live show at Timewarp, March 27th. We can't reveal too much at this time but can say that the rehearsal was FANTASTIC and other than smoke alarms being set off by the fog machine around 5am things went off without a hitch. Very, very exciting. We are at this time looking for contest submissions from you! Send us what you have right now and the Derivative Plastikhelp department will help you refine your creation.
Below photos from Mannheim and more photos @ Plastikman
Feb.08.10 RICHIE HAWTIN and DERIVATIVE LAUNCH PLASTIKMAN LIVE VISUAL CONTEST
Richie Hawtin in collaboration with Derivative would like to announce a hugely exciting new contest inviting you to create your own animations to original Plastikman tracks using TouchDesigner, the technology that drove the visual element of the influential Mutek performance in 2004. Winning entries are for inclusion in an upcoming Plastikman live show!
The Mutek performance saw Richie at the helm orchestrating massive sound and visual compositions that could drive and define each other generatively and in real time transforming the course of how electronic music could be performed and experienced live.
Richie's artistic vision and organizational genius prompted some of the most progressive performance-software developers to produce breakthrough features in their products for the Plastikman show.
Hawtin and Derivative have now packaged and made available for download these powerful tools along with 4 Plastikman tracks to enable everyone with the same capabilities to produce their own visuals in a real-time generative environment.
Derivative's TouchDesigner only runs on PC or Boot Camp, with this configuration or better:
Deadline: March 14, 2010
Deadline: March 14, 2010
VERY IMPORTANT: If you are submitting your work to the Plastikman Live 2010 Visual Contest please only post this work on the Derivative Forum until winning entries have been announced.
Winning entries are for inclusion in an upcoming PLASTIKMAN SHOW and the top THREE contest winners will each get TouchDesigner Pro licenses (value $2200 US each).
New: The 1st prize will be travel costs for one to Plastikman 2010 with backstage access.
New: Runner up prizes: We have a crate of Richie Hawtin/Plastikman/Minus material!


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Leaked Document Shows The NSA Is Harvesting Call Data On Millions Of Verizon Subscribers
from the Verizon:-home-to-nearly-100-million-terrorism-suspects! deptWhat's always been suspected has now been proven true: the NSA is indiscriminately harvesting the phone records of millions of Americans. Various whistleblowers have pointed out that the NSA's hunger for data has driven it to collect anything and everything it can, without having to submit to limitations placed on other agencies. Domestic surveillance is a full-time job for the NSA, and this order obtained by the Guardian spells it all out in unredacted black and white.
The order... requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.This order was granted by the secret FISA court, allowing the FBI to collect this data until July 19th, with another copy going to the NSA. This sort of thing isn't necessarily new or unusual (large scale data collection like this began during the Bush presidency, as Greenwald points out), but this particular request's scope is rather breathtaking.
The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing...
Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered.
The unlimited nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is extremely unusual. Fisa court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a specific named target who is suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets.This order has no target. It just wants everything. Every Verizon subscriber is included in the NSA's data dragnet. And while there's a lack of individual specificity in the data Verizon is ordered to produce, there are several ways the information collected can be manipulated and abused.
The information is classed as "metadata", or transactional information, rather than communications, and so does not require individual warrants to access...A year ago, the NSA claimed it couldn't say how many Americans it had spied on illegally because doing so with violate the privacy of those it spied on. Now, we can make an estimate: 98.2 million Verizon customers as of Dec. 2012. And that's just Verizon. There's no reason to believe other carriers haven't received (and submitted to) similar orders and past events indicate the NSA has been spreading its net wide for several years. And, of course, thanks to a whistleblower literally showing up at the front door of the EFF, we know that AT&T has basically helped set up direct access for the NSA on its network in the past as well.
While the order itself does not include either the contents of messages or the personal information of the subscriber of any particular cell number, its collection would allow the NSA to build easily a comprehensive picture of who any individual contacted, how and when, and possibly from where, retrospectively...
Privacy advocates have long warned that allowing the government to collect and store unlimited "metadata" is a highly invasive form of surveillance of citizens' communications activities. Those records enable the government to know the identity of every person with whom an individual communicates electronically, how long they spoke, and their location at the time of the communication.
The NSA, as part of a program secretly authorized by President Bush on 4 October 2001, implemented a bulk collection program of domestic telephone, internet and email records. A furore erupted in 2006 when USA Today reported that the NSA had "been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth" and was "using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity."With this document exposed, the NSA can no longer pretend (if it's even bothering to at this point) its data collection efforts are targeted. It long ago turned away from its original mandate -- foreign surveillance only -- and now appears to be harvesting vast amounts of data on US citizens simply because no one's going to stop it.
Filed Under: 4th amendment, fisa, fisc, nsaq, privacy, surveillance
Companies: verizon

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Rome GRAND SLAM | 18 - 23 June 2013
Rome, Italy, June 18, 2013 – The smart Grand Slam - Rome began in impressive style with a number of men's and women's teams seeking to make an early impression by qualifying for the main draw that begins on Wednesday, June 19.
Eight teams per gender made it through, with London 2012 Olympians and medallists from the previous Grand Slam among those who qualified, meaning that the main draw and pools stages will be as competitive as ever over the next week.
Latvian duo reaping the fruits of hard work
Latvia's Toms Smedins and Ruslans Sorokins showed the benefit of hard work by reaching the men's main draw with a 2-1 (21-19, 18-21, 18-16) win over Greece's Nikos Zoupanis and Georgios Kotsilianos.
Latvia is currently going through a boom in beach volleyball; Smedins' brother Janis won bronze at the London 2012 Olympic Games with Martins Plavins and a week later claimed their first FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour gold at the Stare Jablonki Grand Slam. This season he has been paired with Aleksandrs Samoilovs and the pair already have gold and silver medals to their names this season.
There is no rivalry between Toms Smedins and his younger brother of two years, but they do push each other hard in training, something which is beginning to show in Smedins and Sorokins performances on the court. MORE
English duo into women's main draw in Rome
In the women's qualifiers England's Lucy Boulton and Zara Dampney held off the challenge of Thai pair Varapatsorn Radarong and Tanarattha Udomchavee to reach the main draw with a 2-0 (21-17, 21-14) win.
In soaring temperatures the English were pushed hard by the Thai team, but used their greater experience and power to overwhelm them late on in the second set.
"They were tough conditions out here, it's still hot, even at five o'clock," Boulton said. "Zara sided-out like a champ and made some points and we're through to the main draw which is exactly what we wanted."
Also into the next round are Canada's Jamie-Lyn Broder and Kristina Valjas who held their nerve against local favourites Grazziella Lo Re and Giulia Toti to win 2-0 (21-11, 21-19).
Maria Clara and Carolina Salgado, fresh from winning silver at The Hague Grand Slam last week won their match in straight sets, while there were victories for another five teams that guarantees their participation in the main draw. MORE
The Rome Grand Slam is the fourth Grand Slam of 10 on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. The competition runs from June 17 until June 23, when both the men's and women's finals take place.
Following the Rome Grand Slam, the world's leading players take a week's break before the start of the ninth FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in Stare Jablonki from July 1-7. After the World Championships are completed the World Tour resumes the following week at the Gstaad Grand Slam in the Swiss Alps.
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Rome Grand Slam Women's Entry List
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Rome gold medallists lay down markers for World Championships
Rome, Italy, June 23, 2013 – The teams of Sean Rosenthal and Phil Dalhausser of the USA and Brazil's Talita Antunes and Taiana Lima gave themselves hu... More...
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Rosenthal and Dalhausser off mark with gold in Rome
Rome, Italy, June 23, 2013 – Sean Rosenthal and Phil Dalhausser won their first FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour gold medals when they held off the ch... More...
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Talita and Lima make it treble joy with gold in Rome
Rome, Italy, June 23, 2013 – Talita Antunes and Taiana Lima won their third gold medal of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour with victory in the gol... More...
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All-Brazil men's final still on cards in Rome
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Talita and Lima on course for back-to-back gold
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Smedins and Samoilovs eye further glory at Rome Grand Slam
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Seven nations in women's last eight at Rome Grand Slam
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Swiss aim for more after claiming ninth place in Rome
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Ross and Kessy finding rhythm on way to last eight in Rome
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Men's pools take shape as women enter knockout rounds in Rome
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Nicolai and Lupo lead chase for home honours in Rome
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Friday, January 31 individual tickets for the Dodgers 2014 season at Dodger Stadium will go on sale ONLINE ONLY to the general public at 10:00am PT. Tickets to all games except Opening Day will be available for purchase. Saturday, February 1 tickets will be available at Dodger Stadium during FanFest. Tickets to Dodger home games including Angels games and all the new promotional dates will be available!Fans in attendance at FanFest on Saturday can win the opportunity to purchase tickets to Opening Day. A select number of fan information handouts will have stickers affixed to them highlighting the opportunity to purchase a limited number of Opening Day tickets. Those with a sticker will be asked to check in at the Lot P ticket booths during FanFest to purchase up to 4 seats to Opening Day which is April 4, 2014. Offer is only valid on February 1. Ticket booths in lot P will be also be open during FanFest for individual ticket sales
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"This year I set myself a challenge: Take a brand new photo each day. Beginning with 14mm, each day I zoom the lens by 1 millimeter and force myself to use that focal length to shoot and post a photo before going to sleep that night. This will continue every day until I reach the end of the 1mm lens adjustments at 400mm." – Chris Hornbecker
Chris is now at 387mm so he doesn't have much further to go! His dedication to this project and quality of his work is inspiring.
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Having annoying problems with .htaccess and .htpasswd
The biggest problem is I don't know how to use them!
I've worked through a few tutorials via google, explaining how to use the files and none of it has worked. They all related to using them with Apache (yes, I have it installed and working!)
Here's what I have:
Apache 1.3.27
I have a new directory at /www/secure
which contains a few files including "index.htm" & "test.htm".
All the files work as expected, ie. images, etc
I have placed my .htpasswd & .htaccess in several places (according to various tutorials) and have yet to see any "Password" boxes appear!
I have had no errors and htpasswd did create files and the file did contain username and encrypted passwords. I just don't know what else I need to do and none of the tutorials mentioned anything else other than creating the files and occasionally using chmod on the files.
The most common .htaccess file was:
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AuthUserFile /www/secure/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
Is there a tutorial that works for Apache on FREESCO? Or is there something all these tutorials is missing?
This is my biggest problem with *nix in general, not all tutorials work with all distros. Tho my biggest hate is when someone says use "this" command and all I get is "this is not a recognised file or command" THEN you find out that you have to mess around with paths,config files, blah blah blah.
So anyway, back to my problem... can anyone help or point to tutorial, etc...
My guess it's all down to the path in the .htaccess file? It's not clear whether it uses "/www/secure/.htaccess" or "/mnt/bootdev/etc...." or something entirely different!
Everyone of them mentions using "pwd" to get the path and it's always "/mnt/bootdev/blah/blah/www/secure/" and that's what I've been using mostly, but I have tried "/www/secure/".
Sorry for ranting on, but it's 2am and I've been tring to get it to work for 3+ hours.
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A Maine man was charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct after allegedly pulling a knife on a fellow hiker on the Appalachian Trail at Caledonia State Park at 2:45 p.m. July 19.
Pennsylvania State Police said Clay Alan Davis, 52, of Mercer, Maine, demanded to see the cell phone of Michael Joseph Ware, 54, no address given. Davis pulled the knife when Ware refused.
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What about non-standard encoders and tunings?
Shouldn't you make a page about how to encode vorbis files?
[JohnRipley] How about a list of third party implementations of the Vorbis codec itself? For example: JOrbis, and mine :)
[cparker] I'd like to know how to enable Windows Media Player to encode vorbis files directly from the "Rip" tab. I'm using Windows Media Player 9-10. I checked vorbis.com, and it appears to be quite outdated. (It makes a reference to irc.xiph.org.)


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Come join us in one of the most beautiful places in Australia, Shark Bay, Western Australia, and Byron Bay, New South Wales.If you've always wanted to discover Australia, "the lucky country", learn about Australian Aboriginal culture and Spirtituality, and see breathtaking landscapes, then this exceptional retreat is for you! Our retreat in Australia offers participants a one of a kind 14 day experience.It combines a unique immersion in nature in Francois Peron National Park (Shark Bay, Western Australia), a UNESCO's world heritage site, the discovery of the Australian Aboriginal Culture and Spirituality with a powerful and life changing personal development course in Byron Bay.Our program is for people who want to activate a real change in their life, improve their wellbeing, learn about how to connect with the natural world and the wisdom of the Aboriginal people.The aim of the program is to help you come in contact with new states of consciousness, new ways of thinking, seeing, and feeling. It will also assist you to empower yourself, to develop more courage, compassion, and love for yourself and others.You may choose from the following six starting dates:Our 2 Week Retreat in Australia:- from 25 Mar to 7 April, 2019- from 6 May to 19 May, 2019- from 27 May to 9 Jun, 2019- from 22 Jul to 4 Aug, 2019- from 19 Aug to 01 Sept, 2019- from 14 Oct to 27 Oct, 2019
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Fill in the blank with the appropriate answer.
When is a table considered to be a bed (location)? The definition of "patient bed location" is defined as "the location of a patient sleeping bed, or the bed or _______________ in a critical care area in a health care facility."
A. procedure table
B. waiting area
C. recovery area
D. staging area
Answer: A
The definition of patient bed location does include the procedure table (in a critical care area), not just the bed (location). In this definition, a procedure table is considered to be a bed (location). See Sec. 517.2.
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Cameron's allies against Juncker fall away
A senior British diplomat has said David Cameron will "not row back", that he will fight on to prevent Jean-Claude Juncker becoming head of the European Commission.
But even as British officials were saying the prime minister would insist on a vote at the summit on Friday, some of David Cameron's potential allies were falling away. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said: "If an explicit vote is called for, we will support Juncker's candidacy... we will not block it."
Another member of the so-called reform camp, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, said that if Mr Juncker attracted a qualified majority of the heads of government, including support from the European Parliament, then Sweden would join the majority.
Only two weeks ago Prime Minister Reinfeldt was declaring his opposition to the process by which the candidate of the largest grouping in the European Parliament became Commission president. He opposed the fact that only Mr Juncker's name had been put forward because it excluded the names of others.
So what has happened? Countries and leaders with genuine concerns about both Juncker the man and the process by which he was selected do not want to stand against the majority.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the Bundestag it would be no "tragedy" if Mr Juncker was elected by a qualified majority. In the past the EU president has been elected unanimously.
What none of these leaders are saying is that Mr Juncker is the best person for such an important and high-profile post or that they agree that the biggest bloc in the European Parliament essentially gets to chose the Commission president. Even in Brussels those doubts are widespread but in the end leaders do not want to be accused of defying the voters.
Even though only 9.7% of the European electorate - according to one estimate - voted for centre-right parties backing Mr Juncker's candidacy, most MEPs insist that the former Luxembourg prime minister has a democratic mandate.
It also weighs heavily on the leaders that the parliament almost certainly would reject any other candidate and that would lead to institutional paralysis.
So we are left with a British prime minister fighting on - with perhaps only the Hungarians as an ally - defending a principle he insists is widely supported. He believes that allowing the parliament to select who leads the Commission is not in line with the treaties. He says that it changes the institutional balance by the back door. He thinks it is "profoundly wrong" and carries the risk of politicising the Commission.
It is one of the great unanswered questions in this drama: how did it end up with so many leaders agreeing to a candidate and a process which they do not believe in? How did it get this far? How were the leaders so outmanoeuvred by the parliament?
Ironically, even as the 11th hour approaches, increasing doubts about Mr Juncker are appearing in the German and European press. Questions are being raised about the fees he receives for addressing executives. Friends of Mr Juncker insist he has broken no rules, but Bild magazine says he "wants to say only the bare essentials about his well remunerated speeches. That might work in his home country of Luxembourg which is famous for its banking secrecy, but not in Brussels".
The deputy economics editor of the French paper La Tribune says that Mr Juncker "does not embody the renewal Europeans yearn for".
So what happens next? There are strong hints from the Germans that Mr Juncker will embrace much of Mr Cameron's reform agenda and will try to talk to him. The UK may be offered a consolation prize with the next British commissioner taking a top economic post. Even though the prime minister will not take Mr Juncker's call at the moment, he most probably will in the future.
Mrs Merkel, Mr Rutte and the Swedish prime minister have reiterated their support for Britain's continued membership of a reformed European Union. In truth, bigger battles lie ahead.
There is, of course, an element of domestic politics at play with David Cameron's strategy. Facing down the lacklustre Mr Juncker seems to be playing well with British voters. It is certain that come the UK's national election, potential UKIP voters will be reminded of the PM's lone stand in Brussels.
But David Cameron is also fighting for a principle that nominating Mr Juncker would be an "irreversible step which would hand power from the European Council [heads of state and government] to the European Parliament". Why does that matter? Because the prime minister in his bid to sell a reformed Europe to the British public needs the reverse to happen: a shift in power back to national parliaments.
This fight over the former prime minister of Luxembourg is part of the longer struggle to reform the EU.


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DENVER — Randy Foye scored 24 of his 30 points in the second half, and the Denver Nuggets hung on to beat the Houston Rockets 123-116 on Wednesday night.
Kenneth Faried had 23 points and Timofey Mozgov added 22 for the Nuggets, who beat the Rockets for the first time in three tries this season.
Jeremy Lin led eight Houston players in double figures with 18 points.
Both teams were missing key players heading into the game and the Rockets got a scare when James Harden, leading a fast break, appeared to bang his left shin in a collision with Aaron Brooks midway through the third quarter. Fouled on the play, Harden made both free throws and left the game briefly to have the leg tended to before returning to action.
Houston's Dwight Howard, bothered by a left ankle sprain, did not play for the 10th time in the last 12 games. Denver was without Wilson Chandler (left groin strain) and Ty Lawson (left ankle sprain).
Trailing by 10 at the half, Houston pulled to 94-86 on a jumper by Chandler Parsons late in the third quarter. Foye, though, hit a long jumper, starting an 11-2 run over a 2 ½-minute stretch that put Denver in front 105-88 heading into the fourth quarter.
Houston made a late push, getting within 118-114 on a 3-pointer by Troy Daniels and a tip-in by Isaiah Canaan with 2:24 left to play. But Foye, who also had 15 assists, banked in a jumper and Evan Fournier connected on a 3-pointer in successive Denver possessions to fend off the Rockets' rally.
The Rockets, trailing by as many as 19 points earlier in the game, put together an 8-0 burst to cut the deficit to 58-53 with 1:44 left in the second quarter. Lin and Parsons each had 3-pointers in the stretch.


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Worldwatch Report #184: Powering the Low-Carbon Economy: The Once and Future Roles of Renewable Energy and Natural Gas
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Author: Saya Kitasei
Publication Date: Dec. 2010
42 pages
Over the past decade, renewable energy and natural gas have emerged as potential cornerstones of a low-carbon power sector. Wind and solar resources are abundant and can be converted into electricity using technologies that emit no greenhouse gases. Natural gas offers a cleaner alternative to coal that can deliver sharp, immediate reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector—if new supplies can be produced responsibly.
Important synergies between renewable energy and natural gas will allow for reduced dependence on coal, speeding the transition to a low-carbon economy. These synergies emerge when the power system is considered holistically, rather than with the one-solution-for-one-problem approach that electricity system operators have employed historically.
Natural gas can be used in a range of efficient, flexible, and scalable generating technologies, making it a natural partner for variable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. Because these renewable resources vary by the season, day, and even hour, wind and solar power plants cannot always generate electricity when it is needed, as other types of power plants can. Meanwhile, the coal and nuclear steam turbines that form the backbone of most electricity systems today are very slow to turn up and down and become much less efficient when they are running at less than full power. The inflexibility of these plants limits the amount of variable generation that the electricity grid can absorb.
Thanks to growing policy support for renewable energy, the costs of many renewables are falling, and renewable energy has started to penetrate power markets in a significant way. In 2008, the share of the world's electricity generated from wind and solar power surpassed 1 percent, more than double the contribution in 2004. In some countries and regions, the share is considerably higher: several states in northern Germany now generate more than 30 percent of their electricity from wind energy alone, and two U.S. states generate more than 8 percent. In Denmark, wind power represents about 20 percent of total generation.
Yet the world could be generating much more renewable power than it is. The global installed capacity of wind and solar power is now growing by 30–50 percent per year. But electricity systems with growing shares of variable generation are sometimes unable to accommodate all of the power that is available, especially at times when demand is low. Although some regions are able to store limited amounts of excess electricity for later use or to share the power with neighboring regions, many system operators are forced to "curtail" or turn down wind and solar generators in such situations. Natural gas power plants can increase the grid's flexibility as a whole and provide dedicated backup generation to individual wind and solar plants.
Renewable energy and natural gas can also power a transition away from inefficient centralized power. Natural gas power plants come in a range of scales, allowing them to generate electricity in both centralized and distributed power systems. Distributed power, produced from small generators located near electricity consumers, can reduce the expense and efficiency losses associated with long-distance transmission. Small solar, wind, and natural gas-fired cogeneration plants (also known as combined heat and power, or CHP, plants) can be integrated directly into distribution lines and networked together to create a diffuse, flexible, local, and low-carbon grid.
In order to play a sustainable role in a low-carbon future, natural gas itself can and must decarbonize. At the chemical level, natural gas consists primarily of methane, a molecule that can be produced or synthesized from a variety of renewable sources. Landfills and organic processes can create methane that otherwise enters the atmosphere, where it acts as a greenhouse gas some 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. This methane or "biogas" can be used interchangeably with natural gas, and capturing and utilizing it can mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. In the future, methane supplies could be decarbonized further by blending in hydrogen gas, a zerocarbon fuel that can be produced from water through electrolysis using renewable energy.
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Contract, Between Leavenworth Town Association and John A. Halderman
Author: Leavenworth Town Association
Date: June 25, 1855
Signed by three trustees of the Leavenworth Town Association (Oliver Diefendorf, William S. Yohe, and J. M. Day), this contract or agreement sold lot #19 in block #17 to J. A. Halderman for $175.00. The specific terms of the agreement were described.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: John A. Halderman Collection. #370, Box 1
Item Number: 100269 Number of images: 1
Keywords: Day, J. M; Diefendorf, Oliver; Halderman, John Adams; Leavenworth County, Kansas Territory; Leavenworth Town Company; Leavenworth, Kansas Territory; Town companies; Town settlement; Yohe, William S.
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FYI: I found the email I was looking for on the WCAG archives and included it below. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: More on the ATAG-WCAG relationship Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:51:59 -0400 From: Jeanne Spellman <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: Gregg Vanderheiden <email@example.com> CC: Judy Brewer <email@example.com>, "Richards, Jan" <firstname.lastname@example.com>, "email@example.com" <email@example.com>, WAI CG <email@example.com> To recap: This discussion concerns the WCAG WG comment on the 2010 ATAG2 Last Call: WCAGWG17: "B 2.1.1 (a) and elsewhere term 'accessible content' is used where perhaps "conforming with WCAG 2.0" would be better. " The AUWG made changes to B.2.1.1(a) and some additional locations as requested. WCAG WG accepted all the changes made by AUWG to all their comments except this one. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2011JulSep/0081.html I would like to request that WCAG WG withdraw their overall objection to all uses of the term "accessible content" for the following reasons: 1. UNDERSTANDABLE I want to keep the document readable, keeping the jargon to the places where precision is required. Most of the places where "accessible content" is used, it is a conceptual term - especially in Principles and Guidelines. "Accessible content" is used in our principles and guidelines: Part B. Support the production of accessible content PRINCIPLE B.1: Fully automatic processes must produce accessible content PRINCIPLE B.2: Authors must be supported in producing accessible content Guideline B.2.1: Ensure accessible content production is possible. Guideline B.2.2: Guide authors to produce accessible content. A blanket decision for all uses of "accessible content" is counterproductive to our goals. Gregg's desire to educate is commendable, and certainly belongs in the document, but not repeated 80+ times making the document so jargon-ridden that even the basic principles and guidelines are intimidating to the first-time reader. I would rather keep "accessible content" as is, look for the places where "accessible content" impacts testing and use a more precise, normative-defined term there. I recommend putting a section on "accessible content" in the introduction with Gregg's ideas and links to normative definitions. It is counterproductive to the acceptance and implementation of ATAG to clutter the entire document with asterisks, hyphenated-phrases, and definition links wherever "accessible content" is being used. 2. ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTED TECHNOLOGIES ATAG serves a different section/column in the accessibility diagram structure and a different audience. Developers of authoring tools are a step away from the environment where content is consumed - a developer of an authoring tool cannot predict and test all the language/browser/assistive technologies where content produced by the authoring tool may be used. Further, it would hinder innovation in improving accessibility to require that ATAG2-conformant tools be restricted to existing browsers and AT. Jan's use case of SVG is important. When a developer creates a tool that produces well-structured SVG that supports accessibility, we want that tool be ATAG-conformant, even though no browser or assistive technology currently supports it. Requiring WCAG2-conformance (with its requirement for accessibility supported technologies) would mean a developer could not achieve ATAG2 conformance. This would hinder the development of products that would improve accessibility overall. ATAG 2.0 needs to be independent of the WCAG requirement for accessibility supported technologies. 3. CLEAR SEPARATION BETWEEN WCAG AND ATAG "Accessible content" is not used in Part A (making the tool itself accessible). Gregg's argument would apply here, IMO, but that is not where it is used. WCAG 2.0 is the correct document for end-user-level precision in determining accessibility. ATAG 2.0 is not. The LAST thing we want is for the accessibility supported technologies discussion to be further confounded by subtle differences between ATAG and WCAG. I would like to ask WCAG WG to remove their objection to the broad use of "accessible content", with the proviso that AUWG will look critically at its use in SC where it impacts the ability to test the SC. jeanne On 8/18/2011 1:21 AM, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: > > > On Aug 17, 2011, at 11:11 PM, Judy Brewer wrote: > >>>> >>>> (2) when we need to use "accessible content" as shorthand in the normative success criteria, we could say "accessible* content" (note the asterisk) and in the definition of the term: >>>> - we require such content to meet the WCAG 2.0 success criteria, but not necessarily the WCAG 2.0 conformance requirements, such as "accessibility supported". >>>> - we state that WCAG 2.0 notes "that even content that conforms at the highest level (AAA) will not be accessible to individuals with all types, degrees, or combinations of disability, particularly in the cognitive language and learning areas". >>> >>> I like the accessible* content approach personally. Very nice actually. It both allows a 'generic' or simple term --- and puts the qualifiers on the term via the footnote. In fact, it helps define the term in a way that could generalize to other uses of the term "accessible content" in other places. In fact, some people might pick up this usage in other docs. >> >> I think that the "accessible*" approach would create a significant degree of confusion in many settings. >> >> By the way, I continue to think that the term "accessible content" could be an option, _if_ appropriately defined in the normal definition section to indicate that it is not an absolute term. Creating a special footnote category for an asterisk-version of the term "accessible" would very likely only exacerbate that confusion. Few terms are absolute, actually; and we seem to be straying further and further from clear communication with some of these approaches. However, if this remains too much of a concern, then the approach of using the term "WCAG2-conformant content" seems both clear and non-controversial; and Jan I therefore encourage you to reconsider using it. >> > GV: I am already finding many people wanting to define "accessible" as meaning "conforming to some guidelines". This is a severe problem for all the disabilities and people who are not addressed in these guidelines -- particularly cognitive, language, and learning disabilities . (but deaf blind and others as well) > > So I don't think we should ever user "accessible content" in any formal document -- or as anything other than an aspirational goal. I thought the asterisk idea was a great way to use this common phrase - yet also bring attention to the fact that it is more than meeting guidelines. That guidelines are the start - the minimum that you should do. > > Maybe "minimum accessibility standard" is a bad phrase since it implies that it only provides minimum accessibility. What I meant was "minimum required accessibility" meaning that you should do AT LEAST this (not A MOST - or JUST THIS). > > Maybe we should write "Basic Accessibility" but that sounds like full accessibility to basic functions -- and that is not true. hmmmmm What do we say WCAG is that will get across the idea that is it substantial but only the minimum that you should do. Any ideas anyone? > > here is my attempt to fix this -- and address your comment Judy about the old text being too full of negatives. is this better?: > >> 1) We try to be clear in our informative sections that WCAG 2.0 defines minimum level(s) of accessibility." >> >> (2) when we need to use "accessible content" as shorthand in the normative success criteria, we could say "accessible* content" (note the asterisk) and in the Footnote definition of the term: >> >> >> FOOTNOTE DEFINITION: >> >> * Accessibility has an asterisk because nothing is absolutely accessible (accessible to everyone in all environments and tasks) >> * When we say "accessible* content" we mean content that conforms to WCAG 2.0 [at level A or Level AA] >> * Note that although WCAG 2.0 conformance provides good accessibility, it does not provide complete accessibility. "Even content that conforms at the highest level (AAA) will not be accessible to individuals with all types, degrees, or combinations of disability, particularly in the cognitive language and learning areas ( From Intro section of WCAG 2.0)". It is good therefore to use WCAG 2.0 as the basis but to also implement advisory and other techniques to further enhance accessibility where possible. > > > -- _______________________________ Jeanne Spellman W3C Web Accessibility Initiative firstname.lastname@example.com on Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:08:05 UTC
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Metropolis [1927] (DVD)
Fritz Lang
Black & White, Silent - Restored Authorized Edition.
Perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films, Metropolis had for 75 years been seen only in shortened or truncated versions. Now, restored in Germany with state of the art digital technology, under the supervision of the Murnau Foundation, and with the original 1927 orchestral score by Gottfried Huppertz added, Metropolis can be appreciated in its full glory. It is, as A.O. Scott of the New York Times declared, "A fever dream of the future. At last we have the movie every would be cinematic visionary has been trying to make since 1927."
Metropolis takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor. The tense balance of these two societies is realized through images that are among the most famous of the 20th Century, many of which presage sci-fi landmarks as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner. Lavish and spectacular, with elaborate sets and modern science fiction style, Metropolis stands today as the crowning achievement of the authorized version of this towering classic, at a length over one third longer than any previous release, for the first time on DVD.
Product Details
- Starring: Brigitte Helm, Fritz Rasp, Rudolph Kleine Rogge, Alfred Abel
- Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD, Fullscreen, NTSC
- Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: Kino
- Release Date: 02/18/2003
- Run Time: 124 minutes
- Catalogue #: 275
Special Features
- 43-minute documentary - The making of Metropolis
- 13 Cast and Crew Biographies
- Audio Commentary in English, German, French and Spanish
- Photo galleries featuring production stills, missing scenes, architectural sketches, and poster artwork


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Here's the challenge: Teach Miami City Ballet's classical dancers how to tap-dance like a Broadway hoofer.
Here's the solution: Bring in Palm Beach's Philip Neal.
The former principal dancer at the New York City Ballet is not only Miami City Ballet's Palm Beach liaison, but also the repetiteur for George Balanchine's "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue," the major showpiece of this weekend's "Program IV: Broadway and Ballet" at the Broward Center.
"Any fear they had, that flew out the window pretty quickly," Neal says. "Half of them had tapped a little when they were kids, and the others had not. The major difference is that ballet dancers are always elongating their legs all the way through their feet. Tap is deeper in the knee bend. The feet have to be more relaxed to make the proper noise. I think that is more the challenge with ballet dancers."
Additionally, the performance will include "Dances at a Gathering" by choreographer Jerome Robbins, best known for "Fiddler on the Roof" and "West Side Story." The second and last ballet, "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue," was originally a part of Richard Rodgers' and Lorenz Hart's Broadway smash "On Your Toes" in 1936. In 1968, Balanchine expanded its themes and plot into a standalone ballet.
"This is a role that I'd danced pretty much the entirety of my career at the New York City Ballet," Neal says. "It was my first year in ballet school. I was just goofing off in the wings tap dancing. The director came over and asked, 'Can you tap? Can you really tap?' I said, 'Yes, I can.' And I danced the lead role in 'Slaughter' for the 23 years. I just got lucky, really. The other tap dancer had gone off to do a Broadway show."
He adds that one of his favorite aspects of the role is that "it incorporates so much acting and drama in a musical way. It's a play within a play. It's really challenging to get the part across."
The story is about a vaudeville dancer named Phil who is forced to give up the stage by his parents to become a music teacher. When a struggling Russian ballet company comes to town, Phil can't resist submitting his own ballet titled "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue." In rehearsals, Phil falls in love with the prima ballerina, Vera, whose partner, Morosine, is having problems getting the jazzy rhythms. Replaced by Phil, Morosine is so angered he hires a gangster to bump off Phil on opening night.
So in rehearsals with Miami City Ballet, "It's not enough to do just that step," Neal explains. "I ask them, 'What can you do with your body or your facial expression to move the plot forward?' It's very challenging for people who have not done it before."
Especially people who are, say, baseball stars. Retired Major Leaguer Mike Piazza will make a guest appearance as a gangster in "Slaughter" when the ballet is staged at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center on Friday, May 3.
"There has been a phenomenal amount of interest," Neal says. "But it's not a dancing part. He's a character. He's acting. His wife and daughter worked very hard to make this happen. He's really excited to do this for his daughter, [Nicoletta] who is a student in the Miami City Ballet School."
When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Where: Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale
Cost: $25-$175
Contact: 954-462-0222, BrowardCenter.org or MiamiCityBallet.org


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FREDERICKSBURG, VA – Long-time University of Mary Washington coach and athletic administrator Dana Hall has been promoted to the full-time administrative role of Senior Associate Director of Athletics effective immediately, according to UMW Athletic Director Ken Tyler. Hall, who coached the field hockey and women's lacrosse teams simultaneously for 21 years, and lacrosse for the past 23 seasons, will step down from her coaching duties as she transitions into her new role.
"I am very pleased that Dana has accepted our offer to become Senior Associate Director of Athletics", said Tyler on Saturday. "During her long and illustrious coaching career, she has had a positive impact on countless student-athletes. I look forward to working with her in this new role for the benefit of the entire department and I know she will do a great job."
Hall has been an assistant athletic director in addition to her coaching duties for more than 10 years. She presently serves as the department's Senior Woman's Administrator, runs the UMW Student-Athlete Advisory Council, and spearheads such annual events as the department's canned food drive and adopt-a-family outreach during the holidays.
Since taking over the field hockey and lacrosse programs at UMW
in the fall of 1990, Hall's teams advanced to 16 NCAA
Championships, including in 10 of the past 14 years in
lacrosse. Named the 2001 NCAA Division III National Women's
Lacrosse Coach of the Year by 360Lacrosse.com, Hall also was named
national coach of the year in field hockey in 1993. With a career
lacrosse coaching record of 260-149 and a career field hockey
coaching record of 276-126-3, Hall won 536 games as a collegiate
coach, with a career winning percentage of .663.
A multi-sport athlete at Frostburg State University, Hall earned all-state honors in both field hockey and lacrosse for the Bobcats. An associate professor of health and physical education, Hall is a mother of two daughters and a grandmother of four. She resides in Spotsylvania, Va.
A national search for a new head women's lacrosse coach will commence immediately.


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The main reason I feel it necessary for us to monitor this one closely is due to the language used in the interview. Apparently, Google is trying to "revolutionize" and "modernize" the "blog consumption experience". I actually love new ways to present information, and find some of the new views quite fun, but with this new change comes some sacrifices. Each new "view" actually removes any of the standard info we are used to seeing along the peripheral sections of our blogs. In other words, these views take the raw RSS feed version of the posts and comments and allow this to be the only content seen in the new "views". This of course removes any of the peripheral information we have painstakingly added to our blogs, such as personal profiles, Twitter feeds, Surname links, theme icons, links, label list, and even ads. If this is meant to just be another way to view them in an RSS feed reader, fine, but that is not the language being used.
The second reason that I feel this might be one to keep a close eye on is the wording about "optional". For now, these "views" can only be accessed if you type in the word "/view" after your standard blog address, or bloggers can disable this function from their site altogether. However, "for now" is a scary thought. Apparently, the Project Manager has hinted that the optional views may be mandatory at some point.
After viewing my blog in some of these new "views", I can see how this change will happen someday. The entire internet as we know it is changing: becoming more fluid and visually dynamic. Google specifically noted HTML5 among other advancing technologies as a reason for this switch. But let's just slow the train down here. First of all, these new views are only supported by the very latest in browsers. My first attempt gave me a screen that listed the browsers these views supported, and apparently, my IE version was not one of them. This sent me scurrying for Firefox. Once I did get to play around with them, I liked some, but a couple were just plane silly. As a hobbyist photographer, I was instantly drawn in when I could see all of my blog photos displayed in the mosaic form - what a pretty representation of family history! But after the flash and ooohs and ahhhs.....I suddenly remembered....uh wait, isn't a blog a web log? We WRITE here. In fact, writing is the main element of a blog. Yes, photos are important, but NOT the main focus of most of the blogs out there. So in my "VIEW", these new Blogger "views" better not be the final versions.
As of right now, I'm against any FORCED Blogger change. We all put a lot of time and (sometimes painful) effort into getting our blogs to look as they do. Besides, many of the little elements on the side are not there just for visual stimulation. They provide helpful links, information, labels, affiliations and ads - which helps with revenue for bloggers who usually don't make squat writing about what we love in the first place. Besides, as a Blogger user, I think they should fix some of the other HIGHLY aggravating bugs of the current Blogger user interface (UI) before changing the entire view system! Cough, cough, photo editing, cough cough - just sayin. And then there is the track record with Google. Anyone remember Google Wave? Flash in the pan. Buzz? Fading faster than your ancestor's ink on non-archival paper! Google LOVES to make waves and shake things up.....and I LOVE many of their things (Blogger, Gmail, Docs, not to mention the staple search engine)......but wake up Google! Please don't reinvent the wheel with Blogger. Sure, it's time for a revamp, but make it better by fixing bugs first, give us new features, make editing easier (take a look at WordPress/Tumblr), but for heaven's sake, don't break what has been a stable, popular product! I think some of the changes are awesome.....but in proportion......please don't forget that blogging is about writing, otherwise, it would be a Flickr account.
So in short, I think as Bloggers, we should keep an eye out and voice our opinions on this one heavily (each view has a feedback portion as explained on the official Google site here)......before they turn "optional" into "permanent". To play with your own Blogger blog in the new "views" just add /view to the end of your blog address: http://www.journeyspast.blogspot.com/view Below are some screen captures of the different "views" and perhaps a note or two about layout. At the end is a new video Google has put out there to give you a better idea of what to expect.
Happy Blogging!
|Sidebar View - Nice text to photo ratio, more like standard blogs -
like the comments number posted by title - comments can be
seen or hidden based on user's preference.
|Mosaic view - all intro photos - hovering mouse over a certain pic
gives you the title of the post.
|Snapshot view - EVERY photo from each blog post.
Hovering with mouse displays a piece of the opening paragraph.
Blog post titles are always present.
|Timeslide view - feature posts on the side jump quite a bit chronologically.
|Actual post view if anything is clicked from the new "views" navigation pages.
|Flipcard view - each opening photo from your posts.
Hovering over them with a mouse flips the photo to
reveal the title and link to the post.
|Flipcard also - the only view with multiple ways to
organize your list of posts -
in this case, according to date.
|Also Flipcard - organized by label - poor use of screen space.
BTW, the label count is very wrong - cut my Daniels listing in half at least.
The last option is a grouping by author (not shown),
but ends up being a clump since I'm the only author.


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From the upcoming edition of The Catholic Key:
Why South Park is More Interesting than David Brooks
And Why it Matters
By Santiago Ramos
A DEBATE CAN be noteworthy not only because of the clash between both sides but because closer scrutiny reveals a startling lack of contrast between them. This lack might reveal a shared poverty of imagination.
Had Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the notorious Comedy Central cartoon, South Park, merely decided to mock the Book of Mormon in their new, eponymous Broadway musical, they would not have made the headlines. Catholics, Muslims, Evangelicals, Jews, and Mormons have all already been the target of their satire. The news about The Book of Mormon is that with it, Parker and Stone are doing the unexpected: their show only lightly mocks religion, and it makes a greater point about its fundamental goodness.
NEW YORK TIMES columnist David Brooks attempted to articulate their point in his column last week, and to offer a critique of it. Under the heading, "Creed or Chaos," he writes:
The central theme of "The Book of Mormon" is that many religious stories are silly — the idea that God would plant golden plates in upstate New York. Many religious doctrines are rigid and out of touch. […] But religion itself can do enormous good as long as people take religious teaching metaphorically and not literally; as long as people understand that all religions ultimately preach love and service underneath their superficial particulars; as long as people practice their faiths open-mindedly and are tolerant of different beliefs.
Brooks and Parker and Stone are in agreement about the fundamental virtue of religion: that it can inspire people to do good, to practice service, and to love one another. The difference between the two sides, as Brooks sees it, lies in the importance of having a specific, rigorous creed. Parker and Stone think, according to Brooks, that having one is not essential. Brooks is a sociologist and he knows better:
The only problem with "The Book of Mormon" (you realize when thinking about it later) is that its theme is not quite true. Vague, uplifting, non-doctrinal religiosity doesn't actually last. The religions that grow, succor and motivate people to perform heroic acts of service are usually theologically rigorous, arduous in practice and definite in their convictions about what is True and False.
Rigorous theology, Brooks writes, provides people with a "map of reality" which consists of the accumulated wisdom of many generations, and not just the genius of one person. It is an approximation of reality—just like any map—but it is useful for living.
My first question upon reading Brooks' column was: What is your standpoint? Not, Where do you stand? Brooks makes it quite clear what his opinion is. But, how can he have the opinion that he has? If, as he asserts in his column, religion is largely about the stories it tells, how can he be so sure that he knows the meaning and the ending of the story?
Put it differently: Brooks writes that he and the South Park creators are in agreement over what is the essential good thing about religion. That essential good thing is its promotion of love, order, service, and all those virtues that make life better in society. But my question is: How do you know? "Could the essential good be something beyond what he is imagining it to be?"
IT SHOULD NOT be a big claim to make: the good that human beings seek with religion is not easily understood and explained for us by sociologists. Not because sociologists are bad, but because it does not necessarily follow that their method for looking at the world is equipped to grasp what exactly we are attempting to grasp with religion.
Even though Brooks bends over backwards to respect, appreciate, and explain the irreducible complexities of religions and creeds, he reduces them in a different way. He is reverential about what religions are in and of themselves, but not at what they might possibly point to, or even what they are truly asking about. It's this type of oversight that the French philosopher Maurice Blondel was criticizing when he chided those thinkers who "persuade the credulous that all the obscurity is already clarity for themselves."
Matt Stone and Trey Parker, while perhaps not as "nice" as Brooks, are more interesting for one small but not insignificant reason: they have not only mocked all religions, but they have also mocked Richard Dawkins. The "stupidest" explanation for the origin of the universe, Trey Parker once said in a 60 Minutes interview, is to say that it exists "just 'cuz." The lack of wonder is what he objected to. His and Stone's response was to mercilessly skewer Dawkins in an episode titled "Go God Go!" At least Parker and Stone express some wonder and reverence, if not for religion itself, then for the religious questions.
People don't become religious for sociological reasons. Brooks might agree with that statement, but the problem is not notional agreement but the knee-jerk attempt to reach for the most "respectable" set of criteria with which to defend religion: the good effects that it can have on society. This criteria is "respectable" because it is in some sense "objective." But the beauty and complexity and rigor Brooks admires doesn't come from people looking for objective criteria and effective ways to bring about public order and virtue. It comes from people standing in awe before life and the world, and asking Why and What is it all for?
The criterion to use to answer those questions is personal. Not personal in the consumerist sense of arbitrary preference, but in the philosophical sense of, "I am searching for something that fulfills my need for meaning." Perhaps we live in a time where we are less certain about using such a criterion; or perhaps we don't know how. But we should be wary of thinking that we don't need it and that we've already answered the question of meaning without it.
Santiago Ramos is pursuing graduate studies in philosophy at Boston College.


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Orderly Disorder : Librarian Zinesters in Circulation Tour arrives in New Orleans with the American Library Association's 2011 Annual Conference.
June 26 6:30-8pm
free! vegan-friendly refreshments!
Newcomb College Institute, Nadine Vorhoff Library
100 Caroline Richardson Bldg., 62 Newcomb Place, Tulane University
(504) 865-5762
(Transportation will provided between the convention center and the library, pick-up at 6pm in front of Convention Center Hall E)
Five librarians–two ALA accredited, one credentialed by Australia's comparable body ALIA, and two rogue–will drive into New Orleans in their Fly-Away Zine Mobile to sprinkle love of zines* as an outlet for do-it-yourself (DIY) culture, creative expression, political rage, and knowledge sharing if all of their beautiful, messy radiance. Librarian zinesters will read from their own work and work from their libraries and might slip into a harangue about the importance of creating, collecting, and preserving alternative points of view, DIY style and of making zines available in libraries, adding them to academic and lay conversations on a tremendous range of topics.
Featuring librarian zinesters, that is people work in a library of any kind and make zines (bio page):
Jenna Freedman (New York, NY)
Celia Perez (Chicago, IL)
Debbie Rasmussen and her Fly Away Zine Mobile (Minneapolis, MN)
Robb Roemershauser (New Orleans, LA)
John Stevens (Melbourne, Vic, Australia)
Press contact:
Celia Perez, email@example.com, 773.490.5464
Of further interest:
Cataloging Zine Collections in Libraries and Infoshops
Monday, June 27, 2011 – 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Convention Center
Rm 297
* Zines are independently produced, frequently not-for-profit, and often quite personal publications that exist outside of other more recognizable publication types such as monographs (ie: books), journals, and newspapers.


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An old man and his wife went to the doctor's office. The doctor asked the man for a blood, urine and feces sample.
The man was slightly deaf and said, "What?"
The doctor said, "I need a blood, urine and feces sample."
The man still looked puzzled, so his wife leaned over and yelled into his ear, "Sheldon, the doctor needs a pair of your underwear."


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Halloween and Diabetes: Tips for Handling Treats
Children with diabetes don't have to miss the Halloween fun if you plan ahead to adjust their diabetes management plan.
Children with diabetes can eat candy on Halloween, just like any child. However, parents should plan ahead to work the candy into their child's diabetes meal plan or ensure they get enough insulin to cover the carbohydrates in the candy. The Child Life Team at Joslin Diabetes Center provides tips for Halloween planning and handling treats with diabetes.
Planning Ahead for Halloween with Diabetes
It's best to discuss your plans for Halloween with your child with diabetes in advance, so they know what to expect. You can even involve your child in figuring out what to do with extra candy. Children are much more likely to be on board with a plan that they have helped create.
What To Do With Extra Candy
Some families save the extra candy and put a piece or two in their child with diabetes' lunch box each day (if candy is allowed by the school) or use it to treat low blood glucose reactions (be careful not to use candy with a lot of fat, such as chocolate bars, as hypoglycemia treatments).
Other families work out an exchange plan where children with diabetes can trade in their candy for other special items, such as small toys or a special family outing. You may also be able to put extra candy towards a good cause, such as by donating it to community groups or sending it to troops serving overseas.
After Trick-Or-Treating With Diabetes
Children with diabetes will best be able to handle post-trick-or-treating if they know in advance how much candy they can eat and keep. If you plan to save candy to be eaten later, they can still trade candy with their friends. They may want to involve their friends in any exchange plan you've created.
Another idea is to prepare Halloween activities that do not revolve around sweets for your child with diabetes. Some activities can include:
- playing Halloween games, such as "pumpkin, pumpkin, jack-o-lantern" (a variation of "duck, duck, goose")
- working on arts and crafts projects
- making a special Halloween snack together
Children with diabetes should participate in Halloween activities like any child, but parents might have to put extra thought and some creativity into how to help their child enjoy these special times and still keep their diabetes management on track.
Click here to learn about Joslin's Annual Halloween Party.
Related Links
Click here to see more tips for trick-or-treating with diabetes and healthy Halloween recipes provided by the Joslin Clinic.
Click here to view a list of nutritional information for various candies and other treats.
Page last updated: September 18, 2019


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The ideas were flowing on July 17 as Wall Street's biggest investors gathered in New York City at the Delivering Alpha conference presented by CNBC and Institutional Investor. The overriding theme was how do you make money in this market? Here are 10 diverse picks from the investing pros.
By CNBC's Jeff Cox
Posted 19 July, 2013


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Thursday, February 18, 2010
An "is it Friday yet?" bento
Cheddar cheese, Wheat Thins and granola bar, raspberries, carrots with ranch in the little blue cup. Packed in our "4 square" Lock & Lock box.
Nothing exciting. I'm too tired for excitement today.
Posted by Melissa at 3:08 PM
Labels: lock and lock
4 comments:
Just so you know darlin' I have spent a semi-ridiculous amount of $$$ on some new supplies! Gosh, I can't wait to start blogging again! :D Maybe I'll upload some stuff over at FB so you can see how you've inspired me! Love you dear friend! xoxoxoxox
- February 19, 2010 at 3:21 AM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
I think your bentos would put mine to shame. I can't compete with your artistry. :) Love you Mariah. I can't wait for you to start blogging again either. xoxo
- February 19, 2010 at 11:08 AM
- Kira said... [Reply to comment]
Where did you get that little blue cup from? It fits perfect
- August 31, 2010 at 9:58 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Hey Kira! That little cup is called a "mayo cup" and I've gotten some on ebay and some from bento shops. :)
- September 1, 2010 at 12:03 AM
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Vampire bats that live in Latin America have switched to blood meals from cattle instead of from rainforest mammals, ecological physiologists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the University of Aberdeen report in the Journal of Comparative Physiology B online.
They say that the conversion of rainforests ecosystems into livestock producing farmland resulted in the expansion of vampire bat populations in Latin America.
Farmers are observing vampire bats satisfying their need for blood by attacking cattle instead of wild mammals. To document this change in behaviour, Dr Christian Voigt and colleagues analysed the stable carbon isotope ratio of exhaled CO2 in vampire bats. They fed captive vampires blood that was labelled with the stable (non-radioactive) isotope carbon-13 and then monitored the time period between the blood meal and the appearance of labelled carbon atoms in the exhaled breath. "Vampire bats used the freshly ingested blood very fast to fuel their metabolism; after less than an hour the stable carbon isotope signature of the vampires' exhaled breath was similar to that of their latest diet" Dr Voigt states.
Then the researchers collected breath of free-ranging vampire bats in Costa Rica and analysed its stable carbon isotope signature. "The potential victims of vampires in Costa Rica are either cattle or rainforest mammals such as tapirs and peccaries. These two groups of animals feed on isotopically distinct plants which are grasses in the case of cattle and herbs or shrubs in the case of rainforest mammals. Therefore, we expected that the stable carbon isotope signature in bat breath would change according to their diet" Dr Voigt continues. The vampires' breath clearly indicated that their last blood meal almost always originated from cattle, although rainforest mammals were also present.
The authors argue that the vampire bats do not necessarily prefer cattle blood, but that cattle are much easier to find for vampires than rainforest mammals. Cattle are held fenced-in on open pastures, whereas rainforest mammals roam in dense vegetation. Converting rainforests into pasture has a large impact on many native mammals of Latin America, usually not to the benefit of the original mammal fauna.
C C Voigt, P Grasse, K Rex, S K Hetz and J R Speakman (2007). Bat breath reveals metabolic substrate use in free-ranging vampires. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, DOI : 10.1007/s00360-007-0194-z is published online on 16 August 2007.


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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Guy Raz.
With all the economic uncertainty in the world, one thing is more valuable than ever: the price of gold has doubled in the last couple of years. And that's been great for northern Nevada. There are goldmines there, and mine towns are booming: tons of money, low unemployment. So why are people in northern Nevada anxious about the future? Robert Smith and Zoe Chace from our Planet Money team went to Elko, Nevada, to find out.
ROBERT SMITH, BYLINE: Elko is a city surrounded by goldmines, but you never actually see any of the gold.
ZOE CHACE, BYLINE: Oh, it's everywhere up here in the hills. It's just microscopic, trapped in little flecks in the rocks under our feet.
SMITH: So there was no old guy with a pick axe who came through here and - they walked right over these?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: They walked right over these deposits.
SMITH: So there's nothing to see.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Right. Right.
SMITH: But you can tell the gold is here by the giddiness in Elko. You can see it in Guy Simpson, a mine manager with more jobs than he can fill.
GUY SIMPSON: We want to expand. We need people.
CHACE: You can feel it from Phil Christianson, who's in town to sell chemicals to the mines.
PHIL CHRISTIANSON: This place, honestly, it's like a beehive. It's lit up. I mean, I was lucky to get a hotel room here tonight.
SMITH: You can even hear the gold, if you follow the miners when they go off shift to spend their money at the karaoke bar.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: (Singing) We may lose and we may win, though we will never be here...
CODY SPRING: If you want to look for a party in a bar, you can find it here seven nights a week.
CHACE: That's Cody Spring, 22 years old, a baby-faced miner who makes $70,000 a year. And he wants everyone to know it.
SPRING: Any single girls in New York, if you want a young Nevada guy with lots of money, my number is 702-379-2210.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: Yeah. And if you want an engineer, my number is 435...
SMITH: No, no, no, no. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.
CHACE: No.
SMITH: That guy who grabbed the microphone is not an engineer.
CHACE: Apparently, that's something that dudes in Elko say just to get chicks.
SMITH: They brag about their jobs because the mine is in the money.
CHACE: And the money is in the mines.
SMITH: OK. We got to go see what's driving this boomtown. We head on up to the mine, Barrick Goldstrike, or as I like to call it, the biggest damn hole in the ground you've ever seen.
CHACE: It's like the Grand Canyon, if the Grand Canyon were black and dusty and filled with explosives.
SMITH: This mine has been here a long time, but it's never been this busy. There are so many trucks working down there right now. The hole is now so deep, 1,200 feet, all because of the price of gold. Ask anyone, like manager Steve Kashan(ph).
CHACE: Do you know what the gold price is today?
STEVE KASHAN: I follow it fairly closely. It's just over $1,700 an ounce - somewhere around 1,730, I think today.
SMITH: The reason he has to know the price is because this gold here is really hard to get at. This gold has to be crushed and baked and squeezed out of the rocks.
CHACE: You have to put a lot of work in to get a little bit out. And it's only worth it if the world really wants it - if the price of gold is above the magic number.
SMITH: One of the mine managers, Al Plank, has a term for this.
AL PLANK: Economic gold, that's what we're looking for is...
SMITH: What does that mean, economic gold?
PLANK: That means that it has to have enough gold per ton of ore so that we can recover our cost.
SMITH: Is there a simple equation, because you know how much it costs to get the gold out, you just pull up on the Internet what the gold price is and boom, that's it?
PLANK: No. I'd say it's very complicated.
SMITH: Because if the price of gold drops too much, or if the costs of getting out of the ground go too high, then this whole operation grinds to a halt.
CHACE: And drags Elko down with it. We walked into town expecting to tell a story about how good the good times feel, but there was a definite anxiety here.
SMITH: For instance, we were coming back from the mines, and we saw an apartment complex being built. Housing is so tight in Elko right now that people are moving in while the apartment complex is still under construction.
Lacey Foster is 20 years old, pregnant with a second kid. She's from another Nevada town, Winnemucca, but her husband got a job here at the mines.
LACEY FOSTER: So we've been living in motels for the past seven months and...
SMITH: Which motels?
FOSTER: The cheap ones that are gross and, you know, but it's so expensive to find a decent place.
CHACE: Lacey just got the newest apartment in town. Her troubles should be over. But she really sounds like she's hedging her bets.
FOSTER: For now, for the next six months, we're just going to live here. And then, hopefully, we're going to be able to buy a place somewhere else in case, you know, the mining goes down. Because that scares me, you know, if the mining stops or if the gold runs out or - because I mean what are we going to do?
SMITH: Why aren't you optimistic? Have you seen this go bad at other places? You're only 20.
FOSTER: Winnemucca, it was a big gold mine town, and people just up and left their stuff. And that's how it always happens. As it gets big - the gold boom gets big and then out of nowhere it just stops.
SMITH: This has crushed Nevada communities before. Heck, there are ghost towns all around here that thought the gold would last forever. So how does Elko avoid the same fate? We went to visit the man in charge.
MAYOR CHRIS JOHNSON: Chris Johnson, mayor, City of Elko.
SMITH: Why did you want to be mayor?
JOHNSON: I don't know.
CHACE: He's really a plumber. Mayoring is a part-time gig, and it explains a lot about him.
SMITH: Yeah. He was running his own plumbing business during the last recession, and he told us a story. When the dotcom bubble burst 10 years ago, Johnson didn't worry about his plumbing company. He thought, hey, Elko has gold.
JOHNSON: Elko is immune to a recession. I just figured that, you know, hey, I got this figured out. It's a simple formula. Economy goes down, gold price goes up. Elko pushes through it, Elko does okay in between, we don't have an issue. So in this business, it was, you know, go, go, go, hire, hire, hire, buy trucks, borrow money, so on and so forth. Well, guess what?
CHACE: The price of gold didn't shoot up. In fact, it bottomed out.
JOHNSON: And in a matter of a month, we went from a company of 50-plus people to a company of about 10 people. It was a big eye-opener in being careful of what it is.
CHACE: So he's trying to run the town like it could crash at anytime using cash, not much borrowing.
SMITH: He's not the only one being careful. Mayor Johnson says that he can't get private developers to build new housing tracts in Elko. Because face it, what bank wants to lend money to build houses in Nevada, the capital of the housing bust, even if they do have gold.
CHACE: And in some ways, maybe it's nice to have a little sanity during a boom, right? Rather than overbuild, over promise, you're careful. You enjoy having the best economy in the state, but you understand it can't last forever.
SMITH: And in fact, we met a couple of young people who are playing this whole boom bust cycle perfectly.
SMITH: This is what ambition sounds like, high heel shoes on the floor of the auto shop at Elko High School.
CHACE: We asked to meet some students who were going into gold mining. And this is what we got.
SMITH: Kaylee.
KAYLEE: I'm wearing my suede booties. They're my favorite high heels.
SMITH: And this is Brandy.
BRANDY: I have my brand new cowgirl belt. Oh, and my blue feather earrings.
BRANDY: You're so cute.
CHACE: They are as precious as they sound. They look like Mary Kate and Ashley Olson.
SMITH: And they are the best crackerjack diesel mechanics in their vocational class.
CHACE: And these girls have a plan. Every day out the windows of the high school, they see trucks heading up to the gold mines, all day and all night. And the girls thought, hey, after we graduate, why not open a truck repair shop?
SMITH: I got to ask, have you come up with a name yet?
KAYLEE: We like the Cinderella Girls, because our friend taught us the meaning. And it's like the Cinderella Girls, they're coming from nothing and turning into something. So we started out knowing nothing about cars, and then we actually turned out and we know a lot about it now and - well, we've blossomed.
SMITH: You know, one of the things that's so weirdly moving about your plan is that you do know that in most of America, people think that there's a really sad future out there for the economy.
BRANDY: Yeah. And although we've been really blessed and really lucky to actually have a good economy here so we can actually have our hopes and dreams and actually work towards them, you don't want to have your hopes too low because then you're not actually going to have a future planned out for you.
CHACE: It's not just money that builds up during the boom times. It's momentum.
SMITH: And momentum can carry you through whatever comes next. I'm Robert Smith.
CHACE: I'm Zoe Chace, NPR News.
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Central Connecticut senior Stephanie Bednar of the Blue Devil women's golf team competed in the New York State Women's Amateur Championship earlier this month. The three-round tournament took place from Tuesday, July 10th through Thursday, July 12th.
Bednar (80/77/74/231) finished 15-over par which placed her fifth on the final leader board. Her 231 total strokes for the tournament put her just 12 strokes off of the tournament's champion Ellen Oswald (75/72/72/219).
In the opening round of the tournament, Bednar carded an 80 penciling in two birdies and making par seven times on the day. The senior bounced back in the second round making par an impressive 13 holes, carding a 77 which was a three stroke improvement from the previous round. On the final day Bednar shot her best 18-hole score of the tournament writing in a 74, improving another three strokes. She marked down an impressive 5 birdies and made par on 9 holes.