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CHICAGO – Tom Thibodeau called it a train wreck. Frank Vogel, though, took the high road, so to speak, talking about the collision near the basket, near the end of the Indiana Pacers' 80-76 victory over Chicago at the United Center, as a "fundamental of verticality."
It just so happened that Pacers center Roy Hibbert, exercising his verticality, sent Bulls forward Luol Deng into a position of horizontality.
Here's the situation: Chicago trailed 78-76 with 14.1 seconds left. Deng passed inbounds to Joakim Noah, then cut backdoor on Paul George and received a pass from the Bulls center. Hibbert hurried a couple of steps across the paint to meet Deng to the right of the rim. Deng was airborne and Hibbert went up. Straight up, arms extended.
Bang! Serious body contact but no whistle. Deng went down as the crowd at United Center roared. Thibodeau threw up his arms. Hibbert wasn't looking for a charge and didn't get one, despite Deng's leading elbow, but he somehow got a blocked shot. David West grabbed the ball and was fouled. Sank them both, game over.
"He's the biggest reason why we lead the league in field-goal defense," Vogel said a few minutes later. "He's the best in the league at exercising the fundamental of verticality. Using his legs, getting off his feet and making a legal defensive play and earning a no-call.
"You're allowed to jump straight up, no matter where you are, and absorb contact. When he learned that and went away from trying to draw charges like he was earlier in his career, he went from not being able to stay on the court to being one of the best defensive centers in the NBA."
George, the best player on the floor with 34 points, said he didn't mean to lose Deng but added: "Roy told me to send him into him. I knew I had a big back there, one of the best bigs in the league."
Thibodeau, who vented at the officials without penalty for what little time remained, saw something different.
"In my eyes, he got wiped out," the Bulls coach said. "I did not get an explanation. He had a layup. It was a train wreck. I'm not going to put it on the officials. A tough call went against us. We still have to get it done."
Knowing the law of verticality and getting it enforced in the heat of the moment, on the road, might be two different things. But Vogel said he never was worried.
"It's a legal defensive play that the refs have been honoring throughout the league with all big men," the Pacers coach said. "It's made the game a better game. Less guys are trying to draw charges and fall on the ground underneath athletes."
What matters for Indiana is that one big guy is doing less of that, after seeking out charges his first couple seasons.
"Nah, I don't take charges," Hibbert said. "I used to, but [former Pacers big man] Jeff Foster told me it messed his back up and shaved a couple years off his career. So nah, I'm a 7-footer, I'm going to try to block a shot at the rim."
Hibbert, who is well-known for his intensive work in the summers, focused a lot on defense with the goal of being honored for it -– for the first time -– by the league's coaches when this season ends.
"I'm always around the rim," Hibbert said, " touching the man I'm guarding and still getting back. Y'know, 7-foot-2 centers from Georgetown, we always play defense."
Hibbert didn't need to wag a finger to make the Dikembe Mutombo connection. He isn't quite there yet, but he is averaging 3.1 blocks (compared to 2.0 last season) and this was his 12th consecutive game with at least two rejections. The Pacers began the night No. 1, holding teams to 40.8 percent shooting, then improved by limiting Chicago to 38.4.
Said Hibbert: "That's my staple. If my offense isn't going, I always have to play defense. That's not gonna slack."


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Bonn, 29 March 2014 - The Migratory Landbirds Study Group (MLSG) was launched at an inaugural meeting "Migratory landbirds: research, monitoring and conservation" in Wilhelmshaven (Germany) on the 26-28 March 2014. The meeting was hosted by the Institute of Avian Research "Vogelwarte Helgoland", one of the oldest and largest ornithological research institutions in the world.
Professor Dr Franz Bairlein, Director of the Institute, said: "The establishment of the Migratory Landbirds Study Group is a milestone. The group will play a key role in identifying primary research and monitoring gaps in support of the CMS Migratory Landbirds Action Plan".
African-Eurasian migratory landbirds include common and familiar species that breed in Europe and Asia and undertake long migrations to wintering areas in Africa. Species such as the Common Cuckoo, the Eurasian Blackbird or the Turtle Dove are included in this group. Overall there are 5 species included in Appendix I and 85 in Appendix II of CMS.
Long-term datasets shows that African-Eurasian landbirds are declining rapidly. The species that breed on agricultural land and have to cross the Sahara to winter in open savannahs are most affected. Migrant birds are likely to be more susceptible to environmental change than resident ones, as their complex annual cycle, long-distance migrations and dependence on different sites at different times expose them to multiple threats.
Experts consider that human-related habitat change is the most important factor affecting African-Eurasian landbirds across the breeding and non-breeding grounds. Unsustainable taking and climate change are additional threats.
Since intergovernmental cooperation is essential to conserve migratory landbirds effectively along their flyways, CMS Parties adopted a Resolution at COP10 in 2011 requesting that an African-Eurasian Migratory Landbirds Action Plan (AEMLAP) be elaborated. A working group was established to that effect under the Scientific Council and a special workshop was organized in Ghana in 2012 to discuss the topics and priorities that should be included in the action plan.
The AEMLAP aims to improve the conservation status of migratory landbird species in the African-Eurasian region. The overall goal is to develop an initial overarching, strategic framework for action at the international level to conserve, restore and sustainably manage populations of migratory landbird species and their habitats. This complements the work of AEWA and the CMS Raptors MOU to restore the conservation status of other African-Eurasian bird species. The Action Plan covers 34 globally threatened species with declining global population trends.
The Action Plan has a focus on habitat conservation, illegal taking, research and education. One of the actions, in particular, encourages the development of a network focusing on research and sharing information which will involve specialists and organizations dealing with monitoring and conservation of migratory landbird species. This has provided the basis for establishing the MLSG, tasked with collecting, consolidating and distributing research relating to migratory landbird conservation - and information on monitoring in the action plan area.
Although independent ofCMS, the MLSG will maintain strong links to the landbirds working group to act as an information conduit that will directly inform delivery of other actions contained within AEMLAP. The aims of the MLSG will be to maintain contact between both amateurs and professionals studying migratory landbirds, help organize international co-operative studies, and act as a platform for exchange of information on migratory landbirds and their biology, and to promote scientific capacity building throughout the flyway.
In order to facilitate communication and improve public awareness, it is also planned to establish the Friends of the Landbirds Action Plan (FLAP). This initiative will use social media to provide a forum for all interested laymen to follow, support and contribute to the implementation of the AEMLAP.
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We have a Full Spectrum Engineering 40W Co2 Laser Cutter
Tetsu worked hard and started a Kickstarter project to get us a laser cutter for about $2000. We successfully promoted it enough to get people to generously donate to our cause, and now we have one!
Our Model
- Full Spectrum Engineering 40W Co2 Laser Cutter
- 13" x 13" cutting table
- 40w Co2 Laser
- Water cooled
- Safety Interlocks
- 2.75" vertical stroke
- Air assist
- Cutting software (printer driver, uses vector software like CorelDraw/Illustrator/Inkscape)
- Mach3 Control
Handy Links
Modification Suggestions
Our FullSpectrum 40W is far from perfect. Add your suggested improvements to the laser cutter on this list.
- Mount the parallel port driver board further back within the case
- Mount the Mach3 card inside the case, make cover for it to screw in the outside (with the laser cutter!?)
- Strain relief and longer USB cable (Chris has a 10 or 15 ft he will donate. Ferrite beads and gold plated.)
- Air pump (Mack getting this for us so ghetto-rig ShopVac can go away)
- Digital readout for power knob (Looking into digital potentiometer with readout!)
- Lid-switch should trip the system-wide cutoff, not just a computer control cutoff
- IR-sensitive webcam in the box
- Beam-split red laser upgrade to point where the laser will point (Chris will work on this as well as a laser to show where the corner of the piece will start.)
- More stable/level platform
- Locate more metal honeycomb without frame
- Millimeter (digital?) measurement tool on the side of the platform to automatically measure height of platform
- Laser-cut (58mm?) focus measurement stick
- Back-lit switches for the "Laser Power", "Laser Test", "Air Power", and "Light", so we know when it's actually on
- Shiny aircraft switches (Safety to keep from bumping), with led notifiers above
- Water pump flow sensor and light, integrate with Laser On switch to prevent operation if a problem is present.
- Knight rider LED chaser for when laser is active and lasing and dangerous
- Better interior lighting (possibly fluorescent bars and/or LEDs) to better light the work surface
- Possibly redo entire control panel with digital readouts and better (read: safer) switches.
- Custom shelving
- Acrylic chairs!
- Benches
- Random professional looking constructions
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April 28, 2009
By Roey Gilberg
LOS ANGELES -- As the issue of same-sex marriage continues to play a prominent role in the American political scene, its impact on other aspects of society is increasingly being examined as well. This topic took center stage at UCLA Anderson in a panel discussion titled "The Legal and Business Impact of Extending Marriage, Civil Unions, and Domestic Partnerships to Same-Sex Couples," held in Korn Convocation Hall on April 22, 2009.
The session, jointly presented by the Williams Institute, UCLA Anderson, and the UCLA School of Law, was moderated by Brad Sears, Executive Director of the Williams Institute. Anderson's Dean Judy Olian introduced the discussion, and additional welcoming remarks were given by Dean Michael Schill of the School of Law, who noted the "growing relationship" between the two schools, as exemplified by the event. The panel featured Sears; Gary Gates, a senior research fellow at the Williams Institute; Lee Badgett, research director at the Williams Institute; Margaret Shih, associate professor in Human Resources and Organizational Behavior at Anderson; Dean Hansell, a partner at Dewey & Lebouef, LLP; and Kim Congdon, regional vice president of Human Resources for Time Warner Cable's West Region.
While the spotlight on same-sex marriage was positioned squarely over California during November's election - with the hotly contested Proposition 8 ultimately passing - the issue continues to receive attention in various other states. Before giving way to the other panelists, Sears began with a brief overview of the current legal status of same-sex couples around the country, and the differences from state to state.
Gates then discussed the demographics of same-sex couples in the U.S., noting various nationwide trends. He pointed out that while same-sex couples are concentrated on the coasts, the Midwest and South have a higher percentage of same-sex couples that are raising children.
Badgett examined the economic costs and benefits of legalizing same-sex marriage, as well as the general economic impact. After presenting facts and figures covering a wide range of affected aspects, including employee benefits and tax effects, she concluded that same-sex marriage is an overall boon for businesses and the economy. Hansell was more specific, as he discussed the implications of Proposition 8 for California businesses in terms of their personnel policies. He concurred with Badgett, noting that California's businesses, such as Google, face difficulties in employee recruitment and retention when there are preferable legal environments in other states.
Shih discussed minority experiences in organizations, and the positive implications of organizational diversity. She pointed out that firms benefit from having an inclusive environment in many ways, including the psychological impact on employees. Congdon detailed Time Warner Cable's actions toward providing employee benefits for all domestic partnerships within its organization. Touching on the main theme of the evening's discussion, she stressed that from the standpoint of businesses and the economy, an "all-inclusive" approach is beneficial and vital.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,700 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 36,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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Nicki Minaj Says 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded' Album Will Arrive in April
Heartbreaking news Nicki Minaj fans. The Harajuku Barbie has postponed the release date for her second LP 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.' Originally scheduled for Valentine's Day, the album is now set to drop in April.
Minaj informed her Barbz about the new release date via her Twitter. 'New Album Date: April 3rd. Pink Friday: ROMAN RELOADED. But have no fear. Tons of surprises before then ; ). Love Always, HB," she tweeted.
The 'Super Bass' rapper has plenty of surprises up her sleeves. First, she wowed us on Friday (Jan. 20) with the premiere of her new video for 'Stupid H--.'
In the colorful clip, Minaj is in full Barbie mode with fluorescent make-up and a wide array of wigs and outfits that would make a drag queen jealous. Some of the more titillating scenes features Minaj as a painted leopard prowling around in a cage. The visually-stunning video, which garnered a whopping 2.5 million views in just 24 hours, should hold her fans' attention until the album drops.
Other upcoming surprises Minaj has in store for her fans include filming a video for 'Turn Me On' her collaborative song with French producer/DJ David Guetta. And although it hasn't been confirmed, Minaj hinted on 'Stupid H--' that she will join Madonna during her halftime show at Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5. Then the following week, the rapper will grace the stage at the 54th annual Grammy Awards.
Overall, it's going to get crazy stupid in the next few months thanks to Nicki Minaj. Get ready!


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This is a Thales Liberty two-way all-band (VHF/UHF/700/800) handheld radio. The radio is capable of comms on the above bands in analog FM and APCO Project 25 digital modulations, in conventional and P25 Trunking modes. The radio has MDC1200 encode/decode. The radio is capable of encryption but the encryption software was NOT purchased and installed (buyer would have to purchase this software from Thales and install it themselves).
The radio was purchased new directly from Thales in 2012 and has been used in a fire service application during this time (with occasional use on ham bands on the side). Other than a few scuffs on the metal case, the radio is in outstanding condition, and should have roughly one year of factory warranty left.
Included with the radio will be two rechargeable batteries (one high-capacity 52Wh, one 36Wh) with belt clips, Thales all-band antenna, basic charger with 120VAC power cable, audio/programming adapter (6-pin hirose, mini-B USB), and the most recent programming software (I am authorized to include it with the radio). The radio will come with the latest firmware and with NIFOG 700/800 interop channels programmed, and the buyer can program it to their liking with the above software. Thales recommends that the buyer contact them and establish an account for any technical support or future updates the buyer wishes.
Shipping to anywhere in US or Canada is be included in the price. I prefer to ship via UPS but could be convinced to use another method.
Payment will be by Paypal, Interac Email/Direct Payment, or other electronic means, or a postal money order (received and cashed prior to shipping the radio).
Please ask any questions you have. This radio is in great condition and was used up to the time it was taken out of service to be sold.


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Two Will Advance To National Ballot
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A pair of Yale men's soccer players have earned recognition for their work in the classroom in addition to their play on the field. Juniors Nick Alers and Max McKiernan have each been named to the Capital One Academic All-District I first team.
Alers, an economics/political science major, earned Capital One Academic All-America third team honors last year. He is the anchor of Yale's defense, which has posted five shutouts this season. As a sophomore, Alers was an NSCAA All-Northeast Region third team selection. He also was named first team All-Ivy and was the recipient of the Walter J. McNerney Award as the team's most valuable player.
McKiernan, who has started all 14 games he has appeared in this season, has earned academic honors for the first time in his career. He is a history/political science double major who serves as a volunteer tutor at St. Martin de Porres Academy which offers tuition-free and extended day education for boys and girls from low-income families in the New Haven area.
On the field, McKiernan was an honorable mention All-Ivy selection last fall as a sophomore.
First-team Academic All-District honorees advance to the Capital One Academic All-America Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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I am thrilled with the results! Whenever [Bethany] presented me with options, [she] took my feedback and came back with something even better than I expected…I have successfully been able to go totally digital, so not only do I not have to keep track of paperwork but it frees up a ton of my time. All feedback on the final site has been positive and I believe it takes my business to the next level.
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Ronnie Brown will stick around a little longer in San Diego.
The Chargers announced today that Brown has signed a one-year contract.
Brown quietly had a solid season for the Chargers last year, carrying 46 times for 220 yards and adding 49 catches for 371 yards. Although he's not the every-down back he was early in his career with the Dolphins, his status as both a good receiver out of the backfield and a good blocker who can pick up the blitz makes him a valuable player on passing downs.
At age 31, Brown doesn't have much time left in the NFL. But the Chargers are giving him a little more time.


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What are your plans for today? If you said, "having sex," then you've got lots of company. (Although hopefully you're not doing it right this second. You don't want to be rude!) It turns out that the period between Christmas and New Year's Day is a time when a huge amount of babies are conceived. A study found that 9 percent of all conceptions in the United States occur in December. And the most common birthday is September 16th, which just happens to be about 9 months from right now. So, who knows what unexpected gifts this Holiday season could end up delivering to you.
Another study found a seasonal uptick in condom sales, with more than twice as many condoms being purchased in the week before Christmas than in the week after. According to the study's authors, this pattern is "strongly suggestive of an acute increase in sexual activity over the Christmas period." So even if you're not in the mood to reproduce, rest assured that you're not the only one out on the town looking to move in for a little Christmas closeness, Hanukkah nookie, or New Year's boots knockin'.
It's High Time for Conception: Studies Show Peak Times, Weather for Sex [Daily Beast]
Really? Most Babies Are Conceived Between X-Mas & New Year's [Strollerderby]
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This account of the founding of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) describes how it grew out of the movement in the town of Deerfield, Massachusetts, to honor the town's soldiers who died during the Civil War. George Sheldon, one of the leading citizens of the town, was central to that project, and, as the procedings describes, found that experience so moving that he decided to create an association to memorialize the history of the town. In particular, one of the first aims of the association was to create a memorial to those who fell during the 1704 Raid on Deerfield. To help members understand their past, they began collecting and writing accounts of their town's history. By 1890, their collected essays had become large enough, and their ongoing output steady enough, that Sheldon and the other members of the PVMA decided to publish them in a journal, the "History and Proceedings." The association published nine volumes of the journal over the next fifty years; the last issue (volume 9, part 4) was published in 1942.
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Could Woods Brothers have made the licensed Gulvases? They did manufacture similar items for Dartington for a short period (1978).
I have a recollection that "Cascade Glass" was a trade mark used ( with a black and silver label of a fountain cascading down by one of our pressware comeptitors now defunct. So it may be Waterstone Glass of Wath upon Wear near Rotherham, Wood Bros, or Trent Valley.
This is interesting, because of course, the Woodland design started life as Cascade as pointed out on page 55 of Chance Expressions. But when I reflect I vaguely recall that the problem of the name originated from a complaint by a foreign manufacturer or importer. I also recall that it was not a similar product at all to our range and we thought a big and unnecessary fuss was made at the time. I remember that the Pilkington Legal department handled the matter and recall having a phone call one day to say that we had to change the name and could they have the new name straight away so that they could check validity and register it.. We hadn't chosen one at that time and I said Woodland there and then! That was it!
Hope this helps a little and that I have not confused the matter even further, but it did occur to me that because we did attempt to use the name Cascade and in fact printed literature and issued press releases it could have contributed to the Chance name becoming associated with this story!
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UIC physicists highlighted for work searching for substructure inside a quark
Mar 16, 2012
We know protons and neutrons are made of quarks, but are quarks made of something even smaller? UIC physicists working on the CMS detector at Fermilab appear in
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for their recent work searching for substructure inside a quark. UIC physicists
Professor Nikos Varelas
Dr. Lenny Apanasevich
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Serdar Ogut selected as University Scholar for 2014
Zhenyu Ye hosts workshop at UIC
Inga Bucinskaite and Jingyu Zhang highlighted for work on CMS triggering
Olga Evdokimov brings prestigious Quark Matter conference to Chicago in 2017
The Department welcomes new faculty member Hyowon Park
Inga Bucinskaite highlighted in study of Higgs boson decays to matter particles
Rick Cavanaugh quoted by Scientific American on characterizing the Higgs boson
David Hofman talks at "Pint of Science" event
Yadav Pandit leads analysis searching for quark soup transition
Dirk Morr gives C2ST talk on the Real Science Behind Star Trek
Dirk Morr featured on WTTW Chicago Tonight program
Nikos Varelas awarded title of LAS Distinguished Professor
John Van Dyke and Dirk Morr publish new paper in PNAS on superconductivity
Robert Klie and Canhui Wang capture atomic-level photos of the molecule ferritin
Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi inaugurates use of new UIC High Performance Computing Cluster
Misha Stephanov elected as American Physical Society Fellow
Nikos Varelas in Washington, D.C. to celebrate U.S. contribution's to particle physics
Andreas Schroeder and UIC researchers publish on effects of the electron effective mass
Siva Sivananthan gives webinar on linking university research and the commercial realm
Nikos Varelas named 2013 AAAS Fellow
Cecilia Gerber leads pixel detector project
The Department welcomes new faculty member Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi
Nikos Varelas selected as a University Scholar for 2013
Ho-Ung Yee co-editor of new book on Strongly Interacting Matter in Magnetic Fields
Nikos Varelas speaks at the ISTC Leadership Forum
Siva Sivananthan named as Immigrant Innovator "Champions of Change" by the White House
Siva Sivananthan elected SPIE Fellow
InSPIRE student organization workshop
Students from the Microphysics Lab participate in the annual UIC Student Research Forum
U.S. Congressman Mike Quigley visits the Department of Physics
Andy Tillotson receives 2013-2014 Teaching Recognition Award
Qiao Qiao receives 2013 Microscopy & Microanalysis Student Award
Runzhe Tao wins Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award
Mark Adams and Cecilia Gerber featured for results searching for the Z-prime boson
Olga Evdokimov receives 2012-2013 Teaching Recognition Award
Dirk Morr elected as an American Physical Society Fellow
Chris Grein elected as American Physical Society Fellow
Nikos Varelas elected as co-spokesperson of the CTEQ Collaboration
Lucie Gauthier receives a CMS 2012 Achievement Award
George Crabtree will head new 120-million JCESR center
Nikos Varelas elected chair of the Fermilab UEC
High Energy Physics group receives Deans Outstanding Faculty Award
Dirk Morr interviewed on the "Rock it Out!" blog
Nikos Varelas recognized with LAS Faculty Service Award
Governor Pat Quinn visits Sivananthan Laboratories, Inc. (Labs)
Mark Schlossman publishes a new book entitled Liquid Surfaces and Interfaces: Synchrotron X-ray Methods
Rick Cavanaugh receives 2012 NSF Faculty Early Career (CAREER) Development Award
The Department welcomes new faculty member Ho-Ung Yee
Understanding the Search for the Higgs Boson: A Primer for Civilians
UIC Researchers co-host 2012 International Symposium on Optoelectronics Materials and Devices
The Department welcomes new faculty member Zhenyu Ye
The High Energy Nuclear group hosts a workshop on Heavy Flavor Production at UIC
Richard Cavanaugh interview about the recent possible discovery of the Higgs boson also known as the "God particle"
George Crabtree shares his vision for UIC and the students of LAS
George Crabtree gives the LAS 2012 commencement address
The United States NSF highlights work of UIC physicists
Randall Espinoza selected as a 2012 Silver Circle Award winner for Excellence
Olga Evdokimov featured for work in creating a new heavy flavor quark program
UIC physicists highlighted for work searching for substructure inside a quark
UIC physicists highlighted making the most precise determination of the width of the top quark to date
UIC physicists highlighted for their work on the measurement of the top quark pair production rate
Robert Klie featured in AtLAS for his work in bringing a new Electron Microscope to UIC
Serdar Ogut elected as an American Physical Society Fellow
George Crabtree presents featured program on "Sustainable Energy: Fact or Fiction" at C2ST
Robert Klie interviewed on NPR
Robert Klie hosts an inaugural ceremony for the new microscope
Robert Klie receives 2011-2012 Teaching Recognition Award
Robert Klie publishes the 2012 issue of "The Journal of Undergraduate Research"
Nikos Varelas Selected as 2012 CMS LPC Distinguished Researcher
UIC Physicists on the Higgs Hunt
Dirk Morr awarded a Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
UIC Physicists highlighted by Fermilab Today
Nikos Varelas elected to the Executive Committee of the APS Division of Particles and Fields
Siva Sivananthan co-chairs 2011 U.S. Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Materials
Nikos Varelas selected as 2012 CMS LPC Senior Fellow
Ursula Perez-Salas publishes in Biophysical Journal
Nikos Varelas elected to the Fermilab Users Executive Committee
Nikos Varelas invited to talk at International Europhysics Conference
Dirk Morr selected as the 2011/12 Leibniz Professor
Christoph Grein elected SPIE Fellow
Professor Cecilia Gerber named as UIC 2011 Researcher of the Year
Juan Carlos Campuzano wins the 2011 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
George Crabtree receives honorary title of UIC Distinguished Professor
Siva Sivanantham awarded title of LAS Distinguished Professor
David Hofman selected as recipient of a 2010 Silver Circle Award
George Crabtree wins Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement's award
Dirk Morr works on developing a new "Science Storms" exhibit
Siva Sivananthan and Cecilia Gerber elected as APS Fellows
Rick Cavanaugh appointed Co-coordinator of the Large Hadron Collider Physics Center at Fermilab
Juan Carlos Campuzano and Utpal Chatterjee publish in Nature
Cecilia Gerber shows Top quarks being detected in single form
Cecilia Gerber announces discovery on "Observation of Single Top at DZero"
Cecilia Gerber and Serdar Ogut receive 2007-2008 TRP Award
Utpal Chatterjee wins the Graduate College Outstanding Thesis Award
UIC Physicists participate in discovery of a new particle
UIC Spark Alumni Newsletter features Tom Imbo and Mark Mueller
George W. Crabtree featured in E-AtLAS newsletter
Russell Betts gets appointed as Dean of Illinois Institute of Technology College of Science and Letters
Alejandro Rebola receives a SKIT-HST GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP for the 2008/2009 school year
George W. Crabtree is elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences for his excellence in original scientific research
Weronica Walkosz awarded a Dean's Scholar Fellowship for AY 08-09
Michael Greco receives Honorable Mention at the 2008 UIC Student Research Forum
Professor Robert Klie receives the 2009 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award
Physics Department hosts exchange students from Dongguk University
Olga Barannikova gets appointed as deputy spokesperson for the STAR detector collaboration
Juan Carlos Campuzano receives UWM Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumnus Award
Aratyn, Garcia, and Nasser awarded Instructional Grant
Serdar Ogut joins editorial board of the Physical Review B
Juan Carlos Campuzano's group results featured in article on "New Experiments Fuel Debate Over the Nature of High-Tc Superconductors"
Physics department announces WISEST mentoring
Juan Carlos Campuzano receives the honorary title of the UIC Distinguished Professor
Press release highlights Physics Department's growth in its external funding
Juan Carlos Campuzano honored by Achievement Award in Engineering and Science
Jerald Kavich participates in International Student Exchange Program
Dirk Morr co-organizes a workshop entitled "Novel Aspects of Superconductivity" at the Aspen Center for Physics
Jerald Kavich awarded Dean's Scholar Fellowship from the Graduate College
Gustavo Otero y Garzon and Hakim Iddir get Thesis Awards from the Graduate College
David Hofman is awarded 2007 Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching
Clive Halliwell in Chicago public radio interview about terminal velocity of falling ice
Mark Adams and David Hofman receive Teaching Recognition Program Award for 2006
Tom Imbo's Group receives monetary gift from Dr. Mark Mueller of Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo and Company
Scientists announce the first evidence of single top quarks
UIC News highlights Anjum Ansari's techniques to study the dynamics of a protein-DNA complex
Juan Carlos Campuzano promoted to Argonne Distinguished Fellow
Compact Muon Solenoid Times features the UIC High Energy group
Physics Department cataloging M.S. Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations
Wilson Barajas is a recipient of the NSF Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship
Cecilia Gerber becomes Executive Committee member of American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields
High Energy Nuclear Physics group recognized by invitations at the Quark Matter meeting
Dirk Morr presents lecture entitled "Mysteries of the Quantum World"
Zahid Ali receives the 2006-2007 UIC Award of Merit
Olga Barannikova wins Women in Science and Engineering Research award
Physics receives the 2006 Departmental Teaching Excellence Award
Dr. Aneta Iordanova receives the UIC Outstanding Thesis Award
College of LAS announces Arnold R. and Doris E. Bodmer Science Travel Award Fund
Uday Sukhatme gets appointed as dean of faculties at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Recent advances on "duality" connection between string theory and gauge theory
Dr. Keith Boyer receives the 2006 Los Alamos Medal Award
Science magazine contains an article by Professor Schlossman's research group experiment
Review of "The Phases of Quantum Chromodynamics: From Confinement to Extreme Environment" by John Kogut and Mikhail Stephanov
Mottness and Quantum Criticality Workshop held in Tobago, West Indies
Stephen Shing Fan Yip has been awarded national Goldwater Scholarship
Cecilia Gerber and her research group develop ways to identify top quarks
J.C. Campuzano , A. Schroeder and D. Morr receive major UIC awards
Richard Hollis and Aneta Iordanova celebrate their Wedding in England
Physics Today publishes an article "Extreme Nonlinear Optics: Coherent X Rays from Lasers"
Fermilab Today mentions studies made by Dzero collaboration on hard collisions
Shing Fan Yip receives 2005 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
International Workshop KAON 2005 at Northwestern University
International Workshop on Lasers and Nuclei held in Germany
Physics department Professors Mark Schlossman and David Hofman have been promoted
Cecilia Gerber featured in the UIC Alumni Magazine in an article entitled "When Atoms Collide"
John Marko joins editorial board of the Physical Review E
Nikos Varelas takes the responsibility of coordinating Fermilab's DZero trigger effort
Interview with Professor Siva Sivananthan, Microphysics Laboratory
Dirk Morr receives Research Fellowship from the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Vladimir Skavysh receives award from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation
Serdar Ogut receives 2003/2004 Teaching Recognition Program award
Campuzano becomes Scientific Director at the Synchrotron Radiation Center
Juan Campuzano gets selected as the APS Fellow in the year 2002
Mikhail Stephanov wins Sloan Fellowship award for the year 2002
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by Hugh Gilmore
Looking back, I can't believe how steeply I looked down my nose at the whole Facebook phenomenon and the trolls who use it. Such snobbery is so easy to come by when you don't know a thing about what you're snubbing.
I've seen it before with people who reject e-books and Kindles, and I've been a stubborn critic of Facebook since its inception. Now, however, after my exhausting weekend of trying it, I can say I have graduated all the way up to "mixed feelings." I'm now the Internet version, I guess, of a mugging victim who's health status has been changed to "guarded condition."
Hemingway never had to go on Facebook. He simply journeyed to Paris carrying a letter of introduction written by Sherwood Anderson, and voilà'ed-it to Gertrude Stein and a few other choice people like Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier at the Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore. Networking with the people who mattered followed.
Nowadays, if you're a nobody (I'm one; who are you?), and you have a song, poem, novel, or knife-throwing act to pitch, you must go deep into the furze patch with a big stick and beat that gorse 'til the birds come flying. Oh my, you can probably tell from my tangled syntax and obsolete vocabulary that I've reverted to my vestigial state, like the overtaxed HAL 9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey." And why is that, you ask?
Going on Facebook for an entire weekend has been one of the most bewildering and exhilarating experiences I've had in years. I think I'll tell the rest of you coots about it.
First, it's free. That's good, right? Next, you can't play with the layout templates much, but you sure can personalize them. That's fun. I tested the system by putting about five or six different photos up as illustrations of both my "identity" and as visual stimulations for my little "messages," or statements, or essays, or whatever they're called.
When you're done, the page reflects your persona in the way that your clothes, house, personal library, and Pez collection do. There are filters that allow you to restrict the audience for your pix and texts – anything from writing only to yourself ("Dear Hugh, I love/hate you, Hugh, signed Hugh") to just a few friends, to unrestricted. Thus if you want, you can rebirth yourself, as Meursault did in Camus' "The Stranger," and "open your heart to the benign indifference of the universe." I chose the latter. My underwear, over-wear, and middle-wear are hanging out there in cyberspace. Though I'm not stupid.
What's hard for me at this point is the hyper-stimulation that the Web page presents. To me, it looks like the control panel of a jumbo jet. Lots of side panels, lots of message-entry-points, lots of "comments," "likes," dislikes, eh's. Every button you click opens an infinite hall of mirrors.
Just to prove how either gloriously adept or else inept I am, I somehow set up two pages. One is "Hugh Gilmore." The other is "hgilmore." And I must switch back and forth between the two of them to follow a message/reply theme like Lucy on the pie belt line.
Oh, yes, forgot to say: I'm doing all this to promote my new book, "Last Night on the Gorilla Tour," a twisted romance/adventure tale that, with luck, will be available this week. Then next week, on Feb. 22, a Friday night, at 7 p.m., I'll be enjoying a book-launch party/reading/signing hosted by Musehouse Center for the Literary Arts at 7924 Germantown Ave., here in Chestnut Hill.
And the reason for all this self promotion is that we live in an age where writing a book is not a noteworthy endeavor unless you, the author, put on a clown nose and walk around beating pie plates to get folks to stop what they're doing and watch you juggle.
However, a totally unexpected – and exhilarating – source of genuine pleasure arose during my relentless self-promotion. A number of people I know, and genuinely like, stepped out of the wallpaper and greeted me, wished me well, and offered encouraging and kind words. Some of them were ex-students, who still remember me fondly. What a pleasure that is.
And then, late Saturday afternoon, I found an email that said, "Are you the same Hugh Gilmore who once dated _______ ? I am her daughter. I read something about you and your writing and wondered if you were the same person."
My goodness. My first girlfriend, from 16 to 22. She died at the age of 42, but I didn't know where, when, or how. I owed her and her parents much gratitude. They all bettered my life. I'd never even have gone to college if not for their encouragement. I often think of how different – and probably not for the better, given who I turned out to be – my life would have been.
And now, here was her daughter, writing to me. I wrote back at once and spent the rest of the afternoon shaken. That's all I can say for now as I await her reply…
Note: If you like Hugh Gilmore's writings, many more can be found on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. His paperbacks are also available in leading bookstores everywhere. He blogs at his newly revived "Enemies of Reading.blogspot.com." Many of his previous Local columns can be found there.


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Australian Broker TV brings you closer to the industry's
most influential leaders and thinkers. Click on the videos below to watch the interviews:
Josh Bartlett of Loan Market bagged 'Australian Young Gun of the Year' at last year's Australian Mortgage Awards. We caught up with Josh for his reaction and his takes on the future of the industry.
Video transcript below:
Josh Bartlett, Loan Market
Josh Bartlett: Just recognition that all the hard work and it's good to show your referrers, that "hey, I am good at what I do. I think it's all about in your blood, to be honest. Like if you look around, like when I started 16 – 17 months ago, I looked around and not to the rude, but there is a lot of older people and there are a lot of people have a nice little trail that's going along, so I guess they start slowing down their activity, so I probably saw that as a bit of a bonus, jumping into the industry and working hard, rich rewards and this industry you can reap the rewards, but it is all about doing all the right things all the time. But under the right guidance, under the right people, I think you know it's definitely, definitely doable.


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We bring you our third and final Romance Series video from New Sensations for today's edition of Product Review Friday.
But wait, you didn't miss the two previous reviews we posted, did you? Well not to worry if you did, because you can find them HERE and HERE. And remember all our adult product reviews, going back 5 years, are archived at Dr Dick's Sex Toy Reviews.
Let's check in with Dr Dick Review Crew members, Glenn & Hank, to see what's on their mind.
Lost and Found —— $18.81
Glenn & Hank
Glenn: "I have a little secret. I have a guilty pleasure. I really get off on straight porn. Well some of it anyhow."
Hank: "He has to keep it a secret, because, if the homo police find out, they'll take away his homo card."
Glenn: "You joke, but you know there's truth in what I say, Hank. Most of our queer friends would never understand my taste for straight porn."
Hank: "Hey, I don't know; I'd be wiling to bet that way more gay men dig straight porn then those, like you, who are willing to admit to their guilty pleasure. Nowadays the men in straight porn are way hotter than they used to be. Maybe that's because a lot of the 'straight' male performers are also working as 'gay-for-pay' performers in gay porn. So you know for certain that is raising the hunkyness-bar all over the industry."
Glenn: "On a recent visit to Dr Dick's I noticed a pile of DVDs on his desk. I asked him; 'what's up with all the movies?' He said, 'I got them from New Sensations to farm out for review.' I said, 'I'd be up for that assignment.' He said, 'really? That would be way cool; you know it's straight porn, right? Then Dr Dick added, 'I suppose if these movies can pass the gay test, we'll all know that they are good to go.' And so that's how I got Lost and Found to review. Score!"
Hank: "When Glenn is happy, I'm happy. Besides, anything that gets him boned up will eventually lead to me gettin' a world-class blowjob or me pluggin' his tight muscular ass. And I almost never argue with that math."
Glenn: "Ok, I admit, I'm a sex fiend; so sue me already! Lost and Found is the story of a bachelor, David, (Xander Corvus, who is hot, hot, hot!), who wants to jettison the swinger ways and settle down. Imagine his good fortune when the gal of his dreams, Jen (Allie Haze, who is so adorable!) moves in next door with her little dog. This is a sweet romance about a man, a woman and the little dog that brought them together by nearly tearing them apart. Fuckin' charming, huh?"
Hank: "It is very charming, but it's sexy as hell too. I walked in on Glenn watching the DVD and thought he was watching some Hollywood romcom. I was just about to turn heal and run when this chick starts blowin' this dude. And damn, she sure looked like she knew what she was doin'. Most of the women I see in straight porn aren't very good cocksuckers. They look at the dick in their hand and you can see it in their face, they'd much rather be in Cleveland."
Glenn: "Hank says that a lot of the guys in gay porn don't know how to suck dick either. He's right! It's pathetic, I tell you. Cocksucking is a lost art. I also want to comment on something else Hank said. The production values of Lost and Found are first class. Everything from the box art to the movie's audio track is topnotch. It could have easily come from one of the major Hollywood studios…except it has all this really hot girl on guy sex. And here's the real kicker; all the dudes wear condoms in this flick. Fuckin' A! I wish more straight porn producers did that."
Hank: "You can also tell that this movie has its female audience in mind. I don't mean to suggest that they soft sell the sex; they don't. But it is respectful of women. Call me old fashioned; but I hate it when I see a woman being degraded in a porno. It's such a turn off. No wonder most women aren't into video smut. BTW, Xander Corvus is super fine! He has a sweet face, a nice body, a big old dick, but he shaves his pubes. I guess three out of four ain't too shabby!"
Glenn: "Lost and Found has four really great sex scenes. All the characters are very attractive and likeable, but they're also still believable. There's not a porn stereotype in the bunch. The sex is vanilla, but there's real chemistry between the performers. There's loads and loads of kissing too. And the non-sex acting is amazingly good."
Full Review HERE!


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June 2, 2010
It came as little surprise that the Class of 1960 — celebrating its 50th class reunion at the 2010 Big Bash — nearly swept every reunion award at the Big Bash Awards Brunch on Sunday.
See photos of the Brunch here.
Reunion Chair Dick Kite and Class Agent Charlie Quillin organized and executed a reunion that brought back to campus 53 men out of an original class of 113 who entered in the fall of 1956.
With that many alumni back on campus to celebrate, the class was rewarded with the 1909 Trophy Cup, which recognizes the highest percentage of alumni returning (45.3%), and the 1928 Attendance Trophy for the most alumni returning for Big Bash.
See photos of reunion attendees here.
"To the 50th reunion class, the men of 1960, special thanks for your extraordinary gift presented Friday night," President White said when he addressed the luncheon crowd. The class made a 50th reunion gift of $3.7 million, which was presented at Friday's Big Bash Banquet.
"For all of you alumni, I know your love and loyalty fuels your giving, but please know your generosity fuels so much at Wabash," the President continued. "Because of you, the Glee Club is able to travel to Ecuador and have an amazing experiencing singing and serving. Because of you, Wabash men are able to do research on campus this summer with their faculty… Because of you, we will be able to complete athletic fields project… Because of you, we are able to hire, nurture, and retain not just good faculty, but faculty who are right for Wabash… Faculty who want, as part of their calling, to transform a young man's understanding of what he can do, and even more important of who he can become."
A total of 274 men signed the official Alumni Register. Eric Farber '65 traveled the farthest — from Turkey — while Jack Campbell '60 came all the way from France. Paul Moehling, Keith Baird, and Bob Remley were teased since none had to travel more than a few blocks to come to Big Bash.
For his exemplary efforts, Dick Kite (left) received the Dorman Hughes Award, which is presented annually to the person who did the most work in organizing his class reunion.
"With a year's hard work, countless phone calls, a lot of sweat, and the absolute best reunion book we have ever seen, the award goes to Dick Kite," said Tom Runge '71, Director of Alumni and Parent Relations.
The Class of 1960 also received the Edmund O. Hovey Annual Giving Award for having 59 percent of the class make a gift to the Annual Fund.
The only award that wasn't captured by the 50th reunion class was the Robinson-Ragan Award, which is presented to the class that captures first place in the Alumni Chapel Sing competition. Scott Himsel, Class Agent and song leader for the Class of 1985, received the honor. The Class of 1985 narrowly beat the classes of 1960 and 1965 in Saturday's competition.
President White bid the alumni and their families goodbye with remarks that were full of pride and encouragement.
"This hunger to learn, to know, the desire to be part of the grand conversations of teaching and learning — the grand conversations at the heart of the liberal arts — is alive here at Wabash because it remains vital in your lives," said President White.
"Just as I hope that you go away revitalized, please know that all of us — from students, faculty, and staff who have had a chance to engage with you this weekend — we are revitalized by your presence. We are able to look at you and say, 'Yes, there you are Wabash.'
"You leave us your encouragement in the most literal sense," the President concluded. "You give us all at Wabash the courage to do the good work to make this great College even better… We who have the pleasure and honor of serving your College and carrying on your work, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts."


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Media Statements & Speeches
|Statement: May 15, 2008
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|Docket Nos: PL08-3-000, PL08-2-000, RM08-8-000 and RM08-10-000
Commissioner Wellinghoff's statement on
enforcement package
"Mr. Chairman, as you and I have both stated many times, the Commission is, first and foremost, a consumer protection agency. All of us also agree that simply stating that fact is not sufficient. Effective enforcement of our governing statutes, regulations, and orders is essential to fulfilling that mission.
The Congress recognized the importance of enforcement in 2005, when it substantially bolstered our civil penalty authority. As I stated at our Enforcement Conference last November, I have heard from many consumer groups that are more confident in the ability of the Commission to provide adequate protection for consumers, now that the Commission has the authority to impose meaningful penalties for actions that may harm consumers.
One theme that emerged at our Enforcement Conference is that some aspects of our enforcement policies were not well understood. For example, there appeared to be confusion about the timing and manner for the subject of an investigation to submit materials directly to the Commission during the course of that investigation.
Confusion about our enforcement policies does not help parties that may be subject to investigation, and it does not help consumers who are the ultimate beneficiaries of those policies.
Today's package of orders should eliminate much of that confusion. Among other matters, we announce a policy on investigation-related communications between the subject of an investigation and the commissioners and our assistants. We also instruct our Enforcement Staff to release annual statistical reports summarizing the Commission's enforcement activities for the preceding year. These changes will provide more transparency in our enforcement process.
I would like to thank the team for its work on these orders. I also would like to commend our Enforcement Staff for its work to protect consumers. Today's package of orders will further strengthen our consumer protection efforts. I am pleased to vote for these orders."
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Bachman's Fall Ideas House "A Transition of Seasons & Styles" September 15, 2011 – October 9, 2011
Guess what? If your name is drawn, the contents of the sunroom (above) can be yours! No purchase necessary, just enter your name in the drawing at Bachman's on Lyndale. And Hirshfield's is giving away four gallons of the wall color 0634 Day Spa.
Decorative doors from the Wisconsin State Capital used in the living room vignette on the right. The coffee table is made from windows and salvaged wood filled with vintage print blocks.
Teaching your little genius numbers, words, and the alphabet would be easy peasy in this pre-schoolers bedroom.
Gorgeous antique armoire painted glossy white with a customized interior. The detailing on the front of the armoire adds to its charm.
Fall tablescape in the dining room.
This room is called the "casual office & family room." The paint used in this room can't decide if it wants to be a gray, green or beige, which makes it a perfect bridging color. The saying on the pillow has me thinking:
"When was the last time you did anything for the first time?"
There is so much more to see inside and outside at the Fall Ideas House. It's always fun to see what, and how, the staff repurposed all the pieces (for sale) throughout the house. I guess that's why they call it the "Ideas House."
Bachman's suggests calling in advance for your ticket and remember they are not open on Mondays and the last tour slot is at 5:00. I have not run into crowds on my visits as I try and go at the end of the day. If you've never been through the house, remember the saying on the pillow, "When was the last time you did anything for the first time?"
Number one question asked of the "keepers of the castle" at the Bachman's ideas house?
What color is the paint…?
The paint is brought to you by Hirshfield's and Benjamin Moore.
Front Porch
Trim 0012 Bunny Cake
Floor 0211 Light Lichen
Entry & Stairwell 0278 Barberry Sand
Living Room 0884 Gold Tweed
Sunroom 0634 Day Spa
DiningRoom 0401 Bamboo Forest
Kitchen 0884 Gold Tweed
Trim and cabinets OC-68 Distant Gray
Lower Level Bathroom 0884 Gold Tweed
Boy's Bedroom 0309 Palmetto Bluffs
Girl's Room 0023 Shell Tint (white) 0536 Subway (black)
Master Bedroom 0317 Green Gold
Upper Level Bathroom 0317 Green Gold
Casual Office & Family Room 0574 Shark Fin


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In the lead-up to the first outdoor hockey game at Dodger Stadium, some veteran hockey folks recalled a 1991 game between the Kings and New York Rangers in the Caesars Palace parking lot in Las Vegas.
"That was an exhibition game," said Dan Craig, the NHL's Senior Director of Facilities Operations, as he looked over the Dodger Stadium infield last Monday. "I can play an exhibition game here tomorrow. I can put water down and away we go. I'll put a cone out, skate around, and tell the guys 'don't worry about hitting.' "
Craig's point: Making a hockey rink outdoors these days is easy. Making one that's up to the standards of NHL players for an indoor regular-season game? That takes time.
That's why Craig and his eight-man crew started laying ice last Thursday and didn't expect to finish the job until sometime Monday. Of course, "laying ice" is a bit of a misnomer, since no ice is actually laid in the process.
The first step is to ensure, literally, a level playing field. Once the pitcher's mound was razed, Craig's crew used a laser to measure the incline of the field. The second step involved about 200 workers bringing in the necessary hardware to build a 200-by-85 foot ice rink: A stage deck to cover the infield, reinforcement plywood to cover the stage deck, and a series of 30-inch by 30-foot aluminum pans on top.
The ice pans are filled with a specially formulated refrigerant. Craig said aluminum is "the best heat-transfer material on the planet," meaning the pans will actually remove heat from underneath the ice.
Once the dasher boards have been erected around the rink comes the hard part. Carrying an 8-foot wide spray bar, crewmen will spray water all over the playing surface. The water freezes as fast as it falls, Craig said.
"And we will walk miles and miles and miles, just keep on going," he added. "The one crew when we were in Michigan (for the Winter Classic) clocked themselves, and they walked 10.3 miles in one shift. That's all that they're doing, just walking."
All this is done by night, when the air is cooler, to maximize the efficiency of the process. The crew should be done walking sometime today.
"Then we're going to paint it white and put another quarter inch on top of it, then put down our logos and our ice markings, then put down another half-inch on top of it, then we're ready to go," Craig said.
A tarp will cover the rink by day to shield the ice from direct sunlight. Daytime temperatures are expected to reach as high as 83 degrees Fahrenheit this week, according to WeatherUnderground.com.
To keep the ice close to Craig's 22-degree target, a series of wireless sensors will monitor the temperature throughout the week.
"I don't want our conditions to in any way dictate how they play the game," Craig said.


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Sarah Mimo
Sarah Mimo Manufactory started as a small side project in 2011. Sarah had a background in illustration and was working as a graphic designer, but she was really interested in designing home accessories. She was drawn to the possibility of making something that's both beautiful and functional. Wanting to combine elaborate ornamental art of the past with sleek modern lines, Sara set out to make something new and unique. Her first piece was an illustrative clock made of paper with rococo and art nouveau influences. Soon after it was completed, Sara set out to reproduce it in wood, and the line started to take shape. Since then many things have changed, but the work still draws inspiration from the balance between art and design, while constantly seeking new ways to explore old aesthetics.


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by Tom Utescher
Last Wednesday's Pa. Independent Schools softball tournament game at Springside was largely a pitchers' battle, with the first two batters in the bottom of the fourth inning deciding the contest in favor of the Lions.
The catcher for visiting Friends Central dropped a strike-three ball on Springside senior Asha Deane to lead off the frame, and she reached first safely thanks to an errant throw down the line by the Phoenix. Alexis Giovinazzo, the Lions' junior shortstop and number three hitter, smashed a home run to left centerfield, and the Lions (12-6 overall) made the resulting 2-0 lead stand up the rest of the way against FC (9-5).
The two teams had finished third in their respective leagues, the Girls Inter-Ac and the Friends Schools League. Inter-Ac champion Agnes Irwin elected not to participate in the Indy tournament.
Friends Central had a 5-4 edge in hits in Wednesday's game, but the Lions played error-free defense behind sophomore pitcher Michelle Cybularz, who struck out three Phoenix batters and walked one. FC's senior hurler, Caroline Satalof, also gave up one base-on-balls, and she accumulated six strike-outs against the host team.
Prior to Giovinazzo's two-run blast, Springside only got 10 batters up to the plate over the first three innings. Junior Michelle Boggs singled up the middle with one out in the third, but a strike-out and a fly to centerfield followed.
Leading off the fifth, Friends Central's Isabelle Nardi singled and then went to second on a sacrifice bunt, becoming the first Phoenix player to make it past first base. She was then tagged out trying to steal third, as Springside catcher Aly Markey gunned the ball to third baseman Brenna Coll.
Markey then led off the bottom half with a single down the first base line, but when Boggs and Kelsea Brewer each hit grounders to the left side of the infield, FC got the force-out at second base both times.
Deane came close to scoring a second run for the Lions in the sixth inning, starting out with a single down the right field line and then reaching second when Giovinazzo walked. The two runners stole ahead to second and third while the next two batters struck out, and on a ball put in play by Resnya Hughes the Phoenix tagged out Deane as she tried to score.
Springside still led by just two runs, and the home crowd grew concerned when, with one out in the top of the seventh, a walk followed by a single from Nardi put the potential tying run on base. The Lions' Giovinazzo gobbled up a ground ball and threw to third for a force-out on the next play, then on a grounder that was hit a little closer to third, Coll fielded the ball and Giovinazzo covered the bag for the final out of the game.
UPDATE – Springside's stay in the tournament ended on Thursday with a 10-6 semifinal loss to host Abington Friends, the Friends Schools League champ.


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When Madeleine Barker's fellow cast members handed her the Oscar in the Claire Trevor Theatre, she felt excited for herself and a little sad for Judy Garland.
Barker, who plays Garland in UC Irvine's upcoming musical "Tinseltown Christmas," had been busy in recent weeks studying her role, watching performances on DVD and reading about the often-turbulent life behind them. Then, during rehearsal one day, "Tinseltown" director Don Hill told the cast that he had a surprise.
That turned out to be an Oscar — the one Eileen Heckart won in 1972 for Best Supporting Actress in "Butterflies Are Free." Hill, whose husband, Luke Yankee, is Heckart's son, let the actors pass around it for inspiration.
As Barker held the Academy Award, she realized she was enjoying a moment that mostly eluded Garland. The actress got a special Juvenile Award for her role in "The Wizard of Oz," but went home empty-handed in competitive categories.
"Judy, she never received an Oscar," said Barker, an undergraduate majoring in musical theater. "So it was kind of strange to hold that and know that she never got a chance to have it.
"Everyone thought she was going to get one for 'A Star Is Born,' but it went to Grace Kelly for 'The Country Girl.' And then, when Liza [Minnelli] won one for 'Cabaret,' she said, 'This is for Mom.' So it was interesting holding it and feeling the weight and feeling the history and the love behind it, and knowing that that was something she never experienced."
In researching Garland, James Stewart, Natalie Wood and Bing Crosby, the cast of "Tinseltown Christmas" got to know their characters, not just as stars, but as seasoned professionals — Oscar heartbreaks, stage parents and all. It's somehow fitting, then, that the play features a story in which the four actors return as ghosts to spread Christmas cheer because ... well, it's their job.
Film history — with a wink
Like more than a few Hollywood scripts, "Tinseltown Christmas" took a stop-and-start journey on its way toward production.
Playwright Chana Wise (first name pronounced "HAH-na") got the original premise from the Academy for New Musical Theatre in North Hollywood, which had held a brainstorming session and come up with an idea about movie star ghosts visiting a lonely woman on Christmas Eve. Wise, a member of the academy, sent a one-paragraph pitch to UCI, which encouraged her to develop a 15-minute sample.
Once Wise, along with composer Carl Johnson, got the go-ahead to write the entire script, she realized she lacked one thing: an extensive knowledge of Christmas movie classics. The nearest Hollywood Video, which stocked a wide array of them, became her favorite haunt.
By the time she finished her research, Wise considered herself an old movie buff and applied that savvy in the script as much as she could. "Tinseltown," which follows the ghosts as they urge a pair of bickering neighbors to fall in love, is rife with in-jokes and even irreverence; when the neighbors seem to have hit it off midway through, the ghosts stick around because, after watching so many romantic movies, they know a plot twist has to come soon to tear them apart.
The disembodied stars have been assigned by a higher power to brighten the Christmas season — and if they fail, they risk being demoted to Halloween. At one point, when the female neighbor tries to shake her visitors off by declaring that she isn't celebrating Christmas, they're quick with a song: "We do wonders with Muslims and Mormons as well / the Hindus are pleasant and rarely rebel / so Buddhist or Baptist, we don't pick and choose / and being in show biz, our friends are all Jews."
That last group includes Wise herself, who seldom watched Christmas movies growing up. Although she was a relative latecomer to the classics, she grew to love their craft, to the point where she had her characters lament in the script that modern Christmas movies often run along the lines of "Home Alone 3."
"There doesn't seem to be anything that people just sit down and watch every year," Wise said.
'Better than a corset'
Will "Tinseltown Christmas" make the time capsule too? Hill, who serves as vice chair of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and heads its stage management program, has hopes that it will find an audience beyond campus — and the RSVPs over the next week may help determine that.
"We have a number of producers and theater people coming to see it opening weekend and next week, so we're scouting it out in hopes that it may have legs and walk some place," he said.
Although UCI has done staged readings of Academy for New Musical Theatre scripts before, "Tinseltown Christmas" is the first to get green-lighted for a full production. Hill said part of what attracted the school to Wise's show was its potential for wide appeal, not least with older generations who had a fondness for Hollywood classics.
In honing the show for a wide audience, the producers ran into one sticking point with Wise's original title: "Black and White Christmas," which some feared would be interpreted as a racial commentary. Ultimately, Wise decided to substitute the more generic "Tinseltown."
"Black and White," in fact, referred to the original fashion concept for the movie star ghosts, who were supposed to appear in colorless clothes and white makeup (except for Garland, who sported Technicolor hair). According to Hill, that idea was scrapped in part because it might look too mournful, and in part because Hollywood, at the time the stars' holiday films were made, had long started experimenting with color.
Hues aside, the producers aimed to capture the old styles as much as possible — and created a running joke with Wood's character, who appears onstage as a grown woman but still sports her childhood clothes from "Miracle on 34th Street," which she's noticeably outgrown.
Amanda Minano, who plays Wood, said the play's costumer urged her to avoid carbohydrates over Thanksgiving to ensure that the costume would still fit.
"It looks a little bit awkward and uncomfortable, but it isn't too hard to wear," she said. "It's definitely better than a corset."
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If You Go
What: "Tinseltown Christmas"
Where: Claire Trevor Theatre, UCI
When: 8 p.m. on Dec. 1; 2 p.m. on Dec. 2; 8 p.m. on Dec. 6; and 7, 2 and 8 p.m. on Dec. 8
Cost: $11 to $15
Information: (949) 824-2787 or drama.arts.uci.edu
The Ghosts of 'Tinseltown'
The new holiday musical "Tinseltown Christmas" stars the disembodied forms of four Hollywood icons: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby and Natalie Wood. Here's the rundown on each one — plus comments from the actors who play them at UCI:
Best known as: The lovable Everyman in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and other Frank Capra classics; also took edgy turns in Hitchcock thrillers
Holiday classic: "It's a Wonderful Life"
Oscar? Best Actor in 1940 for "The Philadelphia Story," honorary award in 1984
Actor Connor Bond on playing him: "I was looking for the style of acting. ... He's modeled after, in this particular scenario, 'It's a Wonderful Life,' so I looked at some of his later stuff, but mostly tried to keep the physicality and the vocal — because, of course, his voice gets older and a little more shaky as he gets older. I tried to keep most of the physicality and vocal work centered around 'It's a Wonderful Life,' in that vein."
Best known as: Mickey Rooney's pal in the "Andy Hardy" movies; Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" and the star in "A Star Is Born"; by some accounts, the world's greatest gay icon
Holiday classic: "Meet Me in St. Louis"
Oscar? Special Juvenile Award for "The Wizard of Oz," but no competitive prize
Actor Madeleine Barker on playing her: "Judy had such an iconic way of holding herself and speaking and how she dealt with people. ... One thing that I loved so much about Judy is her capacity to love. I think she would feel very deeply for people and for certain situations, and [I'm] trying to make that apparent and give that to the audience. She's been a joy to watch — I mean, someone as incredible as her."
Best known as: America's quintessential crooner; also a laid-back leading man in "Going My Way" and other family chestnuts, plus the "Road" series with Bob Hope
Holiday classic: "White Christmas"
Oscar? Best Actor in 1944 for "Going My Way"
Actor Jeff Salsbury on playing him: "I think, with him, it was just getting that carriage, that persona, that was just him. 'Cause he was himself on vinyl. He was himself in the movies. He pretty much got his personality not really diluted or anything in any medium that you saw him or heard him in. So I was trying to get that casual, good-natured, breezy kind of vibe that you get from him when he's at the top of his game."
Best known as: Actress who grew up on screen before her untimely death: child star in "Miracle on 34th Street," teenager in "Rebel Without a Cause," adult in "West Side Story"
Holiday classic: "Miracle on 34th Street"
Oscar? Three nominations but no wins
Actor Amanda Minano on playing her: "She was absolutely wonderful. She was the type of person I would have loved to go out and get drinks with or something and just talk, because she was so passionate about her craft. ... It's just been so much fun trying to get into her mindset — and, of course, you're not trying to impersonate, but just to tap into that mentality that was Natalie Wood, and that persona."


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Mother Angelica awarded top honor by Pope Benedict XVI
Yes! Let´s pray that more nuns and sisters follow her lead en example. With humility and love for our Church, we will make this a better world! May God bless our sisters in their journey of faith.
Absolutely Necessary.
"Be aware that Mr. John Zuhlsdorf has hijacked this poll."
Maybe you are ignorant of the fact that this is FATHER John Zuhlsdorf, an ordained "Alter Christus" who has made this poll available to the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church Militant, to cast their vote.
This visitation is highly needed to bring women religous back to obedience of the Magisterium as set up by Christ Himself.
God bless.
Let's all sing the song, All Are Welcome
I feel that the Marty Haugen song, All Are Welcome would be appropriate.
"Let us build a house where all are named
Their songs and visions heard
And loved and treasured, taught and claimed.....
All are welcome, All are Welcome, All are welcome in this place... "
So are readers from Fr. Z "attackers" or are these readers "welcome?"
Why is this considered a "threat"?
Quick question: if any given religious sisters in the United States are being/doing exactly what they should be/do, then why the hubbub about this? Honestly: even from a secular viewpoint, what would happen to me if I "decried my fate (in every sympathetic media outlet" if my legitimate supervisor came in to observe me at my job (and inquire into any complaints), after noting that my department was dwindling to the point of extinction? Can the "no visitation" people seriously not entertain the possibility that this is an attempt to HELP the sisters in question? If the "mean Vatican people" truly wanted the orders to be punished, I don't think they could do better than let the orders die their (apparently very rapid) natural death, and wash their hands of the whole business!
Apostolic visitation
Certainly there is a big problem behind the huge drop of the vocations in the women's (and men's) religious order. In my opinion it is very late to investigate the issue since everybody with a minimum of critical understanding is able to track the beginning of the vocations dropping up to VATII council. It never stopped until now.
When Pope John XXIII in his incorrigible optimism foresaw a springtime for the Church, a "new Pentecost" we only got but sorrowful scandals, betrayals and desertions for 60 years.
There was a time when the number one virtue in religious orders was OBEDIENCE. The secular rules were freely acknowledged by their members. No critics were allowed. Those who couldn't comply were excluded.
It is now urgent to revert to the fundamentals... and forget this so called "spirit of Vatican II" which is the very cause of the mess.
Humanae Vitae was a Mistake
Actually many scientific surveys, and many priests I have spoken with, blame Humanae Vitae for the decline in vocations. Attendance increased following Vat. Council II (it had begun to decline in the 40s), then plummeted after Humanae Vitae. The commission recommended against that terrible document for a reason!
Humanae Vitae
Thank God that Pope Paul VI did issue the document. According to your warped logic, the Church changing its teaching would bolster its attendance. That's utter nonsense. People cling to the Catholic Church as the last refuge for the truth in a world gone mad!
So what would you have had Pope Paul VI to do? Further separate sexuality from child bearing? Further turn women into objects rather than precious instruments in the plan of God?
Without the contraceptive mentality, there would be no attempt to redefine marriage as between two men or two women, because people would have never started to think about marriage in terms of warm and fuzzy feelings instead of the family! It's the same with abortion. When you separate the sexual act from the conception and bearing of children, the next step is to terminate the child, the "unwanted" and "unintended" little one.
The Church has wisdom and foresaw these things because she has a fuller view of the human person. That's just on the human level. On the Divine level, she speaks with the authority of JESUS CHRIST, and you would do well to refrain from even daring to use the name Catholic while opposing her longstanding and clear moral teachings on human sexuality, marriage and reproduction.
I would have had him follow
I would have had him follow the commission's recomendation and approve artifical contraception! Sexuality is different from child bearing, it is also an expression of love between husband and wife. If someone already had children and can not afford more, are you telling them to refrain from intercourse? So now only the rich can enjoy sexual activity, while the poor must go without? Where is the Social Teaching in that?!
I was not aware of a mentality surrounding contraception! To say one leads to the other is not a valid argument, correlations are different from cause and effect, this is basic. Also, as Catholics we must accept all people no matter who they are. Contraception prevents abortion, this is a commonly known statistic. Would you rather a man use a condom, or would you rather an abortion take place? This is the reality of the world, not an ideal. Marriage is about Love, and if that is warm and fuzzy, so be it!
I may call myself Catholic. I am baptized, confirmed, and full member of the Church. I also support progressive reforms in the church. What do you say to the 90% of priests who are not opposed to the use of contaception? I urge you to read the Winnipeg Statement.
"So now only the rich can
"So now only the rich can enjoy sexual activity, while the poor must go without?"
Because we're all uncontrollable animals, right?
"I may call myself Catholic. I am baptized, confirmed, and full member of the Church"
When someone feels the need to list their "credentials", you know they're feeding you a bunch of crock.


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Wildfirewebsites necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 79 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
Wildfire Websites
We are an online marketing company that specialises in providing online marketing services for local and small businesses. We provide affordable websites and a range of other online marketing services to local product and service providers who have not before been involved in marketing online. Our mission is to provide online marketing and websites that get customers to call our clients and that actually generate cash rather than sitting there as cyber slugs costing businesses money.
Our target market is Small to medium local businesses. They are product and service providers ranging from trades people (builders, plumbers, electricians) through to professionals (lawyers, accountants, Architects) as well as retail (florists, Shoe Shops, clothes shops) and then on to health and beauty (hairdressers, massuers, fitness trainers).
These are people who will be advertising in and around their immediate local area to attract their local customers, not global or national businesses.
We want something bold and striking that is really eye catching. We do not want subtle. We want modern and vibrant.
The name Wildfire came from wanting to help businesses start a wildfire in their business. To help them turn the heat up and really get the businesses cooking. Basically we want to help our clients be "On Fire" in their business.
We will require the words in the logo of Wildfire Websites but also think that the 2 w's as the initials could work well in a design. Obviously it makes sense to see some form of flames or "Wildfire" with in the logo. We would like to see an icon symbol in the logo design so that later the icon may become recognisable on its own.
Maybe the ww could be used in a flame context to create an icon. However you guys are the designers and we want to be blown away with creativity (but not whacky or unrecognizable).
We are looking for someone who will catch our attention so much that we can then look to work with them on the rest of the iceberg when we start all the wordpress site designs and a whole host of other design work we will have.
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This past weekend, I was able to go to the Columbus Blue Jackets game with my younger sister. While my wonderful Jackets lost 2-3, Erin and I had a blast AND we received free hats!
My younger sister is a freshman at Ohio State and currently applying to the nursing program. I am so happy that she chose to attend OSU – so I can see her a little more frequently AND keep an eye on her. Because truly, what are big sisters for?
I've mentioned it in a few previous posts, but I love Columbus, Ohio. I moved here in 2007 when I started at OSU as an undergrad, and I now consider the 614 my home. I moved back to Cincinnati for a summer or two, and then Orlando, Florida when I was working at Walt Disney World. Still, from Southern Ohio to Florida – there is something special about Columbus.
When entering the MBA program, you are surrounding yourself with resources, both inside and outside school. We have top companies in the Columbus Area (check out this article that appeared in Inc. in 2011), cool neighborhoods when you are ready for some fun and great sports teams (what can I say – I'm a sports girl).
Cool places to around school:
- Arena District – see a show and have a drink – I'm in heaven!
- Short North – edgy and express (see my post about Betty's!)
- German Village – shopping, bakeries, coffee and beautiful architecture
- Grandview – Close to campus and great for place for graduate students to go when wanting to relax and enjoy a happy hour
- Ohio State Buckeyes (every type of sports team possible) – I bleed scarlet and grey!
- Columbus Crew (soccer)
- Columbus Blue Jackets (hockey)
- Columbus Clippers (minor league baseball) – dime a dog night sells hot dogs for 10 cents…PURE JOY


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Slow Cooker Tamale Pie
Total TimePrep: 25 min. Cook: 7 hours
Makes8 servings
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes with mild green chilies, undrained
- 1 can (11 ounces) whole kernel corn, drained
- 1 can (10 ounces) enchilada sauce
- 2 green onions, chopped
- 1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro
- 1 package (8-1/2 ounces) cornbread/muffin mix
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup shredded Mexican cheese blend
- Sour cream and additional minced fresh cilantro, optional
- In a large skillet, cook beef over medium heat until no longer pink; drain. Stir in the cumin, salt, chili powder and pepper.
- Transfer to a 4-qt. slow cooker; stir in the beans, tomatoes, corn, enchilada sauce, onions and cilantro. Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or until heated through.
- In a small bowl, combine muffin mix and eggs; spoon over meat mixture. Cover and cook 1 hour longer or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Sprinkle with cheese; cover and let stand for 5 minutes. Serve with sour cream and additional cilantro if desired.
Nutrition Facts1-1/4 cups: 392 calories, 16g fat (7g saturated fat), 107mg cholesterol, 1149mg sodium, 41g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 5g fiber), 21g protein.
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My Review
Mar 7, 2017
This was so delicious! A genuine delight. Loved by all!
Mar 24, 2016
I am not a big fan of corn bread but this recipe was a big hit for me. Thank you for sharing.
Jan 14, 2016
Really good and easy to change/add to based on preferences
Oct 17, 2015
This is awesome and easy to make in the crockpot. My adult kids love it and never any leftovers. The best recipe ever
Sep 19, 2014
I made this on the stovetop and then baked it in the oven. This is a very good recipe. Followed the recipe but added my own touches, added a small can of sliced olives, chopped green bellpepper, and used my own cornbread recipe. Brown & drained liquid from meat well, then added ingredients boil & simmer since I dont like too much liquid I reduced it by by later cooking with the lid off, then I poured it into a 9" pan, poured batter ontop and baked it as if I were baking my cornbread recipe. It was delicious. I like how the cheese melts and looked on the bread it went well with the whole dish. Hubby loved it. I had extra fillings which I had put away & used it on another day to make a tortilla roll just add monteray jack.
Aug 30, 2014
We are retired so we found this to be much easier when not done in a crockpot, but on the stovetop and oven. I use frozen corn and make a batch of scratch cornbread. I also leave out the cilantro. I can make this often and on short notice since I usually have all the ingredients. I just brown the meat, add all the rest except for the cornbread mix, and bring it to a boil on the stove. I then pour the cornbread on top and cook in the oven for 35 minutes at 350 degrees.
Jul 6, 2014
I doubled the spices for our tastes and it was perfect. Slow Cooker Tamale Pie is now my all-time favorite crockpot receipe!
Apr 28, 2014
We found this dish good, but not outstanding. It seems the beef was missing something so perhaps we'd like it kicked up a notch and I'll make it spicier the next time. The sour cream and cornbread mixture was really good w/ the entire dish.
Mar 23, 2014
Whoa, this is really good! I did add one chopped green pepper and a small can of sliced black olives for a little extra interest. After mixing everything together, I tasted it and thought it might be a little tame for our tastes (we like things pretty spicy), so I doubled the chili powder and added some crushed red pepper flakes and garlic powder. This is definitely a keeper, and you can easily spice it up or down depending on what your family likes.
Mar 5, 2014
really good and easy.