text: The historical analogs of brilliant womenUpdated 5:42 PM ET, Sat October 31, 2015 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: Famous women in historyThe historical analogs of brilliant women – Emmy Noether, right, is featured in the March 23, 2015 Google doodle in commemoration of what would be her 133rd birthday. The math wizard came up with an algebraic theorem that connected two fundamental laws of physics. Noether's Theory is seen by some to be as important as Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. In fact, Einstein considered Noether to be the most significant female mathematician.Harvard professor Lisa Randall, left, researches theoretical particles and cosmology. By connecting the ideas about theoretical particles to the questions about the universe that physicists have yet to answer, she has developed new understanding about dark matter and extra dimensions in space. Click through the gallery for more women pioneers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and their modern counterparts.Hide Caption 1 of 10 Photos: Famous women in historyThe historical analogs of brilliant women – Grace Murray Hopper, an American computer scientist and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral (right), created Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL.) She also coined the term "debugging" in reference to fixing a computer.Hopper paved the way for other females in computer science, including University of California at Berkeley Professor Katherine Yelick. She is the co-author of two books and more than 100 technical papers on parallel languages, compilers, algorithms, libraries, architecture, and storage. She led the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center from 2008 to 2012 -- a high-performance computing facility that helps scientists run tests. One of the computers in the facility is named after Hopper.Hide Caption 2 of 10 Photos: Famous women in historyThe historical analogs of brilliant women – The work of solar astronomer Mitzi Adams, left, has improved our understanding of the sun's turbulent behavior. Since joining NASA in 1988 at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, she has conducted research for a variety of solar missions. She carries on the tradition of discovery that Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) began in the late 1800s. Cannon was known as the "census taker in the sky," and developed a stellar classification system that became the standard of the Harvard Observatory. Hide Caption 3 of 10 Photos: Famous women in historyThe historical analogs of brilliant women – Sara Seager, left, can measure outer space. An astrophysicist and planetary scientist at MIT, her research led, in part, to the first detection of light emitted by an exoplanet, a planet outside our solar system. She now focuses on characterizing all aspects of exoplanets, from theoretical models of their atmospheres to detecting the growth of a constellation. She continues the kind of work astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt did. Leavitt, right, discovered a relationship between the brightness and fluctuation of stars, as seen from Earth, that became the basis of astronomers' ability to measure the distance between Earth and other galaxies. Hide Caption 4 of 10 Photos: Famous women in historyThe historical analogs of brilliant women – American physician and former NASA astronaut Mae Carol Jemison, left, became the first black woman to travel in space in 1992. As an astronaut, Jemison served as a liaison between the astronaut corps and launch operations at Kennedy Space Center, according to her biography. She also flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in the first joint mission with the Japanese Space Agency. 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She ended her career after his death in 1927. Hide Caption 9 of 10 Photos: Famous women in historyThe historical analogs of brilliant women – Biological researcher Elizabeth Blackburn was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering (along with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak) how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. Recognition of the importance of her discoveries was something that fellow scientist Rosalind Franklin did not achieve, even though there are many who believe that without Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick would not have formed their 1953 hypothesis regarding the structure of DNA. The British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA, which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix. 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Eugenics, the selection of desired heritable characteristics in order to improve future generations, typically in reference to humans. The term eugenics was coined in 1883 by British explorer and natural scientist Francis Galton, who, influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, advocated a system that would allow "the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable." Social Darwinism, the popular theory in the late 19th century that life for humans in society was ruled by "survival of the fittest," helped advance eugenics into serious scientific study in the early 1900s. By World War I many scientific authorities and political leaders supported eugenics. However, it ultimately failed as a science in the 1930s and '40s, when the assumptions of eugenicists became heavily criticized and the Nazis used eugenics to support the extermination of entire races.
Early history
Although eugenics as understood today dates from the late 19th century, efforts to select matings in order to secure offspring with desirable traits date from ancient times. Plato's Republic (c. 378 bce) depicts a society where efforts are undertaken to improve human beings through selective breeding. Later, Italian philosopher and poet Tommaso Campanella, in City of the Sun (1623), described a utopian community in which only the socially elite are allowed to procreate. Galton, in Hereditary Genius (1869), proposed that a system of arranged marriages between men of distinction and women of wealth would eventually produce a gifted race. In 1865 the basic laws of heredity were discovered by the father of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel. His experiments with peas demonstrated that each physical trait was the result of a combination of two units (now known as genes) and could be passed from one generation to another. However, his work was largely ignored until its rediscovery in 1900. This fundamental knowledge of heredity provided eugenicists—including Galton, who influenced his cousin Charles Darwin—with scientific evidence to support the improvement of humans through selective breeding.
The advancement of eugenics was concurrent with an increasing appreciation of Darwin's account for change or evolution within society—what contemporaries referred to as social Darwinism. Darwin had concluded his explanations of evolution by arguing that the greatest step humans could make in their own history would occur when they realized that they were not completely guided by instinct. Rather, humans, through selective reproduction, had the ability to control their own future evolution. A language pertaining to reproduction and eugenics developed, leading to terms such as positive eugenics, defined as promoting the proliferation of "good stock," and negative eugenics, defined as prohibiting marriage and breeding between "defective stock." For eugenicists, nature was far more contributory than nurture in shaping humanity.
During the early 1900s eugenics became a serious scientific study pursued by both biologists and social scientists. They sought to determine the extent to which human characteristics of social importance were inherited. Among their greatest concerns were the predictability of intelligence and certain deviant behaviours. Eugenics, however, was not confined to scientific laboratories and academic institutions. It began to pervade cultural thought around the globe, including the Scandinavian countries, most other European countries, North America, Latin America, Japan, China, and Russia. In the United States the eugenics movement began during the Progressive Era and remained active through 1940. It gained considerable support from leading scientific authorities such as zoologist Charles B. Davenport, plant geneticist Edward M. East, and geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate Hermann J. Muller. Political leaders in favour of eugenics included U.S. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, Secretary of State Elihu Root, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall Harlan. Internationally, there were many individuals whose work supported eugenic aims, including British scientists J.B.S. Haldane and Julian Huxley and Russian scientists Nikolay K. Koltsov and Yury A. Filipchenko.
Eugenics organizations and legislation
Galton had endowed a research fellowship in eugenics in 1904 and, in his will, provided funds for a chair of eugenics at University College, London. The fellowship and later the chair were occupied by Karl Pearson, a brilliant mathematician who helped to create the science of biometry, the statistical aspects of biology. Pearson was a controversial figure who believed that environment had little to do with the development of mental or emotional qualities. He felt that the high birth rate of the poor was a threat to civilization and that the "higher" races must supplant the "lower." His views gave countenance to those who believed in racial and class superiority. Thus, Pearson shares the blame for the discredit later brought on eugenics.
In the United States, the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) was opened at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, in 1910 with financial support from the legacy of railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman. Whereas ERO efforts were officially overseen by Charles B. Davenport, director of the Station for Experimental Study of Evolution (one of the biology research stations at Cold Spring Harbor), ERO activities were directly superintended by Harry H. Laughlin, a professor from Kirksville, Missouri. The ERO was organized around a series of missions. These missions included serving as the national repository and clearinghouse for eugenics information, compiling an index of traits in American families, training fieldworkers to gather data throughout the United States, supporting investigations into the inheritance patterns of particular human traits and diseases, advising on the eugenic fitness of proposed marriages, and communicating all eugenic findings through a series of publications. To accomplish these goals, further funding was secured from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the Battle Creek Race Betterment Foundation, and the Human Betterment Foundation.
Prior to the founding of the ERO, eugenics work in the United States was overseen by a standing committee of the American Breeder's Association (eugenics section established in 1906), chaired by ichthyologist and Stanford University president David Starr Jordan. Research from around the globe was featured at three international congresses, held in 1912, 1921, and 1932. In addition, eugenics education was monitored in Britain by the English Eugenics Society (founded by Galton in 1907 as the Eugenics Education Society) and in the United States by the American Eugenics Society.
Following World War I, the United States gained status as a world power. A concomitant fear arose that if the healthy stock of the American people became diluted with socially undesirable traits, the country's political and economic strength would begin to crumble. The maintenance of world peace by fostering democracy, capitalism, and, at times, eugenics-based schemes was central to the activities of "the Internationalists," a group of prominent American leaders in business, education, publishing, and government. One core member of this group, the New York lawyer Madison Grant, aroused considerable pro-eugenic interest through his best-selling book The Passing of the Great Race (1916). Beginning in 1920, a series of congressional hearings was held to identify problems that immigrants were causing the United States. As the country's "eugenics expert," Harry Laughlin provided tabulations showing that certain immigrants, particularly those from Italy, Greece, and Eastern Europe, were significantly overrepresented in American prisons and institutions for the "feebleminded." Further data were construed to suggest that these groups were contributing too many genetically and socially inferior people. Laughlin's classification of these individuals included the feebleminded, the insane, the criminalistic, the epileptic, the inebriate, the diseased—including those with tuberculosis, leprosy, and syphilis—the blind, the deaf, the deformed, the dependent, chronic recipients of charity, paupers, and "ne'er-do-wells." Racial overtones also pervaded much of the British and American eugenics literature. In 1923 Laughlin was sent by the U.S. secretary of labour as an immigration agent to Europe to investigate the chief emigrant-exporting nations. Laughlin sought to determine the feasibility of a plan whereby every prospective immigrant would be interviewed before embarking to the United States. He provided testimony before Congress that ultimately led to a new immigration law in 1924 that severely restricted the annual immigration of individuals from countries previously claimed to have contributed excessively to the dilution of American "good stock."
Immigration control was but one method to control eugenically the reproductive stock of a country. Laughlin appeared at the centre of other U.S. efforts to provide eugenicists greater reproductive control over the nation. He approached state legislators with a model law to control the reproduction of institutionalized populations. By 1920, two years before the publication of Laughlin's influential Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (1922), 3,200 individuals across the country were reported to have been involuntarily sterilized. That number tripled by 1929, and by 1938 more than 30,000 people were claimed to have met this fate. More than half of the states adopted Laughlin's law, with California, Virginia, and Michigan leading the sterilization campaign. Laughlin's efforts secured staunch judicial support in 1927. In the precedent-setting case of Buck v. Bell, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., upheld the Virginia statute and claimed, "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind."
Popular support for eugenics
During the 1930s eugenics gained considerable popular support across the United States. Hygiene courses in public schools and eugenics courses in colleges spread eugenic-minded values to many. A eugenics exhibit titled "Pedigree-Study in Man" was featured at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933–34. Consistent with the fair's "Century of Progress" theme, stations were organized around efforts to show how favourable traits in the human population could best be perpetuated. Contrasts were drawn between the emulative presidential Roosevelt family and the degenerate "Ishmael" family (one of several pseudonymous family names used, the rationale for which was not given). By studying the passage of ancestral traits, fairgoers were urged to adopt the progressive view that responsible individuals should pursue marriage ever mindful of eugenics principles. Booths were set up at county and state fairs promoting "fitter families" contests, and medals were awarded to eugenically sound families. Drawing again upon long-standing eugenic practices in agriculture, popular eugenic advertisements claimed it was about time that humans received the same attention in the breeding of better babies that had been given to livestock and crops for centuries.
Anti-eugenics sentiment
Anti-eugenics sentiment began to appear after 1910 and intensified during the 1930s. Most commonly it was based on religious grounds. For example, the 1930 papal encyclical Casti connubii condemned reproductive sterilization, though it did not specifically prohibit positive eugenic attempts to amplify the inheritance of beneficial traits. Many Protestant writings sought to reconcile age-old Christian warnings about the heritable sins of the father to pro-eugenic ideals. Indeed, most of the religion-based popular writings of the period supported positive means of improving the physical and moral makeup of humanity.
In the early 1930s Nazi Germany adopted American measures to identify and selectively reduce the presence of those deemed to be "socially inferior" through involuntary sterilization. A rhetoric of positive eugenics in the building of a master race pervaded Rassenhygiene (racial hygiene) movements. When Germany extended its practices far beyond sterilization in efforts to eliminate the Jewish and other non-Aryan populations, the United States became increasingly concerned over its own support of eugenics. Many scientists, physicians, and political leaders began to denounce the work of the ERO publicly. After considerable reflection, the Carnegie Institution formally closed the ERO at the end of 1939.
During the aftermath of World War II, eugenics became stigmatized such that many individuals who had once hailed it as a science now spoke disparagingly of it as a failed pseudoscience. Eugenics was dropped from organization and publication names. In 1954 Britain's Annals of Eugenics was renamed Annals of Human Genetics. In 1972 the American Eugenics Society adopted the less-offensive name Society for the Study of Social Biology. Its publication, once popularly known as the Eugenics Quarterly, had already been renamed Social Biology in 1969.
U.S. Senate hearings in 1973, chaired by Sen. Ted Kennedy, revealed that thousands of U.S. citizens had been sterilized under federally supported programs. The U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare proposed guidelines encouraging each state to repeal their respective sterilization laws. Other countries, most notably China, continue to support eugenics-directed programs openly in order to ensure the genetic makeup of their future.
The "new eugenics"
Despite the dropping of the term eugenics, eugenic ideas remained prevalent in many issues surrounding human reproduction. Medical genetics, a post-World War II medical specialty, encompasses a wide range of health concerns, from genetic screening and counseling to fetal gene manipulation and the treatment of adults suffering from hereditary disorders. Because certain diseases (e.g., hemophilia and Tay-Sachs disease) are now known to be genetically transmitted, many couples choose to undergo genetic screening, in which they learn the chances that their offspring have of being affected by some combination of their hereditary backgrounds. Couples at risk of passing on genetic defects may opt to remain childless or to adopt children. Furthermore, it is now possible to diagnose certain genetic defects in the unborn. Many couples choose to terminate a pregnancy that involves a genetically disabled offspring. These developments have reinforced the eugenic aim of identifying and eliminating undesirable genetic material.
Counterbalancing this trend, however, has been medical progress that enables victims of many genetic diseases to live fairly normal lives. Direct manipulation of harmful genes is also being studied. If perfected, it could obviate eugenic arguments for restricting reproduction among those who carry harmful genes. Such conflicting innovations have complicated the controversy surrounding what many call the "new eugenics." Moreover, suggestions for expanding eugenics programs, which range from the creation of sperm banks for the genetically superior to the potential cloning of human beings, have met with vigorous resistance from the public, which often views such programs as unwarranted interference with nature or as opportunities for abuse by authoritarian regimes.
Applications of the Human Genome Project are often referred to as "Brave New World" genetics or the "new eugenics," in part because they have helped to dramatically increase knowledge of human genetics. In addition, 21st-century technologies such as gene editing, which can potentially be used to treat disease or to alter traits, have further renewed concerns. However, the ethical, legal, and social implications of such tools are monitored much more closely than were early 20th-century eugenics programs. Applications generally are more focused on the reduction of genetic diseases than on improving intelligence.
Still, with or without the use of the term, many eugenics-related concerns are reemerging as a new group of individuals decide how to regulate the application of genetics science and technology. This gene-directed activity, in attempting to improve upon nature, may not be that distant from what Galton implied in 1909 when he described eugenics as the "study of agencies, under social control, which may improve or impair" future generations.Philip K. Wilson
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Germany: The totalitarian state…respectability from the pseudoscience of eugenics, the racial hygiene movement that flourished widely in the early decades of the 20th century. Nazi leaders spoke of their efforts to "reconstruct the German race." The Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health (July 14, 1933) allowed for the eventual sterilization of as…
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Thanks to the speedy replacement of a collapsed 160-foot section of the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge—seen in this video—traffic is once again flowing between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia.
A part of the bridge collapsed on May 23 when it was struck by a truck carrying an oversize load, causing a car and another truck to fall into the river. Three people had to be rescued.
Normally, the bridge carries 71,000 vehicles a day. The temporary span, which cost $18 million, is only a short-term fix. Construction of a permanent bridge replacement is set for this fall.
The structure is one of thousands in the U.S. considered "fracture critical," meaning that if one critical part of the bridge is compromised, it could crumple.
A report from Transportation for America recently estimated that 11 percent of all bridges fits this description.
An AP report estimates that thousands of the "fracture critical" bridges were built in the U.S. from the 1950s through the 1970s—and are still in use. It also notes that making all the needed fixes would cost billions.


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"Delivering Alpha 2.0," the second annual CNBC-Institutional Investor investment conference, in New York on Wednesday features three U.S. Treasury secretaries, several billionaires and a veritable who's who of the investing world, from private equity firms to hedge funds to real estate.
Much like the inaugural event, the conference comes at a time when private investors and government policymakers are grappling with a host of huge issues facing the global economy that have whipsawed financial markets from New York to Shanghai.
"Delivering Alpha" will attempt to tackle those subjects, joining the world's foremost money managers with the most influential investors through a series of progressive discussions meant to guide the individual investor.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithneris the keynote speaker — he'll also be interviewed by Larry Kudlow of CNBC's"Kudlow Report" — and as a top representative of the Obama administration will no doubt echo on many of the president'spolicy positions.
Former Treasury secretaries Hank Paulson and Robert Rubinwill map out "The American Agenda" with CNBC Senior Economics Correspondent Steve Liesman, examining the "fiscal cliff" and various other challenges and opportunities on the economic-political horizon.
Chief among them is the looming fiscal cliff and its impact on the economy and corporate profits.
With Mitt Romney the presumptive GOP candidate in the fall's presidential election, the private-equity industry has been under renewed scrutiny as Americans decide whether the former Massachusetts governor's history as a partner at Bain Capital would be an asset or a handicap in the Oval Office.
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Andrew Cuomo just explained the gasoline situation in New York/New Jersey.
We summarize his quotes.
- Basically, New York Harbor had significant debris, and tankers could not enter the harbor safely.
- These tankers had the fuel that was in route to the terminals.
- To the extent that there's a shortage of fuel, it's because there is a shortage of fuel.
- The tankers are now making good progress.
- A major barge got to Newburgh at 2 AM.
- Other major distribution points are now back online.
- Other actions include an executive order that waives the states' requirements that fuel tankers register and pay a tax before unloading.
- There should be a real change in condition, and people should see it quickly.
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10 things to consider when purchasing your next new gaming laptop
Gaming laptops are traditionally full of compromises.
The latest version of Premiere Elements is not a huge upgrade, but it is still an excellent video editor, especially given its price.
With the exception of folks who haven't had their shots, just about everyone who has a video capture device is desperate to go "viral"--to have their video to become so wildly popular that everyone knows its title by name. Adobe's Premiere Elements 9 video editor may not help your videos get a million views in a day, but it does have a few new features that might induce Mum and Dad to watch them, anyway.
The video-focused complement to Photoshop Elements 9, the new version of Adobe's image-editing application, Premiere Elements 9 lets you easily upload finished videos to Facebook (the program first acquired YouTube-upload capability in Premiere Elements 8).You can't send your freshly edited video directly from Premiere Elements to Facebook, however; instead, you must save it, return to the Elements organiser (a separate application), find the video, and then use commands in the organiser to upload the video. It's easy to do once you're in the organiser, and the process works very well, but I'd rather use a more consistent interface, so I wouldn't have to remember to use YouTube in the editor and Facebook in the organiser.
Similarly, though Elements 9 has a new import dialog box for handling video from Flip camcorders and from digital SLRs, you have to remember that the mechanism is in the editing application, not the organiser. It doesn't really matter, though: You can import video into the organiser, too, or you can simply connect your camera and wait for Adobe's stand-alone import application, which monitors such connections, to pop up. And that application imports the video into the...organiser, I think. It's tough to keep track when the applications look so similar and have randomly overlapping duties.
DVDs Without the Discs
One nifty new feature is the ability to create Web DVDs, which are high-quality online movies with DVD-like menus. Create the menus in the Premiere Elements 9 editor, choose a still image and a soundtrack for the opening menu, and then specify chapter points or tell Elements to create them automatically. When Elements is done producing the movie, it uploads it to Photoshop.com, Adobe's online sharing site. Web DVDs have a few advantages over regular videos--the opening menu interface looks and sounds slick (if you choose a good soundtrack), and the ability to fast-forward to chapter points in the video means your viewers can fast-forward to scenes they want. And unlike a real DVD, your video can be in high definition (DVDs are limited to standard resolution).
Premiere Elements 9 has some additional editing capabilities to help with audio problems. Six new audio effects--Audio Polish, Auto Mute, Cleaner, Hum Remover, Noise Fader, and Noise Reducer--are mostly automated tools designed to solve common issues. As with any filter, the results they produce depend on the quality of the video, the severity of the problem, and your willingness to tweak beyond the default settings. I tried the tools with a few types of audio, including music transferred from old vinyl records, singing from decades-old acetate recordings, and audio captured with my digital SLR, and I wasn't too impressed with the effects at their default settings; often they reduced the clarity of the audio as they were reducing the amount of hum, pop, and hiss. But if you pick the right effect--I had the best luck with the Audio Polish--and play with the settings enough, you can improve the audio quality. Just don't drop it onto your soundtrack and expect Carnegie Hall.
Adobe says that Premiere Elements 9 is optimised for high-definition editing, and I had no real problems editing HD footage, except that I had to wait while my relatively powerful PC processed the footage. Premiere Elements 9 does not take advantage of certain graphics cards to speed things up, as its big brother Premiere Pro CS5 does, and Elements 9 remains a 32-bit application, whereas Premiere Pro CS5 is now a 64-bit application that can take advantage of larger amounts of system RAM.
I like using Premiere Elements 9; I think it's a good value for the money, and I consider it the best of its ilk. But I sure wish Adobe would rethink how its organiser works with its editing applications. Trying to keep straight which application does what is harder than remembering where I left my keys.
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To call Clark Goolsby a multi-media artist almost seems like an understatement. Indeed, the sheer volume of materials and techniques he expertly employs is staggering, often combining spray paint, acrylics, pencil, wood, foam, plastic, string, and even audio into one finished product – but even that far from represents the impressive span of Goolsby's "multi-ness." He seamlessly transitions between different styles, from abstracted, multifaceted geometric forms to realistically rendered objects, crisp lines to more impressionistic strokes and drippings. As if that wasn't enough, Goolsby tackles a seemingly endless mix of iconography, juxtaposing rainbows and antlers, inverted crosses and trophies, pyramids and statuesque faces. Oh, and by the way, it's all in technicolor.
The result is just as overwhelming as you might imagine, and that's exactly the point. Goolsby's work parallels the milieu of stimuli we are constantly barraged with every day of our lives – a combination, he suggests, which poses a persistent, sometimes surprising threat to our survival. Goolsby's most recent solo exhibition, Strange/Love at POVevolving Gallery in Los Angeles, focuses on "how we maintain optimism in a world that is so full of potentially life ending situations." At the center of this exhibition, an 18 foot long skeletal form made of wood and foam entitled "Dead Man" lies horizontally, suspended from the ceiling by hundreds of neon-colored threads. Goolsby's work reminds us that, even if we are all essentially dead men grasping onto life by the threads, at least those threads are bright, illustrating a sense of playful joie de vivre which urges us to live larger than life, finding beauty in the unrelenting stream of chaos while we still can.


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The Raiders will start Terrelle Pryor at quarterback in their preseason finale on Thursday, a game that could wind up being the final step in Pryor winning the starting job for Week One over Matt Flynn.
Pryor's ability to make plays with his feet has given him a leg up over Flynn, who has not played as well as Pryor in the preseason and is now dealing with the same elbow tendonitis that struck him last summer when Russell Wilson took the Seahawks' starting job. Should Pryor wind up with the job, offensive coordinator Greg Olson admitted that the team will have to alter the offense as Pryor would be doing more than playing in specific packages of plays and because he still needs to develop as a passer.
But that development may have to come on the fly during the season. Olson also said that Pryor has done some things that the Raiders are "excited about" and suggested that those things could win him the job because he has skills that are in short supply elsewhere on the Oakland roster.
"When you see Terrelle in a game, he just looks faster than the other players on the field," Olson said, via Scott Bair of CSNBayArea.com. "That's what jumped out at me, and probably jumped out at most people when they watch him play. He can run. He is a tremendous athlete, and he's got the ability to make plays. Right now we're looking for playmakers."
If Pryor does win the job, the Raiders will have to find a way to make the most out of the things that Pryor does well while also finding a way to improve the less-polished elements of his game. It's not an easy balancing act to pull off during a season, but the potential rewards that Pryor offers may make it too tempting a task to resist.


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The Police Department is located on the Moon Campus in Moon Township, PA in the Barry Center. The department is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The telephone number for emergency calls on campus using the university's phone system is 2424 or 412-397-2424. The telephone number may be used for all emergency calls and routine business inquiries.
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On July 24, 2002, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved amendments to NASD rules that establish, implement, and operate NASD's Alternative Display Facility (ADF) on a pilot basis for nine months. As described in more detail herein, members that choose to participate in the ADF during the pilot may quote and trade Nasdaq-listed securities on or through the ADF, commencing on July 29, 2002. NASD has proposed the permanent establishment and operation of the ADF in a separate rule filing, which would provide market participants the ability to quote and trade Nasdaq and exchange- listed securities. However, several regulatory issues relating to the trading of exchange-listed securities on the ADF have not been resolved. Because these open issues do not relate to trading Nasdaq securities, NASD has received approval to operate the ADF on a pilot basis with respect to Nasdaq securities only.
The SEC Approval Order, which includes the text of the amendments, is available at http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/34-46249.htm. This Notice is intended to provide an overview of how the ADF will operate and member requirements in this regard. For additional information regarding ADF, members should review the SEC Approval Order and other ADF documentation available at http://www.nasd.com/mkt_sys/adf_info.asp.
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Report: Apple Orders Ten Million 'iPad Minis'
(NEW YORK) – Apple has ordered ten million units of a smaller-version iPad, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. That's nearly twice the amount of Kindle Fire units tablet competitor Amazon ordered for the fourth quarter.
Apple has not yet confirmed reports of what is being dubbed by industry insiders as the "iPad Mini," but the Journal reported last month that the Cupertino, Calif., company gave Asian component manufacturers the go-ahead to start making 7.85-inch tablets.
Reports say Apple's latest creation could be announced within days and hit store shelves later this month.
The "iPad Mini" may also have a smaller price tag. Comparably sized tablets made by Google and Amazon generally sell for around $200, while the New iPad is listed on Apple's website at around $500.
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May 13, 2010
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The Schedule
Friday, May 14, 2010 at La Rue Field, 1:30 & 3:30 pm
Saturday, May 15, 2010 at La Rue Field, 12 pm
UC Santa Barbara (13-36, 4-14) vs. UC Davis (25-25, 14-4)
All-time series record vs. Aggies: 12-4
Last win: May 3, 2009 (12-0 in 5 innings)
Last loss: April 26, 2008 (4-1)
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For The Record
UCSB enters this week with a 13-36 overall record after dropping three straight to Pacific last weekend during their home-closing series. The Gauchos will finish the season with fewer than 20 wins for the first time since 2001, when they went 18-34. UCSB has also recorded 30-plus losses for the first time since 2004, when it posted 31.
What's Up Holmes?
UC Davis enters this weekend with a 25-25 overall record and a 14-4 Big West mark. The Aggies are coming off a sweep of Cal Poly last weekend. Current Big West Pitcher and Player of the Week, Alex Holmes, leads the Aggies with her .350 batting and 2.92 ERA. She has posted a 15-8 overall record in the circle this season and a perfect 8-0 record in Big West games.
Gauchos vs. Aggies
UCSB leads the all-time series against UCD, 12-4 and won last years' series, 3-0. The Gauchos have dropped just one conference series to UC Davis in 2008 and have never suffered a sweep at the hands of the Aggies.
Conference Update
Heading into the final weekend of conference play, UC Davis leads the Big West and could wrap up the Big West's automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament with a series win over UCSB. Cal State Northridge is in second at 13-5 and is biting at the Aggies' heels.
Get Off Our Bags
UCSB is tied for the conference lead in runners picked-off (6) and is first for double plays (22). In fact, the Gauchos' 22 double plays this season surpasses the UCSB school record, which was set in 2004 at 19. UCSB turned three double plays during last weekend's series with Pacific, including two in the series closer on Sunday.
Among The Nation's Best
UCSB ranks seventh nationally for double plays per game (0.45). Meanwhile, Jessica Ziegler ranks as the 51st toughest player to strike out. Keilani Jennings and Jessica Beristianos are tied for 49th nationally for sacrifice flies with three each.
Ziggy, Ziggy, Ziggy Can't You See? Sometimes Your Hits Just Hypnotize Me
Senior Jessica Ziegler is finishing her four year career at UCSB in fine fashion. The leadoff hitter leads UCSB and is fourth in the Big West with her 53 hits, she is second for stolen bases (19) and ranks seventh in the conference with her .329 batting average. Her 15 multi-hit games also lead the team. Not just an offensive standout, the first baseman also leads the conference for fielding double plays (18) and is second with her 339 putouts and 364 chances. Her 19 stolen bags are tied for seventh on the UCSB single-season stolen base top-10 list.
Making History
Speaking of Jessica Ziegler, she has solidified her place in the UCSB record books. The senior is now fourth all-time for career stolen bases after bringing her total to 48. She is four stolen bags away from tying Christine Ramos (2006-09) for third. Additionally, she has cracked the career hits top-10 list as she now ranks ninth with 160, two away from tying Tami Gregor (1985-87) for eighth. She also ranks sixth all-time for career runs (97).
Beristianos Brings Them Home
Jessica Beristianos currently leads the Gauchos with seven RBI in Big West play and has driven home 23% of their runs in conference games. She is batting .245 in conference games, good for third on the team. She leads the squad with 15 RBI and 10 doubles, ranking fifth in the conference. Additionally, she leads the squad with her 21 walks, which ranks eighth in the Big West.
While We Are On The Subject
Beristianos is climbing through the UCSB all-time top-10 lists. She recently cracked the RBI all-time list and has tied ninth-ranked Lindsey Herrin's career output of 70 (2004-05). She has also tied Stacy Atwood (1993-96) for fifth all-time with 32 career doubles.
The Power of Putich
Brooke Putich has had a solid sophomore season in which she is batting a career-best .302 which is good for second on the team and 10th among Big West players. She is also second on the squad with 35 hits and is third for runs (15) and stolen bases (7). Her .379 slugging percentage leads the squad. She has had hits in all but three Big West games that she has played in.
End Of An Era
Prior to this year, UCSB had posted seven consecutive winning seasons, a program record. Unfortunately, that streak has ended. With just six games remaining on the schedule, the best record the Gauchos can now finish with is 16-36 (.307).
MeLinda Makes Her Mark
Senior pitcher MeLinda Matsumoto will conclude her collegiate career this weekend ranking in the Gauchos' all-time top-10 for complete games and innings pitched. During her four seasons with the Gauchos, she has tossed 439.1 innings, ranking ninth all-time, and she has pitched 29 complete games, which is 10th all-time, tying Tracy Witherell (1982-83).
The Galicinao File
Head coach Brie Galicinao, who is now in her third season at the helm of the UCSB softball program, recorded her 60th win when the Gauchos defeated Utah Valley on Feb. 13. Galicinao has coached the Gauchos to a 69-85 cumulative record for a .448 winning percentage, the second best by a UCSB coach since the softball program went Division I in 1982. Galicinao has coached three players to All-Region honors, two players to Big West Field Player of the Year accolades, one Big West Freshman Pitcher of the Year and 12 All-Big West Conference selections. In 2008, Galicinao was named the Big West Co-Coach of the Year after her first season leading the Gauchos.
Farewell Seniors
Kelsey Anderson, Lindsey Correa, MeLinda Matsumoto, Priscilla Perez and Jessica Ziegler will conclude their collegiate careers this weekend at UC Davis. They have all competed for UCSB for four seasons.
Tweet, Tweet
Head coach Brie Galicinao is on Twitter. To get her insights and updates throughout the season (and the rest of the year), follow her here.
The Gaucho softball team has entered the blogsphere. Several members of the team are contributing regularly to "Gauchos.360" filling in UCSB fans on their student-athlete experience. To check it out click, here.


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BRUNSWICK — A state official last week promised Maine will be more attractive to businesses thanks to a Swedish wound-care manufacturer that celebrated its new location at Brunswick Landing.
The recently completed, $14 million facility at 192 Admiral Fitch Ave. will soon be the home to Molnlycke Manufacturing, an arm of Molnlycke Health Care. It will provide about 50 "high-quality, professional-skilled" jobs by the end the summer, according to company officials.
Speaking to an audience that included politicians, business owners and government officials, Maine Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner George Gervais said the company "will make Maine a more competitive state."
"We need to take this ceremony site to site and repeat this over and over again," Gervais said at the March 15 event. He said Molnlycke will help make Brunswick Landing a magnet for more companies in the future.
Molnlycke has already hired around two dozen employees, according to site director Mark Dignum. It will begin installing $35 million worth of "state-of-the-art" manufacturing equipment in April.
Molnlycke's parent company creates a variety of health-care products; the Brunswick subsidiary will focus on manufacturing an advanced bandage product with a patented adhesive technology that was previously made in Finland.
According to the company, Molnlycke sold $1.5 billion in advanced wound-care products in 2012. Dignum said the company also has the largest market share for advanced wound-care products in the U.S. and the second largest in the world.
Dignum told the audience that Molnlycke "already has growth ambitions to expand this facility," but on Monday clarified that expansion "is probably a number of years away."
"What will happen this year is we will probably be a single-shift operation," Dignum said. "As we continue to grow our market share in the U.S., we will transfer to a double shift, where we will need about 20 more operators."
Dignum said Molnlycke chose Brunswick Landing because of its proximity to Rynel, a Wiscasset-based subsidiary purchased by Molnlycke in 2011, which creates the foam used in the advanced bandage product.
"It makes sense to have it in the U.S. It's our fastest growing market, and it's just 20 minutes down the road," Dignum said, explaining that Rynel will continue to ship its foam to Molnlycke's European facilities until the Brunswick plant is ready. He said once everything is in place, it will allow the company to save more money and be more environmentally friendly.
In addition, he said, the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority offered a site with tax incentives that made sense for the company. He said it also helped that the U.S. was becoming its biggest market.
"We recognized as business that we have all of our eggs in one basket," Dignum said. "The risk mitigation aspect makes sense for us to have a second facility."
Sidebar Elements
Richard Wood, an engineering manager at Molnlycke Manufacturing, gives guests a tour of the company's new $14 million facility at Brunswick Landing on Friday, March 15. Full operations are expected to begin later this year.