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Summit County Community Notes: 3-1-2013
Gregory Cook and David Tidwell have achieved the rank of Eagle in the Boy Scouts of America Program. They will be having an Eagle Court of Honor on Saturday at 6 p.m. This event will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 161 Forest Drive, Frisco.
The Family & Intercultural Resource Center's Fathers group, Padres De Summit, is ice skating at the Keystone Lake on Monday, from 6-8 p.m. Entrance and rentals for fathers and children are free but you must RSVP with Michel at (970) 262-3888 ext. 232. For more info, visit SummitFIRC.org.
Please go to http://www.summitcountysoftball.com to read the Welcome Letter, and Intent to Field form. Online registration is available for credit card payers.
Your unique selling proposition – setting your business apart from the competition. As part of Summit Independent Business Alliance's Business Builders Toolbox, this Marketing Fundamentals presentation by Jon Slaybaugh will be held on Wednesday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Summit County Community and Senior Center, Loveland Room. 151 Peak One Blvd., Frisco. Come and learn about tools to discover your business' unique selling proposition. There is no charge to attend. Learn over lunch – feel free to bring your lunch with you. And, bring a friend!
Free income tax services for anyone who needs help. 2012 Personal Tax Return preparation for full-year Colorado residents only. On Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Summit County Community and Senior Center, located in Frisco (Ute Room). Come prepared this will only be a one-day event. Be respectful if you do not need this service. Provided by GLS, Inc.
This seminar is an introduction to working with Photoshop Elements to make your digital pictures better. It will begin with an overview of Elements, its tools and features and a demonstration of what it can do for you. Following that, you will begin making some basic adjustments to your own photos using the tools so bring your computer (with Photoshop Elements) to the class to follow along. If you don't have Elements, you are still welcome to attend to learn about the software, but you won't be able to participate in the hands-on exercises. The seminar is scheduled for Saturday from 9-11 a.m. at the Summit County Community and Senior Center in Frisco. The class is limited to 25 so call the center to pre-register at (970) 668-2940. Walk-ins will be turned away if the class limit is reached on the day of the seminar.
The 10th annual DogTerra winter event will be hosted again by the town of Breckenridge/Gold Run Nordic Center on Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Louisa Morrissey of Skijor-N-More will be running the skijor clinic again (beginners and intermediates). Our Dogstacle course is back this year (replaces the agility courses), so if you're smart, you'll start practicing with your hula hoop (we know you have one) and tell the furballs that you expect them to fly through the weaving poles and over the straw bales and not poke their noses in your face when you're down on all fours trying to roll a tube with your nose … yeah, right, that never happens. Poker Snowshoe (not races) will start at 9:45 & 10:30 a.m. with prizes given for best and worst poker hands, so you really can't lose. The Mighty Mite dashes were such a popular event that we will repeat those this year, so all you 20 lbs. and under dogs need to come out and show all those bigger slobbering mutts how to whup some butt! We'll have the Frisbee/Chuck-It courses open throughout the entire morning too, so there's at least one or two things that your pup and you can enjoy.Registration runs from 9-9:30, with events starting right after, so come early enough to get registered for the ski jor class that starts at 9:45 (it helps if you print a registration form from our website and fill it out at home and bring it to DogTerra: no pre-registration for this event). L.A.P.S. members pay $25 for the first dog and $10 per dog for multiples … humans are free. Non-members pay $28 and then $10. Bring the family and enjoy participating in all the events. Free Abbey's coffee and donuts and water and free dog treats for the hairy ones (compliments of Trail Dog Treats). You must bring proof of current rabies vaccine and a 6′ leash, along with either snowshoes or Nordic equipment.
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The end of 2012 was oh-so-hectic down here, but it's a new year now, and to make good in a small way on the whole seasonal rebirth/renewal theme, I'm posting an update. It's a long-overdue introduction to my indefatigable roommate/dueña/friend, visual artist Alicia Herrero.
One of my luckiest breaks in Buenos Aires was finding my way into Alicia's beautifully restored turn-of-the-century PH. She's not only a wonderful person to live with and a constant source of insight and intellectual challenge; she also makes great art. Her most reject project, Museo de la economía política del arte (Museum of the Political Economy of Art), just ended a solo showing at Buenos Aires' prestigious 11 x 7 Gallery. It's wonderful.
The show uses images, video, and three-dimensional pieces to critically examine contemporary art market practices and their influence on artistic production and on the capitalist system at large. At its heart stands the Action-Instruments Box, a "toolkit" that enables anyone with a computer to develop alternative metrics for the success of art. Model graphs show works reshaped along two axes, one measuring the piece's price per square centimeter at auction, the other the overall average for the lot in which it sold. A neatly designed catalog incorporates dozens of these lushly colored analyses; the huge mutli-fold pages reproducing elongated Rothkos and Warhols force a visual confrontation with the far-from-aesthetic forces bubbling just beneath the surface at Christie's and Sotheby's. I love this box, and I'm not alone. MALBA, BA's leading museum, acquired one for immediate display.
[In the Banco Nación]
Alicia has done lots of other stuff, too, including a bold series of performances/ interventions in spaces like the Banco Nación and the Argentine Capitol planned under the aegis of the University of Buenos Aires' Laboratorio de Investigación en Prácticas Artísticas Contemporáneas, which she leads. It's all on her website, in Spanish and in English. Right now I'm helping Alicia update the English side, and the more time I spend there, the more enganchado I get. Check it out if you've got some time.
Welcome to 2013 — ¡E.M.A.N.C.I.P.A.C.I.O.N. ya!
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Its subject is nothing less than the beginnings of civilization. It's by the greatest painter of the 16th century – some would say of all time. And it's the greatest painting in Boston, if not in all of America.
Titian's "Europa" — or "The Rape of Europa," as it's less hygienically but more commonly known — shows Jupiter, in the guise of a beautiful bull, plowing through the waves of the Mediterranean Sea toward Crete, with the virgin princess Europa on his back.
We're witnessing an abduction. An abduction based on chicanery. One that will culminate in rape.
Everything about the story — and, not incidentally, about Titian's promiscuous painting style — blurs lines: between gods and mortals, between the human and the bestial, between terror and ecstasy, between heaven and earth.
Well, but it's just a painting, right? It's not real life. It's a disturbing fairy tale, that's all.
Right. Except that (awkward, this) in the mythos of Western culture, this very fairy tale is charged with world-altering significance. Europa, having been impregnated by the god, will give birth to Minos, the first in a great line of ancient European kings and law-giving judges. Her brother Cadmus, charged by her father with the task of finding her, will wander unsuccessfully, before founding the city of Thebes, and (hardly a small detail, this) inventing the alphabet.
"Europa" is the centerpiece of the Gardner's Titian Room, and really of the whole museum. (One can live, albeit tearfully, without Vermeer, and struggle on stoically without Rembrandt; but if this had been stolen . . .? Intolerable thought.)
Acquired by Gardner with the assistance of her friend, the great connoisseur Bernard Berenson, it was the last picture in a series of so-called poesie, or mythological paintings based on classical poetry, that Titian painted for the Spanish King Philip II. The others in the series are "Danae," "Venus and Adonis," "Perseus and Andromeda," "Diana and Callisto," and "Diana and Actaeon" — each one a flat-out masterpiece.
By around 1562, when he painted "Europa," Titian's legendary late style had loosened up considerably. His flickering brushstrokes conjured atmospheres trembling with erotic portent. Even as his skies, mountains, and sea creatures take on a more fantastic quality, Titian's feeling for female flesh became more and more real. Palpably rotund and dimpled with fat, his Europa boasts ruddy toes and wrinkling foot arches.
It's a painting that is charged with heightened ambivalence, with terror and ecstasy. The ecstasy is reinforced throughout the picture — by the flushing sky; the writhing crimson cloth to which Europa clings; the descending cupids with their curving bows (which combine to rhyme with the serpentine flick of the bull's tail below); and by the fluttering disarray of Europa's handmaidens on the diminishing shore.
But the terror, too, is everywhere insisted on: It's there in the sharp peaks of the mountains, in the dark glassy depths of the ocean, in the ugly open-mawed creatures it spews forth. And it's there, above all, in the ungainly posture of Europa herself. Legs awkwardly akimbo, breast abruptly (and un-salaciously) exposed, her eyes roll to the heavens, where she catches sight of the two airborne cupids, who will shortly pierce her with their arrows.
This is rape. It's shattering. It's Shakespearean. It's beyond euphemism.
If, as the myth has it, civilization was inaugurated by an act of violent desire, one could, I suppose, meekly and somewhat pompously suggest that the impossible, Sisyphean task of civilization ever since has been to transcend these beginnings — to contain violence, even while allowing for desire.
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Bursting with Caribbean colors, rhythms and dance, the story comes to vibrant life through the score by Tony Award winners Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Anastasia, Ragtime). The striking production by Tony Award-nominated director Michael Arden (Spring Awakening revival) transforms the reality of a tropical village devastated by a storm into a fantastical world alive with hope.
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Disabled Man Tasered To Death For Falling Off Bike
Would not stop for cops so they used a stun gun on him
Steve Watson
November 24, 2011
A 61 year old man from Halifax County, Virginia, was tasered by cops and died Tuesday after they were called to the scene by an onlooker who saw the man fall off his bike in a parking lot and feared he was drunk.
When the police arrived, Roger Anthony was riding away on the bike. Anthony did not respond to the officers' requests for him to stop so Officer John Turner used a stun gun on him, causing Anthony to once again fall off his bike, reports wral news.
Family members told the press that when Anthony arrived at the local hospital shortly afterwards, he was declared brain dead.
Scotland Neck Police Chief Joe Williams told the media that the officer had seen Anthony "take something out his pocket and put it into his mouth," and had therefore taken the decision to taze the man.
Anthony's sister, Gladys Freeman, told wral that her brother was disabled, hard of hearing and suffered from seizures.
Anthony's brother-in-law, Milton Freeman told reporters "Why would you (use a stun gun on) a man on a bike? He didn't do any crime. He wasn't trying to escape. How (was) he going to escape on his bicycle?"
The police have refused to comment further on the incident pending an investigation. Officer Turner, who had only been on active duty for a month, has been placed on leave.
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This is yet another example of how it has become the norm for cops to react with extreme physical force towards anyone who acts out of the ordinary in any way whatsoever, even if they are non threatening.
We have previously carried reports of police tasing an already restrained disabled man, a 6-year-old boy who was wielding a piece of glass , a barely conscious boy with a broken back and a woman having diabetic seizure to name but a few.
Tasers are supposed to be the last response before lethal action, yet police now use the taser as if it is a pair of handcuffs or pepper spray.
Prominent heart doctors have declared that there is no doubt that Tasers can cause heart problems and even induce sudden and lethal cardiac arrest.
The UN's Committee Against Torture has noted "The use of TaserX26 weapons, provoking extreme pain, constituted a form of torture, and that in certain cases it could also cause death, as shown by several reliable studies and by certain cases that had happened after practical use."
Despite these facts, we see stories every week of old women, children and disabled people being shot with tasers. The weapons are even being used in schools.
The police are now trained that "pain compliance," a euphemism for torture, is acceptable in apprehending anyone even if that person poses no physical danger.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- Be nice: Jobs come from friends of friends
You've heard the axiom, ''You're only as good as your network,'' but how do you get one? It used to be that a network was a Rolodex, a flip-book full of beer-stained business cards collected at an industry brew-ha.
Today, your network is the people you truly connect with, and their friends.
Isabella Tsao understands networking. She's an information technology project manager who enjoys salsa dancing. With the ten or so dance partners she has each night, there's an immediate connection, and there's no pressure to engage in small talk.
Tsao says, ''You make friends in a wide variety of fields, and you get a different perspective.''
Keith Ferrazzi, coauthor of the book, Never Eat Lunch Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, says you cannot get anywhere alone.
''Everything you've achieved has been done with the help of other people– parents, teachers, friends, family,'' he says.
For those people who think networking is for the obsequious and desperate, he advises, ''They need to give up their ridiculous sense of John Wayne rugged individualism.''
When Ferrazzi talks about networking, he talks about being liked. If people like you, they'll help you, so instead of concentrating on getting favors, focus on being likeable. Otherwise, ''You'll wake up when you're 40 years old in a cube and upset that a 30-year-old is your boss. And you'll say to yourself that the person got the job because the boss likes him better. And the answer will be, right.''
How does one become likable? Ferrazzi recommends you project yourself as confident, interested, experienced, and excited. But ultimately, you need to create a connection. To this end, share your passions so the other person will feel comfortable sharing his.
After you've established positive rapport, share your struggles and the person will share his; the more you understand about someone the better you can connect.
It is not your immediate friends, though, who will be the most helpful to you in a crunch. It's your friends' friends. Ethan Watters, author of Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family and Commitment, explains that when you have a difficult problem to solve, like finding a job in a new city, the group of people you know has the same information. ''But the people just outside this network are the most helpful: It's the strength of weak ties,'' he says.
The current generation intuitively understands this lesson, hence the rip-roaring success of Rolodex-replacing online services like Friendster, MySpace and Instant Messenger's Buddy List.
These community-building tools seem more like ways to keep track of friends than to get a job. But in fact, for tech-savvy generations streaming into the workforce, networks of friends are not distinct from networks of career helpers.
Says Watters, ''This generation doesn't make distinctions like 'We're friends outside work.' Friendship ties are mixed up in all aspects of life.
Asking a friend to recommend you to an organization for a job is like asking a friend to move a couch.''
So many of you have a wider network and more effective skills than you even realized.
And now, the inevitable question: ''What if I'm shy?'' The good news is that shy people aren't bad at networking, they're just obsessed with what they sound like.
Bernardo Carducci, professor of psychology and director of the Shyness Research Institute at Indiana University Southeast, says, ''Shy people need to be more other-focused and less self-focused. Think about what you can do for the other person. Shy people worry that their opening comment will not be smart enough or witty enough, so they never get started.
''Instead, remember that when initiating contact you don't need to be brilliant, you just need to be nice.''


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Hamline University has suspended basketball coach Nelson Whitmore indefinitely after a player was accused of punching a woman.
The St. Paul school also forfeited Saturday's game at Gustavus Adolphus and said 14 students face discipline.
KSTP-TV (http://bit.ly/WcY95k ) reported this week that Hamline forward Eugene Lawrence III was arrested in Spokane, Wash., while on a team trip. Lawrence was charged with second-degree assault for allegedly hitting a woman in the face at the team hotel.
Lawrence posted a $5,000 bond and was released from custody.
In a statement, Hamline says Lawrence has been dismissed from the team and is suspended from the university pending a hearing.
Whitmore is in his sixth season as the Pipers' head coach. Messages left after-hours at his office were not immediately returned Friday.
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Report: Megabanks Give Less than 1% to Charity
SEATTLE - In an effort to rebuild their tarnished reputations, the nation's biggest banks are touting their charitable contributions and community involvement. On closer inspection, however, they are not so charitable after all, according to a new report.
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) has examined the contributions of four megabanks over five years. Report author Sean Dobson says the banks include their employees' volunteer hours and making low-interest loans to for-profit companies when tallying their charitable giving, but overall, they spend a fraction of one percent of their total revenue on philanthropy.
"They brag a lot about their charitable donations, and they brag loudest and most often whenever they're in Washington, D.C., lobbying lawmakers to try to water down financial reforms that will safeguard the public against fraud, abuse and another financial collapse."
The institutions in the report are Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo. Dobson says his group does not want Congress to be, in his words, "hoodwinked" by the megabanks' claims of generosity, as lawmakers work on more stringent banking regulations.
Also in the report is an evaluation of how the banks fared in meeting the NCRP minimum benchmarks for responsible giving. These include using at least half of their charitable dollars to benefit vulnerable populations instead of, for instance, Ivy League schools; and giving nonprofits more flexible, multi-year grants instead of one-time amounts. None of the four banks met those standards, says Dobson.
"In fact, these four megabanks, their philanthropy compared to other big financial institutions, is actually mediocre in terms of its quantity and its quality. It also lacks transparency - much of it cannot be verified."
He explains a bank typically gives in two ways: through a separate charitable foundation, where the records are public and can be tracked, and from their own corporate treasury, which is private information and cannot be confirmed - even if the company is publicly traded.
The report, "Take and Give," is available at http://blog.ncrp.org.


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NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- No new talks aimed at ending the 93-day-old NHL lockout are planned as players vote on whether to decertify their union, Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly says.
Daly told the (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger in an email Monday the league and the NHL Players Association currently have no plans to continue collective bargaining talks as hopes to avoid a complete cancellation of the season dim.
"Hopefully something will happen that will cause a change in position," Daly said. "The (NHLPA) knows where we are and what is needed to get the season under way."
All games through Dec. 30 have been canceled, and Commissioner Gary Bettman has said any shortened season must include at least 48 games. That means an agreement likely would have to be reached by early January.
"Time is obviously getting short," Daly said.
He made the comments as the NHLPA's more than 700 members were voting on whether to decertify the group as a union, which would open the door to possible legal action against the league's lockout move on antitrust grounds.
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Massive Patent Troll Lodsys Drops Its Bogus Patent Lawsuit Which Was Filed To Silence A Critic
from the what-happens-when-they-can-defend-themselves deptBack in July, we wrote about how notorious patent troll Lodsys -- a "company" (and I use that term very, very loosely) that was set up with some patents from Intellectual Ventures, and has been going around threatening and suing a ton of app developers -- sued Todd Moore's company TMSOFT. The incredible thing here was that Lodsys's lawyer actually admitted to Moore's lawyer that the reason Lodsys had targeted Moore was that Moore had called Lodsys a patent troll on his podcast. In other words, the patent lawsuit had almost nothing to do with patent infringement, but rather was pretty clearly a SLAPP suit, designed to shut up a critic. And, incredibly, Lodsys more or less admitted this.
Moore was lucky to team up with Dan Ravicher from PUBPAT who represented him pro bono. While I don't always agree with Ravicher on a variety of patent issues, I respect the work he's done over the years to fight bad patents, and he is one of the few patent lawyers out there who will work on cases like this. Because he didn't have to pay legal fees, Moore could actually fight back, and Lodsys and its lawyers must have known that they were going to lose big time, and with Texas' strong anti-SLAPP law on the books, it was going to cost them. So, it's little surprise to see that Lodsys quickly agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice without Moore having to pay anything. They did get three concessions out of him, though. He had to agree not to sue to invalidate Lodsys' patents, to dismiss his own counterclaims against Lodsys (i.e., the anti-SLAPP stuff) and then make a donation to charity.
The charity bit seems weird, but the guess from Ravicher is that if Moore had turned down the offer, it would be used by Lodsys in court to suggest that Moore wasn't being reasonable, since the case could be ended with just a small donation to a charity (in this case, the Make-a-Wish foundation, after Lodsys rejected both EFF and PUBPAT).
But the latter part of Moore's discussion of what happened reveals why patent trolling is such a big business: this whole thing cost Lodsys next to nothing. Moore fought back because it cost him next to nothing too, but that was only because Ravicher was willing to work pro bono. If Ravicher had charged regular rates, just this month or so of activity would have cost a significant amount:
The total costs to my company would have been $190,000. And that's just for the initial response to this lawsuit. We hadn't even gotten to court which would have increased that amount into millions. Remember that it only cost Lodsys about $450 to file the lawsuit. This is why small businesses will usually always settle. It's just not worth it to fight. And even if you could win and get awarded your attorneys fees and costs, which are very rare, you probably won't see a dime of that money.Many of the lawyers representing patent trolls do so on a contingency basis -- they get paid a cut of whatever comes in -- so the costs to the trolls really is basically just the actual filing costs, while the cost to do even the most minimal defense, as was the case here where it was a slam dunk, quickly jumps into the six figures and beyond. That's a pretty graphic demonstration of why the system is completely and totally broken.
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Emergency personnel attending the April 18 Heroes Barbecue will be eligible for a variety of door prizes this year. Franklin County emergency workers and their families
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SANTA CRUZ — Three butane hash oil explosions in 10 days in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties have prompted police to warn of a dangerous trend that has been echoed nationally.
Santa Cruz police believe the recent blasts are linked to a fall marijuana harvest on the Central Coast and attempts to preserve concentrated pot for later use.
In Wednesday afternoon"s blast on Walk Circle, a 29-year-old man was burned on roughly 40 percent of his body, said Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark. The man remained in critical condition at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center on Thursday, authorities said.
The man initially denied to police he had been making hash oil — which forces butane through marijuana scraps to extract a potent goo.
Marijuana stems and other parts typically sit in a hot water bath while butane is cooked through it. Police believe the man lit a cigarette lighter near the butane contraption when it exploded.
Marijuana was found "all over the floor" of the damaged bathroom, police said.
"If he"s released from the hospital, we will be put together a case and he will be arrested for illegal drug manufacturing," Clark said.
A neighbor on the 100 block of Walk Circle described the man as quiet, while another neighbor said the home had been a "drug house" in the past.
The explosion follows a similar hash oil blast that seriously burned three men on Third Street in Santa Cruz on Sept. 29. All three of those men face criminal charges as well. Another man was injured in a hash oil explosion in Seaside on Oct. 2.
"It"s certainly a trend," Clark said Thursday.
Butane hash oil — also known as "shatter" or "budder" — is a super strong marijuana derivative that can be smoked on its own or added to pot, authorities said.
"Dabbing" the drug has been around for at least 10 years but appears to be gaining in popularity, according to law enforcement.
Because it is marijuana harvest time in Santa Cruz County and elsewhere on the Central Coast, Clark said pot is relatively cheaper and more abundant. Making butane hash oil now is akin to canning vegetables for later use, he said.
"This is almost like grandma canning tomatoes to preserve it and give it a longer shelf life," Clark said.
Using butane to extract hash oil also seems to be more popular than using rubbing-alcohol because butane is odorless and the oil tastes less like chemicals, according to police.
Neighbors might not be able to smell a butane hash oil lab next door, but they can watch for large deliveries of butane canisters, authorities said.
Santa Cruz police said they have not seized much hash oil recently during busts, yet its manufacture and related explosions are part of a national trend.
In June, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to fire departments about a rise in hash oil blasts, which can be misidentified initially as pipe bombs.
"Butane is highly explosive, colorless, odorless and heavier than air and therefore can travel along the floor until it encounters an ignition source," according to Homeland Security.
The burns of all the men in the three blasts in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties have been serious.
Police were not sure if the three men in the Third Street fire — two 23-year-olds and a 25-year-old — would survive.
"They"re not out of the woods by any means," said Clark. "It"s a long process."
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In a new study called Reproductive Capability is Associated with Lifespan and Cause of Death in Companion Dogs, researchers report on the links of reproductive status (intact or spayed/neutered) with both lifespan and cause of death. Previous studies have suggested that sterilization increases the risk of certain cancers. However, if spaying and neutering actually does increase life span, then any cancers that are more common in older dogs may only appear to be more common in sterilized dogs because sterilized dogs live longer.
The overall conclusions of this new study are that there is a link between lifespan, cause of death and reproductive status. Sterilization was associated with longer lifespan. The mean age of death for intact dogs was 7.9 years and for sterilized dogs was 9.4 years. Sterilization increased life expectancy 13.8% in male and 26.3% in females.
In this study, researchers found differences in the cause of death between the reproductively capable group and the sterilized group. Compared to reproductively capable ones, dogs who were spayed and neutered were more likely to die of cancer and immune-related diseases, but less likely to die from infectious diseases, trauma, vascular disease and degenerative diseases. These differences in causes of death were consistent when the data were compared between dogs of the same age.
Data are from 40,139 dogs in a veterinary teaching hospital who died from 1984 to 2004. Juvenile dogs, dogs with a congenital issue that caused death, and dogs whose reproductive status, cause of death, or age were unknown were eliminated from the over 80,000 dogs originally considered for inclusion in the study. Reproductive capability was defined in this study as intact versus spayed or neutered, and does not mean the sterilized dogs had not reproduced. It's unknown if they had reproduced prior to being sterilized. There were no data on how many times intact dogs had reproduced, only that they were still reproductively capable.
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Though the results of this study are intriguing, it is important to recognize the limitations in the data and therefore in the conclusions. Though the groups—intact or sterile—are assumed to differ in no other way, that may not be the case. It is possible that the members in the sterilized group have received more regular or better medical care throughout their lives, for example. The sterilized dogs may come from different sources such as rescue groups or shelters rather than from pet stores or breeders. In other words, differences in life span or cause of death may not relate to reproductive status, but to one of these other factors. This study shows links of reproductive status with lifespan and cause of death, but we cannot assume that reproductive status is the cause of these differences. They may be correlated for some unknown reason.
Some other concerns I have about the data are that the dogs had all been referred to a veterinary teaching hospital for medical reasons, which means that the dogs in the study may be largely dogs with serious health issues rather than typical dogs. This means that conclusions based on this study may not be applicable to dogs in general.
I'm glad that studies are expanding on the question of lifespan and reproduction by looking at causes of death instead of just reproductive capability. I think this study is a great start at exploring questions that are of interest to all of us who love dogs, but I do think we need to exercise caution in order to make sure that we are distinguishing between studies that show correlations between various factors and those that demonstrate a causal relationship between those factors.


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With the announced SAT changes, many college bound students, parents, and counselors are understandably more angst-ridden than usual about the test and how to effectively prep for it. This, unfortunately, means that some less-than-scrupulous test prep companies will seek to take advantage of that concern to turn a quick profit. These companies are rushing to market with "the first prep guide for the 2016 SAT" that is "guaranteed to boost your score." Hopefully we'll be able to dispel some of the myth, rumor, and panic surrounding the new tests with a few reminders. So here is your quick guide to preparing for the new SAT:
Review: GMAC IR Prep Tool
The Integrated Reasoning site from GMAC is getting a face lift and some new functionality. So of course we here at Bell Curves couldn't wait to start playing around with it! (We love test prep with a passion. Don't hate!) Read on to see all of the options on the new site.
Site Design
The site looks really clean and intuitive. Right away you see it is split into three sections: Practice, Review, and Evaluate. However, there is a fourth piece to the site that you might easily miss. Do you see that little help sign up at the top right corner? CLICK IT! It has a bunch of information that could help you with integrated reasoning test prep. It is easy to miss the useful information hidden behind that innocuous little word "Help."
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What Tom Hanks Can Teach You About Taking the GRE
As part of making sure you're fully prepared for these tests our teachers often sacrifice their time, energy, and sanity and brave the Prometrics centers so that we can report on not only the content of the test be the experience of testing. This post is from one of our fabulous GRE teachers, Kara, who recently went in to take the actual GRE; here is her report:
2013 Year in Review
With the end of one year and the start of a new one, people often take stock of what they've done and what they could have done. We at Bell Curves are no different, and one thing we are very pleased to have done this past year is visit many organizations and institutions to help their students understand how to prepare for standardized tests. The organizations and institutions we work with share our mission of increasing diversity in higher education, and we're always thrilled when they invite us to speak with their members or students.
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Grad School Admissions Testing – An Accurate Measure of Intelligence?
Today's guest post is co-authored by Pauline Jennett, a Doctoral Candidate in the Educational Leadership Field. A former associate director of admissions from Harvard Business School, Ms. Jennett evaluated and interviewed domestic and international applicants. Prior to joining The MBA Exchange as an Admissions Consultant, she served as director of recruitment and admissions for non-profit career development organization Management Leadership for Tomorrow, an alumni officer for Boston University, and in sales and marketing management roles with Coca-Cola, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, and IBM. Ms. Jennett earned her MBA from The Wharton School, where she was a member of the Dean's Graduate Student Advisory group and studied at Instituto de Estudies Superiores de la Empresa (IE). She has a master of divinity degree cum laude from Boston University, and bachelor of business administration degree from Baruch College where she was a Baruch Scholar. She has traveled to 36 countries on 5 continents and is conversant in Spanish.
In my educational leadership doctoral program, I am taking a fascinating class on Psychological Testing. In the textbook "Assessment Procedures for Counselors and Helping Professionals" (Drummond, 2010), the authors note that "despite the lack of a clear definition of intelligence, assessing intelligence typically encompasses measuring one's ability to understand
complex ideas, adapt effectively to the environment, think abstractly, learn from experience, learn quickly, and engage in various forms of reasoning." Any student who has ever taken the SAT, GMAT, GRE, or LSAT, among other school admissions exams, can see remnants of these factors in the testing sections and question paradigms.
Guest Blog from Direct Hits: Surviving the Infamous Jr. Year
For those of you who are juniors, the HALCYON days of summer have come to an end and the dreaded year has begun. While you may be feeling DISCOMFITED or even TIMOROUS about the upcoming year, let us DISPEL the PERVASIVE rumors that junior year is necessarily going to be the BANE of your existence, presenting only INSURMOUNTABLE challenges. Although 11th grade can be stressful, you can DEVISE and IMPLEMENT a FEASIBLE plan to THWART the customary headaches of junior year.
SAT Tips: Idioms
Today's QOTD is a great example of one of the "grammar rules" that the SAT loves that is more like stuff to memorize than it is rules to apply. Since our job is to help you out, we're going to explain the concept behind this question so you know what to do if you see a question like this on the test. One of the things that makes this question so tough is that it's testing idioms.
Review: GMATPrep Exam Pack 1
Hello GMAT-eers. Our friends at the Graduate Management Admission Council have released two brand new full-length practice tests. This is exciting news for any prospective GMAT taker, as now you have four complete diagnostic tests for your use. So let's take a look at GMATPrep® Exam Pack 1.


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A former Bucks county, Pa., football coach is behind bars on charges that he raped a cheerleader over the span of two years.
Keith Peschen, a married father and president of the Levittown Lions Athletic Association, was arrested after an investigation that started back in July.
The victim, who is now 17 years old, told her mom who alerted authorities. Police say the victim was scared for her life and wasn't sure what to do about the attacks at the time.
Court documents obtained by NBC10 show that Peschen is accused of raping the girl, starting when she was 11 years old. The alleged assaults happened inside Peschen's home and car.
Authorities are now alerting the community, worried there may be other victims.
"We certainly would like to call the attention of people in the community, whose children may have been exposed to this fellow," said David Heckler, Bucks County District Attorney.
Detectives say that Peschen confessed, but admitted only to raping the girl once.
Peschen is being held on 1 million dollars cash bail on charges including rape of a child and aggravated assault.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 23, 2011) – It's another week of updates on U.S. Men's National and A2 Team players competing around the world.
Outside hitter Jayson Jablonsky (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Olympiacos won the Greek Cup on March 20 with a 21-25, 25-20, 25-21, 25-12 victory over Iraklis, including U.S. opposite Brook Billings (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and outside hitter Ryan Owens (Evanston, Ill.).
Jablonsky scored one point with a block. Owens had 14 points on 13 kills and one ace. Billings scored 12 points on 12 kills.
According to SportinGreece.com: The final at the city (Orestiada) that historically has a great affection for volleyball was marred by clashes between fans of the two finalists at the city centre and outside the court. Reports suggested police made a number of arrests.
In Hellenic league play on March 23, Iraklis secured its hold on first place in the league with a 25-20, 25-22, 29-27 defeat of Panathinaikos. Billings led all scorers with 19 points on 15 kills (0.48 hitting percentage), three blocks and one ace. Owens added 15 points on 12 kills (0.63 hitting percentage), one block and two aces. Owens was also credited with 21 receptions, 48 percent positive and 19 percent excellent.
Owens was named a most valuable player at outside hitter for the weekend.
Panathinaikos fell to fourth place in the league behind second-place PAOK and third-place Olympiacos.
U.S. setter Jonathan Winder (Irvine, Calif.) and PAOK won their eighth straight Hellenic league match on March 23 with a 25-18, 25-15, 25-17 victory over Ethnikos Alexandroupolis. Winder scored five points on three kills and two blocks and set the team to a 0.48 hitting percentage.
Olympiacos defeated ESOP Epikouros, 25-22, 29-31, 25-15, 25-22 on March 23. Jablonsky started the first, second and fourth sets and scored eight points on seven kills and one block. He was credited with 22 receptions, 64 percent positive and 32 percent excellent.
Led by U.S. opposite Will Price (Gaithersburg, Md.) who had 31 points, GS Lamia defeated EA Patron Lux, 25-20, 23-25, 25-18, 25-21 on March 23. Price led all scorers, connecting on 23 kills (0.43 hitting percentage), three blocks and five aces.
Price was named the league's most valuable player for the weekend. Lamia is in sixth place in the league.
The Russian Super League completed its regular season last week. Each team played two final matches.
Zenit Kazan, the Russian Super League team of U.S. setter Lloy Ball (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.), lost its final two matches and finished the regular season in second place.
On March 19, Iskra Odintsovo defeated Kazan, 25-15, 25-27, 25-22, 19-25, 15-12. Odintsovo went on to win the regular season league title. Priddy started the final four sets and scored 16 points on 14 kills (0.50 hitting percentage), one block and one ace. Ball started the first three sets and substituted in the fourth. He scored one point on a block and helped set the team to a 0.34 hitting percentage.
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Neither Ball nor Priddy was on the roster for Kazan's final regular season match against U.S. middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) and his team Kuzbass Kemerovo, which Kemerovo won 25-14, 24-26, 25-12, 25-22. Lee was on Kemerovo's roster, but did not play.
U.S. setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Fakel Novy Urengoi won their last two matches of the season and finished in fourth place.
On March 19, Hansen helped Novy Urengoi come back from two sets down to beat Ural Ufa, the Russian team of U.S. opposite Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii), 23-25, 15-25, 25-20, 25-22, 15-13.
Hansen entered the game in the second set as a substitute and started the last three sets. He scored five points on one kill and four blocks and helped set the team to a 0.37 hitting percentage. Stanley led all scorers with 25 points on 22 kills (0.43 hitting percentage), one block and two aces.
To view photos from the match, click here.
On March 22, Novy Urengoi won its final regular season match against Dynamo-Yantar Kaliningrad, 25-22, 25-19, 25-15. Hansen started the first set but did not score.
Stanley and Ufa lost their final match of the regular season to Dynamo Krasnodar, 25-19, 25-16, 25-22. Stanley led all scorers with 14 points on 12 kills (0.38 hitting percentage) and two blocks.
To view photos from the match, click here.
Ufa finished the regular season in 10th place. Lee and Kemerovo finished in 11th.
U.S. middle blocker Andy Hein (Carol Stream, Ill.) got some playing time with Yaroslavich Yaroslavl during its 25-11, 25-14, 23-25, 25-21 victory over Lokomotiv Belogorie on March 22. Hein started the third set and scored two points on two blocks.
The Super League playoffs will begin March 30 with the top eight teams competing in best-of-five series. Kazan will face Yaroslavl and Novy Urengoi will play Dynamo Moscow.
Prior to the playoffs, Kazan will compete in the CEV Champions Cup semifinals. Kazan will play its Russian Super League foe Dynamo Moscow in the first match on March 26. Poland's Jastrzebeski Wegiel will play Italy's Trentino BetClic in the other semifinal. The medal matches will be played on March 27.
The Champions League matches will be streamed live at laola1.tv.
To read an interview with Lloy Ball about the Champions League, click here.
U.S. middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) scored 14 points on seven kills, six blocks and one ace as his Brazilian Superleague team Vivo/Minas won its first match of the quarterfinal playoff series against BMG Montes Claros, 23-25, 25-20, 25-23, 25-20.
The two teams will play again on March 24 in the best-of-three series that will send the winner to the league semifinals. Vivo/Minas finished the regular season in fifth place in the league.
In the playoff for first-sixth place in the Polish league, U.S. middle blocker Ryan Millar (Alpine, Utah) and his Polish league team Asseco Resovia Rzeszów fell to league-leader PGE Skra Bełchatów, 19-25, 27-25, 16-25, 25-16, 15-13 on March 19.
Millar scored eight points on seven kills and one block.
Asseco Resovia Rzeszów came back on March 23 to beat Delecta Bydgoszcz, 25-15, 25-19, 23-25, 25-19. Millar did not play in the match.
In the battle for seventh-10th place in the Polish league, Fart Kielce, including U.S. libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) fell to Indykpol AZS UWM Olsztyn, 14-25, 25-21, 26-24, 22-25, 15-11.
Lambourne was credited with 20 receptions, 40 percent positive and 30 percent excellent.
U.S. outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) and his Italian Serie A league team Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia swept U.S. middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio) and his Italian team Copra Morpho Piacenza, 25-23, 28-26, 25-17 on March 20.
Anderson and Holt were teammates on the Penn State men's volleyball team that won the 2008 NCAA Men's National Championship.
Anderson finished the match with 11 points on nine kills (0.41 hitting percentage) and two blocks. He was credited with 23 receptions, 69 percent positive and 30 percent excellent. Holt scored eight points on three kills, three blocks and two aces.
U.S. outside hitter Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.) led his team with 18 points, but Acqua Paradiso Monza Brianza fell to RPA-LuigiBacchi.It San Giustino, 21-15, 25-22, 25-22, 25-23 on March 20. Rooney scored on 16 kills (0.56 hitting percentage), one block and one ace. He was also credited with 24 receptions, 54 percent positive and 38 percent excellent.
Marmi Lanza Verona, including U.S. middle blocker Theo Brunner (Ridgefield, Conn.), fell to Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo, 25-22, 25-19, 25-17 on March 20. Brunner scored eight points on eight kills (0.57 hitting percentage)
U.S. outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) was not with the team for personal reasons.
U.S. opposite Gabe Gardner (San Clemente, Calif.) and his Italian Serie A2 league team Sir Safety Perugia fell to Phyto Performance Padova, 25-19, 26-24, 25-19 on March 20. Gardner led his team with 13 points on 13 kills.
U.S. outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) and his German league team SCC Berlin swept VC Gotha, 28-26, 25-12, 25-21 on March 19.
Touzinsky scored 10 points on eight kills, one block and one ace.
To view photos from SCC Berlin's March 16 match, click here.
Unicaja Almeria, the Spanish league team of U.S. middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) and outside hitter Riley Salmon (League City, Texas), finished the regular season in first place in the league, despite losing to second-place CAI Voleibol Teruel, 25-19, 25-17, 26-24 on March 19.
Salmon started all three sets and scored nine points on nine kills (0.50 hitting percentage). He was credited with 14 receptions, 50 percent positive and 29 percent excellent. Smith scored four points on two kills and two blocks.
The Spanish league will hold its Spanish Cup tournament on March 23-26, which will be followed by the league playoffs starting April 2.
U.S. setter Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.) and outside hitter Eric Vance (Camarillo, Calif.) and their French B league team Chaumont fell to Alès, 28-26, 25-21, 25-18 on March 18.
Vance scored five points. Thornton had two points on one block and one ace. He set the team to a 0.53 kill percentage.
Nils Nielsen (Fallbrook, Calif.) and his French A league team Tours defeated Nantes Rezé, 25-20, 25-22, 29-23 on March 19.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Nathan Gerbe broke a third-period tie Thursday that lifted Carolina to a 3-2 victory over Washington.
Elias Lindholm also produced the first goal of his NHL career for the Hurricanes, who handed the Capitals their third loss in four games.
Gerbe's goal, his third of the season, came 6:59 into the final period and Anton Khubodin maintained the lead by stopping 30-of-32 shots.
Washington twice moved in front only to have Lindholm and Alexander Semin tie the contest with their second-period scores.
Washington's goals came from Jason Chimera and Alex Ovechkin, his fifth of the season.
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Took a phone interview and an email interview at the same time on two different topics trying to prove I could multiprocess and move in both directions at once today.
The phone call was with Dawn Vaughan of the Herald Sun (in Durham). Dawn asked the unanswerable:
Do you think there will be significant changes in home technology — beyond advances in computer hard/software? Will we use the Internet more/differently? Will we use desktop computers, or everything handheld? Any new "intelligent" home appliances? Will we watch/listen/learn on one piece of equipment? What will it look like?
I answered that the future of home entertainment is would be life-sized fully interactive revival of Flavor of Love reruns controlled by grills and a large clock worn around the home participant's neck.
Well, after that I tried to get serious to talk about control by voice, gesture and presence, about houses and devices learning your habits and anticipating your needs based on past behaviors, about presense being sensed by various bioprofiles, facescans, heat images, jewelry and implants, about augmentation of the body, about wires vanishing, about widespread fuelcell use. And about a fetishism of the outdoors. Much as trains are now romanticised, the outdoors will be seen as something that we need to visit to make up for the lack of contact with the unpredictable world of nature. Like trains, we'll talk about nature and our lovely relationship to it more that we actually experience it.
At the same time, I was answering email from Glyn Moody of Linux Weekly News about Open Content (LWN is not Open Content as near as I can tell, they want you to subscribe but Glyn's open access article is accessible openly). Glyn had done a piece on Open Access earlier and this would be a follow up.
Glyn asked about Sunsite/Metalab/ibiblio's hosting of Linux, the Linux Documentation Project, Creative Commons, Project Gutenberg and about contributor-run digital libraries. I answered and will publish what I wrote after Glyn has his cut at making sense of it all. I'm sure he'll do a great job based on what I read in his Open Access article.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 14, 2012) – As spring approaches, several of the European leagues have already started playoffs to give players time to return to their national teams for Olympic qualifying.
U.S. setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) and his Italian Serie A League team Sisley Belluno ended the seven-match winning streak of U.S. middle blocker Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Copra Elior Piacenza with a 25-10, 25-22, 24-26, 25-23 victory on March 11.
Suxho scored two points for Belluno on a block and a kill and also set the team to a 49.0 kill percent and a .422 hitting efficiency. Holt started the first two sets and substituted in the fourth for Piacenza and scored one point on one attack.
Belluno is in fourth place in the league while Piacenza is in seventh.
U.S. outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) was named the match's most valuable players as he led Casa Modena to a 25-17, 25-20, 26-28, 22-25, 15-12 win over U.S. opposite Murphy Troy (St. Louis, Mo.) and Andreoli Latina.
Anderson finished with 24 points on 22 attacks (64.7 kill percent, .588 hitting efficiency), one block and one ace. He was also credited with 32 receptions, 50 percent of which were deemed positive. Troy substituted in the first two sets and started the last three, scoring 11 points on 10 attacks (66.7 kill percent, .667 hitting efficiency) and one block.
Modena is in fifth place in the league while Latina is in eighth.
Just a few days after defeating Anderson and Modena, U.S. opposite Even Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.) and U.S. setter Riley McKibbin (Honolulu, Hawaii) helped their team Energy Resources San Giustino defeat U.S. outside hitter Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.) and Acqua Paradis Monza Brianza, 25-21, 21-25, 24-26, 25-21, 15-13 on March 11.
Patak finished with 15 points on 13 attacks (50.0 kill percent, .500 hitting efficiency) and two aces. McKibbin added two points on one kill and one block and set the team to a 52.0 kill percent and a .457 hitting efficiency. Rooney scored 10 points on nine attacks (40.9 kill percent) and one ace.
Monza Brianza is in sixth place in the league while San Giustino is in 12th.
CEV Cups
Host Asseco Resovia Rzeszów, the Polish PlusLiga team of U.S. outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.), won its first CEV Cup semifinal match over Slovenia's ACH Volley Ljubljana, 28-26, 25-8, 25-17 on March 14. Lotman was on the roster but did not play. The teams will play again on March 17 in Slovenia.
Rooney and host Acqua Paradis Monza Brianza had a tougher time defeating U.S. middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) and the Russian Super League team Dinamo Moscow in the other March 14 semifinal. Eventually, the Italian team won, 23-25, 25-21, 25-22, 18-25, 15-12.
Rooney started the first set and scored one point on one kill. Lee finished with 12 points for Moscow on seven kills (58.3 kill percent, .500 hitting efficiency) and a match-high five blocks. The teams will play again on March 18 in Russia.
Two teams with U.S. players have advanced to the March 17 semifinals of the CEV Champions League, which will be played in Lodz, Poland. The final matches will be played on March 18.
Turkey's Arkas Izmir, which includes U.S. setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.), will play Poland's PGE Skra Belchatow in the first match at 2:30 p.m. local time (6:30 a.m. PDT). U.S. outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) and his Russian Super League team Zenit Kazan will face Italy's Trentino PlanetWin365 in the second match at 5:30 local time (9:30 a.m. PDT).
Champions League matches are broadcast live at www.laola1.tv and can also be viewed after they are played.
Lotman and Asseco Resovia Rzeszów won their first two playoff matches over visiting Tytan AZS Częstochowa.
On March 9, Resovia Rzeszów defeated Częstochowa, 25-22, 25-21, 22-25, 25-16. Lotman substituted in the first set and started the next three, scoring 14 points on nine kills (56.3 kill percent, .438 hitting efficiency), three blocks and two aces.
On March 10, Resovia Rzeszów topped Częstochowa, 25-22, 19-25, 25-23, 25-12. Lotman started the first two sets and scored five points on three attacks and two blocks.
The series moves to Częstochowa on March 21 for the third match in the best-of-five series.
U.S. middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Jastrzębski Węgiel are 1-1 in their first two matches against host Delecta Bydgoszcz.
On March 11, Bydgoszcz defeated Węgiel, 25-22, 25-18, 25-22. Holmes scored five points on four attacks (44.4 kill percent, .444 hitting efficiency) and one ace.
On March 12, Węgiel came back to win, 23-25, 22-25, 25-15, 25-23, 15-9. Holmes scored 14 points on seven kills (63.6 kill percent, .545 hitting efficiency), five blocks and two aces.
The series will move two Węgiel for the next two matches of the best-of-five series on March 21-22.
To view photos from the matches, click here.
U.S. middle blocker David Smith (Saugus, Calif.) and his French league team Tours fell to Rennes in the semifinals of the French Cup on May 10, 26-24 25-20 25-20. Rennes went on to win the French Cup.
Regular play in the French league is scheduled to resume on March 20.
The Berlin Recycling Volleys, including U.S. outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) and setter Kawika Shoji (Honolulu, Hawaii), won the first round of the German league playoffs with two victories over the Netzhoppers KW-Bestensee.
On March 10, host Berlin took a 25-21, 25-13, 25-20 victory. Touzinsky finished with 10 points on eight attacks (50.0 kill percent, .500 hitting efficiency) and two aces. He was also credited with 11 receptions, 73 percent positive. Shoji scored three points on one kill, one block and one ace and set the team to a 57.7 kill percent and a .549 hitting efficiency.
On March 13, visiting Berlin won 25-22, 25-18, 25-21. Touzinsky against scored 10 points on nine kills (50.0 kill percent, .500 hitting efficiency) and one block. He was credited with 16 receptions, 62 percent positive. Shoji scored one point with a kill and set the team to a 48.8 kill percent and .425 hitting efficiency.
U.S. middle blocker Matt Denmark (Edmond, Okla.) and the German team VfB Friedrichshafen also won their two playoff matches over evivo Düren.
On March 3, host Friedrichshafen won 25-18, 25-19, 25-18. Denmark scored seven points on four kills (100 kill percent, 1.00 hitting efficiency) and three blocks. On March 1, visiting Friedrichshafen took a 25-9, 26-24, 25-17 win. Denmark played as a substitute but did not score.
U.S. opposite Brook Billings (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Istanbul B.B. defeated Arkas Izmir Spor on March 11, 25-23, 25-22, 26-24. Arkas Izmir Spor is the team of U.S. setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.), but he was not on the roster for the match.
Billings led all scorers with 18 points on 18 attacks (51.4 kill percent, .371 hitting efficiency).
Arkas Izmir Spor is in third place in the league and Istanbul is in sixth.
Loimu Raision, the Finnish league team that includes U.S. outside hitter Garret Muagututia (Oceanside, Calif.), libero Dustin Watten (Long Beach, Calif.) and outside hitter/opposite Duncan Budinger (Encinitas, Calif.), ended a four-match losing streak with a 19-25, 22-25, 25-18, 25-20, 15-8 victory over Korson Veto on March 10.
Budinger led all scorers with 26 points on a match-high 22 kills (47.8 kill percent, .391 hitting efficiency), two blocks and two aces. Muagututia added 13 points on nine attacks and a match-high four aces. Watten was credited with 23 receptions, 74 percent considered positive.
On March 13, Loimu Raision fell to Hurrikaani Loimaa, 25-19, 20-25, 25-19, 16-25, 16-14.
Budinger started the first two sets and scored eight points on six attacks and two blocks. Muagututia started the first two sets and scored three points on three attacks. Watten was credited with 21 receptions, 67 percent positive.
Loimu is in eighth place in the league.
U.S. outside hitter Jeff Menzel (Santa Barbara, Calif.) was one of the scoring leaders for him Spanish league team Unicaja Almeria as it defeated Bantierra Fábregas Sport, 24-26, 25-20, 25-23, 25-17 on March 10.
Menzel finished with 14 points on 14 kills (46.7 kill percent, .300 hitting efficiency). He was also credited with 31 receptions, 68 percent considered positive.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — July 8, 2014 — The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers® (SMPTE®), the worldwide leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries, today announced the formation of a new SMPTE Section in Pittsburgh. The new Section will offer existing and potential SMPTE members in the Pittsburgh area valuable educational programs, technical expertise, and networking opportunities. The formation of the group was spearheaded by local SMPTE Fellows George Hoover, CTO at NEP; John Luff, television technology consultant at HD Consulting; and Diversified Systems CTO Karl Paulsen.
"George, John, and Karl did tremendous work to make the SMPTE Pittsburgh Section a reality, and the success of their initiative reflects the Society's growing momentum and activity in the Pittsburgh area," said SMPTE Executive Director Barbara Lange. "This really was an effort born in the grassroots of SMPTE membership, and it demonstrates our members' genuine enthusiasm for taking advantage of educational programs and their interest in becoming more involved in creating the standards that shape our industry."
The launch of the SMPTE Pittsburgh Section brings the total of local Sections to 28 worldwide. Each year, these groups collectively host more than 200 meetings, tutorials, and workshops. While these events give members access to a broad variety of SMPTE resources, they also enable each Section to tailor programming to address the technical and business concerns of particular interest in the region.
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Further information about SMPTE is available at www.smpte.org.
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