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'CHiPs' stars Dax Shepard and Michael Pena say R-rated remake a sign of the times
No, this isn't your father's CHiPs.
Your first clue is the trailer for the R-rated action-comedy, inspired by the G-rated '70s TV series about the adventures of two California Highway Patrol cops.
Lines like, "We have a suspect's head, that's a start," and "You have a visible erection. You think you can ride with that?" have upset a few fans of the old series. The most notable was Larry Wilcox, who played strait-laced motorcycle cop Jon Baker on the show and who has tweeted his concerns about the film, written, directed and co-starring Dax Shepard.
On the other hand, the movie is produced by series creator Rick Rosner, who obviously doesn't have a problem with it.
We talked with Shepard and his co-star Michael Pena (who plays the former Erik Estrada role of Frank 'Ponch' Poncherello) when they were in Toronto recently.
So who's the biker here?
SHEPARD: "That would be me. Ever since I was a kid I've been riding. My main hobby is motorcycles."
PENA: "Not me. I had four weeks of training, which was enough for me to get around on set. The stunt guys though are just so amazing – going 100 feet up in the air, up a spiral staircase in this garage. It was freakin' insane. You're just in awe."
SHEPARD: "They were the stars of the set. We weren't. They were like the high school quarterbacks. We'd go, 'Aw-right. Cut. Now bring in Castillo. He's going to do the cool s—."
But you guys take the credit. It's like Warhol's studio, where a bunch of artists beavered away and then he'd come in and sign it.
SHEPARD: (Sings the country theme to the Lee Majors series The Fall Guy). "I'm an unknown stunt-man, make Eastwood look so fine…"
So yeah, okay, CHiPs. Insofar as it resonated, it was as the Erik Estrada show. But you (Shepard) got to rewrite it, and make your part more interesting at least (Jon Baker is an ex motocross racer hoping a uniform will impress his cheating ex-wife, played by Shepard's real-life wife Kristen Bell).
SHEPARD: "As you can tell from having watched the movie, I did not have a deep sense of loyalty to the original conceit of the guys.
"Rick Rosner who created the TV show was a producer of this movie. And I turned in a draft of the script to him thinking he was going to call me and yell at me for ruining his baby. But he called me and said, 'It is so fun to see this thing I created 30 years ago through your eyes. I love it!'
"And I said, 'If he loves it, I'm off to the races.' I don't care what anyone else has to say."
PENA: "That show was about one guy. This one's all about both of us. Together we form, like, Voltron."
SHEPARD: "The original concept of the show was that Ponch was on probation and Jon Baker was the straitlaced guy trying to keep him in check. But to me, both guys needed to have the nuclear option. I had the singular goal of winning my wife back, which meant I had to write a ton of tickets. He had the singular goal of solving this case (as an FBI agent undercover with the California Highway Police). No time to stop and write tickets. So we're innately opposed to each other."
It seems to me I've been reading stories for years about a CHiPs project being in development.
SHEPARD: "I think I had the 10th take on this one that they had heard or read. Mine was the only version that wasn't a parody. I intended right from the get-go to take the movie seriously and create Bad Boys or Lethal Weapon as opposed to Starsky and Hutch. The previous incarnations were parody related."
That time-warp spoof thing seems to be a go-to take in remakes, Starsky & Hutch, The Brady Bunch…
"I've loved some of them and I've hated some of them. But the movies I'll watch over and over again, if Lethal Weapon's on TV and I'm flicking, I'll watch the next 90 minutes of it."
PENA: "I won't even watch my kid if it's on. I'm just going to watch that."
So you went ahead and made an R movie…
SHEPARD: "…Out of a very G show. I know. That show was so family-friendly; they never even fired their guns. The only Americans anywhere who didn't shoot guns."
PENA: "Would that kind of show today have a chance against Game of Thrones?"
Groin grinding gags, oral-anal jokes…
PENA: "Kids are talking about that."
SHEPARD: "They send each other pictures and stuff."
And the CHP was okay with this project?
SHEPARD: "In a way. I had many, many meetings with the CHP and went higher and higher up the ladder until I met the head guys and they were cooperative. They let us shoot at CHP Central. And then, rightly so, they said, 'We can't endorse an R-rated movie.'
"It was the most symbiotic relationship you could expect under the circumstances.
"And we had the disclaimer at the beginning, 'CHP does not endorse this movie.'"
PENA: "At all."
SHEPARD: (Laughs) "At all!"
Well, Dax, let's talk about your wife (Kristen Bell). You portray her in a very unflattering light, which is not something she's known for. The closest I can think of is Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
SHEPARD: "But even in that, that's her gift. She's supposed to be the antagonist. But you feel for her. I felt for her. I was more emotionally moved by her by the end than by anyone else in that movie.
"I did not write this for her, by the way. I was going to write it for someone I thought would be inherently unlikable. And she read it and she said, 'I'm playing Karen!' And I said, 'You can't do unlikeable.' And she said, 'Well we'll find out, won't we?'
"And we found out, and she was phenomenal."
And the week you do this, she's melting hearts on the Internet with a remake of her sister's basement that's gone viral (in her My Houzz webseries). A woman in my office was saying, 'You have to watch this. She's the best sister ever!'
SHEPARD: "Well, that's who she is in real life. It's funny, because my instinct was to go with someone with a bitchier persona. But something about the positive baggage she brings with her makes it work."
CHiPs opens in theatres Friday, March 24.
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Last September I joined some San Francisco friends in Maui for a memorable few days of swimming and leisure (but mostly leisure). You may have seen the short video I posted a while back of my solo Maui Channel swim. Two days before the solo, I did the same swim with my friends in the annual relay race of the same channel.
So, this video has been a long time in the making. Maybe that's not such a bad thing? Nothing beats the February doldrums like Hawaii (or at least, thinking about Hawaii).
The relay was loads of fun and mostly uneventful, with the unfortunate exception of our third swimmer getting tangled in a jellyfish (probably a box) only a few minutes into her 30-minute leg. She got on the boat and (as allowed by the rules) we turned off the engine and floated in place. At the next change-over, we put our next swimmer in the water and continued on our way.
We all got "zapped" a few times by jellies, but we made it to the finish at Kaanapali Beach without further incident. Our third swimmer was just unlucky, it seems. So it goes!
Anyway, here it is. It starts off with just photos, but there's GoPro footage too!
Maui Channel Relay 2012 from MSF on Vimeo.
We ended up 25th out of 47 teams in the overall standings, in 4 hours 34 minutes. Not bad considering the 23-odd minutes we spent sitting in place mid-channel! Even better, our divisional placing was good enough for a coveted plush Maui Channel Swim towel. It's so nice, I still haven't used it.
Eventually, I will put together a "director's cut" of my solo swim - which incidentally would have placed fourth overall among the relays 🙂
Oh, one more thing. Our GPS track:
Unfortunately, my GPS wasn't able to get a fix until sometime near the beginning of Scott's leg. Notice the "dogleg" that occurs in our path shortly thereafter - that's when we turned the engine off to wait out Tara's leg. In reality, we were drifting with the current, which was pushing due north.

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Pet project
Pelham kids step up to assist animal shelter
PELHAM - With a class full of pet lovers, it's no surprise seventh-graders at St. Patrick School chose the Salem Animal Rescue League (SARL) for their yearlong charity project.
On Friday, SARL development manager Patricia Mack stopped by the school with a four-legged friend to thank the children for their efforts.
Teacher Lynne Stader, a 26-year veteran of the school, said the fundraising project began at the start of the school year, when students were encouraged to research area charities, give persuasive speeches and take a final vote on which cause was deemed most worthy of their efforts.
"Each year I encourage my homeroom to work on community projects because leadership training is essential," Stader said. "We need to include these projects on a regular basis so students can live out their mission and be proud of what they can accomplish."
The students' most recent fundraiser, a monthlong "Show the Love" event held at the school throughout February, yielded $550 for the local animal shelter.
By selling raffle tickets, donating change from their lunch purchases and collecting coins around their homes, some of the kids even convinced their parents and grandparents to match their donations to SARL, Stader said.
Clutching onto Rico, a Chihuahua mix that is available for adoption at the Salem shelter, Mack recognized a few familiar faces in the crowd.
One of them was Zachary DeBay, a seventh-grader whose family adopted Mojo the cat from SARL last year.
"I was surprised she remembered me," said Zachary. "She even remembered what color my cat was. I'm really glad our class did this project."
Classmate Jackie Andrews said: "It would have been great to give even $50. But knowing we did so good and could give this much really made me proud of my class."
With puppy and kitten season just around the corner, Mack said the donations would certainly be put to good use purchasing much-needed pet supplies for current and future SARL residents.
And the students' good works didn't end with last week's donation to the animal shelter.
The seventh-graders are currently working on an additional project collecting retired American flags. So far, the classmates have collected 60 worn flags and a retirement ceremony will take place at the school in late May.


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Easter Photo Walk gallery
The Kenton Easter Photo Walk on 6 April 2015 was well supported and the clear blue skies afforded all participants the opportunity to enjoy the rocky shores and capture previous memories and moments on camera. After a quick briefing at the Round Table Hall at Middle Beach by Tony and Anthea Ribbink about photo walks as a fun educational tool - for the whole family - that encourages ocean conservation and Cherry Smith, Andrea Mulder and David Stott about photographic aspects the group set off towards Shelley Bay.
Click on the image above to view SST's image of participants and please send in your contributions captured on the walk to so we can share your images on SST's web and social media pages. You can view other participants' entries here.


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The Monterey Institute of International Studies has launched the MIIS International Friendship Program, matching incoming international students from various degree programs with enthusiastic local families. The program provides a unique opportunity for students and local families to share their cultures and backgrounds with one another and learn something new. The local families are not expected to provide students with a place to stay, but rather to invite students to explore life outside of the campus. The hope is that the program will serve as a platform to the formation of lasting friendships and connections with the Monterey Peninsula community.
The formal launch of the MIIS International Friendship Program was celebrated at a reception hosted by the eMIISsaries affinity group, at the Holland Center on August 31, and if the happy faces and laughter heard around the room are any indication, the program is off to a wonderful start!
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Patricia Jane Dunn was born to Alva and Leonore (Neumann) Dunn on December 4, 1933, at their farm home 17 miles southwest of Greensburg, Kansas.
Patricia Jane Dunn was born to Alva and Leonore (Neumann) Dunn on December 4, 1933, at their farm home 17 miles southwest of Greensburg, Kansas. She attended Hillside County School through eighth grade, and then Greensburg High School, where she graduated in 1951. In high school she met Crawford Allen Barber, her future husband. Patricia was close to her family, and her father was her hero. He doted on her and even built a pretend radio studio with a pretend microphone actually a tin can he punched holes in and attached it to a fence post - no dolls or doll houses for Patricia!
Following high school Patricia attended Emporia State Teachers College on a vocal music scholarship and on August 3, 1952, she and Crawford were married at the First Methodist Church in Greensburg. Patricia and Crawford first lived in Wichita, KS, where their son Craig Allen was born in 1953. Crawford attended Wichita State University, and served two years in the U.S. Air Force. After this, in 1957, they returned to Greensburg where Crawford joined his father in the family business, Greensburg Equipment Company. They were thrilled to be moving back to their hometown with family and they felt it was a wonderful place to raise a family. Patricia immediately became involved with the community and her many friends. She was very active in her church, the First Baptist choir, Sunday school, and Baptist Women. She also belonged to the FYI club for many years, bridge club, a book club and the American Red Cross.
Everyone who knew Patricia knew of her beautiful voice. Singing must have been important to her at an early age as she spent many recesses at her desk in the first few weeks of school for singing out loud when she shouldn't have been. She sang her first solo at the age of 11 at a Christmas program and after that for secular and religious occasions. Many have been touched by her singing at funerals, weddings, or a program, as she was more than willing to share this God- given talent.
Pat always said she was the happiest being a wife, homemaker, mother, grandparent, and singer. She adored being surrounded by her husband, son, grandchildren and large family of aunts, uncles and cousins - many of whom lived very close. In this setting she really shined like a beacon and reveled in the fun-filled gatherings, where you could always hear her infectious laughter above all others. A funny story or tale was frequently forthcoming, adding to the joy. She also loved her many, many friends and would meet with them at a moment's notice. Her quick wit and bright smile brought joy and comfort to all.
Tragedy struck in 1983 when the two greatest loves of her life, her husband of 31 years, Crawford, and her 10-year-old grandson Rigel was killed in an airplane accident. Following this Pat regained her composure and ready smile, but it was never quite as bright.
Following the accident Pat moved to Cripple Creek, Colorado for a year. She felt this was to put things in perspective in the mountains that she and Crawford loved so much, and where she had spent most summers. This was a difficult period in her life. Not only had she lost these two people but she also had to give up the home she had lived in most of her married life. They also closed the farm equipment business that had been in her husband's family since 1949. After her time in Colorado Pat moved to Wichita, as she wanted to be close to her son and granddaughter. She went to work for the United Way of Wichita and was there until her retirement in 2000. She developed many new friends through the 15 years she worked at United Way. She showed genuine interest in and touched the lives of all around her. One of her best friends said everybody loved to be around her, and she lifted everybody's spirits, regardless of how low she might be feeling herself. She helped others see the joy in her life.
Tragedy came again for Pat in 1999, when Craig, her only son, friend and confidant, died at the age of 46. Pat again called upon her great faith in God and personal strength to cope. She soon felt the mountains calling, and moved back to Colorado. There she had close relationships with members of her brother's family. She experienced life in the mountains living in Woodland Park, Victor, and in a little log cabin in Cripple Creek. She was a member of the Victor Baptist Church and a faithful follower. Her granddaughter, Mira, was always close in her heart, but not close enough geographically. Patricia decided to follow her heart and move back to Wichita in January 2011, to be with her granddaughter Mira and great-granddaughter, Sadie Belle. She made a beautiful little home in Wichita, but her health continued to decline. She left us on this Earth on November 4, 2012. A funeral service is planned for Friday November 16th at 2:00 in the afternoon at the First Baptist Church of Greensburg. Memorials are suggested to the Sjorgen's Syndrome Foundation, in care of Fleener Funeral Home, 514 S. Main St., Greensburg, Kansas, 67054.


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Pretty heart-shaped neckline, a pop of bright color and a crisscross back make this BEBE SPORT tank a fresh way to girly up your activewear collection. Made from soft, lightweight fabric that dries 10 times faster than cotton.
- 77% nylon, 23% spandex
- BE-FIT fabric
- Center back to hem: 13" (33 cm)
- Bra shelf
- Machine wash according to care label
- Made in USA with imported materials
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
X-Back Neon Tank is rated out of 5 by 3.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Tarra from Perfect fit Color is true to picture, fit is perfect as I wear a medium/34, and I just love the feel of the fabric.
Date published: 2013-08-18
Rated 2 out of 5 by sport from not well fitting There is no bra liner and unless you have a large cup size, will fit very loosely in the chest area. Don't plan on wearing this for anything other than walking. There is zero support. Had to return.
Date published: 2013-06-26
Rated 3 out of 5 by momo from Note to buyer This a a pretty top because of the cris-cross design in the front and the pink color is vibrant against the black. The one thing I was disappointed with beside the quality of the fabric is that there is no bra lining like the usual bebe sport tanks. You don't get any support for intensive activities. It's a nice and different design but defeats the purpose of being a "sport" tank. I only recommend for light activities such as walking.
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Roothbert Fund was created in 1958 by Albert and Toni Roothbert
to help men and women in need of financial aid to further
their education. The principal focus of The Fund is its Scholarships
Program, through which it makes grants for undergraduate or
graduate study at accredited colleges or universities. Scholarships
may only be applied to study at an accredited institution
based in the United States. The Fund seeks candidates who
are "motivated by spiritual values," and works to
foster fellowship among them.
The Fund is a small, nearly all-volunteer scholarship fund
based in New York City, which awards yearly grants and works
to foster fellowship among grant recipients. Once a year,
the Fund accepts applications for grants, which include essays,
transcripts and recommendations. From these written applications,
the Fund identifies a group of finalists to be invited for
a brief personal interview. On the basis of this interview,
the Fund typically selects about 20 new scholarship recipients
each year.
Roothbert Fund scholarships are open to all in the United
States regardless of sex, age, color, nationality or religious
background. While the Fund does not emphasize any particular
form of religious practice or worship, it seeks to provide
support to persons motivated by spiritual values. The Fund
has awarded grants to persons entering a wide range of careers.
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high scholastic requirements and are considering careers in
education. For more information, applicants should read with
care the Founders Prologue
in the History and Mission of the Fund.
of grants: Grants are small (averaging $2,000-$3,000)
and are meant to be supplementary. Aid is given for the ensuing
school year.
IMPORTANT--BEFORE YOU CONSIDER APPLYING: Please note that
applicant interviews are scheduled on extremely short notice
in March and are held in New York, New Haven, Philadelphia
and Washington, DC. The Fund will not pay any transportation
charges or other costs of applicants who are invited to be
interviewed. Persons who live at a significant distance from
these cities should reconsider submitting an application,
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the Fund without a personal interview. However, submitting
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making a decision to apply, applicants should also keep in
mind that if they are awarded a grant, they will be obligated
to attend at least one weekend fellowship conference sponsored
by the Fund during the first year on grant.
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Fund designates a two-month period from December 1 to January
31 each year in which printed applications forms are made
available. Because forms are revised each year, applicants
are discouraged from copying forms that may be on file with
financial aid offices, or have been saved from prior years.
for application forms should be directed to the Fund after
December 1 for the ensuing school year. The form includes
requests for autobiographical essays, supporting transcripts
and letters of recommendation. To obtain a copy of the current
application form, submit a written request with a stamped,
self-addressed envelope to The Roothbert Fund, Inc., 475 Riverside
Drive, Room 252, New York, NY 10115, or you may download a
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25. NOTE: The application form is four pages long. All four
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to reply to late applications or requests.
After the application forms are received, some candidates
will be invited to an interview with the Scholarships Committee.
The Fund does not make grants to applicants who are not invited
to be interviewed. Interviews are held during March of each
year at Fund headquarters in New York City and currently also
in Washington, DC, New Haven, and Philadelphia. Before entering
the competition, each applicant should consider carefully
whether he or she can arrange to be present for such an interview
and must affirm on the application form his or her intention
to be present for an interview, if invited. The Fund does
NOT reimburse applicants' travel or other expenses
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date: Awards are announced in late April. Grants are mailed
to the grantees' institutions in August.
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a high standard of work and conduct,
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announced. Because funds are limited, the Roothbert Fund typically
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outside of Philadelphia (dates in June and September to be
announced each year). This event is an informal retreat, typically
led by a former grant recipient, on a theme that permits Fellows
to explore and discuss an important issue while getting to
know one another better. Fellows are encouraged to attend
Pendle Hill gatherings whenever possible, as well as informal
get-togethers that are held occasionally in New York and other
who have completed their studies are eligible to apply to
the Roothbert Fund for seed funding for service projects.
(See information on Fellows'
Projects in About the Fund.)
In addition to its regular scholarships, the Fund has
established the Carl T. Solberg Award. Candidates do not
apply directly for this award. Rather the Fund may, when
appropriate, identify an individual from among the year¹s
pool of applicants who seems to exemplify the attributes associated
with the award.
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his guidance and his dedication. In 1996, Carl T. Solberg
retired as President of the Fund. At the time, Carl had given
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with the founders about its very inception. Since then he
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and tireless commitment that have enabled this remarkable
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Nikita Khrushchev. Later, as a freelancer, Carl wrote, among
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Minnesotan, Hubert H. Humphrey, and an account of his experiences
during World War II with Admiral William Halsey in the Battle
of Leyte Gulf in the South Pacific.
The Carl Solberg
Award is funded not by capital left by the founders, but by
a special account established for that purpose with donations
from over 100 Roothbert Fellows. The authorizing resolution
provides that the Award will be given from time to time to
students of history or journalism who demonstrate the diversity
of interests and the breadth of mind that characterize Carl
Solberg, or students who have rendered unusual service to
the Fund, and who otherwise exhibit those characteristics
that typify the Roothbert Fellow. The first Solberg Award
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Anzhi Makhachkala midfielder Lassana Diarra believes that his France career is over after being overlooked for the last three years.
The former Real Madrid man 28 caps for his country, representing them at Euro 2008, and while he remembers his time with the national team fondly, he is not optimistic of a recall.
"My career with les Bleus is finished," he told FIFA.com. "It was great, I met [Patrick] Viera, [Lilian] Thuram, [Claude] Makelele and [David] Trezeguet."
The 28-year-old went on to say that he feels his public support for former coach Raymond Domenech counted against him when Laurent Blanc took the reins.
"I praised him in the media, but that did not please his successor who thought I was pro-Domenech. I was just pro-France."
France plays Georgia on March 22 and faces World and European champion Spain on March 26.


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The agenda includes a presentation regarding Plans for a Newtown Creek Oxygen Aeration System planned for 58-26 47th Street; a presentation regarding the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, scheduled for June 22nd and June 23rd at Juniper Valley Park; a review of current applications for the sale of alcoholic beverages; a review of current demolition notices; committee reports; nominations for Executive Committee positions; and the public forum.
To register to speak in advance, call the board at (718) 366-1834.
A community forum will be conducted for Designing Bicycle Treatments in Community Board 5 to include planning safe routes for bicyclists in the communities of Ridgewood, Maspeth, Middle Village and Glendale.
The district also includes small portions of Woodside, Rego Park and Elmhurst.
The event is a collaboration between Board 5, the Department of City Planning, and Department of Transportation.
The forum will be held on Saturday, May 11, from 11 a. m. to 2 p.m. in the cafeteria of Maspeth High School, which is located at 54-40 74th Street, between 57th and Grand avenues.
For additional information, please call Board 5 at (718) 366-1834.


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Event Planner
From Midwinter2008
The Event Planner is now ready and available. To login, use the email address you provided with your registration, and the password of "ala".
The Event Planner is a searchable database of all meetings and events occuring at the Midwinter Meeting, as well as a searchable database of exhibitors. Only fully registered meeting attendees can access the Planner.
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Throughout the year, the Office of Admissions receives notices of scholarships that are offered through external organizations. Information about the scholarship awards that are currently available is listed below. Award notices are listed in the order in which they were received.
You may also find information on other outside scholarship awards on the Internet. The following sites are useful for finding scholarship and financial aid information:
Jewish Vocational Service of Metropolitan Chicago Scholarship Program
Application Deadline: February 15, 2006
The Jewish Vocational Service of Metropolitan Chicago will award scholarships from the Gertrude and Harry G. Fins Scholarship Fund for the 2006-07 academic year. Awards typically range from $1,000 to $5,000. To be eligible, you must: be Jewish; be enrolled full-time at Chicago-Kent or one of the other designated law schools; be domiciled in the Chicago metropolitan community; establish financial need; and demonstrate career promise. All applicants must be available for a personal interview at the JVS offices prior to May 1, 2006. Applications are available on the Jewish Vocational Service website at www.jvschicago.org (click on "Scholarship Services"), or by contacting the JVS at (312) 673-3457 or by e-mail at email@example.com.
National Federation of the Blind Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 31, 2006
The National Federation of the Blind has the largest scholarship program for legally blind post-secondary students in the country. The Federation grants thirty scholarships annually to legally blind persons in higher education from college freshmen to doctoral candidates. The scholarships range in value from $3,000 to $12,000, and generous donors like the internationally famous scientist and thinker Dr. Ray Kurzweil often enhance these values with additional gifts. Federation scholarship winners also win a trip to the organization's annual convention and the opportunity to develop mentoring relationships with the nation's most dynamic leaders of the blind community. The annual filing deadline is March 31, and all scholarships are granted in July of each year. Applications and additional information are available online on the National Federation of the Blind's website.
ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 1, 2006
The mission of the ABA Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund is to encourage racial and ethnic minority students to apply to law school and to provide financial assistance to ensure that these students have the opportunity to attend law school for three years. The scholarship fund will award $5,000 of financial assistance annually to each scholarship recipient attending an ABA-accredited law school. An award made to an entering first-year student may be renewable for two additional years, resulting in financial assistance totaling $15,000 during his/her time in law school. Applicants for the scholarship must be entering, first-year law students in Fall 2006. Students already in law school are not eligible to apply for the award. Applications are available online at www.abanet.org/fje or in the Office of Admissions.
Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 4, 2006
PRLDF is accepting applications for the Puerto Rican Bar Association (PRBA) Scholarship Award ($2,000). The PRBA selects recipients based on financial need and academic promise. Scholarship recipients will be contacted by PRBA directly. Applicants must be first or second year students in a JD degree program at an American Bar Association (ABA) approved law school. Third year evening students are also eligible. Students working toward their LL.M. are not eligible. Applications are available online or in the Office of Admissions, Suite 230.
The Howard Fox Memorial Law Scholarship Award
Application Deadline: April 1, 2006
In 1978, the Howard Fox Memorial Law Scholarship Fund was established by Helen and Richard Fox and Friends to honor the memory of their son who, as a proud member of the Berks County Bar Association, served as a young attorney in the Public Defender's Office. The Howard Fox Memorial Law Scholarship Award of $3,000 is presented annually at the Berks County Bar Association Law Day Event. It is given to help fund a deserving Berks County, Pennsylvania resident embarking on his or her second year at an accredited law school. Eligible students should go to www.bccf.org/scholarships/fox.htm for an application. Completed applications must be returned to Berks County Community Foundation, P.O. Box 212, Reading, PA, 19603-0212 by April 1st.
Sydney B. Williams, Jr. Scholarship
Application Deadline: February 24, 2006
The American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation awards scholarships to students from minority groups that are presently under-represented among intellectual property attorneys. In the last three years, the Foundation has awarded $370,000 to assist minority law students studying intellectual property law. The students chosen to receive the Sidney B. Williams, Jr. scholarship have the opportunity to receive $10,000 a year for 3 years. For more information or to obtain an application, click here or stop by the Office of Admissions, Suite 230.
Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. Scholarship Essay Contest
Application Deadline: February 17, 2006
The Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. (BWLA)'s Spring 2006 Scholarship Essay Contest is now open to all Illinois law students. Scholarship essay entry rules can be obtained in the Office of Admissions, Suite 230, or online at www.bwla.org.
Returning to Learning Scholarships
Application Deadline: April 1, 2006
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) promotes equity for women and girls, life-long education, and positive societal change. The Lombard Area Branch of AAUW is offering one "Returning to Learning" Scholarship to a woman to assist in completing a graduate degree. The woman must be a resident of Lombard, Villa Park, Oakbrook Terrace, or Glendale Heights, who has been out of school for at least 2 - 3 years. Law school students applying for this scholarship can not have obtained a master's degree previously. To apply, call 630-629-5630, go to www.aauw-il.org/lombard, or stop by the Office of Admissions, Suite 230.
Peoria County Bar Association - Diversity Scholarship
Application Deadline: March 17, 2006
The goal of the Peoria County Bar Association is to diversify its membership by providing financial assistance to racial and ethnic minority law students who have an intent to practice law in the Peoria area following graduation from law school. For the 2006-07 academic year, the (PCBA) will issue a $1,000 scholarship to a 2L. Additional information and an application can be picked up in the Office of Admissions, Suite 230.
Roddy Scholarship
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Joseph V. Roddy, a 1962 Chicago-Kent Graduate, established this fund to provide financial assistance to evening division students currently working in law enforcement. Qualified applicants should submit a letter of interest to the Office of Admissions, Suite 230, Attn: Julie Rosenberg, describing their current work in law enforcement and how this award would help to alleviate their financial need. Applicants should also attach a current resume. The award amount is $2,300, and it is for the Spring 2006 semester.
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How did you know your baby had a sensitivity to what you ate?? I have always been a dairy lover.. I could eat yogurt,ice cream, cheese,and all things dairy ALL DAY LONG! I love that stuff. Recently I have noticed that it cramps my stomach and gives me terrible irritated feeling. I have noticed that when I had it--I hurt and the baby is fussy and gassy. I could literally hear her stomach churning and she would cry and poot.
I didn't have this before-- have you guys noticed this too.
Ohh btw--she's 5 weeks old. I have since switched to almond milk and no issues as of yet.


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Today's Meditation
The God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," . . . has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
-2 Corinthians 4:6 (NRSV)
"REMEMBER you are dust and to dust you shall return," said the minister on Ash Wednesday. With this, a season of repentance began, calling us to remember our sin, our mortality, our need for a Savior.
Two weeks later, we gathered for a memorial service of one of our long-time members. In her 92 years, she had always followed the motto, "When it's your time to go, it's your time to go." The Bible puts it this way: "For everything there is a season ... a time to be born, and a time to die" (Eccl. 3:1-2, NRSV).
The timing of this memorial service reminded me of when Jesus entered the Temple, enraged to see the way Jewish religious practice had been perverted into an opportunity to make money. (See John 2:13-22.) At that time, he had literally swept aside what had become an accepted custom.
In a way, those gathered at the memorial service were also sweeping something aside - the order and tradition of Lent. By celebrating the resurrection of our sister into new life, we had injected Easter into the middle of Lent. Light and hope were springing forth in the midst of darkness. We were able to celebrate her eternal life in the midst of our solemn journey toward the cross.
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Prayer: Risen Christ, you brought us new life through your death on the cross. May our practices during Lent help make us new people in you. Amen.
Thought for the day: Every day is a good day to celebrate the Resurrection.
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GAFFNEY, S.C. – The King University women's volleyball team faced some adversity on the road Friday night at Limestone College. The Tornado led the match 2-1, but fell behind by eight points early in the fourth set. However, the King offense awoke and dug out of the hole to close the match on a 21-5 run to take the 3-1 Conference Carolinas victory 25-21, 14-25, 25-19, 25-17.
One of King's strengths this season showed up early in the first set as Casey Williams started the match with a service ace. The Tornado scored another point before King and Limestone began to trade points in the first set. The teams stayed within one point of each other the entire set before the Saints (9-14, 7-7 CC) scored back-to-back points to take a 19-17 lead and force a Tornado timeout. Grace Underwood sparked a 4-0 King, and Maribeth Kern gave King a 20-19 lead, forcing a Saint timeout. Limestone got back within one point at 22-21, but Kern hammered home consecutive kills to give King a chance at set point. Kelsey Griffitts then ended the 25-21 first set win with one of her eight kills in the match.
The second set was tight early until the Saints gained control of the frame with a 6-0 run, giving them a 15-8 advantage. The Tornado couldn't muster a comeback as Limestone evened the match at 1-1 with the 25-14 victory.
Following the 10 minute break between sets two and three, Limestone came out and grabbed early lead. However, Payton Tipton capped a 5-0 King run with a service ace, giving the Tornado (24-4, 13-1 CC) a 6-5 lead. The score was even at 16 before King's serving showed up big again as Kern sparked a 4-0 run with an ace. Lauren Willoughby forced a Limestone timeout with a kill, and out of the break, Griffitts stretched the lead to 20-16. After a Limestone point, Willoughby registered three straight kills for the Tornado to give them a chance at set point leading 24-17. The Saints staved off a pair of set points before Willoughby ended the 25-19 set win with her sixth kill of the set.
The Tornado struggled to start the fourth set as they trailed 12-4 before their offense caught fire. Trailing 13-5, Jordan Baty ignited the King offense with a kill, and Kern followed with another. Griffitts registered a pair of kills around a Willoughby put away to even the match at 14 all. A Kern service ace gave King the lead, and the Tornado never looked back. In all, King went on a 9-0 run to gain control of the set with a 20-14 advantage. Willoughby registered three consecutive kills late on the run. Grace Underwood gave King a shot at match point with a kill, and then capped the 25-17 win with her third block of the match. The Tornado closed the match on a 21-5 run to stay atop the Conference Carolinas standings.
Kern led the Tornado all around as she posted her seventh double-double of the season with 11 kills and 17 digs. She also led the team with three service aces. Willoughby matched Kern with a team-high 11 kills while Griffitts and Grace Underwood chipped in with eight kills apiece. Tipton led King with 19 digs, and Olivia Underwood handed out 37 assists.
King will be in action again tomorrow as they face their final regular season road test at Converse College. First serve is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th May 2011 17:15 UTC
It's about time! Microsoft has just detailed its next update to Windows Phone 7. This update, codenamed 'Mango', will bump the version number from 7.0.7 to 7.1, and will include 500 new features (how Redmond reached that number, god only knows). The developer tools are out in beta form today. There's a lot of cool stuff in there, such as the already known pseudo-multitasking and the hardware accelerated Internet Explorer 9, but also a lot of stuff we didn't know anything about. Also, news on new hardware partners, and, of course, Nokia.
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Debbie, foster: [email protected]
Forgotten Paws Animal Rescue http://www.forgottenpaws.org/picture-gallery.php
MEET BUNNY AND CLEMENTINE N. County San Diego (They do not have to be adopted together)
Bunny (First Photo attached) Brown Female Eight Pound Chihuahua about 1 years old! She was rescued from the Euthanasia list 2 weeks ago. This little girl is just a pure delight with so much love and happiness give. She is a gentle sweet girl who enjoys collecting her toys and putting them in her doggie bed or if you are watching TV or in bed she will gather them and bring them there too!
Bunny gets along with other dogs (Large dogs who are full of spunk scare her) If you have a calm big dog she would be fine with, she does just fine with cats and children too.
Bunny is just an absolute love and everyone who meets her just adores her as I do. She would make a wonderful addition to a loving and caring family who adopts her and gives her a forever home. Bunny is spayed and up to date with shots.
Clementine (Second Photo Attached)Also rescued 2 weeks ago from a kill shelter. This little White and Tan 3 lbs. of love is about 5 years old! She is a cute little petite young lady who is a little ball of joy and love. Clementine is pretty laid back, not a big fan of toys really but she will race around the house with a burst of energy and back she goes into her covered bed with blankie of course! She loves to burrow under the covers or a pillow or on your lap. She is a cuddle bug and a funny silly little girl. I must warn you, naughty habit so far is she may think she is a big Great Dane if she has to share your lap. She does not like to share your lap with another dog and she will growl and bark. As for cats I am sure eventually she would do fine as she likes to find where mine are and then bark at them. My cats look at her and ignore her from their perches. Clementine is spayed, just had a dental last week, up to date with shots!
Clementine and Bunny both hang out together, go on walks together and eat together.
I will note they are both very quiet little girls except when Clementine finds my cat napping! 8 )
I have had my door bell ring and people knocking on the doors and the garbage trucks and they do not bark at all!
So with this they I believe would do just great in a condominium situation.
Bunny and Clementine are for adoption thru Forgotten Paws Animal Rescue http://www.forgottenpaws.org/picture-gallery.php
You can meet them this Saturday in Carlsbad at our adoption event :
Unleashed by PETCO 2663 Gateway Road #103, Carlsbad, California 92009 11:30am TIL 3:30pm
I am their foster and if you would like to meet one of the girls sooner please contact me at [email protected]
I am located in Oceanside where I am fostering them.
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Today a guest post from one of our faithful readers,
G.I Joe: A Real American Hero is arguably the greatest toy line ever made. The characters, brought to life by Larry Hama, have stood the test of time, outlasting and outselling everything from its time with the exception of Transformers and "Star Wars" toys. The toys were the most popular of its day; The Marvel comic book outsold even the "X-Men." But what really made the toy line stand out were the vehicles. G.I. Joe was not just an array of action figures, it was a military force waiting to happen, which meant tanks, planes, boats and some weird gear too. These are the best — the best of the best, in fact — the Top 10 G.I. Joe vehicles of the 1980s.
10. G.I. JOE MOBAT (1982) You can't have G.I. Joe, or any army-toys-for-boys line without having a tank. The Mobat was the first big bad of the line, dwarfing other vehicles with massive working treads, thick slabs of (plastic) armor and battery operation that let the Motorized Battle Tank literally roll right over Cobra.
9. G.I. JOE RAM (1982) This is an entry on the list that may be unpopular, but look at the fine history of motorcycles in action flicks: The Nazi motorcycle chase in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," Kaneda's bike from Akira, the Bat-Pod from "The Dark Knight," the gloriously ridiculous bike from Delta Force, the Steve McQueen fence-jump from "The Great Escape" and of course, the X-1 from "Pee Wee's Big Adventure." And what does G.I. Joe bring to the table? Well, what we have here is a motorcycle — a motorcycle with an aircraft Vulcan cannon strapped to the side. This is a pretty good example of how this whole toy line goes from here. Straight to Awesome Town.
8. G.I. JOE KILLER WHALE (1984) This olive-drab combat hovercraft has been the absolute favorite for many Joe fans since 1984. I've never had one, so I don't know anything about it, but I put it on the list so I could interrupt this countdown to show the amazing photo below…
Look at that! It's so cool! If such baked-goods ambition and audacious geek pride are the province of world class nerdery, then I saw that G.I. Joe stands tall right next to "Star Wars" and Nintendo as ways to keep geeks from bothering actual girls. Now, back to the countdown…
7. COBRA MORAY HYDROFOIL (1985) Another boat I've never owned, but just look at this thing! It looks like it's doing 40 knots while it's just sitting there. There has been some argument and speculation as to what inspired the design of a combat hydrofoil that looks like a cigarette boat with the Punisher's armory strapped to the top, but everyone can agree that that this ship is one of the swiftest snakes slicing seawater.
6. COBRA NIGHT RAVEN (1986) G.I. Joe might have had the advantage in troops and tanks, but Cobra had the coolest planes. The SR-71-inspired Night Raven was a sleek, sinister black aircraft in a scale you just don't see much of anymore. Around 3 feet long, with room for two in the cockpit and a detachable spy craft, the Night Raven still stands out in a collection. As beautiful as Chad Hucal's photography is, you really can't appreciate this until you see it in person and feel its heft in your hands…and make whooshing jet noises.
5. COBRA HISS (1983) This tank was the iconic mainstay for Cobra in the comics, toy and cartoons. I'ts fun as a toy has no relation — or does it? — to the fact that it's a deathtrap for tank crewmen. This is an armored vehicle with both an open cockpit and a glass canopy. Those poor, poor Hiss drivers.
4.G.I. JOE TOMAHAWK (1986) What tanks were to older generation, helicopters have become to the contemporary one. Battlefields move faster now and you can do more with a helicopter than a tank. And so it it is with the Tomahawk; you could use it for aerial assaults, behind-the-lines troop deployment or in rescue missions to pull out wounded Joes. The fun of toys lies in living in your own little world, and in my world, this chopper could do anything.
3. G.I. JOE SKYSTRIKER XP-14F (1984) If you had to pick one piece out of the entire line, something to put up in a museum, and show to future generations how amazing G.I. Joe was, it might be this one. It's a work of art; a swing-wing triumph of toy engineering based off of the ultimate Cold War fighter plane of the 1980's, the F-14 Tomcat. Big, beautiful, and a contender for the top spot on this list on any other list.
2. COBRA RATTLER (1984) If I had to go out on a limb, and name the single most awesome toy ever produced for the G.I. Joe line, this might be the winner among fans. First introduced in the Marvel comics as the Destro-designed Tank Smasher, the tilt-wing VTOL Cobra Rattler is like the anime stepchild of an A-10 Warthog, all nose cannons and bomb racks, wrapped up in lovely Cobra blue. Ever-present in the cartoon, and depicted with incredible detail in the comics, the Cobra Rattler is such a fan favorite that Hasbro was making them as recently as 2008, so that a new generation of kids could run around and carpet-bomb the living room.
1. G.I. JOE USS Flagg (1985) This is it! This is the big, bad daddy of the whole line G.I. Joe series and in the opinion of many collectors, the king of the entire action-figure sector. Again, pictures fail to do this thing justice, because this is to my knowledge, the biggest action-figure anything made, ever. It's over 7 feet long, and the deck of the U.S.S. Flagg was big enough to hold every vehicle and figure produced in the previous years! This is the vehicle/playset that every kid in the 1980s wanted. It was massive. It was so big, you needed to get rid of your bed, your dog and your little sister just to make room. Which I would have — in a heartbeat – if only I had the military budget required for this floating piece of heaven.
They used to retail for $89.99 but now by some estimates a sealed Flagg might go for $10,000! That number is way higher than I've ever seen but if it's on the Internet it must be true. Sigh. I still can't afford it.
So what do you think? Should the Rattler have been No. 1? Run your opinions up the flagpole in the comments section. Special thanks to YoJoe.com and Yo Joe! photographer and archivist Chad Hucal for providing pictures that look better than my collection.
— Ambrose Kalifornia
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Darwyn Cooke's ode to G.I. Joe: "They could put a whole story on a painting on a box"
Does "G.I. Joe" remind anyone else of "Team America"?
For "A-Team," Jessica Biel brings the big guns
"A-Team" director: Don't expect a tribute film
Michael Bay: "There's a lot of poison on the Internet…whatever"
Michael Bay's payday for "Transformers"? $75 million and counting
Hugh Jackson's inspiration for Wolverine? Mike Tyson
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As part of the continuing effort to connect with fans, the U.S. Men's National Team will host a public training session Monday, January 28, at 5 p.m. at BBVA Compass Stadium. Admission and parking for the event are free.
Fans who pre-register on ussoccer.com will be entered to have a chance to meet U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann at the stadium prior to the training session (REGISTER HERE)
At the session, fans will get a first-hand look at how the National Team prepares for an important match and hear exclusive interviews with Klinsmann and select players. U.S. Soccer Supporters Club members will have field-level access during the training session. If you are not yet a member, U.S. Soccer SC memberships are available to purchase.
The public training session comes the day before the United States opens its 2013 campaign when it faces Canada. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. CT, and the match will be broadcast live on ESPN2 and WatchESPN. Fans can also follow the match live on ussoccer.com's MatchTracker and on Twitter @ussoccer.
Tickets for the game are available at www.ussoccer.com, www.bbvacompassstadium.com and www.axs.com, or by calling 888-929-7849. Tickets are also available at the stadium Ticket Office, which is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Groups of 20 or more can obtain an order form at ussoccer.com or call 312-528-1290.
Overall, the United States has done exceptionally well against Canada for the past two decades. The U.S. is in the midst of a 15-game unbeaten streak (8-0-7) since dropping a 2-0 decision to Canada on April 2, 1985, in Vancouver. The lifetime series record stands at 13-8-10 in the USA's favor, including a 10-1-8 record on home soil.
The U.S. Men's National Team will be making its debut at BBVA Compass Stadium, the home of 2012 MLS Cup runners up Houston Dynamo. The U.S. has never lost in Houston, collecting a 1-0-2 record that includes two draws against Mexico and a 1-0 win against Panama in the semifinal round of the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
The U.S. Men's National Team will continue its bid to qualify for the 2014 FIFA World Cup when the Hexagonal opens Feb. 6 on the road against Honduras (3 p.m. CT, beIN SPORT). The U.S. is joined by Costa Rica, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico and Panama as the final six teams set to compete in the 10-game round-robin format from Feb. 6-Oct. 15. The top three teams automatically advance to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, while the fourth-place finisher will contest a two-game playoff against the winner of the Oceania region.


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August in Michigan Is Teacher Freedom Month
The Michigan Education Association has such a monopolistic stranglehold on unionizing public school teachers that most teachers don't even know that they can resign their union membership and become an "agency fee payer." The MEA has worked hard to limit teachers' rights to do just this, and currently the month of August is the only timeframe the union allows for members to resign.
Why would a teacher want to do this? A common reason for many teachers is objecting to the fact that their dues fund political activities that they disagree with either politically or ideologically. Both the MEA and its national affiliate, the National Education Association, use dues revenue to advocate for 360 different issues as part of their political agendas. The MEA and NEA overwhelmingly side with Democrats on political issues, and the vast majority of their political spending ends up in the coffers of that same political party.
Another reason teachers resign their membership is that it saves them money. Instead of forking over what the union says it needs, teachers are only required to pay fees equal to the amount required to provide representation services. A 1988 United State Supreme Court decision defined and upheld these rights, and they're known now as an employee's "Beck rights."
Some teachers object to union membership on religious grounds. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act affords public school teachers this right, and resigning under these terms allows teachers to redirect all of their mandatory union fees to an agreed-upon charity.
In order to become an "agency fee payer," teachers simply need to write a letter to their local union and announce that they are resigning their membership. This pamphlet provides a sample resignation letter as well as answers to a series of common questions about the procedure. (Teachers often have a lot of questions because in some cases the language in their contracts or messages they hear from union officials make it seem as if they'll never be able to get out from under the burden of paying full mandatory union dues.)
The window of opportunity to resign their union membership is extremely small, so speedy action is required if teachers should choose to exercise these rights.


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Good Early Stage in Pittsburgh Region
Fund: Innovation Works
Posted by Anonymous on 2007-08-24
The company I co-founded has closed multiple rounds with Innovation Works based on us continuing to make progress. I also completely disagree with the characterization of Frank and his team. We work with Jim Jen and he has been extremely value add over the life of our firm. Jim does have operating experience with multiple Silicon Valley start-ups as a product manager. This has given him good perspective on the evolution of products at the early stage.
In addition, I've found Matt Harbaugh to be a great resource for us. He has helped us work through some important financial modeling exercises and been an excellent source of national VC leads and product feedback.
I think a more accurate assessment of Innovation Works would be that they are simply an early stage fund. They do have a focus on the Pittsburgh region, so they have a term that taxes you very heavily if you try to leave the region. So if you're going to leave, think hard before taking their money.
However, they are helpful and relatively aggressive about supporting those companies that are part of the region.
One other thing to keep in mind if you do end up working with Innovation Works. They have a fantastic MBA internship program for their portfolio companies. They cover 2/3 of the cost and do a great job helping you ID good candidates. We've used this program for multiple summers and it's been extremely valuable.PRIVATE: Members Only (209 Characters)


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Kangol Lite Felt Player Hat
Code: 5122BC
Product Description
Kangol Lite Felt Player Hat. Lite Felt has long been a standby for many of the other caps and hats we sell. Now Kangol is offering this soft, packable wool material in a variety of their best-selling shapes. Popular Player shape features a stingy brim that can be worn turned-up all the way around, down in the front and up in the back, or down all the way around. Kangol Oval Metal pin logo on left-hand side of the hat. Color shown is Camel (currently unavailable).


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Taedrin wrote:
Shamelessly stolen from reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/f1lgu/what_would_happen_if_the_event_horizons_of_two/)
The singularity is all around you, in every direction you look.
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Imagine, just for a moment, that you are aboard a spaceship equipped with a magical engine capable of accelerating you to any arbitrarily high velocity. This is absolutely and utterly impossible, but it turns out it'll be okay, for reasons you'll see in a second.
Because you know your engine can push you faster than the speed of light, you have no fear of black holes. In the interest of scientific curiosity, you allow yourself to fall through the event horizon of one. And not just any black hole, but rather a carefully chosen one, one sufficiently massive that its event horizon lies quite far from its center. This is so you'll have plenty of time between crossing the event horizon and approaching the region of insane gravitational gradient near the center to make your observations and escape again.
As you fall toward the black hole, you notice some things which strike you as highly unusual, but because you know your general relativity they do not shock or frighten you. First, the stars behind you — that is, in the direction that points away from the black hole — grow much brighter. The light from those stars, falling in toward the black hole, is being blue-shifted by the gravitation; light that was formerly too dim to see, in the deep infrared, is boosted to the point of visibility.
Simultaneously, the black patch of sky that is the event horizon seems to grow strangely. You know from basic geometry that, at this distance, the black hole should subtend about a half a degree of your view — it should, in other words, be about the same size as the full moon as seen from the surface of the Earth. Except it isn't. In fact, it fills half your view. Half of the sky, from notional horizon to notional horizon, is pure, empty blackness. And all the other stars, nearly the whole sky full of stars, are crowded into the hemisphere that lies behind you.
As you continue to fall, the event horizon opens up beneath you, so you feel as if you're descending into a featureless black bowl. Meanwhile, the stars become more and more crowded into a circular region of sky centered on the point immediately aft. The event horizon does not obscure the stars; you can watch a star just at the edge of the event horizon for as long as you like and you'll never see it slip behind the black hole. Rather, the field of view through which you see the rest of the universe gets smaller and smaller, as if you're experiencing tunnel-vision.
Finally, just before you're about to cross the event horizon, you see the entire rest of the observable universe contract to a single, brilliant point immediately behind you. If you train your telescope on that point, you'll see not only the light from all the stars and galaxies, but also a curious dim red glow. This is the cosmic microwave background, boosted to visibility by the intense gravitation of the black hole.
And then the point goes out. All at once, as if God turned off the switch.
You have crossed the event horizon of the black hole.
Focusing on the task at hand, knowing that you have limited time before you must fire up your magical spaceship engine and escape the black hole, you turn to your observations. Except you don't see anything. No light is falling on any of your telescopes. The view out your windows is blacker than mere black; you are looking at non-existence. There is nothing to see, nothing to observe.
You know that somewhere ahead of you lies the singularity … or at least, whatever the universe deems fit to exist at the point where our mathematics fails. But you have no way of observing it. Your mission is a failure.
Disappointed, you decide to end your adventure. You attempt to turn your ship around, such that your magical engine is pointing toward the singularity and so you can thrust yourself away at whatever arbitrarily high velocity is necessary to escape the black hole's hellish gravitation. But you are thwarted.
Your spaceship has sensitive instruments that are designed to detect the gradient of gravitation, so you can orient yourself. These instruments should point straight toward the singularity, allowing you to point your ship in the right direction to escape. Except the instruments are going haywire. They seem to indicate that the singularity lies all around you. In every direction, the gradient of gravitation increases. If you are to believe your instruments, you are at the point of lowest gravitation inside the event horizon, and every direction points "downhill" toward the center of the black hole. So any direction you thrust your spaceship will push you closer to the singularity and your death.
This is clearly nonsense. You cannot believe what your instruments are telling you. It must be a malfunction.
But it isn't. It's the absolute, literal truth. Inside the event horizon of a black hole, there is no way out. There are no directions of space that point away from the singularity. Due to the Lovecraftian curvature of spacetime within the event horizon, all the trajectories that would carry you away from the black hole now point into the past.
In fact, this is the definition of the event horizon. It's the boundary separating points in space where there are trajectories that point away from the black hole from points in space where there are none.
Your magical infinitely-accelerating engine is of no use to you … because you cannot find a direction in which to point it.
And it is getting closer.
As awesome as that is, it can never be done because as you approach the black hole you would get shredded by tidal forces, and then once you cross the event horizon you become a part of the singularity, at which state matter and energy violate the laws of thermodynamics. Even hypercondensates follow the laws of thermodynamics, as weird as they are..
A few days ago a story broke regarding a physics lab that used lasers to reach temperatures of negative Kelvins, which kind of like having your evil twin from Bizarro show up sporting an evil mustache. So freaking weird! Anyway, hopefully it will help explain what the hell dark matter really is, and the one question I want to ask should I ever meet God (Flying Spaghetti Monster, whatever) will become moot.
The same thing we do every night, Pinky...
This topic is pretty confusing when you over think this out.
mhibicke wrote:
moneygrip3030 wrote:
Thank you!!! I will need those neurodegenerative disease fighting drugs when I'm older do to too much "college". As for the mood disorders I'm already screwed.
You are welcome! Major depressive disorder is correlated with neurodegeneration, and antidepressants stimulate re-growth, so it's not surprising that neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and other kinds of dementia are often comorbid with depression. Not that this has anything to do with black holes, I just like talking about it.
Anyway, I am working on discovery of new drugs that bypass the serotoninergic pathways and hopefully result in fast-acting antidepressants/anxiolytics that don't screw up your libido or make you a shitty driver.
I don't have depression, but I do think my serotonin and dopamine receptors are a little wonked out on account of all the mid 90's raving I did....
and I walk around like I got a 36" chain.
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BearSol wrote:
Taurelion wrote:
BearSol wrote:
You really don't understand the concept of you proving me right while trying to prove me wrong. You can't comback from it.
You obviously also don't understand "relative or proportionate dimensions" as a definition for the word size.
Then explain what you mean by "relative or proportionate dimensions", and please do so without using made-up terms (such as "relative or proportionate dimensions", neither of which is an actual scientific term) like you have for your other posts.
Are you referring to spatial dimensions? (i.e. length, width, height), because a singularity has none of those.
Cambridge University disagrees with you, and as you deem NASA more of an expert than I, I will deem Cambridge University as more of an expert than you.
Now, DIE TROLL! DIE!
You've failed to either answer the question or actually provide a source yet again.
6:00 in -
If you still can't even understand that a singularity is defined as a single point taking up no space at all, I'm going to assume you're a troll, because it would be too depressing to think that you're actually that stupid. I'm done, either way, since you've proven yourself incapable of rational discussion.
If you get into one you would be compressed into nothing. It is just too much to understand. I remember I was studying this at school.
The King Of Chinese Dragons
Black hole is Uranus.
No. He has probably done a course in general relativity and cosmology. Tensors are the maths that you learn when you do general relativity.
As for light cones, you come across them when you study the evolution of the universe, which falls mostly under cosmology. So he is very far from a rocket scientist, who don't have much of anything to do with this subject matter lol.
Anyway, I am not a specialist in this topic since my specialization is more towards spectroscopy of stars. I did take a course this year (3rd year in university) in cosmology and you really do need to do GR to be able to fully understand how black holes and in general spacetime works. Add to that some knowledge of special relativity, which leads to even more maths in matrix mechanics, etc.
So yeah. Fortunately or unfortunately for the OP, your question to be answered in its entirety requires some pretty high level mathematics. But if you are interested, I would definitely recommend you take up the subject in whatever level you are at right now and develop yourself.
Beasting and feasting :)
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Ihateyou1234 wrote:
mipegg wrote:
mhibicke wrote:
Mipegg is correct and gave a succinct, accurate explanation. A black hole having no volume despite being massive sounds like a non sequitur because most people are accustomed to thinking of space as static rather than warpable. In actually, space-time is warped by speed and gravity (which is really just a force that can create velocity).
Imagine a whirlpool created by draining a full bathtub. If you think of space-time like it is being drawn in towards a black hole like water is pulled toward the drain, then black holes seem a little less abstract. This visualization is not really accurate, but does give you an idea of how black holes warp space-time to the extent where they don't actually occupy it. Instead, space-time bends around a black hole similar to the way a whirlpool bends around the center of a drain.
Also, when you compare a black hole to a whirlpool, all of a sudden wormholes (tunnels through space-time) seem pretty reasonable.
Ofcourse I also did a bit of handwaving, the explanation of saying the gravitation tensor only becoming infinite in one place is not strictly true, if you have a rotational blackhole things become more tricky due to the quantisation of angular momentum and charge. It still doesnt give the blackhole any size it just presents some interpretation issues.
The one I have never managed to explain properly is how time is linked into space, I'd imagine that I could just show people the 2+1 dimensional diagram of a light cone and they would get it, also lets you screw with their concept of the present too...
Are you a fucking rocket scientist?
Third year maths + theoretic physics, so nearly
Maths is hard
Taurelion wrote:
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BearSol wrote:
Taurelion wrote:
BearSol wrote:
You really don't understand the concept of you proving me right while trying to prove me wrong. You can't comback from it.
You obviously also don't understand "relative or proportionate dimensions" as a definition for the word size.
Then explain what you mean by "relative or proportionate dimensions", and please do so without using made-up terms (such as "relative or proportionate dimensions", neither of which is an actual scientific term) like you have for your other posts.
Are you referring to spatial dimensions? (i.e. length, width, height), because a singularity has none of those.
Cambridge University disagrees with you, and as you deem NASA more of an expert than I, I will deem Cambridge University as more of an expert than you.
Now, DIE TROLL! DIE!
You've failed to either answer the question or actually provide a source yet again.
6:00 in -
If you still can't even understand that a singularity is defined as a single point taking up no space at all, I'm going to assume you're a troll, because it would be too depressing to think that you're actually that stupid. I'm done, either way, since you've proven yourself incapable of rational discussion.
Just admit you failed, bro.
You want me to provide a source? I did, I said Cambridge University. We were talking about the meaning(s) of size, yes? That was the latest attack of yours.
That's the source, if you can't google Cambridge University dictionary, then I feel bad for you son. Also, try dictionary.reference.com it's also a great site for learnin werds n stuff for you intellectually challenged. I won't link it for ya, because you seem to need the practice of using the internets.
As for my explanation of a black hole, you found a link for me from NASA that explained exactly what I said.
Fail fail fail fail FAIL
Give it up already, your troll fails.
Get a load of Karl Schwarzschield http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Schwarzschild
thar THAR dumbster
Yeah people, just continue ignoring the theoretical physicist who explained precisely what a black hole is....
Almost like the title makes you fucking god.
Oh christ I'm so smart.