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By Chris Paci, KF16, Tajikistan
For many Kiva lenders, loan use – or what an entrepreneur plans to do with the funds he or she receives – is their most important consideration in deciding which entrepreneurs to support. On the Kiva website, it's the single most prominent piece of information supplied about any featured entrepreneur. Take a look at Muso, for example, a taxi driver from Tajikistan who has applied for Kiva funding through Kiva's field partner IMON International. His loan use is stated just to the right of his picture – "To buy a car" – and expanded upon in his borrower description below – "He has been providing a taxi service for seven years and loves his business and does it with satisfaction. He is requesting a loan for the purchase of a new car in order to expand his business."
As it turns out, though, predicting what borrowers will use their loans to do is more complicated than you'd think. A recent paper by economists Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman, written in August 2011 and soon to be published in the Journal of Development Economics, illustrates the problem.
The Research
Karlan and Zinman met with borrowers of two microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Peru and the Philippines, both of which place a strong focus on microenterprise development. Both MFIs encouraged and expected their clients to take out loans for that purpose alone. Indeed, when their loan officers directly asked these borrowers "So what did you use your loan to do?," the percentage who said that they had spent more than a quarter of their loan on things other than business development was less than 10%. But when Karlan and Zinman used research techniques that ensured the responses they received would be anonymous, they found a very different story. In reality, fully 31.3% of borrowers had spent at least a quarter of their loans on household items, 23.1% on medical expenses, and 33.2% on their children's education.
So, what's going on here? Are these borrowers deliberately misleading their loan officers? Are the loan officers doing insufficient due diligence before giving out loans? Are these MFIs just not monitoring their clients effectively enough?
Based on my experiences as a Kiva Fellow with IMON International, I don't feel any of these statements are quite fair. Without stepping too deeply into the debate, I want to share some of the things I've seen in the field to hopefully shed a bit of light.
The Reality
As you may know, most Kiva Fellows are asked to complete a borrower verification as part of their fellowship (read KF15 Michele Wehle's Fellows Blog post for an excellent description of this deliverable). I'm no exception – I've spent the last few weeks traveling all over northern Tajikistan, visiting Kiva entrepreneurs at their homes and businesses, and generally being bowled over and inspired by all the amazing things they've managed to do.
One of the first borrowers I met was a livestock dealer named Ikromjon. An incredibly friendly man, he welcomed us into his home, thanked us for the Kiva funding he had received, and took us around back to see his flock of 13 sheep and 2 cattle, which he had been able to expand thanks to his loan. After taking a look around, we eased into our borrower verification interview, and I dropped the fateful question on him: "So what did you use your loan to do?"
It was just a formality, I thought. After all, I was standing there looking right at his purchase. But in front of his loan officer, completely without guile, Ikromjon rattled off a two-minute list of all the things his Kiva funding had enabled him to do. He bought those two cows, sure – just like the Kiva website had said. He bought a few more sheep to further increase his profits. He also invested some of the loan in his other business, a large cotton field he maintained behind his house. As for his other other business, a transportation service, he used some of the loan money to make much-needed repairs to his vehicle. What else? Oh yes, thanks to that loan, he was also able to start adding a new room onto his house – piles of mud bricks and wood already stood in the courtyard. He was going to need the extra room soon, because his oldest son was about to get married – and, by the way, he was also able to fund part of the wedding thanks to that loan.
My eyes bugged out a little. How could anyone get that much mileage out of a relatively small loan? Either Ikromjon was the Bill Gates of Tajikistan, or I was missing something. As our interview continued, though, the explanation became apparent: The money didn't come solely from his loan. It also came from profits. Ikromjon's loan from IMON International, and the Kiva funding he received, had enabled him to increase the profitability of his livestock sales and cotton farming businesses, which gave him and his family a lot more money to use in other ways. But he had no idea exactly what money had come from Kiva, what had come from the profits, and what had come from capital he already had.
Regardless, Ikromjon's loan was a wild success. It helped him stabilize his economic situation and make sustainable, permanent improvements to his family's way of life – just what we all hope will happen when we lend to entrepreneurs on Kiva. The effects are clear. But what happened in between? Why did Ikromjon have such a tough time separating out his profits and figuring out what he'd actually used his loan to do?
Because Money Is Fungible
That's a big part of the explanation. But what does it mean for money to be fungible? In economic terms, it means that every dollar in your pocket is exactly the same as every other dollar in your pocket. As a result, it's tough to place firm restrictions on how you can spend any one of those dollars. When you go to an ATM, you don't receive one type of money that can only be used to buy ice cream and another type that can only be used to make life-changing loans on Kiva.org (though we wouldn't complain!) Any dollar in your wallet can be used to buy, well, anything money can buy.
This means two big things for Kiva entrepreneurs like Ikromjon:
- Though their loans are technically earmarked for a specific use, entrepreneurs, in practice, are free to spend some of their loan money on other things. This means that they can't be locked into business plans that may no longer reflect changes in their situation. If a more lucrative business opportunity comes up, they have the freedom to take it. Many MFIs monitor their clients and cut them off from further credit if they deviate too brazenly from their stated loan use – for example, if they applied for an agricultural loan and went out to buy a big-screen TV instead. But the range of acceptable loan uses can be surprisingly wide.
- Not only are the loan funds fungible – all the other types of money the entrepreneur has are fungible as well. Their loan funds, their business profits, and their preexisting capital are all indistinguishable from each other. We in the developed world often correct for this issue by using a constellation of financial products to divide our money into chunks: a checking account for everyday expenses, another one for business expenses, an IRA for retirement, a savings account to fund our children's education…. But in the developing world, and especially among microfinance clients like Ikromjon, these sorts of complex financial products are often inaccessible. Instead, all of the money Ikromjon's family receives, including Kiva funding, goes into a single pool from which they continually draw to improve their lives in myriad ways.
So what does fungibility mean in practice? If you're a developing-world entrepreneur like Ikromjon or Muso, it means that you can maximize your ability to get ahead. It means that you can seize business opportunities as they arise. It means that you can continually make the choices that are best for you and your family, without staying beholden to plans that may have been laid long in the past.
Our perspective, as Kiva lenders who want to know what to expect from our investments, may be different. But it's valuable to keep both in mind.
Chris is a roaming Kiva Fellow (KF16) currently serving with the microfinance institution IMON International in Khujand, Tajikistan. In his first few weeks, he has visited more cattle than he ever could have imagined. To lend to one of IMON International's Kiva entrepreneurs, visit its list of fundraising loans on kiva.org!


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For coach Brian Morehouse's Flying Dutch 2011-12 should be more a matter of reloading than rebuilding.
The Flying Dutch are coming off a 27-3 season and are absent four graduating seniors who were part of the most successful four-year era in Hope women's basketball history posting a 117-8 record.
Morehouse, who begins his 16th season and is currently the second winningest active NCAA Division coach (375-63, 856), approaches basketball as being more than a five-player game. Last year 10 players averaged double-digit minutes. This year it means he returns seven players who have considerable varsity playing experience.
Co-captains of the team will be senior Maddie Burnett of Grand Rapids (Northview HS), senior Allie Cerone of Wheaton, Ill. (Wheaton North HS), junior Liz Ellis of Grand Rapids (East Grand Rapids HS), and junior Meredith Kussmaul of Hartland (Hartland HS).
Burnett and Cerone are the only seniors on the 14 player varsity roster. There are also three freshmen, four sophomores and four juniors. The team will be one of the tallest in Division III with six players measuring six-feet or more.
Last season Liz Ellis was chosen the Defensive Player of the Year in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) and was named to the All-MIAA second team. She also led the MIAA in three-point shooting accuracy at .475 in conference games and .458 over the entire season. Ellis enters the season as Hope's alltime leader in three-point shooting accuracy (.431). Long distance shooting will become a greater challenge in college women's basketball this upcoming season as the three-point line has been moved back to 20 feet, 9 inches, the same as in men's college basketball. It previously had been 19 feet, 9 inches.
Other returning letterwinners include junior Ashley Bauman of Manistee (Manistee Catholic HS), junior Courtney Kust of Cincinnati, Ohio (Cincinnati Hills Christian HS), and sophomore Katie Overway of Holland (West Ottawa HS).
Moving up from the junior varsity program are sophomores Anna Kaufmann of Davenport, Iowa (Davenport Central HS), Megan Kelley of Rockford (Rockford HS), and Kristen Slotman of Cedar Grove, Wisc.
New to collegiate basketball will be freshmen Hannah Doell of Center Valley, Pa. (Southern Leigh HS), Rebekah Llorens of Grayslake, Ill. (Grayslake Central HS), and Liz Siepker of Troy (Troy HS). Each of the three freshmen stand 6-1.
The goal of the Flying Dutch will be to compete for a school-record fifth straight MIAA championship and a berth in the NCAA Division III tournament. An added incentive is the fact that Hope College wil be hosting the NCAA Division III Final Four at DeVos Fieldhouse on March 16-17.

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The wiki mentions that reiser3 may be a good choice for /var because there tend to be many small files in that directory [1].
Is that still true these days?
I think a lot of people use binary logging, have large /var/cache/pacman directories, and have empty /var/mail directories. If anything, there seem to be many large files in /var, at least on my install.
I'm having good experiences with a large XFS /var partition I set up. I'm curious to see any numbers or insight people have about this.
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi … le_Systems
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div curl F = 0
I'm having good experiences with a large XFS /var partition I set up. I'm curious to see any numbers or insight people have about this.
What is making your experience with XFS a good one? What can I do to compare my experience, with "/" formatted as Ext4 and no separate "/var" partition, with your experience?
I think I used pacman-cage to put /var/lib/pacman/ on an ext2 loop filesystem. The rest of my /var is on my root XFS filesystem.
I'll try unpacking it:
ext2 loop /var/lib/pacman
$ echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$ time pacman -Qs ttf
real 0m4.528s
user 0m0.037s
sys 0m0.047s
XFS root /var/lib/pacman
$ echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$ time pacman -Qs ttf
real 0m13.680s
user 0m0.043s
sys 0m0.057s
Yikes! pacman-optimize turned it into 11 seconds.
There isn't too much going on in /var for me:
$ for file in *; do [[ -d "$file" ]] && echo -n "$file: " && find "$file" -type f 2>/dev/null | wc -l; done
cache: 133
db: 1
empty: 0
games: 0
lib: 1485 (of which /var/lib/pacman: 1459)
local: 0
lock: 0
log: 74
mail: 0
opt: 0
run: 0
spool: 8
tmp: 0
vkumar wrote:
I'm having good experiences with a large XFS /var partition I set up. I'm curious to see any numbers or insight people have about this.
What is making your experience with XFS a good one? What can I do to compare my experience, with "/" formatted as Ext4 and no separate "/var" partition, with your experience?
I'm moving away from a system that just had one root btrfs partition. The large amount of data on my disk caused fsyncs and readdir operations to slow down drastically over time.
I have the same amount of data stored on my disk now, but it's separated over three partitions (/ ext4, /home ext4, and /var xfs). Boot times are much faster for me, the system does not lock up when I perform large amounts of background I/O, and fsyncs and readdir operations are snappy.
That's all qualitative. Unfortunately I don't have any reliable numbers to share. It's hard to compare our systems because we may be using /var for different things. I have ~90GB of music in my partition, which may unconventional. It wouldn't be fair to compare the performance of large reads and writes on our systems because that assumes a specific use case. The best option is to look at a program that uses /var heavily (maybe journalctl?) and see if there's any way to measure it's IO performance.
I'm not sure if this is of much use, but on a cold boot (on battery power) I can report;
$ time pacman -Qs ttf
real 0m4.574s
user 0m0.043s
sys 0m0.067s
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div curl F = 0
I seriously wouldn't even bother. the performance with ext4 is good enough. plus rieser3 does NOT get updates, and its speed and other advantages were compared against ext2 and mabey early ext3, back when those where defaults.
personally, I maintain a seperate partition for /boot, /home, and /, but they are all ext4.
the advantage of a seperate /home. is that re-installs or swapping distros is easy.\
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … ux35&num=1
some benchmarks, EXT4 clearly mops the floor with rieser3 in all catagories. There is no catagory where rieser has a signifigant speed advantage, and massive disadvantages in some. I don't see any good reason to have a seperate /var OR /usr on a modern linux machine.
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I don't see any good reason to have a seperate /var OR /usr on a modern linux machine.
It depends on data.
There should be different backup and redundancy strategies for system and data.
I build VMs with separate disk images for the machine and the data which is usually on /var
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While on the desktop my examples don't exactly bolster it, on large (i'm talking 10s/100s of TB) database (postgres) servers I almost exclusively use XFS. From a decision standpoint, the history of XFS is actually quite long and fruitful, and from the large data/performance standpoint on dependable hardware, I have no complaints. The newer filesystems show promise, but one of the big things tends to be that, due to the history with XFS, there is a sense of reliability related to it from places that have had it on older systems.
When it comes to my desktop though, while I could run filesystem tests to see the true reality, I kind of gave that up a long time ago. If I have to deal with something large that can fit into memory, I put it into memory. Nothing defeats that... and now that I can afford >4GB of RAM for the same amount that it used to cost to put 256MB of RAM in, I'm pretty well happy with that.
The former still stands though - even on machines with very large memory footprints, there always exists a table that either can't be put into memory (or it'd be dumb to). Regardless of that, storing the data eventually requires a hdd - and for that XFS serves almost all of the purpose that is necessary. The modern systems like btrfs are nice, and they are reaching features and efficiencies that rival XFS, but the history isn't there. I have dealt with customers that still have SGI systems that are using rather old XFS drives - and its hard to convince an engineer that has vetted that sort of history... its hard to argue with people that know languages that were defunct by the time I was born.
With all of that said... I have nothing to support it other than its the way I've done it since I was taught the "right way" to do things.
/var <--- we stopped doing this a few years ago, and occasionally it was /opt instead, depending on the software and/or the distro.
/var/lib <--- only on database servers
The reasoning back then still stands now. On a corporate/direct purpose server, it is catastrophic to even dream that /, /usr, or /var/log be full or susceptible to anything else. Ever. On database servers (as before, postgres), the databases are almost always on separate storage. While /usr (and /var) may not suffer from "full" issues like log or root, depending on the backup hardware and maintaining integrity (monitoring) can be easier (especially with automation) to access specifically labeled disks.
It's entirely anal, but I was forced to memorize it by a person that also forceably disabled or ninjad every editor on a system so that I would either learn vim or quit. From what he told me about his days managing a college infrastructure in the early 80s to the early 90s... I've never really questioned why he was the way he was. Following those rules though, has saved me on a lot of situations though. I also heavily rely/relied on LVM for that structure... everything but /boot and / is usually in an LVM managed space. Snapshots are the bomb.
It was an interesting day though... when I went to a user group with him to hear about cgroups when redhat finally rolled them into their kernel tree. He damn near shed a tear.
On my desktop, that habit just kind of stuck, though with binary logs and such I have altered it a bit. Since I have a webserver, and I do bruteforce it from time to time with apachebench, I keep /var/log still on its own partition because I've killed myself a few times filling up the / partition. Since I work occasionally on larger datasets I have to be... conservative in my / sizing.
Right now I have:
And it suits me well.
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
In my Experience for a Desktop I recommend JFS or ReiserFS,
I use a /var partition for the saque of store logs and other thinks for prevent you know disaster and can look Journal for the problem or look what is intaled for reintal whit same packages
I aditionally have /var/cache/pacman separated for prevent download the same archive in case of problem I only reuse that partition for reintalling if a break was caused by an update and I break the sistem and that and share cache whit other machines
/home in separate partition for the know reasons and /boot to for ... for ... Really I not remmember but I make it in every distro
about XFS (xfs-tools and xfsdump) the setup used on creation time can influenciate the later performance as far I can read there an here
Well, I suppose that this is somekind of signature, no?
/root, /boot, /home, /var are XFS partitions
time pacman -Qs ttf
real 0m1.308s
user 0m0.092s
sys 0m0.020s
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/root, /boot, /home, /var are XFS partitions
time pacman -Qs ttf
real 0m1.308s
user 0m0.092s
sys 0m0.020s
And if you do
echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
right before?
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$ echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$ time pacman -Qs ttf
real 0m0.938s
user 0m0.098s
sys 0m0.010s
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Part Used: Leaves and flowers.
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Sequester votes expected to fail
Washington's Great Sequester pregame show ends in the Senate on Thursday with Republicans still divided over how to disarm the doomsday budget machine they built in the previous Congress with Democrats and President Barack Obama.
Obama will be waiting at the White House on Friday to meet with House and Senate leaders, even as his Office of Management and Budget works next door toward meeting the midnight March 1 deadline to put the cuts in motion.
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New battle lines were already taking shape Wednesday over funding the government past March 27. Frustrated by the House, Senate Democrats signaled renewed interest in moving a full-fledged omnibus spending package for the remainder of the year.
But Thursday in the Senate will belong to the sequester — and a debate less about finding solutions than political cover.
No one is expected to have the 60 votes needed for passage — meaning the cuts are likely to be ordered Friday night. Indeed the Republican divisions are such that just getting to 50 will be a challenge on the GOP alternative.
Nonetheless, fearful of the fallout from the cuts, the GOP leadership pushed ahead Wednesday with its controversial plan to cede broad authority to the White House for the remainder of this fiscal year to implement the $85.3 billion in reductions.
( Also on POLITICO: Sequester countdown: Obama summons Hill leaders)
The final 10-page bill, released Wednesday evening, would require Obama to come back to Congress by March 15 with his own plan to achieve the same level of cuts, rather than the across-the-board sequester. Lawmakers could yet overrule the president's plan, but that would require two-thirds majorities in both houses — a very unlikely event.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaled his blessing early in the day. But the strategy, crafted by his ally Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), continued to meet resistance at a party luncheon and even supporters admitted reservations about giving up so much power to the president.
( VIDEO: The latest on sequestration)
"It's just six months," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) told POLITICO with a smile. "We're not giving away the farm forever."
"Plan O for oversight," said Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) excitedly. "Right now we're Lizzie Borden's ax. I want them to use a scalpel and come back and explain what they cut."
After a crash course in Southern Republican farm bill politics, freshman Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) — a Toomey rival in this case — pressed ahead with her own option, which would forestall the cuts with long-term alternative savings rather than cede power to Obama.
But conservatives argued that her bill failed to match the immediate deficit reduction promised for 2013. And McConnell echoed this in floor remarks Wednesday morning when he defended the Toomey approach.
"Some have raised concerns about a proposal that would give agency heads more discretion in prioritizing these cuts. And I understand those concerns," McConnell said. "But let's be clear about the goal here: The goal isn't to hand over congressional authority — it's to make sure these cuts actually happen, and that we don't cut a penny less than we promised."
For the moment, Republican divisions play into the hands of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The Nevada Democrat has enjoyed surprising unity behind his own plan to forestall the cuts for 10 months by substituting a package of $110 billion in revenues and alternative savings.
Almost $53 billion is raised through a proposed 30 percent minimum tax on the wealthy, phased in between those with adjusted gross incomes from $1 million to $5 million. An estimated $48.5 billion in savings is attributed to savings from farm subsidies and reduced appropriations in the future for defense spending.


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Combo Drug Offers New Hope Against Hepatitis C
This article was reported by Health Newsline.
Health Newsline reported on a study using a combination of two oral antiviral drugs -- daclatasvir and sofosbuvir -- to treat hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Mark Sulkowski, MD, medical director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Viral Hepatitis, and colleagues conducted a clinical trial to determine safety and efficacy of the combination drug treatment. The drug sofosbuvir (brand name Sovaldi), manufactured by Gilead Sciences, received US Food and Drug Administration approval in December, while daclatasvir is in the approval process.
The participants comprised 211 HCV patients at 18 medical centers in the United States and Puerto Rico. The participants received a daily combination of 60 milligrams of daclatasvir and 400 milligrams of sofosbuvir, with and without ribavirin. At 12 weeks, approximately 98 percent of patients had what doctors call a functional cure -- the treatment eliminated the virus and stopped it from replicating, even in patients who could not take or did not respond to current treatment.
Patients tolerated the combination therapy well, and patients with all three HCV genotypes showed very high cure rates. Common adverse effects were nausea, anemia, upper respiratory tract infection, and headache, but these were mild and no one discontinued treatment due to adverse effects.
Sulkowski said that if daclatasavir and other new HCV drugs receive approval, then HCV treatment could change from injections that have significant toxicity to oral combination pill therapy. He noted that the research paved the way for safe, tolerable, and effective treatments for the many people infected with HCV, and predicted that standard treatments will improve dramatically in the next year.


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Hotel lobby design ideas with best pictures
Hotel lobby design ideas interior best pictures
With more and more fond of traveling the world community, the tourism sector in various countries even more advanced. Various business continues ogled. One is a guest house and hotel business. You are also interested in having them? Guest house and hotel business is very promising, especially because the picnic has become one of the mandatory public entertainment. But, do not be hasty first. Need careful planning. In addition to the placement and marketing strategies, the design of the hotel building you will also have to be good. Especially in the lobby, because the hotel lobby design is representative of the entire contents of that hotel.
The hotel lobby should be designed in accordance with the overall design of the hotel building. The hotel lobby is designed and decorated in a more attractive, so that visitors believe that this hotel is a hotel that has good facilities.
Design hotel lobby with bold colors
The combination of bright colors and a variety of fresh make this hotel lobby.
View Colour Tosca and fresh pink combined with brown and beige colors are warm.
Design hotel lobby style mid century
Furniture typical mid century classic is suitable for the interior of the hotel lobby. See picture hotel lobby mid century eclectic classical style which was very convenient.
Rustic-style hotel lobby design
The reception desk is unique and walls paneled background palette seem very rustic and cool. Wood materials in the ceiling add to the impression that combined rustic natural feel.
The hotel lobby is modern minimalist
The lobby desk and wall-art modern minimalist style suitable for a simple hotel. Furniture, lobby desk, carpet, and light sweet minimalist combined with walls and floors wood shades.
The hotel lobby is elegant luxury
The hallway in the hotel lobby with all-round hexagonal motif and material floors and partition walls fancy. Although impressed rustic, hotel lobby interior feels luxurious and exclusive.
Design of industrial style hotel lobby
Columns and wall motif is very supportive for industrial interiors.
see pictures with Nuance rather dark in the hotel lobby.
See also Hotel Bathroom are Available in Your Home
Which hotel lobby your choice? Thus, the design of the hotel lobby is attractive,, hopefully be an inspiration to you, more details see the picture shown below.


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Lawmakers invited reporters to a bill-signing ceremony in Gov. Rick Perry's office, but we weren't allowed in.
So we cooled our heels outside the locked door, getting this special-session nugget from Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, as she exited: "I was told not to go too far away tonight." She said word came from staff.
Rumors are rampant that Perry will call a special session on redistricting, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association and perhaps a host of other topics pressed by conservative interests, including anti-abortion and pro-gun proposals.
Speculation on the start time ranges from today, right after the regular session ends, to later this week, to later than that.


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Today is Top Ten Visit Day• November 1, 2013 Share:
Approximately 150 high school seniors are on campus today for the annual fall Top Ten Visitation Day.
Seniors who rank in the top 10 percent of their high school class are eligible for substantial scholarships if they attend.
The students and their parents start the day with a welcome and keynote address from Brian Edelman '82, Vice President of Corporate Finance and Investment Banking for Eli Lilly and Company.
In separate sessions, the students and parents will hear from an alumni panel about life at Wabash and what a Wabash education has meant in their lives.
Students will joining tours, participate in afternoon academic sessions and more.
Today is the first big step in the recruitment of the Class of 2018,


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Gaming has become all pervasive in the last few years. In my view touch screen user interface is one of the reasons that gaming has become very popular. I believe that humans are more responsive to tactile / sensory experiences, experiences that help us interact in a way that seems more "human". Touch gestures on phones or tablets are a more natural way of interaction than the ones (keyboard/ monitor) we have been using since the time computers have been invented. A "flip, a "pinch" or a 'swipe" gives a user an immediate response and engages the visual, tactile, and auditory senses. This involvement becomes truly engaging at an interaction level.
I recently bought a touch screen Phone and downloaded a few apps. I have been observing my 5 year old son engaging with the device and have noticed a vast difference in the emotions that he displayed compared to when he uses laptop/ desktop with a mouse. From a circumspect moving of the mouse and a tedious pointing to the controls on a laptop and a response of delight, the response to a touch screen UI has been that of wonder, oneness with the device, and joyous delight. It's almost like moving from a string pulled car to a remote control car with front, back, and circular navigation.
One can only wonder the immersiveness when devices start becoming more engaging. For example, engaging the olfaction (smell) and gustatory (taste) might create possibilities that could be quite exciting and ultimately commercially exploitable
Impact on future generations
Our attention spans have been reducing since the onslaught of distractions that we face from the digital environments, social networking and the humongous amount of information overload. Today's kids who are growing up in an environment where they are exposed to such sensory rich experiences will face a hard time if enterprise applications do not re invent themselves and offer the same boring "tasks" that need to be done . A fine balance will need to be created for providing enterprise experiences that do not degenerate into crude inappropriate experiences.
This leads me to ask the following questions
Should Designers create game like environments in enterprise applications? Will it dilute the "seriousness" of the work environment?
Will fun increase the acceptance quotient of serious applications? For e.g. a Health awareness app for a pre teen that uses their favorite cartoon in a game that advises the right kind of nutrition for a certain health condition.
Designers in the future will have to think about future interactions that encompass all known human senses. One should only include appropriate senses for interactions and not go overboard. Usability will be as critical as the user experience because users will have less attention space or patience to "tolerate" bad or confusing experiences. Usability research and testing will be more taxing and the observers need to be skilled enough to explore the nuances of human behavior and capture the "felt" and the "unsaid"


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In the third segment of Tribute to World War II NISEI Veterans, Governor Christine Gregoire gave a speech and introduced U.S. Senator and Medal of Honor recipient Daniel K. Inouye...
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The start of the program was simple, yet powerful, as 120 NISEI veterans, including U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, took their place on stage during a prolonged standing ovation from an...
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Que hace la NASA para controlar el ruido de los aviones?
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Senator William Knowland (publisher, Oakland Tribune) announces candidacy in the Republican primary for Governor of California. Incumbent Governor Goodwin Knight accuses him of national ambition. Attorney General Edmund G. Brown,...
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Video demonstration from the 1996 CHI conference. NEIMO is a generic and flexible multiworkstation usability lab that supports the observation and analysis of multimodal interaction as well as Wizard...
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Video presentation from the 2002 CHI conference. Hunter Gatherer is a tool that lets Web users carry out three main tasks: (1) collect components from within Web pages; (2)...
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Power surge sends Nats past Bucs
Pittsburgh, PA – Danny Espinosa drove in three runs and Tyler Moore added a three-run blast as Washington downed Pittsburgh, 6-2, in the finale of a three-game set.
"He had great at-bats today. I was really pleased with his approach at the plate," said Nats manager Davey Johnson about Espinosa.
Wilson Ramos added three hits, while Roger Bernadina hit safely twice and Ryan Zimmerman scored two runs for the Nationals, who took two of three in the series.
Gio Gonzalez (3-2) worked six innings for the win, allowing five hits and a pair of runs, fanning five with two walks.
Starling Marte homered and Russell Martin posted an RBI double for the Pirates, but Wandy Rodriguez (2-2) gave up three runs on six hits despite seven strikeouts in defeat.
Bernadina's bunt single began the eighth, and he advanced on a Zimmerman groundout. After Adam LaRoche was given a free pass, Moore launched his homer to push the Nats' edge to 6-2.
"It fires you up. I would have done the same thing," Moore said of the intentional walk which preceded his homer.
Tyler Clippard followed with a perfect bottom of the eighth, and Rafael Soriano worked around a Brandon Inge double in a scoreless ninth.
The offensive fireworks kicked off when Marte began the home first with his fifth homer of the season, but not before an outburst by Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper -- who was ejected by third-base umpire and crew chief John Hirschbeck for arguing the third strike which ended the top of the inning.
Pittsburgh had the bases loaded later in the frame with one out and failed to generate any further offense.
"We had a chance to push him right out the door early, or at least create some separation," lamented Bucs manager Clint Hurdle.
Zimmerman walked to start the second, moved to third on a LaRoche double and scored on an Espinosa fly to center.
The Nats third baseman began the fourth with a single, moved up on a Rodriguez balk and later scored on Espinosa's two-run shot to left to put the visitors ahead 3-1.
Martin doubled home Gaby Sanchez for a 3-2 game in the bottom of the sixth.
Game Notes
Nationals center fielder Denard Span returned following a one-game absence with a bruised left foot, but Nats right fielder Jayson Werth sat out his third straight contest thanks to a strained right hamstring ... By allowing a Washington run in the second inning, Rodriguez ended his scoreless streak in PNC Park at 15 innings ... Entering play, Marte was hitting .407 (11- for-27) against left-handed pitchers this season ... Pittsburgh has lost four of six overall.


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MSQRD wrote:Ok, I'm looking for a comic that went something like this:
200 smalls
70 mediums
10 larges
15 x-larges
and 500 xxls
then it said something like "pretty much every t-shirt order ever"
Can someone help me find it? (yes, I've tried googling and search the xkcd page) NOTE: I hate to admit, but this comic may not be xkcd, but I think it was!
Definitely wasn't xkcd.


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This month the recipe for the Fresh from the Oven challenge was quite intriguing – mosbolletjies(honestly I have no idea how is this supposed to be read), a.k.a. grape must buns. It was Tandy from Lavender and Lime who stirred our bread baking enthusiasm for new experiments. Tandy makes her own grape must so if looking for a recipe, go to her post. We, however, had grape must in the freezer. Last year during the wine making season we froze some crimson grape must for baking purposes and to use it as a natural colourant.
We made 2 small loaves of bread instead of buns and they turned out extremely delicious. Besides they had a naturally purple hue.
The round-up with everybody's mosbolletjies would be published on Utterly Scrummy Food For Families, so go there to see what the other FFO members have baked.
We are sending this loaves to Yeast Spotting.
Grape Must Loaf Recipe:
For 2 20x10 cm loaf pans
- 20 gr fresh yeast;
- 80 gr grape must;
- 420 gr all purpose flour;
- 8 gr salt;
- 50 gr sugar;
- 60 gr butter, melted;
- 125 gr milk;
- 1 egg.
In a bowl combine together dry ingredients - flour, salt and sugar.
In the bowl of the stand mixer, equipped with dough hook, combine all liquid ingredients – butter, milk, egg and the yeasty must. Add dry ingredients and knead for 15 minutes.
Cover the bowl and let the dough become double in bulk.
Give the dough a quick knead, shape and place the loaves in buttered loaf pans. Leave it to prove.
Bake for about 30 minutes in a preheated to 180ºC oven.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has placed 26 student-athletes on the 2012-13 Little East Conference Fall All-Academic Team.
The team includes student-athletes who competed on teams during the fall season, and were sophomores or better with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.3 or better. The team included student-athletes in the fall sports sponsored by the LEC: men's and women's cross country, field hockey, men's and women's soccer, women's tennis, and volleyball.
"Our students continue to exemplify the philosophy of NCAA Division III athletics," said UMass Dartmouth Director of Athletics Ian Day. "They continue to prove that you can be winners in the classroom as well as in the uniform."
Men's Cross Country
Scott Bernazzani, Sophomore (Visual Media & Digital Media) –Abington, MA/Cardinal Spellman HS
Eric Karstunen, Sophomore (Marketing) –Pembroke, MA/ Pembroke HS
Zach Switaj, Junior (Mechanical Engineering) –Tamworth, NH/ Kennett Regional HS
Women's Cross Country
Carolyn Cornell, Sophomore (Arts & Science) – Abington, MA/Cardinal Spellman HS
Meghan Cutler, Junior (Nursing) –Attleboro, MA/Attleboro HS
Caitlin Dorr, Junior (Visual Design/Graphics) –Foxboro, MA/Foxboro HS
Renee Laurencelle, Sophomore (Nursing) –Tyngsboro, MA/Tyngsboro HS
Samantha Roderigues, Sophomore (Computer Science) –Somerset, MA/Somerset HS
Katie Sheehan, Sophomore (Nursing) –Scituate, MA/Scituate HS
Field Hockey
Victoria Dolce, Junior (Nursing) –Jamestown, RI/North Kingstown HS
Heather Fatcheric, Sophomore (History) –Princeton, MA/Wachusett Regional HS
Michaela Johnston, Senior (Nursing) –Mansfield, MA/Mansfield HS
Tiffany Richard, Junior (Marketing) –Fitchburg, MA/Fitchburg HS
Men's Soccer
Brady Paradis, Senior (Electrical Engineering) –Tiverton, RI/Providence Country Day
Women's Soccer
Amy Carchedi, Senior (Criminal Justice)-Quincy, MA/North Quincy HS
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The leafless tree
"But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof." Isaiah 6:13
Suggested Further Reading: Romans 11:11-24
"The race of Abraham shall endure for ever, and his seed as many generations." But why is it that the Jewish race is preserved? We have our answer in the text: "The holy seed is the substance thereof." There is something within a tree mysterious, hidden and unknown, which preserves life in it when everything outward tends to kill it. So in the Jewish race there is a secret element which keeps it alive. We know what it is; it is the 'remnant according to the election of grace;' in the worst of ages there has never been a day so black but there was a Hebrew found to hold the lamp of God. There has always been found a Jew who loved Jesus; and though the race now despise the great Redeemer, yet there are not a few of the Hebrew race who still love Jesus the Saviour of the uncircumcised, and bow before him. It is these few, this holy seed, that are the substance of the nation; and for their sake, through their prayers, because of God's love to them, he still says of Israel to all nations, "Touch not these mine anointed, do my prophets no harm. These are the descendants of Abraham, my friend. I have sworn and will not repent; I will show kindness unto them for their father's sake, and for the sake of the remnant I have chosen." Let us think a little more of the Jews than we have been wont; let us pray oftener for them. "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; they shall prosper that love her." As truly as any great thing is done in this world for Christ's kingdom, the Jews will have more to do with it than any of us have dreamed.
For meditation: Do you attach anything like the same priority to the Jews as God does (Romans 1:16; 2:9,10)? "How odd of God to choose the Jews" (William Norman Ewer)—but not as odd as those who choose a Jewish God and hate the Jews.
Sermon no. 121
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The collaboration is an effort to enhance interoperability and productivity between Red Hat and SAP solutions. Essentially, the firms are working to provide capabilities that make it easier to consume SAP application data and business processes from Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform, or JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
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This Red Hat &endash; SAP integration will be carried out via SAP NetWeaver Gateway technology, which exists to connect devices, environments, and platforms to SAP software based on open standards. It offers connectivity to SAP applications using any programming language or model (without the need for knowledge of SAP solutions) by leveraging REST services and OData and/or ATOM protocols.
"The long-standing collaboration between Red Hat and SAP is thriving, and integration between technologies from both companies is a great example of what The JBoss Way was designed for," said Craig Muzilla, vice president and general manager, Middleware, Red Hat. "The aim of this integration is a more intelligent, integrated enterprise — one that can maximize the value of data assets and accelerate business decisions. Ultimately, our goal is to enable developers to innovate faster and create transformative applications that have real business impact."
"SAP and Red Hat both support open standards, such as HTML5, REST, and OData and frequently join forces in standards-based consortia," said Adi Kavalar, vice president, Product Management, SAP. "The support of SAP solutions in the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio — for consuming SAP NetWeaver Gateway-provisioned, REST-based OData services — underscores our cooperation in the open community and is a welcome and encouraging step for customers and developers."
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Celebrity chef Paula Deen may find some comic relief from her current run of conflict come this October thanks to Bluewater productions, a Washington state-based publisher of comics and graphic novels.
Bluewater has decided to move forward with publishing an unauthorized comic-book biography of Deen's life as part of the company's "Female Force" series despite her recent admission to using a racial slur nearly 30 years ago.
Since Deen acknowledged using the "N" word, the Food Network star has lost contracts with her major corporate partners. She made the admission during a deposition in a race and sexual harrassment lawsuit filed against her, her brother Earl "Bubba" Hiers and her company.
Bluewater's past publications include dozens of comics chronicling the lives of prominent female figures, some of whom include Hillary Clinton, Caroline Kennedy, Princess Diana, Sarah Palin, Condoleezza Rice and First Lady Michelle Obama.
Plans for the Deen comic began several months prior to allegations of sexual harassment and racial discrimination by a former employee against Deen Enterprises, said spokesman Jason Schultz.
"We have done Julia Child and Martha Stewart and we were always going to do Paula Deen," he said. "So, we decided to move forward with it."
According to a company statement the comic book is not an effort to either to promote or defame Deen, but simply is trying to "frame her story as an entrepreneur who transformed a home-based catering service into a culinary empire."
"We do not condone her use of racial insensitivities and think that intolerance has no place in a just society, said Bluewater's president Darren G. Davis in the statement, "But despite her recent failings, we also strongly believe she still has a powerful story to tell, one that fits the female empowerment model of our books.
"Under the greatest scrutiny, many of our heroes let us down, but we also believe in the power of redemption," Davis said. "In all biographies there are chapters full of great accomplishments and those full of challenges. I believe Ms. Deen's story is not yet completely written."
Schultz said he has received some negative criticism about the Deen comic book, but the feedback has been mostly positive and the book is being redrafted to include Deen's recent controversy.
"We have received over 50 emails from her fans that are supporting us doing this," he said.
Schultz said that the company has no contract with Deen for her story, but the unauthorized biography still entitles the Savannah chef to a share of the book's revenue and that most celebrities Bluewater profiles opt to have their shares of the proceeds go to a specific charity.
Schultz said the company has reached out to Deen to make similar revenue arrangements, but have yet to receive a response.
The comic is scheduled for release in October in both print and electronic formats. Print copies can be purchased at comicfleamarket.com, and the electronic format will be available through most major eBook providers.


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at Golden Gate University. With more than 30 years experience in investment banking,
law and corporate strategy on Wall Street and abroad, Terry specializes in the analysis
of the impact of government politics and policies on local, national and international
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and consumer reactions to the changing economic tides.
Terry holds a law degree from NYU School of Law and his professional history includes positions with Ernst & Young Australia, the Queensland University of Technology Graduate School of Business, New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore (corporate, securities and litigation practice in New York and London), chief of staff at Salomon Brothers global investment banking group and global head of Cowen & Company's investment banking, where he served as CEO. In conjunction with Golden Gate University President Dan Angel, Terry co-authored Riptide: The New Normal In Higher Education (2011). Available on Amazon.com, Riptide deconstructs the changing landscape of higher education in the face of the for-profit debacle, graduation gridlock and staggering student debt, and asserts a new, sustainable model for progress. Terry lives in Palo Alto, CA, with his wife and has also served on the board of trustees for Sofia University.


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By Funmi Odegbami - Mink London
The month of February is one of the busiest months in the fashion and beauty calendar. New fashions, styles, trends and makeup looks grace the stages at the fashion week events where designers, stylists and makeup teams work to create beautiful master pieces for us to ogle.
It is also not foreign to see beauty teams, comprising of facialists, manicurists and beauticians backstage helping to prep the models for styling. And at MINK the biggest trend for spring/summer is... "polish".
Yes such a small word but with huge implications. At Fashions Finest London Fashion Week, where MINK provided all of the makeup, the focus was on beautiful, flawless skin. We worked very hard to perfect the models complexions, keeping the makeup perfectly fresh and matt. We worked one of the seasons hottest trends – pastel eyes – and the final look was pretty, fresh and stunning.
So how can you recreate this look yourself?
Firstly you need to prep your skin by ensuring that it is clean and well moisturised. Additionally you should also consider using a skin primer. Just like you prime a wall before you paint it, you can prime your face before you apply foundation. Primers work much like a moisturizer under your foundation does: they ease the application of foundation and are meant to create a barrier between foundation and skin.
Once you have prepped your skin you then need to apply a concealer to cover up any dark under-eye circles, blemishes and marks on the skin. Be generous with the concealer and ensure that what needs to be covered is covered. Next apply a light covering of foundation where it is needed. Next apply plenty of powder to finish off the look. For FF London Fashion Week show our makeup artists worked with a loose translucent powder by Ten Image cosmetics.
A translucent powder is best applied with a powder puff first tissue off foundation before setting with powder, pour a small amount of powder into a tissue and using a clan velour powder puff or firm synthetic makeup wedge press lightly on the base with a rocking motion covering the entire face. Remove excess powder with a powder brush
Now are the eyes, the windows to the soul. Firstly you must have perfectly groomed eyebrows and we would suggest that you get these shaped by a professional. A good set of brows will draw attention to the eyes.
Next work a block of your chosen pastel colour into the eyelids. Pastel colours where taken from Ten Images spring eye shadow palate.
To complete the look we used Ten Image's Kijal eyeliner in black to line the tops and bottom lash lines. We also used a white eyeliner pencil in the water line to make eyes look bigger. Lastly we applied a think layer of black mascara to the top lashes. You can use an eyelash comb to separate the eyelashes and remove any lumps. When loading the mascara wand with product do not pump the wand in and out of the barrel as this will introduce air into the product and cause it to dry out quickly.
Contour the cheeks and apply a light sweep of natural but pretty blusher. The blusher will warm and brighten the skin complexion.
Prepare the lips with lip balm or Vaseline. Line the lips with a liner close to your natural skin colour. Then apply your chosen lipstick with a brush. If a shiny appearance is required, gloss can be used to finish.
Well there you have it. A foolproof makeup look for spring. Wearing colour on the eyes for the first time can be daunting so practice until you are happy with the result.
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David Einhorn, one of the most closely followed managers in the $2 trillion hedge fund industry, had some blunt advice on Wednesday for his fellow investors: Do your own homework.
Einhorn, this year's star attraction at the Sohn Investment Conference, an annual confab where the industry's top investors share their favorite trade ideas, wrapped up his presentation by offering some words of warning about his public comments.
"It doesn't make sense to blindly follow me or anyone else into a stock," said Einhorn, president and co-founder of the $8.8 billion hedge fund Greenlight Capital. "Do your own work."
He may have been talking to the converted. Einhorn's limited impact on Apple shares after he implored the technology giant earlier this year to better use its cashpile has been noted by industry analysts. A cover piece in March by Bloomberg Businessweek, "When David Einhorn Talks, Markets Listen -- Usually," highlighted the failure of the "Einhorn effect" to work its magic on Apple.
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Einhorn is perhaps best known for his prescient call on the demise of investment bank Lehman Brothers before the financial crisis, a trade idea he made public at the 2008 Sohn conference, and for his short position in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.
While the conference is one of the high points of the year for investors, it has also been criticized as a forum that allows money managers to move stock prices and advance their trades. Einhorn's remarks seemed to address those concerns.
The 44-year-old manager said he did not "speak about stocks to benefit from any price appreciations that might occur" and reiterated that his fund invested on a medium- to long-term horizon.
He said Greenlight had not liquidated any of the 30 trading positions he had advocated at past Sohn events "within three months of first speaking about it publicly", and added that 90 percent of the ideas were still in the fund's portfolio.
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After a year, he said the fund had increased positions in about half of the calls and decreased positions in the other half.
Einhorn's plays do not always turn out well. While bullish bets on Norwegian insurer Gjensidige and a bearish call on U.S. Steel proved prescient, Einhorn spent a portion of his 15 minutes at last year's conference praising shares of Apple. The company's stock price has fallen about 16 percent since he gave that presentation.
Greenlight Capital is up 5.5 percent this year through April 30, according to a person familiar with the numbers. The S&P 500, meanwhile, rose 12 percent over that period.
This year, Einhorn suggested a long position in oil field services provider Oil States International, saying that it was a high-quality business that markets did not appreciate.
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"We didn't come up with a thesis on OIS in 15 minutes, and the data says there's a decent chance we won't change positions" in the near term, he said. "At Greenlight, when we find a good idea we tend to stick with it."
Investors who may have wanted to quickly put on trades based on Einhorn's ideas this year faced another complication: He did not begin his presentation until 6:30 p.m., two and a half hours after the close of the U.S. trading day.


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Yale PRs
1500m 3:56.38
Mile 4:20.84
3000m 8:29.47
5000m 14:56.97
High School PRs
800m 1:58.15
1500m 3:58.45
3000m 8:35.12
2011-2012: Set PRs in four events…Ran his 3000-meter run PR at the BU Terrier Classic (33rd place) to qualify for IC4As…Fourth in the 3000-meter run at Dartmouth-Yale-Columbia and 20th at indoor Heps…Second in the 1500-meter run at the UConn Invitational…20th at outdoor Heps in the 5000-meter run.
2010-2011: Outdoors, ran PR of 15.16.13 in 5000m at Sam Howell Invitational … Placed eighth in 5000m run at Harvard-Yale … Ran indoor season best in 3000m at Dartmouth-Columbia … Competed in top seven at Heps for cross country … Came in first for Bulldogs at New England Championships.
2009-2010: Competed in the 5000m at Harvard-Yale during outdoor … Was running among Yale's top seven runners in cross country before illness sidelined him for the remainder of the season.
High School: Was the Oregon state meet second place finisher in both cross country and the 3000m and finished third in the 1500m.
Personal: Silliman College … Four of his second cousins went to Yale … Volunteered at Roosevelt Middle School … Enjoys crossword puzzles.
Why I chose Yale: "Yale felt like home and the team is a great group of guys."