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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced that Seattle City Light will lead a new national effort to promote the installation of energy-efficient light emitting diode (LED) street lights. The Municipal Solid State Street Lighting Consortium will share information, performance results, and residents' feedback about LED street lights with participating communities from coast to coast.
"Interest in LED street lighting is surging across the country, fueled in part by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funding for municipal energy-efficiency improvements," says DOE Program Manager Jim Brodrick. "As communities look to this technology to cut energy consumption, reduce their carbon footprint, and lower operating costs, this national consortium will share valuable information so they can make smarter, more informed decisions about the equipment they buy."
"On behalf of DOE, Seattle City Light will lead this national effort to disseminate best practices and lessons learned, building a repository of valuable field experience and data that will significantly accelerate the learning curve for buying and implementing high quality, energy-efficient LED street lights," continues Brodrick.
During the next year, City Light will be responsible for recruiting at least 50 other communities to join the consortium and share their experiences through national and regional meetings, Webcasts, and Web-based discussion forums. The DOE is providing $200,000 in funding for consortium efforts. Edward Smalley, City Light's manager of streetlight engineering, will serve as director for the consortium.
With more than 34 million street lights in use across the United States, DOE estimates that promoting the use of LED technology has the potential to save communities more than $750 million a year in energy costs alone.
Seattle will install 5,000 LED streetlights this year and a total of 40,000 during the next five years.
"This is a good step to upgrade our infrastructure, to save money and conserve energy," says Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn. "I commend Seattle City Light on their leadership."
"Providing our neighborhoods with adequate, reliable lighting is absolutely critical," adds Seattle City Councilmember Bruce Harrell, chairman of the Council's Energy, Technology, and Civil Rights Committee. "It's a matter of public safety, as well as smart, energy-efficient business practice."
City Light reviewed more than 100 models of LED street light fixtures and tested nine as part of pilot projects in the Capitol Hill, West Seattle, and South Park neighborhoods to decide what equipment to use. In surveys, 85% of respondents approved of the new lights.
"In 2005, Seattle City Light became the first large U.S. utility to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions and has maintained that status for five years," says Superintendent Jorge Carrasco. "Adding LED street lights to our system will not only lower energy consumption, but also reduce the number of vehicle trips required for maintenance because the equipment lasts three times longer than current street lights."


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Culinary Arts students at the Niagara Career and Technical Education Center have been putting their skills to use to help out the Salvation Army in Lockport. The Orleans/Niagara BOCES students in Bob Ihle's program cooked and carved 35 turkeys that were donated to the Salvation Army and will be used as part of a community outreach at Thanksgiving. "We love doing this for such a great organization," said Ihle. "The students gain experience roasting and carving that will hopefully be able to use at their own Thanksgiving or if they work in a restaurant. Everyone benefits."
Shown left side front to back are Caitlyn Goerss (North Tonawanda) and Joshua Baptiste (Niagara-Wheatfield); right side front to back, Justin Sarzyniak (North Tonawanda) and Kodie Engel (Niagara-Wheatfield).

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I've recently started programming OpenGL, and pretty soon realized that being able to export 3D-coordinates from a 3D-program would be very comfortable instead of hard-coding them myself. So, having no experience with 3D-modellers, I went for a little "shopping" Being a Linux-user, the only options I got (as I know about) is Blender and Maya. Being a huge OpenSource advocate, (and poor student ) the choice naturally fell on blender. After a couple of hours reading tutorials, I was able to render simple stuff. Now I want to export this. So I went googling for an OpenGL exporter. Problem is, I can't find anyone working, and I dont know python, so I can't write my own :/
It looks to me like the blender-python-API is changing quite often, so maybe that's why none of the exporters I've found is working. I've got v2.23. Could anyone please point me in the direcition of an exporter that works, or point me in the right direction for finding a set of tutorials that might explain a non-python-programmer, how to write my own exporter?
OpenGL exporter
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Hi vvizard,
Here are some resources you can check:
Here are some resources you can check:
- Elysiun (http://www.elysiun.com/)
There's a good Python forum specific for Blender.
- Python main site (http://www.python.org/)
There you'll find a lot of Python documentation - including good tutorials.
- Yable (http://www.kino3d.com/~yable/)
This is a good export script used for exporting to YafRay. You could use this as a reference.
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I used gl_exporter1.0 for the Monkey demo in the ghost project and had no problems with it.
(I Think I used 2.23 might have used 2.25)
Let me know if you can't get it working...
I used gl_exporter1.0 for the Monkey demo in the ghost project and had no problems with it.
(I Think I used 2.23 might have used 2.25)
Let me know if you can't get it working...
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How to Take Control of Your MRI
A fast-expanding image-sharing network of hospitals allows patients to share MRI, X-ray or CT scans with providers through a secure system. Laura Landro and Dr. David Mendelson of Mt. Sinai Hospital discuss. Photo: Getty Images.
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Open Thread: Best Rainy Day Eats in New York?
It's a surprise cool, rainy day in New York, and we're thinking about wonton soup. From Noodle Village to be precise—the first hot soup we've wanted in months. But on a cloudy, gloomy day like today, we'll take it.
Some years ago we put together a list of ten meals perfect for rainy days, but it's time for an update, and we want to ask you: where do you go for a rainy day meal in New York? Hot chocolate? Chicken pot pie? Or are you getting some wonton soup of your own? Tell us in the comments.


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This actually has peaked my interest. I remember playing through the first one and a little bit of the second. Haven't played a TR game since then.
We have pics:http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=417278
It does seem to have this nice survival horror atmosphere though.


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Vatican City, Sep 28, 2013 / 10:48 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis celebrated Mass for the Vatican police force today, exhorting them to fight in the war against evil by rejecting the temptation to gossip.
He warned that among those who live and work in the Vatican, "the devil seeks to create an internal war, a kind of civil spiritual war" by means of idle chatter, said Pope Francis on September 28.
The temptation to gossip is present for everyone, noted Pope Francis, "even for me."
Gossip is a sin against unity which the devil uses to undermine the community of the Church, he explained.
The morning Mass was held outdoors in the Lourdes grotto of the Vatican gardens.
The Mass was for members of the Vatican police corps, known as the Gendarmes. The Gendarmerie was founded in 1816 by Pope Pius VII after the dissolution of Napoleon's empire. While the Swiss Guards are primarily dedicated to protecting the Pope, the Gendarmes are responsible for the security and public order of Vatican City.
Pope Francis said the police force must not only defend the Vatican against thieves or attacking armies.
"Napoleon is not coming anymore," he quipped.
Instead, the "war here today is rather something else."
"It is a war that is not waged with the weapons that we recognize: it is a war waged with the tongue," he explained.
"If (you hear) someone gossiping, stop him! (Say) 'here there can be none of that: walk out of St. Anne's Gate. Go outside and talk there! Here you cannot!'"
This spiritual war is one of light and darkness, said the Pope.
On the eve of the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, the Gendarmerie's patron saint, Pope Francis asked for his intercession.
"We ask St. Michael to help us in this war: never speak ill of each other, never open your ears to gossip," the Pope said.


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Why Pavlyuchenko should be first choice in the league (warning, stat alert!)
Follow me on Twitter – @WindyCOYS.
Roman Pavlyuchenko is not a perfect striker – his all-round game is lacking in key areas, and he often doesn't seem to be putting in as much effort as he could. But on Sunday he once again did what the rest of our strikers have been struggling to do – put the ball in the net (and in impressive fashion).
In the league, Pavlyuchenko continues to do well scoring-wise, despite not getting the same run of games that both Crouch and Defoe have tended to enjoy. It makes me wonder what he could achieve if he were allowed to get into his rhythm.
The stats for our strikers in the league so far this season are quite incredible:
Whilst Peter Crouch has so far scored at a rate 1052 minutes per goal, and Defoe and Keane have yet to score, Pavlyuchenko has a rate of 134 minutes per goal. This despite starting 4 less games than Crouch. Purely for comparison, I have included van der Vaart (who of course hasn't always played up front). Most would agree that he has a good scoring record, but it is not as good as Pavlyuchenko's.
Many fans argue that Crouch offers more, because although he doesn't score, he gets vital assists. Even taking his five league assists into account, he still only averages a goal or assist every 175 minutes (Pavlyuchenko 134 and van der Vaart an impressive 87). Of course this does not take into account other areas in which our strikers weigh in (for example, Crouch offers valuable aerial presence when defending corners).
If this argument wasn't compelling enough, just look at the goals record in the calendar year for our three main strikers (with thanks to Trashpost from COYS for all of the following stats):
Defoe: 4 goals in 19 starts (and 3 sub appearances).
Crouch: 5 goals in 20 starts (and 15 sub appearances).
Pavlyuchenko: 10 goals in 15 starts (and 12 sub appearances.
And in order to answer the inevitable questions about quality of opposition/percentage of away matches played:
Away league starts in 2010:
Pavlyuchenko: 6 away matches (40% of his 2010 league starts)
Crouch: 10 away matches (50%)
Defoe: 8 away matches (42%)
Matches against the top 3 (Arsenal/Man Utd/Chelsea):
Pavlyuchenko: 5 matches (33% of his 2010 starts)
Crouch: 0 matches (0%)
Defoe: 4 matches (21%)
Our results are far better with Pavlyuchenko in the team (in 2010, we've averaged 0.5 points per game more when Pavlyuchenko starts, compared to when Crouch starts).
Obviously Defoe is recovering from injury, and so judging him on this season's stats may be harsh. However, he has had a disappointing calendar year in general – just 4 league goals is nowhere near a good enough return.
As I said at the top of this article, he is far from ideal, but until we get someone better in, these stats show me that Pavlyuchenko should be one of the first names on the team sheet in league matches.
I'm far from his biggest fan, and when I say far from, I think he's pretty ordinary, however with the strikers we've currently got at the club I agree.
However, that's not glowing praise because we're basically comparing him to Crouch. That's who he's up against and it's only fair Pav gets more starts having seen Crouch's goal scoring form. Although once vdV gets back then there's a decision to be made. If we only play one striker, does Pav still get the start instead of Defoe?
Unless Defoe can get back to his 2009 form, I'd go for Pav and van der Vaart. Defoe as an impact sub, at least until he is properly fit.
It would be more interesting to know how many the team is scoring when Pav is on the pitch.
Whilst all strikers have flaws, ours are on the verge of exaggeration. You could form the perfect striker from Crouch, Pav and Defoe. As pinch of Defoe's pace & sharpness, a spoonful of Crouch's assists and a generous helping of Pav's finishing. As for Keane, you can take his shouting… Pav has the ability of a worldbeater, but does not have the mental makeup of one. it is as simple as that. I like him, and he will score lots of goals if played – however you will soon get into the Darren Bent territory where you play someone who scores a lot but can you depend on him? Will he enhance the team? Goals aren't everything.
Pav and Defoe will form a good partnership given a chance – but then where do we play VDV? Interesting problem I think. Haven't seen one suggestion that makes sense yet as to how VDV and JD fit in the same team – and don't try telling me they could play together up front without a big man. I just don't buy it.
Anon @ 10:20 – nice idea, I'll see if I get time later.
keep up the good work mate 😉
Nice Windy…as a follow up maybe you would consider comparing the partnerships starting from last season to see which strikers are the best pairing for them team 😉
Minutes per team goals added!
Anon @ 10:28 – "Goals aren't everything"
But goals win football matches, do they not?
Excellent. I have been posting and blogging the goals/per minute stats for some time.
Pavluchenko was top last year and leads this year again.(1/340 which statiticians can work out in a 60 game season is 90 goals.
He is currently our top scorer(7 with Bale).
He doesn't do assists but neither does Defoe.
In the light of this it is no wonder he lacks confidence and wishes he was 5 inches taller.
He should be our first striker on the team sheet.
Sorry 1/134.
Stats eh. they really do your head in
Cheers Windy. Some thought provoking stuff here. I will be interested to see this at this time next year, when we have the exact same Strikers 😛
Thanks, Skizt, now you've thoroughly depressed me!
Incidentally, here are some other players minutes per goals/assists for comparison (I've not checked the stats, but they are close-ish to mine for our players):
Player Team Minutes played Goals Assists Average (Min)
Theo Walcott Arsenal FC 350 4 1 70.00
Dimitar Berbatov Manchester United 1050 11 2 80.77
Marlon Harewood Blackpool FC 508 5 1 84.67
Rafael Van Der Vaart Tottenham Hotspur 874 6 4 87.40
Gyan Asamoah Sunderland AFC 612 5 2 87.43
Wayne Rooney Manchester United 537 1 5 89.50
Carlos Tevez Manchester City 1269 10 4 90.64
Didier Drogba Chelsea FC 1312 8 6 93.71
Salomon Kalou Chelsea FC 752 6 2 94.00
Andrew Carroll Newcastle United 1445 10 5 96.33
Nani Manchester United 1263 5 8 97.15
Somen Tchoyi West Bromwich Albion 326 3 0 108.7
Steven Fletcher Wolverhampton Wanderers 469 3 1 117.3
Andrey Arshavin Arsenal FC 1297 3 8 117.9
Samir Nasri Arsenal FC 1118 8 1 124.2
Johan Elmander Bolton Wanderers 1395 8 3 126.8
Peter Odemwingie West Bromwich Albion 1018 6 2 127.3
Cesc Fabregas Arsenal FC 774 2 4 129.0
Chris Brunt West Bromwich Albion 1428 2 9 129.8
Roman Pavlyuchenko Tottenham Hotspur 670 5 0 134.0
And just goals:
Player Team Minutes played Goals Average (Min)
Theo Walcott Arsenal FC 350 4 87.50
Dimitar Berbatov Manchester United 1050 11 95.45
Marlon Harewood Blackpool FC 508 5 101.6
Somen Tchoyi West Bromwich Albion 326 3 108.7
Gyan Asamoah Sunderland AFC 612 5 122.4
Salomon Kalou Chelsea FC 752 6 125.3
Carlos Tevez Manchester City 1269 10 126.9
Roman Pavlyuchenko Tottenham Hotspur 670 5 134.0
Samir Nasri Arsenal FC 1118 8 139.8
Andrew Carroll Newcastle United 1445 10 144.5
Rafael Van Der Vaart Tottenham Hotspur 874 6 145.7
Javier Hernandez Manchester United 595 4 148.8
Kevin Nolan Newcastle United 1224 8 153.0
Steven Fletcher Wolverhampton Wanderers 469 3 156.3
Didier Drogba Chelsea FC 1312 8 164.0
Peter Odemwingie West Bromwich Albion 1018 6 169.7
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake Wolverhampton Wanderers 684 4 171.0
Park Ji-Sung Manchester United 686 4 171.5
Johan Elmander Bolton Wanderers 1395 8 174.4
Tim Cahill Everton FC 1412 8 176.5
Good article. If only pav wasn't such a lazy git, we wouldn't even need to be discussing this! One example was during the first half against Chelsea, the ball came to him, Defoe sprinted off into the distance waiting for that killer pass, Pav played a ball that Defoe really had no chance of winning, and Cech came rushing out and slide tackled Defoe to disposes him. Now, if Pav had actually been running after that instead of just expecting Defoe to round two defenders and the goalkeeper, he would have been there to collect that ball and smash it into the open net. But no, he was just standing exactly where he was when he played the pass. Berbatov was lazy and he got away with it? Why? because, his first touch didn't squander numerous opportunities where as Pav's first touch is woeful, I've seen him waste so many chances this season, which is why I reckon he infuriates people. Sure he scores goals and grabs the headlines, but for every goal he scores, there are 2 more that are either lost because of a poor touch, or because he's too lazy to move for the ball.
thank's windy for the teams goal per minute whilst on the pitch and pav is leading … Even if Pav is a lazy git we score more goals when he is on the pitch. nuff said i think. play him
Note that VdV contribute to 10 goals on 17 whilst he is on the pitch … we are very reliant on him when he is on.
your stats do present a convincing argument, but i still say pav is a better impact sub. as per usual he was good for a goal against chelsea, but after that his thoughts went elsewhere. once pav does something good you might as well take him off. in which case i'd rather he come on in the 70th, score in the 80th, and then stroll around top of the pitch with his thumb up his arse until the final whistle.
Pav should have a look at some old Joe Jordan videos on how to play centre forward or better still Joe could tell him! Lots more talent than Joe but not the applicantion or commitment.
Can't help but like Pav though, he looks like he's having the time of his life.
i think someone put down that when pavs on we average 0.5 points a game an thats just simply not good enough, he has 0 assists and his work rate aint nowhere near as good as defoes eg on sunday against chelsea defoe come off we lost the grip of the game and then even had to bring on keane bcoz pav an crouch dnt wanna run an chase balls down, we scored an didnt win so goals dnt win you games the all round team performance does, no point scoring 1 an letting in 2 that aint won u nothing, u gotta work hard and sorry to say it but pav and crouch do not work hard enough for the team
Good stats Chris, Pav has moments of quality but does not show it enough, this does make him dangerous though as he looks to shoot a lot. As for Crouch he is only good for pumping it long when we are chasing an equaliser late on and it seems that only Van Der Vaart can read his knock downs. When Crouch plays we tend to play it long too often if there isn't an easy ball on which is a waste now we for once have quality players who are comfortable on the ball like VDV, Modric, Huddlestone and Bale.
I have posted elsewhere about Pav's Stats, and in particular, that by the end of last season, he has scored 14 goals in 16 cup games, many of whice he was either a sub, or was subbed. I think if you look at these stats, you will see that he scores better than a goal a game in cup ties.
Yes and if you count the goals Pav scores in training then he is better than Greaves!!!!!
pav must have pissed harry off some what, surely he cant keep starting crouch with almost zero results. sure he has a knock down assist occasionaly but to me is an absolute flop in front of goal, given the qaulity of some of pavs finishes makes me wonder how many more goals we have gone without by harry giving crouch so may minutes


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Online borrowing from USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) will be available to growers next year. FSA announced that the agency is in the process of replacing its online software to manage its $16 billion in farm loans. Online software from ECI called Web Equity Manager will power the agency's new Farm Business Plan. The Farm Business Plan replaces the current FSA accounting program that has been in use since the 1940s.
The online Farm Business Plan allows borrowers to document cash flow, expenses, assets, debts, and other financial information online. The information is shared with FSA farm loan officials or guaranteed lending partners. The new system will allow the FSA to handle requests more quickly and will save growers time because they won't need to make as many trips to USDA service centers.
Many FSA loan officers started using the online system this month for loan requests. By October, all FSA offices will be online for loans. FSA plans to launch the software for producers in mid-2005. Growers without computers may still complete worksheets by hand, and FSA staffers will enter the information.


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Bavarian P.O.W.s
As Bob prepares to chainsaw Von Klaus into a fine red mist, Klaus turns towards his assailant.
"Holy shit, that's the greatest mustache I've ever seen!"
"You think so?"
"I can't destroy something that awesome! I'm declaring an immediate ceasefire with Bavaria. Here, take this peace treaty back to the Kaiser."
"I shall return it to die Reichstag vith all haste, my vriend."
And so, Captain Maxmillian Emil-Mannerheim Von Klaus rides off into the sunset, with a new ally for Bavaria and a lunar rover full of advanced Deadly SpaceMan teknology.
Bavarian Reinforcements
The dino rider jumps into the just-vacated gunner's seat and opens fire, but fails to hit anything.
Peach Raiders
With their leader down and the Artifax in enemy hands, the two rebels remove the pins from their concussion grenades and charge the enemy in a suicidal assault.
Suicide attacks work better with real grenades than with stun grenades.
Rogue VoL
The two remaining VoL troops move up, killing a grenadier and stealing his jetpack.
The Acolyte uses the jetpack to fly away from the ruins. The shock trooper grabs the radar dish, which was right by his feet.
VoL Reinforcements
A sniper emerges from concealment near the wreckage of the dropship and aims his weapon at Blackdog.
"Hey, do I know that guy from somewherEEEAAAAARGH!"
Blackdog's headless corpse stumbles into a control panel...
... and flames belch from the smokestacks as the landship's steam reactor overloads.
The rest of the VoL move up and kill a Peach and a T.L.A. flame trooper.
Having made peace with the Bavarians, Bob the Unbuilder looks around the field for another target. He settles on the sole remaining vehicle besides his own.
"Pilot, attack that landship head on!"
"Mister President, there's no way we can pull off a maneuver like that-"
Bob guns down an AA gunner and the last crewman on the bridge.
T.L.A. Reinforcements
The sniper kills the VoL with the jetpack.
The sole remaining grenadier kills a peach with a grenade.
Britannian Reinforcements
With their ship immobilized and their bridge crew dead, there's not much the Conqueror's remaining crew can do. They manage to kill the VoL trooper holding the radar dish.
Kill count:
Kills: 0/0
Deaths: 0/0
Victory Points: 1 (rocket launcher)
Kills: 0/0
Deaths: 0/2
Victory Points: 0
Kills: 1/3
Deaths: 2/0
Victory Points: 0
Kills: 2/2
Deaths: 0/2
Victory Points: 1 (gyro pistol)
Kills: 0/1
Deaths: 0/3
Victory Points: 0
This leaves the Bavarians and T.L.A. tied for victory. Congratulations to everyone who played, this was one of my best games yet due to the ideas you guys came up with.


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OpenDNS Comes Out Against COICA Censorship
from the good-for-them dept
What COICA proposes would induce, and in some cases, force ISPs -- including yours -- to block websites for you without your input. The Internet is a global phenomenon and at OpenDNS we serve a global audience with customers around the world. If we are forced to block something due to a mandate by the U.S. federal government it would impact all our users, not just those in the U.S. That's a terrible precedent for the U.S. government to set.While it looks like there isn't likely to be much movement on COICA in the lameduck session, it'll definitely be back next year. It's important that more people recognize that COICA is all about censorship before the bill goes much further.
Furthermore, as we've seen with the ongoing Wikileaks.org saga, the government will try and utilize whatever resources it can to take sites offline. There is absolutely no need to arm them with a tool to automate it, let alone one that sits outside of any judicial review as COICA does.
Blocking a domain name is black and white act, meaning that if the Justice Department decided that one aspect of a website was enough to make infringement "central" their only recourse would be to block the entire website rather than systematically removing the infringing portion. For many sites this would lead to massive censorship of data and speech that was non-infringing.


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Dr. Carol Huser stepped down earlier this month after nearly 10 years as La Plata Coroner. Her departure is a loss, felt all the more forcefully as a reminder of how lucky this area has been to have had her here.
We wish her well in whatever life has in store for her.
A board-certified forensic pathologist, Huser is by far the best qualified coroner anyone can remember serving La Plata County. Not only was her presence here a great convenience for local law enforcement agencies, it also made for speedier and ultimately better work.
In Colorado, coroner is an elective office, the qualifications for which do not include any medical training. If, as is common in less populated parts of the state, the coroner is not a pathologist, autopsies require either calling on someone from elsewhere or transporting the body.
In the past, bodies from here have been taken to Albuquerque, Montrose or Grand Junction to be autopsied. That can be costly and time consuming.
Plus, with the expert help of a pathologist readily available investigating a death can be more timely and more certain. There are times when it is not readily clear a death is natural, a suicide or a homicide. Any delay in that determination could heighten a familys anguish and might mean a killer is on the loose.
That Huser approached her duties with professionalism and integrity is clear from those she worked with in law enforcement. That she also brought compassion, intellectual honesty and wit to the job shows through in her monthly column in the Herald.
In her writing which will continue to appear in the Herald she often explained the ambiguity and uncertainty a medical examiner can face, and the ethical dilemmas that can result. She was never afraid to admit that sometimes the facts remain unknown.
We are grateful for the time Huser spent here. Her service was of great value.
Husers leaving, however, highlights the flaws in Colorados coroner system. Anyone 18 years old, who has lived in the county for a year, and has no felony convictions, can be elected coroner with zero medical training. It is an antiquated and archaic system that should be replaced by professional medical examiners.
Carol Husers example should inspire lawmakers to look at just that.


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All the exciting parts of exploring the solar system have been leeched out. What's left is the drudgery of the everyday and the dreams of the rich.
I am a Space Shuttle child. I ogled big exploded view posters of the spaceship in classrooms. I built models of it out of plastic and assembled gliders in its shape out of foam. I sat silent with my classmates watching the television news on a VCR cart after Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986. Six years later, I worked as an instructor at the New Mexico Museum of Space History's summer "Shuttle Camp," a name that will soon seem retrograde if it doesn't already.
Last summer the last Space Shuttle took its last space flight, but last week it took its last worldly one. It ended my generation's era of space marvel, which turned out to take a very different path from that of our parents. During the 1950s and 1960s, space exploration was primarily a proxy for geopolitical combat. It was largely symbolic, even if set against a background of earnest frontiersmanship. First satellite, first man in space, first spacewalk, first manned moon mission, and so on. Space as a frontier was a thing for science fiction fantasy, although we dipped our toes far enough across that border to make it clear that such exploration was possible, even if not yet feasible.
In one of hundreds of images posed with Endeavour atop the SCA, employees at SpaceX clambered to the roof of their headquarters in Hawthorne, near LAX. They are the Shuttle Program's accidental legacy. Created by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk in 2002, the company produces the Falcon 9 two-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle and the Dragon capsule, the first commercial spacecraft to be recovered successfully from orbit. This fall, Falcon9/Dragon will commence deliveries to the International Space Station (ISS) under what remains of NASA's low-Earth space efforts, which goes by the workaday name of Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). A cosmic UPS service.
Musk is a hero of the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who have themselves taken over the role of hero from Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn and Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride. He's also perhaps the closest real-world counterpart to Tony Stark, the fictional playboy and industrialist who becomes Iron Man in Stan Lee's comic books. Musk started SpaceX shortly before selling PayPal in 2002. Like Stark he's a modest man, taking only the titles of CEO and CTO at SpaceX, in addition to his role as Chairman and CEO at Tesla Motors, the electric car manufacturer he founded a year later. SpaceX's contract under the NASA COTS program is worth up to $3.1 billion, more than twice what Ebay shelled out for PayPal.
Musk is in the space freight business, hauling materials and equipment from earth to sky, a kind of twenty-first century Cornelius Vanderbilt in the making. Elsewhere, rich men lust jealously for space now that Earth's challenges have proven tiresome. John Carmack, the co-founder of iD software and co-creator of Doom started Armadillo Aerospace in 2000, eyeing space tourism via a sub-orbital commercial craft. Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos helped found another private spaceflight company, Blue Origin, in the same year. And of course, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson established Virgin Galactic in 2004, to provide sub-orbital space tourism as well as orbital satellite launch. In 2008, Richard Garriott, the role-playing game creator and son of American Skylab astronaut Owen K. Garriott, paid Space Adventures a reported $30 million to be flown via Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS. Just four years later, Branson's Virgin Galactic was selling tickets for sub-orbital rides on SpaceshipTwo for a mere $200,000. Ashton Kutcher and Katy Perry have already signed up. TMZ Galactic can't be far behind.
In grade school during the early days of the Shuttle program, I remember writing and illustrating "astronaut" as a response to the dreaded "what do you want to be when you grow up" prompt. I didn't really want to be an astronaut, but I knew that unlike my first inclination, garbage collector, it would be accepted as a suitably ambitious aspiration.
Space, once a place for governments and dreamers who would really just be civil servants, has become a playground for the hyper-affluent. Owen Garriott was an engineer from Oklahoma and a U.S. Naval Officer selected for life science service in space. Richard Garriott was a lucky rich guy with connections. We don't have flying cars, but we have a billionaire who sells electric cars to millionaires. We don't have space vacations, but we have another billionaire who will take you on a magic carpet ride for two-hundred large. Today, a kid who says "I want to be an astronaut" is really just saying "I want to be rich." Isn't that what everyone wants? All of today's dreams are dreams of wealth.
The official mission of the final Space Shuttle, STS-135, reads more like a joke from The Office than a science fictional fantasy: "Space Shuttle Atlantis is carrying the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module to deliver supplies, logistics and spare parts to the International Space Station." Among its tasks: the delivery of a new tank for a urine recycling system, and the removal of a malfunctioning space sewage pump. If only I'd known in 1982 that astronaut and garbage collector would turn out to be such similar jobs.
Despite what you read in comic books, even Stark Industries has to bend metal and mold plastic. Elon Musk will take over the task of shipping sewage pumps and waste processing units and air filtration systems to the ISS. Richard Branson will sell Justin Bieber and Mitt Romney tickets past the Kármán line. Eventually, inevitably, Mark Zuckerberg will slip a bill to the surly bonds of earth and start his own space enterprise, just to keep up with the Rothschilds. Quiet maybe-billionaire Craig Newmark will expand his eponymous service to taxi unwanted minibikes and toasters and other worldly junk into space, the Final Landfill.
It's not so much that the space program is broken in the sense of inoperative. Space is alive and well, for the wealthy at least, where it's become like the air and the land and the sea: a substrate for commerce, for generating even more wealth. Instead, the space program is broken in the sense of tamed, domesticated, housebroken. It happens to all frontiers: they get settled. How many nights can one man dance the skies? Better to rent out laughter-silvered wings by the hour so you can focus on your asteroid mining startup.
In the 1960s we went to the moon not because it was easy but because it was hard. In the 1980s we went to low Earth orbit because, you know, somebody got a grant to study polymers in zero-gravity, or because a high-price pharmaceutical could be more readily synthesized, or because a communications satellite had to be deployed, or because a space telescope had to be repaired. The Space Shuttle program strove to make space exploration repeatable and predictable, and it succeeded. It turned space into an office park. Now the tenants are filing in. Space: Earth's suburbs. Office space available.
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Cheerleaders return from competition with trophy
PLAINVIEW – The cheerleading squad from Wayland Baptist University earned a first place trophy in the college co-ed division at the recent Christian Cheerleaders of America competition held in Winston-Salem, N.C.
The squad competed in the CCA nationals for the first time, choosing the competition because of the Christian values upheld by the group. According to Richard Varnon, a senior from Spearman and the squad's coach, the CCA event was a great atmosphere in which to compete with schools of like mind.
"It was more than just a competition to us," Varnon said. "It was a growing experience in Christ."
Varnon said the competition was also a valuable recruiting opportunity for Wayland, since the cheerleaders were able to visit with many high school students and their families interested in Christian schools.
Varnon said several CCA leaders from Abilene led the summer cheerleading camp at Wayland this past year and the local squad was impressed with their talent and character. The national competition felt like a natural fit.
Along with Varnon, members of the squad include seniors Heather Robison of Slaton, Dustin Stephens of Van Alstyne, Tabatha Harmonson of Abernathy, Anna Garnett of Fairbanks, Alaska; sophomore Evan Winegarner of Darrouzett; and freshmen Blake Haney of Plainview, Shawn Kelley of Plainview, Cassie Pene of Shallowater, Shalisa Ladd of Muleshoe, Ashley Reynolds of New Deal and Missy Pawelek of Lovington, N.M.


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If Dimitris Bertsimas is right, look for the Boston Red Sox to capture the American League East title in September, one game ahead of the Tampa Bay Rays, whose predicted wins would make them the team to beat for the AL Wild Card spot.
In a burst of post-preseason prognostication, the MIT economist has his favorite team, the Red Sox, finishing the regular season with 101 wins, followed by Tampa Bay with 100 wins, the Yankees at 93, Baltimore at 83 wins, and Toronto with 80.
The foundation for this stick-your-neck-out exercise is a modeling approach Bertsimas and colleague Allison O'Hair developed while pulling together a "you, too, can advise Theo Epstein" exercise for one of his classes.
10 bits of baseball history I learned from "A Game of Inches"
"I'm a big believer that quantitative analytics can have a major impact on businesses, including sports teams," Bertsimas notes.
Where British-born mathematician Keith Devlin has described baseball as looking "like rounders played by men in pajamas who seemed to wear very scratchy underpants that required constant adjustment and who had an unusual propensity for spitting," Bertsimas sees in each player "a vector of numbers" from which "we can make accurate predictions of how many runs they will score."
Those predictions can then be translated into team statistics that feed into his Opening Day predictions of the teams most likely to play into October.
Bertsimas and O'Hair, one of his PhD students, put their own spin on techniques Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane used to guide the team with the third lowest payroll in major-league baseball in 2002 to that year's playoffs. In addition, the duo drew on approaches developed by baseball-stats guru Bill James.
While much of the credit for pioneering the extensive use of player stats has gone to Mr. Beane and the Oakland As, the approach has a deeper historical pedigree, according to Dr. Devlin, who teaches at Stanford University.
The Brooklyn Dodgers used some number-crunching as far back as the 1940s and '50s, he explained in a column for the Mathematics Association of America penned in 2004, just after he attended his first major-league ball game. Managers used the data to inform player trades, set batting orders, and to swap players in and out of rosters based on their performance against opposing teams.
Earl Weaver's stack of index cards
During Earl Weaver's 14-year run as manager of the Baltimore Orioles beginning in the late '60s, the Hall of Fame manager frequently consulted player stats he kept in a ubiquitous stack of index cards, according to Devlin.
As for the Athletics, the statistical approach the team raised to an art form was first introduced by an engineer-turned-National Public Radio reporter whose lingering mathematical antennae started to twitch as he began noticing the benefits to a team of players' high on-base percentages at ballgames he attended.
The San Francisco Giants brushed off the reporter, Eric Walker, when he approached the team with his observations, according to Devlin. The Oakland A's were more attentive.
After devising his model, Bertsimas tested it against the Red Sox's 2010 season. Based on player stats from the beginning of the 2009 season through 2010's spring training, the model had the BoSox winning 90 games; they ended the 2010 season at 89 wins. Close enough for modeling work.
So far, the American League East is the only division Bertsimas and O'Hair have subjected to their digital crystal ball. And they stop short of predicting who will head a World Series victory parade in the fall, although, ahem, some other analysts have picked the BoSox.
With 162 games in a regular season, the model has plenty of data points to chew on as it produces its forecast, he notes.
However, "In a five-game series, the worst team in baseball will still beat the best team in baseball 15 percent of the time," he says. "Any general manager worth his salt sees his job as getting the team to the playoffs, but once they get there, luck plays a much larger role."
Oh yes, Opening Day? The Red Sox lost to the Texas Rangers 9-5, in a game that prompted Boston Globe sports columnist Nick Cafardo to ask the $162-million question: "It gets better, right?"
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New Teaching Approach Shuns Labeling Children
You know the boy who can't sit still in class?
Or the girl who fails the test no matter how much she studies?
The teacher decides the first child is a troublemaker and the second is slow. The school sends them off to special education. And the children learn they have a "disability," confirming their own secret fears that something about them is deeply wrong.
But a new teaching approach developed by a best-selling author-pediatrician has a message for these educators and parents: Look closer.
The boy might have a minor problem with attention, and the girl a problem with short-term memory, according to Dr. Mel Levine, whose theories are now being used in public and private schools around the country, including Clifton and River Edge.
Give the boy a Nerf ball to squeeze so he can release energy to stay focused, advocates of Levine's method advise. Let the girl take open-book tests while helping to strengthen her memorization skills. Most important, teach the children how their minds work to protect their fragile self-esteem.
Levine has popularized recent research showing that brains are wired differently. Rather than grouping children under broad labels such as "hyperactive," "learning disabled," or "attention deficit disorder," he urges educators to approach children, as one of his book titles states, "a mind at a time."
Since 1998, his non-profit All Kinds of Minds Institute has trained 11,000 educators to become classroom diagnosticians. Teachers who attend the weeklong training and follow-up sessions, run in North Carolina and elsewhere, learn how to evaluate children's skills in everything from attention to social interaction.
"There are a lot of different ways to succeed in life and many different minds out there," Levine says. "We all have to strive to get to know a child very well and to make sure he doesn't grow up frustrated and depleted of motivation because his mind isn't fitting with what it's being asked to do."
Teachers and school counselors say Levine gives a scientific basis to their own best instincts.
"It's not a cookie-cutter business," Clifton educator Sonia DeAgazio says of teaching third-graders. "Sometimes you'd love for them all to act the same, but that's not how it is. They're their own individuals."
Some schools that have embraced Levine's methods, including one Woodbridge elementary school, have dramatically lowered the number of children placed each year in special education, says Mary-Dean Barringer, national director of the training program Schools Attuned.
Clifton had reduced its yearly special-education placements by two-thirds even before some of its counselors and teachers received Schools Attuned training several years ago, said Barry Mascari, counseling supervisor for the district. Still, some experts worry that schools might use Levine's approach as a way to cut special-education costs.
"I'm afraid euphemizing disabilities may encourage parents to gloss over the seriousness of their child's situation," says Jane Browning, executive director of the Learning Disabilities Association of America.
Reducing special-education referrals is an "unintended outcome" of Schools Attuned, not a goal, says Barringer, a former special-education teacher. U.S. schools refer too many children to special education because they fail to clearly understand their problems, she says.
That failure also sometimes leads educators to rush to put children on Ritalin and other medications, Levine says.
Some children benefit from medication, but even they need specific help in academic or social areas, he says. "To feel medication is going to cure someone is an illusion and possibly dangerous."
Every year, DeAgazio at School 15 in Clifton has one or two students who are struggling. A boy who turns in half-finished work might have trouble copying instructions from a blackboard, causing him to fall behind in his assignment. His problem isn't with language, but with absorbing information through certain mediums, a function of attention, DeAgazio says.
Her solution? Allow that boy to copy from a sheet of paper instead of the blackboard, or have another child make a carbon copy of what's on the board for the classmate.
Some teachers resist making such accommodations, believing it gives the child with the attention problem an unfair advantage.
But Levine and his supporters say treating every student the same invites failure.
"Equal is not fair," says Joan Ferrara Millar, a consultant in Clifton's educational-support program.
Ilene Plotkin's son was one who got special treatment from teachers.
The boy, whose name is being withheld at his mother's request, is a bright child who has always made honor roll. But in third grade, he began talking back to his teacher. He got upset if he felt he didn't understand an assignment. He began to constantly criticize himself.
Michele Petrelli, an educational-support consultant in the district, found that the boy had certain weaknesses in how he interacted socially. She asked his teacher to carefully explain every assignment to him.
Now, he is a happy and successful middle-school student, says his mother, who works for Clifton schools.
Levine worries that once school becomes a source of humiliation, students might give up.
He once felt such pain himself.
Although he was a bright child, he was awkward in gym class, inept at organizing his homework, and awful at art. He writes that he still has trouble folding paper to fit neatly in an envelope. His fifth-grade teacher regularly criticized him in front of his classmates. Supportive parents helped him succeed in school.
Now a professor of medicine at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he opened the All Kinds of Minds Institute with investor Charles Schwab in 1995.
Sabrina Dunier, pupil-assistance counselor for the River Edge elementary schools, took two Schools Attuned courses this year. When a child having trouble in school is referred to her, she first completes an extensive written neurodevelopmental evaluation. Parents and the child help in the diagnosis.
"The child can often tell you what's wrong as much as anyone if asked the right questions," Dunier says.
Once Dunier pinpoints the problem, she explains to children their particular strengths and weaknesses.
"It makes them feel, 'There's nothing wrong with me,'" she says. "That makes a great difference just in their wanting to come to school and to perform and to be motivated."
Excerpted from "A Mind at a Time" by Mel Levine, M.D.
- Know thy child.
Know your children's strengths and weaknesses. How well, for example, do they manage time, control their attention, write and read?
Respond to gaps
If you suspect your child is weak in areas that may cause problems later, seek assistance from a professional.
Foster strengths, knacks, talents, and interests.
Help children pursue their passions. Playing sports is not enough. Children need both intellectual passions and recreational pursuits.
Try not to harm
If children feel they are disappointing their parents, they become emotional powder kegs. Give them lots of praise. Learn to listen without giving canned lectures or sermons.
Support education
Find out what the school expects and support your children in meeting those expectations. Help children enhance their skills and knowledge of facts. Drill them on math, letter formation, basic vocabulary, or spelling each night at bedtime, the best time for storing information in long-term memory.
Maintain an intellectual life at home
Show a strong interest in what your child is learning at school. Limit television. Make sure children have free time to brainstorm, exercise creativity, and engage in imaginary play.
Foster optimism and a positive view of the future
Help children envision how they might use their strengths and interests in the future. The vision of the future should help to keep them motivated and ambitious.
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Jimi Hendrix and the Flying Eyeball are images indelibly linked in the psychedelic poster art of the late Rick Griffin. Griffin discovered The Eyeball, in a much more benign form, in the 1950s auto detailing art of California pinstriper Von Dutch and reworked it over time to become the winged, bloodshot figure parting a ring of fire with serpent-like tentacles. The highlighted lettering, vivid color, and complicated imagery reflect Griffin's attention to precise details and the influence of Indian lore on his work.
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A year ago, running in the 2013 Hannibal Cannibal was the furthest thing from Rhonda Michaels' mind. However, after undergoing a major transformation over the past six months, Michaels will be a part of today's field of runners in the annual event.
A year ago, running in the 2013 Hannibal Cannibal was the furthest thing from Rhonda Michaels' mind. However, after undergoing a major transformation over the past six months, Michaels will be a part of today's field of runners in the annual event.
A combination of regular exercise at the YMCA of Hannibal and a 1,200-calorie a day diet since late January has seen Michaels shed almost 100 pounds. As of Friday, her weight loss amounted to 96 pounds.
"I want to lose 100 pounds and then I want to lose 25 more than that," said the 36-year-old, whose target weight is 175 pounds.
"She inspires a lot of people, me included," said Sonya Elliott, Michaels' sister. "She's about lost 100 pounds and has not stopped. She's not like, 'Oh, I can quit now because I'm smaller,' she keeps going."
"She's become very motivational," said Michaels' husband, Scott. "Her co-workers (at Beth-Haven Nursing Home) have gotten in behind her and have started working out because of seeing her and her transformation."
Michaels believes her major weight loss should send a simple message.
"If I can do it, anybody can do it," said Michaels, who was diagnosed with diabetes in December, but has now been cleared to stop taking her diabetes medication.
Cannibal challenge
Not everyone who loses weight decides to take on the challenge of the Cannibal. The notion of participating in the annual road race was planted by members of her Y workout class - Body Pump.
"I started dropping the weight and as you're doing that you meet people and they said, 'Let's do the Cannibal,'" said Michaels. "Actually we started running the lighthouse steps. The more weight I lost, the more they encouraged me to do the Cannibal, so I started running the Cannibal (route)."
Michaels is a regular member of the Drew Crew, which trains together in preparation for the Cannibal.
"We meet at 4:30 on Sundays. We all take off together and they all wait for everybody to get back in before we leave, and everybody cheers everybody on to finish it," she said.
During her training sessions, Michaels' best time so far is 43:02. Her goal today is to finish below 45 minutes.
That is not Michaels' only goal.
"The only other goal I have is to not get sick because every single time I come down here to run it I get sick. It doesn't matter, all the way up Lover's Leap, I can get sick all the way up, but I don't quit and I keep going," she said.
Elliott, who was recruited by her sister to join her in the race, also has a goal.
"I'm going to whoop her (Michaels). She's going to be smelling my dogs," she laughed.
Heading into the race, Michaels is ready to run.
"I'm excited. I'm pumped up," she said.
Michaels appreciates the encouragement she has received in preparation for the race.
"When I started going to the Y you get such a support group from these people that go to Body Pump and Drew Crew. They don't let you quit. They keep motivating you to keep going," she said. "I get support from them at home. They don't let me quit. My co-workers, they don't let me quit. You've got to have the motivation, but you've got to have the support system, too."
Part of Michaels' motivation has come from total strangers.
"A group of us came down Saturday morning to run and there were so many people that you don't even know that would give you high fives and tell you to 'keep going' and 'you're almost there.' It just made me want to run faster. Maybe that's why I did the best time I've gotten," she said.
It won't be surprising if the Hannibal Cannibal's biggest "loser," winds up feeling like a winner today.


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Penalties, injuries hurting Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks are dealing with injuries on their
defensive front and penalties as they enter the final week of
preseason action.
Five players expected to contribute significantly along the
Seahawks' defensive line may not be able to play for the start of
the regular season.
The team was forced to place fifth-round pick Jesse Williams on
injured reserve Monday because of a troublesome knee. Defensive
tackle Jordan Hill is sidelined with a strained biceps and nose
tackle Brandon Mebane injured his groin in practice on Monday.
Chris Clemons remains on the physically unable to perform list
and his timetable to return from an ACL tear last January remains
uncertain and Cliff Avril aggravated a hamstring strain last week
and has yet to play this preseason.
With Clemons still out and Bruce Irvin suspended for the first
four games of the regular season, Avril was expected to at least
bridge the gap at defensive end until Clemons and Irvin
Now Avril's status is also in question.
"We don't know if he is going to be ready for the opener. We
just don't know," coach Pete Carroll said.
The injuries have left Seattle short-handed as the regular
season is approaching and could also alter the makeup of the roster
during final cuts.
In addition, the Seahawks are getting penalized at a staggering
rate this preseason. Seattle has been flagged 34 times for 354
yards in three games and had 14 penalties for 184 yards in Friday's
game against the Green Bay Packers.
"It's still a problem," Carroll said. "We're trying too hard
and we're getting in too late trying to throw guys into the ground
when we finish blocks. We're over trying.
"I love the attitude about it in a sense, but we have to get
smarter and we can't do anything but continue to emphasize the heck
out of it. After a while if guys keep making mistakes then you have
to put other guys in the game."
"I'm not real pleased with the results of that. I know a good
deal of it is my fault because of the way of that I am calling on
them on how hard to play. I want them to emphasize finishing and
being physical, and attitude and all of that. And I need to make
some good decisions myself in directing this," he added.
Penalties were a problem for Seattle early last season as well.
The Seahawks had at least 13 penalties in two of their first three
games last year.
The difference was those games were worked by replacement
officials before the league and referees union agreed on a new
Carroll believed some of their penalties last year were due to
being unfamiliar with the referees working games and how the games
were called. However, that can't be used as an explanation this
time around.
Carroll said they don't want to give their opponents anything
and it's a problem they have to fix.
"We just have to get out of our own way. We're playing hard,
we're running the football, getting after it, throwing, catching,
and all of the things that we need to do. But there's one area
where we have to comply, and we're a little out of compliance right
now," Carroll said.
Notes: WR Sidney Rice (knee), FB Michael Robinson (illness) and
DT Jordan Hill (biceps) sat out practice on Monday. … G James
Carpenter returned to practice for the first time in a couple of
weeks since injuring his foot. … Carroll said DE Chris Clemons is
progressing and isn't favoring his injured knee during workouts. He
said they are still unsure how far away he is from being able to
play, but that he's making "great progress." … S Jeron Johnson
missed practice Monday to attend to a family issue. He was expected
back with the team Monday night.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 25, 2011) - For the second straight year, the ETSU women's basketball grant team will host its annual Dean's Challenge competition, beginning Wednesday night when the Lady Bucs take on USC Upstate.
The challenge, which began last year with a way to increase awareness across campus, saw just that. The four games apart of the challenge a year ago had an increase attendance of 36 percent. In total, the games played against Campbell, Lipscomb, Mercer and USC Upstate (from 2008-09 and 2009-10) saw a spike of 3,751 fans due to the Dean's Challenge.
"The Dean's Challenge, now in its second year of existence, has proven to be an outstanding way to generate excitement and attendance for Lady Buc Basketball," commented Senior Associate Athletic Director Barbie Breedlove. "I want to thank the deans that have participated in this challenge, as they are the ones who have made it such a huge success. A dean of a college is a bright and competitive person by nature. Our deans here at ETSU have shown creativity and very strong competitive spirit, and they have brought hundreds of extra fans out to see ETSU Women's Basketball by accepting the Dean's Challenge and making it such a successful promotion."
The Challenge will have two winners announced at the end of the competition as the colleges are competing for two $500 scholarships. The winners will be based on which college brings the most fans to the game, while the second winner is based on the largest percentage of tickets used (on their 200 ticket allotment).
At the beginning of the challenge, each college was awarded 200 tickets to their selected game. If the college needed more tickets, they were given additional tickets based on an increment of 25 tickets.
The competition pins four colleges together when the Lady Bucs host USC Upstate on Wednesday, Jan. 26; while five more colleges will come out to the Kennesaw State game this Saturday, Jan. 29 (see breakdown below).
On Monday, Feb. 14 when ETSU hosts Jacksonville, the nine colleges will be invited back to the game to see which two deans won the scholarships.
Below is a breakdown of the challenge.
Wednesday, Jan. 26 vs. USC Upstate
College of Pharmacy
College of Business and Technology
College of Medicine
School or Graduate Studies
Saturday, Jan. 29 vs. Kennesaw State
College of Education
College of Arts and Sciences
Honors College
School of Continuing Studies and Academic Outreach
College of Nursing
Last season the College of Education (percentage of tickets used) and College of Pharmacy (total fans) won the inaugural challenge. Will they repeat again this year, or will a new college knock them off in 2010-11?
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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!
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Road Trip!
Yesterday was a gorgeous, sunny, 50-degree day. Rusty and I packed up the FJ with his bike and my running gear and headed over to Montebello, about an hour from our house and the site of the finish line for the Mountain Masochist 54 Mile Trail Race (MMTR).
Here we met up Dan Wiggins, Carter's XC coach and our good friend. He was up for running a bit of the MMTR course and the AT, and checking out the finish line of an ultra. He was in for a treat! At 11:50, Geoff Roes, the winner, came in posting a 20+ minute CR. Here is the quiet MMTR finish line at 12:30.
We ran and biked over to the top of Crabtree Falls Meadows, and then Rusty turned around while Dan and I headed south on the AT towards Spy Rock (no bikes allowed on the AT---bummer). I had always heard of this monolith but never seen it---man, it is very cool. Incredible views of the entire MMTR course as well as the Priest and Three Ridges Wilderness from atop its 100+ yard summit:
After taking lots of pics, it was time to head down to the where the MMTR course merges with the Fish Hatchery Trail and we saw Rusty just as he was coming down from the last MMTR aid station---perfect timing!
We had fun hammering down the last miles of the race course to the finish line just in time to see the 9:45+ runners finish. MMTR is always a huge reunion of VHTRC and East Coast runners---this year, the race was dominated by Canadians (top-2 women and third male), a Californian (second male), and an Alaskan (the winner). The top-2 males and females got automatic entry into Western States---sweet! It was very fun to see my buddies finish---all seemed to have stellar races and personal best times in the perfect weather. It was also fun to see many others who spent the day crewing or playing in the woods, like me.
Jenny Anderson and Bethany Patterson
Martha Wright, scoring a huge PR
Rick Gray, my faithful blog commentator
The gang at the finish: Marc Griffin, Ed Duval, RD Clark Zealand, Martha Wright and Donna Utakis
Jenny Anderson crewed for Annette Bednosky---so glad you had a great race, Annette!
The sun went down behind the mountain around 4:15 and the finish line got cold---fast. Time to wrap it up and head down the mountain...
...to Blue Mountain Brewery in Afton, about 30 minutes from the finish line:
We met Dan's wife and daughter here and watched the sun set behind Humpback Rocks while eating fabulous veggie pizzas and drinking some yummy beverages. A perfect way to end our ultra road trip!
MMTR results and pics are here. Congratulations to all the MMTR finishers, and to Clark Zealand and his volunteers for putting on such a great event! Hmmm...I had so much fun watching the finishers celebrate, I think I'll run it next year...
5 comments:
- Rick Gray said...
What a day for you and Rusty to get and and play. Plus, you got to see a great group of people come in and finish a wonderful run. Thank you for coming and cheering (me) all of us in. It was great to finally get to meet Rusty. We are so very lucky to have such great spouses. Rick
- November 9, 2009 at 9:07 AM
- annette bednosky said...
Sounds like a splendid day, Sophie! So wonderful to see you and Rusty!
- November 9, 2009 at 2:10 PM
- va_soccer_mom said...
Sophie, It was great to see you at the finish! I was fortunate to have a good day...thanks for your encouragement. Based on your glowing review in your Grindstone report, I ordered some Caffe Latte Perpetuem today in preparation for Hellgate. (Perp. works well for me, but I was a little burned out on the orange flavor, so I'm glad there's an alternative!) Please feel free to blog about what you're doing to prepare for Hellgate and your gear, strategy, etc. (yes, I'm looking for free advice here!) :)
- November 11, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- Sophie Speidel said...
I do love the Perp Cafe Latte. It has really been the difference for me in my last two races, and it's because I actually drink the stuff and enjoy it---SE was just blah tasting. Glad you are giving it a try---be sure test it out in training before our Hellgate adventure!
I will be blogging about Hellgate prep soon. Work is crazy busy but we have a week off for Thanksgiving...yay!
- November 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM
- va_soccer_mom said...
Sorry, forgot to sign my post...it's Martha. I'm hoping to be well prepared this year, but I'm not going to get stressed out...it's supposed to be fun, right?!
- November 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM


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Ladies voted in their droves to name classic star Audrey Hepburn the most iconic beauty of all time.
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How to see Ghosts
Everyone's brain focuses on images received by the eye. Normally all of our attention is given to the object at which we are directly looking. With practice it is possible to concentrate on images that are coming in from the corner of ones eyes. To develop this skill try walking along a road gazing at a distant object straight ahead. Then without moving your eyes from that object try to concentrate on images coming in from your peripheral vision. I was very surprised to discover what you can learn from objects that your not actually looking at. It's amazing how your mind tunes out the object at which your eyes are directed and tunes into details from objects elsewhere.
This is one technique that can be used to see ghosts.
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