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Springfield, Mass. - The MIT field hockey team scored three second-half goals, leading to their eighth victory of the season in a 4-1 win over the Springfield at Stagg Field on Saturday morning in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) clash. The win was the third straight over Springfield for the Cardinal and Gray, after the Pride began the teams' series with an 15-game winning streak.
It marked the first time these two teams had played since MIT toppled Springfield in the NEWMAC Tournament Championship game a year ago, ending the Pride's five-year run as tournament champions. MIT moves to 8-1 overall (2-0 NEWMAC) while SC dropped its fourth-straight game to fall to 2-4 (0-1 NEWMAC).
The visitors got a first-half goal from Katie Kaufmann after more than twenty minutes of back and forth between the two teams. Molly Duffy found Kaufmann all alone in front of the Pride net, and the midfielder put it past Pride goalie Alison McCarthy to net the game's first strike. McCarthy stopped five MIT shots in the first half, but was under constant pressure in the second, leading to three more MIT goals. The visitors went up 3-0 after a pair of Kimberly Barker goals found their way into the net. Barker scored her first at the 43:13 mark and added her second of the game just 7:09 later.
The Pride answered Barker's second goal quickly, with Lynne Donoghue putting a Kelly Gallo assist past goalkeeper Keri Dixon to make it a 3-1 ballgame. But the visitors would not let the momentum swing, as forward Kameron Klauber, who tallied eight shots in the game, found the goal five minutes later to boost the Engineers' lead back to three.
McCarthy stopped 10 shots in the second half, and 15 for the game, as Engineers outshot the Pride 23-13 overall. Dixon earned the win in goal as she posted seven saves for the visitors.
The Pride travel to Cortland, N.Y. for a Sunday afternoon game against Cortland State tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. Tech will be back in action on Tuesday, September 28 when it hosts Endicott College at 6:00 p.m.


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Guerin predicts big things for 2014 U.S. Olympiansby Shawn P. Roarke
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Four years ago, Brian Burke went into overdrive to tamp down expectations about a skilled but young American team that arrived in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic tournament.
Burke, who picked that team and knew just how good it was, did his customarily excellent sales job, and the United States snuck up on a few established powers on its march to the gold-medal game. Unfortunately for Burke and his charges, the story ended poorly; a heartbreaking overtime loss to Canada in the gold-medal game.
The defending silver medalists officially began the road to Sochi as 48 hopefuls gathered at the Kettler Ice Center for the two-day U.S. Men's National Team Camp, the first step in a long journey to the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The list of players will be whittled down to the 25 who will be chosen to take the ice in Sochi and determine their country's fate in the most important international hockey tournament of them all. That team will not fly under anybody's radar.
"I don't think we'll sneak up on anybody this time," said Burke, who is serving as director of player personnel this time around. "That's a good thing. It means we have gotten better as a country, it means we have better players and there will be different expectations for this team."
How different?
Bill Guerin, one of the most decorated American players of all time and part of the core that lead the USA to an upset of the Canadians at the 1996 World Cup of Hockey that changed the international hockey world order, believes this collection of players has the potential to be the best USA Hockey has ever put together.
Asked to speak to the players at the start of camp, Guerin stated that very fact to the players on hand, leaving many shocked at the ramifications.
"It is what I believe," Guerin told NHL.com Monday afternoon. "You sit in that room and you see the faces and you know the names and you see where these guys are coming from -- the depth and talent at every position. They absolutely can do that and we want them to do that. We want them to be the best. We want them to win."
But can the Americans win? Can they overcome Canada? Are they better than Russia, the host this time around? What about Sweden, a perennial power at the Olympics?
Guerin looks back at 2010 and sees a gold-medal game that was a 50-50 affair throughout more than 60 minutes before Sidney Crosby, the world's best player, ended the drama with one of the most iconic goals in the history of the sport. He sees the core of the team now four years older and four years wiser. He sees youngsters coming through the pipeline who are even more skilled. And he sees unlimited potential -- gold-medal potential.
"You saw it start to develop last Olympics," Guerin said. "You have the Ryan Callahans, the David Backes, the Brooks Orpiks, the Ryan Suters, the Zach Parises -- those guys are going to be around for a long time. They are the core, they are the new guys. Honestly, I couldn't be more proud and happy to see the quality humans and great hockey players they are."
For the players asked to take on the burden of being the new greatest generation of American hockey, Guerin's passing of the torch from the 1996 World Cup championship team was a humble and sobering moment in hockey lives full of accomplishments and accolades.
"When he said it, I think a lot of guys really took that to heart because for us, myself in particular, those were the guys you wanted to be like and represent the country," Parise said. "I think USA Hockey has come a long way."
But being told they can be something great is a far step from actually being great, a distinction that was not lost on many of the American players.
"I don't think we'll sneak up on anybody this time. That's a good thing."
-- 2010 Team USA general manager Brian Burke
"I think [Guerin] means it when he says it, but he's also telling you that you have the potential or the opportunity to do that and that doesn't really mean anything if you don't do anything with that potential or opportunity," Orpik told NHL.com. "I think it is a motivational thing and kind of a reminder to guys. If you end up doing something with that potential, that opportunity, that is a pretty good generation to replace.
Others can't even wrap their head around a situation in which they would be compared to the collection of players who came out of nowhere 17 years ago and decided that the United States could play with any country, regardless of its resources or skill level. For many in the current USA setup, those players are the reason they embraced hockey and chased the dream of wearing their country's crest in international competition.
"My generation grew up watching the [Keith] Tkachuks, the Guerins, the [Mike] Modanos, the [Brian] Leetches -- those were our idols," Los Angeles Kings captain Dustin Brown told NHL.com. "For one of those guys to sit there and say that, it's pretty humbling.
"We don't compare ourselves to them. Always, in our eyes, they'll be that group. I look at that group -- I remember watching the '96 World Cup, and they will always be that group no matter what happens."
David Backes says the key for this generation is that there are immediate reinforcements on the way as young players join the fold and bolster the 16-man group of returnees from the Vancouver experience. If this group of Americans reach the mountaintop in Sochi and outdo what Guerin and his mates did during their prime years, Backes believes that will be the difference.
"The key is that it is a core, it's not 25 guys that are going to stay together until we can't skate anymore and then we start over from scratch," Backes told NHL.com. "We have a core of guys that are back and will hopefully be on this team because we gained a lot of experience at the last Olympics and we can use those lessons to cultivate a few guys that don't have them. We have that fire in us to win a gold medal."
Guerin's words only stoked that fire further.
"When you hear that stuff," said forward Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks, "it's something you want to make true and believable."


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As the 19th International AIDS Conference began in Washington, several faith leaders and others were interviewed about the black church's handling of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The Rev. Tony Lee launched Community of Hope, a nightclub-turned-church in Hillcrest Heights, Md. that does HIV testing during services four times a year. Lee himself has been tested at the pulpit and said, "What better place to be than in the House of the Lord, to find out where you stand? And who you can stand on?" When people get their results during the service, they receive health and spiritual support.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve meets this week amid intense speculation over its massive bond-buying campaign, but most economists do not expect it to scale back purchases from their current $85 billion monthly pace.
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They do anticipate, however, that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will repeat his recent comment that they could be trimmed at one of the next few meetings, if the economy continues to improve.
The Fed is currently buying $45 billion in Treasuries and $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities each month.
Bernanke will also likely emphasize that any reduction does not equate to a tightening of policy, or an earlier lift-off date for overnight interest rates, which the Fed has held near zero since December 2008.
Communicating that distinction will be an important task for the chairman at his quarterly news conference.
The Fed will release its policy statement at the conclusion of its two-day meeting at 2 p.m. EDT/1800 GMT on Wednesday.
Bernanke's news conference follows 30 minutes later.
Officials will also release quarterly projections on growth, inflation and unemployment, as well as assumptions about the future path of interest rates.
A big shift could influence market expectations on when the Fed will raise overnight interest rates. It has said it will hold them near zero until the unemployment rate hits 6.5%, so long as the outlook for inflation stays under 2.5%. In May, the jobless rate was 7.6%.
Here are some of the issues the 19 policymakers will weigh:
Bernanke told Congress on May 22 that the Fed could scale back bond purchases at one of its next few meetings, a comment that sent bond yields soaring.
The Fed has said it will continue buying bonds until the labor market has improved ``substantially.'' Recent jobs data has been relatively solid, but most economists think substantial improvements have yet to be seen.
A Reuters poll on June 7 found that a majority of economists surveyed now expect the Fed to trim purchases before the end of 2013, with a little under half of the 48 polled expecting the announcement at the Fed's September meeting.
One idea that will likely be on the table is whether the central bank should start by pulling back on Treasury-buying first. Some officials think it gets more bang for its buck by purchasing MBS; others are keen to return to a Treasuries only portfolio.
Bernanke will likely be asked if he still believes the Fed could begin reducing bond purchases at one of its next few meetings, and what the central bank means when it says it is looking for substantial improvement in the labor market outlook.
The chairman is not likely to walk back expectations. But he will try to explain that the Fed would still be adding stimulus to the economy even if the pace of purchases is trimmed.
In the central bank's view, it is the stock of assets on its balance sheet that matters most for monetary policy, not the flow of bond buying. Still, anticipation of a reduction in purchases led to a sharp rise in bond yields as expectations for when interest rates would rise from near zero moved forward.
The news conference is a good opportunity for Bernanke to repeat, again, why tapering does not mean tightening.
May payroll jobs data came in on forecast, with 175,000 new workers added to payrolls, while revisions to prior months' data did not substantially alter the picture of a healing labor market.
Inflation, however, has trended lower, with the Fed's preferred gauge, the PCE price index, up just 0.7% in April from a year ago. The core index was up just 1.1%.
The Fed's long-run target is 2%.
Recent comments from other Fed officials have generally signaled they think the PCE price index will trend higher, and the better-known core consumer price index was up 1.7% year-over-year in April, providing some comfort. Economists expect a report on Tuesday to show it holding at that level.
Other measures of economic activity have been fairly upbeat, particularly in light of the tightening in U.S. fiscal policy.
Data on the housing market continues to point toward a solid recovery and consumer spending has been well maintained. The factory sector, however, is weak, although manufacturing output edged up in May after two back-to-back declines.


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chinese government gone crazy
on banning sites.. i mean heck even all the tags on tumblr lead to empty pages due to tags being banned.. because yes the "fruit" tag is gonna be loaded with bashing on them. Even chinese sites made for foreigners to socialise are often down for days.. this is crazy and what's INSANE is that chinasmack has NEVER been banned.. and that site is like the mother land for shameful articles on china.
so frustrated at this.. even vpn's are being banned this is total bullshit
what are your guys views? what if you were here in china and everything you loved online was banned? how would you feel?
reboot, reload, restart shoot for the stars
I would go play outside and smoke weed and if somebody tries to stop me, they are going to get blown away by my powers.
you're surprised?
China treats their people like crap.
Most of the goods that come from there are cheap and no quality.
Nothing China does surprises me anymore.
A world superpower whose empire is built on cheap.
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Hi, welcome to Commuist China, where Internet blocks you.
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets! But enough talk...
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you're surprised?
China treats their people like crap.
Most of the goods that come from there are cheap and no quality.
Nothing China does surprises me anymore.
A world superpower whose empire is built on cheap.
about 20% or more im assuming of stuff you own/have in your house either comes from or has parts origionating and comming from china
reboot, reload, restart shoot for the stars
Pfft, I'd say more like 50% of things I own come from China. The other 50% is Taiwan, Thailand, and the good ol US of A.
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets! But enough talk...
China is acting as do all totalitarian governments. Throughout history, controlling (read: limiting) people's access to information has allowed small groups of elite to control the lives of many. It is no coincidence that, here in the West, the Protestant Reformation roughly coincided with the invention of the printing press. Current electronic communication is again revolutionizing people's ability to access information, and is frequently restricted. The good news is that, from an historical perspective, the technology almost always triumphs. The bad news is that there is inevitably a human cost as entrenched groups try to protect their rule. Good luck and be safe!
just wandering about...
As for some websites not being blocked, it is possible that they keep changing its IP address. Why would they want to block sites? Control is the main answer. By controlling the flow of information, you control the minds of people. Look at North Korea, they are even worse. If you own a TV or radio, they can only be tuned to state-sponsored stations. Controlling content like this allows the government to keep people from organizing, discussing personal views, and being influenced by people from other countries. Even though they continually try and block content, they fail to block everything they see as "dangerous" to their society.
what being blocked
Pffft, that's China for you
From countless plagiarism ripoffs
(I.e. Burberry -> Buebelly? Random snippets of coding stolen from Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy for one of their games? An arcade machine using a song from the Final Fantasy series w/o permission? countless examples yes)
to trying to introduce a mainland Chinese guy
(with the obvious Communist background, trying to introduce a "good, morals course" in HK's schools that is a disguise to teach the ways of Communism no less) as governor to Hong Kong
to running over students carrying out a peaceful demonstration with tanks and not even giving two shits about them by covering it up and going "oh, those were terrorists/soldiers (or whatever the fuck), there's no need to worry" to the entire world
(fucking tanks I tell you! tanks!)
to this one story where this poor kid was run over by a truck and no one did shit to help for more than an hour or two
I seriously wonder what's gonna happen to the future at this rate. :/
Just one example of what China is about. This is what the Chinese government does to everything of value, copy it.
China is the Western world's sweatshop. Their regressive policy is backed by all so-called "enlightened" Democracies out of sheer convenience and greed, so taking the high and mighty critical route is just sheer hypocrisy. I remember a certain Western country imposing sanctions on a certain Middle-Eastern country and later "liberating" it for far less. What a joke... lol
What would I do? Honestly just give up on the Net and try to make my life bearable through available means. I probably wouldn't be looking to stir up shit with people who value my life so little.
Oh and let's not even get started on how they also have a complete rip-off of hatsune miku and yes rips-off even the dance moves.
I'm not Chinese, but I love Chinese's culture, history and tradition (except the feet binding) prior to the 19th Century.
I'm a big big fan of traditional cultures and I feel like Westernisation has corrupted a lot of its unique cultural values (not just China but many other countries too).
As for the site banning thing, I'm assuming the government there probably still holds that traditional value of "reputation building" and "saving face", something that's not understandable if you're not aware of Chinese's history.
In Ancient times, families would try to save as much face as possible, they would forbid people to talk about dark family secrets. Anyway, that's just my input... I mean, modern China is such a mess... it's very contrasting to its past filled with rich Literature, Poetry, Art, tradition, customs and values.
Nowadays, it's just trying to catch up with its Western counterparts and destroying the identity of itself.
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Once the toast of Los Angeles as one of the last multiplatinum pop-rock bands to emerge from the Sunset Strip, Warrant is still churning out the old hits, and the five-piece returned Oct. 5 for a well-received concert at The Canyon Club in Agoura Hills.
The late Jani Lane had not been involved since 2008, and the founding singer and architect of all of Warrant's hit songs died two years ago from alcohol poisoning, but the other four members are all in place with guitarists Erik Turner and Joey Allen, bassist Jerry Dixon and drummer Steven Sweet.
Arizona-transplant Robert Mason does the singing these days, and the 49-year-old proved in fine voice, leading Warrant through such familiar numbers as "Sometimes She Cries," "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Heaven," the band's biggest hit.
But Mason is no Jani in the charisma department, and though Lane had a string of uneven moments in his later years as he battled alcoholism and mental-health issues, he is still missed today. In fact, it was a bit off-putting that Lane's name was never mentioned during the show, not just because his songs are the ones the others have been living on all these years but because Los Angeles is Warrant's hometown.
Nevertheless, it was still an enjoyable night of rock. Warrant was always a cut above the others back when MTV was king, and it's still that way as fellow oldies like Skid Row, Ratt and Great White are all continuing on.
Warrant has released CDs over the years, mostly greatest-hits packages but a few new albums, too. And the group performed some newer material like "Home," a good song even though only hardcore fans would know about it because of the way the music business works these days.
By the time "Cherry Pie" rolled around, the place was pretty lively. Turner and Allen did a nice job playing off one another and performing the guitar solos pretty much spot-on, Dixon was still a cool-looking guy and Sweet bashed away hard and fast, just like old times.
There were no keyboards — and no keyboard backing tracks — but it did not appear anyone noticed.
KISS members Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer, Ratt drummer Bobby Blotzer and Keel guitarist Marc Ferrari were all there to nod their approval, and though some of Warrant's top songs like "Love in Stereo" and "32 Pennies" were not included in the encore-less set, Warrant deserves a sold B-plus overall.
London opened the show. Yes, that London from back in the day that once included Nikki Sixx. The band is kind of the Anvil of the local rock scene, still slugging it out with well-coiffed singer Nadir D'Priest and ex-Guiffria drummer Alan Krigger, and the band earned some nice applause with a metal-style set of old-school rockers in the Wasp vein.


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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The images almost shimmer with beauty: a lush green landscape in South Sudan, a Kenyan market abundant with ripe vegetables, a luminous lake sunset in Mali, a misty forest in Liberia.
The pictures could grace a travel brochure. But the advertising campaign, launched in Britain in late December, is aimed at raising funds for an Oxfam anti-hunger drive titled "Food for All."
"Let's make Africa famous for its epic landscapes, not hunger," says the ad's slogan, found on billboards and in print and digital formats.
The counter-intuitive campaign, says Oxfam, which has an annual budget of $640 million, comes after a survey found the British public has grown to view negative images of Africa as "depressing, manipulative and hopeless," making people less inclined to donate.


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The verb dive has two past tenses, dived and dove, and both are acceptable. Dived is actually the earlier form, and it's also the past participle.
Source: http://www.bartleby.com/64/C003/0104.html
hi, there, it seems like i may be wrong about this after all, but i would like to know if the following are correct usages of the verb "dive" in the past tense ("dive" as in 'scuba dive').
i thought that the following was correct:
"i dove that cove before."
"i have dived that cove before."
i thought that the following was incorrect:
"i have dove that cove before."
according to my dictionary, "dove" is a past participle...but that last sentence above just doesn't sound right to me...HELP!!!!!
thank you in advance.
The verb dive has two past tenses, dived and dove, and both are acceptable. Dived is actually the earlier form, and it's also the past participle.
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The article is correct, however the way you have interpreted it is incorrect.
The article does NOT say that dove is a Past Participle of the PRESENT PERFECT tense. What it says is that both dived and dove are ok in the SIMPLE PAST TENSE. Dived came later by analogy to other verbs that decline by vowel alternation.
In the present perfect, only HAVE DIVED is ok.
Here is why: English, like other germanic languages, has past participles ending in -n and -ed (compare to German -en and -t). For example, have begun, have run, have strung. Exceptions like "have come" came about due to loss of the -en suffix (compare to German "habe gekommen" which still has it).
To have a past participle formed through vowel alternation and ending in -ve is odd. It may catch on in time.
Supposedly, people say "have dove" by analogy to "drove". However, the correct form there, too, is "have DRIVED".
Actually, that would be "have driven", not "have drived". There is no such word as drived.
Also, "dived" preceded "dove". Dove is recent, and is not standard in British English.
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SOMENAME: It's not about Past Simple vs Present Perfect. It's the formula, which uses the PAST PARTICIPLE.
Simple past does not use the PP. Past Perfect and Present Perfect use the SAME PP.
Thus: I had driven, I have driven; I had dived, I have dived.
I really like the discussions about the origins of the vowel alternation. More than likely (perhaps attributable to German?) though, the shift is due to the "Sing, sang,sung" principle.


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Taylor Swift Opens Education Center in Nashville!
Taylor Swift gets ready to cut the ribbon with her giant red scissors while opening the Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Saturday (October 12) in Nashville, Tenn.
The 23-year-old singer donated $4 million to endow the center, which is the largest individual artist gift in the Hall of Fame's history.
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I have to admit, I didn't use the Encyclopedia of Life very frequently in its first incarnation. I perused for media every now and then, or doubled checked the taxonomy for a species, but it was not a touchstone for research. The relaunch, however, gives users new functionality to make the experience more organized for personal and community use.
Like any good application, the startup/front page gives you just about everything you need. The mission statement is obvious, the search field is huge and the row of images tells you exactly what your searches will bring. The main site elements are listed below along with FAQ links, newsfeed tells you this is a busy place full of lots of other people. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr; Impression made. It's all familiar, accessible.
The main piece that I've grown to love is the collections. After you've created your account and start searching around for cute pictures of red pandas, you'll notice an Add to Collection button in the top right-hand corner of the page. Clicking the button displays a popup. Follow the prompts to create a new collection.
Collections allow you to create groups of organisms in EOL. Collections can be as subjective or scientific as you wish. Red panda could be included in a collection of the "Cutest Animals Ever" or a more natural category, maybe "Mammals of China." Once it's created, you can search for and add as many inhabitants of EOL as you wish by clicking the Add to Collection button and selecting one (or more) of your collections in the list. For the Cutest Animals Ever collection, you might want to add the echidna or the wolf spider. For the Mammals of China, you might want to add that other panda, whatever its name is.
I started a collection of monotypic taxa from the red panda, the sole species in the genus Ailurus. I searched for other monotypic taxa off the top of my head: the moose, the African civet cat, the Gingko. Then I started getting some responses from the community via the collection newsfeed. Katja said, "Don't forget the Aardvark!" Cyndy said the Western Osprey was a good candidate for the collection. Bob suggested that I add a description so that people visiting my collection knew exactly what "monotypic taxa" are. So I did:
This is how communities can grow out of collections of organisms, communities based on shared interests of one sort or another. In fact, there's functionality there to support those communities, just click the Create Community button next to your collection, add a description, invite some interested parties and start sharing.
EOL gets me thinking. It started with one of my favorite animals and quickly became a taxonomic scavenger hunt. I started researching: Just how many monotypic taxa are there? Why are they important? What does the classification say about these animals and their evolutionary history? As a writer, the answers become the building blocks for an essay. Usually there's nothing manipulable about those ideas; they spawn from reading papers, from the ideas of others. EOL provides a level of control that allows systems to be constructed that plead for further explanation.
Collection building can create new ideas, but it can also be useful for supplementing existing material. I've written about biomes and ecosystems frequently in the past, and it can be difficult to give readers a good idea of the extent or uniqueness of life in a particular region. I'm thinking about using collections in EOL when I can to create lists of organisms that constitute the ecosystem I describe so that readers can browse through the many unique organisms that live there. Excessive listing and description in prose structurally tedious; often its a choice between prose lists and long strings of bullets, which are ugly and usually scary for a casual reader.
EOL suddenly becomes a very interesting resource for science enthusiasts, educators and writers. I have some thoughts about how it could be used in more creative/artistic ways, but I'll hold off for a future post.
Go sign up and play around. It's Labor Day. The grill isn't ready just yet. EOL is a lot of fun.


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Stand outside a local school on the last day of the school year. Be ready to clear the way for the throngs of happy children racing out the doors. Those children know that summer is the happiest time of the year and for many of them, the Albert & Ann Deshur JCC Rainbow Day Camp is the reason why!
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Last week, we engaged in some highly critical navel-gazing, as we brutally examined our level of expertise with the help of the Dreyfus model. The point of that exercise is to realistically assess where you are so you can improve; it isn't meant to "put you in your place" or discourage you from pursuing consulting. This week, I examine some of the dangers of thinking too poorly of your own abilities, as well as why that happens and how to address it.
Now you may be thinking that most of the consultants you know don't need any help in this area — they think too highly of themselves already. Don't confuse a portrayal of self-confidence with actually possessing it. The loudest blowers of their own horns often do so because they sense that they need to convince people of their worth — which can be a symptom of poor self-esteem rather than real confidence in their abilities. If you know you're good, why do you need to assert it?
I'd wager that most of the people who suffer from a low opinion of themselves are the ones whom you would least suspect — those who are most successful. In 1978, two clinical psychologists named Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes created the term Impostor Syndrome to describe a phenomenon in which successful people fail to appreciate their own abilities, ascribing their achievements to luck or their knack of fooling people into thinking that they've got it together when they feel instead as if they had no control over their success.
I think that consultants may experience this phenomenon more than those in other professions. Our vocation provides little or no structured advancement or official recognition. Employees receive promotions, pay raises, and perhaps awards to indicate official recognition of their achievements. These set expectations within the company for the opinion that everyone should have about their abilities. We have to demand our own rate increases — clients don't generally volunteer to do that. We often work on our own, so feedback and assessment don't occur naturally — we have to seek it out. Furthermore, we often have to operate outside our field of direct knowledge. Sometimes we have to do a lot of research, or try things until we figure it out — but we think that our clients expect us to know what we're doing.
Consultants tend to be perfectionists. And those of us who are autodidacts are especially susceptible; we don't have the specific degree or certifications to point to and say, "See — I do know this stuff," even though our years of experience may have trained us far better than any coursework could have done.
All of this can lead to the feeling that we're "winging it" and hoping that nobody finds out that we haven't a clue. So, what's wrong with having that feeling, besides the knot in the pit of your stomach as if you were landing a B-52 loaded with bombs without any flight training? For one thing, it can make you feel even more overwhelmed than you are, increasing procrastination and possibly leading to burnout. If you start to give those voices credence, then you may start to try to cover up evidence of your incompetence: failing to admit your mistakes and shuttling the blame onto others. If you deny and suppress the feelings of inadequacy, then they can grow larger than life and compound all of these problems.
Tips for dealing with the Impostor syndrome
- Face it head-on. Admit that you sometimes feel like a charlatan — that you think the impression others have of you is false, and that you feel somewhat to blame for that misconception.
- Realize that you aren't alone. This phenomenon affects many highly successful people. Guess what — they aren't any better than you are. Humans have some sort of hero worship instinct that makes us deify the people that we respect. When people start doing that to you, it's natural that you should feel like it's misplaced. So think about all the people whom you think you could never be like, and remember that they're only human. They've made plenty of mistakes too, and probably don't feel like they deserve their celebrity any more than you deserve yours.
- Accurately assess your own achievements. Sometimes I like to step back for a minute and pretend that I'm my own acquaintance. If I knew someone who had done all the things that I've done, good and bad, what would I think of them? I'd think they were a phenomenal learner and a creative thinker who makes their share of mistakes but always tries to learn from them, and who is often confused by human relationships. That isn't so bad, is it? If that's the picture others are getting, then nobody's getting fooled. If I'm still trying to hide parts of that, then I need to learn a little self-acceptance.
- Embrace your failures. A failure is not the smoking gun that demonstrates once and for all that you're an impostor. As the old saying goes, "If you never failed, you never tried." Analyze each failure to learn what you could have done differently. Recognize yourself as part of the system that needs adjusting. But get off the moral high horse about never making mistakes — that will never happen, nor is it desirable. Fear of failure can paralyze your efforts. As one of my early mentors once told me, "I'd rather you make ten wrong decisions than to take the same amount of time making one right decision."
- Don't blow off praise. If it's genuine — not just trying to get on your good side — then accept it for what it says. You did something that someone else appreciates. Even if it wasn't all your doing, you had a hand in it. Accept their thanks with humility.
- Use self-effacing humor. You can't possibly believe that you project a falsely superior image of yourself if you're always joking about your own foibles. Here's the paradox: people will think even more highly of you when you do. "He's not only a wizard, but a heck of a nice guy too." This also sets a tone for yourself, so you don't take yourself too seriously.
- Get to work! The best antidote to thinking that you're a fake is to get things done. Prove that you're for real.
Have you ever experienced the Impostor syndrome? If so, how did you deal with it?
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Suspects connected with two burglaries reported to Sunnyside police yesterday (Wednesday) were unsuccessful in making a clean get-away.
That's because one ran into a Korean War veteran who was unafraid of protecting his property and the others were unaware an alert citizen was keeping an eye on another home.
Sunnyside police at approximately 11 a.m. yesterday raced to a home in the 1400 block of South Eighth Street for a reported burglary witnessed by an alert neighbor.
The neighbor reported seeing two subjects entering a home and removing what appeared to be a television and Christmas gifts.
The neighbor provided police with a description of the suspect vehicle, as well as a license plate number.
Police arrived to confirm the home had been burglarized and alerted outside agencies to be on the lookout for the suspect vehicle. That vehicle, police determined, was registered to a home in Toppenish.
Sgt. Joey Glossen, the Sunnyside Police Department public information officer, said Sunnyside Deputy Police Chief Phil Schenck was traveling into the city of Sunnyside when he spotted a vehicle matching the description provided in the earlier alert.
He turned his vehicle around in an attempt to conduct a felony traffic stop, according to Glossen.
The vehicle stopped momentarily, but when Schenck was in the process of making contact with the vehicle's driver, the driver accelerated from the stop and a pursuit ensued.
The suspects led Schenck on a pursuit through Granger and nearly to Toppenish before crashing on North Track Road on the boundary of the Toppenish city limits.
Multiple agencies responded to the scene as four suspects exited the vehicle and attempted to flee on foot.
All four were caught, according to Glossen.
He said the suspect vehicle caught fire and Schenck used a fire extinguisher he carries in his vehicle, as well as an extinguisher provided by a citizen to put the fire out.
The suspects, Hugo Yepez-Pozos, 21, of Toppenish and three juvenile males from Toppenish were all taken into custody.
They were transported to the Sunnyside Law & Justice Center and face burglary charges.
The vehicle was towed to the Sunnyside Police Department, a search warrant was obtained and executed. All the items believed to have been stolen from the home on South Eighth Street were recovered.
Glossen said police found several televisions and Christmas gifts. A few sustained fire damage.
Police also took into custody Arturo Galvez, 24, of Sunnyside yesterday after he allegedly attempted to burglarize a shed belonging to a Korean War veteran in the 1500 block of East Harrison Avenue.
Glossen said Sunnyside police were notified of a burglary in progress at the home at around 6 p.m. yesterday.
The homeowner, he said, had a suspect held at gunpoint near the shed.
Glossen said it appeared as though Galvez jumped a 6-foot tall fence to gain access to the shed.
Nothing was stolen from the property and Glossen said Galvez is in custody on a requested charge of burglary second degree.
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Amid horn-blowing gridlock around the United Nations on Sept. 20, world leaders gathered to discuss progress or the lack thereof in achieving the Millennium Development Goals for cutting global poverty and combating hunger and disease by 2015. With five years to go, even keen supporters of the various M.D.G. initiatives acknowledged that the overall effort is behind schedule. Few donor nations have honored commitments to direct 0.7 percent of their gross national product toward the alleviation of global poverty.
A far smaller group assembled across the street at the U.N. Church Center to consider some of the same issues. Their opinions ranged from hopeful to bleak.
David Beckmann, a Lutheran minister and economist who is president of Bread for the World, was among the hopeful. He used the image of the exodus of the Israelites from their captivity in Egypt to describe a growing liberation from hunger throughout the world, of "God moving in our history." He said reduction of hunger in nations as far flung as Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Brazil and Ghana make "what happened at the Red Sea look like small potatoes." Nevertheless, goals remain unachieved, and therefore Americans, he said, need to push their congressional representatives to fund U.S. antihunger initiatives and to make its foreign aid program more effective.
Katherine Marshall of World Faiths Development Dialogues, called reduced poverty "a reachable dream." But, she said, gender inequality still hinders efforts to mitigate global poverty.
War likewise can be a major factor in locking people into poverty. But Arthur Keys, chief executive officer of International Relief and Development, said that successful development work could continue even in conflict zones. His own organization has assisted farmers in Afghanistan, improving both the viability of their agricultural economy and their communal resistance to the Taliban.
Thomas Pogee, director of the Global Justice Program at Yale University, complained that the donor response to world poverty has been "ridiculous," given the magnitude of the problem. One in three people dies of poverty-related causes, he said, citing corruption in developing countries as one of many barriers to reducing poverty. Rich countries also do harm by protecting their own products through restrictions on imports from poor nations. And making matters worse, the poor are often not at the table when decisions that affect them are made.
Melinda St. Louis, director of Jubilee USA, offered some evidence that stubborn unwillingness to accept defeat can transform antipoverty efforts. She spoke of the way faith-based groups came together in the mid-1990s to press for debt forgiveness as a tool for reducing poverty. Because of this initiative, over a million children in Tanzania were able to attend school, and hundreds of new classrooms were built in Ghana. She and her co-workers had been told when they began their efforts that debt relief was impossible.
In the end, though, the advocates for debt forgiveness convinced world leaders to move ahead on debt justice, which, despite successes, remains an unfinished project. Twenty very poor countries were "left out of debt relief deals, and inappropriate lending and borrowing has continued," she said. But if there is still unfinished business, and, as Professor Pogee says, "large forces are at work against the poor," so, too, there are good forces working for them.


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bilt05, well im not sure of your racial status but for me it was 100% LSAT. I barely graduated from college. Just breaking the 2 point barrier. I knew the LSAT was my only way into law school. Being from detroit and attending the worst schools in america, I knew I would get some sympathy from law schools. So Just aim as high as you can get. Remember grad school doesnt count. Nobody gets below a 3 in grad school. I put your info in the site law school predictor. I dont know about tulane and lsu but loyola, southern and tsu are definite options for you if you score high 150'S.


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Welcome to my blog and the place where I will post my photos and musings from my life as an ultrarunner. My nickname "Shining" was given to me by a group of very special students after I finished my first 100-miler, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. They were the inspiration that enabled me to finish this awesome race, and I try to live each day with a "shining" attitude!
Monday, September 29, 2008
Grindstone Training, Week #15, September 22-28
This past weekend Rusty and I went to Evanston, Illinois on the North Shore of Chicago to attend the memorial service for his uncle, Richard "Dick" Speidel. Uncle Dick was a well-known law professor who taught at UVA, Boston University and Northwestern University Law Schools. Sadly, he succumbed to cancer on September 6. The Speidels gathered in Evanston to pay our respects to this wonderful, sweet man, and the service was held at the Northwestern University Chapel (that's the view from NU of downtown Chicago, above).
My bro-in-law Andy and I managed to short, flat 5 mile run along the shores of Lake Michigan on Saturday afternoon near the NU campus. It is a gorgeous campus and I was able to check out the NU women's lacrosse field, which is right on Lake Michigan---they have won the national championship for the last 4 years...pretty amazing! It was fun to catch up with Andy and hear about his ultra training...he is attempting his first ultra, the Stone Steps 50K in Cincinnati, on October 18. Like many first timers, he is experiencing some ITB issues as he ramps up the training---keep icing and stretching that ITB, Andy!
Thomas Bussiere asked me about my fuel plan for Gstone on last week's post, which was great timing because I was beginning to gather all my nutrition stuff this week. Tomorrow night my coach Mark Lorenzoni and my ortho doc Bob Wilder are hosting a panel discussion on the art and science of tapering at Ragged Mountain Running Shop, so I am going to buy my fuels when I go hear the talk. I am fairly certain that I have the tapering thing down, but it will be good to hear other opinions and catch up with all the local runners who are tapering for their fall marathons.
For Gstone, I am sticking to the fuel plan that has worked so well for me over the past 3 years: start out with a 20 oz. bottle of Sustained Energy sport drink and about 30 oz. of water in my Nathan pack. Temperatures on Friday night are supposed to be in the 30s on the ridges, so I won't need to haul around a ton of water. I do like to carry a hand held Garmin light in addition to my Petzl Myo XP headlamp, so both hands will be tied up, but I have trained and raced with handhelds my entire ultra career, so it won't be a problem.
As for other fuel, I will carry a 5-serving flask of Raspberry Hammergel and have additional flasks in my crew box. I will also carry Sportbeans, a few chocolate and mocha Clif shots, as well as Clif Bloks for variety. At each AS, I will alternate between SE and Nuun in the bottle and keep plain water in my pack. Other essentials I will carry will be a small blister kit, my Nuun tabs, a few Vivarin caffeine pills, and my trusty Ipod shuffle. I plan to plug into the shuffle at the first sign of sleepiness---this worked wonders at Cheat Mountain 50-- and use the caffeine pills only as a last resort.
My crew box is a clear plastic box that will hold additional flasks of Hammergel, Nuun, and SE mix, as well as Desitin and Vaseline for chaffing, blister stuff, and candied ginger for stomach issues. I also re-stocked it yesterday with extra AA batteries (I will carry some as well), an extra hand held bottle, as well as gloves, socks, beanie, and jacket. I am VERY psyched about the weather forecast: sunny and clear with highs in the low 70s and 40s at night. This is perfect weather for me---no excuses about the heat!!
As for this week's taper, I managed about 30 miles of easy running mixed in with my last killer track workout:
Monday, September 22: Swim
Tuesday, September 23: Lift
Wednesday, September 24: Track workout. 1.5 miles easy WU, than 6x 800 on the track, then off the track for a 800 meter hill surge in between each track 800. My track 800s were 3:15, 3:12, 3:10, 3:09, 3:08, 3:09; my hill 800s were 3:10, 3:10, 3:10, 3:11, 3:05, 3:06. I was PSYCHED with how these felt. Afterwards, I switched to my trail shoes and ran an easy mile over the the power lines on the Rivanna Trail. Here I ran 4 repeats up the power lines: 1:05, 1:04, 1:03, and :56, my fastest repeat ever! (I was telling myself that I had better break a minute on this freaking hill since I had been training on it all summer!). Total miles after running back to my car, about 11.
Thursday, September 25: OFF
Friday, September 26: Easy 5 miles on hilly roads and trails, lift afterwards.
Saturday, September 27: Easy 5 miler along Lake Michigan on trails with Andy. FLAT and fun to people watch. Keith Knipling told me he would run these trails and roads when he was a grad student at NU, and that by February it would get very old (and cold, with the winds whipping off the lake...BRRR). This day we had a cloudless sky and temps in the 70s. Gorgeous.
Sunday, September 28: 8 miles on rolling dirt with 3 miles at tempo pace (about 7:25). It was hot and humid back in C'Ville...looking forward to cooler weather!
5 more days until Gstone! My plan this week is to rest today (Monday), run easy Tuesday and Wednesday, get lots of sleep all week, eat well, and pack a little bit each day so I am not stressing out Thursday night. I appreciate all the comments about this blog and hope that it has been somewhat interesting/helpful for readers who are training for their own adventures!! I have enjoyed sharing my training ups and downs with everyone and it has kept me accountable. I will be sure to post a report as soon as I can...Gstone will be having a live webcast beginning at 6:00 pm on Friday. My basic plan is to run really slow and easy for the first 50 miles, and then pick up the pace as much as I am able for the second half without killing myself. I am confident in my training, and I know my crew and pacer will keep me in line :-)
I am looking forward to this awesome adventure and seeing everyone on Friday afternoon. Thanks for all the good wishes, everyone...I really appreciate them.
3 comments:
- Rick Gray said...
Sophie, I wish you the best of luck and strong legs this coming weekend. I will be running the Iron Mountain 50 miler this weekend, but I will start later and finish before you. My prayers will follow you as you accomplish this great adventure. Rick
- September 30, 2008 at 5:41 AM
- Sophie Speidel said...
Thanks, Rick! I will miss hearing your voice echo through the woods. :-) It was great fun to run with you at Cheat and I know you will tear it up at Iron Mountain. See you at Hellgate? Thanks again for all the good kharma...it means a lot.
- September 30, 2008 at 8:17 AM
- running etc said...
Chica, you are SO gonna rock it at Gstone!
- September 30, 2008 at 9:45 AM


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Centerville City Garbage Collection
Ace Disposal provides garbage collection and recycling services for Centerville, Utah.
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Please have your garbage or recycling can out the night before or no later than 6:30 am on your service day. If you think your containers have been missed check your neighbors to make sure their containers have been dumped. We only do one side of the street at a time, so if your side of the street has been dumped and your can is still full, call us and we will get it picked up as soon as possible.
Your 95 gallon roll-out container that should be placed in the street with the wheels against the curb or within 2 feet of the blacktop. The handle should be pointed towards the house with the opening of the container faced towards the street, before 6:30 am on the scheduled collection day. Containers should be placed away from overhead obstacles such as tree branches and wires. Containers should also be placed 4 feet apart from other containers and 8 feet from mailboxes, poles, fences, trees, or parked vehicles for easy access.
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Brad Pitt: 'Moneyball' Tops Friday Box Office
Brad Pitt shoots scenes for his upcoming movie World War Z on Saturday evening (September 24) at the Heygate Estate in London, England.
The 47-year-old actor was joined by his co-star Mireille Enos to dodge exploding cars and zombies in the scene.
Brad's new film Moneyball is a hit at the box office and came in number one on Friday with $6.8 million. The Lion King 3D is expected to take the overall weekend once again.
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Reality Show Focuses on Greek Real Estate
Watch a clip from "Hellenic Home Hunting," a new show about looking for bargains on the Greek real-estate market.
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The second release for new revival label Blood & Fire, again featuring some vintage Bunny Lee productions, this time dub instrumentals from the years 1975/9. All the tracks were mixed at King Tubby's studio in Kingston, either by the late dubmaster himself or one of three engineers who graduated in turn from Tubby's academy of dub on Drumlie Avenue with flying colours. Dub was then exploring brave new frontiers, soon reaching unparalleled heights of innovation and execution. Whilst its origins have recently been brought into question by certain elements of the reggae press, few would dispute that King Tubby was at the heart of its development. In his hands the raw rhythms laid by musicians such as Sly, Robbie, Carlton and Family Man Barrett, Earl 'Chinna' Smith, Jackie Mittoo, Santa Davis, Winston Wright and other Jamaican greats were transformed into spiritually charged panoramas driven by pounding bass and wracked by shuddering delay, fizzing hi-hat and searing horn lines as fragmented vocals swooped eerily through the mix like an angelic host. Here lies the power and the glory of reggae dub at its magnificent best.; accept no substitute because in these few short years Tubby and star apprentices 'Prince' Phillip Smart, Prince (now King) Jammy and later Scientist set the standards for the world to follow. Two decades later their influence on modern popular music is incalculable. For proof listen to 'No Love Version', Leroy Smart's soulful wail echoed to infinity over the Agravators' sublime cut to 'Zion Gate'. Or the woodwind cut to Dillinger's 'Jah Love', even a hitherto little-known dub to Johnny Clarke's 'Rastafari'. You'll find several of the vocal cuts on Fatman's "Barry Brown And Johnny Clarke Sing Roots & Culture' in fact; 'Peace & Love In The Dub" is Johnny Clarkes 'Peace In The Ghetto', 'Step It Up In Dub' is an instrumental to Barry Brown's 'International Step'. 'Dub To The Rescue' is a stripped down version of the Wailers 'The Sun Is Shining' but is a different mix to that found on Jammy's 'Lion Dub' and the King Tubby mix on 'Dub Fi Gwan' is previously unreleased. Throughout the quality of mastering - and in some cases remastering from vinyl - is superb, as is the overall presentation (and timing!). Revival album of the year, so far. John Masouri - Echoes, May '94
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Office of Study Abroad names Gilman recipients
Students to study in China, Argentina, Japan and the United Kingdom
Four Brandeis students have been named Gilman scholarship recipients for the spring 2012 semester. The students, all members of the class of 2013, will be studying in China, Argentina, Japan and the United Kingdom.
The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, established by the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000, provides study abroad support for U.S. undergraduate students receiving federal Pell Grants The Gilman Scholarship Program is currently celebrating its 10th year.
"We have a 50 percent acceptance rate, which for a national scholarship is fabulous," says Scott Van Der Meid, assistant dean of Academic Services and director of Study Abroad. "This scholarship allows students, who generally speaking, would not have the opportunity to study abroad in college the means to ensure that they have access to this wonderful opportunity."
The four recipients that will be abroad for spring 2012 are:
Betty Ko
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Biology major/theater minor
Claire Boreum Lee
IFSA-Butler-Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina
Psychology/politics majors, religion minor
Katrina Osborne
Arcadia-Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom
Music/HSSP majors, Italian minor
Julie Shih
Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies, Japan
HSSP/East Asian studies majors
Grace Killian
Music/International and Global Studies majors, French minor
Michael Sapp
CET-Chinese Studies & Service-Learning in Beijing, China
Sociology major, business minor
Jessie Stettin
CIEE-Social Sciences Program in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Business major
Audrey Stout
SIT-Switzerland: International Studies and Multilateral Diplomacy
Anthropology/IGS majors French minor
For more details about the scholarship, including upcoming deadlines, visit Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.
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Time to time internetz stumble upon a ghci bug which is seen as inability to load base haskell package:
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ghc: unable to load package `base'
But the bug was most popular across rare gentoo users. An interesting correlation!
This post is about the root of this problem: the gory implementation details of ghci dynamic loader down to libC and even ELF symbols!
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Users / Re: Dimming LED and CFL light bulbs?« on: July 26, 2013, 11:56:30 am »
We use only CFS lights in our whole flat because we like to use green technologies and save energy, but we would also like to have dimmed light some time.
Is it possible to dim LED and CFL light bulbs? How? Are there some special ZWave dimmer switches? Is ti possible to use ordinary dimmer and modify it somehow? Or just use ordinary incandescent light bulbs?
hello friend were you able to find the way to dim the lights? I am trying to do same on our home CFL lights so can you please explain the way to do it ?