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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Title of work: The
Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
The Way to Rainy Mountain combines personal, familial, and tribal stories about Kiowa Indian history. Momaday juxtaposes his personal memories of Kiowa culture and traditional tribal narratives to create an impression of the Kiowa way of life that is both mystical and well-grounded. The book was illustrated by the author's father, Al Momaday.
The Way to Rainy Mountain recalls one of Momaday's earlier works, The Journey of Tai-me, a collection of Kiowa myths translated into English. With the encouragement of his graduate school advisor, Momaday took that manuscript and added his personal memories and poems to create the brilliant, experimental juxtapositions of The Way to Rainy Mountain.
In the book, Momaday not only presents traditional Kiowa myths, but enlightens readers as to how these stories help create and reflect Kiowa culture. He does this by splitting the book's perspective between himself, his forebears, and anthropologists. The tension between these perspectives offers readers a means of understanding Kiowa culture as a living entity that changes depending on one's point of view. Through the process of mentally balancing the traditional tribal stories with Momaday's comments on contemporary tribal life and observers' impressions, the reader is able to appreciate the fluctuating, lived experience of Kiowa culture.
I get a kick out of hearing people say this, but Momaday has been referred to as the Shakespeare of Native American letters. And I think that phrase captures something of his significance, in the sense of a baseline excellence -- as a writer. He's a person with a tremendously imagistic mind, but he loves the voice in what he does. He got his Ph.D. from Stanford and worked on Yvor Winters's work. So, he studied poetry, and he studied it in a generation when the sound of it was very important -- knowing how it sounded as well as it how it could be structured.
Q & A with Kathryn W. Shanley
What is N. Scott Momaday's place within the Native American literary tradition?
In the 1970s, there were all kinds of bills passed, including [a] civil rights bill for Indian people, a bill for American Indian education, religious freedom. Most people wouldn't believe that Indian people in this country got freedom of religion in 1978. And then when Reagan came in, in 1980, he reversed some of those things. So we had freedom of religion for two years -- in this country that is supposedly founded on the freedom of religion!
Momaday fit right in that historic moment of Indian people coming to the fore of American imagination, not as the end-of-the-trail, bedraggled kind of warrior who's lost vision and hope, but they came into full view as contemporary Indians. There had been as sense of Indian people being reduced to wards of poverty, policy, and programs, not having culture left, etc.
And along about that time, too -- well [into] the 1950s, actually -- Carl Jung had become interested in Black Elk Speaks (Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Souix, by Black Elk, et. al) And so that mythic, poetic vision of Black Elk Speaks was a kind of precursor, but that book opened that world. People went back to that book to say, "We aren't defeated, we have cultures left, we have languages left, we are here."
Why is it important to teach The Way to Rainy Mountain to high school students?
This is a journey, and it starts in Montana and it goes down to Oklahoma. The history of Kiowa people, actually, is that they are linguistically related to Southwest Pueblo tribes. And somehow, at some point, unbeknownst to the oral historians of the Kiowa tradition, they went north and then they came back down to Montana, and then from Montana they went to Rainy Mountain. So that book gets kids, young people, in touch with a world that's moving, on the move. In an odd sense, it's the same kind of appeal that a coyote story can have. Because coyote -- the one thing about a literal coyote, but certainly the mythic coyote -- is he's always on the move. In some traditions, the stories start by saying "Coyote went out walking." And so that adolescent age is one of movement, and this is about movement.
Momaday stands and looks out across the landscape and relates to you how he feels. But when he does that, he talks about how his ancestors are buried there, so that he reclaims the land through his own memory. I think The Way to Rainy Mountain is a remarkable work in the sense that it's truly a work of literature, a fine work of literature that will last forever. It's timeless. Anyone will be able to pick it up and find in it something of great value a hundred years from now. So it's got a lot of appeal for young, young reading audiences, especially high school.
What is the role of ancestry and cultural heritage in Rainy Mountain?
Well, I should say first and foremost that The Way to Rainy Mountain is based on a literal journey where N. Scott Momaday retraced what he saw to be his ancestors' trek from Montana down to Oklahoma. And it was an important journey for him as a human being in the sense [of] standing on the lands that they stood on, looking out across the desert or the prairie as he went down toward Rainy Mountain. But another aspect of it is important as well: He wasn't raised among Kiowa in Oklahoma. He was raised in the Southwest, on the Jemez Pueblo where his parents worked. His mother was Cherokee and his father was Kiowa, but he was also profoundly influenced by Pueblo peoples and Navajo peoples. So he's "recovering" himself, and that makes his work interestingly American. Many immigrants come to this country -- the first generation struggles to make it, the second generation has it a little easier, and then the third generation wants to revisit the life of the grandparents, to go back and see where they came from, who they were when they were in the Old World.
And so between generations, the recovery of history, family history, and cultural identity are important to human beings. High school students especially need to think about that. Their grandmothers may very well be living. And recovering photographs and stories from living relatives is an extremely valuable thing to ground students, to take them forward. They aren't at the stage where they are thinking about that. They aren't thinking [about] their own mortality most of the time, fortunately. But their record will be important to them some day if they work with a text like The Way to Rainy Mountain, and work at recovering some of those things. But again, what I'm trying to emphasize is that for Momaday, it's a journey of the imagination that parallels the literal journey of The Way to Rainy Mountain.
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The Way to Rainy Mountain is essentially a cultural and historical study of the Kiowa Indians. The Kiowa, a tribe of nomadic buffalo hunters, migrated from the northern to the southern Plains in the eighteenth century, eventually settling in areas of Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma. Known as fierce warriors opposed to white incursions on their territory, the Kiowa allied with the Comanche to make daring raids throughout the southern Plains, and as far south as Mexico, attacking settlements, stealing horses, and taking captives. Although they were assigned a reservation in Oklahoma in 1868, they refused to settle completely and continued to war with white settlers until they were ultimately defeated in 1874. Today, there are close to 12,000 Kiowa who live mostly in Oklahoma and other areas of the southwestern United States.
The Ghost Dance
The Ghost Dance was a Native American religious movement started in the late 1880s by Wovoka (a.k.a. Jack Wilson), a mystic of the Paiute tribe. Intended to herald a new age in which whites would disappear and Native Americans would be reunited with their lost loved ones to live in peace and material abundance, the Ghost Dance caught on quickly; by 1890, most Western tribes were performing its ecstatic songs and dances. The movement outraged white settlers and the government, who feared the Ghost Dance would provoke a pan-Indian uprising. The massacre by U.S. soldiers of 300 Lakota Indians at Wounded Knee in December 1890, during the height of the Ghost Dance's popularity, effectively ended the movement.
The Sun Dance
The Sun Dance, a ceremony lasting anywhere from four to eight days, was one of the most spectacular Plains Indian religious rituals. Originally a Lakota rite, it is today considered a sacred ritual by many tribes. The dance, which is performed at the time of the Summer Solstice, involves young men, or "warriors," piercing themselves with hooks attached by ropes to a large pole. The dancers circle the pole, staring into the sun, until the hooks break through their flesh. Ultimately, the Sun Dance is intended to insure the harmonious continuance of the natural world, in which death and life are gracefully entwined.
The Way to Rainy Mountain is, in part, a migration narrative. It is an oral history of Kiowa movement from the northern Plains to the southern Plains, and eventually to the Rainy Mountain region of Oklahoma. This migration echoes the natural movement of many other Native American tribes, as well as their forcible resettlement onto reservations, which were generally distant from their traditional tribal grounds.
Aho is Momaday's grandmother, who is honored in The Way to Rainy Mountain. She was steeped in the oral traditions that told of the migration of the Kiowa form the north, but she herself always lived near Rainy Mountain in Oklahoma.
Native American Civil Rights Movement
Begun in the late 1960s to address issues of racism, poverty, unemployment, and government oppression, the Native American civil rights movement sought to encourage greater self-determination and international recognition of Native American treaty rights. While lobbying efforts and direct action -- including the occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969; the takeover of the Washington, DC, Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1972; and the 1973 seizing of the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota -- were always key elements of the movement, equally important was the flowering of Indian literary and artistic talent. In 1969, Vine Deloria Jr. published the provocative Custer Died for Your Sins, signaling a new era in Native American self-awareness and cultural reclamation. That same year, N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn. The movement, which broke down long-held cultural stereotypes, not only changed the way the larger culture began to view Native Americans, but resulted in a number of important legislative changes as well.
Suggestions for applying other theories to The Way to Rainy Mountain
From a reader-response perspective, The Way to Rainy Mountain invites many possible literary transactions. After students have read the entire book, teachers can assign each student one segment of the book on which to focus. Once students have done this, perhaps by writing a journal entry about the material, the teacher should have them wander around the class, talking informally with each other about their particular passage. In the course of these informal conversations, students will begin to understand how the book's sections are related.
An inquiry approach to the book might include a personal genealogy or family history project, similar to the family tree projects that teachers initiated in the 1970s when the film Roots was popular. In this instance, however, the inquiry would engage students in family history instead of solely addressing family lineage. The goal of such an inquiry would be for students to create a work, similar in structure to Momaday's book, in which they fuse family history, cultural history, myth and cosmology, and geography.
A critical read of the book would focus on the history of Indian Territory, now known as the state of Oklahoma. Students could explore the history of the forced resettlement of tribes in this area and discuss the new relations that came about as a result of this resettlement. Students might write a new textbook on Oklahoma history for others and publish it on the Internet.
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Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Still in Court Less Than Two Months Before Election
(HARRISBURG, Pa.) -- It's less than two months before the election and Pennsylvania's voter ID law is still under challenge in the courts.
On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered a lower court to determine whether voters in Pennsylvania will be able to get IDs -- under the Commonwealth's controversial voter ID law -- in time for the next election.
The Supreme Court order vacates a lower court decision that upheld the voter ID law, and asks the lower court to "consider whether the procedures being used for deployment of the [identification] cards comport with the requirement of liberal access."
The lower court is directed to provide a supplemental opinion on the issue by Oct. 2.
It was a 4-2 decision.
Justices Seamus P. McCaffery and Debra Todd dissented from the opinion, saying the court was wrong to remand the case Tuesday for further hearings on whether the Commonwealth can implement the new law without disenfranchising voters. Todd wrote, "Forty-nine days before a Presidential election, the question no longer is whether the Commonwealth can constitutionally implement this law, but whether it has constitutionally implemented it."
Matthew Keeler, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of State, said Tuesday, "The law is still in effect. The Department of State is going to continue to reach out to all registered voters and continue to educate them about what IDs are valid and how to go about getting a valid ID if they require one."
Critics of the law were cautiously optimistic about Tuesday's decision.
"We're glad to see that [the] Pennsylvania Supreme Court is taking the actual impact on voters seriously," said Advancement Project Co-Director Judith Browne Dianis. "Requiring the state to prove the law will not disenfranchise voters is the right step to take. The reports from Pennsylvania already include long lines at the PennDOT offices, confusion and untrained workers giving out misinformation. The law places an insurmountable burden on hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania voters and we are confident that the evidence will demonstrate widespread disenfranchisement. Elections in America should be free, fair and accessible and this law must be stopped in time for the fall elections so that every voter who wants to cast a ballot can do so."
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Sunday, 5 December 2010
Stuck in Chicago
But SAS ended up giving us a hotel: The Hyatt O'Hare, where I finally moved all the kids and baggage to by midnight. For a pregnant woman, the stress of a half marathon, which I ran earlier in the day, was nothing compared to moving six bags and two kids up and down multiple flights of stairs. I got to the hotel and just started barfing. I then got ahold of my dad, who is picking us up today. Luckily they are just an hour and a half from Chicago. SR continues to enjoy sunny Orlando at a conference :).
Here are some pics from our great trip, though:
There are many more, but the kids are up now, so gotta get going!
8 comments:
- Ewa said...
If possible I try to avoid Chicago transfers: snow in winter, nasty storms in summer.
Hope the weather improves soon for you.
Puking no fun - the things we women go through for our kids even before they are born. :)
- 5 December 2010 at 17:11
- sea legs girl said...
Thanks, Ewa. The ironic thing is it wasn't the weather in Chicago. It was the weather in Copenhagen, if anything. I never actually got an explanation but all other flights were going out of Chicago.
And Chicago is simply not avoidable (I wish!). It has one of the only 3 direct flights to Copenhagen in the US. And our families are located in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
But we're all fine and back at my parents - and that's what's important.
- 5 December 2010 at 19:20
- Stefanie Schocke said...
Ah too bad I didn't know, I could have picked you up! O'Hare is about 35-40 min from my house! Weird that it wasn't the weather in Chicago since it's been snowing a lot since Friday.
Can't wait to hear about the race and Orlando!
- 5 December 2010 at 20:46
- mmmonyka said...
Treat it like two extra days with your family.
Can't wait to hear about your Orlando trip!
- 6 December 2010 at 02:33
- cherelli said...
Glad you finally escaped Chicago - I look forward to the half marathon RR and hearing about the Orlando trip!!
- 6 December 2010 at 02:40
Hi, I don't run, but your blog is very interesting. Do you and your family use bicycles for commuting in Copenhagen?
I also have a comment, for what it's worth, about your 9 year old daughter. My oldest daughter was always pretty trim growing up, until the summer before 5th grade (around late age 10). All the sudden she got kind of chunky, in fact I had to buy her "husky" jeans at the start of 5th grade.
Our pediatrician told me to just ignore it and to say nothing to her about her weight. She said some girls just have to put on some extra weight before they start their growth spurt, and it's part of their natural growth pattern. She was right. By the middle of 5th grade, my daughter grew several inches but her weight stayed the same. She is now 18, 5 foot 6 inches, and about 120 pounds. My younger daughter stayed thin, but didn't start her growth spurt until age 14. My younger daughter is 15, about 5-5, and probably weighs only 100 pounds. Ironically, she eats more than her sister, but she is still growing.
Just thought I'd pass that on.
Lynne in MD
- 6 December 2010 at 23:13
- sea legs girl said...
Thanks a lot for the comment, Lynn. I think you are right that it is not good to focus on the exact weight - we are all built differently and grow at different time, as you point out. Natali is definitely focussing more now on the importance of what goes in her mouth - and that has resulted in simply better eating habits and us stressing less about the whole weight issue.
- 7 December 2010 at 23:45
- sea legs girl said...
We actually live in Næstved, an hour outside of Copenhagen, and use bikes a lot for getting around town - it's quite safe and perhaps the most common mode of transportation. But we can also just walk. It's not that big of a town. But even when we go to neighboring towns, we can bike there safely.
- 7 December 2010 at 23:48


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Contribution to the EC public consultation on the modernisation of EU public procurement policy
We appreciate the initiative taken by the European Commission to consult with the public on the modernisation of European public procurement policy. Free Software Foundation Europe is an independent, nonprofit nongovernmental organisation dedicated to the furthering of Free Software and working for freedom in the digital society.
We are limiting our response to a selected number of questions which bear on the areas of Free Software and Open Standards.
19. Would you be in favour of allowing more negotiation in public procurement procedures and/or generalizing the use of the negotiated procedure with prior publication?
The Green Paper on new EU public procurement policy ("the GP") proposes that contracting authorities "should be allowed to negotiate the terms of the contract with potential bidders. ... This could give contracting authorities more flexibility to obtain procurement outcomes that really fit their needs". We want the EC be very careful when allowing wider use of negotiated procedures.
We note that according to the Directive 2004/18/EC, negotiated procedures are to be used only in exceptional circumstances. Articles 30 and 31 of the Directive 2004/18/EC provide closed lists of exceptional cases when contracting authorities may use the negotiated procedure with or without prior publication of contract notice, respectively. In any case, usage of the negotiated procedure should be justified by special situation and should not be used in a discriminatory manner.
According to the Recital 2 of the Directive 2004/18/EC, public procurement is subject to the respect, among other principles, of the principle of equal treatment and the principle of transparency. The awards of public contracts should guarantee the openingup of public procurement to competition.
We believe that the Member States and EU institutions should strictly follow the fundamental principles of public procurement set in the currently effective Directive and the Treaty of Lisbon in order to safeguard competition. In no case should negotiated procedures enable the contracting authority to predetermine the outcome of the process. So, while simplifying the procurement process for small and mediumsize enterprises (SMEs), the EC should establish additional safeguards to guarantee the openness of public procurement procedures to the broadest possible set of competent bidders.
39. Should the public procurement Directives regulate the issue of substantial modifications of a contract while it is still in force? If so, what elements of clarification would you propose?
A lack of clarity exists as to how software upgrades should be handled in the procurement process. EC procurement regulations should clarify that major software upgrades (e.g. upgrades requiring reinstallation of the program in question) should be treated in the same way as new purchases, and should be retendered. It should be made clear that contracting authorities are obliged to treat software in a similar manner as physical goods, where there is no doubt that purchases of a new version of the original product have to be retendered.
60. In your view, can the attribution of exclusive rights jeopardise fair competition in
procurement markets?
61. If so, what instruments would you suggest in order to mitigate such risks / ensure fair competition? Do you think that the EU procurement rules should allow the award of contracts without procurement procedure on the basis of exclusive rights only on the condition that the exclusive right in question has itself been awarded in a transparent, competitive procedure?
The GP suggests to set up in new Directive a principle that "it would be allowed to award contracts without a competitive procedure on the basis of exclusive rights, only if these exclusive rights have been subject to a competitive procedure".
In the area of software, an overwhelming share of public authorities remains locked into proprietary systems and file formats. This lockin endangeres fair competition in public procurement: currently a significant number of tenders for computer software use trademarks or specific brands to formulate technical and functional requirements. To avoid such bad practices, the technical specifications drawn up by public purchasers need to allow different bidders to participate with different products. The current Directive directly prohibits technical specifications to create obstacles to the "opening up of public procurement to competition" (Article 23).
We want the EC to clarify in the new Directive that calls for tenders should be based on functional requirements, not on specific products or vendors. Public agencies should always procure software only through a transparent, open procedure to foster competition in software market and a diversity of tender participants.
Lockin also plays a significant role in calculating the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a software solution. Yet these costs are all too often not reflected in current procurement practices and decisions. The new Directive should specify that when deciding on the economic merits of a bid, the contracting authority must figure in the full costs of transitioning out of the solution to be acquired to a new solution by a different vendor in the future. These "exit costs" are composed of requirements like translating existing data from proprietary file formats into formats based on Open Standards, and replacing or re developing helper applications. This is the only way to ensure that the bid which gets selected is indeed the most economically advantageous over the lifetime of the purchased product or service.
70. The criterion of the most economically advantageous tender seems to be best suited
for pursuing other policy objectives. Do you think that, in order to take best account
of such policy objectives, it would be useful to change the existing rules (for certain
types of contracts/ some specific sectors/ in certain circumstances):
70.1.1. to eliminate the criterion of the lowest price only;
70.1.2. to limit the use of the price criterion or the weight which contracting authorities can give to the price;
70.1.3. to introduce a third possibility of award criteria in addition to the lowest price and the economically most advantageous offer? If so, which alternative criterion would you propose that would make it possible to both pursue other policy objectives more effectively and guarantee a level playing field and fair competition between European undertakings?
The GP encourages the use of public procurement in support of certain policy-related objectives, such as the environmental,social and innovation considerations. Article 53 of the Directive states that the criteria on which the contracting authorities shall base the award of public contracts shall be "criteria linked to the subjectmatter of the public contract in question, for example, quality, price, technical merit, aesthetic and functional characteristics, environmental characteristics", etc. Thus, contracting authorities already are able to include environmental or social award criteria in the call for tenders.
As innovation and technological development are also listed among considerations to be prioritised, we propose to include in this list such criterion as "the openness of technical standards". The revised European Interoperability Framework defines as open "specifications, software and software development methods that promote collaboration and the results of which can freely be accessed, reused and shared". It states that "the principle of openness is applied in full if (1) all stakeholders can contribute to the elaboration of the specification and public review is organised; (2) the specification document is freely available for everybody to study and to share with others; (3) the specification can be implemented under the different software development approaches."
With a list of criteria arrived at through a dialog involving various key players in industry, politics and community, FSFE has arrived at a definition of an Open Standard as a format or protocol that is
- subject to full public assessment and use without constraints in a manner equally available to all parties;
- without any components or extensions that have dependencies on formats or protocols that do not meet the definition of an Open Standard themselves;
- free from legal or technical clauses that limit its utilisation by any party or in any business model;
- managed and further developed independently of any single vendor in a process open to the equal participation of competitors and third parties;
- available in multiple complete implementations by competing vendors, or as a complete implementation equally available to all parties.
In Lisbon 2007, Ministers of EU Member States agree that "continuous attention shall be given to the definition and openness of technical standards and publicly available specifcations" (Lisbon Ministerial Declaration, 19 September, 2007). The Digital Agenda for Europe declares that the EU will support development of open standards and platforms. The European Interoperability Framework v.2 recommends public administrations to favour "open specifications" while establishing European Public Services. Moreover, existing judicial practice in EU Member States allows the insertion of Open Standards requirements or preferences in tender requirements. As the Italian Constitutional Court ruled, "the concepts of Free Software and software whose code can be inspected do not refer to a particular technology, brand or product, but they rather express a legal feature".
We believe that inclusion of "the openness of technical standards", along with environmental and social criteria, in the list of recommended award criteria would allow public agencies to procure software based on open specifications more freely and extensively. This would be an important and substantial step towards promoting competition and technological development in the European software market.
We would further like to suggest that in the case where public bodies are contracting software development services, there should be a standard policy of making the resulting work available as Free Software. This could be formulated as follows:
"The provider grants the contracting authority the right to use, study, share and improve the resulting work(s) under the terms of a license that is either classified as a Free Software license by the Free Software Foundation, approved by the Open Source Initiative, or both."
Such software development is paid for out of public funds. Hence the resulting work should be made available to the public for use and improvement. There is also a significant potential for reuse of software within the European public sector, which is currently not being exploited.


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Amidala was the democratically elected Queen of Naboo before representing the Chommell sector as a Senator in the Galactic Senate. As Queen of Naboo, Amidala fought bravely to liberate her people during the Trade Federation's invasion in 32 BBY, thus becoming one of the most respected political figures in the galaxy. In 22 BBY, following the Military Creation Act, Anakin Skywalker was assigned to protect her, and following the Battle of Geonosis, the two secretly married on Naboo after the pair fell in love.
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Recent improvements to window technology make substantial air conditioning energy savings possible. However, shading remains a time-tested method to accomplish the same end.
Architectural and site shading can have an even greater impact on reducing daily cooling use than upgrading windows. Using both a prototype building and modeling simulations, a study by our team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) evaluated the relative impacts of different solar load control strategies. The study points the way toward optimizing the interaction of various methods for reducing solar heat gain. This is helpful,as the wide variety of shading options currently available can make choosing an effective solar load control strategy confusing (see Snapshots of Shading Options,HE Sept/Oct '00,p.20). The prototype house was built in 1998 in Tucson, Arizona, as part of the Department of Energy's Building America program.Its integrated package of energy-saving features includes structural insulated panels (SIPs) for the wall and roof construction, white coating on the roof, spectrally selective windows, architectural shading, an interior location for the air handler and ducts, highefficiency air conditioning equipment, and solar water heating. Building America (see Clean Breathing in Tract Homes,p. 29) works with five building industry teams to produce advanced residential buildings on ...
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Ed Augustus has finally announced that he's absolutely, positively not a candidate for the city manager post. So I say it's high time we give it to him.
By deciding that he won't go after the job, he just became a most appealing candidate. By taking himself out of the running, we now want to chase him with a butterfly net. To paraphrase Ren�e Zellweger in Jerry Maguire, he had us at goodbye.
"I just can't go back on what I said," Augustus told T&G reporter Nick Kotsopoulos last week. "Integrity is something that is very important for a city manager, but if you do something that causes the public to question your integrity, it greatly diminishes your ability to lead."
OK, so lead, already! Integrity, shmegrity!
If nothing else, our introspective city manager has provided fascinating fodder for political junkies. When hired as a short-term successor to Michael O'Brien, Augustus announced that he would return to his job at the College of the Holy Cross when his nine-month contract ended, mostly to appease the critics who claimed the deal was an inside bag job for the politically connected former state senator. He even had such wording written into his employment agreement.
So Augustus is hired, and turns out he likes the job. And the City Council likes him in it. Everyone says he's doing great, even though he has yet to be spotted striding forcefully around the Common in a baseball cap during a snowstorm. But Augustus is a quick learner, and forceful striding is a skill easily taught.
So now city leaders have a problem. They want Augustus to take the job, but must proceed with public "listening sessions" purported to glean input from residents about the qualities they want in the new city manager. But suspicions that the sessions were staged rallies for Augustus were heightened when more than one resident claimed they want a "very tall" manager who "happens to share the name of a deceased Roman emperor."
Meanwhile, Augustus is deeply conflicted. He's spotted more than once wandering the stairwells of City Hall in the dark, like he's being followed by Banquo's ghost. He loves Worcester, but his reputation means a lot to him. He likes his job as director of government and community relations at Holy Cross, but running an urban city is way more interesting than ringing doorbells on Caro Street and urging rowdy students to please keep it down.
All of which is ripe for selective interpretation. Critics say he's terminally indecisive; supporters say he's deliberate and thoughtful. Critics call him a political insider; supporters say he has good contacts. Critics say the city needs a professional manager from outside the city; supporters note that, if Augustus doesn't take the job, we'll be forced to suffer through months of hearings run by City Councilor Phil Palmieri. Support promptly shifts to Augustus.
Last Wednesday, though, Augustus announced he's out, saying he enjoys the job but won't go back on his word. This prompted colleague Tom Caywood to sum up the drama on Twitter: "Only in Worcester does a city official have to announce that he's not a candidate for a job his contract explicitly bars him from seeking."
But contracts are made to be broken, of course, and this one is no exception. So now that Augustus has displayed the integrity to turn down a job he actually wants, he deserves to be hired. The city could do a lot worse, although his affinity for municipal unions needs watching.
He had us at goodbye. So it's time to say hello, and give this guy another look. And it's time for Ed Augustus, who has proven so adept at rumination, to reconsider one more time.
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Nate Sharpe is entering his fifth season as an assistant pole vault coach, having worked with the Engineers since 2010. An MIT alum himself, Sharpe completed one season of cross country as a freshman in 2005 and was offered the opportunity to try his hand at pole vaulting. He finished his career at MIT with a personal best of 4.35m and a placement at the New England Division III Championships less than 3 months after undergoing surgery to repair a ligament in his thumb.
Since graduating in 2009, Sharpe has continued to pole vault, first in England while completing his master's at the University of Cambridge, and currently at the MIT Pole Vault Club, which he helps coach with head pole vault coach Patrick Barragán.
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Scientists at TUM are now developing an artificial skin for robots with a similar purpose as human skin: It will provide important tactile information to the robot and thus supplement its perception formed by camera eyes, infrared scanners and gripping hands. As with human skin, the way the artificial skin is touched could, for example, lead to a spontaneous retreat (when the robot hits an object) or cause the machine to use its eyes for the first time to search for the source of contact.
Such behavior is especially important for robotic helpers of people traveling in constantly changing environments. According to robot vision, this is just a regular apartment in which things often change position and people and pets move around.
The centerpiece of the new robotic shell is a 5 square centimeter hexagonal plate or circuit board. Each small circuit board contains four infrared sensors that detect anything closer than 1 centimeter. "We thus simulate light touch," explains Philip Mittendorfer, a scientist who develops the artificial skin at the Institute of Cognitive Systems at TUM.
"This corresponds to our sense of the fine hairs on our skin being gently stroked." There are also six temperature sensors and an accelerometer. This allows the machine to accurately register the movement of individual limbs, for example, of its arms, and thus to learn what body parts it has just moved.
Plate for plate, the boards are placed together forming a honeycomb-like, planar structure to be worn by the robot. For the machine to have detection ability, the signals from the sensors must be processed by a central computer. This enables each sensory module to not only pass its own information, but to also serve as a data hub for different sensory elements. This happens automatically, ensuring that signals can go in alternative ways if a connection should fail.
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Texas Family History Research
This entry was originally written by Wendy Bebout Elliott, Ph.D. FUGA for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Native American tribes resided in the area when present-day Texas was settled in 1682 by the Spanish at Isleta, near today's El Paso. Between 1685 and 1700, Franciscan missions and Spanish military outposts (presidios) were established in east Texas at Nacogdoches, Goliad, and San Antonio. In 1718 San Antonio, with its military post and mission, became the administrative headquarters of the region under Spanish jurisdiction. The province of Texas was established in 1727 with vaguely defined boundaries. Groups of colonists supplemented the population of soldiers and priests, particularly in San Antonio and in smaller numbers elsewhere. Early municipalities were organized in Texas under the Spanish and Mexican governments. Between 1731 and 1836 twenty-nine political subdivisions were founded completely or partially in Texas.
As a result of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, a boundary dispute erupted with Spain over the Louisiana-Texas border. Spain claimed land east to the Red River, while the United States contended its territory expanded west to the Sabine River. A region of neutral ground created in 1806 established a temporary compromise, but because neither country had jurisdiction over this area, it became a haven for outlaws. Beginning about 1809, Quapaw, Osage, and Oto tribes relocated into the region.
Louisiana Catholics were encouraged to emigrate and settle in Texas, and Spanish officials loosened traditional barriers against alien immigration. The Sabine River was accepted as the western boundary of Louisiana in 1819, although border problems continued. The next year Arkansas Territory's Miller County was organized, with land partially inside the Texas border.
Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821 and claimed the area of today's Texas. The Mexican government, while insisting that only immigrants of the Roman Catholic faith were desired, did permit American settlers to enter under the auspices of certain grantees (impresarios).
When Stephen F. Austin, the first American impresario, inherited his father's grant, he established a colony in Texas under the auspices of the new nation of Mexico. His colonists were among the first Anglo-Americans to settle in present-day Texas. Boundaries remained undefined, and colonists spread from the coast to the old San Antonio road and between the Lavaca and San Jacinto rivers. Austin's colony stimulated others to follow.
Contracts from the Mexican government continued to be issued for settlement through 1832. Large groups from Tennessee and Arkansas migrated into Texas beginning in the 1820s. Others from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky followed. The municipality of Refugio was created in 1825, followed by Austin in 1827, Goliad about 1828, and Nacogdoches and Liberty in 1831. Duplication of granted land and undefined boundaries complicated land titles. The number of early municipalities, organized in the eighteenth century under Spanish and Mexican governments, increased in the 1830s. A comparison of names of early and later municipalities reflects the great influx of Americans into present-day Texas during this period.
Families from South Carolina and Georgia migrated overland through Alabama and Mississippi to Texas; others left Alabama and Mississippi for Texas. Some traveled by ship from the port at New Orleans to Galveston and Indianola.
When General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna led his Mexican troops against American forces, the Battle of the Alamo became the most famous of the battles that took place among the ensuing military conflict. Four days before the decisive victory at San Jacinto, the Republic of Texas was established on 2 March 1836.
By 1836 American citizens residing in the state actively promoted statehood for Texas. To encourage immigration the Republic of Texas offered colonization contracts beginning in 1841. After some boundaries were defined and settled, Congress accepted the Republic of Texas into the Union in 1845 as the twenty-eighth state.
Texas's entry into the union incited the Mexicans and led to the Mexican War, 1846'48, which was fought over and on Texas soil. The Mexican government hoped to retain Texas and other territory in the southwest including California, land both countries claimed. The United States was victorious and made good its claims to the southwest.
To make the area suitable for extending settlements, a number of fortifications were built by the federal government to protect settlers from attacks by Native Americans. Conflict with native groups continued intermittently through the early decades of statehood.
Prior to 1850, over 30,000 Germans had settled in Texas. Sympathies were divided among Texans over the slavery and states' rights issues that preceded the hostilities between the North and the South. Over the objections of Governor Samuel Houston and the German settlers, Texas seceded from the Union and joined the Confederacy, supplying many soldiers to the Confederate army. Texas was readmitted in 1866.
Expansion of cotton and wheat production, livestock, and oil provided great stimuli for growth. In addition to the Germans, several other groups of European immigrants settled in Texas, including Czechs, Poles, Swedes, Norwegians, and Irish. During the Depression, the Post Cereal Company offered inexpensive land in west Texas for those who would contract to grow grain for the company's products. The state has continued to be a destination point for its Mexican neighbors seeking employment in farm and industry.


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Award-winning columnist Jon Dawson shares his memories of Father's Day 2013
If you have a Facebook account and at least one functioning eye, you�ve probably seen upwards of 46,000 images of fathers, dads, daddies and pops over the last 48 hours. Everybody looks happy in all the pictures and the smiles rarely look coerced.
I�ve been a father coming up on nine years, and with the increased level of daditudinal fortitude I�ve had to drum up as the years go passing by, I assumed the Father�s Day festivities would get ramped up accordingly.
When the kids are 3 or 4 years old, a homemade card is perfectly acceptable. When the little scamps reach a point where they can program the DVR and access NASA launch codes with a Gmail account, then it�s time for them to wheel in the Rolex watches and gold tooth caps.
Even though I believe myself to be a bling-worthy father, I haven�t worn a watch in 20 years and gold tooth caps make Pepsi taste funny. Instead, Tax Deductions 1 & 2 came up with a very nice shirt and two pairs of shorts as a gift. Since the shorts I wear most of the time are hand-me-downs that were out of style when they were turned over to me around a decade ago, these new editions were right on time.
In addition to the great presents, The Wife prepared my favorite dinner: breakfast. There is nothing like dining on bacon, eggs, biscuits and fruit in the middle of the day � except for maybe a peanut butter and cabbage sandwich.
Some of the woe surrounding my Father�s Day was self-inflicted. After several months of misfires and house fires, we decided to delve headlong into Tax Deduction No. 2�s potty training. We knew this mission would be a difficult one, but it was also one that had to be done. Many hours have been spent sitting on the edge of the tub while TD No. 2 was perched on a little plastic training potty with the collected works of Walter Elias Disney by her side. I kept asking her if she needed to go, and she just kept saying, �It�s stuck!�
After a rocky start a few weeks back, we�d gotten TD No. 2 to a good place in all matters water closet. To be fair, we did ask her if she needed to go every six minutes for several days straight, but after a while, she started charging into the facilities with vigor � and on more than one occasion, a flawed sense of depth perception. With a rousing chorus of �GOOD JOB,� hugs galore and the promise of two shiny new M&Ms with every successful launch, we were one step closer to not having to spend a king�s ransom on diapers.
While potty training was entering the home stretch this week, TD No. 2 came down with some sort of virus. I wrongly assumed that once both of the TDs were away from school and its army of smarmy, walking Petri dishes with flashing-light sneakers, we�d be in the clear. The doctor told us it was a virus and would probably last for three days. During those three days, much of the potty progress we�d made eroded at an alarming rate. Between her sore throat and headache, TD No. 2 was in no mood to perform for M&Ms.
On Sunday � Father�s Day � TD No. 2 finally gave up the ghost and realized she needed to bond with the facilities. In her panic to get to where she needed to go, she got a little tangled up in her big girl draws. Hearing her distress call � which resembles a giraffe with vertigo � I walked into the bathroom to find her in the toe-touching position. She�d somehow gotten tangled up in her undergarment and was hobbling around the bathroom like a tall crab yelling, �It�s stuck, it�s stuck!�
While she was still tangled up in her skivvies, TD No. 2 kept trying in vain to sit on the little plastic potty. A couple of times she missed by a good 2 feet; a few other times she�d glance the side of it and come to rest on the cold, unforgiving bathroom tile. I saw a guy do the same little dance at the CBGB bathroom in New York once, but I was under no moral or legal obligation to help him.
Eventually we freed TD No. 2 from her flowery cotton shackles and she was able to complete the transaction with seconds to spare. After her hug/M&M tour, we noticed TD No. 1 was lying down in the living room. After a thermometer check, it was determined that whatever TD No. 2 had just about gotten over had now infected TD No. 1.
For a brief moment, a job as a weather station janitor in Antarctica sounded mighty inviting.
With the whining and the twitching and the squealing and the moaning seemingly under control for a few seconds, I decided to take my father (actually, my Daddy) his Father�s Day present. I believe spending time with your father on Father�s Day is spiritually rewarding. It also had the added benefit of being several miles away from the twitching, squealing, whining and moaning that has wallpapered my existence going on four days.
I walked into my parents� house and � to my amazement � many of the same sounds I�d just escaped were there to greet me. Apparently, The Parents had come down with some sort of sinus/achy/fever of the bubonic variety themselves.
My father opened his present � a book on Bobby Jones written by Mark Frost � and sneezed a sneeze that could�ve put out a California forest fire. This sneeze actually showed up on the Doppelganger radar on the local news that night.
After trying unsuccessfully to un-stick the pages from each other, my father now owns a Bobby Jones door stop.
I eased back to the house and caught a segment on CBS Sunday Morning that profiled comedian Jim Gaffigan. Gaffigan and his wife have five children, and even though he is one of the top touring comics in the country, he/they have decided to reside in a small New York City apartment. All of his children � living in dirty old New York City � were free of fever and seemed a general delight to be around.
Gaffigan said he and his wife were having such a good time with the kids that they may have another one.
Sorry, but I�m having to cut this column short. I�m about to board a plane headed for NYC. I have a Monday morning appointment to slap Jim Gaffigan with an old fax machine.
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Capoeira, in simple terms, is an Afro-Brazilian art, richin tradition and history. It is said that Capoeira is " a fight that is a dance and a dance that is a fight." This Brazilian Martial Art incorporates dodges, kicks, and takedowns combined with acrobatics and dancelike movements. Students of any age, sizes and ability level are welcome. This discipline is for anyone interested in gaining physical and mental strength, flexibility and confidence, while encouraged and supported by a tight-nit community of Sul da Bahia Capoeiristas. Daniel Yoshimi, also known as Professor Chin in the Capoeira world, was born in Santos, Brazil. He began his training in Capoeira with Sul da Bahia under the direction of Contra Mestre Eros in 1995. Professor Chin has a natural gift as a teacher and mentor to kids and adult students alike. Chin's dedication to the community of Santa Barbara is outstanding---for over 10 years he has created programs geared to support 'at risk' kids, low-income families, and has volunteered countless hours for local charities and various non-profit groups. Chin's love of Capoeira can be seen in all that he does. His classes are playful, physically challenging and dynamic, while maintaining the rich traditions of Capoeira.


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Such a relationship exists between malaria and sickle cell anemia. Individuals who carry a gene to resist the former are carriers for the latter. And recently scientific evidence has suggested that individuals who are resistant to human African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, are predisposed to developing chronic kidney disease. That could explain why African-Americans, who derive much of their ancestry from regions where sleeping sickness is endemic, suffer from kidney disease at high rates.
In a study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, Penn researchers and colleagues offer further insights into the unfinished story of the sleeping sickness-kidney disease connection by looking at a variety of African populations which had not been included in prior studies. Sequencing a portion of a gene believed to play a role in both diseases, the scientists discovered new candidate variants that are targeted by recent natural selection. Their findings lend support to the idea that the advantages of resistance to sleeping sickness, a disease which continues to affect tens of thousands of sub-Saharan Africans each year, may have played a role in the evolution of populations across Africa.
The research was led by Wen-Ya Ko and Sarah Tishkoff of the Department of Genetics in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine. Tishkoff, a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor, also has an appointment in the School of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology. Ko now holds a research position at the Universidade do Porto in Portugal.
Earlier research had shown that African-Americans with kidney disease frequently had one of two mutations in the gene that codes for the ApoL1 protein, endowing it with the ability to kill the parasite species that causes the form of sleeping sickness found in eastern Africa. But, puzzlingly, these variants were found at high frequencies in the Yoruba, who live in western Africa's Nigeria.
"That was an interesting finding, but nobody had ever done a sequencing analysis of this gene across other African populations," Tishkoff said. "We wanted to know if we would find the same variants and would they be as common."
Using the earlier findings as a starting point, the Penn-led study expanded the sequencing effort to look at a region of the ApoL1 gene in 10 different African populations, encompassing groups from both eastern and western Africa.
They found the G1 and G2 haplotypes in some of the other populations but only at low frequencies, suggesting there may be other variants playing a similar role. Sure enough, the researchers also turned up another variant shared across groups, which they called G3.
"This novel G3 was quite common in some of the populations but surprisingly absent in the Yoruba," Tishkoff said.
Not only was this variant present in the other nine groups studied, but the Ko-Tishkoff team found signs that it had been positively selected, or ferried through generations at a rate above chance, perhaps because it exerted a protective effect against sleeping sickness.
And interestingly, G3 was most common in the Fulani, a pastoralist group which lives in western and central Africa. The authors note that human African sleeping sickness, which is typically transmitted by tse tse flies, might have been an important factor driving the migration patterns of the Fulani throughout history.
Because the Fulani "practice cattle herding, tse tse flies and the parasites they carry may have been more of a problem … than for some other groups," Ko said. "It may have been particularly advantageous for them to be able to resist the disease."
The different variants, therefore, may reflect a variety of selective pressures, including population movements around Africa and the historical and ongoing evolutionary arms race between the sleeping sickness parasite and the human immune system. The fact that the Yoruba can resist a form of the disease that is no longer present in the area in which they live might be the result of changes either in the parasite or in the movement patterns of the Yoruba themselves. Kidney disease might thus be considered an evolutionary trade-off, the unintended consequence of a battle to resist a powerful and prevalent infectious disease.
In future work, the researchers hope to distinguish the role, if any, of G3 in resisting sleeping sickness. Tishkoff will also collaborate with a team of investigators studying kidney disease in Africans from both eastern and western regions of the continent. The goal is to get a more-complete picture of what genetic profiles may predispose certain groups to renal failure. Additionally, Tishkoff will continue to characterize genetic variation and signatures of natural selection in other regions of this gene in order to better understand the evolutionary forces influencing diversity among Africans.
"This study shows that the picture is much more complicated than we previously thought," Tishkoff said. "And it's another great example of why it is so important to look at diverse African groups when studying genomes. There is so much diversity in this one continent."
Additional authors on this paper are Prianka Rajan, Felicia Gomez, Laura Scheinfeldt, Alessia Ranciaro and Jibril B. Hirbo of Penn Medicine's Department of Genetics; Alain Froment of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris; Thomas B. Nyambo of Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Sabah A. Omar of the Kenya Medical Research Institute; Charles Wambebe of International Biomedical Research in Africa; and Ping An and Cheryl Ann Winkler of the National Cancer Institute.
This study was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
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The "exciting" and "provocative" new compact sedan from Toyota comes in a squat, sloped package with bulging fenders, carbon-fiber accents and massive 19-inch alloy wheels.
This is the ... Corolla?
It's the Corolla Furia concept, at least, unwrapped for the public on Monday at the 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
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"It builds on the brand's product development priority to develop more dramatic, expressively designed vehicles," the company said in a release, reflecting the stated desire of Akio Toyoda, chief executive and president, for Toyota to produce spicier cars.
Since 1968, the Corolla has sold millions of copies with its unwavering embrace of the practical -- some might call the current model plain, even homely. But the company now speaks, somewhat self-consciously, in soaring terms of its new focus on aggressive styling.
"Iconic Dynamism" is how the fuddy-duddy automaker, heretofore steeped in styling understatements, describes the design language of the Corolla Furia concept. Bill Fay, Toyota's group vice president and general manager, acknowledges the Furia design study "will surprise a lot of people."
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How much of that dynamism makes its way into the production model remains to be seen, and Toyota offered no details on plans for horsepower, torque and handling capabilities. Nor did the company say when the next Corolla will hit the street (or if the Furia name will see production).
But the Corolla, last redesigned for 2008, is overdue for an overhaul. The current version shows it age, both in the dated exterior and old-school trappings such as its four-speed automatic transmission. Competitors including the Honda Civic, Nissan Sentra, Chevy Cruze and Ford Focus now offer five- or six-speed automatics or continuously variable transmissions that boost fuel economy.
The current Corolla "is old in the segment of small vehicles that have gotten a lot of attention in the past few years," said Jessica Caldwell, an analyst with auto information company Edmunds.com.
Toyota sold about 291,000 Corollas last year, making it one of the top selling passenger cars and second in the compact car market only to Honda Civic, which had sales of about 318,000. If there was a knock on Corolla, it was that about 20% of sales were to fleet customers such as rental car agencies, Caldwell said, an uncharacteristically high number for a Toyota product.
"This car is very important to Toyota," Caldwell said. "With the explosion of subcompact cars in the past few years, coupled with the demise of large cars, compact cars suddenly find themselves as the 'middle size' for American consumers. I think we'll see compact cars gaining in popularity no matter where gas prices end up."
With the No. 2 seller in the segment after the Honda Civic, Toyota is well positioned with a nameplate familiar to consumers and likely to end up on shopping lists, she said. Despite its age, it was one of the best-selling cars in the U.S. in 2012.
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First Lady Michelle Obama visited David Letterman on "The Late Show" for the first time Monday — and while the conversation mostly skirted politics, the pair got in a dig at the notoriously deadlocked Congress.
"At the end of the day, has your husband ever come home and said to you, 'Oh, that John Boehner, what an idiot?'" Letterman asked the first lady.
Michelle Obama gamely laughed.
"It has never happened. Never, never. He is always upbeat — particularly about Congress," she said with a straight face, but knowing look, of her husband's very public clashes with congressional leaders.
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McIlroy urges selectors to pick McGinley over Monty
World No. 1 Rory McIlroy has thrown his full weight behind Paul McGinley's bid to captain the European Ryder Cup team in 2014 - saying Colin Montgomerie "has nothing to gain" by returning.
Reports on Monday indicated that Montgomerie is 'very confident' he will be selected to captain the European team at Gleneagles in two years' time, having previously overseen the narrow success at Celtic Manor in 2010.
With the vote to decide the next captain taking place on Tuesday, McGinley was believed to be the strong favourite for the role ahead of former Open champion Darren Clarke - but Montgomerie has emerged as a surprise candidate, as Europe search for a high profile name to take on United States captain Tom Watson.
McIlroy, however, is adamant McGinley should get the job, saying the Irishman was "the best captain I have ever played under".
"I strongly believe that everyone deserving should get their chance," McIlroy said, speaking at his unveiling as a Nike athlete.
"I played under Paul in the Seve Trophy in 2009 and I thought he did an unbelievable job - out of every captain I've played under I feel he's been the best, he brought a lot to the team room.
"I personally don't feel Monty has anything to gain from this, if we go to Gleneagles and lose he's already a winning Ryder Cup captain so as I said I'm fully behind Paul and I hope he gets the job.
"It's just the small details, he doesn't leave any stone unturned, he gives confidence to the team room.
"Even when he's been a vice captain in the two Ryder Cups I've played he's always brought a lot of great ideas and I just think he'd make a really good captain."


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Asia Investors Dive Into U.S Real Estate
Asian investors are pumping money into U.S. commercial real estate at a record pace, helping to fuel the recovery of property values and funding development in major markets. Craig Karmin reports.
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- The Junior Ryder Cup, which features an impressive list of today's notable professional and amateur golfers, traces its roots back to 1995.
In September of that year, a series of exhibition matches were conducted, with Central New York PGA Section-area juniors competing against 12 leading European junior players. The Europeans toured three New York courses and no results were published.
The inaugural Junior Ryder Cup was contested prior to the 1997 Ryder Cup in Sotogrande, Spain. The U.S. won, 7-5.
In 1999, Europe returned to face the U.S. juniors, and dominated at the Country Club of New Seabury in the Boston area by a 10 1/2-to-1 1/2 margin.
This marked the first of three-straight Junior Ryder Cup victories for the Europeans. In 2006, however, the United States team was able to halve the Junior Ryder Cup, 6-6, at Celtic Manor in Newport, Wales.
In 2010, the United States Junior Ryder Cup team won its second consecutive trophy with a narrow 13 1/2 to 10 1/2 triumph at Gleneagles Resort in Perthshire, Scotland. It was the second consecutive victory for the U.S., following a 22-2 domination in 2008 in Bowling Green, Ky.
Below is a snapshot of notable players who have competed in the Junior Ryder Cup and the years they competed:
1995 ( Exhibition)
Sergio Garcia
Suzann Pettersen
Beth Bauer
Hunter Mahan
Ty Tryon
Suzann Pettersen
Nicolas Colsaerts
Rafael Cabrera-Bello
Emma Cabrera-Bello
Luke Guthrie
Rory McIlroy
Belen Mozo
Oliver Fisher
Bud Cauley
Vicky Hurst
Jordan Spieth
Alexis Thompson
Matteo Manassero
Jennifer Johnson
Carly Booth
Justin Thomas
Jordan Spieth


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