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By Ralph N. Paulk, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
If Ramon Foster was a basketball player, he'll be that wide body off the bench muscling inside for a rebound, then collecting a hard-earned basket that seemingly doesn't matter until the end.
It's been that way for the former Tennessee Volunteers offensive lineman since the Steelers inked him to a free-agent contract in 2009.
Foster arrived at the South Side complex an unheralded line prospect. The 6-foot-6, 325-pounder was dwarfed by more celebrated SEC linemen including Baltimore Ravens' offensive tackle Michael Oher.
Like a sixth-man, Foster has spent much of his three seasons coming off the bench for the Steelers. The versatile offensive lineman -- sometimes a third tight end -- lingered in the shadows until he was thrust into the spotlight amid a plethora of injuries, including guards Doug Legursky and Chris Kemoeatu.
But as the Steelers' run game hit the wall and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger became a punching bag for pass-rushers, such as Houston's Mario Williams and Indianapolis' Dwight Freeney, Foster took the heat along with the rest of the front line.
Still, Foster isn't likely to be the focus of everyone's attention, especially if the injury-plagued Kemoeatu returns to the starting lineup at 1 p.m. Sunday when the Steelers face Jacksonville at Heinz Field.
Coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday that Foster likely will stay at right guard, with Legursky playing left guard against the Jaguars. Kemoeatu is listed as questionable on the injury report.
"We're going to let the week determine that," Tomlin said. "If (Kemoeatu) is able to prepare and practice, we'll take a look at those scenarios and formulate what's the best group for us. ... We'll an?tici?pate moving forward with Legursky and Foster until (Kemoeatu's) availability proves otherwise."
Foster doesn't seek attention. He doesn't complain when he's benched -- even when he appears to play better than Kemoeatu and Legursky.
"I worry a lot less about starting and playing time than I do winning," said Foster, who started eight times last season for the injured Kemoeatu and Trai Essex. "We just want to be efficient so we can run the ball, which opens up our offense."
Last Sunday, the Steelers' offensive line was efficient and dominant. The Steelers rushed for a season-high 174 yards in pounding the overmatched Tennessee Titans in improving to 3-2 with a 38-17 victory.
"It was very important we got started early on them," said Foster, who made his third start. "I think we discovered (against Houston) that would could run a little bit.
"We knew if we got good blocks on that first level, that our running backs could make plays. If we continue to be efficient in the running game, it'll open up a lot of other stuff, especially the play-action pass."
Foster and Legursky threw key blocks to spring Jonathan Dwyer for a 76-yard run that helped the Steelers to a 21-3 lead in the third quarter.
"When I saw Dwyer running down the sideline, all I could think was, 'Go, go and don't get caught,'" Foster said.
Foster took on two defenders as Roethlisberger zipped a 40-yard scoring pass to wide receiver Mike Wallace late in the fourth. Roethlisberger, slightly limping in the pocket, was sacked only once as the offensive line fended off Titans' pass-rushers.
"It's one of those games that wasn't a must have, but we needed it," Foster said. "It was important for the offensive line to establish itself. Tennessee is a penetrating defense, so we had to beat them to the point of contact. If we can get on the opponent's side of the ball first, we'll be very successful in the run game."
The offensive line faces another tough challenge against the Jaguars, who are third in the AFC against the run. Jacksonville has allowed just 3.7 yards per carry and 101 yards a game.
The Jaguars' defense, which is anchored by former Pitt linebacker Clint Session, former Penn State linebacker Paul Posluszny and defensive end Matt Roth, is hardly to blame for their 1-4 start. The Jacksonville offense is 31st in total offense last in yards (270.6) and passing yards (150).
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Genesys, a provider of customer service solutions, today announced Genesys One, a customer service solution for the broader enterprise market. The solution set will be available next month.
As part of a single software solution, Genesys One uniquely packages Genesys' contact center capabilities with innovative customer service best practices in the form of templates and applications.
Genesys One is built on the Genesys 8 software suite, including the SIP-based Genesys Customer Interaction Management Platform. The solution delivers advanced customer service capabilities as part of a single software package, including routing, agent desktop, and reporting. Genesys One leverages the Genesys SIP Select ecosystem to provide a complete solution, including telephony and end points.
Genesys One also features a fixed-price installation for deployment in 30 days or less. It leverages Genesys' patent-pending orchestration technology to package customer service best practices into pre-defined strategies and applications. The Rapid Installer application, which instantly populates customer service routing strategies and reporting, is also included.
The Genesys One reporting capabilities and role-based applications allow customer service executives and line-of-business managers to monitor and modify customer service strategies on the fly as business conditions change without requiring IT support.
Genesys One supports up to 300 agents on a single server and can scale up on a fully virtualized infrastructure. Genesys One can be expanded to include additional Genesys applications based on a company's future customer service needs.
"Until now only the largest, most sophisticated companies have benefited from the world's most advanced customer service solutions," said Paul Segre, president and CEO of Genesys, in a statement. "With Genesys One, we are delivering more than a new product. The broader enterprise market now has access to a transformative solution that gives them instant access to industry-leading technology and years of customer service expertise and best practices - packaged together for rapid deployment and low TCO."
"Genesys One meets a very clear market need for an advanced, versatile, feature-rich, on-premise contact center solution," said Stephen Loynd, global program manager at Frost & Sullivan, in the statement. "Companies across the broader enterprise market for contact centers should take note that Genesys is now bringing a quicker-to-deploy, lower-TCO solution to market."

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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (July 23, 2012) – ETSU women's soccer head coach Adam Sayers announced the final signee of his recruiting class for the 2012 season on Monday, as Hannah Short (Bristol, England) has signed her NLI to play for the Lady Bucs.
A 5-foot-5 defender, Short comes to the reigning Atlantic Sun champion squad from the Downend suburb of Bristol, England. Short has represented England in UEFA European Championship Qualifying at both the U17 and U19 levels, scoring her first international goal in 2010.
"We are very pleased that Hannah will be joining us," Sayers said. "She has gained experience at a very high level in Europe, representing England several times, and enjoying a successful club career. Hannah will be an excellent addition to the team."
At the club level, Short played for Bristol Academy from 2008-09, Arsenal Ladies from 2009-11 and Barnet Ladies from 2011-12. Last season, Short and the Barnet Ladies defeated Queens Park Rangers 2-1 in the Final of the Middlesex County FA Women's Senior Cup.
Short plans to major in exercise science at ETSU.
For more information on ETSU women's soccer, please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the women's soccer links.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - UCSB Athletics is now offering a special college student rate for the 2010 NCAA Men's College Cup, which will be held at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium on Dec. 10 and 12. College students can purchase an All Session pass, which grants the holder admission to both semifinal games on Dec. 10 and the championship game on Dec. 12.
College student ticketholders will be seated in the White/General Admission area of Harder Stadium, which is located on the press box side. To view the seat map for the College Cup, click here.
To receive the special $20 college student rate, the tickets must be purchased in person with a valid college ID or over the phone with a college or university email address for confirmation (the email address must end in their school.edu). Additionally, students will have to present their ID along with their game ticket to be granted admission at the College Cup.
To purchase a student rate ticket, call (805) 893-UCSB, visit the Ticket Office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus or visit the Gauchos Shop Tent at all UCSB home soccer contests.
Adult and youth All Session College Cup tickets can also be purchased by calling (805) 893-UCSB, visiting the Ticket Office or online by clicking here.
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Cunning moves help Meg Liptrot drive greedy pests out of her vegetable garden.
Just when you think all is well in the garden, the sun is shining and plants are growing lush with all this rain, along come the pest party poopers to ruin the fun. I'm talking about the inevitable late summer bug invasion, usually coupled with a dose of fungus to really put a downer on your day. On the plus side, all is not lost. There are plenty of simple tricks that prove effective if you get in quickly, before too much damage is done.
The key to bug control is anticipation. If you come to understand the life cycle of your chosen pest, you have a far greater chance of controlling it. This is something I learned from Ruud Kleinpaste, aka The Bugman, who I was fortunate to have as a tutor back in the day.
In warm climates, such as Northland and Auckland, bugs often have multiple life cycles. This is partly because there is no winter freeze to kill them off. Garden hygiene in autumn and winter is crucial to prevent the eggs of adult pests overwintering and emerging en masse as temperatures warm next spring. Use yellow sticky traps to gauge pest numbers in your crops to let you know the best time to spray, avoiding the need for overspraying.
Another tool in the organic gardener's kit is to mix plants. A straight row of cabbages becomes a landing strip for white cabbage butterflies, so interplant with flowering companion plants to disguise the plant and encourage beneficial insects to your plot.
Wasps often parasitise or eat caterpillars. Flowering members of the Apiaceae family (fennel, parsley, dill, coriander) attract small wasps to help control these voracious caterpillars, as does yarrow. Members of the Asteraceae family (chamomile, chrysanthemum) also do this job, and pyrethrum can be used as a repellent plant, or you can make a pyrethrum tea to use as an insecticide.
Mustard suits being planted with broccoli. Mustard plants trap and reduce nematodes and, if left to flower, encourage parasitoid wasps.
A clever example of tricking a pest is one that's used on the carrot rust fly. If you plant several rows of actively growing onions alongside your carrots, the smell of the onion masks the carrots, leaving the root vege unscathed. These pests fly at 45cm above the ground, so planting a taller barrier around your carrots will also work.
Rotating crops of the same family each year is a good idea to reduce pest issues, particularly soil-borne pests and disease. If you have problems with twisted, misshapen roots in your carrots and parsnips, nematodes (tiny eel worms) may be the culprits. A trial in the Netherlands involved planting a whole field with the marigold "Single Gold". When flowering, the marigolds were ploughed into the soil, resulting in a marked reduction in the pest.
If you wish to be a smart gardener, look at a bug invasion this year as a learning experience for next year. This is an important lesson in dealing with pests and disease in a sustainable way.
Note: Always spray in the evening to avoid affecting beneficial insects. Spraying is best done when there's no wind, and wear a mask and gloves even if you're using an organic spray.
The dirty (half) dozen and how to control them organically*:
Aphids: Easy to wash off plants by spraying with soapy dishwater. Encourage red ladybirds by planting alyssum, cosmos, marigold and the Apiaceae plants in your vege patch. Ladybird larvae will chomp up aphids and psyllids, as do Hoverfly larvae (plant phacelia and tansy to attract Hoverflies).
Green Vege (Stink) Bugs: These guys don't have many natural predators (understandably), although chooks can be trained to eat them. Try squashing stink bugs and you'll see the others drop out of the plant. At this point they're easy to catch. Plant pink-flowering cleome as a trap crop. Alternatively, spray directly with neem oil to reduce their ability to feed.
Passion Vine Hopper: Prune twiggy dead material from garden in winter (eggs appear as tiny bumps on twigs), then burn or hot compost. Spray insects directly with neem or pyrethrum if you already have an invasion.
Psyllids: An uninvited guest from the US discovered in NZ in 2006. Attacks the solanum family (potatoes, tomatoes). Looks like a tiny cicada when magnified. They suck sap and pass on bacteria which can infect the plant, causing yellow, stunted leaves and poor, bad-tasting crops. Disguise crops by interplanting; remove affected leaves and dispose of (in tied bags); spray insects on the underside of leaves with potassium soap (try soap-based Nature's Way Mite and Insect Spray). For more info click here.
White Cabbage Butterfly (caterpillar): Use fine netting to prevent butterflies laying eggs on brassicas (squash eggs on undersides of leaves first). Encourage predator wasps by planting daisies/chrysanthemums, flowering parsley/carrot plants. As a last resort, spray caterpillars with Dipel, which is a natural bacterium. If you use Derris Dust, avoid ingestion or inhalation.
Whitefly: Plant companions such as chamomile, geranium, marjoram and coriander as deterrents. Increase airflow around your plants. Spray undersides of leaves with potassium soap or neem; hang yellow sticky traps/indicators of infestation near affected plants (best early in season); introduce tiny parasitic wasp 'Encarcia formosa'. (Bioforce.net.nz has more.)
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(Chael Sonnen explains that it's the Ultimate *Fighting* Championship, not the Ultimate Mitt-Hitting, High-Altitude Training, Flipping a Tire Around, Screaming the Word "Yes" Championship. Props: MMA Fighting)
Following an expectation-exceeding night of action at UFC 109, the UFC handed out $60,000 pay-bumps to the following competitors:
Fight of the Night: Chael Sonnen and Nate Marquardt, for their bloody 15-minute grind, in which Sonnen survived a nasty choke attempt in the third round to secure the decision victory and earn a middleweight title shot.
Knockout of the Night: Matt Serra, for beating down Frank Trigg and proving that his hands are always dangerous, even if they're on the end of very short arms.
Submission of the Night: Paulo Thiago, for putting Mike Swick to sleep with a D'Arce choke after knocking him to the mat in the second round of their fight. Thiago: 2, AKA: 1.
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Beware of the desperate dater
Most folks tend to marry people they date. So, your grandmother may have advised you, "Don't date anybody you wouldn't want to spend the rest of your life with." There's a certain truth there. So, ask yourself -- if you've decided the one you've been dating "is the one!" – whether that person is really Mr. or Miss Right.
"If you want to be sure this is the one, there is no substitute for taking enough time to truly get to know the person," writes Stephen Arterburn in his book Is This The One? He has a number of tips your grandmother would approve of, including:


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MMA Black Friday: 7 Things That Money Can't Buy
(A PSP, a Marmaduke book, and fistful of dollars… Man, this cat really knows how to get down!)
By Jason Moles
While our wives and girlfriends are busy maxing out our credit cards in hopes of finding the perfect gift for everyone she knows, we should be reminded that money can't buy everything — especially in the world of mixed martial arts. Follow us after the jump to discover the irony of the MMA Black Friday. I promise it will be better than the turkey sandwich and leftover pumpkin pie you'll have for lunch.
1.) Resurrection
In June, Cheick Kongo did what no man has done since the Messiah some 2,000+ years ago — he defeated death. Alright, so maybe I've had a few too many turkey day cocktails and that's not exactly how it went down, but you get the jist. Kongo was knocked unconscious not once but twice in his fight against fellow heavyweight Pat Barry and he still managed to win the fight! By KO nonetheless. No amount of Earthly money could ever buy a second (or third) chance to live again. If it were that easy, Steve Jobs would've made certain you increase your credit limit.Read More DIGG THIS


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by Terry Duffy
The Town of Lewiston has news with regards to the Academy Park ice rink operations for the upcoming winter season. Leading off, the town reported at its Oct. 22 meeting it had reached agreement with national operator Ice Rinks 2 Go to manage a 60-day operation schedule for this winter at the Academy Park rink. Proposed operation dates are Dec. 1 to Jan. 27, 2013. On Oct. 22, the Town Board inked a $154,654 contract with the firm that provides for a five-year agreement. It reported that local sponsorships to assist with rink operations are now being explored.
The town also announced on Oct. 22 it would be doing 3.75-kilowatt electrical upgrades at Academy Park to service rink operations and eliminate the need for the diesel generators that were used at last year's rink.
Town Recreation Director Michael Dashineau reported that a fee schedule is being employed by the town to allow for special use events this year. Actual rink use for local residents would continue at no charge; skate rentals would be the same as last year.
This week, he announced the Town of Lewiston will begin accepting reservations for birthday parties or other approved event ice rink rentals. "The Town of Lewiston Recreation Department will be taking applications for ice rink rentals for December and January of this winter. Days available are very limited. Rentals can be used for any type of party or approved ice activity, including birthday parties," said Dashineau.
Rentals can be done on most Saturdays and Sundays between the hours of 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Fee for a two-hour rental is $250. Rental includes all ice time, skate rentals, rink guards and supervision, use of the warming tent, and any available equipment, including hockey goals, and skating aids.
For information and to register for a date, go to www.LewPortSports.com.
In other recreation news, Dashineau reported that open interviews for winter seasonal youth positions would be taking place Wednesday, Nov. 7, and Thursday, Nov. 8, from 7 to 8 p.m. at Town Hall.
Positions available include ice rink skate guards, ice rink service desk workers, basketball referees, and basketball instructors.
"Lewiston Recreation is often the first employment opportunity for our community's youth, and serves as a vital training ground for the application and interview process for so many Lewiston teenagers," said Dashineau.
Applicants can apply at the interview process and should bring identification. Applicants should be 16 years old or have up-to-date working papers. For more information, contact Dashineau at 716-754-8213, ext. 254, or email [email protected].


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Zaha: Only Ronaldo and Messi better than me
Wilfried Zaha could make his England debut against Sweden on Wednesday and it is unlikely the Crystal Palace youngster will shy away from the challenge given he claims "unless I'm looking at Ronaldo or Messi, I'd never look at someone else and think he's better than me."
Zaha is one of the hottest properties in England and is learning his trade in the Championship with Palace. A string of dazzling efforts for the Eagles have earned him an England call-up for the friendly with Sweden.
There is still a chance he could still commit to Ivory Coast, he describes it as "50/50", but on his own career it would appear as if Zaha feels he has the world at his feet.
"Unless I'm looking at (Cristiano) Ronaldo or (Lionel) Messi, I'd never look at someone else and think he's better than me," Zaha told the Daily Mail.
Arsenal are being linked with a January bid for Zaha and the forward is already thinking about life in the Premier League.
"I think about the Premier League all the time, wondering when I'm going to come up against better defenders," he said. "I don't think I've come up against a defender when I've thought 'What can I do to get past this guy?'
"If it was Ashley Cole I would be working it all out before the game, knowing he would stick tight to me. I'd drift inside and then run at him. Maybe he'll be able to deal with it, but that's when I can test him, isn't it? That's my time."
Palace have slapped a £20m price tag on Zaha's head but it is not something that will weigh him down.
He said: "I see people criticising, when they are thinking like, '£20m? My a**e', but I never put a price tag on my head.
"I remember when people were saying Palace should sell me for £1m because I wouldn't do anything in the game - that was hard.
"The Premier League is where I want to go but I'm not saying I want to leave Palace right now."


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Fast & Furious 6, Following, Fox "Your Choice" Classics - Carmen Jones & MUCH more!
Today's Oktoberfest review pits the good Dr. Jahnke against Kurt Neumann's 1958 version of The Fly, now available on Blu-ray from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. The take-away lesson: never play with unlicensed "disintegration/re-integration" machines. Gotta love Vincent Price!
In announcement news today, the big news is that Universal has officially set Fast & Furious 6 for Blu-ray and DVD release on 12/10. The Blu-ray will exclusively include an extended version of the film, the Take Control viewing mode featuring the director and cast, the 4-part Planes, Tanks and Automobiles documentary (includes The London Chase, Highway Heist: The Convoy Attack, The Antonov Takedown and Dom and Letty Race Again) and 3 additional featurettes (Gearhead's Delight, The FLIP Car and Hand-to-Hand Fury). In addition to this, both the Blu-ray and DVD will include deleted scenes, feature commentary with director Justin Lin, the On the Set with Vin featurette and the 4-part The Making of Fast & Furious 6 documentary (including The Fastest of Them All, Reuniting the Team, Letty's Return and The Mastermind and The Mole). [Read on here...]


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Franchising is a business model in which many different owners share a single brand name. A parent company allows entrepreneurs to use the company's strategies and trademarks; in exchange, the franchisee pays an initial fee and royalties based on revenues. The parent company also provides the franchisee with support, including advertising and training, as part of the franchising agreement.
Franchising is a faster, cheaper form of expansion than adding company-owned stores, because it costs the parent company much less when new stores are owned and operated by a third party. On the flip side, potential for revenue growth is more limited because the parent company will only earn a percentage of the earnings from each new store. 70 different industries use the franchising business model, and according to the International Franchising Association the sector earns more than $1.5 trillion in revenues each year.[1]
The franchising business model is used across many industries, but it is most popular in the fast food restaurants, hotel, and casual & upscale restaurants industries. According to an International Franchise Association study, franchisee-owned locations accounted for 56.3%, 18.2%, and 13.1% of each respective industry's total locations in 2001.[1]
The franchising business model consists of two operating partners: the franchisor, or parent company, and the franchisee, the proprietor that operates one or multiple store locations. Franchising agreements usually require the franchisee to pay an initial fee plus royalties equal to a certain percentage of the store's monthly or yearly sales. Initial fees vary significantly across each industry, ranging from $35,000 for an Applebee's restaurant to over $85,000 to open a Hilton hotel.[26] Royalty fees are also variable - for example, Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) franchisees are required to pay the company 5% of their yearly sales[26], while Applebee's franchisees pay 4% of monthly sales and IHOP franchisees pay a 4.5% royalty fee of weekly sales.[27] The franchisee also covers the costs of actually starting and operating the store, including legal fees, occupancy or construction costs, inventory costs, and labor. Franchise agreements usually have a term of between 10 and 20 years, depending on the company.
The parent company authorizes the franchisee's use of the company's trademarks (for example, selling Big Mac's at McDonald's) as part of the franchising agreement. Additionally, the franchisor provides training and support as well as regional and/or national advertising.
Franchising becomes a much less desirable business model during rough economic times. First, franchisees must pay royalty fees based upon their revenue, regardless of whether or not they are earning profits, which adds to the franchisee's financial struggles in an economic downturn. Furthermore, slower sales cause parent companies to reduce expansion plans. For example, the 2007 Technomic Restaurant Industry Study blamed the poor U.S. economy as the reason why restaurants reduced funding for expansion by an average 1.4% during 2007.[29]
Economic issues related to the 2007 Credit Crunch and subprime lending crisis drastically weakened the U.S. economy, which has led to lower levels of consumer spending, particularly in the restaurant dining industry. For example, many restaurants suffered from a decline in traffic and comparable store sales during 2007, like Applebee's, which attributes a 4% decrease in guest traffic and 2.1% decline in comparable store sales to weakened consumer spending.[30] Additionally, a 2007 RBC Capital Markets Survey indicated that 39% of respondents reduced their frequency of restaurant dining because of lower levels of dispensable income in 2007.[31][32]
Unlike the United States and many other Western countries, emerging markets are commercially underdeveloped and have significant growth opportunities. For example, the U.S. Department of Commerce estimated that over 75% of the expected growth in world trade over the next 20 years will come from developing countries, primarily large emerging markets like China.[33] Furthermore, the rise of China's middle class, as well as India's booming per capita income provide significant new markets for franchises to operate. China's middle class is expected to almost double in the next two years, reaching 25% of the Chinese population in 2010, which is spurred by China's 700% growth in per capita income since the late 1980s.[34] Furthermore, the Indian per capita income is expected to increase more than 300% by 2025.[35]
As the wealth of consumers in emerging markets grows, so too will their appetites for consumer goods, as evidenced by India's 1,440% growth in its retail industry between 1991 and 2007.[36] Also, as of 2007, India's franchising industry is expected to grow 30% annually as mega-franchising chains like Yum! Brands (YUM) have already established a presence in India.[37] High levels of consumer demand, coupled with relatively low levels of competition, offer a lucrative opportunity for many franchisors to expand into emerging markets. Expansion via franchising is an attractive option for companies looking to expand abroad without incurring high costs. Additionally, international franchisees already possess many inherent qualities needed to succeed abroad, like the ability to speak the native language.


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Today's special guest Tony Cliff has a guest post for us, and after, you can win a copy of his graphic novel Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant.
Writing Strong Female Characters by Tony Cliff
I don't know whether she meant it sincerely or whether she was just trying to tease me, but when a notably feminist-minded female friend saw the cover for my first little Delilah Dirk comic back in 2007, she said, "oh! You made a feminist character." Knowing how vocal this friend could be about feminist issues, it was often fun to bother her about it with a grab-bag of stereotypically misogynist remarks, so she could have been returning the favour by maligning-but-not-really my labour of love. Pointing out that the project I've been working on for months secretly demonstrates feminist principles would have been a sort of, "ah ha, you're part of the club and you didn't even know it" statement. Whatever her intentions, she was the first person to posit that Delilah Dirk might be a "strong female character." Since then, presumably because I am a human male and the incongruity is astonishing, I am often asked why and how I have written a "strong female character." Let me tell you!
I'll just pass by arguing about whether Delilah Dirk is, in fact, a "strong female character." Since that first mention, enough people have framed her as such that I'm just going to roll with it. No one that I am aware of has argued that DD is specifically not a "strong female character." If I'm reluctant to embrace that term (as indicated by my liberal use of scare-quotes), it's probably due to my personal tendency to be contradictory, but also because I am occasionally suspicious of peoples' motivations in throwing the term around.
I'll also pass by the question, "why do you write strong female characters," because Joss Whedon has already addressed that question very eloquently. Listen to him here (http://youtu.be/cYaczoJMRhs?t=1m44s).
If possible, I would also defer to Joss Whedon about how to write strong female characters. He has more experience than I do. I'm not entirely sure what makes a "strong female character." Others have invested years of post-graduate study in this topic – there are tests to see if your work of fiction has sufficiently fully-featured female characters, there are classifications, there are archetypes and stereotypes… I just sat down one evening to invent an adventuresome character who seemed appealing.
Here is the extent to which I considered Delilah's gender: inspired by Hornblower and Sharpe adventures during the Napoleonic Wars, I wanted to have a sort of logistically hyper-flexible (i.e. "globetrotting") action character, and the genre and setting were already chock-a-block full of male characters. Plus, a female character in 1810 naturally faces more obstacles due to societal norms, which I thought would present more opportunities for conflict. It would generate laughs, too, because our society has come so far since then that the gender roles are comically outdated. Feel free to roll your eyes in disagreement, if necessary – again, I am a White Male. I was also motivated by the mainstream comics I had encountered – mostly Image comics of the late 1990s. The female characters were across-the-board boring. Too serious, too bland, no sense of humour, no depth or colour.
Meanwhile, throughout my life I've been lucky enough to enjoy the platonic friendship of a few actual human females. I have studied them – made notes, measured and analyzed their behaviours and characteristics. I have dissected their droppings and run samples of their blood through complicated scientific equipment, at great personal expense. I have made a surprising number of astonishing conclusions!
There are differences, but all you need to figure them out is a little observation, a little time, and to not be a raging garbage bag of misogynist filth. Sure, there might be subtle differences between a male character and a female character who are identical except for their gender. But the gulf is not very wide. Maybe you know how to write characters who fall all along the personality spectrum, from a cruelly selfish man to heroically brave man, to a paralyzingly cowardly man. If so, you're more than capable of embracing the socially and physiologically imposed differences between genders. They are minor by comparison. Yes, there may be aspects of a character that are forced on them by their physiognomy and anatomy, how they think of themselves, and how your society of other characters treat them based on their perceived gender, but this is where imagination and observation come in.
So how do you write a strong female character? And is this different from a believable female character? Is there something that separates strong from believable? Is it just the addition of swords? Is it some other "empowering" trait? After all, the forcefulness of how a character represents their gender is not necessarily an indication of their strength. I am suspicious that when people say "strong female character" what they really mean is "believable female character" or just anything except "curvaceous plot device." Assuming you want to step away from having your character serve the limited purposes of a plot device (ahem, Princess Peach, ahem, every damsel in distress), I like two simple tools for the job: contrast and depth.
Contrast is a simple idea, and it applies to anything you're creating, at any step in the process. It is a flexible and infinitely useful fundamental concept. Follow along. When you're reading a WHERE'S WALDO book (or WALLY, I guess, for you Europeans), it is difficult to figure out Where Waldo is because he is surrounded by other humans, some of whom wear stripy things and/or share similar colours with Waldo. This is low contrast. It's hard to tell where Waldo is because he's surrounded by so many things that are similar. He gets lost in the Waldo-ness.
Conversely, if you put Waldo on a flat, deserted ice floe, voila! he's easy to see. He is the only Waldo-shaped and -coloured object that's visible. This is high contrast. Waldo stands out because of all the not-Waldo-ness around him. Meanwhile, the polar bear behind him? Neither you nor Waldo saw it coming, because a white polar bear against a white background is the epitome of low contrast.
You can (and ought to) apply principles of contrast to everything. Readability and understanding increase when contrast increases. So it goes when you are creating a character. Their happy moments stand out in contrast to their sad moments. Their angry, intense, moments stand out in contrast to their quiet, meditative, sitting-and-sipping-tea moments. I believe this is what sets an interesting ("strong/believable") character apart from a dull character. Certainly, if you've heard the term "one-note character," this is a way to combat that, and it's the beginning of achieving a little depth of character. Just put them in situations where they'll be motivated to have different feelings.
It is frustrating to realize that I have just given advice that amounts to, "give the character more than one feeling," because if you think about it that simply, it seems inconceivable that anyone could make anything even passably interesting for the maker without clearing this low hurdle. But I guess it needs to be mentioned. Those dour, guns-blazing ladies in my late-90s Image comics all had approximately two-and-a-half modes of expression: "scowl", "scowl harder", and "laugh derisively." Sometimes they would look very serious while sunbathing by the pool, or on a boat, or on cloudy days. Not exactly a rich tapestry of emotion.
Conversely, in his series of novels, Horatio Hornblower is a well-rounded, fully-coloured character. The stories are no major touchstones in the history of literature, but they are solid, enjoyable, and are improved dramatically by the depth that C.S. Forester gives his protagonist's character. Hornblower's strength, resolve, and bravery stand out so much more impressively because they are contrasted against his worry, neuroses, and his internal conflicts.
For advice on achieving depth of character, I'm once more going to defer to someone with more expertise than me. After all, this is the sort of topic that one could write a book about, as many have. I like Lajos Egri. His excellent book THE ART OF DRAMATIC WRITING was written in the 1930s and is designed for the playwrights of the time. Nevertheless, it is a timeless, effective guide to building integrated characters and stories, whether you're writing a novel, comic, movie, or even an actual play, as preposterous as that notion may be. If you didn't know when it was written, you might mistake it for being more modern than McKee's STORY. Egri's emphasis is on designing stories that could not exist if it weren't for the characters within them. Weak characters? Weak story. If that seems to you like it might be a recipe for the type of dull literary fiction that lacks the excitement of a good adventurous or romantic story, please see my earlier thoughts re: Horblower. Strong characters make for strong stories. A dull story is elevated and made interesting by entertaining characters, whereas the greatest roller-coaster of a plot is still mind-numbingly dull without interesting characters.
Much of Egri's approach involves building a character up from their backstory. He is good at providing direction on how to do so. Now, admittedly, backstory and depth are not the same thing. But they can work in tandem. I find that one inspires the other.
Boiled down as simply as possible, depth can be found by giving your character likes, dislikes, wants, needs, preferences, quirks, and fears, among other things. Characteristics. Indiana Jones began as an homage to the heroes of adventure serials from the early 20th century. One of those is H. Rider Haggard's character Allan Quatermain. Admittedly, I have not read a lot of Quatermain stories – maybe only three-quarters of one story – but you'd think that would be enough to give me a sense of his character. I know him only vaguely as a pith-helmeted avatar for the readers who would have revelled in what would have been exotic adventures back when those stories were written. What does everyone know about Indiana Jones? Whip, hat, competitive, and he's scared of snakes. It's not much, but it's enough to be interesting, and it's all established in the first ten minutes of his first story. The same can not be said for Quatermain. Say what you will about Wikipedia, feel free to contrast Quatermain's "Appearance and Character" section with that of Indiana Jones or Horatio Hornblower.
At this point, I've wandered away from specifically talking about writing "strong female characters." Though… I like to think that's the eventual goal – some time far in the future, we might not need to differentiate between "strong female characters" and "strong characters." Maybe you shouldn't be writing strong female characters. Maybe you ought to write strong characters, making them ladies when that makes sense and men when that makes sense. Based on what I hear on Twitter and elsewhere, I can acknowledge that we're not there yet, but I also get the feeling that I might be preaching to the choir: the type of person most likely to read about how to write a female character is the type who's probably already inclined to do so, and that person is not the person who needs to be convinced of the value of a treating your differently-gendered characters equally.
So my hope is that you'll keep writing your characters, and hopefully I've shared some viewpoints that complement your own. Perhaps I've simply illuminated some of my own biases, and you've encountered a type of thinking or some cognitive mistakes you want to avoid. Either way, I hope you'll keep writing (or start writing) richly-developed characters and sending them out into the world so that, eventually, somewhere down the road, no one feels that a character's gender requires a special approach to writing.
Thank you, Tony!!
About the book:
Lovable ne'er-do-well Delilah Dirk has travelled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even the New World. Using the skills she's picked up on the way, Delilah's adventures continue as she plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople. With the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend, Selim, she evades the Sultan's guards, leaves angry pirates in the dust, and fights her way through the countryside. For Delilah, one adventure leads to the next in this thrilling and funny installment in her exciting life.
A little bit Tintin, a little bit Indiana Jones, Delilah Dirk is a great pick for any reader looking for a smart and foolhardy heroine…and globetrotting adventures.
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This illuminating and wonderfully subversive book is, without a doubt, the most important contribution to the history of US national security policy to appear in the past decade. Nominally, Perils of Dominance reinterprets the origins of the Vietnam War, recounting the crucial decisions made between 1954 and 1965 culminating in the commitment of American combat forces. In retracing this familiar sequence of events Gareth Porter, an independent scholar who has published on the war for more than three decades, challenges and overturns conventional explanations of how the United States blundered into that conflict. But the revisionist interpretation that he puts forward is of far more than historical interest. Perils of Dominance demolishes our most fundamental assumptions about how national security policy is formulated. Perhaps of even greater significance, it undermines the very notion of the cold war as a construct that explains the postwar era and as a source of myth used to justify actions well into the present.
In the 1950s and '60s, the chief factor governing US policy, writes Porter, was not ideology–a fear of aggressive and monolithic Communism that seemingly left the United States with no alternative but to prop up tottering dominoes–but "strategic asymmetry." A pronounced imbalance of power between the United States and the Soviet Union, amounting from 1953 onward to "something approaching absolute strategic dominance," freed Washington of any perceived need to exercise self-restraint and created incentives for aggressive and even reckless action. In this sense, the United States wandered into the quagmire not grudgingly or against its will but because influential officials in the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations were convinced that the United States held all the cards and couldn't lose.
Striking at the cold war's conceptual definition, Porter dismisses the notion that the Soviet-American rivalry was a contest between two superpowers of more or less equal stature. Rather, he asserts that from the early 1950s onward the international order was "effectively unipolar." Once the Korean War triggered the rearmament program proposed by the 1950 policy paper NSC-68, the United States quickly achieved a position of overwhelming pre-eminence. For the next decade and more, it maintained that pre-eminence, especially as measured by the currency of nuclear striking power. Porter does an especially effective job of documenting this strategic disparity, fully recognized in both Washington and Moscow (not to mention Beijing and Hanoi). Although the Soviets had detonated their first atomic bomb in 1949, when it came to deploying such weapons effectively, they lagged at least a generation behind the Americans. Throughout the 1950s and beyond, Soviet long-range bombers were slow, vulnerable and few in number. Soviet land-based missiles were unprotected and maintained at low levels of readiness. Soviet submarines were noisy and carried short-range missiles tipped with conventional warheads. Launching a missile required the sub to surface. Soviet air defenses were porous.
Furthermore, American officials had a high level of confidence in their ability to take out the Soviet arsenal before it could do any harm. Gen. Curtis LeMay, commander of the Strategic Air Command, believed that SAC could destroy Soviet warmaking capabilities "without losing a man to their defenses." In 1959 President Dwight Eisenhower assured Senator Lyndon Johnson that "if we were to release our nuclear stockpile on the Soviet Union, the main danger would arise not from retaliation but from fallout in the earth's atmosphere."


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Joss Whedon's viral hit "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" will debut on TV on Oct. 9 on the CW as a way to draw viewers to the network's new season premieres.
The online musical starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day was a hit in the web world.
CW President Mark Pedowitz said he was a huge fan of the video when it first launched. He wasn't alone: "Dr. Horrible's" scored 2.2 million views in the first week; so far it has drawn more than 50 million viewers.
Pedowitz told critics at TCA that he tried to acquire the film when he was at ABC Studios "for an ABC digital play." He said he's hoping if/when Whedon decides to do a sequel, he'll consider doing it for CW.


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August 24, 2011
Treatment Action Group (TAG) is seeking AIDS community activists from key States across the U.S. to join an unique leadership network, focused on identifying new Congressional champions and developing ongoing Congressional support for research critical to people living with HIV. This initiative will kick-off with a three-day Capitol Hill visit with your congressional delegation in Washington D.C. from October 11-13, 2011. Full scholarships covering round trip travel, two-night hotel (shared-room), and per diem are available. Application deadline is September 2nd. To apply, go to: http://hivresearchcatalystforum.org/WhatWouldYouDo.
Historically, federal research funding is considered a wise investment for the future health of the nation, and has enjoyed strong bi-partisan support from lawmakers in Congress. However, with the recent economic crisis and mandates on short-sighted spending cuts, funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where much of AIDS research happens, is in serious jeopardy. What's more, several longtime Congressional champions for NIH are no longer in office. Without a concerted effort by the AIDS community to find new allies and reactivate long-standing support in Congress, scientific advances necessary for the cure, and desperately needed new interventions for HIV and aging related illnesses, will die on the vines of discovery.
TAG's new initiative aims to build a national network of AIDS community leaders who can invest time and energy -- year-round -- to strengthen federal support for AIDS research, by developing ongoing relationships with representatives in Congress, and by building grassroots support in home districts. Scholarship recipients will get individual assistance on effective message development prior to the three-day Hill visits in October, ongoing training and support online, as well as skills building sessions via conference calls and webinars on:
Estimated time commitment: average about two hours per week.
Understanding of basic AIDS research issues a plus, but not necessary.
Priorities will be given to people from the following States:
Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, & Texas
Deadline for full scholarships to attend the kick-off event is September 2nd, 2011.
To apply or for more information, go to: http://hivresearchcatalystforum.org/WhatWouldYouDo.
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Ultimate Fighting Championships Vol. 62: Liddell vs. Sobral DVD
August 26, 2006- Live, from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell puts his title on the line against top contender Renato "Babalu" Sobral. Plus, a rematch of one of the most exciting fights in UFC history - Forrest Griffin versus Stephan Bonnar. Fighters featured on the undercard include Nick Diaz, Josh Neer, Cheick Kongo, Hermes Franca, and Wilson Gouveia. A total of 9 bouts.
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- Forrest Griffin Vs. Stephan Bonnar
- Josh Neer Vs. Nick Diaz
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- Hermes Franca Vs. Jamie Varner
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- Cory Walmsley Vs. David Heath
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – UCSB baseball head coach Andrew Checketts, men's basketball head coach Bob Williams, and women's head basketball coach Carlene Mitchell will be the guests on this week's edition of "Talk'n Gauchos," UCSB Athletics' weekly radio show.
"Talk'n Gauchos" is broadcast live every Tuesday night from 6-7 p.m. at the Beachside Bar and Cafe, located on Goleta Beach and hosted by Gerry Fall - The Voice of the Gauchos. Fans are encouraged to come watch the show in person for the chance to meet the guests as well as participate in a raffle for UCSB and Beachside prizes.
The show can be heard over the air on KZSB AM 1290. Fans can also hear the show online at UCSBgauchos.com.
Coach Checketts and the Gauchos will be kicking off baseball season this weekend, when they head to Fresno State to take on the 2008 College World Series champions in a three game series from Friday through Sunday. The 2013 baseball home opener will be next Tuesday, Feb. 19 against the UCLA Bruins. Tickets for that game can be purchased here.
Williams and Mitchell will each oppose the Cal Poly Mustangs on Saturday. The men will be on the road at 7 p.m., with the women hosting at the Thunderdome at 2 p.m in the annual Play 4Kay game to help raise breast cancer awareness. Each UCSB women's basketball player will decorate and wear a special pink warm-up shirt that will be available for purchase through a silent auction with the proceeds going towards cancer research.


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Weekly News Round-Up: Friday 12th September
Friday 12th September, 2008
So...we're still here! Welcome to another Weekly News Round-Up from Dolphin Music! It's a relief that those crazy scientists at the helms of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) in Switzerland didn't suck us all into a black hole last Wednesday! Read all the most important and interesting news that has been featured in the news section of our website this week:
Darth Vader Manages Rock Band!
Yes, you read it right. The Dark Lord Of Sith, Darth Vader himself - or should we say David Prowse, the actor who played Vader in the three classic Star Wars films - is now managing an UK heavy rock band! Read More
Elbow Wins Mercury Prize Award
Cult Manchester band Elbow were the surprise winners of this year's coveted Mercury Prize Award, beating off strong competition from Radiohead, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss and others... Read More
Songs For The End Of The World
"End Of The World" rumours have been all the rage since...well, always, so here's a selection of the best apocalyptic soundtrack to see us off in style, when the time comes... Read More
Arts Council teams up with Oasis and NME
As part of a promotion for the Arts Council's Take it Away initiative, three new Oasis songs will be 'released' on a CD, covermounted on the next issue of the NME. Read More
R.E.M.'s signature guitar stolen
R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck's signature guitar has been stolen from the stage after a gig at the Finnair Stadium in Helsinki, Finland, this week. The band is offering a reward for its recovery. Read More
Swayzak and the art of Tenori-on
It's been 10 years since Swayzak's debut long player was named "Album Of The Year" by Mixer Magazine...and they still look for new and innovative sounds, this time, with the help of a Tenori-On! Read More
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A counterfeiter of luxury goods, music software, CDs and movie DVDs in south east London has been sent to prison for 3 years following a hearing at Blackfriars Crown Court on 8 September. Read More
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Contractors are widening and realigning several curves on one of Henderson County's most dangerous rural two-lane roads, hoping to reduce the number of wrecks.
Contractors are widening and realigning several curves on one of Henderson County's most dangerous rural two-lane roads, hoping to reduce the number of wrecks while improving the road for motorists and cyclists.
Howard Gap Road has recorded the second-highest number of wrecks among rural two-lane roads in the county over the last five years.
Workers are currently tackling a stretch from Jackson Road in Fletcher to just south of Brookside Camp Road. Over the last five years, 95 wrecks have occurred on the 3.7-mile stretch, which is punctuated by at least 21 curves, said Brian Murphy, safety planning engineer with the N.C. Department of Transportation.
None of the wrecks were fatal, but 31 involved injuries and 64 led to property damage, he added.
The second phase of the project extends the widening and realigning down to Highway 64, a 3.2-mile stretch of Howard Gap Road with at least 17 curves. Those lanes hosted 141 crashes in the past five years, Murphy said, adding that one ended in a fatality, 58 in injuries and 82 in property damage.
On a list of total crashes grouped by routes in the county over the same time period, Howard Gap Road was ranked eight out of 10. Among two-lane rural roads, it was second only to Upward Road for the most wrecks, Murphy said.
The number of wrecks on Howard Gap still pales in comparison, however, to the numbers for more heavily traveled routes including Interstate 26, U.S. Highway 64, U.S. Highway 176 and N.C. Highway 191.
The two-lane roadway through the heart of apple country was once a main thoroughfare for Indians and settlers crossing the Blue Ridge. Today, it serves as a major alternate route for travelers hoping to steer away from traffic on Interstate 26. And soon, it will provide a safe passageway for bicyclists who will have a lane of their own.
Plans call for widening the northern section of Howard Gap Road to two 12-foot lanes with paved shoulders, constructing a bike lane, adding turn lanes at several intersections, replacing the bridge over Byers Creek and constructing a roundabout at the intersection of Brookside Camp Road and Howard Gap Road.
The $9.3 million contract to widen and align the first phase of Howard Gap Road was awarded to Tennoca Construction Company of Candler.
DOT officials hope the project will improve safety by dulling some of the sharpest curves. But crews will not be able to eliminate all of the road's twists and turns, said N.C. Department of Transportation Resident Engineer Aaron Powell.
Vehicular and bicycle traffic were both momentarily paused on Howard Gap Road Friday as crews worked to fill in a "deep hole" and straighten out a "big curve" near Hutch Mountain Road.
"That's where we're taking out a lot of the curves," Powell said.
He doesn't anticipate that mudslides or sink holes will hamper the project as crews work to shift the lanes through the pass to a higher elevation.
The first phase of the project from Jackson Road to Brookside Camp Road is expected to be completed by the end of June 2015. The second phase, which stretches the realignment out to Highway 64 and is budgeted for construction at $7.1 million, is estimated to end in November 2015.
Howard Gap Road property owner Edward Nuckolls thinks the project is moving "as slow as a seven-year-itch" and hopes to see it completed soon.
The state purchased a portion of his eight acres of land at the intersection of Howard Gap and Brookside Camp roads to accommodate the new traffic roundabout. Upon completion, stops signs will give way to yield signs at the busy intersection. Drivers will pause for traffic in the circle and travel counterclockwise around a central median until they exit at their street.
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No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Preview-Ford 400
November 16, 2011
Brad Keselowski
No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger
Ford 400
Homestead-Miami Speedway
November 20, 2011
TV: ESPN at 3:00 PM ET Radio: MRN/Sirius Channel 90 at 2:00 PM ET
No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger News and Notes
• This Week's Charger… The No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger team will race chassis PRS-804during Sunday's Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway (HMS). This is a new chassis to the No. 2 fleet.
• No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge in 2011... After 35 points-paying events, Keselowski and the No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge Charger team are ranked fourthin the 2011 Chase for the Championship standings. Keselowski sits 65 points behind series leader Carl Edwards following an 18th-place finish in the Kobalt Tools 500 at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR) last Sunday afternoon.
• Approaching 350… The victory by Sam Hornish Jr. in the NASCAR Nationwide Series event at PIR last Saturday gave Penske Racing 349 all-time race victories. One of the most-successful teams in professional sports, Penske Racing will attempt to grab win No. 350 this weekend at HMS.
• Shedding the Dark Horse Label… Thanks to three wins, 10 top-five finishes, 14 top-10 results and 19 races led for a total of 287 laps, Keselowski's breakout 2011 Cup Series season should have him poised to enter 2012 as a legitimate contender for the championship.
• Cheers To The Champion… The featured tag line on the rear bumper of the "Blue Deuce" this weekend in Homestead will be "Cheers To The Champion." Keselowski gave it a valiant effort, but will come up just short of the championship in his first year behind the wheel of the Miller Lite Dodge and this message serves as a congratulation to the eventual champion.
• Deuces Wild…When Brad wins a race during the 2011 Chase for the Championship, two lucky fans will win their own "man cave," compliments of Miller Lite. The man cave gear includes a "kegerator,"a dart board, Miller Lite neon sign, a basketball game and pub furniture. Visit MillerLite.com/Brad to enter.
• The Rest is History... In 30 combined Cup Series starts at HMS, Penske Racing drivers have recorded three top-five finishes and seven top-10 results. Team Penske drivers have captured one win, 14 top-five and 17 top-10 finishes at Homestead and they have led 629 laps in open-wheel competition.
Brad Keselowski on his first year driving the iconic No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge
"This has definitely been a dream season for me in my first year driving the 'Blue Deuce.'We were able to show progression as the year went along and that was one of the most important things for me. This was basically a new team and for us to compete for the championship in our first year together really bodes well for our future. With the success that we had this year, it changes the goal and expectations for 2012. Now we want to fire out of the box strongnext season, compete for wins early, and show everyone that we are going to be a legitimate team for years to come. I'll take a little time to myself over the off-season, but I'm already excited about going to Daytona next year."
Brad Keselowski on racing at Homestead-Miami Speedway
"I like going to Homestead and I enjoy the racing that it provides. One of the coolest things about that track is just how wide it is. I think it's really a racy track. I like how you can run the top, middle and bottom. It's kind of got a Michigan feel, so to speak, and it's a good race. You want a venue like that to settle the championship, a place where it's all in the driver's hands and up to them to get the job done."
Crew chief Paul Wolfe on Homestead-Miami Speedway
"We're bringing another new car to the track for the fourth consecutive weekend and we're excited about how it will race. Our cars have really progressed over the last couple of months. We've seen a lot of gains across the board. The intermediate tracks have been up and down for us this year, but I feel like we can go to Homestead this weekend and have a strong finish to the season. The key to running well at Homestead – and this is true of almost any track we visit – is keeping your car turning well in the middle of the corners while maintaining good drive on corner exit. It's been a great year. Although we came up a little short in the championship, we are focused on finishing inside the top five in the standings. That would be a good accomplishment for everyone on this Miller Lite Dodge team."


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Maple Syrup
Maple Syrup
When Cody was 10 years old he started making maple syrup on an outside fireplace, he fell in love with sugaring and has improved the operation every year. Recently he built a sugarhouse and now makes a few hundred gallons of maple syrup in a year. Sugaring is truly in his blood.
In late February or early March the process begins. Maple trees are tapped and a bucket is hung on a spout. It takes freezing nights and warm days for the sap to run freely. In the beginning snowshoes are often needed as the snow can be very deep. When sap is ready to be gathered you must go from tree to tree and empty each bucket into a larger pail that is carried to the gathering tank. It takes a lot of work along with help from both family and friends. Cody's cousin Nick and his dad Tim often help with gathering sap.
After the sap is gathered it is taken to the sugarhouse and transferred to a storage tank passing through a strainer on the way. The sap then goes to the evaporator. The evaporator is an arch with special stainless steel pans designed for boiling sap. There's a very hot fire in the arch where the sap is boiled. During boiling lots of steam comes off and goes out the cupola in the roof of the sugarhouse. It takes forty gallons of sap to make one gallon of pure maple syrup. Once the syrup reaches its proper density it's then filtered and canned into various sized jugs.
Your imagination is the limit for uses of maple syrup. It's a perfect topping for pancakes, waffles, french toast, ice cream and yogurt. It's excellent when added to your glazes such as on ham, chicken, salmon or broiled scallops and also makes a great sweetener in your baked beans or butternut squash. Our Family loves to sauté bananas in maple syrup, yum!
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By Jonathan SHER, Free Free Reporter
Earl ORSER, who reshaped Eatons and London Life and led countless community causes in London, has died. The 76-year-old Londoner died Sunday in his north London home, secure in his legacy and comforted by his faith, his family said.
Told this month his cancer was terminal and he had weeks to live, ORSER, a man who made a life of making change despite obstacles, accepted his fate, his daughter Barbara ORSER said yesterday.
"Let me get this straight," he told his doctor. "It's a no-fix."
ORSER's death will be felt across Canada, said John KIME, president of the London Economic Development Corp., an organization on which ORSER served as the founding chair.
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Born in 1928 in Toronto, ORSER grew up in the Danforth, a working-class neighbourhood. The encouragement of a high school teacher led ORSER to apply for and get a scholarship to the University of Toronto, an act of kindness he was to repeat many times over for countless others.
"That genuinely stayed with him the rest of his life," Barbara ORSER said.
His humble beginnings may go a long way to explain the way ORSER treated those who worked for him, seeking out their opinions and taking a real interest in their lives.
"Anybody that was around him had an opinion that was worthy of expression," KIME said.
ORSER's leadership skills were honed as a university student when he led a work crew of surveyors through remote areas of New Brunswick.
"I can't think of a better way to cut your teeth," Barbara ORSER said.
ORSER became a chartered accountant in 1953 and then a partner in the firm Clarkson Gordon before he began his rise in corporate Canada.
He played leading roles at Molson, Air Canada and Eatons, where as chief executive officer he made a difficult decision, ending the retailer's catalogue business.
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"How could you do it?" the late Barbara FRUM of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation asked, ETHERINGTON recalled.
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In 1978, he was hired by Brascan, an asset management company, to do a study of London Life, which he was then asked to implement.
The insurance company, long run by the Jeffery family, was resistant to change by an outsider, but under ORSER the company went public and assets grew to more than $16 billion from $3.9 billion.
Blake FEWSTER, former chief actuary at London Life, said of ORSER, "He was the most creative person I ever worked for. He modernized the management system and had a great sense of how things should be done."
His acceptance there no doubt had something to do with the way he treated employees, family and colleagues say.
Each year as the holidays approached, he took two or three days to personally wish each employee a merry Christmas, Barbara ORSER said.
His eagerness to take on challenges extended to his community, even to his province, as in 1990, when the Ontario government sought his help.
Bob RAE's New Democratic Party government asked him to write a report on how to improve health care in the London region, and a year later he recommended consolidating the city's hospitals.
His advocacy met with great resistance then, but later became a model for consolidation by successive governments at Queen's Park.
Marion BOYD was an New Democratic Party cabinet minister and in many ways on the opposite end of the political spectrum from ORSER, yet she respected his work.
"He was certainly well thought of as a person of integrity and as someone who really cared about issues affecting his community and the world," BOYD said.
Years later, ORSER butted heads with London city council when, as chairperson of the fledgling London Economic Development Corp., he argued against what he and his staff viewed as unjustified meddling.
His efforts may have saved the London Economic Development Corp. from an early end, KIME said.
"I don't think there's any doubt his status gave us the breathing room we needed."
ORSER was to perform some of his most meaningful work behind the scenes, his daughter Barbara said.
He mentored countless people, from contemporaries of his daughters when they were still in high school to mature professionals.
"He could see someone's potential before they saw it themselves," she said.
When a high school guidance counsellor questioned him about the lack of women entering engineering, he set up a scholarship through John Paul II high school in London.
While he rose to the halls of power, he was rooted to lifelong Friends and common-sense ideas he'd instil in his children and grandchildren.
Each year, he took his family back to east Toronto to attend Palm Sunday services at Kimburne Park United Church, taking time to rub the pews of his childhood.
When he accepted an honorary doctorate from Western, he offered this advice: "Hug your mom, don't get stuck in a rut and put something back in the cookie jar."
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. January 8 at First-St. Andrew's United Church at 350 Queens Ave. in London. Family will receive Friends one hour before the service.
The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the London Regional Cancer Centre or University College Morrison Hall at the University of Toronto.
Earl ORSER Remembered
"Earl is the kind of person who has made Western a great university and we all owe an enormous debt to him."
Paul DAVENPORT, president, University of Western Ontario
"This was a man genuinely committed to London, its success and its growth. He took a very strong leadership role and was insistent on certain principles. He did that with a great deal of skill and diplomacy in a difficult political environment."
John KIME, president, London Economic Development Corp.
"His influence was big in the business community. I knew him through his work at the (London Economic Development Corp.), where he was the chair of the first board. He brought a common-sense approach and rallied the community. We're all saddened by his passing."
Mayor Anne Marie DECICCO
"He did a wonderful job at London Life.... He exhibited some great leadership. He had a great sense of humour but he was resolute and tough. He didn't play golf too well but he was a great people person."
Peter WIDDRINGTON, former chief executive of John Labatt Ltd.
Earl ORSER's Life And Work
1928 Born July 5 in Toronto.
1950 Graduated from the University of Toronto. Joined Clarkson Gordon, becoming a chartered accountant in 1953 and later a partner.
1961 Joined Anthes Imperial, becoming a vice-president, before the conglomerate was bought by Molson Industries.
1968 Became a senior vice-president and director at Molson.
1970 Joined Air Canada as vice-president, finance.
1973 Joined the T. Eaton Co. Ltd., becoming president and Chief Executive Officer.
1978 Hired as a consultant by Brascan, an asset management company, to do a study of London Life, which he was then asked to implement.
1980 Named president and Chief Executive Officer at London Life.
1989 Selected chairperson of the London Life Board.
1991 Wrote a study for Bob RAE's New Democratic Party government advocating consolidation of London hospitals. Named a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. Given distinguished business alumni award by the University of Toronto.
1992 Given Canada 125 medal for business leadership.
1994 Stepped down as chairperson of London Life but continued on other corporate boards such as Toronto-based Spar Aerospace.
1997 Named to the Order of Canada. Inducted in the London Business Hall of Fame. Founding chairperson of the London Economic Development Corp.
2001 Announced he would retire from the London Economic Development Corp. board.
Notable achievements:
- Served eight years on the board of governors at University of Western Ontario, chairing it from 1988-89.
- Advisory committees to University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business and Orchestra London.
- Served on the boards of the Robarts Research Institute, the Young Men's Christian Association, Canada Trust, Royal Trust and Brascan Ltd.
- Chaired the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews.
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Scientists at IBM have announced the discovery of a new process that just might make spin transport electronics, or "spintronics" a real possibility in commercial electronics.
As you probably know, today's computing technology processes data by means of charging electrons. Unfortunately, as the circuits in our microchips become smaller and smaller, they will soon pass the point where electron flow is impossible to fully control.
The idea behind spintronics is to to use electrons' spin rather than their charge, by getting all of the electrons in the same area of a magnetic field to spin at the same rate, which IBM described as a waltz. This stabilizes the electron flow and extends an electron's spin duration by up to 30 times, lasting just beyond the current time it takes a 1 GHz processor to cycle.
The IBM scientists, working with scientists at European research university ETH Zurich, were able to monitor and stabilize the electrons with really short laser pulses, IBM said in a release.
The actual paper was published at Nature Physics, but it is not for the faint of heart.
Since spintronics research takes place about 40 degrees above absolute zero, the folks at IBM admit that this new technology may take a while to appear in commercially available devices.
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