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And the littlest child shall race right by them
More and more, the young are taking up running
Runners training for the Boston Marathon strode past Wellesley College's Keohane Sports Center early on a Saturday. Inside, younger athletes were working toward personal bests. "Will all 4-year-olds please head to the red balloons,'' a voice said over a loudspeaker.
It was just a "fun run,'' with ribbons for participation, not victory. Even so, Emily Reza, 4 1/2, had lain awake fretting the night before, from 2 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. "I don't think she understood how long 75 yards is,'' explained her mother, Molly Reza. A competitor in an earlier heat, Logan Murphy, 3, did not take the event lightly, either. He had been doing wind sprints for weeks with his father, Tom Murphy, who was a track athlete in high school. "We expect a better performance'' than last year, he said, half-kidding. "More focused.''
Boston's famed race for grown-ups is still two weeks off, but the kiddie race season is already underway. Yes, there's a kiddie race season, and it's growing, even if some athletes need to be rescued crying from the track or reminded to run toward the finish line.
Membership in USA Track & Field's 10-and-under category hit 16,319 last year, up from 11,959 in 2001, an increase of 36 percent. Over the past decade, the number of fun runs has also seen a dramatic increase.
Dave McGillivray — race director for the Boston Marathon and president of DMSE Sports Inc., a sports-event management firm — estimates that there are five times more kiddie races now than a decade ago, with children competing at distances of up to a mile. In 10 to 15 percent of cases, he said, the associated fun runs, which can be as short as 25 yards for the youngest kids, now draw more entrants than some adult races, including marathons.
"We used to put down a cone here, a cone there, and give everyone a ribbon, and that was that,'' McGillivray said. "Now, we have to create a committee of specialists, if you will, to organize the whole thing. You get 2,000 kids, you might have 6,000 [spectators], plus some parents get overanxious. You have to create crowd control barricades so the parents don't get in the way.''
Last July, 700 children showed up for a fun run at Gillette Stadium that was new and had hardly been promoted. "We thought we'd get a couple of hundred kids,'' McGillivray said. "This year, in a good way, we're nervous.''
How nervous? He's expecting 1,500 runners for this year's July 3 Patriot Place Kid's run, with events ranging from 50 yards to about 600 yards. Three hundred children are expected at the Rhody 5K Road Race in Lincoln, R.I., in June, with distances starting at 100 yards and going up to 500 yards. At least 600 to 700 children are expected at the B2B Kids Fun Run in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in August.
"Twelve years ago these races didn't even exist,'' McGillivray said.
In at least one case, children are moving in on the adults' turf. Not content to run the shorter companion race that goes along with Andover's Thanksgiving Day Feaster Five, about 500 kids 12 and younger signed up last year for newly created youth slots in the main 5K and 5-mile races, said Tom Licciardello, race chairman and director of development for the Merrimack Valley Striders running club.
"We said, 'Let's give them a discount, so they can run with their parents,' '' Licciardello said, "but in many cases the parents couldn't keep up with them.''
The surge in interest in youth running can be seen at retailers such as Modell's Sporting Goods, which tallied double-digit increases in sales of tyke-sized running shoes from 2009 to 2010 and expects the same this year, said Rich Lampmann, director of marketing.
"The kids know what they want,'' said Newton store manager Rosalind Roos. "They direct the parents, the people who follow behind with the credit card.''
Rising participation in running is also evident in emergency rooms nationwide, where visits by runners ages 6 to 18 increased from 11,706 in 1994 to 15,663 in 2007, said Lara McKenzie, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. The injuries ranged from fractures, which were the most common, to scrapes, said McKenzie, adding that 98.5 percent of the children did not require hospitalization.
As interest grows, Pierre d'Hemecourt, director of primary care sports medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, regularly hears from parents asking about appropriate distances for different age groups.
"There is no real solid data on that,'' said d'Hemecourt, who is a runner himself, "but there is a lot of speculation.'' Children ages 8 to 10 can generallly build up to running 3K races and possibly 5K races, he said, and kindergartners should be fine in distances as long as 100 to 200 meters. "The key is to keep it fun and to stimulate an active lifestyle that will persist.''
A proponent of the sport, he said parents should keep an eye out for activity-related pain that lasts for a few weeks, such as shin or heel pain, and take children to a doctor if discomfort persists beyond that. He also cautioned against running in severe weather. "Kids have less of an ability to handle heat and cold than adults,'' he said.
At a time when major league sports obsess the nation, why are more children turning to the relatively low-key sport of running? Observers point to concerns over childhood obesity, the rising profile of some American track stars, and running moms and dads.
"Life works in a cyclical manner,'' McGillivray said. "In the '70s and '80s, the only ones running were kids running track in high school and in the playground. Then in the '80s and '90s it got to the point where adults started getting involved in running. Now it's almost like the parents are inspiring the kids.''
Indeed, in Wellesley, Luke Miele has been going to his father's marathons since he was a newborn. Now 4 3/4, he practically begs to go on training runs. "Sometimes I'll put off a long run until I can set up a play date for him,'' Steve Miele said. "I don't want him to feel bad.''
Molly Barker — founder of Girls on the Run International, a nonprofit group that encourages preteens to develop healthy lifestyles — says running allows children to take a break from the noise of life. "It's a complete turn-off of Facebook, cellphones, the computer, and television,'' she said.
Barker started the group in North Carolina with 13 girls in 1996. It now serves 100,000 girls per year, and a Boston chapter opened last fall. Disconnecting from media was not an early emphasis, but this year the group has added a lesson about the importance of quiet time to the curriculum. "Running can serve as that space for a person,'' said Barker.
David Willey, editor of Runner's World, traces the trend to 2004, when American marathoners Deena Kastor and Meb Keflezighi medaled in the Olympics in Greece. They "paved the way for Ryan Hall, Kara Goucher, Shalane Flanagan, and others, and those are the newer faces that are resonating with kids today,'' he wrote in e-mail.
Running, he added, is a sport in which kids actually get a lot of exercise. "Have you ever been to a 9-year-old's baseball game?'' he asked. "They spend 90 percent of the time just standing.''
Even if some athletes need to be bribed with fattening food to participate, it's a start.
After the race in Wellesley last Saturday, 2 1/2-year-old Fletcher MacArthur was enjoying the glazed doughnut he had earned.
"I offered him a treat,'' said his mother, Lisa MacArthur, "and he was like, 'OK, I'll run.' ''
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The quilting was fun too! It was so hard to sew on this... it was so crisp and bold, but I like how it came out in the end.
The sashing is 2.5" wide
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Starbucks recently refreshed and unified its official mobile app that lets users load and reload Starbucks gifts cards and pay for items right from their iPhone or Android or BlackBerry. Now Windows Phone users can get in on at least some of the caffeine-laced goodness from their devices as well.
While not as feature-rich as its counterparts, the My Starbucks Card for Windows Phone will let users add one gift/reward card to their Starbucks account (provided you have one, if not, sign up here), and buy items by showing a bar code to the barista who can scan the code with their POS (Point Of Sale) device.
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The warden of the Guantanamo prison camp testified on Wednesday that he had forbidden military guards from listening to attorney-client conversations but did not know that the rooms where the meetings took place had been bugged by intelligence agents.
Army Colonel John Bogdan has been the commander of the joint detention group at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Navy base since June 2012. He testified in a hearing to determine whether the government had been monitoring defense attorneys' private conversations with five prisoners charged with plotting the September 11 hijacked plane attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
Bogdan said he had been in the huts where those meetings took place five or six times but only learned earlier this month that what appeared to be smoke detectors on the ceilings were actually microphones. They had been installed long before his arrival and were part of an audio monitoring system maintained by "J2," the detention camp's intelligence component, Bogdan said.
He said he knew there were cameras in the meeting huts and that guards monitored the video to ensure no one was being harmed. But he said he reminded the guards on his arrival of the long-standing policy that "there was to be no audio monitoring of attorney-client meetings."
Prosecutors have insisted that no part of the government is listening to or recording attorney-client conversations, something that would be a serious ethical breach.
But if no one was listening, the defense lawyers asked, why was the audio system in the meeting huts repaired after workers cut the wires during a recent refurbishment? Bogdan said that had been done without his knowledge by an intelligence officer who apparently felt a responsibility to fix any equipment that got broken.
Bogdan also said he had not been told that defense lawyers sent a letter to the detention camp's top lawyer in October, alleging that their conversations were being monitored and demanding it stop.
"He (Bogdan) quite frankly has not been apprised by various agencies of what's going on in his own command," said Cheryl Bormann, a lawyer for defendant Walid bin Attash.
Bogdan said he had since removed the power supplies from the audio system and locked them in a safe to make sure no one could listen in.
Prosecutors said the microphones were in plain view and there had been no attempt to hide them. But when the judge asked if they were arguing that the defense lawyers should have realized they were listening devices, prosecutor Ed Ryan acknowledged, "It looks like a smoke detector."
The defendants in the case include the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four other prisoners accused of making financial, travel and training arrangements for the hijackers. They could face the death penalty if convicted of charges that include murdering 2,976 people. None of them showed up for Wednesday's hearing, which focused on the eavesdropping issue.
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Stealthy Mac OS X spyware that was digitally signed with a valid Apple Developer ID has been detected on the laptop of an Angolan activist attending a human rights conference, researchers said.
The backdoor, which is programmed to take screenshots and send them to remote servers under the control of the attackers, was spread using a spear phishing e-mail, according to privacy activist Jacob Appelbaum. Spear phishing is a term for highly targeted e-mails that address the receiver by name and usually appear to come from someone the receiver knows. The e-mails typically discuss topics the two people have talked about before. According to AV provider F-Secure, the malware was discovered during a workshop showing freedom of speech activists how to secure their devices against government monitoring.
The malware was signed with a valid Apple Developer ID allowing it to more easily bypass the Gatekeeper feature Apple introduced in the Mountain Lion version of OS X. If it's not the first time Mac malware has carried such a digital assurance, it's certainly among the first. Both F-Secure and Appelbaum said the backdoor, identified as OSX/KitM.A, is new and previously unknown. For its part, AV provider Intego said the malware is a variant of a previously seen trojan known as OSX/FileSteal. Intego continued:
The backdoor itself is, like previous variants, very basic in functionality. It copies itself to the User's home folder (whereas the original variant copied itself to the /Applications folder) and adds itself to the user's login item to be launched on every startup. It does this using the same Applescript as used by the original OSX/FileSteal.A variant. The backdoor silently takes screenshots of the affected user's machine, which are put in the ~/MacApp folder. The threat then sends collected screenshots in PNG format to one remote website, and it sends other collected user info to another, separate site. The various sites used by the backdoor are not responding at this time.
The Apple ID has been revoked and the servers used to receive pilfered data from infected machines has been "sinkholed," Intego said. Sinkholing is the term for taking control of the Internet address used in malware attacks so white hats can ensure that compromised computers don't continue to report to servers operated by attackers.
Appelbaum's tweetstream released signatures of several pieces of Mac malware as well as Web links included in the spear phishing e-mails. He said he was still deciding whether to provide additional details.
"I'm likely going to write it all up, yes," he said. "I have to talk to the target about some details as their life is likely in danger. :("


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Tom Cruise has become Hollywood's latest "swatting" victim after a prank call led to a police alert at his Beverly Hills home on Thursday.
Cops swarmed the movie star's estate after someone placed a 911 call reporting an armed intruder.
According to TMZ.com, the police found nothing to back up the call and filed it as another hoax.
It's not clear if Cruise was at home at the time of the drama.
A 12-year-old practical joker was recently arrested for allegedly committing swatting pranks against Ashton Kutcher and Justin Bieber.


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On the eve of the NBA Draft - a day that Orlando Johnson admits to having anticipated ever since he got big enough to reach a 10-foot rim with a basketball - UCSB's all-time leading scorer visited a barber.
The haircut wasn't so he could preen for television. He won't be in New Jersey for today's draft, which starts at 4 p.m. Pacific time.
Johnson doesn't even plan to arrive for his own family's TV viewing party in Seaside until after his name is called.
The hours before then will be spent in agonizing solitude.
But the angel in Orlando Johnson is about the details, all the way down to getting every hair in place.
"I feel I gave this everything I had, and I can rest my head at night knowing that I did that," he said. "I'm not really nervous or anything, or feeling any certain way about it.
"Whether my name is going to be called or not, I don't know - it'll just be the way it is. But what I do know, in my heart, is that I gave it a good shot."
That heart has always been large, helping Johnson overcome the murder of his mother when he was a toddler and the death of the grandmother who raised him when he was only 11.
"It'd be tough to find a better person in the draft," UCSB coach Bob Williams said. "We got a lot of calls about him for about a month, NBA teams inquiring about him as a kid, as a leader, things like that.
"Well, if they're looking for someone with character, they'd sure have the right guy in Orlando."
He had two older brothers, Robbie Johnson and Jamell Damon, who helped make that happen, becoming more like fathers when their grandmother died.
"They helped me all along the way, showed me the right way to do things, instilled the work ethic that I needed to get here," Johnson said.
His diligence has been elevating his NBA stock ever since he made his last basket as a battered and weary Gaucho three months ago. His name was left off many of the mock draft lists in March, but his prospects have changed just as much as his 6-foot-5 frame.
"I'm feeling lighter on my feet, more athletic, more dynamic," he said. "I've been working out and getting my body in the right shape, and getting the right nutrition."
And now Johnson's name graces nearly every mock draft, with both Inside Hoops and Hoops World projecting him as the first-round pick of the Oklahoma City Thunder at No. 28. Sporting News predicts that the Chicago Bulls will make him the 29th pick.
The Thunder would be obligated to sign Johnson to a two-year contract worth $1,765,400. A first-round call from the Bulls, meanwhile, would be worth a guaranteed $1,752,600 over two years.
Five other basketball websites are predicting that Johnson will be taken by the Charlotte Bobcats at No. 31 - the first pick of the second round - which would guarantee him nothing. Others have him going in the second round to either the Denver Nuggets, Portland Trail Blazers, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Pistons or Utah Jazz.
But Johnson claims to know none of that.
"No, I haven't read any of it, because it's not coming from the GMs," he said, referring to NBA general managers. "I don't really listen to any of it because it's just a few people's opinions about what's going to happen. Nobody actually knows where anybody is going until tomorrow night.
"But I do feel really good about where I'm at right now."
Johnson made a controversial decision to pass on a pair of post-season, college all-star games so he could heal and train his body.
"As much as I would've loved it, to get a chance to represent UCSB and go out there and keep playing, I knew there were bigger things at stake," he said.
Johnson trained at Santa Barbara's P3 (the Peak Performance Project) and began a low-carb diet.
"No bread, a lot of water and fruits and lean meat," Johnson said. "Things like that."
In three months, his weight dipped from 235 pounds to 220. His one-step jump, meanwhile, increased from 32 inches to an eye-popping 39 - second-best at the first NBA combine, which was held in New Jersey.
He made a good first impression all the way around.
"It was a combination of playing well and testing well," Johnson said. "We played 5-on-5 games there, and I think I did pretty well."
NBA teams began flying him in for individual workouts - so many, in fact, that he lost count.
"I know my frequent flyer mileage is up," he said.
But he wanted to be home today, reflecting on how far he's come.
"I wasn't overly tall as a kid," Johnson said. "I didn't have fast feet or great jumping ability or anything like that back then.
"But what I had were good people showing me the way - good brothers, good coaches - and the belief that you can get anything you want if you just work hard enough for it."
It's what helped his head rest easy Wednesday night, fresh haircut and all.
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Bucephalandra Green Wavy Tissue Culture
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The plant is very slow growing, with new leaves sprouting from long, thin rhizomes. It can be propagated by cutting the rhizome and attached to driftwood and rocks using super glue gel or thread.
Remove tissue culture gel before planting. Simply wash the gel away or soak the plant in water and squeeze the gel off with your fingers.
Family Name: Araceae
Endemic To: Borneo
Leaves: Long and Curly, medium sized around 1"
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Co2: Not necessary but recommended
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Checking in on… the WACPosted by rtmsf on December 23rd, 2010
Sam Wasson, Co-Founder and Editor of bleedCrimson.net covering New Mexico State athletics, and Kevin McCarthy, Founder of Parsing The WAC, are the RTC correspondents for the WAC.
[ed note: this WAC Check-In does not include Wednesday's games]
A Look Back
The WAC went 12-5 against their schedule over the past week picking up wins over Pacific and Oregon along the way. New Mexico State's win over Pacific and Idaho's win over Oregon represent two of the better RPI-based wins this season by the WAC and the league moved up one spot in the RPI rankings from 19th to 18th.
Player of the Week. Louisiana Tech's Olu Ashaolu was named the Player of the Week for the week of Dec. 13-19. Ashaolu, a junior forward, recorded back-to-back double-doubles for the third time this season in a pair of Bulldog wins. He scored 21 points on 10-of-13 shooting and grabbed 13 rebounds in an 80-57 win at Houston Baptist. He then recorded 12 points and 10 rebounds in a 62-61 win at UT-Arlington. Ashaolu averaged 16.5 points, 11.5 rebounds, 2.0 blocks and 1.5 assists per game for the two-game stretch and shot 68.4 percent (13-of-19) from the field and 75.0 percent (6-of-8) from the free throw line.
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1. Utah State (9-2)
Up Next: 12/22 vs. Western Michigan, 12/23 vs. Troy
Utah State had no trouble with Utah Valley or Idaho State and improved to 9-2 on the season. The UtAgs got 19 points from Brockeith Pane in the victory over Utah Valley and 17 points from Brian Green in the victory over Idaho State in the opener of the World Vision Invitational in Logan, UT. Head coach Stew Morrill cannot be pleased that his Aggies allowed the Bengals to shoot 58.8 percent in the second half, however, shooting 61.1 percent yourselves eases the pain a little. USU will face Western Michigan and Troy to wrap up the Invitational. The Broncos from WMU and the Trojans from Troy did battle in a 102-99 overtime shootout. With Utah State's defensive struggles against Idaho State in the second half, one has to wonder if either WMU or Troy can do the unthinkable and knock off USU in their own building.
2. Hawai'i (7-2)
Up Next: 12/22 vs. Florida State, 12/23-12/24 vs. TB
Victories versus Hawaii Pacific and Chicago State (on Maui) have righted the team after consecutive losses to Cal Poly and then BYU. Now it's the Diamond Head Classic, starting out with Florida State and Baylor, Butler, Utah and San Diego rounding out the field. Hawaii is undefeated at home so far this season. Four Warriors are scoring in double figures: Zane Johnson at 12.6 PPG, Joston Thomas at 12.1 PPG, Hiram Thompson at 12.0 PPG and Bo Barnes at 10.1 PPG. Thompson was injured last game — his status is unknown — further depleting the depth at guard after the departures of Anthony Salter and Jordan Coleman. Forward Bill Amis (15.8 PPG) remains on the sidelines but various reports indicate he will see some action very soon.
3. Louisiana Tech (8-4)
Up Next: 12/29 vs. Boise State
The Bulldogs split a pair last week notching a one-point victory over UT-Arlington before losing to Iowa in Iowa City 77-58. The Bulldogs were within one at halftime against the Hawkeyes but a late second half surge by the home team made the final margin a little wider than the contest had actually been. After shooting a perfect 10-of-10 from the free throw line in the first half, La Tech was awarded just four foul shots in the second half and hit just one. Olu Ashaolu continued his strong play with 18 points and 11 rebounds before fouling out. The Bulldogs' next game will be their home conference opener against Boise State.
4. San Jose State (7-3)
Up Next: 12/22 vs. University of Puget Sound, 12/29 at Fresno State
After falling at the end to crosstown rival Santa Clara, SJSU hosted and beat Eastern Washington (for the second time this season) and then put a pasting on Seattle up in the Emerald City. Puget Sounds comes to town Wednesday for what should be an easy one for the Spartans. One interesting factoid: the Spartans are 4-2 on the road in 2010. San Jose State is still surprisingly still below 40% in team shooting (.394). Senior Justin Graham is all the way back physically, shooting 49% overall and 57% on threes while also topping the team in assists.
5. Boise State (7-4)
Up Next: 23/33 at Portland, 12/29 vs. Louisiana Tech
The Broncos put up a fight at Utah but came up disappointingly short, a two point loss at the Huntsman Center. The disappointing part for the Broncos is that not only was it their fourth consecutive loss but they held an eight point lead at the break despite 51.7 percent shooting by the Utes in the first 20 minutes (the Broncos countered with 51.3 percent shooting in the half) and and nine point lead with just under five minutes left to play. Utah still wielded a hot hand in the second half shooting 53.6 percent while making 6-of-11 threes and 10-of-12 free throws. The Broncos led by one with 22 seconds left after a layup by La'Shard Anderson but a three from Utah's Will Clyburn with 11 seconds left was followed by a three point miss by the Broncos' Westly Perryman sealing the loss. The Broncos took out their frustration on UT-Pan American winning 91-62 but the second half defensive struggles for the Broncos continued as UTPA shot 63.6 percent in the second stanza. The Broncos travel to Portland and then open up conference play versus Louisiana Tech.
6. Idaho (6-5)
Up Next: 12/29 vs. New Mexico State
The Vandals nearly extracted revenge against Montana for an early season embarrassment but came up just short falling 64-63. The teams were tied at halftime but the lead went back and forth in the second half with Idaho holding a pair of four and five point leads while Montana tried to pull away late going up by five with 1:14 left to play. Idaho would put on a furious rally and took the lead 63-62 on a jumper from Shawn Henderson but Montana's Derek Slevig would break the Vandals' hearts with a jumper with six seconds left to send Idaho to a 64-63 loss. Idaho bounced back by notching the second WAC victory over Oregon this season winning 69-65 (SJSU authored the other Duck killing). The Vandals led by five at the break and trailed just once in the second half, by one point. Idaho got the ultimate in balanced scoring as seven players finished with at least eight points. The Vandals are off until next week when they host NM State in the conference opener.
7. New Mexico State (6-7)
Up Next: 12/23 vs. St. Mary's, 12/29 at Idaho
The Aggies currently own the league's longest winning streak (four) which comes immediately after owning the league's longest losing streak (seven). The Aggies easily handled a couple of lower level schools (Oklahoma Panhandle State and Arkansas-Pine Bluff) but got their best win of the season to-date with a 69-64 victory over Pacific. The Aggies trailed by five at the break but rallied to take the lead with 15:17 remaining and did not trail the rest of the way. Senior guard Gordo Castillo finished with 17 points to lead all scorers. The Aggies added to the win streak by holding off a pesky Louisiana squad 82-76. NM State led by as many as 10 in the first half but went into the break with just a one-point lead. They led by as many as 11 in the second half but needed a late bucket and defensive stop to seal the win. Up next the Aggies host St. Mary's on Thursday. The Aggies will need their most complete effort of the season if they are to come away with the win over the Gaels. The Aggies lost 100-68 in the season opener last year while playing without Wendell McKines and Troy Gillenwater which they will be doing again this time around. Hamidu Rahman will also miss the game but the Aggies did receive a bit of good news as McKines is said to be participating in his first walkthrough practice since breaking his foot.
7. Fresno State (4-6)
Up Next: 12/29 vs. San Jose State
"Home Sweet Home" is the Bulldog mantra of late what with three consecutive Save Mart Center wins over San Diego, Pepperdine and North Dakota State respectively prior to a 65-55 home loss to Pacific. The Bulldogs are off until they start WAC play at home next week: San Jose State then a trip to Nevada. Greg Smith's 20 points led to the victory over USD, 15 steals paced Fresno State to the victory over the Waves and a pair of unexpected double-doubles supplied by Nedeljko Golubovic and Bracken Funk sent the Bison (shouldn't it be the Woodchippers?) back to Fargo. Fresno State is 3-2 at home but just 1-4 away. Smith still leads the Bulldogs in scoring (10.5 PPG) and rebounding (6.8 RPG) but a double-double average is the expectation of him this season. Better outside-shooting from his teammates (currently a collective 25% three-point percentage) will provide more room for Smith to operate but stronger internal motivation is needed from the sophomore.
9. Nevada (3-8)
Up Next: 12/22 at Washington, 12/27 at Portland
The Wolf Pack head to the road to complete non-conference play as they'll face Washington and Portland. The Pack narrowly lost to Arizona State (78-75) as Olek Czyz made his Wolf Pack debut with 10 points and seven boards and a monster putback dunk in the second half. Nevada followed the loss with a 79-73 victory over Portland State. Malik Story finished with 20 points and six boards as the Pack fought back from a three point deficit late in the second half to pull away with the win.
A Look Ahead
Conference play begins next week but a few teams still have non-conference games to finish up. The sternest test will come on the island of O'ahu as Hawai'i hosts the Diamond Head Classic with Butler, Baylor and Florida State among the participants. New Mexico State hosts St. Mary's, Nevada travels to Washington and Portland while Boise State also makes the journey to Portland.


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These new tights H2O tights from Santini are made from a fabric called Acquazero which feels like a normal fleece-backed Roubaix – warm, stretchy and highly breathable – the difference is that it's very water repellent.
Don't get me wrong, water can get through, but you stay much drier in these than you do in standard tights. On one recent ride, for example, it was chucking down intermittently and the rain was mostly beading up and rolling off. It soaked through the seams on the butt where the seatpad is attached fairly quickly but road spray on the lower legs didn't get absorbed at all.
These don't keep rain out anything like as well as a set of waterproof overtrousers, say, and after a while (the exact time depends on how hard it's raining, obviously) you will start to get properly wet, but when it's raining heavily you stay as dry as you would in light rain.
Plus, these are as comfortable to wear as standard tights. There's no inflexible membrane in there and you don't get any more sweaty than usual. So, on that ride I mentioned, I was out for two hours and it was raining on and off throughout, yet I stayed dry enough to stay warm and comfortable, whereas with normal tights I'd have been itching to get home in half that time.
The Gel Intech pad is good too. I've used it plenty in other Santini clothing and it's among my favourites. At the heart of things you get silicone gel padding that absorbs shock really well while multi-density foam provides more cushioning where you need it most – in the perineum and sit bone areas. There's no stitching in contact with your skin while rows of little holes in the antibacterial facing fabric provide extra ventilation. The whole thing is stretchy so it fits closely and it's pretty slim. I like it a lot.
Most of the seams are flatlock stitched so you can hardly feel them, while well-designed panelling means there's no rubbing around your knees. Even on five-hour rides I didn't get any chafing or irritation at all. There are no ankle zips to make getting them on and off easier but we don't mind that, and we found the ankle grippers tight enough to prevent any riding up without being at all uncomfortable. Two reflective logos round the back and more reflective tape sewn into some of the seams help get you noticed at night.
Rather than going for a mesh bib section, Santini have stuck with the same fabric for the upper so you get some extra insulation there, especially over your lower back, while the shoulder straps are wide enough to spread the pressure comfortably.
They feel like normal, comfy Roubaix tights... but with added water repellency. Well made with an excellent seatpad too.
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Make and model: Santini H2O Bib Tight
Size tested: Large
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
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• Unique High Stretch and Waterproof Aquazero Waterproof Fabric is Highly water resistant
• Even under prolonged tests maintains comfort, elasticity, softness, breathability and warmth
• The treated fabric is UV and Chlorine resistant and guarantees long lasting durability after repeated use and washing
• Reflective seam taping for low light conditions
• Gel Intech pad for max comfort
• World Exclusive to Santini
That's all reasonable. If you want to stay 100% dry, these aren't for you. But if you want to keep water absorption down to a reasonable level without taking a hit on breathability, they're great.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes
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I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, sportives, general fitness riding,
Mat has worked for loads of bike magazines over 20+ years, and been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. He's been road.cc technical editor for eight years, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a past winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer.


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Rick Perry says he'll announce his presidential intentions "in due time." But if you listen to his longtime staffers and hard-core supporters, he's preparing to seek the White House for a second time in 2016.
Justin Dehn of the Texas Tribune interviewed some key members of Team Perry in San Antonio following the governor's announcement that he wouldn't seek a fourth full term as governor.
A key tidbit from longtime Perry associate Ray Sullivan, who described how Republican presidential candidates often make unsuccessful presidential races before they finally capture the GOP nomination:
Ronald Reagan was on his, I think, third attempt. Romney was on his second. McCain was on his second. Particularly in the Republican field, our voters like to know and see the candidates a few times before they make them the nominee. So there's ample opportunity to prove his abilities and be successful on the trail.
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The resulting map should contain a key for each value of type b, occurring in any set in the original map. The new values (of type
type SetMap k a = Map k (Set a)
invertSetMap :: (Ord a, Ord b) => SetMap a b -> SetMap b a
Set a) are all those original keys for which the new key occurred in the value set. Intuitively, if the original set was representing arrows from values of type a to values of type b, this function should reverse all arrows.
We can easily implement this function using two nested folds.
That's not pretty at all!
I had written quite a bit of this kind of code (and hated it each time), until I finally remembered a fundamental Haskell lesson. Haskell uses lists to simulate iteration and specify other kinds of control flow. In particular list comprehensions are often extremely cheap, since the compiler can automatically remove many or all intermediate lists and generate very efficient code. So let's try again.
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Svetlana Pankratova is tall, but not absurdly tall—either 6'5" or 6'7", according to different sources. Her legs, however, account for a whopping 51.9 inches of that total. This is, perhaps not surprisingly, a world record. (A Guinness World Record, anyway.)
She played basketball, of course. First in her native Russia, then three seasons at Virginia Commonwealth, where she still holds the school's single-season (75) and career (176) records for blocked shots. After a pro career in Europe, she settled down in Falls Church, Va., where she's now—what else?—coaching girls' basketball.
Pankratova is an assistant at powerhouse George Mason High, having been contacted by the head coach specifically because he learned the world's longest legs lived nearby.
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On my recent road trip from Vancouver to Whistler Village, I was stunned by the breathtaking beauty of British Columbia. Its lush green trees, majestic waterfront fjord, and picturesque hill tops could easily be mistaken as oil paintings by Claude Monet. Along the drive up the Sea-to-Sky Highway, I stopped at a fast food vendor for a quick budget meal only to be captivated by a million dollar view – see my photo on the right.
As I gazed from the rigid mountain top and snowy peaks to the clusters of cumulus clouds floating serenely above, it reminded me of our upcoming launch in San Diego and solutions that Cisco will introduce to enable the world of many clouds.
Last November, Cisco Global Cloud Index forecasted "greater than 50% of all workloads will be processed in the cloud by 2014." Over one-third of data center traffic, as highlighted in the report, will be cloud based. As a result, download and upload speeds as well as latencies are vital measures to assess network capabilities for cloud readiness.
In a recent Global Cloud Networking Survey conducted by Cisco with more than 1,300 IT professionals, 37% of the respondents cited "a cloud-ready network" as the biggest element in designing an infrastructure for cloud deployments. And from my previous post Journey to Cisco Live San Diego, we identified the key requirements a cloud delivery solution must address. Today, we'll explore how the Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) portfolio can help achieve a scalable cloud-based model.
From Beyond the Hypervisor: A Holistic Approach to Developing Next-Generation Data Center Architecture white paper, we learned that the end goals for architecting such infrastructure are increased agility, higher efficiency, and improved resiliency. So, let's start with agility.
Agility – Cisco AppNav, the winner of Best of Interop: Performance Optimization Award, provides the virtualization platform to expand or contract WAN optimization resources in the data center. AppNav can pool WAN opt resources (physical, virtual, or a mix of both) into one elastic pool, and then distribute capacity to specific applications, geographies or cloud based on business requirements. AppNav is network-integrated, providing IT agility and investment protection, all without the use of agents or probes. (See a demo of AppNav at Cisco Routing/WAN Optimization section of Cisco booth on June 10-14)
Cisco WAAS Appliances with AppNav offer deployment scalability while WAAS software delivers best-in-class application acceleration for the enterprise network. Accelerated application performance directly impacts user-experience, which affects efficiency.
Efficiency – Recently voted by IT professionals as the market leader in WAN optimization, Cisco WAAS offers a series of optimizations: TCP, PLZ, TFO, and context-aware DRE, for plain text or SSL-encrypted traffic. Applications optimized by WAAS include, but are not limited to, database, file service, file transfer, email, data protection, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), client-server, data protection, video streaming and video on demand (VoD), and SSL-encrypted applications. (See what's new in WAAS 5.0 at Cisco Routing/WAN Optimization section of Cisco booth on June 10-14)
For enterprises looking to enjoy the same benefits, such as on-demand orchestration and fault-tolerant persistent performance, delivered by Cisco WAAS in the cloud, Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services (vWAAS) is the solution.
Resiliency – Cisco Virtual Wide Area Application Services (vWAAS) adds resilience to the virtual infrastructure in an application-specific, virtualization-aware, and on-demand manner. With Cisco vWAAS, virtual instance of Cisco WAAS can be deployed (and removed) per business requirements. It is the industry's first cloud-ready WAN optimization virtual appliance that accelerates business applications delivered from the cloud. Cisco vWAAS runs on the VMware ESXi hypervisor and Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS), as well as other x86 servers. (For more info on Cisco vWAAS, visit cisco.com/go/vwaas)
Together, these Cisco WAAS solutions along with other Cisco cloud-ready platforms and connectors enable the enterprise to deploy a cloud intelligent network and connect its users to the cloud with confidence. Learn more at Cisco Live San Diego.
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Still smarting over the 5p plastic bag charge? Try to view it as less a tax and more an investment opportunity.
The levy, introduced in England in October, has resulted in an almost 80 per cent drop in the number of bags taken home by supermarket shoppers. Similar reductions in use were seen in Scotland following the charge being introduced a year earlier.
However, reusing bags has had a more surprising consequence with 'classic' items becoming sought-after fashion accessories. Online auction sites such eBay have become a trading ground with some exchanging hands for way above their face value (which, to be fair, was originally £0.00).
But a bag can be more than just a means to carry your latest purchase - it's an extension of your personality, particularly if brand loyalty is part of your makeup. Take Apple. Take an apple. Much safer than waving your iPhone 6 around in public or getting mugged for your watch is the option of a humble homage to the consumerist philosophy of Steve Jobs - even if it contains a Samsung, or your lunch. Classic Apple-branded bags are usually opaque, and crop up on eBay for more than a fiver - but still less than the cost of an iPad.
Similarly, although perhaps appealing to a different market, there's the gold JD sports bag - a brightly coloured plastic drawstring carrier which sells for around £6 on eBay.
And Arsenal fans were presented with commemorative plastic bags at a Champions League match against Bayern Munich, with instructions to hold the white carrier aloft. Since then, the bags have become sought-after, going for a fiver, around the same price as a copy of the match programme.
Of course, the line between carrier and fashion accessory has long been blurred with Adidas and Nike-emblazoned sports holdalls being aped by the likes of D&G and Mulberry in their rather more upmarket version of the shopping bag.
But on a more serious note, up to a trillion bags per year are used worldwide, doing immeasurable damage to the environment. However, among the nominees for Design of the Year at London's Design Museum was The Ocean Cleanup - a network of floating barriers which uses natural currents to push plastics towards land for collection and disposal. The project has already raised $2m via a crowdfunding campaign.
However, the soundest investments may eventually be in the ever-lucrative art world. Fashion designer Anya Hindmarch has already taken a High Street chwemist's plastic bag to its logical conclusion, designing a pair of plastic Boots (geddit?) around the classic logo. And... well, does this jumper from Christopher Shannon's AW14 collection remind you of anything? Looks like a bag could be for life after all...


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Diane Lanpher, D-Vergennes, is member of the House Appropriations Committee
The first day of spring produced a sighting missing since Jan. 28 — a balanced budget! "All in" truly is the theme this year. A great deal of heavy lifting by all committees achieved this goal.
VERGENNES — The Vermont Department of Buildings and General Services is planning to seek Public Service Board approval for a 500-kilowatt solar farm on state-owned land in Vergennes, according to local officials and state documents.
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Town officials remain upset with the Act 250 process and a new law that prompted auto dealer Tom Denecker to walk away from a $350,000 deal to buy the land.
VERGENNES — Incumbents Diane Lanpher, D-Vergennes, and Warren Van Wyck, R-Ferrisburgh, on Tuesday prevailed in a competitive four-way race to win the Addison-3 district's two seats and will represent Ferrisburgh, Vergennes, Addison, Panton and Waltham in the Vermont House of Representatives for the next two years.
As a child growing up in Vermont I gave my parents ample opportunity to teach me life lessons. To this day I carry with me much of what I learned. Recently I had the chance to relive one of those lessons. The lesson being, "how to take the measure of a man." The answer, watch his actions when he doesn't think people are looking.
BRISTOL — It was decades in the making, but Bristol finally has a new bridge on Route 116.
A cadre of local officials and legislators joined state Transportation Secretary Brian Searles Monday afternoon for a ribbon cutting ceremony at the center of the new span, which crosses the New Haven River on Route 116 between River and Carlstrom roads.
Rep. Diane Lanpher deserves to be reelected to represent us in Montpelier. She has proven that not only does she listen to our concerns in our community, she acts on them.
After being appointed as one of the representatives of the Addison-3 district in the Vermont House of Representatives, Warren Van Wyck has proven to me that he should not be returned to the House.
MONTPELIER — Legislation introduced last week in the Vermont House by Rep. Diane Lanpher, D-Vergennes, and two colleagues is intended to make it more difficult for those responsible for the many recent burglaries in Addison County and Vermont to dispose of stolen goods.
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Bring on the bubbly! In 2013, CitySip founder Blaine Ashley introduced New York's first-ever Champagne Week—and it's back again for the third year. Bigger, better, and bubblier than ever. From November 9–13, curated events will be taking place all over the city including exclusive tastings and sparkling happy hours, a culinary Champagne excursion featuring top NYC chefs, and a Bubble Bash closing party.
Experience boutique bubbly brands to world-class powerhouses during the ultimate, multi-day Champagne celebration. Snag your tickets here so you can sip away and uncork all the indulgent fun. Here's the schedule of NYC Champagne Week festivities you can attend:
The Blow Your Mind Champagne Tasting
Wednesday, November 11th | 6-8 pm | Bottlerocket Wine & Spirit
Join Champagne specialist Alyse Mizia for a one-of-a-kind opportunity to experience several of the world's best Champagnes—including Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label, Dom Pérignon, and Krug Grande Cuvée—all while seriously upping your sparkling wine knowledge.
Champagne Devaux Portfolio Tasting Class
Thursday, November 12th | 6–7:30pm | Back Label Wine Merchants
Brand Ambassador Anne-Caroline Dussort will lead an intimate class featuring boutique brand Champagne Devaux, as guests taste their way through six cuvées complemented by cheese and charcuterie.
Champs de Cuisine
Thursday, November 12th | 7–9:30pm | Haven's Kitchen
This culinary celebration showcases some of NYC's most acclaimed female chefs and wine personalities—Esther Choi of Mokbar, Grayson Schmitz, Leah Cohen of Pig & Khao, and Sara Lehman aka "Somm in the City"—as they present savory and sweet dishes featuring Champagne, served alongside specialty cocktails and (of course) more Champagne. A portion of event proceeds will benefit the Toklas Society.
The Bubble Bash: New York Champagne Week's Official Closing Party
Friday, November 13th | 9pm-12am | Hornblower Hybrid Yacht
Dance and sip the night away aboard a state-of-the-art luxury yacht! This ultra-fun fête will feature multiple bubbly Brut and Rosé bars, sparkling wine cocktail stations, a rotating set of DJs, and more. Refill your Riedel flutes all night long and get home safe with $20 credits via UberPOOL. Code: SIPSAFE
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One second before landing a Soyuz spacecraft is still falling toward Earth at 16 mph, too fast for a comfortable landing.
So two sets of three small engines on the bottom of the vehicle fire, slowing the vehicle to soften the landing. And it looks like this:
The photo above shows the Soyuz carrying Expedition 36 crewmates Pavel Vinogradov, Chris Cassidy and Alexander Misurkin landing safely on Earth.
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Texas Tech: President's Office, 1932-1989 and undated
Lauro F. Cavazos:
An Inventory of His Papers, 1932-1994 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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A sixth generation Texan, Lauro Fred Cavazos was born on January 4, 1927 on the vast King Ranch in South Texas, where his father was the foreman of the showcase Santa Gertrudis Division. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in zoology at Texas Tech University and a doctoral degree in physiology from Iowa State University. In addition, he received honorary degrees from several universities and colleges. He married the former Peggy Murdock, and together they had ten children.
Dr. Cavazos served in various professional and administrative positions. He taught at the Medical College of Virginia and at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, where he was also Dean from 1975 to 1980. He returned to Texas Tech University in 1980 to become its tenth president, and the first Hispanic and first graduate of the school to hold the office.
A recognized expert in both the field of medicine and the field of education, Cavazos was a consultant to national and international health organizations, including the World Health Organization and a variety of inter-American health groups. He authored or co-authored approximately 75 publications in the areas of physiology and reproduction, fine structure of cells and tissues, and medical education. Cavazos also received a number of awards recognizing his efforts in education. In 1984 President Ronald Reagan presented him with an award for Outstanding Leadership in the Field of Education. In 1985 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal from the Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences, and in 1987 he accepted an award designed in his honor from the Texas Tech University Ex- Student Association. The next year he received the National Hispanic Leadership Award in the field of education from the League of United Latin American Citizens.
On August 9, 1988 President Reagan nominated Cavazos for Secretary of Education, and on September 20, 1988 he was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate. President George Bush asked him to continue as Secretary following the November 1988 election. He remained in the position until resigning in December 1990. As Secretary, Cavazos concentrated on reforming American Education through raising the expectations of students, teachers, and parents. He also targeted federal resources to improve opportunities for those most in need, and initiated special programs to combat drug and alcohol use. As a strong advocate of parental involvement in education, he provided leadership to encourage parental and community participation in education reform.
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Papers from Dr. Lauro Fred Cavazos' collection consists of personal records, as well as records from his tenure as president of Texas Tech University, as Secretary of Education, and as a professor at Tufts University.
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A letter in the May 25, 2010, Tomahawk Leader:
A public hearing May 27 2010.
Collins Billboard Company is coming back to Merrill to ask to reconstruct billboards higher and bigger. We are totally against building billboards higher and bigger on highway 51/39. Nothing destroys the scenic character of Lincoln County faster then billboard blight. Zoning ordinances have set billboards at a low height to protect open space. Billboards are a tax burden. The Wisconsin DOT advertising department has stated the permit fees to regulate billboards does not cover the cost to regulate billboards. In other words Wisconsin taxpayers have paid millions to regulate billboards and another fact when you have highway expansion taxpayers pay to remove billboards which runs into the millions. Come out and say NO to Giant billboards. We should support a Scenic Byways program to protect and preserve the visual character of Lincoln County's highways. Take pride in Lincoln County's Scenic Heritage. Along the Mississippi they have capped billboards with the help of the Great River Scenic byways program. States like Maine, Vermont, Alaska and Hawaii have banned billboards.
Please come out say NO to giant billboards. Hearing is on May 27, 10:30 a.m., Lincoln County Service Center at 801 N Sales St., Merrill, WI room 156. Directions south of Merrill High School.
Cornel Hausler
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Good letter. Wisconsin should go the route of other states that have respect for their life space and ban these horrible eye sores.
90% of people are caused by accidents.
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From you're photo on the front page, perhaps the trees were expressing their opinion of that billboard mess on 51 south of Tomahawk. The County didn't listen to them either, but they'll be back.
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- Amendments to 1987 Treaty on Fisheries with Pacific Island States : message from the President of the United States transmitting amendments to the 1987 Treaty on Fisheries Between the Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and the Government of the United States of America, with annexes and agreed statements, done at Port Moresby, April 2, 1987 (The "Treaty"), done at Koror, Palau, March 30, 1999, and at Kiritimati, Kiribati, March 24, 2002 : also transmitted, related amendments to the treaty annexes, and the memorandum of understanding
- This treaty further develops relationships between the United States and Pacific nations in the areas of fisheries management and conservation.
- Our Planet, May 2008
- Magazine of the United Nations Environment Programme discussing worldwide environmental policies and other concerns. This issue is devoted to a discussion of ways to reduce carbon emissions in order to reduce the threats of climate change.
- Renewables 2010: Global Status Report
- This report describes economic trends in building the capacity of renewable energy in several countries.
- South Pacific Regional Environment Programme Agreement : message from the President of the United States transmitting agreement establishing the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, done at Apia on June 16, 1993
- The South Pacific Regional Environment Programme is to promote cooperation in the South Pacific islands region and to provide assistance in order to protect and improve the environment and to ensure sustainable development.
- State of the Climate in 2008
- This report describes observations of precipitation, temperature, and other climatology metrics from different global regions.
- State of the Climate in 2009
- This report describes observations of precipitation, temperature, and other climatology metrics from different global regions.
- Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 4, Number 3, 2007
- Tunza is a UNEP magazine for and by young people. This issue is devoted to the value of forest ecosystems.
- Women and the Environment
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If Kellen Winslow was unhappy about his reduced role last week, he's going to be distraught with himself for the next month.
The NFL announced that the Jets tight end was suspended four games for violating the league's performance enhancing substances policy. He'll be eligible to return Monday, Nov. 4.
The Jets had listed him as doubtful earlier today, and coach Rex Ryan said his absence had been excused. Now we know what his reason was, and why he'll miss the next month of games.


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Back in 2008 Maine's Labor Department unveiled a mural depicting the history of the state's labor movement at their headquarters, which seems kind of appropriate given the fact that it's, you know, the Dept. of Labor.
Now Gov. Paul LePage has decided that the mural is too much of a hot potato, so it's got to go:
LePage spokeswoman Adrienne Bennett said the governor's office has received "several messages" from the public complaining about the mural. She also released an anonymous fax, dated Feb. 24, that apparently came from someone who recently visited the Labor Department's lobby.
"In this mural I observed a figure which closely resembles the former commissioner of labor," the person wrote. "In studying the mural I also observed that this mural is nothing but propaganda to further the agenda of the Union movement. I felt for a moment that I was in communist North Korea where they use these murals to brainwash the masses."
Conference rooms in the same building are named for important figures in the history of labor, so they're going to re-christen them, too. One of them is currently named for Marion Martin, a pioneering female politician who worked to motivate Republican women voters during the GOP's troubled New Deal years and organized the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs. Since Gov. LePage is himself an ardent Republican, you'd think he would think twice about that one, or at least consider the irony.
A Maine newspaper got hold of a memo from the state's acting Labor Commissioner:
"We have received feedback that the administration building is not perceived as equally receptive to both businesses and workers — primarily because of the nature of the mural in the lobby and the names of our conference rooms," she wrote. "Whether or not the perception is valid is not really at issue and therefore, not open to debate."
She asks workers to suggest names for the conference rooms by April 5 and indicates there will be "a small prize" for anyone who comes up with a new name.
What I want to know is whether the re-naming contest is open to the public or just restricted to DOL staff. If it's the former, then I suggest we name each conference room for a different Masters of the Universe character—the He-Man Room, the Skeletor Room, the Evil-Lyn Room, the Stratos Room, and so forth. It would really give the place some class.
Speaking of labor history, today's the 100th anniversary of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. It left 146 garment workers dead, most of them immigrant women in their late teens and early twenties. These days it's a lot easier for a young gal to land a good job, especially if she happens to be Gov. LePage's daughter.


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Agile Victory?
As time progressed, more and more developers heard through the grapevine about the greater levels of success following agile techniques. Unfortunately, so did some of the more political people within Gorwell's IT departmentremember, people kept an eye on Winston because he was related to BB. In particular, the process engineering group took notice and decided to embrace this growing threat to their existence. One afternoon, they sent out a forced instant message to everyone in Gorwell's IT department that locked up everyone's machines until they read the announcement about the new version of their software process, called "Agile Victory." This occurred on the 198th day of Winston's stealth agile adoption effort; he remembers it well because it broke the fourth build of the day that was referred to as build 198.4.
A new group, called the "process police," had been created with the specific goal of ensuring that project teams followed the new Agile Victory process. Nonsolo development, such as pair programming and modeling with others, was declared to be a process crime because management felt that it was obvious that collaborative techniques such as this would reduce overall productivity. It was also a process crime to become a generalizing specialist because not only would it be difficult to retain anyone with marketable skillsets, thereby increasing the burden on the human resources (HR) team, it would also threaten the existing political empires currently based on specialized job functions. People who committed process crimes were fired on the spot and simply disappeared, and BB put a reward program in place so that you could even earn ++GOOD points by reporting process crimes.
Although this was a bit harsh (but how else could you possibly govern IT professionals), the process engineers did manage to improve things. After analyzing the values of the agile alliance, the process engineers determined that they were insufficient to meet Gorwell's needs and thereby introduced the Victory Doublethink slogans. The agile value of "working software over comprehensive documentation" was replaced with the simpler "Documentation is Software" slogan, an obvious fact that any bureaucrat can explain to you. Similarly, the slogan "Metadata is Quality" communicated the importance of Operation Blackhole and also made it obvious that regression testing and continuous integration were clearly a waste of time. The slogan "Plans are Progress" enabled project teams to report earned value when compared to the agile strategy of delivering high-quality working software on a regular basisbusiness stakeholders could trust the word of IT project managers and didn't need the concrete visibility provided by real agile teams.
The human resources department supported the Agile Victory process by establishing the "Victory Alliance," a group of trainers that ran what they called the Certified Victory Master (CVM) program. Anyone could become a CVM, regardless of experience or ability, simply by taking a two-day CVM training course. Granted, you couldn't become a certified master of anything, even something as simple as tying your own shoes let alone leading a software development project, by taking a two-day course. The Victory Alliance claimed that what they were really doing was certifying that you had taken the class, but this didn't stop anyone from claiming that they were Certified Victory Masters on their business cards and in their e-mail signatures. Of course it didn't help that the trainers provided the CVM logos to anyone who wanted a graphical instead of textual representation of their awesome certification accomplishment.
In the end, Winston's agile adoption effort was squashed. By putting an agile façade on top of traditional strategies, Gorwell managed to derail the productivity improvement potential of actual agile techniques. Inadequate training, mentoring, and coaching prevented staff experienced in traditional approaches to learn the techniques and nuances of agile development. In short, Gorwell's existing culture and bureaucracy had successfully repelled the agile onslaught.
Parting Thoughts
If you haven't figured it out by now, April Fools! Although some agile adoptions do, in fact, fail, this column is completely fictitious and is an homage to George Orwell's 1984. Although fiction, I suspect that many of the challenges that I described within Gorwell Financial Group will strike close to home for a lot of readers. It would be doubleplusgood if you were to consider many of the concepts promoted by the Victory process to be thoughtcrimesoops, I mean process crimes.