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Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said she was offended by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dismissal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act as a racial "entitlement."
"Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes," Scalia said during Supreme Court debate in the Shelby County (Alabama) voting rights case earlier this week.
Jackson Lee, who visited the courtroom during the case, said the provision of the Act under question was not a racial entitlement.
"It simply says that you will have the right to vote that has been given to all citizens," the Houston Democrat said on MSNBC's Ed Show. "Why a justice would classify the simple protected right to vote as 'racial entitlements' baffles me and offends me."
Scalia, one of the court's most conservative voices, said that political pressure will prevent lawmakers from voting against the measure. The Act was last renewed by a 98 to 0 vote in the Senate and a 390 vote majority in the 435-member House.
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Jackson Lee spoke of the voting rights problems in the Lone Star State on the interview. She said the GOP-authored state voter photo identification law was discriminatory. Jackson Lee noted that you could not use a student ID or a Texas state-issued ID, but could use a concealed firearm permit as identification. Jackson Lee said the section of the Voting Rights Act which Scalia disputed helped strike down this law.
"Next year they could make another law to block voting, and section five stands there as a codification of the Constitution to block those kinds of laws," Jackson Lee said.
The Alabama case centers on whether states with a history of discrimination still need to clear changes in voting laws with the federal government.
Also in the segment, Ed Schultz quoted Texas state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, who came to the court to witness the case. Martinez Fischer expressed optimism that the court's moderate conservative, Anthony Kennedy, would uphold the disputed portion of the Act.
"I think Justice Kennedy was very methodical and deliberate in his assessment," Martinez Fischer told Talking Points Memo. "I don't think he showed anybody anything."


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President Bush asked many people to help with a big oil problem. He said that recent storms showed that we are not able to make enough gas and heating oil. The storms hurt some refineries that make gas and oil from crude oil.
The President wants everyone to conserve gas by not driving as much. He would like more people to use public transportation too. Doing this could really help.
President Bush said oil companies need to build new refineries. He believes that gas could cost more money because there is not enough to sell to everyone who wants it. The President wants everyone to be able to get the gas that they need.
The supply of gas has been hurt. President Bush said that he would open a supply of oil that is only for emergencies. He also said that companies would not have to follow some rules about what they put in the gasoline. Doing this should help to get gas where it is needed.
The hurricanes that hit the Gulf Coast hurt our ability to make and ship gas. Oil companies shut down 16 refineries before the storm. It takes time to get them going again, even if they are not hurt by the storm. It takes more time to fix refineries that are damaged. The Gulf Coast supplies about one fourth of the oil and gas that the United States needs.
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This section discusses known problems or issues when using replication with MySQL Cluster in MySQL 5.1 (including MySQL Cluster NDB 6.X and 7.X through 7.1).
Loss of master-slave connection.
A loss of connection can occur either between the replication
master SQL node and the replication slave SQL node, or between
the replication master SQL node and the data nodes in the master
cluster. In the latter case, this can occur not only as a result
of loss of physical connection (for example, a broken network
cable), but due to the overflow of data node event buffers; if
the SQL node is too slow to respond, it may be dropped by the
cluster (this is controllable to some degree by adjusting the
MaxBufferedEpochs and
configuration parameters). If this occurs, it is
entirely possible for new data to be inserted into the master
cluster without being recorded in the replication master's
binary log. For this reason, to guarantee high
availability, it is extremely important to maintain a backup
replication channel, to monitor the primary channel, and to fail
over to the secondary replication channel when necessary to keep
the slave cluster synchronized with the master. MySQL Cluster is
not designed to perform such monitoring on its own; for this, an
external application is required.
Prior to MySQL 5.1.18, a MySQL Cluster replication slave mysqld had no way of detecting that the connection from the master had been interrupted. For this reason, it was possible for the slave to become inconsistent with the master.
Beginning with MySQL 5.1.18, the replication master issues a
"gap" event when connecting or reconnecting to the
master cluster. (A gap event is a type of "incident
event," which indicates an incident that occurs that
affects the contents of the database but that cannot easily be
represented as a set of changes. Examples of incidents are server
crashes, database resynchronization, (some) software updates, and
(some) hardware changes.) When the slave encounters a gap in the
replication log, it stops with an error message. This message is
available in the output of
STATUS, and indicates that the SQL thread has stopped
due to an incident registered in the replication stream, and that
manual intervention is required. See
Section 17.6.8, "Implementing Failover with MySQL Cluster Replication", for more
information about what to do in such circumstances.
Because MySQL Cluster is not designed on its own to monitor replication status or provide failover, if high availability is a requirement for the slave server or cluster, then you must set up multiple replication lines, monitor the master mysqld on the primary replication line, and be prepared fail over to a secondary line if and as necessary. This must be done manually, or possibly by means of a third-party application. For information about implementing this type of setup, see Section 17.6.7, "Using Two Replication Channels for MySQL Cluster Replication", and Section 17.6.8, "Implementing Failover with MySQL Cluster Replication".
However, if you are replicating from a standalone MySQL server to a MySQL Cluster, one channel is usually sufficient.
Multibyte character sets. Previously, there were several known issues with regard to the use of multibyte characters sets with MySQL Cluster Replication. These were resolved in MySQL 5.1.21, MySQL Cluster NDB 6.2.14, and MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3.11. (See Bug #27404 and Bug #29562.)
Circular replication. Prior to MySQL 5.1.18, circular replication was not supported with MySQL Cluster replication, due to the fact that all log events created in a particular MySQL Cluster were wrongly tagged with the server ID of the MySQL server used as master and not with the server ID of the originating server.
Beginning with MySQL 5.1.18, this limitation is lifted, as discussed in the next few paragraphs, in which we consider the example of a replication setup involving three MySQL Clusters numbered 1, 2, and 3, in which Cluster 1 acts as the replication master for Cluster 2, Cluster 2 acts as the master for Cluster 3, and Cluster 3 acts as the master for Cluster 1. Each cluster has two SQL nodes, with SQL nodes A and B belonging to Cluster 1, SQL nodes C and D belonging to Cluster 2, and SQL nodes E and F belonging to Cluster 3.
Circular replication using these clusters is supported as long as the following conditions are met:
The SQL nodes on all masters and slaves are the same
All SQL nodes acting as replication masters and slaves are
started using the
--log-slave-updates option
This type of circular replication setup is shown in the following diagram:
In this scenario, SQL node A in Cluster 1 replicates to SQL node C in Cluster 2; SQL node C replicates to SQL node E in Cluster 3; SQL node E replicates to SQL node A. In other words, the replication line (indicated by the red arrows in the diagram) directly connects all SQL nodes used as replication masters and slaves.
It should also be possible to set up circular replication in which not all master SQL nodes are also slaves, as shown here:
In this case, different SQL nodes in each cluster are used as
replication masters and slaves. However, you must
not start any of the SQL nodes using
--log-slave-updates). This type of
circular replication scheme for MySQL Cluster, in which the line
of replication (again indicated by the red arrows in the diagram)
is discontinuous, should be possible, but it should be noted that
it has not yet been thoroughly tested and must therefore still be
considered experimental.
Beginning with MySQL 5.1.24, the
NDB storage engine uses
idempotent execution mode,
which suppresses duplicate-key and other errors that otherwise
break circular replication of MySQL Cluster. This is equivalent
to setting the global
slave_exec_mode system variable
IDEMPOTENT, although this is not necessary
in MySQL Cluster replication, since MySQL Cluster now sets this
variable automatically and ignores any attempts to set it
explicitly. (Bug #31609)
MySQL Cluster replication and primary keys.
In MySQL 5.1.6, only those
tables having explicit primary keys could be replicated. This
limitation was lifted in MySQL 5.1.7. However, in the event of a
node failure, errors in replication of
NDB tables without primary keys can
still occur, due to the possibility of duplicate rows being
inserted in such cases. For this reason, it is highly
recommended that all
NDB tables
being replicated have primary keys.
MySQL Cluster Replication and Unique Keys.
Prior to MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.25 and MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.14,
operations that updated values of unique key columns of
NDB tables could result in
duplicate-key errors when replicated. This was due to the
ordering of row events in the binary log according to the
partitioning of the base table, which meant that they could
appear in a different order from that in which they were
originally executed. (Bug #11756082)
In MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0.25, MySQL Cluster NDB 7.1.14, and later,
this issue is solved for replication between
NDB tables by deferring unique key
checks until after all table row updates have been performed.
Deferring constraints in this way is currently supported only by
NDB. Thus, updates of unique keys
when replicating from
NDB to a
different storage engine such as
MyISAM or
InnoDB are still not supported.
The problem encountered when replicating without deferred checking
of unique key updates can be illustrated using
NDB table such as
t, is created and populated on the master (and
replicated to a slave that does not support deferred unique key
updates) as shown here:
CREATE TABLE t ( p INT PRIMARY KEY, c INT, UNIQUE KEY u (c) ) ENGINE NDB; INSERT INTO t VALUES (1,1), (2,2), (3,3), (4,4), (5,5);
The following
UPDATE statement on
t succeeded on the master, since the rows
affected are processed in the order determined by the
ORDER BY option, performed over the entire
UPDATE t SET c = c - 1 ORDER BY p;
However, the same statement failed with a duplicate key error or other constraint violation on the slave, because the ordering of the row updates was done for one partition at a time, rather than for the table as a whole.
In MySQL 5.1.6 and later, every
table is implicitly partitioned by key when it is created. This
also applies to all MySQL Cluster NDB 6.x and MySQL Cluster NDB
7.x releases. See Section 18.2.4, "KEY Partitioning", for more
Restarting with --initial.
Restarting the cluster with the
--initial option causes the
sequence of GCI and epoch numbers to start over from
0. (This is generally true of MySQL Cluster
and not limited to replication scenarios involving Cluster.) The
MySQL servers involved in replication should in this case be
restarted. After this, you should use the
RESET MASTER and
RESET SLAVE statements to clear
the invalid
ndb_binlog_index and
ndb_apply_status tables, respectively.
auto_increment_offset and auto_increment_increment variables.
The use of the
auto_increment_offset and
auto_increment_increment server
system variables is supported beginning with MySQL 5.1.20.
Previously, these produced unpredictable results when used with
NDB tables or MySQL Cluster
Replication from NDB to other storage engines.
It is possible to replicate an
table on the master to a table using a different storage engine
on the slave, taking into account the restrictions listed here:
Multi-master and circular replication are not supported
(tables on both the master and the slave must use the
NDB storage engine for this to
Using a storage engine which does not perform binary logging for slave tables requires special handling.
Use of a nontransactional storage engine for slave tables also requires special handling.
The master mysqld must be started with
--ndb-log-update-as-write=0 or
The next few paragraphs provide additional information about each of the issues just described.
Multiple masters not supported when replicating NDB to other storage
For replication from
NDB to a
different storage engine, the relationship between the two
databases must be a simple master-slave one. This means that
circular or master-master replication is not supported between
MySQL Cluster and other storage engines.
In addition, it is not possible to configure more than one
replication channel when replicating between
NDB and a different storage engine.
(However, a MySQL Cluster database can
simultaneously replicate to multiple slave MySQL Cluster
databases.) If the master uses
tables, it is still possible to have more than one MySQL Server
maintain a binary log of all changes; however, for the slave to
change masters (fail over), the new master-slave relationship must
be explicitly defined on the slave.
Replicating NDB to a slave storage engine that does not perform binary logging. If you attempt to replicate from a MySQL Cluster to a slave that uses a storage engine that does not handle its own binary logging, the replication process aborts with the error Binary logging not possible ... Statement cannot be written atomically since more than one engine involved and at least one engine is self-logging (Error 1595). It is possible to work around this issue in one of the following ways:
Turn off binary logging on the slave.
This can be accomplished by setting
sql_log_bin = 0.
Change the storage engine used for the mysql.ndb_apply_status table.
Causing this table to use an engine that does not handle its
own binary logging can also eliminate the conflict. This can
be done by issuing a statement such as
mysql.ndb_apply_status ENGINE=MyISAM on the slave.
It is safe to do this when using a
NDB storage engine on the
slave, since you do not then need to worry about keeping
multiple slave SQL nodes synchronized.
Filter out changes to the mysql.ndb_apply_status table on the slave.
This can be done by starting the slave SQL node with
If you need for other tables to be ignored by replication,
you might wish to use an appropriate
option instead.
You should not disable replication or
binary logging of
mysql.ndb_apply_status or
change the storage engine used for this table when replicating
from one MySQL Cluster to another. See
Replication and binary log filtering rules with replication between
MySQL Clusters,
for details.
Replication from NDB to a nontransactional storage engine.
When replicating from
NDB to a
nontransactional storage engine such as
MyISAM, you may encounter
unnecessary duplicate key errors when replicating
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statements. You can suppress
these in MySQL Cluster NDB 6.2 and later MySQL Cluster releases
by using
which forces updates to be logged as writes (rather than as
In addition, when replicating from
NDB to a storage engine that does not
implement transactions, if the slave fails to apply any row
changes from a given transaction, it does not roll back the rest
of the transaction. (This is true when replicating tables using
any transactional storage engine—not only
NDB—to a nontransactional
storage engine.) Because of this, it cannot be guaranteed that
transactional consistency will be maintained on the slave in such
Replication and binary log filtering rules with replication between
MySQL Clusters.
If you are using any of the options
--binlog-do-db, or
--binlog-ignore-db to filter
databases or tables being replicated, care must be taken not to
block replication or binary logging of the
mysql.ndb_apply_status, which is required for
replication between MySQL Clusters to operate properly. In
particular, you must keep in mind the following:
(and no other
--replicate-do-* or
--replicate-ignore-* options) means that
only tables in database
db_name are replicated. In this
case, you should also use
--binlog-do-db=mysql, or
to ensure that
mysql.ndb_apply_status is
populated on slaves.
(and no other
options) means that changes only to
tables in database
db_name are
written to the binary log. In this case, you should also use
--binlog-do-db=mysql, or
to ensure that
mysql.ndb_apply_status is
populated on slaves.
means that no tables in the
mysql database
are replicated. In this case, you should also use
to ensure that
mysql.ndb_apply_status is
means that no changes to tables in the
mysql database are written to the binary
log. In this case, you should also use
to ensure that
mysql.ndb_apply_status is
You should also remember that each replication rule requires the following:
Its own
--replicate-do-* or
--replicate-ignore-* option, and that
multiple rules cannot be expressed in a single replication
filtering option. For information about these rules, see
Section 16.1.3, "Replication and Binary Logging Options and Variables".
Its own
--binlog-do-db or
--binlog-ignore-db option, and
that multiple rules cannot be expressed in a single binary log
filtering option. For information about these rules, see
Section 5.4.4, "The Binary Log".
If you are replicating a MySQL Cluster to a slave that uses a
storage engine other than
NDB, the
considerations just given previously may not apply, as discussed
elsewhere in this section.
MySQL Cluster Replication and IPv6. Currently, the NDB API and MGM API do not support IPv6. However, beginning with MySQL Cluster NDB 6.4.1, MySQL Servers—including those acting as SQL nodes in a MySQL Cluster—can use IPv6 to contact other MySQL Servers. This means that you can replicate between MySQL Clusters using IPv6 to connect the master and slave SQL nodes as shown by the dotted arrow in the following diagram:
However, all connections originating within the MySQL Cluster—represented in the preceding diagram by solid arrows—must use IPv4. In other words, all MySQL Cluster data nodes, management servers, and management clients must be accessible from one another using IPv4. In addition, SQL nodes must use IPv4 to communicate with the cluster.
Since there is currently no support in the NDB and MGM APIs for IPv6, any applications written using these APIs must also make all connections using IPv4.
Attribute promotion and demotion.
Formerly, support in MySQL Cluster for type conversions between
columns of similar but different types on the master and the
slave was extremely limited. However, starting with MySQL
Cluster NDB 6.3.33, 7.0.14, and 7.1.3, MySQL Cluster Replication
includes support for attribute promotion and demotion. The
implementation of the latter distinguishes between lossy and
non-lossy type conversions, and their use on the slave can be
controlled by setting the
slave_type_conversions global
server system variable.
For more information about attribute promotion and demotion in MySQL Cluster, see Attribute promotion and demotion (MySQL Cluster).


text: On being a writer November 25, 2012 by Patti Niehoff Ephemera writing What I like about writing: The dress code (or lack thereof) What I hate about writing: You still have to get up in the morning. Related The AuthorPatti Niehoff I read and I write and I think. I survive.


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Cover? Kinda boring...siblings showing support, red-white-and-blue cliché, dog wearing the title of the book around her neck. Kristy's wearing a turtleneck, as she does.
The plot: Um, Claud and Stace convince Kristy to run for class president against Alan Gray, Grace-Cokie's-little-crony, and Pete Black. But she's taken on a bit much, what with the sitting and the BSC and the Krushers and the family and the failing science grades and the campaigning. So, she drops out of the race. Blah. Oh, and Mal's running for 6th grade
Subplot: Jamie Newton gets a bike, and tortures all his sitters. And they all neglect Lucy in the process. Or something.
Short plot=lots of bullets.
- Wow, Stacey's soooo sophisticated. And I don't just mean she's got capital knockers. No, she compares the SMS PA system to the announcements on the NYC subways. I personally like the announcements on the MBTA commuter rail.
- Wow, Kristy's glad it's Friday. Whoop-di-shit. Just wait until she gets a job working for the female Michael Scott (I stole that from RNL).
- Mr. Zorzi is a sub. What the hell kinda name is Zorzi?
- Wow, a bunch of middle school kids just start following a couple of jokers. Big surprise. Middle school kids are sheep.
- A reference to Bunnicula. Wow, someone's well-read. Or something.
- Joking about nasty cafeteria food is wicked boring. And repetitive. And lame. And lazy.
- Seriously, I don't want to read about how cute babies are. Or how cute Kristy's siblings are. Or sitting in general. I don't care about a fucking "leaf dance."
- Kris-ty li-ikes Ba-art! Oh, wait. We already knew that.
- Okay. So, this book has tons of outfits. Which makes up for the lack in last week's book. Cause that wasn't me being lazy, bitches. There weren't any in the book!!!!
- "Today, for instance, Claudia was wearing lime green bicycle pants, a long, long bright pink shirt, and a cropped lime green striped shirt over that. She was also wearing black hightop leather sneakers with pink butterfly barrettes clipped to the laces. She had two feather earrings in one ear (lime green, of course), and a tiny pink heart in the other." Wait, a cropped top over a long, long shirt. That sounds...less than flattering.
- "And real, live fruit. I mean an apple is okay, but it's not my first choice." The fuck?
- "Like that Monday, she was wearing a black skirt and tights that were two colors: one leg was red and the other was black. And her shoes were shiny black and laced up to the ankles. She was also wearing this enormous black turtleneck sweater with red flecks in it, and one round red earring and one square black one. Her hair, which was in a mid-perm stage around her face, was pulled back with this silver lamé [and lame] band." While not crazy horrible, this outfit still SCREAMS 1989.
- Oh, this shit cracks me up!!! There's this whole thing about how the school play is Mary Poppins, and how it's soooooo babyish. But, if I'm not mistaken, isn't that Stacey's fave movie? So, are they calling her babyish? She is mighty quiet during this discussion. Or, could it be that someone wasn't paying any attention whatsoever to continuity? Perhaps...
- In reference to "right on," Dawn explains, "I think it's an old hippy expression." Stupid hippies. [Oh, so according to the American Oxford Dictionary--I heart Dashboard!!--hippy is a variant spelling of hippie, and, of course, it also means having large hips. I prefer to use the latter in this context. Just cause I hate Dawn.]
- Ooh! Another Claud vs. Janine fashion showdown!!! "Standing next to each other, Claudia and Janine couldn't have looked more different, even though that day Claudia was dressed fairly conservatively: white jeans, red shoes with big bows, a tropical jungle shirt with each button shaped like a piece of fruit, and her hair pulled to one side with a banana barrette. But Janine, with her short hair and bangs, her pullover sweater, and plain skirt and loafers, make Claudia look extremely exotic." Swap out the loafers for some Docs, and Janine wins. Big time. Fruit buttons?
- Ahem. "'I believe you would be glad to know that a pizza delivery has just been effected,' said Janine. She talks like that all the time. It's part of being a genius." Actually, it's part of being a pretentious ass. Trust me, I know. Also, shouldn't it be "affected?" Anyone?
- Kristy's campaign slogan/logo thingee? "K+." Um, clever?
- "According to Stacey, that was the way people in New York advertise things, especially rock concerts." Yes, the SMS president is a fucking rock star. Or something.
- "As every baby-sitter and little kid knows, a shrug is like a maybe--it means yes." No, it doesn't. It means "I don't care" or "I'm not sure" or "My indecision knows no bounds" or "I really don't want to, but I don't want to tell you that." You know...
- There's a whole bunch of shit about how Kristy's turning into Claud, at least grade-wise.
- Okay, so Kristy's wearing "an enormous sweater of a sort of creamy brown, with little black and green stripes running across it" with black pants and loafers. And her complaint is that she looks "preppie." See, I always spelled it preppy [And spell check agrees with me]. Also, the fug? I can't picture this sweater at all, except as some sort of mutant girly Cosby sweater.
- Lucky us! We get a Grace outfit, too! "Her makeup was about three feet thick, and she was wearing a pale blue sweater, matching stirrup pants, and a ton of jewelry." Wow, that sounds flattering. And classy.
- Oh, yeah. There's also this thing about Special Ed kids that I can't quite figure out. Maybe I was paying more attention to South Park than to this lame fucker.
- Um, does the middle school really have a fencing team?
- Wow, a baby Lucy outfit, too! [And you thought I was kidding about lots of outfits.] "Lucy...was wearing lavender overalls with pink stars on them, a pink shirt, pink socks, and little purple sneakers with shoelaces that had stars and moons on them." Wow, someone's really trying to indoctrinate this baby with traditional femininity. Also, she's a fucking baby. Why's she all dressed up for puking in the playpen? And does she need shoelaces? And didn't Claud wear this exact outfit in some super special? [I kid. Sort of.]
- Not done yet! "Stacey had pulled her hair back into a braid with a silver hat pin stuck through it. She was wearing purple capri pants, soft black flat ankle boots, black-and-white-striped socks, and a black-and-white-checked shirt, only the checks were all different sizes. She had square silver earrings in her ears." Again, can't really picture the shirt. And "soft black?" Is the material soft? Or the color? Or my mind?
- "Claud's hair was down, but she was wearing a hat. On the green hat ribbon was pinned "Kristy+" button. Her tights were orange and her dress was tie-dyed every color you could think of. She was wearing her feather earrings, and she'd drawn a star on her face next to her right eye." This is another über-Blossom outfit. Crossed with a dirty, dirty hippie.
- Kristy gives a big speech when she ends her candidacy. Cause everyone fucking cares.
- Oh, and Mal wins.
Hooray! It's done! I totally would have loved to see Grace win, just to piss Kristy off, and cause middle school elections ARE a fucking popularity contest. But Pete Black wins. And fairies and unicorns dance around in celebration.
Next week, "Maid Mary Anne." Probably.


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Deidra Dryden is the head women's tennis coach, senior woman athletics administrator, associate athletic director, and Title IX coordinator at Southern Virginia University.
During the 2010-2011 academic year, Dryden served as Southern Virginia's acting athletic director spearheading the university's NCAA Division III exploratory application process and leading the athletics program to its highest combined winning percentage (.566). That year she also led her women's tennis team to a 15-3 record, which marked the best season in the program's six-year history.
Dryden began coaching at Southern Virginia in 1997 when she helped recruit the university's first women's basketball, volleyball and soccer teams.
From 1998-1999, Dryden was the head women's soccer coach leading the team to an impressive 10-2 record in its inaugural season, capped by an NSCAA national championship. That year she was also head women's basketball coach and guided the first-year team to a fourth-place finish at the NSCAA national tournament.
The following year, Dryden was the assistant women's basketball coach and helped the team win the 2000 NSCAA national championship.
In the spring of 2000, she became head softball coach in the program's second year and took the team to a second-place finish at the NSCAA national tournament. As head softball coach from 2000-2004, Dryden led the team to five straight national tournament appearances.
After softball's third-place finish at the 2004 USCAA national tournament, Dryden took a leave of absence from coaching, but began teaching courses at Southern Virginia as an adjunct instructor of mathematics. She returned to coaching in spring 2008 as head women's tennis coach.
Dryden's intercollegiate athletic career includes playing tennis at Brigham Young University-Hawaii and playing basketball and tennis at Columbus State University.
Dryden has a B.S. in math education from Columbus State University and is working to complete a master's degree in mathematics from James Madison University.
She and her husband, Dr. Brent Dryden, live in Buena Vista, Va., with their five children.
Southern Virginia Coaching History
1997-1998—Recruited university's first women's basketball, soccer and volleyball teams
1998—Head women's soccer coach for program's inagural season; 10-2 career record; program's all-time highest winning percentage; 1998 NSCAA national championship; tied for highest single-season winning percentage (.833) of any athletics team in Southern Virginia history
1998-1999—Head women's basketball coach for program's inagural season; 15-12 career record; program's all-time highest winning percentage (.555); placed fourth at 1999 NSCAA national tournament
2000—Assistant women's basketball coach; 2000 NSCAA national championship
2000-2004—Head softball coach; program's all-time winningest coach; program's all-time highest winning percentage; five consecutive postseason appearances; second-place finish at 2000 NSCAA national tournament
2004-2014—Adjunct professor of mathematics
2008-Present—Head women's tennis coach; program's all-time winningest coach; program's all-time highest winning percentage; led 2011 team to program-best 15-3 record
2010-11—Acting athletic director; led athletics program to most comined wins (136) and highest combined winning percentage (.566) for single academic year in university history
2011-Present—Senior women's athletics administrator


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s in the early history of most newspapers, there was a period when the success of The Illustrated London News was by no means assured; for although 26,000 copies of the first number were disposed of, there was a great falling off in the sale of the second and subsequent numbers. Mr. Ingram, however, was determined to make his property a success, and one that is still spoken of as a brilliant stroke of journalistic enterprise. He sent to every clergyman in the country a copy of the number containing illustrations of the installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and by this means secured many new subscribers. The first volume of the paper ended with the close of 1842, and with the new year several improvements were introduced. Henry Cockton, whose "Valentine Vox" was the success of 1840, contributed a story called "A Romance of Real Life," and stories by Thomas Miller ("The Basket Maker") and others followed. It is claimed by Mr. Mason Jackson that this "was the first attempt to infuse a new interest into newspaper literature by the introduction of fiction." The circulation by the end of the first year is said to have reached the high figure of 66,000 copies weekly; and the first year of the papers existence was celebrated by the publication of a double-number mainly illustrated by Gilbert, Harvey, and Kenny Meadows.
When The Illustrated London News was started, there were very few draughtsmen on wood whose services were available for such a publication. Most of these were employed in book illustrations, and their style of drawing was not suited for rapid reproduction in a newspaper. Foremost among "the black-and-white men" of the day were William Harvey, Kenny Meadows, W. B. Scott, William Dix, G. F. Sargent, W. H. Prior (the last two being landscape and architectural artists exclusively), John Gilbert, George and Robert Cruikshank, John Leech, Alfred Forrester ("Crowquill"), and S. Williams. Some of these men as we have seen, early devoted their talents to the service of the new paper, and it gradually attracted other artists of repute; notably George Thomas (elder brother of Mr. W. L. Thomas, the manager of The Graphic), Birket Foster, E. Duncan, Dodson, J. L. Williams, son of S. Williams, a clever architectural draughtsman and engraver who executed such subjects as Barry's new Palace of Westminster, T. Beech, who used to copy old and modern pictures, L. Huard, a Belgian figure draughtsman, Harrison Weir, and many more. Among the early literary contributors were Mark Lemon, Stirling Coyne, and Henry, Horace, and Augustus Mayhew. Howard Staunton was the first editor of that chess column which has always been a "feature" of The Illustrated London News. In 1847 and 1848 Mr. W. J. Linton was the chief engraver, and the work he contributed to the paper in those years has not been surpassed at any later period in its history. In 1848, Dr. Charles Mackay, the veteran poet and journalist, succeeded to the literary and political editorship, and in 1852 he took the entire management and control of the paper. Under him worked for many years the late John Timbs, author of "The Curiosities of London," and many another excellent piece of paste and scissors work.
Elated by the success of his weekly paper, Mr. Ingram attempted in February, 1848, to found a daily paper called The London Telegraph. It was to give for threepence, as much news as the other papers gave for fivepence. Mr. Thomas Hodgskin was the editor, and Dr. Charles Mackay the foreign leader writer. It was Mr. Ingram's idea to publish the paper at noon so that it might contain later intelligence than the other journals; and he introduced what was at that time the exceedingly bold innovation of a feuilleton after the French manner, Albert Smith contributing to the paper "The Pottleton Legacy." The journal could not, however, be made to pay. On May 15th its size was reduced, and its last number, containing' the last chapter of "The Pottleton Legacy," came out on July 8th. Mr. Ingram lost much money over the transaction, and was furious at its failure. Dr. Mackay has said that Mr. Ingram accused Mr. Hodgskin of being the cause of the failure of the paper "from his constant use of the word "bureaucracy," which, Mr. Ingram said, had occurred at least ten times in one week in the leading articles. "Bureaucracy, bureaucracy," he exclaimed in irate terms, "such a word is enough to damn any newspaper, and it has damned The Telegraph."
Mr. Ingram died tragically. With his eldest sun he went in 1860 on a tour in the United States. After visiting Niagara they took steamer at Chicago for an excursion to Lakes Michigan and Superior. On the 7th of September there was a heavy gale, and early in the morning of the 8th, in the darkness a schooner collided with the steamer, and injured her so seriously that she sank within half an hour. Only 114 persons were saved out of the 393 on board. The body of Mr. Ingram was washed on shore, but that of his son was never recovered. Mr. Ingram''s body was brought to England, and at his native town of Boston, which he had represented in Parliament, he received the honours of a public funeral. Not long afterwards a statue of him was erected in the marketplace by public subscription. The proprietorship of the paper passed to Mrs. Ingram, by whom it is still retained. The management is mainly in the hands of her two sons, William and Charles, Mr. Mason Jackson being head of the art, and Mr. John Latey of the literary department.
The early and rapid success of The Illustrated London News soon provoked the competition of rivals, of which the most formidable was The Pictorial Times, started by Mr. Henry Vizetelly in conjunction with Mr. Andrew Spottiswoode, the Queen's printer. Mr. Vizetelly, as has been shown in a previous article, had a considerable share in projecting The Illustrated London News. It was not long, however, before there was a disagreement between him and Mr. Ingram. Mr. Vizetelly seceded, and started a rival paper, its full title being, The Pictorial Times: A Weekly Journal of News, Literature, Fine Art, and the Drama. The first number appeared on March 18th, 1843. It was published at 135, Fleet Street, and was sold at sixpence, the same price as the other paper. The early numbers were certainly not so good as the corresponding numbers of the older journal, and though The Pictorial Times consisted of sixteen pafires, its illustrations were mostly small and ill-engraved. They were scattered among the text; the paper was of indifferent quality; and there were few half-page, and scarcely any page blocks. The first illustration on the front page of the first number was a view of the New Houses of Parliament. This number also contained pictures of "The Factories at Canton," "Unlading Chinese Treasure," "St. Kitts," "Nevis," "Antigua," "The Emperor of China," " Drawing-Room in the House of a Chinese Nobleman," and a good drawing of Macready as "Virginias," besides some illustrations from a new edition of Milton with drawings by William Harvey. The draughtsmen chiefly employed on the new venture were John Gilbert, W. H. Prior, and others who had been brought up in Mr. Vizetelly's wood engraving establishment, namely, F. Danby (landscape), W. H. Thwaites (figures), R. Hind (figures), and Martin, son of John Martin the painter (figures and portraits). It is but fair to say that the later numbers show conspicuous improvement; and on the next page is reproduced an engraving of the Waterloo Banquet which appeared in No. 15.
The Waterloo Banquet from The Pictorial Times, 1843
It was one of Mr. Vizetelly's ideas in starting The Pictorial Times to have it well written, and he secured an excellent literary staff. The sub-editor was Knight Hunt, author of "The Fourth Estate," formerly a clerk in the office of the Anti-Corn Law League. When Mr. Vizetelly severed his connection with the paper, Knight Hunt took the editorship, and retained it till 1846, when he and Mr. W. H. Wills became subeditors of The Daily News, then just started by Charles Dickens. In 1852 he became editor-in-chief, and died in 1854 at the early age of forty. Other members of the literary team were Douglas Jerrold, who wrote the leaders, and Mark Lemon, who was theatrical critic. Thackeray was art-critic and reviewer. He began his duties with the first number, in which appeared No. 1 of a characteristic series of "Letters on the Fine Arts," signed " M. A. Titmarsh, Esq." As a reviewer Thackeray criticised Macaulay's "Essays'" and Disraeli's "Coningsby," and both of these papers, if I mistake not, have escaped the researches of all the bibliographers of Thackeray. Gilbert A'Beckett, who looked after the humorous column, and Peter Cunningham, author of "The Handbook of London," were also constant contributors. In The Pictorial Times, too, Hood's "Bridge of Sighs'" made its first appearance. With so experienced an editor, and such a competent staff, the paper should have been a brilliant success. That, however, it never became. It lingered for a short time, and then died disregarded.
About the time of the foundation of The Pictorial Times, Mr. George Stiff, who had been foreman of the engravers in the office of The Illustrated London News, started a paper of his own called The Illustrated Weekly Times. It had an existence, however, of only a few weeks, Mr. Stiff being more successful with his second effort, The London Journal. Another venture which might have been a more serious rival than any was Lloyd's Illustrated London Newspaper, started on November 27th, 1842, with the avowed object of competing with Mr. Ingram's journal. While The Illustrated London News was published at sixpence, Lloyd's Illustrated was sold at twopence, and for that the reader had a paper of eight pages with three columns of type per page and several woodcuts. At the end of the seventh weeky, however, the authorities interfered and told Mr. Lloyd that he must either stamp his paper or cease to publish it, "the especial item of important information which he was condemned for publishing without a stamp being a report of the escape of a lion from its cage." The paper was consequently re-shaped, and appeared in future as we know it now without illustrations under the title of Lloyd's Weekly London Newspaper.
It was not until the abolition of the newspaper stamp duty in 1855 that The Illustrated London News was again threatened with serious rivalry. On February 10th in that year was produced an interesting and high-class paper called Pen and Pencil: An Illustrated Family Newspaper. The money for the enterprise was found by F. Morin, a French artist, and his friends. The directing spirit both in the art and literary departments was Mr. W. J. Linton, and with so accomplished a man in command the paper might have achieved a great success if funds could only have been forthcoming long enough for it to overcome its early difficulties. In the engraving W. J. Linton received valuable help from his brother Henry, while Morin was principal draughtsman.
F. Morin, The Cantinière; click on image for larger picture.
Walter Savage Landor did all he could to help his friend Linton in the new venture, and poems from his pen appeared almost every week. The front page in each number was occupied by a good engraving after some well-known original by a foreign or English master, that in the first number being "The Sisters," by Sir Thomas Lawrence. This was engraved by Mr. W. J. Linton himself. On the opposite page is reproduced from the first number a drawing called "The Cantinière," by F. Morin. The artist's friends soon lost heart, and no more money being forthcoming, this excellent little paper collapsed on March 31st, 1855, after a distinguished existence of only eight weeks.
The most serious of all the early rivals to The Illustrated London News was The Illustrated Times Weekly Newspaper, which was the property of Mr. David Bogue, the bookseller of Fleet Street. Here, again, as in the case of The Pictorial Times, it was Mr. Henry Vizetelly who led the assault upon what had hitherto proved to be a sucessful monopoly of Mr. Herbert Ingram. Mr. Vizetelly was editor-in-chief and he determined to make the paper as good as it cound be made, both in the literary and art departments. It was believed that the Stamp Act was about to be repealed. In the agitation for the repeal Mr. Vizetelly had himself taken an active part, and he conceived the idea of bringing out a cheap popular illustrated paper immediately after the repeal of the obnoxious Act. All the plans were laid accordingly; but the passing of the Repeal Bill was unexpectedly delayed. Mr. Vizetelly decided upon a bold course. His advertisements had been issued, and he did not wish to break faith with the public. Accordingly, on the day appointed (June 9, 1855), the first number of the new paper duly appeared. For weeks it continued to be published without the stamp. The authorities barked loudly, but they did not bite. Mr. Vizetelly was first served with a writ for �12,000 penalty, but the proceedings were dropped, and the triumph was complete. This was an excellent advertisement for the new paper, which, published at the low price of twopence, rapidly won its way with the public. The paper was well illustrated, well written, and energetically conducted. To the curious, it may be of interest to learn that the office was at No. 2, Catherine Street, Strand, on a site long since swallowed up by the Gaiety Theatre and Restaurant. Among the artists were several whose names are already known to us in connection with previous illustrated papers, but there were some clever new men. Julian Portch was an excellent all-round draughtsman, who was especially good at a battle-scene. Edouard Monn, Gustave Doré, H. Valentine, Gustave Janet, A. J. Palmer, Kenny Meadows, Harrison Weir, G. Cruikshank, Birket Foster, C. H. Bennett, W. McConnell, and others, all did excellent work.
G. A. Sala, German Officers Enforcing the Maine Liquor Laws at Folkestone, in The Illustrated Times, 1855. Click on image for larger picture.
To these we may add the name of one who has since become distinguished as a journalist -- Mr. George Augustus Sala. Mr. Sala's name is now, and has for so long been, associated with journalism, that few remembered before the trial of the recent action of Sala v. Furniss that in name of one who has since become distinguished Augustus Sala. Mr. his early days lie was a constant contributor to the illustrated press. "The bulk of my pictorial efforts," Mr. Sala tells me, " were caricatures," and as such they do not come within the scope of these articles. He attempted, however, serious work besides. Here is reproduced, for example, a drawing made by Mr. Sala at Shornecliffe Camp, at the period when the German Legion was stationed there. Mr. Sala tells me, too, that he contributed to The Lady's Newspaper (founded by Ebenezer Landels about 1847) an architectural drawing of The Governesses' Benevolent Institution; and in Howitt's Journal he did a drawing (copied, it is true, from a French print) of "a boy in the snow, looking in at a pastrycook's window."
Mr. Vizetelly, having the true journalistic instinct, was not content that the letterpress of his paper should be, as it unfortunately is in some of the illustrated papers of to-day, mere padding to accompany the pictures. He was determined that his paper should be not only well illustrated but well written; and he secured the best literary help available. Mr. Macrae Moir, who afterwards went to the Old Bailey Bar, and Mr. Frederick Greenwood, late of The St. James's Gazette, were the sub-editors. Mr. Sala, Mr. Sutherland Edwards, Mr. James Hannay, Mr. Augustus Mayhew, Mr. Tom Robertson, Messrs. Robert and William Brough, Tom Hood, and Mr. Edward Draper, were on the regular staff. A Mr. White, who was a doorkeeper at the House of Commons, wrote a weekly article on "The Inner Life of the House," which was very amusing, and was the forerunner of all the similar sketches of the present day. In The Illustrated Times also was first opened a new line in journalism which has since perhaps been somewhat overdone. This was a weekly article, by Mr. Edmund Yates, called "The Lounger at the Clubs." " For six or seven years," says Mr. Yates, in his "Recollectons" I kept up a continuous comment on the social, literary, iind dramatic events of the day; and it was, I believe, Mr. Vizetelly's opinion that my flippant nonsense did as much for the paper as the deeper and drier wisdom of the day." Later Mr. Yates says: "The little paper did well -- so well that the proprietor of its big predecessor found it necessary to purchase it, and thenceforward let it, fly with partially-clipped wings." . . . . When, some years afterwards, Mr. Sutherland Edwards became the first editor of The Graphic, he carried with him almost all the men who had formed the literary staff of The Illustrated Times, and each continued his special department on the new paper.
The Illustrated Times Weekly Newspaper, "containing numerous first-class engravings of the chief events, and all the news of the week" such was the full title of the new paper. It consisted of sixteen pages, of which seven were occupied by cuts. The Crimean War was then in full swing, and pictures of incidents of the campaign form the chief attraction of the early numbers. It may here be noted, by the way, that war is especially the encourager of illustrated journals. The Illustrated London News itself was started while wars were being carried on against China and Afghanistan, and later the Franco-Prussian war floated The Graphic over all its early difficulties into the safe harbour of 120 per cent. When Mr. Vizetellv started The Illustrated Times, Kertch had just been captured, and in the first page of the first number is a "View of Kertch," and "The Old Market-Place at Kertch."
Gustave Doré Before the Malakoff, June 7, 1855; click on image for larger picture.Other illustrations in the first number were "The Harbour of Balaclava," "The New Water Police at Balaclava" (these from sketches by Julian Portch), "A Convalescent from Inkermann," "The Crimean Medal," "The Fortress of Arabat," "The Heroes of Balaclava Fighting their Battles over again," "The First Display of the Fountains on the Upper Terrace at the Crystal Palace," "The Floral Fete at the Crystal Palace," " Lord Dundonald," and "The Ascot Race Plate" -- altogether a good two pennyworth. The first page engraving in the second number is "An Old English Custom -- Salutations in Honour of the Trinity," by Kenny Meadows. In No.3 are "Who'll Serve the Queen?" by Phiz, and a spirited drawing by Morin, "The French Carrying the Mamelon." In No. 4 is a drawing by Gustave Doré (which is here reproduced) called "Before the Malakoff, June 7, 1855," and in the same number began Mr. Yates' "Lounger at the Clubs."
The starting of The Illustrated Times had a serious effect upon the circulation of The Illustrated London News, as the cheaper paper constantly fore- stalled the dearer one on many important occasions. For example, although The Illustrated London News was the first London newspaper to receive a letter from its correspondent at Sebastopol after the fall of that place, having outstripped The Times and all the other daily papers, The Illustrated Times received sketches from its correspondents, Julian Portch and Captain Crealock, a week before the older paper received its sketches. Mr. Herbert Ingram was not the man to see a rival paper topping his circulation without making an effort at retaliation. A pretty little journalistic war then set in. First Mr. Ingram, with the view of killing The Illustrated Times, started two other twopenny illustrated weeklies The Picture Times and The People's Times; but their joint circulation is said never to have attained to a quarter of that of The Illustrated Times. Next Mr. Ingram opened negotiations for the purchase of The Illustrated Times, which, despite its large circulation, was yielding to its proprietor an extremely small profit. The paper indeed was offered to Mr. Ingram �4,500, but he refused to pay more than �4,000. The profit was swallowed up in the great expense of electrotyping. To print fast enough to supply the demands of the public, four or five sets of electrotypes had to be used, and as electrotyping then cost sixpence per square inch, this involved an extra outlay beyond the ordinary expenditure of from �50 to �100 per week, and reduced the profits to almost nothing; the income from advertisements being in those days not one-fourth of what it would be now. Ultimately the paper did fall into the hands of Mr. Ingram. Then, that it might not compete with his more profitable sixpenny paper, he lowered the quality of the paper, and a few years after his death it was allowed quietly to drop. Thus came to an end the most gallant of all attempts to rival the success of The Illustrated London News, which reigned in undisturbed security until the foundation of The Graphic in December, 1869.
C.N. Williamson. "Illustrated Journalism in England: Its Development. -- II." Magazine of Art. 1890. 334-40.
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Venge spotted at Mike's Bikes in San Francisco
But the frame is only a relatively small part of the aerodynamic picture. Far more important is body position. So here's photos of Cavendish during his two victories this year... first stage 5:
Then stage 7:
These photos aren't cherry-picked: they're the first ones I found on CyclingNews of the respective sprints in the final 100 meters or so. Just look at Cav's position: the top of his helmet is hardly higher than his back. Sure, some other riders can be seen with low head positions, but that's with their faces down, not sustainable. Cavendish is always looking forward, never down. He's watching where he's going.
Here's a shot from Mark in 2009 outsprinting Thor Hoshovd, Oscar Friere, and a Milram rider (Ciolek, I believe). Look how vastly superior his position is to his competitors:
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It's often said sprinting is about raw power. Yet Cavendish's power is easily overestimated. It's been reported that Cavendish doesn't "test" well, and that in sprints he produces only around 1300 watts, a non-spectacular number. Of course, he's producing that power at the end of a long difficult race, after finishing with several kilometers over technical roads at close to 60 kph sustained. But the guys he's beating consistently can also put out power under the same circumstances. Cavendish wins not because of superior power, but because of superior speed, and except under the most exceptional circumstances most power goes into wind resistance.
Look at a Tour finish and the final 200 meters aren't enormously faster than the 200 meters preceding. Cavendish, for example, has Mark Renshaw, a man who's won Tour sprints himself, leading him out with his own maximal effort. No -- the sprint of a Tour stage, in addition to critical factor of position, is a time trial, and time trials are won by power balanced against aerodynamics. Cavendish is so unprecedentedly successful because he has one of the all-time great sprinting positions in professional cycling history... to beat him you've not only match his power but substantially exceed it.
The aerodynamic frame is icing. But the primary factor in aerodynamics is body position. 100% of great time trialists have great body position, going back as far as photographic history records. And Cavendish looks like a time trialist when he sprints. That he's able to hold that poise in the midst of so much chaos is remarkable.


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Thiruvananthapuram: It is not clear if Delhi's notorious 'Bunty Chor', involved in over 500 burglaries across the country, has landed in Karnataka Police net within days of looting the house of a businessman in Thiruvananthapuram, a Kerala minister said today.
Speaking to IANS, Kerala Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said that initially Karnataka Police said they had arrested Devinder Singh alias 'Bunty Chor', but later they refused to confirm the development.
"They are not confirming the arrest but the vehicle that 'Bunty' took away from here has been seized by Karnataka Police. Our officials are also there in Bangalore," said Mr Radhakrishnan.
Reports in Kerala media on Wednesday evening said that 'Bunty' was arrested in Bangalore while fleeing after allegedly breaking into the high-security house of NRI businessman Venugopalan Nair on January 21.
'Bunty' allegedly deactivated electronic surveillance devices and drove off with a sports utility vehicle (SUV) worth Rs.28 lakh, a laptop and two mobile phones from Mr Nair's house.
'Bunty' was spotted speeding on the SUV on the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border on Wednesday afternoon by three motorists from Kerala.
Since the motorists had seen news reports on the burglary at Mr Nair's house and his missing SUV, they got suspicious and alerted Kerala Police.
"We had a doubt when we first saw the particular SUV which was big news on Kerala television channels, and we immediately alerted a Kerala police official in Kozhikode whom we knew," one of the informers told a TV channel.
Media reports said that Kerala Police informed their Karnataka counterparts who intercepted an SUV, allegedly driven by 'Bunty', while its occupants were seeking directions for Bangalore.
According to the reports, 'Bunty' was allegedly nabbed by Karnataka Police after he initially managed to escape after attacking three policemen.
Karnataka Joint Commissioner of Police Pranab Mohanty today confirmed to the media that 'Bunty' had not been arrested.
The only thing that Karnataka Police confirmed was that the SUV that was stolen from was found abandoned and taken to a police station in Karnataka.
A Bollywood movie, "Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye" starring Abhay Deol, was made in 2008 on the life of 'Bunty'.
After serving a prison sentence, 'Bunty' was a contestant in "Bigg Boss Season 4" aired on TV channel Colors in 2010.
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Avemco Insurance Co. is dropping its rates.
The rate decrease, unusual these days, was announced at Sun 'n Fun.
"We're constantly evaluating the market and our analysis usually says we have to raise rates," said Jim Lauerman, executive vice president. "But every once in a great while it tell us to lower our premiums. It is a pleasant experience to say this is one of those times."
Rates have been reduced for all Cirrus models and on Diamond's DA-42. SR-22 owners will see about a 10% drop in premiums, while SR-20 and DA-42 owners will see a 30% drop.
"Avemco has been insuring these aircraft since they hit the market," Lauerman said. "But it's hard to come up with a rate when you have no history."That's why those planes were put in a conservative category — meaning higher premiums — and the numbers were "watched over time," he said.
In conjunction with the rate decreases, Avemco also has relaxed its requirements for pilots, which should enable more pilots to get into aircraft earlier in their careers.
As part of its ongoing efforts to make flying safer, Avemco is investing in a multi-year study, called the Airmanship Education Research Initiative, which is designed to study insurance data to determine who the superior pilots are, then see if there is a way to "transfer the experience of the superior pilots to the rest of us," said Lauerman, who is a 4,500-hour pilot. "What is it about their thought processes that make them superior pilots?" he asked. "Our ultimate goal is a break through in training."
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One advantage of having over US$50 billion in the bank is that it gives a company the option of writing checks to make litigation go away. Microsoft has followed that route a number of times over the past couple of years, most recently with Sun (US$2 billion) and Gateway (US$150 million). Next on the list may be RealNetworks. According to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), the two companies are near a sizable settlement of RealNetwork's December 2003 US antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. In that suit, RealNetworks alleged that Microsoft engaged in anticompetitive practices by bundling Windows Media Player with Windows, entering into restrictive licensing agreements, and using the ever-popular "secret Windows APIs" to give WMP a leg up over RealPlayer.
The history between the two companies is long and acrimonious. RealNetworks was founded by former Microsoft executive Rob Glaser, who currently runs the company from his position of CEO. Since starting the company, he has seldom been reticent when it comes to criticizing his old employer. He's also done his part to ensure the EU's European Commission stays on top of Microsoft when it comes to antitrust; the effect of Microsoft's bundling of Windows Media Player with copies of Windows on the market share of RealNetworks was cited in the EC's original ruling against the software giant. Strangely enough, RealNetworks' irritating software was not mentioned by the EU as a possible cause of its market share slippage.
Microsoft obviously has its reasons for writing what would apparently be a US$750 million check to its competitor. Aside from avoiding a potentially nasty antitrust courtroom fight, it may also get RealNetworks off its back in Europe. Additionally, it could provide Microsoft with something of a presence in online music
rental subscriptions. It is widely known that Microsoft wants to expand MSN Music into a subscription service. However, it has so far been unable to come to an agreement with the record labels when it comes to royalty payments. Any settlement with RealNetworks will likely result in that company's Rhapsody subscription service being promoted on MSN and other Microsoft websites.
For RealNetworks, a settlement would be huge. Three-quarters of a billion dollars could go a long way in helping the company fight what has been an uphill battle against Apple's iTunes Music Store, allowing RealNetworks to take chances that might have been impossible with a smaller bank account. (I imagine RealNetworks' FairPlay research facility will be getting an upgrade as well.) Money aside, having a harmonious relationship with the dominant OS and software player will also help RealNetworks, as it could get its software into places it might otherwise be shut out.


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Quantitative skills are highly sought after by employers and the best time to learn these skills is in high school and early college. And we all know the best math students should eventually learn calculus.
Or should they? Maybe it�s statistics, not calculus, that is a more worthy pursuit for the vast majority of students.
It�s not that learning calculus is pointless. Calculus applies integrally to physics, engineering, space exploration, satellite positioning, complex building projects and several other lines of work. If your career ambitions fit within one of these domains, by all means, learn calculus. Most of us, however, are destined for careers other than physics, engineering or mathematics.
Statistics weave deeply throughout the fabric of our society. Remember all those political polls last fall? Every one of them reported a �margin of error� and a �sample size� as part of the results. Without statistical training, it is easy to misinterpret their results � especially when you encounter conflicting poll results.
What about stories on the economic recovery and the fiscal cliff? Reporters throw at us a dizzying array of unemployment data, housing data, government spending data and more. Readers with training in statistics will have an easier time making sense of it all.
Because of the news media and the internet, we face a daily bombardment of quantitative information. This deluge is growing exponentially with each passing year and each technological innovation, becoming a virtual river into which our vessels are thrust. A citizen without a working knowledge of statistics is rafting that river without a paddle.
Can you remember the last time you saw in the newspaper a story that focused on the area under a curve, or the slope of a line? Yeah, neither can I. If you ever stumble upon such a story, then calculus might be your best friend.
To most students, however, statistics will be of far more use than calculus, especially if they select career paths that require them to analyze risk, evaluate trends, confront randomness, deal with uncertainty, or extract patterns from data.
As a child I realized I had a knack for math. All my mentors steered me toward calculus, which I gobbled up as a high school senior. After choosing to major in biology in college, I kept looking for calculus in my courses. Nine years later, after finishing my doctoral studies, I had encountered just one biology course that used calculus.
Not once in my professional career has calculus been particularly relevant.
Statistics, however, has been my bread and butter. Nearly every major project I have attempted required the use of statistics. I wish someone had told me this secret when I was younger.
If you care about numbers, and if those numbers vary, then statistics courses are what you need. They are fundamental to careers in business, economics, biological and health sciences, computer sciences, many social sciences, and even designing video games.
So why don�t high schools and universities do more to promote stat courses? Many factors probably play a role. Calculus had a historical headstart, invented more than a century earlier. Meanwhile, high school and college instructors trained to teach calculus are hesitant to take on a new subject. Calculus also requires limited technology, whereas statistics classes usually need sophisticated software and computing power that has become available only recently.
Ultimately, it will take time for our educational systems to adapt to the shifting needs of society. Students will benefit right now, however, if they expose themselves to more statistics. Parents and academic advisers everywhere should take heed and help promote this valuable discipline.
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March 7, 2006
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale senior women's hockey goaltender Sarah Love (Bayfield, Ont.) has been selected to participate in the inaugural NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge, which will be held April 7 at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Yale senior men's hockey goaltender Josh Gartner (Richmond Hill, Ont.) is an alternate for the event. The competition will be held in an East versus West format with each team having six male position players, six female position players, two male goaltenders and two female goaltenders.
Love concluded her career Saturday as Yale's all-time leader in save percentage (.914), goals-against average (2.68) and shutouts (12). She also finished second to All-American Laurie Belliveau in saves (3,088).
Love also holds the school single-season save percentage (.931, 2003-04) and goals-against average (2.25, 2003-04) records.
Gartner has an .896 career save percentage and 3.74 career goals-against average. His 60 saves in a playoff game at Dartmouth March 15, 2005 are third-most in a game by a Yale goalie. He is the son of NHL Hall of Famer Mike Gartner.
The NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge competitions will include puck control relay, fastest skater, hardest shot, rapid fire shooting and penalty shot.
To be eligible for the NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge, all players must have exhausted their collegiate eligibility and be nominated by their head coach. The players were selected by representatives from the American College Hockey Coaches Association, the NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Committee and the National Youth Sports Corporation. An alternate list has been established in the event that players have to withdraw from the competition due to other commitments, such as their team's participation in the Men's Frozen Four.
"The rosters include an extremely talented group of men and women," said Marty Scarano, chair of the Division I Men's Ice Hockey Committee and director of athletics at the University of New Hampshire. "We have been talking about the formation of a skills challenge for several years now, and this is such a tremendous group of student-athletes, that it will be an exciting event for everyone in attendance."
Tickets for the event are $10 and can be purchased at the Bradley Center box office, all Ticketmaster outlets, Ticketmaster.com or by phone at 414/276-4545. The Skills Challenge will begin at 7 p.m. Central and will be preceded by the Hobey Baker Memorial Award at 6 p.m. and the Hockey Humanitarian Award at 6:30 p.m.
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Follow Kip Cullers, a Purdy, Mo., farmer known for his bin-busting soybean yields, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie and Farm Journal Machinery Editor Margy Fischer as they travel to Brazil to learn more about the country's soybean production.
In traveling across Brazil, you see a little bit of everything. And often, there are things I see that are surprising. Here's a picture with a cow valued at $1 Million. The cow has 18 laborers who tend to it every day.
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Enjoy this video that shows the step-by-step process I used to tweet to my Twitter account from the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope terminal window. This saves me time as I don't need to leave my terminal/desktop to post tweets on my Twitter.com account.
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June 13, 2009 at 12:58 pm
very useful video – thx – one question – what is the additional code to update facebook status with same comment at the same time ??
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I created an input request form database using Access 2003 which automatically creates an email using VBA to create the email. This program works fine on all computers using Windows XP but we recently purchased a computer with Windows 7 and on that computer the runtime error Automation error - library not registered occurs. I believe the problem is a DLL file that is missing but have no idea which DLL file. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this problem? I have included the code and where the error occurs for reference:
Private Sub cmdSubmitRequest()
Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace
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Dim strChargeNumber As String
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Set olApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") Runtime Error Occurs At This Line of Code
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Nicolas Sarkozy may not be too keen to open the papers this morning - it's revealed that a witness told a judge they had seen Sarkozy receive envelopes of cash from L'Oréal billionaire Liliane Bettencourt. In other news, one French person in seven is living below the poverty line.
Libération's front page will make unwelcome reading in the Elysée palace - they publish extracts from a new book which interviews people with a grudge against Nicolas Sarkozy. One of them, a judge who worked on the Liliane Bettencourt case, quotes a witness as telling her that Sarkozy received envelopes of cash from the billionaire heiress. The witness was reportedly too frightened to make these allegations on the record at the time.
La Croix concentrates on shocking new statistics showing that one French person out of seven lives below the poverty line - while Le Parisien's reporters have visited Alabama to look at what a bankrupt town looks like.
Le Figaro concentrates on Libya - analysing why Algeria has agreed to take in the Gaddafi family.


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I must be in an art sort of mood. I went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before Christmas, and then went to the Met and Museum of Modern Art in New York after New Years. Today I even skimmed a book on drawing, but gave up after discovering the first exercise in the book wasn't enough to transform me into Picasso. Cutting out my five minute foray into fine art, here are a couple art things that might be interesting to you:
Hack the Met Tour
My friend Nick Gray has a goal of becoming the best Met tour guide in the world. I think he's already there-- I've been on two of his tours so far and can't wait to go again. He's not an official tour guide. In fact, he's as unofficial as it gets. He's been kicked out before and has to now avoid certain areas of the Met. What's cool about his tours is that although they reflect his love for the Met and the art contained within it, they're irreverent and down to earth. You're as likely to hear about how a piece was conceived as you are to hear about how he might steal it. The highlight was his trick to get to wander around the Met after it's closed, as seen in the top photo here.
His tour is free and runs twice a week on most weekends, but has limited space. If you want to go, contact him through his site or just wander around the Met and try to crash the tour. He's usually pretty open to those things.
The Art Industry
We went on a tour of the Moma with a girl who manages a very large private art collection. I found this really interesting, so I bombarded her with all sorts of questions, which grew more cynical as we progressed from older art to really new art.
You know how you go to an art museum and some of the pieces are just crap? Sometimes it turns out the painting is by Rothko, and you just know nothing about art (happened to me a lot), but other times it actually IS crap. We saw a piece that was a small wooden staircase with a carpet running up the middle. I couldn't imagine how such a thing could make it into the Museum of Modern Art. How did it happen?
Well, what happens is that there are individuals with huge private collections of art. Some of it is really premium stuff, and other stuff isn't so premium. If it's known that they have great pieces, anything they offer on loan will be accepted. Anything. If the museum refuses the loan, they risk alienating the collector and not getting any better pieces loaned. It's like a ladder: take this crappy piece, then an okay piece, and eventually you get a Degas, and maybe even a bequest in the will.
If you own crappy art, it's massively to your benefit to get it shown in the museum. What's the market value for a small staircase with a rug on it? Probably not much. How about if you can prove that it was displayed for a couple months in the MoMA? A whole lot more. So the museum gets to work up the collector's ladder, the collector can increase the value of his holdings, and the visitors get confused.
I was also surprised to hear that fake works are fairly common in museums. Newer works are easier to authenticate, but old pieces are much much harder. Museums do the best they can, but in a large collection there are bound to be some fakes. There are also grey areas, like works done by Rembrandt's studio being sold as genuine Rembrandts because he put his signature on them. It could be argued that they're authentic even though he didn't paint them, but there's a difference between that and a painting he did himself, and after so many years, it's hard to know for sure which pieces are which.
Did you know that many very famous works have many copies made of them? I was at the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco some months ago and saw a painting by Monet of the Venice Canals. Then a couple weeks ago I saw an identical painting at the MFA in Boston. It turned out that it wasn't exactly the same, but was the exact same setting painted by Money in the exact same style. You know Munch's famous painting, The Scream? There are four of those, plus some amount of stone lithographs.
I also learned that the Warhol market crashed. It used to be that the Warhol Foundation released around twenty works per year to the open market. No one knew how many they had in reserve. Within the past year they decided to stop doing that and put everything on the market. How many do they have left? Twenty thousand. So if you want to buy a Warhol--- now might be the time.
Even if, like me, you don't consider yourself to be someone who really understands or appreciates art, consider going to a museum near you. It's interesting to see which pieces you like and don't like, and to put your face six inches away from a painting worth tens of millions and think about the mastery that went into it.
I had an awesome time in Boston / NJ / NY, but it feels great to be back in my RV doing my routine everyday.
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Hi Tynan! Thanks for the kind words about my tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is my first time posting on your site and I really like the comment interface. -- Nick G.
Ah. My favorite subject: Art.
I love it so much, I hardly talk about it, rarely write about it, and I scarcely ever read anything on the subject. Art for me has reached a non-textual purity. There are people who do, and there are people who talk. One day, many years ago, I got so sick of hearing people yack on endlessly about art, I walked away from that chatter forever.
But I love hearing about the scams and shenanigans that go on in the art world, so thanks, Tynan. That bit about collectors pawning off their crap to drive the market was a real jewel. Cheers, Brother.
Interesting about private collector/gallery symbiosis.
On drawing.. don't think you should give up so soon. Van Gogh starting out was an awful drawer.. it took him many years to get to his masterpieces (10000 hours??). You should pick up "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain".. it's a classic in that it consistently gets people to a respectable skill level in about 40 hours of work. As the title states.. it can help release your creativity and perception too. You really start to appreciate pieces in museums when you truly understand how difficult some of the techniques they use are. I used to just walk by graphite/chalk sketches without batting an eye.. now they're my favorite.. and can spend half an hour looking at one sketch. I can't even begin to appreciate the color wheel yet.
I tried Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and gave up. A professional artist friend of mine said, of it, "For a book about drawing, it sure has a lot of words." I don't really get what people see in it. The basic idea is just: learn to draw by just drawing literally what you see, rather than filtering it through your conceptualizing brain. When you look at a nose, don't "draw a nose", draw that nose, the specific colors that you see with your eyes.
Those two sentences summarized all the value I managed to get from that book.
The same friend recommended Vilppu's stuff: http://www.vilppustore.com/manuals.htm?utm_expid=1729128-3&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F - I got his basic Drawing Manual, the first one, and it's great. I also got the books Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators and Figure Drawing: Design and Invention. All three are useful, though it's a bit like Goldilocks: 'Force' is very touchy-feely, talking about having "rich experiences with the model" and visualizing yourself as a tiny bug riding a rollercoaster over the surface of the model's body. 'Design and Invention' is the opposite, with lots of proportion rules-of-thumb ("to draw a head, draw a circle, add the jaw, halfway down the face is the brow, halfway down from there is the bottom of nose, etc etc.") Vilppu's stuff is in the middle somewhere. They're all great.
In any case I know Ty knows he could draw well with practice; he's the one who originally sent me this link, which is phenomenal. http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870
Yeah. That book sucks. It has every thing in it but how to draw.The same people who like it also like Nicolaides _The Natural Way to Draw_. (Gag.) But then, I'm an old classicist, so don't take my word for it.
Er, that was _Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain._ Lame. Like, "Oh, if you actually LOOK at what you are doing rather than THINK about it, you might see that the table legs are not the same length." As one of my teachers once sighed, sadly, "The ones who have it? You can't stop them. The ones who don't? You can't help them."
Any teacher who uses expressions like that is not worth their salt and has either given up on their work, or never understood that teaching is not art, it's personable transmission of effective algorithms.
so that the student doesn't have to reinvent the wheel. it's so damn frustrating. being an amazing (anything/artist/whatever) is completely possible, it's all a matter of time, effort, and finding the optimal algorithms as quickly as possible...
the only thing a teacher can contribute? the algorithms, and a little of the time.
so I'm like, what's the point of that art "teacher"?
Fantastic post Tynan! It had an interesting story about your antics, (staying in the museum after closing); and real world information about art museums I didn't know before.
There is an artistic gift but also a need for the craft-study- by observation or lessons of said craft.and then development of style; use of light, perspective, materials, methods etc. just as in any other discipline-it all takes time and committment
If you ever visit Rembrandt's studio-museum they explain that Rembrandt had a large group of artists working with him and R would sketch out the large canvases and the students/artists would all work on them and in the end they would all be called authentic. It was also explained that he actually did some himself.
Sometimes it feels like I take my blog a little too seriously, probably because so many people read it and some of the topics I cover are serious. When it started I literally wrote strange rambles about every nap I took, and now I feel like every post has to have some practical use.
As I try to come up with something to write about (I half-finished a post about the Bachelor), I found that I had a lot of little things I wanted to write about. So here are a few life updates on what I'm doing.
I'm now up nine coaching clients and am slowly making my way through the waitlist. I originally said I wanted to take on two people because I didn't think I'd get more than five or so, and that number would be awkward because it's enough to impact my schedule but not enough to justify building systems around. I'm not sure if that makes sense.
So, last night, I attended the Art Flood Benefit hosted by Hands On Nashville at the Billups Art Gallery in East Nashville. I got there just past 6:30 PM with the intention of scoping out all of the art and snatching one up before somebody else got their grubby hands on it. Here's the blow-by-blow . . .
I stood at the entrance where I paid the $5 admission and where the attendant asked me how old I was and insisted that I show my ID (WHAAAAT?). For sure, that was definitely a compliment. Said attendant kept getting interrupted, and I grew irritated knowing that with each passing second somebody else would be buying an art piece that was more suited for me. UUUGGGH.
Finally, I entered the gallery. I was relieved to see that it was not your usual frou-frou and pretentious type of affair that these kinds of events tend to become. Like a crouching tiger (hidden dragon), I quickly devoured each piece with my eyes to see if something resonated with me. Several pieces actually did. One of them was a piece by my friend Jessica Hill that somebody already bought. Yeesh.
The other was a framed piece that, while very reasonably priced, was still over my budget. After doing a complete perusal of all the works for sale, I went back to the framed artwork. Not only was it a gorgeous, impressionistic piece, but it was already framed AND matted. I envisioned it sitting in the personal library that I hope to have some day, just by my comfy reading chair and ottoman.


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Christoph Platz (Bochum)
The artist works with associations. His sculptures represent the outer shell, devoid of content. Clothing without people; on the walls of the room, in a specially produced showcase desk, or used as a stool. They symbolize travel; clothes for the trip, utensils, and souvenirs for home. Everyday objects intricately carved in limewood develop a mysterious inner life in the hotel room. Fantastic and simply beautiful.