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Team USA Sweeps World Junior 4x100 Golds, Medal Count Now to 16
BARCELONA, Spain
– For the fifth time in the history of the IAAF World Junior Championships, the United States has swept gold in the 4x100 relay. All-in-all, the two golds were part of a three-medal day for Team USA at Montjüic Olympic Stadium in Barcelona. With one day remaining, this U.S. junior squad has already topped the total World Championships medals won in 2010 in Moncton (15) and are on top of the medal count with 16.
In addition, the U.S. has a sizeable 154-71 lead on Kenya for the top spot in the point total.
The relays were a large part of the U.S.' day-five story as not only did the squad sweep golds in the 4x100, but the men's relay was just a thousandth of a second off the world-junior record set by the U.S. team back in 2006. The women's 4x100 had the best time in the world this year for a junior team, and the women's 4x400 relay will need to qualify for the Sunday's final of their event via a rerun of their semifinal tomorrow morning.
Men's 4x100 Relay
The U.S. 4x100 relay team of Tyreek Hill, Aldrich Bailey, Arthur Delaney, and Aaron Ernest won the World Junior title with the second-fastest time in world-junior history, 38.67. America has now claimed five of the last six World Junior crowns in the event.
Hill (Decatur, Ga.) led off the U.S. charge with a flurry. After his exchange, Hill recognized that his part of the relay was complete by sticking his arms straight in the air in celebration.
Hill handed to Aldrich Bailey (Arlington, Texas), who won bronze in the 400 meters at this meet. Bailey ran a fast and controlled straight leg and handed the baton to Oregon's Arthur Delaney (Gresham, Ore.) in a near perfect way.
Delaney had the final curve and exchange to manage. He did so with no problems as Jamaica and Japan were handing their sticks at the same time. It would be three-wide in three consecutive lanes to start the anchors.
Japan's anchor Kazuki Kanamori initially challenged LSU's Ernest (New Orleans, La.) but the three-time medalist would not be bullied. He found another burst of speed to take the tape three tenths of a second ahead of Jamaica's Jazeel Murphy who charged ahead with ten meters remaining for silver.
"I felt good when I got the handoff," said Ernest. "I didn't have my legs yesterday (for the 200 meter semifinal and final), but today was a different story. I just tried to go out there and show everyone I can sprint."
"To be a three-time medalist is unbelievable, but I'd like to bring another one back with me to America after the 4x400," Ernest said. Ernest won silvers in the 100 and 200 meters earlier in the meet.
"I won my first gold medal," said Hill. "I wanted to cry, but, I didn't want to show the emotion right now. It feels good. Leading off was good because I knew I had the best block work. Coach just told me to catch the first man (on my outside), and I knew when I did – we had it."
"I knew we just had to get the baton around and that we would have a fast time," said third-leg Delaney. "I felt good on the curve, so good that I want to go back out there. This medal and experience has got to be one of the biggest of my life to this point."
The race was so fast that the Jamaicans reset their national junior record with a readout of 38.97 seconds. The race had three of the all-time top ten world junior performances.
The anchor leg was also highly anticipated because it was slated to be a rematch between Ernest, the 100-meter silver medalist, and Great Britain's Adam Gemili, the 100-meter gold medalist who won the sprint in a championships record time of 10.05. The rematch did not take shape because Great Britain's lead-off man tripped while making the first exchange, resulting in a GB R DNF.
Women's 4x100 Relay
And the beat goes on for the U.S. junior team in the women's 4x100 relay. Another gold medal for the history books means Team USA has won five-straight World Junior titles and seven overall in the event.
Texas' Morgan Snow (Decatur, Ga.), Clemson's Dezerea Bryant (Milwaukee, Wis.), Jennifer Madu (Murphy, Texas), and Shayla Sanders (Lauderdale Lakes, Fla.) claimed the gold with a world-junior leading time of 43.89.
Snow, who qualified for the final of the 100 meter hurdles earlier in the session, lead off the race.
"The hurdles race was actually a good warmup for me," said Snow. "My job was to blaze the opening leg and catch everyone ahead of me, and it was fun to do that. The start went awesome."
Bryant, the second leg, won bronze in the 200 meters last night. "I'm so excited, this is so awesome!" said Bryant when asked about her second medal of the championships. Madu was the third leg and Sanders was the anchor.
"It feels so great to win the gold – I worked so hard to get here," said Sanders, the anchor. "I was sad that I wasn't part of the (100 or 200), but I was very happy to be on this relay and win. On the straight I felt good. Coach told me that even if someone tries to pass you that I should stay calm and everything would work out."
Women's 4x400 Relay
The U.S. women's 4x400 relay team will participate in a runoff tomorrow in an attempt to gain a valid qualifying time for the finals of the IAAF World Junior Championships.
Initially running a world-junior leading time of 3:34.12 to win heat one of the semifinals, Team USA was later disqualified as a result of being outside the exchange zone on the race's first exchange (IAAF rule 170.7). Romania, running in the same heat, was also disqualified for being outside of the zone. Both teams filed a protest because the track officials placed the second-leg runners in the wrong position, near the end of the exchange zone.
When the batons were passed, it was clear via video evidence that both teams had passed outside the zone, so the protest was denied. However, the U.S. appealed that decision and it went to the championship's Jury of Appeals.
The jury upheld the stand of the U.S. and decided to offer the American and Romanian squads an opportunity for a rerun. Romania rejected the offer, but the U.S. will go ahead with the race that is slated for 11:00 a.m., local time.
According to the IAAF, the jury "(took into) consideration the special circumstances – young inexperienced athletes, different judges, different guidance, etc." in their deliberations on whether the appeal on protocol was warranted.
The U.S. must run a time of 3:39.44 or faster to earn the final qualifying spot in the final. No other teams will be impacted. Should the U.S. run the time necessary, they will be added as the third time qualifier and ninth overall team. If not, Colombia will be added to the final as the jury also changed the advancement formula to top three from each heat, plus, the next three fastest times.
Team USA must also use the exact running order used this evening – Kendall Baisden, Robin Reynolds, Kiara Porter, and Olivia Ekponé. Baised and Porter participated in her first competition of these championships as they were on the squad list as members of the relay pool. Reynolds competed in the triple jump earlier in the championships while Ekpone claimed silver in the 200 meters on Friday.
Women's 400 Meter Hurdles
Notre Dame's Kalia Barber won the bronze in the women's 400 meter hurdles in a time of 57.63. Shamier Little (Chicago, Ill.) was in medal position, but took a tough tumble after hitting the final hurdle and did not finish the race.
Barber's performance equates to the first-ever U.S. bronze in the event. Americans have won at least one medal in the 400 hurdles in each of the last four World Junior Championships.
"I feel really good, but I feel really bad for Shamier because I think she would have gotten third," said Barber. "It's unfortunate, but things happen in this event. I'm so upset that she fell."
"I went over the first two hurdles with the wrong leg and that freaked me out – that never happens," Barber continued. "I tried to pick it up, but my leg did not feel like moving. It was difficult. It was hard to keep going. But, it was good that all my hard work finally paid off. It's something that's pretty big. Before this, I had never been out of the country before. I got to meet lots of people. It was great to see different places and hang out with good people."
Jamaica's Janieve Russell won the race in 56.62. France's Aurelie Chaboudez claimed the silver in 57.14.
Men's 4x400 Relay
The quartet of LSU's Quincy Downing (Dayton, Ohio), Eric Futch (Lansdowne, Pa.), Hampton's Chidi Okezie (Philadelpha, Pa.), and Arman Hall (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) won their heat and was the fastest overall qualifying team in the men's 4x400 relay with a semifinal run of 3:06.26. Australia was the closest behind the U.S. and finished over a second behind with a 3:07.49 qualifier.
"I haven't run in a real meet for a while, so it was good to get it going," said leadoff Downing who had the best split time of the group of 45.6. "It was just a warm-up for tomorrow. No nerves out there – I felt confident. Having run for LSU in the 4x4 all year, it built some confidence in me to come in to these international meets like this and win."
"Our two other guys, (Bailey and Hall) had been running hard all week, so I felt good coming out and helping the relay along in the prelims," said Futch, the newly-minted World Junior Champion in the 400 meter hurdles.
"Being able to run with the USA junior team is great feeling overall," said Okezie. "It was great to run in the heats and get us ready for finals." Okezie's split time was clocked at 46.7 seconds.
"It felt great to come out here with my boys and run this prelim," said Hall, the anchor and silver medalist in the 400 meters from earlier in the meet. "Very pumped for the finals."
Women's 100 Hurdles
Morgan Snow and Dior Hall (Denver, Colo.) advanced to the finals of the women's 100 meter hurdles.
Snow finished second in her heat in a time of 13.31 seconds to world-junior leader Russia's Bleskina.
"I felt kind of slow in this race," said Snow. "I think I got out pretty good, but I was dragging over the hurdles. The middle part of my race is always something for me to work on, but, thankfully, I surge at the end. Before we started running, it started to get cool, that's when I felt the wind. I'm happy with today – my main focus was to make it to the final."
Hall was second in her heat with a time of 13.78, facing a 2.6 meter-per-second headwind. Hall was likely not going to qualify for the final, but she was the benefactor of a fall in the final meters by Barbados' Sade Mariah Greenridge.
"That race (wasn't what I wanted)," said Hall. "I'm just glad I made it to the finals. My rhythm was off, and I hit the hurdle pretty bad, so that knocked me to third. It wasn't my best race, but one that got me to finals."
Men's 5000 Meters
Oklahoma State's Kirubel Erassa (Grayson, Ga.) and Virginia's Kyle King (Yorktown, Va.) placed 12th and 13th, respectively, in the men's 5000. Erassa cloced a 14:19.28 to King's 14:19.97.
Men's Hammer Throw
Rudy Winkler (Averill Park, N.Y.) finished 11th in the men's hammer throw with a best of 69.35/227-6. Qatar's Ashraf Amgad Elseify won the title with a world-junior record performance of 85.57/280-9.
Women's Pole Vault
Emily Grove (Pontiac, Ill./South Dakota) recorded the best-ever finish by an American at a World Junior Championships with a sixth-place showing in the women's pole vault. The previous best showing was by Kelshia Ashe and Shade Weygandt who placed in a tie for seventh at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Moncton.
Grove cleared her best of the day 4.15/13-7¼ on her second attempt. Grove cleared four heights in the competition.
Women's Hammer Throw
Shelby Ashe (Stone Mountain, Ga.) placed tenth in the hammer throw. With two fouls, her only fair throw, occurring in round two, will go down as her best, 58.62/192-4.
Men's 800 Meters
Shaquille Walker finished 17th overall in the semifinals of the men's 800 meters with a time of 1:51.43.
Saturday, July 14
(after 33 of 42 events)
1. UNITED STATES – 6 gold, 4 silver, 6 bronze (16 total)
2. Ethopia – 3 gold, 3 silver (6 total)
3. Kenya – 2 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze (8 total)
4. Russia – 2 gold, 2 silver (4 total)
5. Great Britain – 2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze (5 total)
(after 33 of 42 events)
2. Kenya – 71
3. Great Britain – 66
4. Germany – 62
=5. Ethopia – 60
=5. Russia – 60
1. Mektar Edris (ETH), 13:38.95
2. Abrar Osman Adem (ERI), 13:40.52
3. Wiliam Malel Sitonik (KEN), 13:40.52
12. Kirubel Erassa (USA), 14:19.28
13. Kyle King (USA), 14:19.97
MEN'S 4x100 RELAY
1. UNITED STATES, 38.67 WJL (T. Hill, A. Bailey, A. Delaney, A. Ernest)
2. Jamaica, 38.97 (T. Tracey, O. Skeen, J. Minzie, J. Murphy)
3. Japan, 39.02 (K. Oseto, A. Hashimoto, A. Cambridge, K. Kanamori)
MEN'S HAMMER THROW (6kg)
1. Ashraf Amgad Elseify (QAT), 85.57/280-9 WJR
2. Bence Pásztor (HUN), 76.74/251-9
3. Suhrob Khodjaev (UZB), 76.16/249-10
11. Rudy Winkler (USA), 69.35/227-6
1. Janieve Russell (JAM), 56.62 WJL
2. Aurelie Chaboudez (FRA), 57.14
3. Kaila Barber (USA), 57.63
--. Shamier Little (USA), DNF
WOMEN'S 4x100 RELAY
1. UNITED STATES, 43.89 WJL (M. Snow, D. Bryant, J. Madu, S. Sanders)
2. Germany, 44.24 (A. Burghardt, I. Mayer, K. Grompe, J. Maduka)
3. Brazil, 44.29 (C. De Souza, T. De Liz, N. Da Rosa, J. Dos Reis)
1. Angelica Bengtsson (SWE), 4.50/14-9
2. Liz Parnov (AUS), 4.30/14-1¼
3. Roberta Bruni (ITA), 4.20/13-9¼
6. Emily Grove (USA), 4.15/13-7¼
1. Valeriy Pronkin (FRA), 70.62/231-8 CR
2. Alexia Sedykh (FRA), 67.34/220-11
3. Alena Navahrodskaya (BLR), 67.13/220-3
10. Shelby Ashe (USA), 58.62/192-4
Q1 (1h3). Edwin Kiplagat Melly (KEN), 1:47.08
17 (7h2). Shaquille Walker (USA), 1:51.43.
[final Sunday]
4x400 RELAY
Q1 (1h2). United States, 3:06.26 (Q. Downing), E. Futch, C. Okezie, A. Hall)
[final Sunday]
Q1 (1h1). Ekaterina Bleskina (RUS), 13.24 (0.3 m/s)
Q2 (2h1). Morgan Snow (USA), 13.31 (+0.3 m/s)
Q8 (2h3). Dior Hall (USA), 13.78 (-2.6 m/s)
[final Sunday]
4x400 RELAY
Q1 (1h2). Jamaica, 3:34.96
-- (h2). United States, DQ**
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Dr. Van D. Romero -- Vice President for R & ED
Dr. Van D. Romero -- Vice President for R&ED
Since 1997: Vice President for Research and Economic Development, New Mexico Tech.
Dr. Romero serves as chief official of the Research and Economic Development Division responsible for the encouragement, leadership, and support of research at the Institute and for the administrative and policy making activities of the division; offers dynamic research and administrative leadership to stimulate, coordinate, and provide support for the research at New Mexico Tech;acts as advocate for research within the Institute.
He serves as director of the Geophysical Research Center; manages the research support functions of the Research Division; serves as the Institute's representative and on-campus administrator for the Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium.
He acts as an external advocate and representative for New Mexico Tech's research activities; serves as mentor to new faculty to help them establish their research programs at the Institute; strongly encourages diversity and affirmative action; identifies research opportunities and actively encourages development of interdisciplinary research at the institute; ensures that high quality proposals are submitted by the Institute.
Ph.D., Physics, State University of New York, 1991
M.S., Physics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 1979
B.S., Physics, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 1977
Previous Experience
1995-1997: Director, Energetic Materials Research & Testing Center, New Mexico Tech.
Direct and manage a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and staff involved in RDT&E programs in energetic materials. EMRTC provides a working laboratory for conducting research in support of both government and commercial programs in the areas of ordnance, explosives, propellants and other energetic materials. Facilities include over 30 separate test sites, gun ranges and research labs located within a 32 square mile field laboratory. Developed and implemented counter-terrorist program that benefits research and academic programs.
1994 - 1995: Senior Member Technical Staff, Sandia National Lab, Albuquerque, NM.
Conducted Environmental Impact Assessment for Medical Isotope Production program. Program consisted of converting weapons program facility to produce radio-isotopes for medical usage.
1993 - 1994: Deputy Director of Environmental, Safety and Health Oversight; Manager, Hazardous Waste Programs, Superconducting Super Collider, Dallas, TX.
Developed and implemented radiation protection policies compatible with DOE orders and CFR regulations, performed liaison activities with DOE, and provided technical direction to radiation and hazardous waste program. Responsible for the development and review of radiation transport calculations, shielding design, health physics procedures, mixed waste procedures, and environmental monitoring activities. Served as Chairman of the Laboratory's ALARA committee and member of DOE's R&D Laboratory Working Group (RADWG) Health Physics Procedures Committee. Responsible for RCRA compliance during project closure.
1979 - 1993: Manager, Thermal Hydraulic Programs, General Electric Knolls Atomic Power Lab, Schenectady, NY.
Responsible for both the technical and personnel management of the group. Key participant in the long term planning and direction of both the research and the facilities construction and maintenance. Group responsibilities included thermodynamic and materials testing and analysis of fuel channels, steam generators, and in-core materials. This work determined the thermodynamic limits for the nuclear reactor which will power the next generation submarine scheduled for delivery at the turn of the century. In previous work as Lead Engineer, was responsible for the experimental fluid mechanics effort and developed LASER instrumentation and techniques for flow visualization and quantitative flow measurements. Additional experience includes the development, execution, and analysis of environmental impact testing of nuclear sub marines which includes radiation transport analysis, neutron detection, and gamma ray spectroscopy.
Current Funded Research Activities
- Experimental verification of the alpha-omega effect for galaxy formation with Los Alamos National Laboratories.
- Develop groundwater activation model that can be used to optimize the design for acceleration production of tritium with DOE.
- Seismic source investigation, modeling and characterization of currently deployed explosive sources, design and computational testing of improved explosive sources, experimental verification and validation of improved sources - Western Geophysical (students - recruiting, post-doc and graduate in Geophysics).
- Resusable blast test fixture, investigate explosive impact on wide-body aircraft with FAA.
Courses Taught
- Graduate and undergraduate courses in Solid State Physics and Particle Physics for the Physics Department
- Course in Explosives Surety for the Chemical Engineering Department
Patents Held
- Procedure to study Bubble Evolution by correcting scattered LASER light and dynamic pressure signals
Professional Memberships
- American Physical Society
- Sigma XI
- Health Physics Society
Conference Publications (1997)
- Romero, V., P. E. Williams, D. Collis, S. Welch. "Blast Research, Development, Test and Evaluation," 2nd Asia Pacific Conference on Shock Impact Loads on Structures: Melbourne, Australia; November 25-27.
- Romero, V. and Williams, P. E "Blast Waves from Non-Ideal Explosives," Conference of the American Physics Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter; Amherst, MS; July 28-August 1.
- Ferrel, R. and Romero, V. "Simulation of High Density Hydrogen Compression," Conference of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter; Amherst, MS; July 28-August 1.
- Romero, V. Invited Presentation: "Terrorist Bombs: The Characteristic of 'Non-ideal' Explosives." American Society of Civil Engineers, Architectural Engineering Division; Mitigation of the Effects of Terrorist Violence: A Research Planning Conference; March 13-14; Newark, NJ.
Journal Publications
* "Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory Groundwater Model," Journal of Health Physics, November, 1997, Volume 73, No. 5 (Jeffrey S. Bull, Van D. Romero, Samuel I. Baker, Geoffrey B. Stapleton, David L. Goss, and Larry V. Coulson).
* "Blast Waves from Non-Ideal Explosives," in Specialty Symposium on Structures Response to Impact and Blast, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 1996 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "SPH Calculations of Impact Fracture in Steel Cubes," In 16th International Symposium on Ballistics, September 1996 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Environmental Radiation Monitoring Station," Health Physics Society Annual Meeting, June 1994 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Radiological Survey of Surface and Tunnel Areas at the Superconducting Super Collider," Health Physics Society Annual Meeting, June 1994 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Overview of Radiation Protection at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory," 8th International Conference on Radiation Shielding, Apr 1994 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Search for Exclusive b ? u Semileptonic Decays of B Mesons," Physical Review Letters, vol. 70, #18, 2681, 3 May 1993 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Measurement of the ?-lepton mass," Physical Review D Rapid Communications, vol 47, #9, R3671, 1 May 1993 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Production and decay of the Dsl (2536)+," Physics Letters B 303 (1993) 377-384, 15 Apr 1993 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Tau Decays with One Charge Particle Plus Multiple ?0's," Physical Review Letters, vol 70, #9, 1207, 1 Mar 1993 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Lepton asymmetry measurements in B??D* l- ?l and implications for V - A and the form factors," Physical Review D, vol 47, #3, 791, 1 Feb 1993 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Search for ?-? ??- : A Test of Lepton Number Conversation," Physical Review Letters, vol 70, #2, 138, 11 Jan 1993 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Measurement of ? Decays Involving ? Mesons,?" Physical Review Letters, vol 69, #23, 3278, 7 Dec 1992.
* "Exclusive ?(2P) production in Y(3S) decay," Physics Letters B 294 (1992) 139-144, 5 Nov 1992 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Isospin Mass Splittings from Precision Measurements of D*-D Mass Differences," Physical Review Letters, vol 69, #14, 2046, 5 Oct 1992 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "A measurement of the tau lepton lifetime," Physics Letters B 291 (1992) 488-495, 1 Oct 1992 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Two-body decay to ??+, ??+, ???+, and ??+," Physical Review D, vol 45, #11, 3976, 1 Jun 1992 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Electronic branching ratio of the ? lepton," Physical Review D, vol 45, #11, 3976, 1 June 1992 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Measurements of semileptonic branching fractions of B mesons at the Y(4S) resonance," Physical Review D, vol 45, #7, 2212, 1 Apr 1992 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Ds+ Decays to ??+, ???+, and ??+," Physical Review Letters, vol 68, #9, 1279, 2 Mar 1992 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Measurements of baryon production in B-meson decays," Physical Review D, vol 45, #3, 752, 1 Feb 1992 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Inclusive and exclusive decays of B mesons to final states including charm and charmonium mesons," Physical Review D, vol 45, #1, 21, 1 Jan 1992 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Scattered LASER Light Techniques for Investigating Subcooled Voids," ASME FED-Vol. 125, Dec 1991.
* "Measurement of the ratio B(D0-->K*?e+?e)/B(D0-->K?e+?e)." Physical Review D, vol 44, #11, 3394, 1 Dec 1991 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Unusual decay modes of D0 and D+ mesons," Physical Review D, vol 44, #11, 3383, 1 Dec 1991 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Measurement of the Inclusive B* Cross Section above the Y(4S)," Physical Review Letters, vol 67, #13, 1692, 23 Sep 1991 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Inclusive ?(2P) Production in Y(3S) Decay," Physical Review Letters, vol 67, #13, 1696, 23 Sep 1991 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Study of continuum D*+ spin alignment," Physical Review D, vol 44, #3, 593, 1 Aug 1991 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Study of D0 decays into final states with a ?0 or ?," Physical Review D, vol 43, #9, 2836, 1 May 1991 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Exclusive and Inclusive Semileptonic decays of B mesons to D mesons," Physical Review D, vol 43, #3, 651, 1 Feb 1991 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Measurements of the ?+c Decay-Assymetry Parameter," Physical Review Letters, vol 65, #23, 2842, 3 Dec 1990 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "Study of K* Production in tau decay," Physics Letters B, vol 251, #1, 223, 8 Nov 1990 (CLEO Collaboration).
* "222Rn and Atmospheric Electric Parameters in Carlsbad Caverns," Journal of Geophysical Research, vol 86, #C10, 9911, 20 Oct 1981 (Marvin Wilkening and Van R. Romero).
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An Owner's Policy on the other hand is designed to protect you from title defects that existed prior to the issue date of your policy. Title troubles, such as improper estate proceedings or pending legal action, could put your equity at serious risk. If a valid claim is filed, in addition to financial loss up to the face amount of the policy, your owner's title policy covers the full cost of any legal defense of your title.
How much does Title Insurance cost?
The one-time premium is directly related to the value of your home. Typically, it is less expensive than your annual auto insurance. It is a one-time only expense, paid when you purchase your home. Yet it continues to provide complete coverage for as long as you or your heirs own the property.
When should I look into purchasing Title Insurance?
Call Old Republic Title as soon as you and the seller sign the earnest money contract. With a brief summary of the details, our team of title experts will begin a search of the public records and issue a title commitment. Because there are a number of steps we must take to make certain that we know all we can about the title, it is wise to get the ball rolling as soon as possible.
Should I shop around for the best Title Insurance deal?
Some states closely regulate rates. Others permit open competition, often resulting in significant differences between title insurers on rates and coverage. Depending where you live, it pays to investigate your options carefully in order to obtain the most complete coverage.
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You will want to have these items complete or in hand when you come to the closing (please confirm with your escrow officer, as practices vary by state):
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Anyone interested in rallying or playing games? I'm pretty much cool for anywhere in fresno/clovis. I'm about a 3, used to be a 4. Maybe we could get a big group of people? Let me know if you want to play I'm free most days.
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Hi Brandon,
My name is Dana Owens, i run a mens doubles group that meets every Tuesday nights at 6:30pm at Clovis High. (fowler and barstow). we commit via Email the cutoff time to commit each week is 3pm on Tuesdays. We have 19 players in the group, skill level from 3.0 to 4.0 mostly 3.0 and 3.5. ages from 26 to 60 years old. If your interested Email me at [edit by Mod: us PM] and give me your phone # and i will call you and give you more info about the group. Also a mens doubles group meet Saturdays at Buchanan H.S. at 9:00am. Mike Fowler runs this group and it is drop in basis anybody can go just show up. Mike has an Email he can add you to, it is just to inform players when the Buchanan courts are not available to play on and he moves it to another location. And a Mixed doubles group meets Sundays at 10:00am at Buchanan courts. Steve Rose runs this group and this is drop in also. he also has an Email just for court location changes and weather updates. Regards-----Dana Owens
Can you add me to your mailing list? I'm a 4.0 player.
Joe i left a meesage on your phone with my # i need to talk to you briefly before i can add you to the group.
Regards-----Dana Owens
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The King of Clutch is gone.
December 27th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in » Washington Redskins |
Yes, this is not about Redskins football… but, please, bear with me. Among my cherished memories is that of watching a grizzled old Raiders "kicker" and part time back up quarterback winning a game with no time left. There are not many like George Blanda. The man was effective, till the end. Brett Favre? Not quite yet. Read the rest of this entry »
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Last October, Ben Bleything added a Unix-style history method to his irb (and by extension to script/console).
I did this myself in February or March, but Ben's solution is better than mine. Mine used an explicit eval() and could result in eval() loops for that reason. Ben's avoids that problem nicely. It also adds nifty features like writing your history to a file, calling prior commands by number - so you can call any command in your history, not just the most recent - and calling several commands in one call.
However, there's one part I don't dig: Ben's version returns nil. So if you use h! to get the return value you got before, you get nil instead. It means that the simplest use case for history, just calling the same command twice, is only useful if you didn't care about the return value. Personally, I usually only capture the return value in a variable after I see it in irb's output - using the _ special variable - so for me return values are very useful.
Changing that turns out to be very easy. Ben's history_do method explicitly returns nil, and his irb_eval doesn't capture its internal eval()'s return value. So the changes are very slight, and very quick to make. Capture the return value, and take out the nil. Easy.
Here's the diff.
Here's my version.
Monday, June 18, 2007
.irbrc Modifications
Posted by Giles Bowkett at 11:30 AM
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Is it just me, or does this have a bug in it?ReplyDelete
When trying to run it as is, I'm getting:
>> history
TypeError: String can't be coerced into Fixnum
The problem looks to be in the print_line method:
print line_number + ": " if show_line_numbers
I changed this to:
print line_number.to_s + ": " if show_line_numbers
And everything looks peachy now.
Quite handy, thanks Giles!
Doh! That's one of the changes I added. (Weirdly, I never saw that bug.)ReplyDelete
New version here:ReplyDelete
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian: [leoˈnardo di ˌsɛr ˈpjɛːro da (v)ˈvintʃi] ( listen); 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal.Many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man", an individual of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent in recorded history, and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, while the man himself mysterious and remote". Marco Rosci notes that while there is much speculation regarding his life and personality, his view of the world was logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unorthodox for his time.Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, in Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter Andrea del Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years in France at the home awarded to him by Francis I of France.Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings have survived.[nb 1] Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo.Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised flying machines, a type of armoured fighting vehicle, concentrated solar power, an adding machine, and the double hull. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or even feasible during his lifetime, as the modern scientific approaches to metallurgy and engineering were only in their infancy during the Renaissance. Some of his smaller inventions, however, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. A number of Leonardo's most practical inventions are nowadays displayed as working models at the Museum of Vinci. He made substantial discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, geology, optics, and hydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no direct influence on later science.Today, Leonardo is widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived.
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Ten of The Network's Popular Christmas Movies Are Now Available on the WATCH ABC Family App
Burbank, CA – (June 25, 2014) – Today ABC Family marks the halfway point to Christmas by adding a mix of original and acquired ABC Family holiday movies to its WATCH ABC Family App.
With only 182 days left until Christmas, ABC Family invites the audience to sit back and enjoy "The Half-mas MERRY-THON," featuring ten of the network's popular holiday movies. Available on the app for only two weeks, this playlist is sure to bring tidings of good cheer and chase the bah-humbugs out of any Scrooge.
WATCH ABC Family allows viewers with participating TV subscription services access to 24/7 live viewing of the network, as well as on-demand access to the most current episodes of the network's popular series at home and on-the-go via a wide array of devices, including desktops, smartphones and tablets.
The following movies will be featured in the app:
Christmas is coming and Mike (Robert Reed) and Carol Brady (Florence Henderson) are both planning a secret vacation for the other. Each unaware of the other's vacation plans, Mike and Carol find themselves making travel reservations at the same agency. Torn between where to go, the Bradys decide that the perfect Christmas celebration should include the entire family. They forego their trip and buy airline tickets for their kids' Christmas homecoming instead. But between lost jobs, failed relationships and questionable career choices, Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight), Jan (Eve Plumb), Cindy (Jennifer Runyon) and Bobby (Michael Lookinland) initially have reservations about spending the holidays together as a family. As travel plans for the kids are in motion, Mike encounters a problem of his own. His client fires him as his architect after Mike insists on several safety modifications of a building under construction. Disappointed someone would second-guess his expertise, Mike agrees that the best solution is for his client to find a new architect for the building. In a dangerous twist, Mike is called away from the holiday gathering to help with a cave-in at the construction site. After narrowly escaping a building collapse, Mike safely returns home to the family he adores.
Sloane (Christina Milian) is a beautiful, intelligent and successful young power player working for the top PR agency in Hollywood. She represents one of their most prominent clients, starlet and notorious party girl Caitlin Quinn (Ashley Benson). Sloane thinks she has it all until one fateful evening when her star client meets her untimely death just as Sloane is in the midst of planning Caitlin's Christmas Day movie premiere. Sloane is visited by Caitlin's ghost who begins to haunt her, claiming that she must atone for her past misdeeds. Under Caitlin's counsel, Sloane endures a series of nightly encounters with visions of her ex-boyfriends, all slighted by her in some way, including her first true love, Patrick (Chad Michael Murray). Sloane reluctantly embarks on a soul-searching journey to redeem herself, find love and experience a Christmas she will never forget.
Angela (Christina Milian) receives a mysterious package just as her family invades her apartment for yet another family dinner with an overbearing but well-intentioned mother (Lorraine Bracco) and invasion of privacy that come with a big, overgrown family. After her family finally leaves, Angela opens the package and discovers a Christmas snowglobe that symbolizes the Norman Rockwell world of civility for which she secretly yearns. That night in a dream, she finds herself magically transported into a very winter wonderland. Awed — and a little freaked out — she explores the miniature town and meets its inhabitants, including the very pleasant Douglas (Matt Keeslar). It's only when she awakens in her small, cramped apartment with a trinket in her hand that she realizes her trip was real. Angela begins traveling back to Snowglobe with more frequency as the precious little Christmas world becomes more important to her than her real life. Unexpectedly, the two worlds collide when Douglas follows her home, just as she is developing a new relationship with her neighbor Eddie (Josh Cooke). Angela struggles to reconcile the situation and ultimately has to decide what really defines her perfect Christmas.
Mary Class (Jenny McCarthy) is a highly-driven business woman who is acknowledged for her great success by everyone but her father…who happens to be Santa Claus (George Wendt). Tired of not being recognized for her ideas about modernizing Christmas, Mary fled to the big city, leaving home and abandoning her loyal local boyfriend, Luke (Ivan Sergei). But after learning that Santa has fallen ill and is having trouble finishing preparations for Christmas, Mary eagerly returns home to the North Pole to implement her innovative ideas and to motivate the elves to move into the 21st century. But Mary discovers that you can't teach an old elf new tricks. When everything sacred about Christmas becomes threatened, Mary discovers the true spirit of the holiday and embraces traditions old and new.
In this sequel to the hit movie "Santa Baby," Mary Class (Jenny McCarthy) must step in to help save Christmas. Santa's in the midst of a late-life crisis — he's tired of the responsibilities of the job and is ready to pass on the reins to Mary, who feels torn between the family business and running her own high-stakes firm in New York City, along with balancing a relationship with the love of her life, Luke (Dean McDermott). The situation gets increasingly dire when a disgruntled former elf sows dissension at the North Pole in an effort to take over Christmas.
Kate (Amy Smart) is infatuated with Christmas and all the magic that surrounds it. In an attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend on Christmas Eve, Kate ends up ruining her blind date with Miles (Mark-Paul Gosselaar). In an odd twist of fate, Kate is given the chance to relive Christmas Eve over again –twelve times, in fact — in order to not miss out on true love. After understanding that a reconciliation with her ex is not in the cards, Kate decides to embrace what Christmas Eve has given her, but just as she seems to think she has gotten it right, the clock strikes midnight and Kate has to relive Christmas Eve once again. Although she seems distraught, she quickly comes to understand that she can do anything without consequences, because by midnight all will be erased. With this new-found excitement for life, Kate goes on a shopping spree, gets a tattoo and alters her appearance drastically, finally enjoying the gift she has been given. In addition to improving herself, she starts to help others and decides to make this Christmas Eve what she wants it to be. By letting go of her controlling ways and fear of being alone, Kate not only helps others find their happiness, but finds her own by finally trusting fate.
Holly (Tia Mowry), blessed with an amazing singing voice, is all set to audition for the newly-vacated spot in a legendary local Christmas group, which was founded by her late mother years ago. Shocked and upset when the slot goes to the barely-talented best friend of the group's leader, Marci (Tori Spelling), Holly sets out to create her own musical group, The Mistle-Tones. After challenging their rivals to a sing-off on Christmas Eve, Holly finds herself on a journey to the real meaning of Christmas–with some new friends and a new love thrown in for good measure.
Melody Gerard (Jennie Garth), a high-powered corporate workaholic for a retail conglomerate, is happy to spend the holidays jet-setting with her girlfriends. However, she's in for an unpleasant surprise when her boss sends her to her sleepy hometown to convince the reluctant townspeople to allow them to build a new discount store. Now, forced to reconnect with her family and her childhood sweetheart, Carter McClure (Cameron Mathison), her task is not so simple, as all are vehemently opposed to everything Melody's company stands for. Desperate to get out of town and back to her "real" life, Melody takes a spill and wakes up in an alternate universe where she never left home and is married to Carter! Once determined to leave her small town life behind, Melody must make sense of her new life and decide if you truly can go home again.
Trudie (Melissa Joan Hart) is a young woman with a funky, artistic sense of style and a creative spirit. A continuous disappointment to her parents, she's a would-be painter stuck working as a waitress. After blowing an interview and getting dumped by her preppie, superficial boyfriend, Trudie suffers a spontaneous nervous breakdown. Panicked at the thought of going home alone for the holidays, she kidnaps a handsome and well-dressed customer, David (Mario Lopez), with the sole purpose of bringing him home for Christmas and introducing him to the family as "the one." When David sees how inadequate Trudie feels around them, he agrees to play along with the charade until he can break free. But he adapts quickly to the crazy family and soon they are all enjoying a happy Christmas – until the police bust in on their holiday fun. Will David want Trudie arrested, or will he or realize she is rather arresting?
Former bounty hunter turned elementary school teacher Tory Bell (Raisa) was ready for a new life when she left the family business behind and moved to Manhattan. But when an old enemy is released from jail and vows retribution on Tory and her loved ones, she returns to New Jersey to take care of him once and for all. When Tory's upper-class fiancé, James, follows her home for Christmas, she tries to keep her bounty hunting ways a secret, but the plan backfires when James unwittingly becomes involved in the Bells' mission. Further complicating matters, Tory must work closely with her ex-boyfriend, Mike (Mike "The Miz" Mizanin), to bring down their target and keep James out of certain danger. But as Tory becomes further entrenched in her old life, she finds herself torn between whom she once was and her plans for the future. Will Tory choose her new life with James or will the thrill of bounty hunting and unresolved feelings for Mike prove too powerful to ignore?
Part of the Disney/ABC Television Group, ABC Family is distributed in over 97 million homes. ABC Family features programming reflecting today's families, entertaining and connecting with adults through relatable programming about today's relationships – told with a mix of diversity, passion, humor and heart. ABC Family's programming is a combination of network-defining original series and original movies, quality acquired series and blockbuster theatricals. For 2014, ABC Family has launched the "WATCH ABC Family" authenticated service which allows viewers with participating TV subscription services access to 24/7 live viewing of the network, as well as continued on demand access to such popular series at home and on the go via a wide array of devices. ABC Family is also the destination for annual Holiday events with "13 Nights of Halloween" and "25 Days of Christmas." ABC Family. A New Kind of Family.


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Notice to Members 99-54
NASD Regulation Seeks Comment on Issues Relating to Arbitrator-Ordered Expungements of Information From The Central Registration Depository
NASD Regulation, Inc. (NASD Regulation®) is seeking comment from National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®) members and other interested parties on issues relating to the expungement of information from the Central Registration Depository (CRDSM) that is ordered by arbitrators. In Notice to Members 99-09, NASD Regulation announced that it was imposing a moratorium on the expungement of certain information from the CRD system based on a directive contained in an arbitration award. Under the terms of the moratorium, which became effective January 19, 1999, NASD Regulation is not expunging information from the CRD system that is ordered by arbitrators in an award rendered in a dispute between a public customer and a registered representative or a firm unless the award has been confirmed by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Questions concerning this Notice may be directed to Ann E. Bushey, Assistant Director, CRD/Public Disclosure, NASD Regulation, at (301) 590-6389; Mary M. Dunbar, Assistant General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, NASD Regulation, at (202) 728-8252; or Richard E. Pullano, Associate Director and Counsel, CRD/Public Disclosure, NASD Regulation, at (301) 212-3


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Uh oh, Silver. Today the Lone Ranger rides again in the Gore Verbinski-directed film of the same name, but according to reviews, the Masked Man should have left his spurs on the shelf. Critics are panning the movie as overlong, overstuffed and tonally inconsistent.
The Times' Kenneth Turan says, "The real problem with the new 'Lone Ranger' is that, for those who are familiar with the multibillion-dollar 'Pirates of the Caribbean' franchise [likewise directed by Verbinski and starring Johnny Depp], there is little fresh or exciting about what we have here." Turan adds, "It's got the same jokey tone, big stunts and weird characters of its predecessors, but even at an overlong two hours and 29 minutes, it lacks any compelling reason to come on board."
Ty Burr of the Boston Globe writes that "Gore Verbinski's bloated, overlong, $250-million western comedy is like watching an elephant tap dance in your living room: Everything gets trampled and the dancing's not very good." In the title role, Armie Hammer is "a washout … bland and peevish and uninteresting," and Depp, playing the sidekick Tonto, mostly "mugs, widens his eyes, and shoots off whimsical one-liners in Injun-speak."
The San Francisco Chronicle's Mick LaSalle finds the mix of tones bizarre, calling the film "an action-movie bloodbath for a children's audience." He scathingly adds, "But put aside the notion that children shouldn't see this film. No one should. 'The Lone Ranger' is a movie for the whole family ... to avoid. It represents 2 1/2 of the longest hours on record, a jumbled botch that is so confused in its purpose and so charmless in its effect that it must be seen to be believed, but better yet, no. Don't see it, don't believe it, not unless a case of restless leg syndrome sounds like a fun time at the movies."
The Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips says, "While nominally a western, 'The Lone Ranger' is completely at sea." Pondering how that happened, Phillips says, "The evidence suggests a combination of hubris, errant revisionism, a misguided and perverse degree of violence, and a script that never worked in the first place, the second draft, or in any of the rewrites. Is it too late to shut down production on a summer picture that's already in theaters?"
A.O. Scott of the New York Times describes "The Lone Ranger" as "a very long, very busy movie that will unite the generations in bafflement, stupefaction and occasional delight." Ultimately, Scott says, "This is an ambitious movie disguised as a popcorn throwaway, nothing less than an attempt to revise, reinvigorate and make fun of not just its source but also nearly every other western ever made. In trying to balance grandiosity with playfulness, to lampoon cowboy-and-Indian cliches while taking somber account of a history of violence, greed and exploitation, it descends into nerve-racking incoherence."
And the Village Voice's Stephanie Zacharek says Verbinski has overloaded the film with "dozens of superfluous plot points, action sequences so cluttered they obscure whatever genius may lurk within, heaps of heavy-duty symbolism that ultimately mean nothing, and juvenile gags that appear to have been written by 10-year-olds rather than for them." She adds, "'The Lone Ranger' has it all, but what you end up with is not much. It's an extravagantly squandered opportunity."
The only silver lining, Zacharek says, is Silver itself, the trusty steed — "the one figure in 'The Lone Ranger' who's in touch with the natural landscape around him."


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Recently, while Stanczyk was on Twitter, I saw that Logan Kleinwak (Genealogy Indexer / @gindexer) was again busy, very busy. Perhaps you do not remember that his website: http://genealogyindexer.org , publishes Historical Directories, Yizkor Books, Military Lists, etc.
What I noticed besides he was very busy indexing things and putting them online for searches is two things:
- In my 1st thought I noticed, "Collections" (each a menu to a page of resource links)
- My 2nd thought was Logan added a Latin-to-Cyrillic feature
I do not mention his excellent little piece of code to implement a keyboard for implementing whatever language's special characters that are a might difficult to type on American keyboards. That I posted about before.
The Collection I searched was "Directories" and I saw:
- 1890 Kielce Gubernia Commemorative Book {d1031} Памятная книжка Келецкой губернии
Obviously this is the Gubernia of my paternal ancestors. So I was excited and I knew it was in Russian (i.e. Cyrillic characters) — a challenge. AH, … now we see the need for the 2nd thoughtful feature, 'Add Latin->Cyrillic'. This feature automatically adds the equivalent Cyrillic characters to the Latin characters you are searching for, in order to locate the equivalent, transliterated string in the Russian Directories. That is well thought out! Indeed Genius!
So my thanks to Logan for his fine piece of programming and history/genealogy indexing that he has done. If you have not done so, you owe it to yourself and your research to check out Genealogy Indexer. Add it to your social network (Facebook and Twitter) and bookmark the website in your browser.
Related Blog Articles …
03-May-2012 — Genealogy Indexer – Logan Kleinwak
28 Feb 2012 — Dying for Diacriticals – Beyond ASCII
15 Jun 2011 — Polish Genealogy – Useful Websites …


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Set your device to capture at 60 fps
You can capture video at 60 frames per second using an iPhone 6 or later. Use these steps to set your device to record video using 1080p resolution at 60 fps:
- Open the Settings app.
- Tap Photos & Camera.
- Tap Record Video.
- Tap 1080p HD at 60 fps.
Use 60 fps video in iMovie
After you've recorded 60 fps video, simply add 60 fps video clips to your project in iMovie for iOS (version 2.2 or later) or iMovie for Mac (version 10.1 or later). You can combine 60 fps video with other types of video clips and photos in the same project.
iMovie for iOS
In iMovie for iOS, the clips in your project determine how you can export your movie or trailer. If the majority of your project is made from photos or 60 fps video, then you can share or export at 60 fps.
iMovie for Mac
In iMovie for Mac, the first clip added to your project determines how you can export your movie or trailer. If you want to export a 60 fps file, be sure to add a 60 fps clip to your timeline before adding other clips.
You can confirm that the format of your imported movie is correct by clicking Settings in the upper right side of the timeline. The format of the currently-opened movie is displayed at the top of the Project Settings window.
Share a 60 fps video
iMovie for iOS
To export your video from iMovie for iOS at 60 fps, make sure iMovie is set to enable exporting at 60 fps. Open the Settings app, tap iMovie, then turn on the option to Enable 60 fps export.
After you've turned on this setting, you can export 60 fps movies from iMovie:
- In iMovie, tap Projects.
- Tap the project you want to export.
- Tap the Share button.
- Tap Save Video.
- Choose the export size of your movie. Your movie is then exported to your photo library.
You can also share a 60 fps movie directly from iMovie to YouTube. When sharing to other online destinations, your movie might be converted to a lower frame rate.
iMovie for Mac
To export 60 fps video from iMovie for Mac, use these steps:
- Select a movie or trailer from the list of Projects, or open a movie or trailer in the timeline.
- Click the Share button.
- Select File as the destination.
- Next to Resolution, choose 1080p 60. You can also choose resolutions lower than 1080p, while still preserving the 60 fps frame rate.
- Click Next, then save your movie.
You can also share a 60 fps movie directly from iMovie to YouTube. When sharing to other online destinations, your movie might be converted to a lower frame rate.


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Friday, September 10, 2010
Preseason Countdown: 12 Days
The Minnesota Wild kick off the preseason on September 22nd at the Xcel Energy Center against the St. Louis Blues. Pretty crazy that hockey is only 12 days away. None the less, I am excited for another season to get underway. The Minnesota Wild will start the season in Finland against the Carolina Hurricanes on October 7th. With some new faces this year, the Minnesota Wild will be looking to get back into the playoffs after a 2 year hiatus. Go Wild!
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If you are in the mood for something a little more wild and daring, why not consider planning an adventurous vacation? Travel to exotic locations worldwide, and pursue the trip of your dreams. Take a ride on an elephant in Thailand, or travel on horseback to gorgeous remote mountain destinations. Of course, this type of vacation is not for everyone, so if you're looking for rest and relaxation, adventure travel probably is not for you.
Not to say you will not get any rest on your trip, but the accommodations will be simple and less than you would experience at a five star resort. It is definitely a trade off to experience this type of outdoor recreation, which is usually far removed from popular thoroughfares. Be one with nature and do something different to get away.
Adventure travel is very exciting, and there are risks associated especially when travel to overseas destinations is involved. Travel sites are abundant online which specialize in world class adventure travel experiences at affordable prices. Adventure seekers can choose from over two thousand vacations including hiking and biking trips, cultural tours, African safaris, Antarctic expedition cruises, Everest base camp treks, a Nile cruise, Mongolian wilderness adventure, or hiking Machu Picchu. The possibilities are endless because there is a huge selection of active and adventurous vacations worldwide.
Comprehensive guides to adventure travel can be found all over the internet, just type in adventure travel guide into a search engine and away you go. These online adventure travel guides are a great resource for adventure travel and outdoor recreation with information on top destinations, national parks, outdoor gear, hiking, and kayaking. For family adventures, you just add family to your adventure travel search query and you will find many travel sites featuring dude ranches, whitewater rafting, houseboat rentals, bicycle tours, horse pack trips and trail rides, dog sledding vacations, wildlife viewing tours, and wagon trains, just to name a few popular adventures.


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(Book: I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST, by Geisler and Turek, chapter 2)
It's time to tackle Chapter 2, which promises to take on no less than David Hume and Immanuel Kant, in the name of defending the intellectual integrity of Christianity's exclusivist claims. To hear Geisler and Turek tell it, though, these guys were tyros compared to the philosophical genius of Warner Brothers cartoons.
We're pretty much finished with Chapter 1, which ends with a mildly Emperor's-New-Clothes-ish reference to "once I was blind but now I see," i.e. "some of us DO know the truth about religion." The authors never quite specify who these enlightened ones might be (three guesses?), so we'll just skip over that part and move on to Chapter 2.
Chapter 2 opens with some remarks leading to the conclusion that the best way to determine whether or not something is true is to examine it for (self-)consistency, coherence, and completeness (i.e. does it address all the relevant evidence in a satisfactory manner). They're trying to imply that Christianity does the best job of meeting these standards, which is going to prove false, however the standards themselves are excellent. They are, in fact, simply an elaboration of our fundamental doctrine that truth is consistent with itself.
Moving on, we find Geisler and Turek indulging in another anecdote about a college professor (who might or might not have been an atheist) making a bad argument against Christianity. The stated point of the story is to prove that logic is the same in India as it is in the United States (versus the professor's claim that Eastern logic and Western logic were somehow different), but the subtext appears to be that university professors don't know what they're talking about.
And then, it's on to David Hume.
Perhaps more than any other person, David Hume is responsible for the skepticism prevalent today. As an empiricist, Hume believed that all meaningful ideas were either true by definition or must be based on sense experience… Hume asserted that propositions can be meaningful only if they meet one of the following two conditions:
- the truth claim is abstract reasoning, such as a mathematical equation or a definition (e.g., "2+2=4" or "all triangles have three sides"); or
- the truth claim can be verified empirically through one or more of the five senses
While he claimed to be a skeptic, Hume certainly wasn't skeptical about these two conditions–he was absolutely convinced he had the truth.
Geisler and Turek, in trying to make Hume sound self-defeating, have bit off more than they can chew, since they must now prove that it is impossible to derive Hume's conclusions through logical reasoning and/or empirical verification. (Notice, too, that they are once again confusing skepticism with mere denial.) Are they up to the task?
Do you see the implications of Hume's two conditions? If he's correct, then any book talking about God is meaningless. You might as well use all religious writings for kindling.
Oops, that's an appeal to the Fallacy of Consequences: If Hume is correct, then that would make our religious beliefs untrue. We don't want that! Therefore Hume must be wrong.
We could, if we want to, stop reading right here. Geisler and Turek have just admitted that God cannot satisfy either of Hume's two conditions for meaningful truth claims. After spending the first part of Chapter 2 agreeing that the truth about God must be (self-)consistent, coherent, and complete, and after showing that all Hume is asking for is a demonstration that one's claims are either (valid) abstract reasoning or verifiable via empirical evidence, the authors reject Hume is based on the fact that no empirical support for God's existence can be provided. The whole premise of their book, therefore, is a lie.
But let's keep going anyway, and look again at the principle of empirical verification.
The principle of empirical verifiability claims that a proposition can be meaningful only if it's true by definition or if it's empirically verifiable.
That may be a tad oversimplified–I'd have mentioned the possibility of indirect verification, for instance–but it's essentially sound. What it's really saying is that truth is consistent with itself. If we're going to talk about what's true, we have to use words, which are symbols representing concepts. The concept, in turn, is an abstract mental reference to something. So words point to concepts, and concepts point to something that–hopefully–exists outside of the mind.
Now, let's hear Geisler's refutation, given, true to form, as an anecdote about a report he did in a university classroom. Once again, the university professor is (surprise surprise) a self-confident and self-defeating unbeliever.
At the beginning of the next class, the professor said, "Mr. Geisler, we'll hear from you first. Keep it to no more than twenty minutes so we can have ample time for discussion."
Well, since I was using the lightning-fast Road Runner tactic, I had absolutely no trouble with the time constraints. I stood up and simply said, "The principle of empirical verifiability states that there are only two kinds of meaningful propositions: 1) those that are true by definition and 2) those that are empirically verifiable. Since the principle of empirical verifiability itself is neither true by definition nor empirically verifiable, it cannot be meaningful."
…In just the second class period, the foundation of that entire class had been destroyed!
Ta da! Super-Christian Geisler saves the day from the forces of evil atheistic university professors and their self-refuting philosophies! While we wait for the applause and cheering to die down, let's take a moment to think about what Geisler is actually claiming here. He's not claiming to have found a loophole in empiricism. He's not even claiming to have fully understood what empiricism is really saying. He's claiming that, by playing a simple word-game with an over-simplified statement of empiricism he personally had destroyed the very foundation of empiricism!
Did he really destroy empiricism, though? Or did he merely give himself a smart-ass excuse for not putting any effort into learning the material? The best way to answer that question is to see if we can derive empirical verifiability using the two principles stated above.
Let's start with the premise that reality is truth. That's a "truth by definition," since there could conceivably be other, more subjective or fanciful "truths" unrelated to reality. For this discussion, however, we're concerned with real-world truth, so we'll adopt "reality is truth" as our starting definition.
Next, let's take the premise that truth is consistent with itself (i.e. does not contradict itself). That's truth by definition (since, by definition, any contradiction of the truth is "not truth") and by observation (since we consistently observe in real life that truth is self-consistent).
Now, since truth does not contradict itself, we find that there are two ways we can empirically verify the truth: by direct means (we directly observe reality) and by indirect means (some unobservable reality has observable consequence, by which we can verify the unobservable reality). This is a possibly subtle point which is where Geisler likely missed the boat. Indirect empirical verification allows us to empirically verify things that we cannot directly observe via the five senses, such as atoms, gravity, and constants like pi.
Geisler and Turek themselves made use of this very principle earlier in Chapter two, in arguing that logic is the same in the East as it is in the West.
In India, just like in the United States, buses hurt when they hit you, 2+2=4, and the same gravity keeps everyone on the ground. Likewise, murder is wrong there just as it is here. Truth is truth no matter what country you come from. And truth is truth no matter what you believe about it.
This is the principle of empirical verification in action. Truth is consistent with itself, and thus the patterns that appear in some parts of the truth are reflected in other parts as well: we can empirically verify the pattern "truth is truth" by observing how consistently this pattern manifests itself everywhere we look. It's reflected in the universality of math, and of the laws of nature, and even in the biological manifestations that cause us to feel pain when we are injured.
So, then, we can empirically verify that empirical verification allows us to discern meaning, including intangible meanings like numbers, logic, and natural laws. Can we empirically verify that such meaning can only come from either definition or empirical verification? Certainly. (I might need to over-simplify a bit here, but hopefully I'll get my point across.)
To be meaningful, a proposition must employ meaningful concepts, since any meaningless term in the proposition would render the meaning of the whole ambiguous at best. Note that this is an observation, not a mere preference or hope. When we observe the real world, we find that the chain is only as strong as its weakest link, so you can't make a meaningful proposition out of meaningless concepts.
Concepts, in turn, can derive their meaning in one of two ways: either they refer to something that is part of objective reality, or they have their meaning arbitrarily assigned to them. The latter case is the "by definition" part of the principle of empirical verification. When we refer to a unicorn as being a magical creature that looks like a horse with a single horn, the concept of "unicorn" is not a reference to something in objective reality, it's an arbitrarily-assigned definition. The definition may, in turn, refer to things that exist in reality (like horses and horns), or to other things whose meaning is based on definition (like "magical"), but the meaning of the concept itself is arbitrarily assigned via definition.
We must now show, empirically, that everything which is not assigned a meaning via arbitrary definition must obtain a meaning that is derived empirically (i.e. that is empirically verifiable). Thus, turning to concepts whose meaning is defined by reference to something in the real world, we see that there are two problems. Number one, in order for an individual to learn the meaning of a concept, they must first perceive the real-world referent to which the concept refers, otherwise the concept, for them, will be a reference to the unknown, and hence meaningless.
Number two, if only a single individual is able to perceive the real-world referent, then they will not be able to communicate that concept to anyone else, since for everyone else the concept will merely be a reference to the unknown, and hence a meaningless concept. A "meaning" which cannot be communicated is not really a "meaning" in the broad sense of the term. At best it can only be some sort of subjective, personal significance, and not part of a meaningful proposition such as could be discussed with someone else.
In order for a concept to be meaningful, therefore, it must not only be (potentially) perceptible, but must also be (potentially) perceptible to multiple persons. If multiple persons are capable of perceiving the same objective reality, however, then the reality they perceive is potentially verifiable empirically. Because the truth is consistent with itself, the same objective veracity that allows multiple people to perceive the same thing (and thus derive the same meaning for a particular concept) will also allow for the possibility of empirical verification.
Notice that it does not matter whether or not the perception involves the use of the five traditional senses. If there were a telepathic alien, say, who was communicating with Joe Bob and Jim Bob via direct access to their minds, we could empirically verify the objective reality of the alien and its telepathic communications by having Joe Bob and Jim Bob relay messages to one another via the alien, or by careful observation and analysis of the messages the two brothers reported receiving. Granted, it's not a sure thing (if the alien decides to be perverse, for example), however it is at least possible in principle that such things could be verified.
Again, notice that I'm making only empirical observations here. This is the way logic works as we observe it in the real world (and it works the same in India as it does in the United States). Hume's observations are not self-defeating, but self-supporting and self-deriving. You do have to expend the necessary mental effort to think things through instead of turning to Saturday morning cartoons for your philosophical "wisdom," but it can be done.
What's especially ironic is that, by attempting to undermine empiricism, Geisler and Turek are contradicting virtually everything they themselves have been saying up to now about how the truth can be known and what sort of evidence we ought to look for in order to correctly distinguish between truth and untruth. It's as though they've been gritting their teeth and forcing themselves to pretend they believed that faith should be based on verifiable evidence, but when they got to Hume, the strain was too great, and they had to vent their hostility to the whole idea of measuring truth by its consistency with objective reality.
I can't wait until they take on Kant.


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The newest development in West Virginia politics is the announcement of the candidacy of Mrs. Donald Clark, of Wayne County, for Secretary of State on the Democratic ticket. Mrs. Clark's candidacy is authorized in an announcement just received by this newspaper. This information confirms rumors of her entrance into the State race, which have been current for the last several weeks.
Mrs. Clark, who is te first woman candidate to formally announce herself for a State office, is a resident of that section of Wayne County which was incorporated into the city of Huntington last year. She is prominently known throughout the State, having long been active in social, political and religious work of various organizations. During the war Mrs. Clark led Red Cross activities in her home county. She has served on the State Child Welfare Commission. Until recently she was president of the board of education in her home district and was instrumental in a number of important improvements among the schools in her charge.
In 1920 Mrs. Clark's name was often mentioned in connection with the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Fifth district. She has long been an active party worker and has given generously of her time and effort for the success of Democracy even long years before the enfranchisement of women.
She is a leader in religious and social circles in Huntington. Her acquaintances extend throughout the state due to her notable successes in the lines of endeavor just mentioned.
Mrs. Clark is the daughter of the late Samuel Sperry Vinson, one of the strongest political characters of Southern West Virginia. Her father was a Confederate veteran, having been twice slightly wounded. His unselfish service to the Democratic party covered his entire life and stands out as an exemplary instance of party loyalty.
Recognizing the service she has performed in the State and in view of her unquestioned qualifications, numerous well known Democrats in West Virginia have been urging Mrs. Clark to consent to enter the race for primary nomination for Secretary of State. At the recent meeting of the Democratic committee in Parkersburg, her address was one of the outstanding features. The Parkersburg meeting gave decided impetus to the [support] which had already been launched by friends of Mrs. Clark, but not until this week did she announce her definite intentions of getting into the State race.
Mrs. Clark is a native born West Virginian of the type which so well represents the ideals of the State.
She possesses a forceful personality together with unusual business ability and feminine charm and is an outstanding figure in any group. Her candidacy adds a new and interesting angle to West Virginia politics for 1924.
O. J. Rife and Elias Drown have formed an insurance agency in Kenova which represents a consolidation of F. R. Poole agency, W. R. Wilson agency, C. W. Thompson agency, J. Miller Jackson agency and Curtis Wright agency. Drown is a former clerk of the C. & O. Railway and Rife ex- county superintendent of schools and former editor of the Wayne News.
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