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One of the most comical, yet sad things every aging athlete must face is that we no longer are what we once were. Our minds are there, willing us to keep fighting, but our bodies don't cooperate. This is a post about perseverance.
At the beginning of the year, I highlighted several personal goals in a post. One of those goals was to win just one USTA 5.0 rated tennis match. I had just gotten bumped to 5.0 after being a 4.5 for the past four years. It was a big surprise since I never believed that I belonged.
To give you an idea of the caliber of players in the 5.0+ USTA league, here are some bios:
* Cal team captain in 1998 who played No. 5 singles and owned a 25-6 match record that year.
* No. 6 singles player for USF in 2013. That's right, he's only 24 years old.
* Four year starter for UC Santa Cruz, and 2009 Division III National Champions.
* Four time All-American in singles and doubles at Stanford.
* Four year starter at William & Mary with a 70-40 singles record.
In other words, these guys are legit. Winning a singles match against some of these young bucks is impossible. I'd lose 1-6, 1-6 if I'm lucky. Winning a doubles match is almost impossible without a good partner.
Although I was recruited to play at a Division III school, I never played college-level tennis because I chose to go to a better school for academics. By junior year in high school, I knew I had no chance of ever making pro, partly because I didn't have the drive to compete in tournaments around the Mid-Atlantic. My strokes were consistent, but lacked any sort of punishing pace that could easily vanquish my opponents.
Besides, I'm a 38 year old personal finance blogger who spends most of his time writing. Challenge me to a finger wrestling contest and I'll crush you! But put me in battle against guys who bomb 125+ mph serves, and I'm not so sure. Waistlines don't stay trim, nor do muscles stay lean with sedentary professions.
In college I remember watching these players compete while I just played intramural tennis. They were the studs who won local and national tournaments. They were the ones who were coveted by coaches and got multi-year academic scholarships. Never did I imagine we'd all play in the same league 20 years later.
For those of you who don't play tennis, or who don't play competitive sports, being proud of making 5.0 probably sounds stupid. But I grew up in an environment where we had to excel as students and as athletes. It wasn't good enough to be a nerd. It wasn't good enough to be an athlete with piss-poor grades either. Colleges wanted both! The pressure was on.
Despite being the captain of my high school tennis team a couple years and going All-District, I burned out of tennis my senior year. Practices were long, and I couldn't help but pass out early from exhaustion every night without doing all my homework. Staying awake in Spanish class the next day after lunch was nearly impossible. Food coma!
Until this day, my favorite words after lunch are, "Nappy time!"
Despite making the logical decision to focus on academics instead of tennis, for years after high school, I always wondered "what if?" What if I had practiced more, tried harder, lifted more weights, and played in more tournaments? There are plenty of 150 – 160lbs, 5'10" players like me who are doing well in college and on the pro-circuit. Kei Nishikori, the world's #7 ranked player is one such example.
Was I just making excuses when I was younger for not wanting to try harder? Was I too afraid of losing?
Ah, good 'ol REGRET started creeping back in. Then I discovered a path to redemption through USTA league tennis as a 32 year old back in 2009.
It's funny, because 2009 was the same year that I started Financial Samurai. Clearly, I was looking for some outlets to get my mind off a very scary financial time for us all. Tennis and writing were my two salvations.
When I first began, I couldn't even join my club's 4.5 team because I didn't know anybody, and nobody thought I was good enough. As a physically unimposing human being, I had no positive biases in the tennis world.
Given nobody believed in me, I started believing I wasn't good enough either! Instead of trying to make the 4.5 team, I self-rated as a 4.0 and ended up getting computer disqualified after my 5th match for beating my opponents too badly. It was a hit to the team, because all my prior wins also got canceled in favor of the opponent. We were entering playoffs and I couldn't even participate.
After my disappointing 4.0 season, I was finally given an opportunity to play 4.5 level tennis the next year. I went 4-2 in 2010, and 3-1 in 2011. But despite the winning records in 4.5, I still didn't get the playing time I wanted. Instead of complaining, I decided to leave my club (mainly because I could never get parking or a court time), and just join a public team at Golden Gate Park where I didn't know anybody. Once again, I had to prove my worth by challenging other players. That's when I met Jabir, the poorest richest friend I know. Things got better after that.
I ended up going undefeated, 12-0 in 2012, with a couple satisfying wins against my old teammates who didn't believe in me. We went on to win the City Championship as well!
In sports, there's probably nothing more gratifying than proving your detractors wrong by winning. Without detractors, there's no way I would have practiced as much and stayed in fighting shape. Rejection is motivating!
There's something nobody in the tennis community knows. Back in 2007, I got an MRI on my left knee due to constant sharp pains that would cause my knee to buckle when walking up or down steps. My knee also felt loose every time I'd take a right turn.
It turns out that I had a torn horizontal meniscus tear in the posterior horn. I went to see an orthopedic surgeon to find out whether I should have arthroscopic knee surgery. He told me, "Only if the pain is too much to bear."
The left knee was in pain, but through physical therapy, I worked through the pain and it didn't bother me as much anymore. I wore a knee sleeve to keep things tight, and battled on!
I promised never to complain about the pain and never tell anybody about my injury. You either win on the court or you lose. And if you lose, it's because your opponent was too good that day, not because you had some type of injury, or you went out drinking too late, or any other sort of bullshit excuse we tend to make. The same thing goes with our finances!
In sports, you man up, learn from your losses, work on your weaknesses and try to get better. Eventually, our bodies will refuse to cooperate. That's when we've got to come to the realization that it's time to play down a level or retire. But while our bodies are still healthy, we compete as hard as we can in order to discover our potential!
None of my teammates from my old 4.5 team in 2009-2010 have made it to 5.0 today. They've either quit, gotten out of shape, or remained at 4.5. I'll admit that I'm probably one of the worst 5.0 players in America. But for at least one year, the computer will say I'm a 5.0, which is something that can't ever be taken away.
All the practicing and mind-bending competitive situations paid off. Getting to 5.0 is something money can't buy. But how about winning at 5.0?
Instead of just winning one match, I ended up going 3-3. One win was against two self-rated 5.0 players who honestly weren't 5.0s, and another win was against a new 5.0 promote like myself and his 4.5 partner. My final win was against a three year starter at UC Davis (D1) and his partner who played at Wesleyan (D3). My partner was just like me, a former high school player who just got bumped to 5.0.
As for my losses, I got crushed playing with a 4.5 against two teams who were both 5.0s (2-6, 2-6 and 4-6, 3-6). When I finally got a legit 5.0 partner, we went the distance winning the first set 6-3, losing the second set 3-6, and then losing a 10 point tie-breaker 6-10 against an ex-Cal player (D1) and his ex-Emory (D3) player partner. It was the most satisfying loss of my life because it showed that I could hang.
Non-monetary goals are some of the most precious because you can't buy your way to glory. Not even talent can make you succeed without a tremendous amount of practice. We all need to stick around for as long as possible to give ourselves a chance. You just never know what might happen!
Key Takeaways:
1) Not feeling like you belong is a common feeling. Most of us would rather err on the side of caution and do OK, rather than try extremely hard and fail at the chance of doing something great. Failure is embarrassing. It's why many players don't even bother to sign up for their club tournament. I highly recommend going for big wins, because what's worse than failure is the regret of never trying at all.
2) Decide whether your mind is an enabler or a disabler. As soon as you feel like you belong, you will get better at whatever you do. I can easily hit a top spin one-handed backhand now, whereas before I could not for years. If you do not believe in yourself, nobody will.
3) When it comes to building wealth, belief that you deserve to be rich and free is equally important. There are so many doubters about saving 50%+ of your income, creating a product that produces passive income, or starting your own business, from people who've never bothered to try! But I assure you that once you develop a plan, good things will happen.
4) Instead of letting detractors get you down, use detractors as motivation to succeed. Your detractors are the most afraid to try! My favorite internal monologue growing up was, "Work twice as hard to get half as much." There's no better gratifying feeling than success. The worst is if something is just handed to you. Then you can't possibly fully appreciate the significance.
5) If you persevere long enough, good things will happen. Never fail due to a lack of effort!
If you're a tennis player, I highly recommend reading Brad Gilbert's book Winning Ugly: Mental Warfare In Tennis–Lessons Learned From A Master.
Update 10/18/2017: It's been three years since I was bumped up to 5.0 and the novelty has worn off. But, the good feeling of accomplishment has not. It's more fun to be a 4.5 player because there are more teams you can join. All I really want to do is play and have fun.


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PM Imran Khan Complete Speech at World Government Summit in Dubai | 10 February 2019
The Arabs are in shock, someone is talking about Madina :P
PM Imran Khan Complete Speech at World Government Summit in Dubai | 10 February 2019
The Arabs are in shock, someone is talking about Madina :P
As I have said before that if the reign of Imran Khan results in 10% less corruption in Pakistan, I will deem it as a success.
He is not a "Maulana" and the "Maulana" who is involved in politics has not done anything when he was in charge of KPK so it is unrealistic to expect the imposition of Sunnah from an Ex-Cricketer.
We need to be realistic.
Which (previous) leader from Pakistan stood up on an International stage and actually spoke about "Madina"?
So 10% improvement will have a colossal impact and that is all I care about.
Neither Imran Khan nor PTI are perfect but when compared with "Maulana" and his group they are infinitely superior but I do not expect "Deobandees" to admit that.
Until Mahdi (AS) turns up in Islamabad, this is the best (available) option people of Pakistan have.
As I said, Imran Khan has NOTHING to do with Islam his interest in Islam is Social Justice. If he brings down corruption in Pakistan by 10% it will be job well done.
In the meantime, we will continue to be disappointed with his Anti-Shariah actions but he is no different to anybody else including the Ulama who are in politics when it comes to Shariah. The Ulama have NEVER backed Shariah in Pakistan either!
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The third article will compare market-leading SAN systems against purchasing criteria, as well as against each other, to give you an expert opinion to ensure your ultimate purchase is the right system for your organization.
Storage platform architectures: The basics
SAN is a highly scalable, high-performance network that connects hosts, usually servers, with a shared pool of block-level storage over SCSI-based protocols, including Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).
DAS is attached to and managed by a single host. DAS storage consists of disks in a host and/or external disk enclosures that are directly connected to storage controllers in the host.
NAS is another shared-storage option that is commonly used to store and share files via standard file-system protocols -- mainly the Network File System and Server Message Block protocols -- over IP networks.
Arrays are the essence of a SAN system because they provide the physical storage resources. They are available as iSCSI arrays that communicate over IP networks and as FC arrays that require an FC network.
For a long time, SAN was equated with FC, but in the last decade, Ethernet-based iSCSI arrays have emerged and quickly encroached on the lucrative SAN market, first in the small- to medium-sized business space, and, with the emergence of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, in the enterprise space. An iSCSI SAN runs over IP networks and Ethernet-based network components that can be managed by traditional network administrators, significantly lowering price and complexity. In general, FC still surpasses iSCSI in reliability and robustness.
The ability to scale capacity and performance is one of the primary reasons for deploying a SAN. The SAN architecture and network, as well as the SAN arrays themselves, are designed to be highly scalable. Other reasons to deploy a SAN rather than DAS include high availability, resilience, efficiency and centralized management.
FC SANs are more complex and costly to operate than DAS and NAS systems. They require specialized knowledge, and are typically run by dedicated administrators to manage FC switches and directors, and deal with the various FC-specific configurations, including zoning, logical unit number (LUN) masking, virtual SANs and ISL-trunking to FC host bus adapter configurations.
Although iSCSI SANs have narrowed the gap, and DAS and NAS systems have become more popular with the rise of remote computing, big data analytics and unstructured data, FC SANs are usually still the technology of choice for very large and demanding networks.
Examining the scale, capacity and performance of the SAN
An FC SAN's ability to scale capacity and performance is a primary driver for its continued popularity, and that starts with the SAN architecture and network. An FC SAN can be as simple as attaching servers directly to multi-port SAN arrays, or it can consist of multiple director-level FC switches that connect servers and SAN arrays in high-availability configurations. SAN arrays can be scaled-up (vertically) by adding additional processing power, memory, ports and disk drives.
Many contemporary SAN arrays support solid-state storage, which performs at an order of magnitude better than mechanical disk drives. Some SAN arrays leverage solid-state drives (SSD) as cache to front-end disk drives, others allow substituting mechanical disk drives with SSD and some support both.
Multiple tiers of storage, such as the combination of a fast solid-state tier and slower disk tiers, and the ability to automatically move data between different tiers of storage enable SAN arrays to scale cost efficiently.
Some SAN arrays support quality of service (QoS) features that allow some LUNs and data to have a higher priority than others, enabling oversubscription without jeopardizing critical applications. Like the support of multiple storage tiers, QoS enables cost-efficient scaling of a SAN.
Scaling a SAN array vertically has its limits; it requires moving to a higher performance array or having to add multiple arrays once the scale-up limit is reached. To avoid this, a growing list of SAN arrays support scaling-out (horizontally) by adding additional storage nodes to scale both capacity and performance at the same time.
SAN system availability and resilience
Continuous availability and resilience are other reasons for deploying SANs. Highly available SANs are designed to have no single points of failure, starting with highly available SAN arrays and switches with redundant critical components and redundant connections to the SAN network.
One of the strategies in designing redundant SANs is to connect each storage node via dual or multiple paths with the next node. To protect against unsolicited interferences, isolation techniques like zoning and LUN masking provide isolation within a SAN fabric; Cisco Systems' Virtual SAN and Brocade's Logical SAN protocols enable isolation across multiple SAN fabrics.
Finally, robust error handling and error management, and the ability to self-correct are critical capabilities to ensure continuous storage services.
Lowering costs with storage efficiency
Reducing total cost of ownership of storage is yet another reason for deploying SANs. The total cost of SAN storage decreases as the number of servers and amount of managed storage grow.
To start with, SANs enable high storage utilization and treat unused storage as spare capacity to support storage growth. Furthermore, most contemporary SAN systems support one or more of the following storage efficiency features to help maximize utilization of the available physical storage:
- Thin provisioning allows storage to be assigned to hosts beyond available physical capacity, and physical storage resources are allocated to a thin-provisioned LUN on an as-needed basis. The cost savings of thin provisioning can be tremendous and it enables storage utilization beyond 90%.
- Efficient clones enable LUN cloning by referencing blocks in the source LUN, and as a result, the cloned LUN uses a very small amount of physical storage. Also called zero-cost clones, they aid in reducing deployment times and required storage capacity.
- Data deduplication reclaims storage by identifying duplicate blocks of data and replacing them with a reference, usually a unique hash code, to unique data blocks.
- Data compression reduces the amount of required storage by applying compression algorithms while data is written and decompressing data when it is read.
Centralized storage improves management
Unlike DAS, where storage is managed separately on each server, a SAN provides for a centralized mechanism and place to provision storage, analyze storage usage and performance, and perform storage configurations. Central management also simplifies the governance of storage infrastructure and enables compliance with service-level agreements and regulatory requirements.
Some contemporary SAN arrays support heterogeneous storage virtualization to combine smaller storage arrays into larger virtual storage pools that are managed under the same SAN umbrella. Last but not least, SANs simplify data protection of storage with features like snapshots that enable restores to prior points in time, and data replication to copy data to other arrays and sites.
SAN vs. DAS
Without a question, shared storage that's accessed over a network is appealing, but does it justify the additional expenditure and complexity inherent to SANs? After all, servers ship with storage and, with the availability of very large disk drives, a server can be stuffed with tens and even hundreds of terabytes of DAS at a very reasonable cost.
One of the big challenges of DAS is that it's only accessible by a single host, and as a result only a fraction of the available storage is usually in use. The larger the number of servers, the more unused DAS storage capacity you'll end up with, resulting in dismal overall storage utilization. While 70% to more than 90% storage utilization is very common in SAN storage, DAS storage utilization is usually a fraction of that.
The other challenge with DAS is storage management. From provisioning, monitoring and backup to reporting, storage directly attached to servers is managed individually. The larger the number of servers, the more difficult DAS becomes to effectively manage.
In environments without shared storage, the quality of storage management is typically in direct relation to the relevance of servers and applications on those servers. Besides the challenge of having to manage each server's storage individually, DAS lacks advanced storage management features that are common in SAN arrays, such as snapshots, replication and thin provisioning.
SAN vs. NAS
NAS systems share many of the storage management features of a SAN, including snapshots, replication and thin provisioning, and NAS systems are usually simpler to manage than SANs. If you primarily store and share unstructured data, a NAS system would be a better storage platform than a SAN.
But pure NAS systems are ill-suited for applications that require block-level storage access. In an attempt to get a piece of the lucrative SAN market, some NAS vendors, most noticeably NetApp, have added block-level protocol support to their NAS filers.
Likewise, SAN vendors have been adding file-system protocol support to their SAN platforms either natively or via NAS gateways. Today, an increasing number of shared storage platforms support both block- and file-level protocols.
In general, a SAN is more versatile than NAS. While it's relatively easy to share block-level storage as a file share, it's significantly more challenging to add block-level protocol support to a pure NAS.
SANs, especially FC SANs, are more complex than DAS and NAS, and should be deployed for the right reasons. They are used for applications that require shared block-level storage, such as certain clustered applications and databases, but their main use is for storage consolidation.
Storage consolidated in a SAN enables more efficient use and management of storage, especially in environments with a large number of nodes. Consolidation demands scale and robustness, and this is where a SAN system excels. Better storage utilization and improved storage management result in substantial cost savings. Additionally, a SAN creates a clean separation between storage and other IT services. Even though this may create an additional management layer, the resulting focus yields better storage services -- increased security, improved performance and higher availability.
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Just minutes after winning a $1.6 million wrongful-death verdict, attorney David Sloane confronts the one case that threatens to blemish his unbeaten record in the courtroom. Beverly Ford wants Sloane to sue the United States government and military in the mysterious death of her husband, James, a national guardsman killed in Iraq. While a decades-old military doctrine might make Ford's case impossible to win, Sloane, a former soldier himself, is compelled to find justice for the widow and her four children in what is certain to become the biggest challenge of his career. Sloane calls on his friend, reclusive former CIA agent Charles Jenkins, to track down the other men serving with Ford the night he died. Alarmingly, two of the four who returned home alive didn't stay that way for long, and though the mission's wheelchairbound commander now works for a civilian contractor, he refuses to talk. The final -- and youngest -- soldier is also the most elusive, but he's their only shot at discovering the truth -- if Sloane and Jenkins can keep him alive long enough to tell it. Sloane must race to uncover what really happened on that fatal mission, not only to bring justice to a family wronged but to keep himself and the people closest to him from becoming the next casualties....
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Roy Orbison – You Got it:
And if you did all the right things? You got it, alright…
But hey, markets are up a little this morning and we FAILED to confirm a new DOW Theory sell signal by a whole .31 on the DOW. Whew, that was a narrow escape, because for a second there I thought the markets were in big trouble – LOL!
Dang, I can really be a sarcastic SOB at times! I like to think that I'm just a product of my environment…
Today's the day we get to see if Geithner flops again. We already know that we're talking about $50 billion… That will be shared amongst how many homeowners? Ha, it's a pittance compared to the vast sums given (oops, I meant "loaned") to the relatively few bankers (we're all going to "make money" from that, after all). So, after today we will have 2 of the 3 Obama/ Geithner save the world proposals out there. Oh, wait, actually it's already 3 of 3, remember? Geithner already announced the save the banks plan, remember? How did that go? Funny, but I can't really seem to recall anything happening besides the stock market going down?
There are going to be 5,000 Goodyear workers who won't have jobs soon, good thing that housing starts fell to the lowest level on record – down 17% last month – because there certainly won't be demand for them. Seriously, the fact that building is grinding to a halt is a good thing – the best real economic news I've heard in quite some time – no really, I'm serious. And if you work in the construction industry and hate me for saying that, well, think of it this way… your job only existed because of bubble economics to begin with. There, does that help?
Oh wait… Breaking news… it's not just going to be $50 billion for housing – there's another $200 billion for backing of Freddie and Fannie debt! Niiiice. That's what we need, more money for loans to keep homes unaffordable. Let's just keep the present system going on forever and ever, with never ending increases in size… that's the ticket, we should do that because the securitization of debt process has worked out so well so far.
But we're going to show the banks! Also just announced is that any FUTURE recipients of TARP funds, MUST loan money under the new housing bailout rules – whatever those are. Saved again.
Oh, and remember the MBIA debacle? They're still alive and kicking, heck, today they just announced that they are going to split off their bond insurance business from their toxic mortgage derivative insurance business. AND OUR GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO LET THEM. Any bets on what happens? Uh, huh, future bankrupt the bad business and allow the crooks to operate the good business. If I were a creditor, I don't think I'd be too happy with that, and I know that if I were a government regulator I would never let the corporate shell game happen in the first place. That's just me.
MBIA Splits Off Municipal Bond Insurance Business
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Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) -- MBIA Inc., the world's largest bond insurer, will split its municipal bond insurance business from the mortgage-related debt guarantees that led to the loss of its top credit ratings last year.
As part of the restructuring, the stock of MBIA Insurance Corp. of Illinois was transferred to a new holding company, Armonk, New York-based MBIA said today in a statement. The new unit, expected to be renamed National Public Finance Guarantee Corp., will seek approval to move to New York from Illinois, the company said.
"This new business model will not only preserve the interests of both our public finance and structured finance policyholders and enhance value for our shareholders, but will benefit the U.S. public finance markets as well," Chief Executive Officer Jay Brown said in the statement.
MBIA ceded its municipal insurance business to the new unit, originally acquired in 1989, and transferred a portfolio of about $537 billion in guarantees to National Public Finance Guarantee as of Sept. 30.
Did you catch their motto? "Wisdom in Action." Yep…
At any rate, the oscillators up to the 60 minute time frame need a break, so we're going to move up/sideways until they're satisfied and then we can get on with the rest of the current down trend.
Appreciate the input and teamwork on the threads… please share you best charts, we always appreciate those too. Don't forget to check Doc's thread for the pure technical charts…


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Thousands of Moroccans marched on Sunday to press the Arab world's longest-ruling dynasty to relinquish more of its sweeping powers and stamp out corruption.
The protests coincided with the holding of a centuries-old Be'ya, or allegiance ceremony, where hundreds of regional representatives renewed vows of obedience to King Mohammed the day after the anniversary of his enthronement.
Morocco's monarch acted promptly to contain any spillover from pro-democracy uprisings across the region, promising constitutional changes to reduce his powers on March 9, two weeks after protests spread to his country.
A referendum on July 1 endorsed a new constitution. But the changes have failed to end peaceful protests by the youth-led February 20 movement, which is pushing for a constitutional monarchy with the king as a figurehead.
State-run television showed the monarch clad in a traditional cream djellaba robe and riding a horse. He was seen greeting lines of dignitaries who bowed and chanted "May God bless the life of my master".
"This ceremony reflects the authenticity of the Moroccan people and its unswerving attachment to the glorious Alawite throne," the official MAP news agency said.
The Alawite dynasty claims descent from Prophet Mohammad and the king holds the Islamic title Commander of the Faithful.
In the capital Rabat, hundreds of protesters chanted the slogan "May God bless the life of my people" and carried placards demanding a "change that marks a break with the past", according to a Reuters witness.
"This protest is not meant to be a response to the allegiance ceremony. It is our response to the overall political climate in the country," said Mohamed al-Aouni, an activist from the February 20 Movement, which has held almost weekly protests demanding reform.
"We will continue to press for a parliamentary monarchy, freedom, social justice and dignity," Aouni said.
About 4,000 people protested in the country's biggest city Casablanca and about 5,000 in the northern city of Tangier, said local government officials.
The king chairs cabinet meetings and controls the judiciary, religious affairs and the army. He can dissolve parliament if it proposes laws that do not please him.
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Tigers miracle season comes to an end
Evan Lachnit , Sports Editor
February 28, 2013
Tied 1-1 with 1:57 left in the game, the tension was overwhelming. The OHS ice hockey team had called a timeout and needed to score to force a winner-take-all mini-game with CBC, the winner going to the Challenge Cup championship game. Since OHS had lost the night before to CBC 1-0, it was a score or...
Tigers effort comes up short
Brendan Jost, Reporter
February 28, 2012
Before the season started the OHS ice hockey team had one goal in mind: win the Challenge Cup. With Tommy Heinzman (12), Ryan Basgall (12), and Nick Marcus (12) providing senior leadership, the expectations were set high this year. However the Tigers came up short losing both games to St. Louis Unive...
Tigers ready for big game
Brendan Jost, Reporter
February 23, 2012
The OHS ice hockey team plays St. Louis University High tonight at 6:40 p.m at Hardees Ice Plex in Chesterfield. SLUH has a daunting record of 20-2. One of those wins came against Oakville, which lost 7-3 on Jan. 3. "They think they can just walk all over us, but if we execute our gameplan we ha...
Tigers advance in Challenge Cup Playoffs
Brendan Jost, Reporter
February 9, 2012
The Tigers have been on a hot streak lately winning their last five games. They beat Eureka in the first matchup 6-1 on Feb. 3. Then they beat Eureka 7-1 on Monday in the Challenge Cup playoffs. "We started off slow in the second game and they scored first," said Ryan Basgall (12), "but during...
OHS battles Marquette in Winter Classic
Sarah Koenen, Tiger Paw Staff
January 26, 2012
OHS hockey has taken advantage of many of their opportunities this season including playing outdoors in the annual Winter Classic. The Tigers took on Marquette at Clayton Shaw Park Ice Rink on Jan. 21. After a scoreless battle,Brendan Nichting (11) was able to make a great pass to Brendan Coon (10),...
Tigers freeze competition
Brendan Jost, Reporter
January 11, 2012
The OHS ice hockey team has been impressive lately going 11-4 and ranking fourth among large schools. One of those wins was against powerhouse Francis Howell North who is 10-4 this season in which OHS won 7-1 on Jan. 2. "That was a big win. They were a really good team and we took it to them."...
Hockey looks forward to starting the season
Brendan Jost, Journalism 1 Staff
September 22, 2011
Two years ago, Oakville's Ice Hockey team won the Wickenheiser Cup. Last year the team qualified for the Challenge Cup but lost in the second round. This year, according to players and coaches, the bar is set even higher. "Our goal is to win the Challenge Cup," forward Nick Marcus (12) said. The...


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Empty Shelves in Tokyo as Citizens Prepare
Days after a devastating earthquake rocked Japan, residents stock up on essential items. WSJ's Sebastian Stein reports from Tokyo.
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Living Vengeance (Passive)
On kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed. This bonus is larger if the enemy is a champion.
On kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed. This bonus is larger if the enemy is a champion.
Cooldown: 18/16/14/12/10
Cost: 70/75/80/85/90
Range: 925
First Cast: Varus starts drawing back his next shot, gradually increasing its range and damage. While preparing to shoot, Varus' Movement Speed is slowed by 20%. After 4 seconds, Piercing Arrow fails but refunds 50% of its Mana cost.Second Cast: Varus fires, dealing p to x physical damage, reduced by 15% per enemy hit (minimum 33%).Piercing Arrow's cooldown is reduced by 1 seconds if the arrow detonates Blight stacks on at least one enemy champion.
Cooldown: 40
Cost: No Cost
Range: 750
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Cooldown: 120/90/60
Cost: 100
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xmarks pledge – legitimate plea or elaborate marketing ploy?
Companies will go to all sorts of lengths these days to make an impact, increase brand awareness and well er' make money.
Is this what xmarks is up to or is a legitimate cry for help?
Well xmarks or foxmarks as it's known is not that old an operation in terms of high impact internet companies. It was established in 2006 and grew at a great pace through 2007 adding all sorts of big title employees including a "VP of Engineering" as quoted on their very own blog.
It's a great wonder xmarks is struggling for cash. They claim their operating costs are in excess of $2 million dollars a year. I'm sorry but let's call a spade a spade here; xmarks was nothing more than a bookmark synchronizing tool before they added all the bells and whistles like tagging, rating and Smarter Search.
Their core offering and the one that the vast majority of their user 2 million strong user base wants and uses most is to synchronize bookmarks not have "Smarter Search", leave that to Google.
So Where Did It Go Wrong?
The desire to grow too big too quickly perhaps? Moving away from your core offering of 'sync services' into someone else's backyard, namely Google's, or was it just a lack of creative ideas and the inability to capitilize on a large user base?
Growing too quickly can not really be controlled; if it happens, it happens but trying to make it happen can often falter companies.
How about growing your user base gradually by concentrating on your core product and keep your costs lower by dropping the dead wood?
Have the xmarks team examined their running costs instead of making a pledge to their user base? Perhaps trimming down the operation and reducing that operating cost to 500k per year would be a start. The company could still operate and then look forward.
At this point nobody is sure what the future holds for xmarks. The company is apparantly going under, struggling for cash and sounding like a charity case right now.
At the time of writing they have about 20000 users signed up to the pledge with 100000 required to stay afloat. Would you invest your $10 per year in xmarks?
This author signed the pledge but after reading more into the xmarks operation I'm not sure if I would now.
Xmarks is a fine product, don't get me wrong, but is Xmarks a fine company?
Xmarks is pledging to receive 100000 user's commitment to paying $10 to $20 per year for their service in order to keep the operation afloat. You can read more about and sign the pledge here.


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Morgan Freeman (born 1 June 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American actor and film director who first became known in the American media through roles on the kids' show The Electric Company and on the soap opera Another World.
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- To go somewhere and say: 'I have this really terrific movie, but I need some . . . money' - Good luck![1]
- I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.[2]
- You're going to relegate my history to a month? I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history.[2]
- We have 7 billion people on this planet. It's not that there's not enough room on this planet for 7 billion people, it's that the energy needs for 7 billion people are 7 billion people's worth of energy needs, as opposed to, say, 2 billion. Imagine how much pollution would be in the air and the oceans if there were only 2 billion people putting it in? So yeah, we're already overpopulated.[3]
- The search for truth is never over and the survival of truth is never assured. We have to choose - do we stand with those who wish to suppress the truth or stand with those who seek it.[4]
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- Through the Wormhole, a science documentary television series narrated and hosted by Morgan Freeman
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- ↑ Jobson, Richard (July 14, 2000). "Morgan Freeman". The Guardian (London).
- ↑ a b "Freeman calls Black History Month 'ridiculous'". Associated Press (New York). December 15, 2005.
- ↑ Stern, Marlow (Janbuary 28, 2014). "Morgan Freeman on God, Satan, and How the Human Race Has 'Become A Parasite'". The Daily Beast (New York).
- ↑ Jarvey, Natalie (December 4, 2017). "Morgan Freeman, Kerry Washington Celebrate "Oscars of Science'" at Breakthrough Prize Ceremony". The Hollywood Reporter (Los Angeles).
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John K. Samson mixes solo material with Weakerthans hits
John K. Samson stopped by Amigos on Saturday in support of his recently released solo album "Provincials". Backed by an all-star band featuring members of Shotgun Jimmie and The Constantines, Samson mixed his solo material with hits made famous by lauded indie rock band The Weakerthans.
If the many Weakerthans songs performed weren't surprise enough, Samson concluded his set by performing "Gifts" and "Anchorless", songs he wrote for political punk legends Propagandhi.


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Economic development can take many forms: Tax
incentives for auto parts makers like USUI and loans to start-up
businesses like Over-the-Rhine's MOTR Pub. Land development. Consulting
In Cincinnati's Uptown neighborhoods, the sweet spot
is working with entrepreneurs, according to the Hamilton County
Development Corp.
In studying the business districts of Avondale,
Clifton, Clifton Heights, Corryville, Fairview, Mount Auburn and
University Heights, the agency developed detailed plans on how to keep
the shopping districts vibrant.
Much of the success rests with the entrepreneurs and
owners of the businesses located there, says Harry Blanton, HCDC vice
president and manager of its economic development office. "In Uptown, we
are bringing in assistance at the entrepreneurial level as well."
It's an example of what HCDC has been doing under
the radar for years: marshalling all of the resources from its three
different arms to add and retain jobs in the county and get businesses
the capital they need to grow and expand.
Three-pronged Approach
HCDC is a certified development company that acts as the economic development office for Hamilton County.
It operates three distinct programs:
"The development side is harder to describe because
it is behind the scenes, solving or resolving issues before they blow
up," says David Main, HCDC president. "Because it is tied with jobs and
investment, it is the core of what the other two programs do."
To date, HCDC's programs have pumped $2.88 billion into the county and have retained or created 40,000 jobs.
Through the end of July 2012 loan volume under the
SBA's 504 program has totaled $23 million and is expected to exceed $30
million for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30.
That's up 27.1 percent over last year.
Attracting Businesses
HCDC's economic development efforts began in 1992,
after it set up an enterprise zone for the Ford Sharonville plant. Ford,
and later General Electric, agreed to offer various support to Lincoln
Heights if that community had more sustainable economic development
management, Main says.
HCDC worked with Lincoln Heights on a three-year
contract. Impressed by the effort's success, Hamilton County
Commissioners expanded HCDC's role and made it the county's official
economic development office, financed with general fund money and
community development block grants.
HCDC's economic development office has since worked
with numerous communities, from studying economic corridors, to
preparing properties for development, to creating enterprise zones that
allow for state tax incentives for companies.
Michigan-based auto parts maker USUI worked with
HCDC and Sharonville when it decided to consolidate facilities from
Monroe, Ohio and Mississippi.
USUI landed a 50 percent Job Creation Tax Credit
valued at $213,000 over six years and is expected to create 150 new jobs
during that time.
USUI's $16 million project meant a new building in
Sharonville and more jobs for the region. It moved 71 jobs from Monroe
and has added 54 to date, says Dennis Chui, USUI director.
The company plans to add even more jobs this year, and expects to employ 150 by year-end, says Chui.
He says he is impressed by HCDC and its efforts to bring more jobs to Hamilton County. "They have some good ideas," Chui says.
USUI is doing more in Sharonville than it originally planned.
"We decided to put more activities typically done in
Michigan, like development, down here," Chui says. "We have more room,
its better support for production and it's a better value for our
Retaining Businesses
Perhaps the most innovative work HCDC is doing right now is with the Uptown Consortium.
Not only does HCDC work with business associations,
making recommendations on how areas like Wyoming or the shops along
Ludlow Avenue can compete and make a name for themselves, but it also
offers one-on-one coaching sessions with proprietors.
"We saw a real need to help the business districts
revitalize," says Beth Robinson, president and CEO of the Uptown
Consortium. And she believes that business retention is "the bread and
butter" of economic development.
Main says the partnership is unique.
"We meld the business coaching of the incubator with the retention aspect of our economic development offerings," he says.
HCDC's work in Uptown started on Ludlow Avenue in
Clifton, where every business was visited and interviewed to identify
issues, challenges and strengths.
"What that allows us to do is strategize about what we can do to improve the entire district," Robinson says.
The results: a need to make more connections between
businesses and those who live and work in Clifton. A "shop local"
effort was launched. A recent Wine Walk offered shoppers in incentive to
check out retailers.
In Mount Auburn, HCDC uncovered a real perception
that the area is unsafe even though crime levels don't support that
view, Robinson says. To change that feeling, the Uptown Consortium is
underwriting police officers to patrol the area.
In the Clifton Heights, University Heights and
Fairview area, the consortium and HCDC are working to improve
relationships between Hughes High School and the business community.
"We really try to convert the findings to actions and address issues the community is facing," Robinson says.
Assessments are now underway in Avondale.
"We see ourselves as having two customers "" the businesses and the communities," Blanton says of HCDC's development work.
Coaching Entrepreneurs
As HCDC works with the different Uptown
neighborhoods, it notes the issues and challenges that each business
owner brings up. That feedback is shared with business coach Scott
Jacobs, who follows up with each owner and works with him or her to
pinpoint ways to make improvements.
To date, Jacobs has conducted 180 sessions with a
variety of businesses, including a barber shop, a yoga studio, a
Nationwide insurance agency, a women's retail clothing shop and several
Often, the concerns revolve around common themes,
Jacobs says. Smaller businesses struggle with sales, figuring out who
their target customer is, how to sell and what to sell.
"As businesses mature that have to be more savvy in
terms of marketing and branding," Jacobs says. "They have to adjust to
market conditions and competitive threats."
And most small businesses don't generally have the
resources or the time to spend on a business coach. That's why Robinson
knew the coaching would be a key asset to Uptown companies. And Main
says it is an offering that sets the project apart.
"These are adults with high stress levels and a lot on the line," Main says.
Jacobs says the work is organic. He might meet with
an owner once or weekly, depending on their needs. He also is able to
make connections among entrepreneurs where it makes sense, whether its
getting information on special windows that allow for an open-air feel
or gathering examples of social media best practices.
HCDC's work with the Uptown Consortium is something
Blanton and Main want to expand to other communities. They have
contracts with Columbia Township and Wyoming and HCDC is talking to the
City of Cincinnati and others about how to do it.
"There really needs to be a rallying cry to help
small businesses," Jacobs says. "We are in tough economic times. The
statistics are clear that innovation and job growth come from small
businesses. It's important for the economic vitality of cities and
municipalities to do all we can to make sure small businesses are
The results appear to be worth the investment. Among Uptown businesses that received coaching services:
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I hope the movement to draft Peter Pace gathers pace (sorry!) and indeed Pace (even sorrier!). It would bring into the Senate an able soldier who would also be a strong advocate of the Iraq war. Democrat senators would find their defeatist platitudes running into the obstacle of his authority. He would permanently provide the kind of difficulty for them that Petraeus has temporarily been. Another consideration is that he would offset Jim Webb's influence in Virginia on both the Iraq War and military affairs in general.
But that prompts another thought–doubtless one already thought of by other Cornerites. What are the chances that Hillary Clinton might select Webb as her running mate in the general election. For all sorts of reasons–he's a southerner, he appeals to a white male vote that the Republicans have wooed but disappointed, etc., etc.–Webb would compensate for her weaknesses. He would also come close to meeting the criterion for a vice presidential candidate laid down a few years ago by Bill Schneider: "The ideal vice-presidential candidate for the Republicans is a woman, for the Democrats a General."


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Association for Women in Slavic Studies Prizes 2016
By Choi Chatterjee, President of AWSS
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) is pleased to announced the following 2016 award and prize winners. They will be recognized at the AWSS reception during the ASEEES Convention in Washington, D.C. For more information on becoming a member, see the AWSS membership page.
AWSS Outstanding Achievement Award 2016
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Lisa Kirschenbaum is winner of the 2016 Outstanding Achievement Award. Dr. Kirschenbaum is Professor of History at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. An extraordinary scholar, whose distinguished record of continuous publication has set the highest standards in our field, Dr. Kirschenbaum is also a caring mentor, and a warm and generous colleague who has served both the ASEEES and the AWSS in numerous roles.
With little institutional support for research and all the while teaching eight courses a year, Dr. Kirschenbaum has published three monographs, one co-authored textbook, seven book chapters, and eight refereed journal articles. In the words of Dr. Deborah Field, "each of Lisa's books is highly original and each is very different from the others. However, all of her work shares certain qualities: thorough and imaginative research, integration of gender analysis, elegant prose, and a very humane concern with how individuals understand their role in history." Her first book, Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 (2001), a history of childhood in the Soviet Union during the first two decades, was unusual and important in terms of subject matter. In her second book, The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories and Monuments (2009), Dr. Kirschenbaum approached the well-known historical terrain of the siege from a completely new angle. She analyzed the array of myths and memories, both official and unofficial, that this seminal event produced. Her third book and perhaps her finest, International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion (2015), is a deeply nuanced exploration of everyday life and lived experiences in the transnational world of communism during the 1920s and 1930s.
While maintaining unparalleled scholarly productivity, Dr. Kirschenbaum is an outstanding professor to her students. We received numerous letters of commendation from her former and current students. She pushes her students to excel, to present their research at conferences, to compete for grants, to publish their research, and apply for jobs. Her fearlessness as a woman scholar has inspired many of her students. She has played a key role in sustaining the Women and Gender Studies Program at West Chester University. Dr. Kirschenbaum has also maintained a distinguished record of service to our field. She has served on the program committee for the annual conference of the ASEEES and on the Zelnik Book Prize committee. She was the co-editor of the AWSS newsletter along with Dr. Sally Boniece, and currently serves as the treasurer for our organization.
Finally, Dr. Kirschenbaum is also one of the most collegial members in our field. We received numerous letters from scholars who spoke about her intellectual generosity, unfailing good humor, unparalleled ability to sustain friendships, and her uncanny ability to meet deadlines even before they appeared on the horizon. AWSS is very proud to honor Dr. Kirschenbaum with the AWSS Outstanding Achievement Award for her exemplary scholarly record, her advocacy of women's and gender studies, and her generous and joyful mentorship of students and fellow scholars.
AWSS Mary Zirin Prize 2016
The Association for Women in Slavic Studies is pleased to announce Dr. Margaret Samu as the recipient of the Mary Zirin Prize for independent scholarship.
Dr. Samu received her PhD from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts in 2010, specializing in art history. The list of Dr. Samu's activities and accomplishments is impressive. She currently maintains adjunct positions at New York University, Parson's School of Design at the New School, and the Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University, while maintaining an active schedule of conference presentations. Dr. Samu serves as a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she has previously been a Fellow, research assistant and translator. Her museum experience includes time at the Neue Gallery in New York and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
She is currently a resident at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, and has had fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks and the Library of Congress. She has also won a Fulbright Fellowship Grant to Russia, an Erwin Panofsky Fellowship for Graduate Study, and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies. The National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on America's Russian-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees and the Solow Art and Architecture Foundation Fellowship has awarded Dr. Samu research grants. Her scholarly publications appear in both Russian and American journals, while the article submitted to the Zirin committee, "Making a Case for Realism: The Female Nude in Russian Satirical Images of the 1860s," appeared in the anthology she co-edited with Rosalind Blakesley, From Realism to the Silver Age: New Studies in Russian Artistic Culture.
"Making the Case for Realism" works "to overturn the long-held assumption that censorship and socially critical realist art excluded the production of nudes in Russia." Dr. Samu's current book-length project focuses on the female nude in the Russian art world. Provisionally titled Russian Venus, the book will argue "that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian artists sought to establish cosmopolitan credentials by undertaking themes associated with Western European art, in particular, the female nude. [This] work shows how the prestige of the nude in art came under attack when nationalist sentiments began to undermine westernizing impulses in the 1860s. It concludes by assessing the impact of life classes, with their emphasis on drawing from female models, on the nascent Russian avant-garde."
The Zirin committee commends Dr. Samu for both her work as an academic and as a museum professional, and for bringing these two communities together in her work. She played an important role is re-establishing SHERA, the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture – a vital and vibrant organization which contributes in manifold ways to the field of Slavic studies.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Samu, an outstanding independent scholar and this year's recipient of the Mary Zirin Prize.
AWSS Heldt Prize Winners 2016
Best Book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Women's Studies
Keely Stauter-Halsted, The Devil's Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland (Cornell University Press, 2015).
In The Devil's Chain, Keely Stauter-Halsted has painstakingly excavated the archive to provide a rich and detailed portrait of sex work, the sex industry, and the trafficking in women in the lands of partitioned Poland. Drawing on newspaper accounts, police registries, medical reports, records of rescue shelters, charitable associations, reports form international congresses devoted to sex trafficking, writings of contemporary experts touching on women's sexuality and mental health and sexology, and trial proceedings of traffickers, Stauter-Halsted places prostitution and its attendant disorders at the center of discussion about the Polish nation's future.
As Stauter-Halsted points out, Polish elites in the late 19th and early 20th centuries engaged in conversations about modernizing the Polish national body in preparation for national independence. However, to truly understand these discourses, she argues it is necessary to examine nation building through the lens of gender and sexuality. Stauter-Halsted demonstrates that these discourses mattered to the nation-building process because of how they framed elite ideas about gender propriety, social class, morality, family and reproductive life, and gender roles.
It should come as no surprise to those familiar with Stauter-Halsted's earlier work that she excels at the granular, finding and reconstructing stories of young peasant women moving to city in search of work. She details how the contingent nature of work in bourgeois households led the neediest into part-time prostitution, thus providing a steady stream of women for the brothels visited by the male members of the bourgeois households. Not willing to depict these women as passive victims, Stauter-Halsted reveals how they often determined their own fates. The Devil's Chain not only focuses on the lower-class streetwalkers and brothel residents but also on the social activists who were determined to control and reform "immoral" women and incorporate them into a new Polish nation-state. Stauter-Halsted's monograph represents the best that women's and gender history has to offer to the field of East European and Russian studies. Readers will not be able to read The Devil's Chain without thinking about how gender and sexuality shape our modern national identities.
The 2016 Heldt Prize committee applauds Dr. Stauter-Halsted for her painstaking research, the readability of the monograph and the ways that it challenges Polish historiography to put gender at the center of any discussion on nation and state building.
Honorable Mention
Jennifer Suchland, Economies of Violence: Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking (Duke University Press, 2015).
In Economies of Violence: Transnational Feminism, Postsocialism, and the Politics of Sex Trafficking, Jennifer Suchland shifts the paradigm away from sex trafficking as solely about violence against women and individual exploitation and toward seeing it as part of the global political economy, precarious labor markets, and postsocialism. Suchland provides a genealogy of global human trafficking that maps two intersecting processes: the development of sex trafficking and discourses that arose around its brutality and violence; and the politics of postsocialism as a particular location and a "metageographically imagined space." By analyzing language deployed by the United Nations to describe and then advocate against sex trafficking, Suchland ties the discourse of human trafficking to transnational feminist studies, feminist political economy, and human rights.
Suchland's book deserves to be recognized since it calls for rethinking the rhetorical tropes surrounding sex trafficking. In Economies of Violence challenges activists to see trafficking as a symptom of "multifaceted injustices" and to advocate for improved conditions within industries that are sites of normalized violence rather than simply finding and helping victims after the fact.
Best Book by a Woman in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Lisa Kirschenbaum, International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
In her most recent book, Lisa Kirschenbaum seeks to shift from the polarized debates about the Spanish Civil War to examine the "webs of interaction" through which the international communist movement evolved. Rather than focusing on the actions of party leaders, she shows how activists inspired by the Russian revolution came together, first in Moscow, then in Spain, to create a transnational collaboration and movement. The lives of party members, their relationships with one another, and the importance of their experiences in Spain as a "personal and political point of reference" form the foundation of this narrative. Marshaling a wide array of archival and published sources from collections in Moscow, Madrid, Barcelona, and the U.S., the book provides a transnational perspective on the lives of party members, their idealism, and their responses to the realities of life in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s. As they moved to Spain to fight against Franco in the late 1930s, they faced shortages of arms and supplies, tensions among anti-fascist forces, and, ultimately, defeat. Later, during the aftermath of World War II, late Stalinism, and anti-communist campaigns, these veterans sought simultaneously to re-unite the movement and to distance themselves from the USSR. In sum, Kirschenbaum's book is an important contribution to the historiography of this era of international communism.
Honorable Mentions
Erika Monahan, The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Russia (Cornell University Press, 2016).
The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Russia challenges received opinions about early modern Russia, such as the alleged risk-averse nature of its merchantry, and opens up a region and social caste to closer inspection. In doing so, Monahan not only describes a portrait of Siberian merchants as actively pursuing their financial interests, but shows the interaction between trade and state-building while placing Russia in a comparative global context that questions the view of the country as an outlier and shining a spotlight on imperial borderlands. Monahan integrates a broad range of archival, primary, and secondary sources into a compelling argument in a manner that is both engaging and clear.
Eileen Kane, Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Cornell University Press, 2015).
Eileen Kane's book argues that the tsarist state in the late 19th and early 20th centuries became a key player in the hajj, especially in its creation of transportation networks from Russia, Persia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus to the Black Sea, Istanbul, and Mecca. Kane conceptualizes empire not as a territory that is acquired and occupied, but, instead as the mobility and movement of people through space. Thus, she sees transportation as one key to imperial power, which for Russia faded under the pressures of war and revolution. Kane makes outstanding use of archives in several countries, official and unofficial documents, and original maps to reconstruct the history of the imperial and, later, Soviet sponsorship of the Hajj, despite the state's close ties with the Russian Orthodox Church. Thus, this book is an important contribution to late imperial and Soviet history.
Best Article in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Women's Studies
Claire E. McCallum, "Scorched by the Fire of War: Masculinity, War Wounds and Disability in Soviet Visual Culture, 1941-65," Slavonic and East European Review 93 (2): 251-85.
Claire E. McCallum's article, "Scorched by the Fire of War: Masculinity, War Wounds and Disability in Soviet Visual Culture, 1941-65," explores how Soviet cultural genres -- in particular visual images such as photographs, cartoons, posters, sculpture, and paintings -- have treated the issue of war-damaged disability in relation to masculinity. Drawing on a wide variety of source material, McCallum carefully differentiates between works that only appeared in thick art journals as opposed to those reproduced in popular magazines or designed—like wartime posters--to reach a mass audience. Her thorough and fascinating study marks a major contribution to our understanding of the Soviet construction of masculinity, how it changed over time and how the visual arts followed a unique trajectory distinct from that of film and fiction, despite all cultural forms facing the same ideological constraints. To a large extent those differences stemmed from the intrinsic limitations of the visual arts, compared to film and fiction, to set disability in a wider context or narrative. Tracking changes in visual portrayals of the terrible legacy of war from 1941 to 1964, McCallum notes that the visual arts consistently showed the wounded male body almost entirely in military settings, where injured soldiers either determinedly fought on or demonstrated a willingness to die for their country. A shift in visual presentation occurred in the mid-1960s—not during the Thaw, as one might expect—but in response to the Brezhnev administration's reinstatement of Victory Day as a public holiday, a move accompanied by the intensification of the War cult and by a wave of memorial building. For the visual arts a more realistic view of military heroism emerged, one that turned more attention to the brutal legacies of war, including psychological anguish as well as physical disfigurement.
AWSS Graduate Essay Prize 2016
The Graduate Essay Prize Committee is delighted to award the graduate essay prize to Joy Neumeyer, a Ph.D. student in History at the University of California at Berkeley, for her masterful essay, "Brezhnev, Vysotsky, and the Death of Developed Socialism: A Tragic Farce in Five Acts." The committee was unanimous in their great appreciation of this essay. It is beautifully written, a pleasure to read, and the rare scholarly piece that makes an effective argument through an engaging and analytical narrative structure. By contrasting the cult of Brezhnev and the cult of Vysotsky as the "twin faces of late socialism," Neumeyer captures the cultural atmosphere of the late Brezhnev years. On the one hand, Brezhnev was becoming a living corpse, "every year, the medals on his chest expanded while his wrinkles grew deeper and his speech slurred." Vysotsky, on the other hand, was a dynamic and popular figure, but he, too, was linked to death "through his songs and his signature role of Hamlet" and because of his addiction to drugs. Neumeyer tells their two stories in parallel, illuminating the frustrations of the Brezhnev era through underground jokes, Vysotsky's lyrics, and the population's reactions to the these two men as they lived and died. While fans despaired at the death of Vysotsky, they were secretly relieved at the passing of Brezhnev from a living corpse into a dead one, and aware that his death made a new era possible. The committee hopes that Ms. Neumeyer will submit this essay for publication in the near future so that it can receive the wide audience it deserves. For now, we are pleased to award her the AWSS Graduate Essay Prize.
AWSS Graduate Research Prize 2016
The AWSS Graduate Research Prize is awarded annually to support promising graduate-level research in any field of Slavic, East European, or Eurasian Studies by a woman, or on a topic in Women's or Gender Studies related to Slavic, East European, or Eurasian Studies by either a woman or a man. For 2016 the AWSS Graduate Research Prize is awarded to Rebecca Hastings, PhD candidate in History at the University of Oregon (Major Advisor: Julie Hessler). Hastings's project, "Oil and Society in Azerbaijan, 1860-2015," examines the intersection of ethnic identities and regional cultures in shaping the development of the oil industry in Azerbaijan under the Imperial Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet states. Her project is a study of both Imperial exploitation and regional development, taking a holistic approach to the policies and their implications surrounding the oil industry and the South Caucasus. AWSS is pleased to support Hastings in her research trip to Baku and her pursuit of this project.


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Trying to do a formula for Vacation days. FT=15days, PT=10days, CN=0 days Job status is on B I can not figure it out
First, a posting tip...
When posting in a help forum such as this, please try to use a subject line that gives the readers some idea about the specific issue you are having. If every thread had a subject such as "How to write an Excel formula" we wouldn't be able to tell one thread from another and the archives would basically be useless.
I have edited your subject line so that it is relevant to your question. Take a look at some of the other subject lines in this forum to see what a good subject line looks like.
As for your question, I assume you are trying to have a cell display 15, 10, or 0 based on the contents of B1. An Nested IF statement can do that:
This assumes that B1 will always contain FT, PT or CN.
If it might contain another value, or even be empty, then you need to deal with those situations. For example, this will produce a blank cell unless B1 contains FT, PT or CN:
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Breaking News!!!
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To meet anticipated demand for additional hotel room dates, the Minnesota Club has negotiated Conclave 2019 discounted rates that begin the night of September 4 and are effective through the night of September 10. As a result of those negotiations:
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We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Grisons is an alpine dream for cyclists of all abilities. We have world-renowned climbs, breathtaking scenery and smooth roads that can match anything Europe has to offer. There are also plenty of lesser known routes and climbs for you to explore which are on our doorstep.
If you do not wish to cycle back to Flims at the end of the ride then no problem. You and your bikes can just hop on a bus.
The classic local route with 1,200 metres of climbing where you ride around the stunning Swiss Grand Canyon. The route takes you down to Tamins via Trin Dorf, then over the Rhine and up a small climb to Bonaduz. Here you turn right on quiet roads to Versam. A gentle 3.5km climb averaging 3% warms the legs before the climb to Versam itself. The hairpins on the climb to Versam average over 6% and once through the village of Versam you start a wonderful descent to Illanz. From here there is a 9km climb which winds itself up the other side of the valley back up to Flims.
The quiet mountain climb to Obersschappina is a spectacular, beautiful Swiss climb that not many people know about. There are two ways up, but we will take the route via Sarn which is 14km long, averaging 8%. Once you start the climb turn right and keep climbing before turning left into the hamlet of Sarn. Here the road meanders along a small mountain road to Flerden where you once more join the road to Obertschappina here you have the choice to stop, refresh and take in the view. Or, to carry on to the Glasspass with another 3km of climbing averaging over 9%. Enjoy the wonderful descent coming the different way down!
The wonderful Splügen Pass via the historic site of Viamala is a truly wonderful day out on the bike. The road meanders through the valley on flat roads to Thusis, where the climbing begins and the roads come to life. We pass Viamala and stay on the old road to Splügen. The scenery is dramatic and the road winds itself around the Sufner See prior to the real treat, the Splügenpass. Once you reach the top (9km averaging 7%) take in the stunning view and enjoy the ride back to Tamins where after a long ride the bus will take you and your bike back to Flims.


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Cassandra A. McCullough, MBA
Cassandra McCullough was appointed Chief Executive Officer for the Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc. (ABC) in October 2014. As CEO, McCullough oversees ABC's operations, education and awareness campaigns, fundraising initiatives, and strategic alliances.
Prior to this, Cassandra served in multiple roles of increasing responsibility at ABC, including Chief Operating Officer and Director of the Center for Continuing Education & Professional Development. An expert accreditation and regulatory issues, she played an integral role in the development and re-certification status of ABC's Continuing Medical Education Program. ABC maintains its Accreditation with Commendation status, the highest designation awarded by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education for exemplary compliance.
Ms. McCullough has more than 25 years experience in the health care industry. Before joining the ABC in 1996, she was on staff at Morehouse School of Medicine in its Continuing Medical Education Division. Prior to this, she worked in medical office management at Kaiser Foundation Health Plans of Georgia.
Ms. McCullough holds a Masters in Business Administration (Health Care Management) from the University of Phoenix. She attended Georgia Southern University and received her undergraduate degree from St. Leo University in Business Administration (Management).
Ms. McCullough serves on the board of directors for the National Health Council and is active in a number of professional organizations, including the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education and American Society of Association Executives.


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Zoonoses, also called zoonotic diseases, are diseases agents of which are transmitted between vertebrate animals and people. Vertebrate animals are resevoirs (where the agent persists in nature) of zoonoses. Many organisms, such as bacteria and viruses that affect animals can also cause disease in people. Numerous zoonotic diseases are passed from wild animals to people, or from wild animals to pets to people. A number of zoonoses are transmitted from horses to humans, which include:
Brucellosis, also called Bang's disease, occasionally infects horses. Brucella bacteria attacks muscles, tendons and joints, although abortions have also been reported. When the organism invades the shoulder joint capsule, swelling occurs and the joint capsule may rupture. Once the joint opens, pus producing bacteria usually invade the joint to cause a suppurative condition called "poll evil" or "fistula of the withers." The drainage from the wound contains huge numbers of the Brucella organism which are infectious to persons who touch or inhale the bacteria.
Rabies is one of the major diseases that is particularly dangerous to human beings. Although the frequency of occurrence of rabies in horses is low (less than 1% of all diagnosed rabied animals), 45-50 cases are reported annually in the United States. Because of the vagueness of its early clinical signs, rabies is suspected only late in its progression. Thus, the number of persons exposed to the rabid horse is usually high. Clinical signs of the disease at the time of initial examination include weakness in the hindquarters, lameness, and colic. Paralytic signs follow marked by difficult swallowing. Horses affected with rabies usually die within a week of the onset of the clinical signs.
Anthrax is a zoonosis that affects virtually all animal species. Humans can develop local lesions, such as carbuncles and pustules from contact with infected blood and tissue and acquire pneumonia from inhaling the infectious agent.
Other zoonoses of horses include glanders (a rare devastating bacterial infection), tetanus, tularemia, tuberculosis and leptospirosis. Even though they are not often seen in horses, they are still a threat to human health.
Glanders is caused by Burkholderia mallei bacterium. It is a notifiable disease of horses, donkeys and mules. Goats, cats, and dogs have also been known to acquire this disease. The disease is contracted from contaminated soil or water and spread to animals and humans through direct contact. There are two forms of the disease: pulmonary and cutaneous. In both cases, the disease is often fatal. No vaccine is available to prevent infection with Burkholderia mallei.
Leptospirosis is caused by organisms of the genus Leptospira. The disease is an occupational hazard for sewage, water and canal workets. Vets, aid workers, watersport enthusiasts are also at a higher than average risk of contracting the disease. The highly invasive spiral bacteria may be transmitted to humans by the urine of infected animals of all species. The organism may enter through minor skin lesions and probably via the conjunctiva. The pathogen is known to cause uveitis (a potentially devastating inflammation of the internal structures of the eye, also known as periodic opthalmia or moon blindness), corneal opacity, abortion, fever, and jaundice. It is also believed to be the cause of some cases of still births, hoof lesions, decreased milk production, kidney failure, and even death in horses. The disease in man ranges from unapparent infection to severe infection and death. Horses can contract leptospirosis by drinking infected water or eating hay or grain that has been contaminated by the urine of infected horses, cattle, swine, or wildlife including skunks, rats, raccoons, foxes, opossums, and deer.
Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani bacteria. The organism does not affect most healthy animals and they tend to develop immunity rapidly, although there may be fatalities, especially in newborns. The disease usually starts after traumatic wounds are infected and leads to muscle spasms and difficulty breathing resulting in death. Many human cases have followed injuries considered too trivial for medical attention and in some cases there is absolutely no record of a physical injury or wound.
Ringworm, also called dermatomycosis, is a zoonosis caused by fungi. Because this infection is easily transmitted to humans, effective sanitary measures should be employed and all debris from fungus-infected lesions should be treated chemically or burned. The fungi most commonly causing ringworm in horses are Trichophyton equinum, Trichophyton mentagrophyes. Microsporum canis (the common ringworm fungus of dogs) is also often isolated from horses. Ringworm lesions are circular and hairless, with the affected skin being thickened and covered with scales.
Salmonellosis is caused by Salmonella enterica bacteria. It is one of the most common infectious causes of diarrhea in adult horses. Although most horses clear the infection in a few weeks, some can carry the bacteria for long periods and shed in the manure. Initially, there is fever followed by severe, watery diarrhea, sometimes bloody, and dehydration. In humans, the infection causes inflammation of the intestines and blood poisoning.
Other zoonotic diseases transmissible to people include ehrlichiosis, blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, dermatophilosis, rhinosporidiosis, sporotrichosis, hendra virus infection, Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis, vesicular stomatitis, West Nile virus infection, and Western equine encephalomyelitis. Whenever a zoonosis is suspected, contact your veterinarian; remember that it is easier to use precautionary methods and prevent disease than fight it.
Equine Herpesvirus
Equine Infectious Anemia
Foal Pneumonia
Equine Tetanus
Summer Pneumonia
Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis
Contagious Equine Metritis
Rotavirus Infection


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- Record Label: RCA
- Release Date: Jun 8, 2004
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Contraband is a pretty good record of unpretentious rock and roll that suffers from inevitable comparison with the best efforts of its parent bands.
BlenderA showcase for Weiland's vocals. [#27, p.148]
With Contraband, Velvet Revolver has pulled off something tidy, fashioning music that manages both hedonism and maturity.
Now there was nothing wrong with Stone Temple Pilots, but anyone whod hoped for GunsnRoses mark II (or III) will be very seriously disappointed. Weilands dry, powerful voice cancels out the music, like light cancels out dark, or Owen Wilson cancels out Ben Stiller.
In a time when The Darkness is successfully parodying cock-rock, members of Velvet Revolver are still earnestly carrying the torch. Whether you think thats noble or laughable will probably determine your opinion of this album.
Velvet Revolver sounds like a hungover bar band playing catch-up, wading through tired blues licks and meaningless grunge imagery.
SpinThis is a troubling record. There are some stellar moments, but it's mostly just troubling. [Jul 2004, p.105]
New Musical Express (NME)A bit like playing Russian roulette in reverse: you spin the disc and pray in vain for something to stick in your brain. [19 Jun 2004, p.56]
Awards & Rankings
User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 112 Ratings
User score distribution:
Positive: 90 out of 112
Mixed: 9 out of 112
Negative: 13 out of 112
May 26, 2012I really like this album simply because of how much energy it has, and how many memorable guitar riffs/solos there are on this album. ThisI really like this album simply because of how much energy it has, and how many memorable guitar riffs/solos there are on this album. This album is not as good as either the best GN'R album, nor the best STP album, but a lot of fun to listen to.… Full Review »
SlashH.Jun 29, 2007Great Rock n Roll record!
rockfanJun 26, 2007These guys (along with The Villains) will save real rock and roll from posers like those pop-punk babies.