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We know you won't find another training center like Athletic Lab. We're proud of our coaches, our methodology & our facility. But don't take our word for it, do the comparison yourself & see what our amazing clients have to say!
All of the coaches are extremely attentive, personable, approachable and excellent motivators. I can now back squat 2.5x what I did at the start, can do an unassisted pullup, and have started to participate in Olympic Weightlifting training. To say we've got it really good at Athletic Lab is an understatement. WE ARE SPOILED! Athletic Lab is my home away from home and the members and coaches are like family. Home sweet home!
I wasn't able to get the results I wanted before joining Athletic Lab! They have an awesome setup with a fun, fit and proud team of coaches, multiple daily non-boring and effective workouts, positive motivation, workout critiques to challenge you, and a competitive if you want-it-to-be atmosphere. Get in here if you want to get extremely fit!
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Simply put, a force for good in my life. I put in the effort, and Athletic Lab makes sure that my efforts get results.
I wanted to tell you thanks for all the help you are providing. It is fantastic to receive coaching from someone you know is providing accurate data backed by science.
After a few weeks in the Athletic Lab Crossfit classes, I am definitely much stronger than before. Great classes and great instructor's.
Thanks to the great trainers at AL I was able to workout 31 weeks of my high risk pregnancy before I was put on bed rest for non related reasons. It was their constant motivation and modifications that kept me moving not only during that time but after giving birth. Thanks AL! You have created a community of like minded members who quickly become family!
Thank you to everyone at Athletic Lab, for everything you all have done. The training there was tough but definitely worth it! Thanks again.
Thank you so much for all your help with the weight training and pole vaulting! You have definitely helped so much in getting me where I am now! Thanks again!
No one should hesitate to train with Athletic Lab. You simply cannot make a better investment in power and speed development and overall enjoyment of the sport. I've had probably over thirty to forty coaches since I started playing sports I think Mike is the best.
She absolutely loves your program. I never thought she would get excited about strength and conditioning, but I was wrong. She really likes the challenge of your classes. It is making her push herself to get better times and she loves when she can actually measure that her strength has improved.
Your staff has really helped my team improve our workouts. Their knowledge and dedication not only helped us as individual athletes, but has motivated us as a team to work together and to keep pushing each other. We really appreciate it!
I trained hard for 5 years with no improvement. I was starting to think that I would never be able to improve upon my college marks. Then I started to train with Mike and shortly thereafter I set a personal best in the 60m by .10 seconds in only my 2nd race of the season!
Dr. Young- You are obviously very good at what you do. Suzanne incorporated just a couple of the suggestions you made into the full out sprints in the games, and it was noticeable that she was running faster!!
Thank you again for everything this summer. My coaches have said I look a lot stronger and better conditioned on the ice!
I am soooo glad I've been working out at Athletic Lab because it definitely prepared me for Division 1 sports!
You gave me a very valuable lesson on how you take an athlete and make them better. I was not aware of all the work that takes place.
Thank you for helping me train this summer it really helped me improved my game and I feel like I can compete more physically.
Thanks for everything, Mike! There's no way the LA Racing Dragons could have accomplished what they did this year without your help.
I strongly recommend consulting with Mike to anyone who is looking to improve their running. I had the opportunity to meet today and I feel that I walked away a much stronger athlete. Not only was he able to point out the flaws in my form and cue the correct changes, he was capable of explaining the physics of the movements.
Thanks again to you and the Athletic Lab staff. When I walked in the door and met with you in late summer of 2012 I could not have imagined that I'd run four 100 mile races (3 in less than 24 hours) in the next 15 months as well as several other races between 31 and 66 miles. And I've done so while staying healthy and improving my recovery time after each race.
Hey Mike I ended up getting 316 lbs on the squat and ran out of weight. And then I did 170 in bench! Those are 15-20 percent gains!! I brag to my friends about you all the time Mike! Thanks so much man!
We highly recommend Athletic Lab to parents of other athletes (and we wish we would have known about the Lab sooner). Jared definitely attributes an increase in his speed on the field, to the training he received with you this summer.
Marlee is very thankful for the work-outs that you provided for her. You prepared her for the collegiate aspect of athletic training. Thanks for all the work you did with her.
I have been under intensive training to become a better paddler for about 6 months. I had started plateauing but then my team started doing your workouts. Now I'm improving. It feels so good to be taking steps toward my goal once again.
After working with Mike at the Athletic Lab, I saw immediate results in my strength and speed…I felt stronger as the season went on and really owe all the credit to him and the Lab.
I started working with Mike because I wanted to get faster. Clearly, I'm the fastest guy on the team as anybody can see. I'm like lightning. I wanted to get stronger and once you get the kinks out and get your touches back, your feel stronger, fitter.
Athletic Lab is by far the best place for technical, scientifically based, individualized training for high performance in the triangle. I recommend it to all who are serious about reaching their athletic potential, no matter what stage in life.
Since I started training at Athletic Lab I have noticed the difference in my speed and strength. I highly recommend this facility and the staff to high level athletes and even people who are just interested in keeping their bodies fit and in shape. Athletic Lab is my gym!
The Athletic Lab staff has helped me improve my speed and triple jump technique and allowed me to be apart of a company worth representing.
Mike Young, the trainer we've been working with at Athletic Lab, he's brutal. He's tough, but he's great. I'm trying my best to think of excuses not to go today. Tuesdays and Thursdays are the worst. He almost killed me Tuesday. I got up out of bed and almost fell over. But he's whipping us into shape for the season.
Everything is going great. I have adjusted to the program very well. My sprinting form has improved and keeps getting better. My speed and power indicators are better than ever. Thanks so much for your help.
I trained with Mike Young of Athletic Lab who did a great job. It's helping me out a lot. I lost some weight and I put a bit more muscle on. It's helping me so much I feel much more powerful. I can play the whole game now. And it's all thanks to them.
Mike Young helped me set and reach challenging personal fitness goals. With the help of his expertise in the weight room and on the track, I learned new events, set new personal bests, and returned to compete in track and field at a high level after a substantial absence from the sport.
I start Spring Training tomorrow and I feel really fast and amazing. You are the best.
Since working with Mike Young my speed has dramatically improved, something I didn't always think was possible. His system is complete and the coach / athlete relationship we have is excellent. I hope to have him as my coach throughout my professional career.
I just want to echo how excited I am that I improved over one tenth of a second in the 60m dash. We really only did about 6-8 weeks of workouts and now I'm at a world class level.
Athletic Lab is the ideal facility to train and hone my strength and speed during the season and the off season because of all the tools available to you there.
Mike Young, the guy we're working with, he's just really good at just setting up the base, making sure we're strong and quick, and all of our work there is focusing on our core. It's not easy. I'm usually close to passing out, but it'll be good once the 80th minute comes around during the season.
By working out at Athletic Lab, I have achieved a higher level of fitness and athletic confidence than I ever thought possible after having a baby.
Mike Young is one of the brightest and well rounded coaches in the United States. His background in the science of performance has allowed him to teach and mentor not just athletes, but other coaches as well. My conversations with him always help me to learn and grow in my profession.
I have known and worked on various projects with Mike Young for several years now. I find his efforts to be pragmatic and sound in design. The data and information that I receive from this group is timely and they are always open to suggestion.
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The quality of the service you are providing our top athletes is invaluable. Thank you for your continued efforts as the Beijing Olympic Games draw near.
In an era where developing the sport-specific abilities of speed, power, and lateral movement is absolutely necessary, HPC can provide athletes with the cutting-edge training techniques and opportunities that all athletes need.
When looking at serious breakthroughs on high performance sport Mike Young and the Human Performance Consulting staff represent my foundation every year. When dealing with high performance in sport my trust lies with HPC and their services.
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The Bay Area Homebirth Collective wins best home delivery from the SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay Awards 2007. Pizza and chinese food eat your heart out!
"The natural-birth resurgence of the '70s gestated, was delivered, and suckled right here in the Bay Area. After 30 years the movement has grown into a well-respected alternative to highly medicated and medicalized birth. While local hospitals have cesarean rates as high as 25 percent and give epidural anesthesia to 70 percent or more of their patients, planned home births with licensed midwives are consistently associated with fewer medical interventions and have been shown to be as safe as hospital births. For families who prefer to give birth in the safety and comfort of their homes, the staff of the Bay Area Homebirth Collective offer childbirth preparation classes, labor assistance, and midwifery care to women in every corner of the Bay Area. The members of the collective come from diverse backgrounds, and all are experienced, licensed, and committed advocates of natural birth. Just as good: they won't make you wear one of those tiny peekaboo paper gowns." Click here for the Best of the Bay Awards online.
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By Josh Block, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Josh Block is CEO & president of the Israel Project, a 501c3 nonpartisan organization based in Washington D.C. A former Clinton administration official at USAID, Block was also a member of the senior staff at AIPAC, a pro-Israel lobby. You can follow him @JoshBlockDC. The views expressed are his own.
The months leading up to yesterday's Israeli election were filled with confident forecasting. Israeli voters, analysts told us, were turning rightward and even losing confidence in the Jewish state's democratic institutions. Voter turnout would slouch toward all-time lows, and remaining voters would empower a government that was, depending on a pundit's particular verve, "hardline," "extremist," "ultra-nationalist," – or even worse.
Israeli voters, however, had other ideas. And now many of those pundits are expressing surprise at the turnout and composition of Israel's 19th Knesset.
By the time polls closed last night, two-thirds of Israeli voters had cast their ballots, exceeding the last election's turnout after inching toward levels not seen in over a decade and a half. The Israeli public – caricatured on the eve of the election by one far-left voice as "sleepy, complacent and apathetic" – turned out to be far more engaged than many had imagined. Admirers of Israel's boisterous democratic culture had every reason to feel buoyed.
And if Israeli voters spoke loudly, they also spoke clearly.
The night's big winner was the centrist Yesh Atid party, which garnered 19 seats, far outrunning election-eve polls to become Israel's second-largest party. Founded and led by Israeli TV personality Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid offers a post-ideological pragmatism. The party couples an emphasis on tough national security with an explicit endorsement of a two-state solution, and promotes free market policies while insisting on the need to bolster the middle class. Meanwhile, Yesh Atid's avowedly secularist agenda, its core brand, is expressed in terms of the need to integrate Israel's ultra-orthodox and Arab minorities into the state's civil and military institutions.
Lapid himself is a secular icon in Israel. Though yesterday marked his first election night as a candidate, he is no stranger to politics. His father, Yosef "Tommy" Lapid, headed Israel's top secular liberal party, Shinui (Change), for seven years at the beginning of the last decade. While Yesh Atid is not strictly modeled on Shinui, it is in many ways its modern reincarnation.
Lapid and his party seem to reflect the current mood of the Israeli electorate: skeptical of Palestinian intentions but willing to take risks for peace, averse to old-style Israeli socialism but opposed to shredding Israel's social safety net, and socially liberal while respectful of religious expression.
As expected, the Likud-Beitenu list of incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to anchor a ruling coalition majority in Israel's 120-seat Knesset, landing 31 seats. It should surprise no one that Netanyahu's first coalition-building phone call after polls closed was to Lapid. Netanyahu has shown a strong predictive preference for broad centrist coalitions to those including religious parties and those to his right. He has repeatedly endeavored to forge coalition governments with Israel's center-left parties, as with Labor and Kadima after the last election.
Netanyahu – like Ariel Sharon before him, who in his second political incarnation proved a pragmatist rather than an ideologue – is today the leading centrist among his Likud colleagues. And he appears already hard at work on building a center-right coalition – much like Sharon and Lapid the Father teamed up to do ten years ago. Given the little distance between the two on key issues – both are free-market-oriented, both are committed to a two-state solution including an undivided Jerusalem – it is highly likely that they will sit together in Israel's next government.
More from CNN: Don't expect Obama-Netanyahu blowup
Last night's third-place party, and the one likely to lead Israel's Opposition in the next Knesset, is Shelly Yachimovich's Labor party. On foreign policy, Labor hews to the country's consensus, sharing widely held skepticism of Palestinian intentions, while remaining committed to a negotiated solution. Domestically, Yachimovich has oriented the party to the left, moving to slow and even reverse Israel's economic liberalization. The party is projected to receive 15 seats in the incoming Knesset.
While doomsday predictions of Israel's illiberalism, endless caricatures of a country being transformed by some emerging ultra-orthodox monopoly, and threats of a radical shift to the right may have been en vogue for pundits (and useful for those whose political agendas are served by such misleading portrayals) they stand in stark contrast to reality – and to the real State of Israel. Although it may confound Israel's critics, the distribution of votes makes it overwhelmingly likely that, once again, both Israel's next government and its opposition will be led by parties that back the two-state solution.
Israelis woke up on Wednesday to a new political configuration, but a largely unchanged political reality. The country's center-right and center-left blocs, within which different parties compete for and cannibalize each other's votes, have been roughly stable for over a decade.
Last night, a centrist country, rooted in liberal, Western values identical to our own, gave its vote to parties clustered around the political center. Those who predicted a different outcome will now have to ask themselves which of their assumptions, or their agendas, led them so far astray.
Israel's election confounds everyone including Israili politicians. It 's awesome warching real democracy in action!
falafl for sale!! call....
Interesting how the same "expert" pollsters and pundits that got it all so wrong, now want to tell us they know what is next?[they dont],..This election result is a clear message that old days and old ways are no longer the only! way,,,"something new" is coming there, It will take time to grow, but it will happen, is happening,..The past is past, it is usefull as a lesson in what not! to do, and thats all it is,..it is the now and perhaps maybe? tommorrow? that is the new deal,,nice to see this change, we will be watching with very real interest,..
So refreshing to see peaceful yet vibrant democracy functioning well in the Middle East. Naturally, our freshly re-elected president has never gone there and has no plans to go. Obama would rather spend time going to talk to Russia, Saudis and Egypt...
Where is a democracy speech from the only democratic part in the entire region?
get off the plant an or earth jews mow.signed the so called meek an pnm,.
take the nazis to we could give 2 f ,s,.pnm,.
Netanyahu is an idiot! No Western country has any trust in this idiot! His primary goal was to get the US to attack Iran for him, he could not do this himself. Thank God Obama refused his demand. We, the USA, cannot afford another "shock and awe" campaign. lsrael needs to "grow up" and become a member of the free world. Every "settlement" announced when dissed by the US does nothing but forment more violence. Netanyahu has dissed us on numerous occassions. His control over our Congress only goes so far.
Unless you are the officially elected representative and spokesman for Western countries, your claim is false.
Any honest democratic leader should respect the vote of another democracy, especially when its electorate has chosen to re-elect its leader.
It is well known that it is the US who would prefer that Israel did not act alone against Iran, despite the fact that it is Israel who is threatened with annihilation by Iranian leaders and who are located closer to Iran than other Western countries, all of whom, along with the Arabs, are afraid.
Netanyahu is the leader of the freest country in the region and freer than many Western states.
He and his electorate know what is best for Israel.
I think it is a great picture of Mr. Natanyahu with him holding a voting ticket , I think. I am sure he is smiling because he knows it is all b.s.
Israel is between the rock and the hard place, and fear is rampant.
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When Clifford Nass moved to a Stanford University freshman residence hall as a "dorm dad" in 2007, he wasn't quite prepared for college life in the 21st century. Even as a professor who for decades had studied the interaction of humans and computers, he was caught off-guard when one of his students explained why she was texting her boyfriend just down the hall.
"It's more efficient," she said.
Then there was a familiar sight Nass continued to find astonishing. In lounges, in libraries, just about everywhere, he gazed at a legion of the perennially plugged-in: They chatted on cellphones, scanned Facebook, watched videos, blasted out tweets, and maybe even thumbed through a calculus text or a history of the modern world, all at once.
"I thought: Wow, that's pretty awesome," he told the Boston Globe in 2011. "What do they know that I don't know, and how can I be like that?"
The answers surprised him.
Nass, a sociologist who was among the first academics to sound alarms about the dangers of chronic multitasking and the decline in the kind of face-to-face interactions that he so unabashedly enjoyed with students and colleagues, died Saturday at Stanford Sierra Camp near South Lake Tahoe. He was 55.
Nass collapsed after a hike, the university said.
After several years of studies, Nass and other Stanford researchers came to some disturbing conclusions. They found that the heaviest multitaskers — those who invariably said they could focus like laser beams whenever they wanted — were terrible at various cognitive chores like organizing information, switching between tasks and discerning significance.
"They're suckers for irrelevancy," he said. "Everything distracts them."
More worrisome to Nass was his finding that people who regularly jumped into four or more information streams had a tougher time concentrating on just one thing even when they weren't multitasking. By his estimate, "the top 25%" of Stanford's students were in that category.
In a 2011 lecture at the university, Nass said writing samples from freshman multitaskers showed a tendency toward shorter sentences and disconnected paragraphs.
"We see less complex ideas," he said. "They're living and writing in a staccato world."
Over the years, "most academics, including myself, kept seeing it as an aberration," he told PBS' "Frontline" in 2009. "You'd see someone multitasking and go, 'Ha ha ha, those wacky college kids — OK, they'll grow out of it.' And then you start looking around and go, 'Wait a minute, they're growing into it, not out of it.' Little kids are growing up with it. Older people are being stuck with it."
"We could essentially be undermining the thinking ability of our society," he said. "We could essentially be dumbing down the world."
Nass' research struck a chord with parents worried about their media-hungry children and workers swamped in emails they were expected to answer immediately. He also did widely publicized work on the computerized voices and digital screens that can either drive motorists crazy or make them a little safer.
"He was on the leading edge of a dialogue society is going to have on when technology is appropriate and when it's too much," said David Strayer, a University of Utah neuroscientist and an expert on distracted driving. "His work will only gain in prominence because society is becoming that much more technological."
A professor at Stanford since 1986, Nass, rumpled and genial, was a campus favorite, a Mr. Chips of the digital age.
"He was the caring, lovable professor with his shirt untucked and a piece of breakfast on his sweater, running across the room to say hello and tell you about something new he had figured out in the lab," said Reilly P. Brennan, executive director of Stanford's Revs automotive program.
Nass was the program's director, as well as director of the university's Communications between Humans and Interactive Media lab, and co-director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford.
"He had two cars," Brennan said in an email. "One was an old Volvo and the other was an older Volvo, each littered with bags of McDonald's, PhD theses, receipts from his favorite café in Palo Alto that he should have turned into me, and notes about where the future was headed."
Born in Jersey City, N.J., on April 3, 1958, Nass grew up in Teaneck, N.J., and graduated from Princeton University in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He stayed at Princeton and, in 1986, received his doctorate in sociology.
Married in 1989 and divorced, he is survived by his son Matthew.
In addition to teaching, he was a consultant for numerous technology companies and wrote three books.
Published in 2010, his latest — "The Man Who Lied to His Laptop" — explores a theme he elaborated in many of his research studies: For better or worse, people view their devices as if they were people. They'll feel good if computers flatter them, Nass wrote, detailing experiments he conducted in his Stanford lab.
And if the voice on a car's navigation system — as obviously synthetic as it is — rubs drivers the wrong way, they'll get angry. In the late 1990s, BMW had to recall its 5 Series cars in Germany; men were complaining, Nass wrote, because the "voice" was female.
Whether people can master their feelings toward machines is an open question, he told NPR earlier this year.
"As a psychologist, I'm extremely optimistic," he said. "As a communications scholar who knows how seductive media is … it's a tough call."


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And nice see old gang back, lets spend some time here to waite Syberia 3, like we did old days
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If you haven't noticed, in that scene of the game(syberia2)Kate Walker says that she maybe can stop off on her way back from Syberia.
I strongly believe that this is going to happen in Syberia 3!
Youki wrote:But she won't come back. It's just not real oo. She don't know how to go back... This ship... Train... Oscar...
I just can't imagine that.
Youki wrote:But there is no railroad the Youki is asleep/died so whe also won't come back. She can't jump over the abyss in the Grand North Passage...
That's just impossible.
[A know - Kate doesn't know this word XD]
algonkin wrote:Niniendo, how are things in the Philippines?...nice to hear from you once again ... looks like the old gang might be getting back LOL!
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Andrea Pavan completed a four stroke victory at the Open Blue Green Côtes d'Armor Bretagne despite a two over par final round to finish at 11 under and claim his second Challenge Tour title of the season.
The Italian started the final round six strokes clear of the chasing pack at Golf Blue Green de Pléneuf Val André, but began his final 18 holes with a double bogey at the par four opening hole to see his advantage shrink, as those behind him started well.
However the Bad Griesbach Challenge Tour by Hartl Resort winner steadied the ship with a couple of birdies in the middle of the front nine, and despite two more dropped shots coming home, he was able to finish comfortably ahead of the rest.
England's Robert Dinwiddie finished at seven under par and in a tie for second place behind Pavan thanks to an impressive ten under par total for his final three rounds. He was alongside Welshman Rhys Davies who recorded his best finish of the season thanks to a closing score of 66 on Sunday.
With this win Pavan moves to second in the Challenge Tour Rankings, and the champion will now turn his attention to the number one spot this season, and to preparing for a second assault on The European Tour in 2014.
"I played lovely for the first three days," explained Pavan. "Then this morning I had a decent warm up, but the wind was moving more and I didn't hit the best tee shot off the first. I thought it would be OK, but I had to chip it out, and then my next one went in the bush, so eventually I was putting for six from 30 feet.
"Thankfully I rolled that putt in, which was important for me, as in that situation you just want to play as best you can, and the pace of play was quite slow today. We waited a lot, and it was hard to get in a rhythm with the wind and rain as well, so I struggled a little, but today was just about getting the job done and that's what I did.
"It is difficult when you have a big lead, to just keep going on this golf course because it is so tricky. You go for one pin like I did yesterday and you can walk off with a triple, so I tried to play pretty safely. I rolled some nice putts towards the end and they didn't drop, but I guess it doesn't matter.
"It would be great to win the rankings, but from now on I pretty much have my (European Tour) card guaranteed for next year, and I think I just need to work on a few more things in my game. Luckily I have five more tournaments to get ready, but to win the rankings is another goal of mine as I've won twice this season, and to win for a third time would be a dream."
Dinwiddie was also very pleased with his display this week on the French coast, having shown something like his best form the final three days, after a slow start on Thursday that saw him finish three over par.
"Today I played some really good golf, until the end when I hit a few poor iron shots," said the Englishman. "It could have been a lot better, but I did make a few good saves at the end, so I'm pretty happy to finish where I have.
"It is getting to crunch time. I was sitting 20th (in the rankings) coming into this week, and I know I just need a couple more good finishes and I will secure my card, so today is a big step towards doing that.
"I've been in this position before, looking to earn my card, but this season I haven't played well enough to warrant being back on Tour and I need to keep improving to get back and stay there. I don't want to keep going up and down, so this year I have figured out a few things, as I'm just trying to get out there and contend instead of messing around at the bottom of the pack."
Davies was also very happy with the form he has showed this week in a season where he has not always been able to show his best play, and he is excited ahead of a big couple of weeks.
He said: "The round went well today, it was probably the best I've played this week. I hit the ball a lot better today, as I struggled a bit the first two days with my long game, but my short game held me in it and I am very pleased. I hit a lot of good shots, holed some nice putts, and shot a good score.
"I'm playing the next two weeks, in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and it is good to have some form and momentum going into those big money events."
Former Amateur Champion Alan Dunbar had started the day in second place, but he fell back into a tie for fourth at five under par thanks to a final round of 72. Alongside him were Matt Haines (66), Sam Hutsby (70) and leading Frenchman, Adrien Saddier (69).
While Jerome Lando-Casanova carded two eagles to shoot the round of the day, a five under par 65, and finish one shot further back in a tie for eighth alongside Australia's Daniel Gaunt.
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|DAVIES, Rhys
|DINWIDDIE, Robert
|HAINES, Matt
|SADDIER, Adrien
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I read this earlier today, which seems relevant:
Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen argued in a classic study that (US) Southern politeness is a reaction to high levels of aggression:
"(The authors also theorize that Southern politeness could be a response to Southern aggression—if Southerners are more likely to take offense than other regional cultures, it follows they would be less likely to give offense, for safety's sake.)"
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A look at how the VA Innovation Initiative conducts team meetings to foster collaboration and communication.
Bill Gates says, "I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other..." At the Veterans Affairs Innovation Initiative (VAi2), how we communicate within our team drives success. VAi2 is a flat organization – instead of a rigid, hierarchical one – comprised of an adaptable team. It is not uncommon for staff, including leadership, to share and trade duties in this high velocity environment.
The VAi2 team uses three open communication pathways to make it all work on a daily, weekly, and as needed basis:
- Daily Scrum: Adapting a concept from the "agile" method of software development, our team convenes every morning for 30 minutes to conduct an all hands check-in called "scrum." This round-robin sequence is designed to give everybody on the team an opportunity to say what they accomplished yesterday, what they plan to accomplish today, and what they need help with from other members on the team. The Director of VAi2 leads the conversation and keeps our team on the same page.
- Weekly Sync: Every Monday, the VAi2 team gathers for a roundtable discussion called "sync" for an in-depth 90-minute staff meeting about the week's priorities or future upcoming objectives across the VAi2 program areas.
- 'Face-time': Not the Apple widget, but rather actual in-person time with our Director outside these team meetings provide critical opportunities to obtain support, guidance, or on-the-fly problem solving whenever necessary. The team has access to the Director's online calendar and can schedule time to meet with him, or he will drop in for opportunities to engage VAi2 staff when opportunities – or crises – arise.
These three methods help generate success within our organization because open communication – with deliberate structure where possible – is effective. Has your team found other ways to create open communications?
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In Mexico, it is customary to honor our beloved family members who have gone before us by celebrating Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Every Nov. 1, Mexicans celebrate the passing of children (12 years and younger). This is more of a private ceremony.
Nov. 2 is the traditional Dia de los Muertos, which people celebrate by setting up an altar in the Church or the family's home, depending on the community tradition. On the altar, they place the deceased's photo, their favorite foods (including fruits, vegetables, hot chocolate, pan dulce, tamales, pulque, atoli, etc.) and flowers. Then the family prays the rosary and a novena. Afterward, they play the deceased's favorite music.
This is a joyous occasion because they are celebrating the lives of their loved ones, and the fact that they have moved on to a better, eternal life, sharing in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Day of the Dead fills a void
By Sheila Myers, Communications Department
The loss of a loved one leaves a hole in your heart. With time, you get used to living with this void, but occasionally, somethingñan aroma, a song, a situationñreminds you of the person and for a second, the hole closes and you feel oddly comforted.
Years ago, my husband and I discovered the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday when you lovingly remember departed relatives and friends.
The holiday has its roots in the Aztec culture. The ancient Aztecs embraced death and viewed it as a continuation of life. They believed that life was a dream and only in death did they become truly awake. Day of the Dead for the Aztecs was a month-long celebration when the dead came back to visit. After the Spanish conquest, the ritual evolved and spread to other cultures. It is now celebrated to coincide with All Souls Day in the Catholic faith.
For the Day of the Dead, Mexicans build elaborate altars for their deceased. They fill it with pictures and mementos of the deceased and decorate with colorful flowers, candles, brightly painted skull masks and whimsical skeleton figurines called ìcalacas.î
When I learned about Day of the Dead, I welcomed the opportunity to put our departed loved ones front and center in our home, to talk about them with our children and to reflect on the essence of their lives.
So in early October, we gather photos of our deceased relatives and set them out in the living room. Our display is plain and simple, unlike the beautifully adorned altars I have seen. It lacks the favorite food and drink of our departed family. We donít play their favorite music or burn incense. But it serves the same purpose.
When I pass by the display, their faces call to me. I stop and reflect, remembering them and how their presence shaped my life. And for a brief moment, the hole is closed.
CFCA celebrated Dia de los Muertos at our headquarters in Kansas. Employees were invited to bring in photos and mementos of their departed loved ones. Below you can see a couple of photos of our altar. We would like to invite you to share some memories of your deceased loved ones with us in the comments section.


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Carlos Kauffmann won Saturday's finale by nearly 10 seconds after finishing second in Friday's opener.
DAYTONA BEACH — Carlos Kauffmann topped off two days of Ferrari Challenge racing with a win Saturday at Daytona International Speedway.
Kauffmann, of Caracas, Venezuela, drove his No. 24 Auto Gallery Ferrari 458 Italia TP to a nearly 10-second win over the second-place No. 777 Ferrari 458 Italia CS driven by Emmanuel Anassis of Montreal.
In the second of two races featuring the exotic, Italian-made cars, Kauffman was able to better Friday's second-place finish by leading the final 10 of the race's 20 laps Saturday.
Mark McKenzie, of Austin, Texas, finished third for the second time in as many days in his Ferrari of Houston 458 TP.
Kauffmann, who claimed the race's fastest lap at 117.183 mph when he nabbed the lead on the 10th lap, averaged a record 115.91 mph over the race's nearly 37-minute span. That speed handily topped the previous day's average speed of 84.50 mph in a caution-filled race that was shortened by five laps.
ALWAYS READY: The Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates team is always expecting the unexpected. And, for the most part, its garage area's self-named "Recovery Room" has played key roles in the team's four Rolex 24 At Daytona victories.
Other teams rarely see what Ganassi and company can accomplish when the team takes the cars to the garage, whether completing radiator changes in fewer than 90 seconds or filling transmission fluid in less than a lap's time.
Michael Shank Racing, the defending Rolex 24 champion, is a quick learner, and this year the team set up a tire-care tent just across the way from its own garage recovery room.
NEW 2014 CORVETTE DUE: When Grand-Am and the American Le Mans Series finish the process of joining forces in the 2014 season, a new race version of the Corvette C7 will join, too.
General Motors North American president Mark Reuss said that Corvette's race version is still a work in progress.
"We're working closely with Grand-Am" to establish its final competitive form, Reuss said, adding that the most important part of the process is what will "ultimately … benefit the fan."
A.J. FOYT JUST GRAND: Four-time Indy 500 winner A.J. Foyt, who was chosen as the 2012 Rolex 24 grand marshal, fell ill just days before his duties and wound up in a hospital room for nearly four months fighting a staph infection.
"I always try to fulfill my promises," said Foyt, who is in Daytona this year, "and I told Rolex when I was in the hospital that if I wasn't in the hospital (in 2013), I'll be there to collect my Rolex watch.'"
Foyt recalled that he almost didn't compete in the 1983 24-hour race "because my daddy was sick and I didn't want him to die while I was gone."
"He told me that I should go on and race. I was real proud to bring home the winning trophy and show it to him before he passed" on May 21, 1983.
BOWYER COOLING IT: Michael Waltrip and Rob Kauffman called on one of their NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers, Clint Bowyer, at the last minute to help drive the No. 56 Ferrari 458 Italia in the Rolex 24.
"My biggest adjustment was having the Daytona Prototype cars being so much faster than the GTs," Bowyer said. "My two bosses were able to share a cool (experience) and help me kick the year off right."


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Service is at the heart of the Saint Michael's College experience. That's not because it's required for any major. It's because our students believe in it.
Get to know MOVE, which is our service organization on campus. By graduation, nearly 70% of our students will participate in MOVE in some way, which is the highest participate rate of any organization on campus. More than 65 of our student leaders head MOVE's highly individualized, creative programs. In 2011, 560 student MOVE volunteers accounted for almost 28,000 hours served locally, domestically and internationally.
In short, not every student comes to Saint Michael's to volunteer. But once they are here, most are inspired to do so by experiencing its importance in the community.
The variety of programs, from an hour of volleyball with women who are incarcerated to a year-long stint working one-on-one with a child, mean there are service options that will fit any student's schedule and interest level.
What moves you? We can help you find out for yourself. Here's what some students have said about their experience with MOVE:
"When I came to St. Mike's, MOVE was a place to get involved in good things," says one graduating senior. "But over time, I've realized it's not just a place to come to do things, it's really a way of being. I have a much better understanding of our world and my place in it because of my time in MOVE."


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PARIS, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A Rwandan rebel leader suspected of war crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last year was arrested in France Monday, officials said.
The International Criminal Court, sitting in The Hague, Netherlands, said in a statement it had grounds to believe Callixte Mbarushimana, the first senior leader arrested by the ICC for crimes in the DRC's Kivu provinces, is responsible for 11 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, torture, rape, attacks against civilians, destruction of property, inhuman treatment and persecution.
While thanking the French, ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the arrest was a "crucial step in efforts to prosecute the massive sexual crimes committed in the DRC," where more 15,000 cases of sexual violence were reported in 2009 alone.
"We are grateful to the French authorities for executing the arrest warrant and we are thankful for the excellent cooperation of the many parties involved in the investigation, including France, Germany, the DRC and Rwanda," Moreno-Ocampo said.
As recently as August, Mbarushimana's band, the Forces Democratiques pour la Liberation du Rwanda-Forces Combattantes Abacunguzi, was accused of being involved in the commission of more than 300 rapes in North Kivu province, yet Mbarushimana denied any allegation against his movement, the ICC said in its release.
The arrest culminated nearly two years of investigations by France, Germany, DRC, Rwanda and the ICC into the Forces Democratiques pour la Liberation du Rwanda, the latest iteration of Rwandan rebel groups established by Rwandan Hutus responsible for the 1994 genocide of Tutsis and Hutu moderates in Rwanda, the court said.
"Their activities contributed to triggering the two Congo wars, ... which resulted in an estimated 4 million victims, the largest number of civilian casualties since the Second World War," the ICC said. "Since then, the FDLR has continued to commit horrific crimes against the civilian population."
Geraldine Mattioli-Zeltner, Human Rights Watch international justice advocacy director said the arrest of Mbarushimana "sends a powerful message that those responsible for horrific crimes will face justice no matter where they try to hide."


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The U.S. Marine Corps may develop a handful of landing zones for Osprey aircraft, including one on state-owned land in Pender County.
The U.S. Marine Corps may develop a handful of landing zones for Osprey aircraft, including one on state-owned land in Pender County.
The Ospreys, formally known as MV-22 aircraft, are hybrids that take off like a helicopter but convert to turboprop planes once airborne.
Officials are discussing the development of seven landing sites, all located within 150 miles of the New River Air Station in Jacksonville, according to Nat Fahy, Marine Corps Installations East � Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune public affairs director.
Three of those sites are at Bladen Lakes State Forest, with the other four scattered at Caledonia Correctional Facility, the Santee Cooper/Pee Dee Generation Site, Uwharrie National Forest and Watha Fish Hatchery in Pender County.
The majority of those sites, including the fish hatchery, are owned by the state. If developed, the sites would be used for aircrew training exercises, including take-off and landing.
"The Marine Corps is in the environmental evaluation and documentation portion of the project, which is required as part of the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA," Fahy said via email. "Once the NEPA process is complete, the real estate negotiation portion with the property owners will begin."
There�s no guarantee that any of the sites will be developed, though the Corps expects the NEPA evaluation to be completed some time this summer.


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We finally come to the last boss of this current tier of raid content, Cho'gall, the final boss in Bastion of Twilight.
This is a long fight with a lot to keep in mind so what we'll be covering are just a few tips to help make the fight easier without necessarily going into every single ability and aspect of the fight.
The big thing during the fight, like with Atramedes is to keep your Corrupted Blood stacks as low as possible by NOT getting hit with the majority of his abilities as there is no way to remove Corrupted Blood stacks.
The big thing that you'll need to watch out for during the first long phase of the fight is his Fury of Cho'gall debuff which will make it nearly impossible for a tank to survive without a cooldown so to this end, be sure that your offtank is on the ball and knows that taunting quickly is going to be the name of the game.
Also, when he mind controls targets, depending on how long they stay controlled, the boss receives a stacking buff that increases his damage so keep an eye on that and don't be afraid to call for a cooldown if it hits an uncomfortable number.
When dealing with the adds, if you are the one dealing with the Adherants, be sure to keep a finger ready to interrupt its Depravity spell which will do a significant amount of shadow damage to your raid. As you can't always rely on your melee or ranged to do the job for you, if you're the add tank, just be ready with that interrupt.
When the slimes come out, honestly, there isn't too much that you can do about that as a tank. Because you can't get near them without increasing your Corrupted Blood stack to dangerous levels, your best bet is to keep away and trust your ranged to deal with them.
As the second phase hits, probably the best place to tank him is at the foot of, or halfway up the stairs to his throne. The reason you hold him here is that due to the peculiar nature of the way the tentacle adds will spawn around him, on the stairs, they're limited to that area, making them much more susceptible to cleaving and aoe attacks, making killing them that much quicker which, in turn, will help your damage dealers get on the boss again.
If you were the off-tank in phase one, do your best to deal as much damage as possible during this phase but it's important to keep yourself ready to tank in case your main tank goes down to a random spike of burst damage.
It can seem like a crazy and intense fight at first, and it can be especially overwhelming when you don't know how all of the separate elements of the fight go together but once you go through it a few times, you'll see how each element can actually be very simple and it'll go a long way toward keeping the fight under control and growing more comfortable about tanking it.
Best of luck with this final boss and I hope that we all get them down before the Firelands is released!


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While Apple watchers wait for Apple to deliver on its promise of a Blu-ray equipped Mac, Sony has moved directly into iMac territory with a Blue-ray equipped version of its all-in-one 22" TV/PC today. Let's take a gander at what's inside.
Like an iMac, the Sony VAIO LT has all of its guts loaded into its monitor. It also has a 1680x1050 widescreen display, Vista Ultimate, a 1.3 megapixel camera, a built-in Blu-ray drive, 802.11n wireless support, and 2GB of RAM. Unfortunately, the hard drive capacity, type of Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and further information on the included discrete GPU are unknown at this time. Sony claims the hard drive will have plenty of room for recording HD content, and a GPU powerful enough to handle graphics-intensive games and HDTV. In order to watch TV or HD content on the VAIO LT, users will need to install a CableCARD that can be rented or bought from most cable companies.
One of the coolest features of the new VIAO PC/TV is its ability to be mounted on a wall. Because it only has a 22'" screen, it's probably best suited for office walls and not for hanging above the mantel in your living room. Sony also claims that users will be able to turn the TV off or on without having to worry about the PC shutting down or booting up--meaning, you won't need to wait for your TV to boot.
The VAIO LT will be available in October for $1,900 without the Blu-ray drive, or $2,900 with the Blu-ray drive.
UPDATE: The Sony VAIO LT has a recordable Blu-ray drive, which can store up to 50GB on dual-layer Blu-ray discs. This explains the $1,000 price difference between the Blu-ray and non-Blu-ray models.


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What if you could find everything your soul is longing for?
God has a plan to heal the soul's gnawing inner emptiness that is always longing for something more. What drives this futile attempt for fulfillment is the heart's true desire for significance, worth, and value--a desire that can only be met in the person and worship of Jesus Christ.
Join Pastor Pete Wilson in his exploration of the empty promises of the "good life" that includes the seduction of achievement, addiction to approval, idolatry of religion, obsession with money, and more. Learn not only to relinquish these idols, but replace them by turning your focus and worship toward God. It is the only thing that will set you absolutely free from the endless pursuit of everything else.
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Judge in zombie Muhammad case reprimanded
Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board confirms 'private rebuke'
A judge in Pennsylvania who dismissed charges against a fellow Muslim who was accused of attacking an atheist parading as a zombie Muhammad has been rebuked by state judicial officials.
The state Judicial Conduct Board action concerned Magisterial Judge Mark Martin, of Cumberland County, who was involved in the case that developed last winter when American Atheists' Pennsylvania State Director Ernest Perce V was marching in a parade, and allegedly was attacked.
A Muslim man, Talaag Elbayomy, was accused of storming out of the crowd and assaulting Perce, grabbing a sign around his neck and pulling until the strings choked him.
Perce had attired himself as a "zombie Muhammad" for the event, which enraged Elbayomy.
But then Martin, a Muslim judge, scolded Perce for offending Islam at an Oct. 11, 2011, parade in Mechanicsburg, Pa., called him a "doofus" and accused him of "using the First Amendment" to enrage Muslims. The judge then dismissed charges filed by police against the Muslim defendant.
It was Martin who brought a Quran to court and told the alleged victim, "I think you misinterpreted a couple of things. So before you start mocking somebody else's religion, you might want to find out a little more about it. It kind of makes you look like a doofus."
The judge added, "I think our forefathers intended to use the First Amendment so we can speak with our mind, not to p— off other people and cultures – which is what you did."
Elbayomy – who said he believed it was illegal to mock Muhammad – was charged with harassment. He denied touching Perce at trial, but police officers said Elbayomy admitted grabbing Perce's sign and beard the night of the incident.
A complaint was filed with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Judicial Conduct Board by John P. McTernan, a pro-life activist and founder of Defend and Proclaim the Faith Ministry.
He told WND he got a response from Joseph A. Massa Jr., the chief counsel for the state board.
The letter said, "The board recently concluded its investigation regarding the complaint you filed against Magisterial District Judge Mark Martin, Cumberland County. The board voted to issue a letter of caution to Judge Martin as a private rebuke of his behavior and, thereafter, to close the case.
"Judge Martin was mailed this letter, and the case is now closed," the letter said.
There had been numerous calls for the judge's removal when the situation developed.
The following is a dark and distorted video posted of the alleged attack:
However, Judge Martin dismissed the charges and purportedly belittled the atheist victim.
The audio of the judge lecturing Curtis for insulting Muhammad (starting at 28:30) is available here:
The judge said, "In many other Muslim-speaking countries, err, excuse me, many Arabic-speaking countries, predominantly Muslim, something like this is definitely against the law there, in their society. In fact, it could be punished by death, and frequently is, in their society."
He also said, "What you've done is, you've completely trashed their essence, their being. They find it very, very, very offensive. I'm a Muslim. I find it offensive. I find what's on the other side of this [sign] very offensive. (Editor's note: Reverse of sign said, "Only Muhammad can rape America!) But you have that right, but you are way outside your bounds of First Amendment rights."
Freedom activist Pamela Geller posted a report saying that she had interviewed Perce and discovered that hundreds of threats flooded in.
"Since his ordeal began, the infidel victim, Ernest Perce, has received 471 verifiable threats. Perce never released any personal information on Judge Martin or Elbayomy, but they released his, and now he has gotten threats at his home," she reported shortly after the case developed.
According to the interview, also posted at American Thinker, Geller wrote the case proves the need for anti-Shariah legislation, or laws that would protect America from Muslims who want to impose their religious law on the rest of society.
She noted that the judge later apparently was denying that he is Muslim.
"Ultimately, it is irrelevant if the judge is or isn't a Muslim. What is germane is his Shariah ruling, which is worse if he's not a Muslim. In Islam, Shariah supersedes all man-made laws. It is the law of Allah, so one might understand (though not condone) a Muslim judge defaulting to Shariah. But an American judge admonishing an infidel victim while holding up the Quran is shocking. You hear the Quran slam down in the audio of the court proceeding. "
She also reported on a dispute between the victim and the judge over a recording of the court incident.
The court had instructed Perce to destroy his copy because the judge is saying he never gave permission for the recording, the report said.
Perce also told Geller he talked to the judge about the video, and the judge threatened to hold him in contempt for revealing what the judge said.
Perce also said it's not a surprise that the judge would argue about what he said.
"Remember, a Muslim can lie to a nonbeliever, a kaffir. He spoke Arabic to the defendant and his friend. They answered back," he said. "If he claims he isn't a Muslim, then why does he have a Quran? Why did he challenge me to a debate on the interpretation of the Quran? Why get mad at me and insult me? Why then go on a six-minute rant against me? Why value Islam above Christianity?"
Blogger Eugene Volokh posted a commentary that purported to be from the judge.
He accused Perce of "many, many gross misrepresentations."
"I'm actually Lutheran and have been for at least 41 years," he said.
The judge also explained, "I based my decision on the fact that the Commonwealth failed to prove to me beyond a reasonable doubt that the charge was just; I didn't doubt that an incident occurred, but I was basically presented only with the victim's version, the defendant's version, and a very intact Styrofoam sign that the victim was wearing and claimed that the defendant had used to choke him. There so many inconsistencies, that there was no way that I was going to find the defendant guilty."


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The Lawrence School District moved one step closer to selling the Number Six School on Monday, when Board of Education trustees voted 4-2 to approve the sale to Bronx-based Simone Development Companies, which plans to lease the building to Mt. Sinai Hospital, to be used as a multi-specialty medical practice.
The expected purchase price is $12.5 million. The sale is subject to a public referendum scheduled for March 20.
Board President Dr. Asher Mansdorf, Vice President Murray Forman and Trustees Dr. Solomon Blisko and Dr. David Sussman voted in favor of the sale, while Trustees Uri Kaufman and Abel Feldhamer were opposed. Trustee Rabbi Nahum Marcus was not present for the vote.
"Our objective was to obtain the highest price and the highest certainty of close," said Forman, speaking for the board and its real estate committee, which, along with real estate broker Greiner-Maltz, reviewed bids over the past 18 months. The Number Six School, at 523 Church Ave. in Woodmere, has been closed since March 2009.
Calling it "a very sad day for the district," Kaufman objected to entering into the contract with Simone based on its plan to pave over the school's ball fields and recreational space to create parking. "We have a lot of kids in this district," Kaufman said. "We lose open space, we lose it forever."
The proposed sale would put the building back on the tax rolls and generate upward of $1 million in property taxes, nearly 70 percent of which would go to the school district.
About 40 residents who live near the school building attended Monday's board meeting to voice their opposition to the sale. Many, like Cedarhurst resident Mark Liebowitz, contended that a medical facility would generate too much traffic and have a negative impact on the community. "A yeshiva school of the JCC would be better for the community," Liebowitz said. "We are very family-oriented."


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Moot Court Squad Makes Convincing Case for Itself
UT Dallas Teams Take 1st, 2nd and 4th Place in Regional Tournament
Nov. 23, 2010
A month after winning the Texas Undergraduate Moot Court Association's Texas Wesleyan Invitational Tournament, UT Dallas' Moot Court Team has argued its way to the top again.
The second annual South Central Regional Moot Court Championships, held Nov. 12 and 13 at the University of Arkansas William H. Bowen School of Law in Little Rock, hosted 32 two-person teams from Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas. Competitors presented simulated legal arguments before panels of judges pretending to be the Supreme Court.
Out of the 32 teams at the tournament, three duos representing UT Dallas finished in first, second and fourth places. Senior political science majors Grace Bielawski, who also is Student Government president, and Philip Harris took first place. Monica Niewiarowski, a sophomore international political economy major, and Stevin George, senior political science major, won second. Parisa Korous and Keshavan Sridhar, both senior political science majors, were semi-finalists.
A team from Stephen F. Austin University took third place.
"The students built upon concepts they learned in Dr. Anthony Champagne's constitutional law class, and formulated quite sophisticated arguments," said Anne Dutia, pre-law adviser and Moot Court coach. "The level of analysis in which these teams were engaging to answer questions from the bench was remarkable. Even the judges commented on how impressed they were with the students' knowledge and preparation."
Three UT Dallas students received individual speaker awards at the regional tournament, with Bielawski as the fourth-place speaker, George as sixth and Harris as seventh.
"For me, Moot Court is an indispensable part of the collegiate experience that gives me an advantage on law school applications," added George. "During the final round at the regional tournament, the panel of judges included members of the Arkansas State Supreme Court, two federal district judges, including one who handled the Whitewater and Paula Jones cases, and an appeals court judge. It's rare that undergraduates can claim to have argued a case before such a distinguished panel."
By placing in the top eight, UT Dallas' teams qualify for the National Moot Court Tournament, to be held in January at Tulane Law School in New Orleans.
The South Central Region is a part of the American Collegiate Moot Court Association (ACMA). Moot court competition traditionally has been an educational opportunity limited to the law school environment. The ACMA aims to build a system of top-quality undergraduate moot court competitions in America.
Students can participate in Moot Court by taking the honors moot court class. Participation is limited to eight students a semester and requires instructor sign-off to enroll. Team members may accrue a maximum of six hours of academic credit for their participation.
Moot Court is one of three competitive teams coordinated by the UT Dallas Pre-Law Advising and Resource Center; the program also has a Mediation and a Mock Trial team. UT Dallas is the only Texas university to have all three.
or Chaz Lilly, UT Dallas, (972) 883-2155, [email protected]
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A Mount Shasta city councilwoman is among 33 people arrested in a four-month investigation into drug sales at two area high schools.
The Siskiyou County Interagency Task Force says an undercover agent enrolled at different times as a student at Yreka and Mount Shasta high schools to track illegal drug sales.
Jim Parker, a senior special agent in charge at the California Department of Justice, says agents received several tips that 40-year-old Katrina Howard was involved as a seller.
Howard, a city council member since November, had 34 pounds of processed marijuana in her home, according to the task force.
She was arraigned Friday in Siskiyou County Superior Court on charges of conspiracy to sell marijuana and maintaining a residence where marijuana is stored or sold. Howard did not yet have an attorney and was being held in the Siskiyou County Jail.


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Portland State University will use a $2.3 million donation from Arlene Schnitzer to expand its performance space in Lincoln Hall and to help launch a new College of the Arts.
The college includes the School of Architecture, School of Art and Design, School of Music and the School of Theatre and Film.
Schnitzer made the donation in memory of her late husband Harold. The husband and wife both attended high school in Lincoln Hall, which was built in 1911, before it became PSU.
Today, Lincoln Hall is home to the College of the Arts dean's office and the schools of music and theatre and film. The money will fund construction of a three-story glass tower that will complete the renovation of the 102-year-old building and provide space for studios, an art gallery and a black box theater.
The tower will face Southwest Broadway, allowing passersby a glimpse of the activities happening inside.
Seventeen community groups staged more than 85 events in Lincoln Hall performance spaces last year.
"Before it was a university, Lincoln Hall served as a reminder to the early arrivals in this community that education was the key to a progressive city and individual success," said Schnitzer. "I am proud to be making a gift to help build this tower in memory of my husband, Harold. The education he received in this building led to his ability to have a strong vision for the future of this city and state, which he loved very much."
PSU is hoping to raise an additional $1.1 million to complete its fundraising campaign for the Lincoln Hall project.


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The oh-so familiar provincialism of The New York Times was the principal object of my harrumphing in a recent Crossroads podcast, which was recorded back on Nov. 23. I've been wrestling with computer gremlins for several days now, so this is a bit late.
Host Todd Wilken and I discussed three of my recent GetReligion posts concerning Media Coverage of Adultery, gays in Pakistan, and same-sex marriage in Spain.
I was not aware that Missouri-Synod Lutherans — Crossroads is a joint project with the Issues, Etc., team at Lutheran Public Radio — had such a keen interest in sex. My stories about Bulgarian bishops behaving badly do not generate the same degree of excitement it seems.
Todd teed one up for me early on, asking why I described a recent item from the Gray Lady as being a "mid-week sermon" rather than a news story. This provided an opportunity for me to be self-righteous, puff out my cheeks and tell "you kids" to "get off my lawn." I also decried the Times' failure of imagination.
The gist of my criticism of the adultery story and Times' article detailing the gay sub-culture of Pakistan was that the conceptual universe presented in these stories is circumscribed. A news article on adultery laws is written from the perspective of an anthropologist peeping through the bushes at an exotic tribe. How quaint and colorful these primitive people are.
The same attitude is displayed in the story about Pakistan's gay subculture. There is only one way to be gay and that is the Times way, we learn. Men and women with same-sex orientations or relationships are not gay until they conform to Western standards (or stereotypes).
And, the Times appeared to have forgotten the role religion plays in shaping Pakistani culture. I argued this was a failure of imagination and reporting — a failure of reporting in that no mention of the role of militant Islam in governing sexual mores was mentioned, nor of the changing nature of Islam in Pakistan. The Sufi-dominated past has been replaced by a Saudi-dominated Wahabbist present — Sharia law and all that.While were going on about sex, Todd jumped over to an article I wrote on the coverage of the gay marriage decision handed down by Spain's constitutional court as reported in Madrid's El Pais. However, the conversation took a different direction as the host asked me why I was tolerant of El Pais' bias in reporting on gay marriage, but cut the Times less slack for the same sins.
My response was that El Pais made no secret of its biases — it is an advocacy newspaper. Its news reports are filtered through its editorial voice. The facts are there (hopefully all of them), but the interpretation or framework upon which these facts are laid is that of the Manhattan booboisie. The Times does not acknowledge its biases and believes it engages in classical American journalism.
Many Times stories do meet this criteria and full, fair, thoughtful stories can be found every day in its pages. But over the past generation the European style of advocacy reporting has crept in — and in issues touching upon the "culture wars", Times stories more often than not are advocacy, not news stories.The result is a suffocating style of reporting that is unable to move beyond prejudices and conventional pieties.
Why does any of this matter? Am I huffing and puffing about the Times' new journalism because it is not to my ideological tastes? There may be some truth in this rejoinder, and if the substance of my critique remained at this level then I would concede my criticisms are as shallow as the reporting I scorn.
What I hope to convey in my pieces published at GetReligion is my belief that the journalist as an author has an obligation as a literary artist to chronicle, to create, to order, and thereby serve not merely personal and superficial truths but universal ones. This obligation to the truth is the goal of classical journalism, and its renunciation by the Times in pursuit of advocacy and expediency is what I find to be so very disheartening.
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15 December 2008 was exactly fifty years since the last bowlturner George Lailey died aged 89. I felt I should mark the occasion with something special so I made a nesting set of bowls in spalted beech. These are cut from one block of wood, one from inside the next, using special curved tools which I make myself. It makes very efficient use of the wood and also means the grain pattern runs through the bowls making a very special matching set.
Since rediscovering this lost craft I have taught quite a few people to turn bowls but I am still the only person in the world capable of making these big nests of bowls on the pole lathe.
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Tom Brady signs three-year extension with New England Patriots
Tom Brady long has said he intends to play until he's 40 years old.
And after he signed an extension Monday with the Patriots that goes through the 2017 season — the year he will celebrate his 40th birthday — chances are he will not just be on the field for that milestone,
he will do it in a Patriots uniform.
Brady's three-year, $27 million extension gives the Patriots a significant amount of salary cap relief for the 2013 and 2014 seasons.
That likely opens the door for the Patriots to keep receiver Wes Welker, cornerback Aqib Talib, and potentially make some waves when free agency officially begins March 12.
Brady wants to win and he's doing what he can to make sure the Patriots get the best pieces to bring another Super Bowl title to Foxborough.
On Monday night, his Facebook page posted two words: "Just Win.''
According to a league source, Brady receives a $3 million signing bonus immediately; his base salaries for the 2015, '16, and '17 seasons will be $7 million, $8 million, and $9 million, respectively.
Even though Brady will be 36 in August, that's a relative bargain for a player of his stature.
In essence, Brady now has a five-year, $60 million deal, all of it guaranteed. It could be renegotiated if the salary cap goes up, or if the Patriots get more long-term cap space.
The quarterback was due to count $43.6 million against the salary cap for the next two seasons. In the restructured deal, he will count $28.6 million against the cap, a savings of $15 million for the Patriots.
The NFL salary cap is expected to remain at $121 million for 2013 and 2014, the same amount as in 2012.
It made sense for the Patriots to extend Brady to get some cap relief, but it got done quicker than expected.
The Patriots also could extend Vince Wilfork to gain more room under the cap.
Brady might have been given assurances that his good friend Welker will remain in New England, and the receiver's contract could be done before the start of free agency.
The Patriots met with Talib's agent at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. They were pleased with the cornerback's performance in his brief time after he arrived via trade with Tampa Bay. If he is re-signed, it might not be before March 12.
There are a few receivers expected to be on the market, such as the Steelers' Mike Wallace, the Chiefs' Dwayne Bowe, and the Packers' Greg Jennings. Any of the three could help give the Patriots the outside-the-numbers receiver they lack, a player to take defensive attention away from the middle of the field, where Welker, Aaron Hernandez, and Rob Gronkowski do most of their work.
But those receivers come with their share of concerns, first and foremost whether they quickly can pick up the New England offense and develop a rapport with Brady.
The Patriots also could pursue veteran defensive lineman Dwight Freeney to play a situational pass-rush role, San Francisco safety Dashon Goldson, whom they were interested in coming off the lockout in 2011, or perhaps Baltimore's Ed Reed.
Locking up Brady also could mean the Patriots will trade Ryan Mallett: the 2011 third-round draft pick has received few regular-season snaps, but with a dearth of quarterback prospects in this year's draft, there is probably a market for the former Arkansas product.
One potential landing spot might be Cleveland, where Bill Belichick friend and former co-worker Mike Lombardi is now the general manager. Lombardi was high on Mallett when he was drafted, and is not enamored with the Browns' current starter, Brandon Weeden, a first-round pick in 2012. The question is how much the Patriots want in return for Mallett.
Brady's extension was met with fanfare from some teammates, with Devin McCourty tweeting, "Hearing this news about Tom is a reminder of why he is the definition of a team player.''
Linebacker Dane Fletcher wrote simply, "Tom Brady #enoughsaid''.
Patriots players might not be as happy when it is time for their own contracts to be negotiated. The Patriots can note that if the franchise quarterback is willing to take a little less, you should, too.


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"The Many Lies of Derwin Davis" (TV-PG, DL) (HDTV)
KEEPING SECRETS -When Derwin (Pooch Hall) is unexpectedly forced to take Melanie (Tia Mowry) to singer Drew Sidora's (guest starring as herself) video release party, he panics over how the meeting between them is going to turn out. Kelly (Brittany Daniel) and Tasha (Wendy Raquel Robinson) continue to grow in their work relationship, while Tasha has trouble finding new clients. Meanwhile Jason (Coby Bell) struggles with his new parenting responsibilities. Hosea Chanchez also stars. Salim Akil directed the episode written by Kenny Smith (#40596-018).


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Miley Cyrus' new behind-the-scenes TV tour special failed to find an audience when it aired in America on Sunday night, scoring just two million viewers.
The two-hour documentary, titled Miley Cyrus: Bangerz Tour, gave fans an all-access pass to her global trek and featured exclusive backstage footage with the Wrecking Ball hitmaker, her siblings and co-stars on the road, as well as performances of tracks such as We Can't Stop and Party in the U.S.A. from her recent gigs in Barcelona, Spain and Lisbon, Portugal.
Cyrus was also shown dedicating her track Adore You to her beloved dog Floyd, who passed away in April.
Ratings were expected to be lower than normal due to the U.S. Independence Day holiday weekend, but Cyrus' TV special was among the lowest-rated and least-watched programs of the night, according to early figures released by bosses at data firm Nielsen.
It proved to be less popular than new talent show Rising Star, which drew 4.32 million viewers in the same time slot, while repeats of Family Guy and American Dad both attracted more than 2.4 million viewers each.
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By HARRIETTE BRAINARD
SUDBURY/WHITING — As their respective elementary schools struggling with fewer than 30 students apiece for the second year in a row, school boards in Whiting and Sudbury are considering consolidating operations.
The two boards have met several times to discuss the idea, and are now looking for input from their respective communities. Both plan to float non-binding votes in November to see where their respective community members stand on the issue.
A final vote would not be taken until the March town meeting.
"Both of these schools have been facing a declining enrollment trend — we share common challenges — so the two boards have met several times to discuss these challenges and what the future holds," said Linda Rossi, a Sudbury school board member and acting administrator at the Sudbury Country School.
MIDDLEBURY — Here come the college students.
On Wednesday, Sept. 6, about 570 Middlebury College freshmen are expected to arrive on campus for orientation.
The majority of the class of 2010 and their families are expected to arrive between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. that day. Students have been directed to go to the college's welcome center in Kenyon Arena, and will then drive to their residence halls through campus routes. The college estimates that about 800 family members will accompany the new students.
Although all orientation activities will be based on campus, it is likely that the students' arrival will impact traffic patterns in town. The college encourages town residents to plan accordingly, and apologizes in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Adrian holds on to beat Stockbridge
HUDSON — Clinton Hayden may have only made one basket in Tuesday night's game against the Hudson Tigers, but the Addison High School junior made it count as he nailed a 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter to change the momentum to Addison's favor and an eventual 52-45 non-league boys basketball win.
"Hudson did a good job with their 2-3 zone in the first half and collapsed on Luke Meyer," said Addison coach Andy Kubish. "The third quarter was pretty even and then Clinton made his 3-pointer, and I think that really fired us up."
The shot left Addison with a 34-33 lead into the fourth quarter, and the Panthers went on to have their best offensive output of the night to slowly pull away. Meyer also turned on the offense by scoring 12 of his 16 points in the final eight minutes.
Gabe Guerra led the Panthers (2-1) with 19 points and eight rebounds, while Meyer also grabbed 10 boards. Tyler Corbin contributed eight rebounds and four assists, while Mitchell Dempsey also had four assists.
Bubba Williams and Adam Laughlin led Hudson (1-1) with 11 points apiece.
— Hudson JV: The Hudson junior varsity recorded a 58-53 overtime victory over Clinton. Zach Luma was the leading scorer for Hudson with 16 points.
Adrian 44, Stockbridge 39: At Stockbridge, the Maples posted their first win of the season in Tuesday's non-league matchup.
Adrian (1-1) trailed 17-16 after one quarter, but outscored Stockbridge in each of the remaining three quarters.
Kyle Hill led the Maples in scoring with 14 points. Brandon Bays recorded 11 points and eight rebounds, while Brett Bartels added three points and six assists.
The Maples will look to build on the win in Saturday's non-conference home game against Sturgis.
Onsted 51, Jackson Northwest 47: At Jackson, Onsted got good balance offensively and overcame an early deficit to record the non-league win over the Mounties. Down 13-9 after the initial period, the Wildcats (2-0) took command with an 18-9 quarter and took a 27-22 lead into the locker room.
Reese Klebba turned in a double-double for the Wildcats with his 19 points and 15 rebounds. Devin Louden also had a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds, while Zach Cranson added 12 points.
— Onsted JV: Northwest recorded a 56-37 junior varsity win despite 14 points and 11 rebounds from Onsted's Austin Davis.
Albion 61, Blissfield 27: At Albion, the visiting Royals found themselves in an 18-point hole at halftime and could not dig their way out against the athletic and deep Wildcats of Albion.
The Royals (0-3) did not play well off the glass or box out well, according the coach John Vandecaveye, as they were held to single digits all four quarters.
Connor Vandecaveye led Blissfield with 13 points and three steals.
— Blissfield JV: Luke Cassaubon scored 17 points as the Blissfield junior varsity squad downed Albion, 40-24.


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Swimming Pool Blog
by Rob Cox, April 16, 2013
A while back, we did a blog post on Luxury Pool Surfaces, which included tile, but not Tile Mosaics - these are artistic jewels that are tiled in place, either as part of an all-over pool tile installation, or set into a new coat of pool plaster.
Tile Mosaics can be created in any image that you can dream up. One person that has dreamed up, and created hundreds of underwater pool tile murals is Robert Vogland, of Vogland.com.
It's called Figurative Art, or graphic representations of real objects - created into a tile mosaic, that can be affixed to your pool floor and walls. The website calls them Custom Designed Hand Made Ceramic Tile Mosaic Murals. That's a mouthful, I'll just call it Pool Mosaic Art.
Here's a sample of some of Vogland's work. He is based in Hawaii, but his skills are in demand in other exotic locales, around the world.
Cool Pool Tile Mosaic Art
Cast of the film Nemo, for the President of Pixar
Bruce, the Great White Shark from the film Nemo
The rest of the cast of Nemo
Large Swimming Polar Bears
Gracefully swimming and skimming dolphins
Bottlenose Dolphins jumping around the pool lights
Group of Dolphins in the deep end
Dolphin Family Tile Mosaic
Beautiful tile floral display on floor of pool
Underwater shot of flowering Hibiscus
Another installation of flowering Hibiscus tile mural in a swimming pool
Turtles swimming across the pool floor
Sharks and Turtles peacefully passing by each other


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