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Paul G. Nahon, III, a former University of Richmond student and accomplished tennis player, died Aug. 15 while hiking in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park.
According to the Springfield News-Leader, he fell about 150 feet while pursuing his goal to climb all of the state's "fourteeners," mountains more than 14,000 feet tall. Nahon, from Springfield, Mo., was 20 years old.
"Paul surprised me," recalled Ben Johnson, the men's tennis coach. He described a player both academically and athletically gifted, who was diligent and willing to make sacrifices for his sport.
Nahon won two state championships while attending Glendale High School, and his 117 total wins is a Missouri record. But he excelled off the courts as well; he was one of the top 10 students in his high school class and a member of the National Honor Society. After being recruited to Richmond, he continued his academic success by having the highest male athlete GPA both his freshman and sophomore years.
Ultimately it was the stress of balancing academics and Division I tennis that led Nahon to transfer to a Division III program at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo., Johnson said. He would have started his first semester there this fall.
"He just had a different vision of where he wanted to go," Johnson said, rebuffing bitterness as a cause. "I think he took a very mature approach with it."
Junior Dylan Trent, Nahon's roommate and teammate, saw the intensity of Nahon's schedule gradually change him from "laid-back" to assiduous during the two years they lived together. After starting as a pre-med student, Nahon shifted to studying accounting before settling on environmental studies, a major that fit well with his love of climbing, hiking and the outdoors, Johnson said.
Trent said that he would miss his friend's "big, goofy smile" and charisma.
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The Deerfield Police Department asked Patch to publish these photos of artwork that was stolen from the Deerfield Festival of Fine Arts.
Authorities hope someone will recognize one or more of the items and report the crime.
According to police, at least six artists reported work stolen during Deerfield's festival earlier this month. Vendors remembered securing the pieces in their booths the night of June 4 and discovered them missing the next morning.
Officers are asking residents with any information to contact the Deerfield Police Department Investigations Section at 847-945-8638.
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The Deerfield Festival of Fine Arts featured 100 artists from across the country last weekend. It also seemed to have attracted a band of thieves.
Sunday morning, police were called to the festival grounds along Park Avenue and Deerfield Road in response to missing artwork. At least six artists reported pieces were stolen from their booths overnight.
According to a police report, a majority of the artists said they had secured the items in their booths around 6 p.m. June 4 and noticed them missing the following morning.
More than a dozen items were stolen, including a piece of stonework valued at $1,500, a rainbow mosaic valued at $290 and a female manikin with 75 sterling earrings attached to it.
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- Child-Theme, removed extra blank space at the end of the document causing errors
- Footer expand button on mobile now changes its color with the rest of the theme
- Large Products Slider – full image area is now clickable
- Portfolio – bug fixes for translated sites
- Updated shop header
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- Updated the list of Google Webfonts
- Updated error styles for ContactForm 7
- Bugfix: Zoomed Image on Variable Products
- Updated: FontAwesome Icons
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The Retailer V 1.9 – April 17, 2014
- Wishlist Functionality (Optional Plugin)
- Improvements on the Portfolio section: new layout, filters and ordering options
- Option to enable/disable the social media buttons on the product page
- Option to enable/disable the related products slider on the product page
- Header / Top Bar Options: Change background colors / Text Color and Size
- The Credit Card icons can be easily removed now
- Improvements on the mobile behavior of the Footers
- Improvements on the product reviews form
- Updated Slider Revolution
- Better language support for child themes
- Tested for compatibility with WooCommerce 2.1.7
- Tested for compatibility with WordPress 3.8.3
- Minor tweaks and bug fixes
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Four people were hospitalized in Sarasota after smoking fake pot.
Officials say they not only became very sick but some were incredibly violent, and it took several grown men to subdue them.
They were smoking homemade pot out of an apple.
It goes by the name 'spice' or 'K2'.
The drug was laced with a concoction of chemicals, and officials say it was laced with some strange chemicals.Related Content: Pinellas deputies make first Spice arrest
On Tuesday afternoon at Five Points Park Sarasota police officers came upon a large group of people.
They were surrounding a man who was unresponsive on the ground. Then suddenly, two other men and a woman collapsed!
First responders arrived to treat them and two of the men were very violent, one needed to be restrained by six people!
They were all later transported to Sarasota memorial hospital, and at one point, two of the smokers were in serious condition.
After the four were taken to the hospital, an officer started asking around- trying to figure out what these people were smoking. Turns out, it was fake pot laced with formaldehyde and embalming fluid!According to the National Cancer Institute- formaldehyde is a colorless, flammable chemical used in building materials and household products.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have classified formaldehyde as a known cancer-causing substance.
PJ Brooks with the addiction recovery program, First Step, said spice is essentially potpourri laced with deadly chemicals.
He says it's far worse than marijuana and can cause psychotic episodes or even death.
Brooks said, "The best comparison I can give is similar to what years and years ago we used to see when individuals used PCP."
Brooks said spice is illegal, but manufacturers work around the law by changing the formula.
Brooks said, "They change the chemical makeup just to stay ahead of the law and keep it legal. And you really don't know what you're getting."
Sarasota police have collected evidence from the scene and they're going to see whether the fake pot used in the park is illegal.
Police Chief Bernadette DiPino said, "We are going to try to determine who actually sold it, how it was made, who made it and bring those individuals to justice also."
Chief DiPino said her officers are going to go to local stores to crack down on the sale of illegal spice.
She said, "If we find that the substance that they're selling is illegal, we will prosecute to the fullest extent that we can."
Three of the four people have been discharged and one was unlisted.
County officials are also drafting an ordinance to keep spice off the streets and to really clamp down on the retailers who sell them.
Brooks said the anti-spice law is expected to be drafted by the end of the year and could be in place by the spring.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will hold a media conference call today (October 17, 2012) to discuss the upcoming Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen fight which will take place next year (April 27, 2013).
The conference call updates and live blog will begin promptly at 4:00 p.m. ET.
Scheduled to attend will be the headlining fighters of the evening, Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen as well as UFC President Dana White.
Jones is the current UFC light heavyweight champion. He is widely considered one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, but came under intense scrutiny after turning down a short-notice fight against Sonnen, causing a domino effect which eventually led to the cancellation of UFC 151. "Bones" recently defended his title against Vitor Belfort at UFC 152, but injured his arm in the process.
Sonnen is a former two-time title challenger, having pushed Anderson Silva to the limit twice at UFC 117 and then again at UFC 148 before getting finished on both occasions. He's one of the best wrestlers in the sport today, but that's not what earned him this shot. It was his mouth. Sonnen's had Jon Jones square in his sights ever since announcing a move to the light heavyweight division and now he finally got what he wanted.
See how it all came to be right here. Now, on the the media call.
Brian Hemminger here. The conference call is scheduled to begin at 4:00 p.m. ET
4:05 p.m. - We're getting started
Jon Jones: No, it wasn't the money. It really just had to do with getting over this chapter of my career. I'm trying to move forward and do a lot of amazing things. The UFC 151 cancellation, it was a tough moment for my career and I think beating Chael Sonnen and then after that beating Dan Henderson would help me add closure to that whole situation. It's just putting closure to the Chael Sonnen invasion of my career and the whole 151 situation.
Jon Jones: It doesn't have anything to do with whether or not I thought I could beat Chael. It was about handling my career in a professional manner. Taking a last minute fight to defend your world championship wasn't fair to me. I absolutely know I can beat Chael and I'm really confident I can win this fight. I'm a championship fighter and I really don't think Chael is a guy who knows how to win championships.
Jon Jones: They said I shouldn't be training for the next several months. It might be a little more difficult but I'll give it my best and I'm bringing in great coaches. They found small tears in my elbow and I'm excited to do rehab in Las Vegas with the UFC recommended therapists to get me back healthy.
Dana White: It depends how everything lines up, what big fights we can make and what injuries will or won't happen. We definitely are planning on doing a big fight in Cowboy Stadium. As soon as we feel we can make the big fight we feel we can sell close to 100,000 tickets.
Jon Jones: The biggest things I will try to get across to the guys I'm coaching is to be extremely passionate first and foremost. I will try to inspire them and be a good example. The other thing is to have the work ethic to back up that passion. Chael has passion with the way he talks but passion means nothing if you don't have the work ethic to back it up and that's what I want to show the fighters on my show.
Dana White: We got the word that Jon couldn't fight til April. It made sense to do The Ultimate Fighter. Machida can fight. Dan Henderson can fight. Gustafsson and Shogun are gonna fight in December so everything will keep right on moving. I'll let Jones speak for himself. Obviously Chael wants this fight and the fans wanted this fight. Jon said, "I can't fight til April and I'd like to go in there and whoop Chael's ass" and I'll defend the belt against whoever you tell me to defend it against. Whoever's next in line at 205 pounds can fight Jon Jones next for the title.
Chuck from FX: The show is going to move off of Friday nights. It's definitely moving to a week day. There will be an announcement on that somewhere in the next 30-45 days. I will say that Spike should watch their ass.
Chuck from FX: We were absolutely monitering the Friday situation and we want to see if there is a day that would work better for the show. Certainly with Jones and Sonnen as the coaches for this upcoming season we have probably the best casting that we've seen for this show and we have really high expectations as to what the ratings will be as the result. We have very, very big expectations for ratings.
Chael Sonnen: This is a means to the end. It's a tremendous nuisance. I don't want to go to Las Vegas. I live in West Lynn. This call is about the show, not Jon and I. This show is the biggest and toughest tournament that we have in teh sport. This isn't a four man tournament that gets spread over the course of a year. It's tougher than the NFL playoffs. This is no more reality TV than an NFL playoff or an Olympic sport. This is a tournament that's so tough that great fighters like Josh Koschkeck and Gray Maynard couldn't win it. This will put all those seasons to shame. There's a world champion if not more than one that's in these young men.
Dana White: The Finale will be at the Hard Rock. It premieres in Janurary and we're talking about New Jersey for the Jones fight but it isn't set in stone.
Dana White: I've said this before and I'll say it again. Dan Henderson had the opportunity for the fight and he got injured. Now Jones is injured. Everyone of these guys that are bitching about a title fight now were offered a fight and they turned it down. They refused to fight Jon Jones and now they're bummed out that Chael accepted a fight on 8 days' notice. These guys will do this, they'll fight and we'll have an absolute number one contender when Jones comes back.
Chuck from FX: Clearly Spike has been dogging us for most of this year with the launch of the two seasons of The Ultimate Fighter by creating viewer confusion and scheduling old episodes and puttiing them off as new content. They're going to try to have their own reality show that's similar to The Ultiamte Fighter. We watched how they behaved and we're well aware of their behavior and how they've acted competitively. We'll be watching what they schedule, how they schedule and where they schedule.
Chuck from FX: We want to put shows where they're gonna work best and we really believe in this product. We're huge fans of what Dana and Lorenzo have built over the last seven years and we want to find the best place for this product for it to work.
Chael Sonnen: Let's be clear. Nobody said Chael clearly doesn't deserve anything. Let's understand, not one of those fighters said "Hey Dana, I'll fight Chael." I called every one of those bastards out and I've got no problem slapping any one of them around including the Karate Kid. The only fighter to call Jon Jones out is me. Nobody calls me out and I never get hurt. They can whine all they want but not one of them has stepped up. They get jealous or envious of an opportunity but they never go out to the mound and make the call. I wanted it and I got it. I talked a cat out of a tree earlier today. At the end of it all, Ariel, good for me and chalk one more up for the bad guy.
Chael Sonnen: I think Jon Jones is the best fighter that I've ever seen. If I was to compare somebody, I would put Randy Couture above him but a lot of that is out of respect. He's got techniques taht I don't even know what they're called. He hasn't beat anybody until he beat me. He beat Bader, Shogun, that glorified Hollywood extra Rampage, Vitor. What's next, he's gonna fight Scott Ferrozo? I'm the man and that's because I say I'm the man. If anyone wants the spot, they can come and take it from me. Come do the heavy lifting boys, I'll be there.
Jon Jones: I just might (throw a hell of an afterparty) definitely in April.
Chael Sonnen: First off, I've been on both sides of an ass whoopin and that's something that Jon hasn't, but he's also fought a lot of guys that are timid and are afraid of a fight. I'm gonna walk out there and get in a fist fight. As much as I'll admit, he's better. Skill for skill, he's fantastic but I'm in better shape than him.
Jon Jones: You in good shape on TRT or off TRT?
Chael Sonnen: Let's get off this subject.
Jon Jones: I'm split between the middle. I think the belt should be a legit number one contender but without the fans, what are you? A couple months ago everyone was calling me a sissy and a wuss saying I wouldn't fight Chael Sonnen. I'm over whether he deserves it or not and it's more about what the fans want. They complain now but it's too late. I want to put the Chael Sonnen champion behind me. Does it deligitimize the belt, in some ways it does but Chael's not getting close to the belt and this is more about putting an end to his irrelevance.
Dana White: I think people that said that yesterday or the day before didn't know the whole situation. Now that the facts are out there it makes more sense. There's no clogging up the light heavyweight division.
Chael Sonnen: Who did he even beat? It's been a revolving door in that division since Chuck and Randy left. He's not the guy.
Jon Jones: Come on Chael. Chael, really?
Dana White: I need to dive in with what we're gonna do. I've got to start putting some other fights together for the rest of the light heavyweight divison. I'll start putting that together this week. I dont' know about Dan, that's the thing. We were talking about Dan Henderson trying to get him to fight again after his injury. They said it would only be a few weeks and he had to stay off it but then a few weeks later his knee wasn't ready. We had to pull the trigger and make decisions around here and if guys aren't ready to fight . I don't even know if Dan would do The Ultimate Fighter. It's a lot trickier than that. Getting shit done around here is a lot harder than it looks.
Chael Sonnen: The only thing that deligitimizes the title is the brat holding it.
Jon Jones: Chael's an interesting guy. I respect some things about him. He goes and gets what he wants except for world championships or any championships. He's a good talker and good for the sport in some ways. He's extremely disrespectful and not much of a championship level athlete at all. He'll be able to do his TV shows and commentating and all that. I'm doing Chael a favor by showing Chael what his true calling which is his gift of gab and not athletic talent.
Jon Jones: I've faced plenty of wrestlers like Vladimir Matyushenko, Jake O'Brien and Matt Hamill and had no problems. Chael is a decent wrestler. He was an Olympic alternate but he wasn't on the team. No disprespect to other alternates but he's not at that level. Who cares if he takes me down, he gets submitted all teh time from top position anyways. I've wrestled since I was a 14 year old boy and I still love wrestling. I'm definitely prepared. If he does take me down, so what? His ground and pound is weak and he gets submitted all the time. If I do get him down, his face will open up. I feel I have nothing to worry about in wrestling. I have a slight edge in jiu-jitsu and I have a huge edge in kickboxing. I'm not intimidated by his power. I don't see any way Chael can win this fight but I'll still train like a madman. I'm ready to lay the smackdown for the things he said not only for the things he said not just about me but about other people and send him back to the movies.
Dana White: When Diaz gets off suspension, he'll have a fight against one of the top contenders at 170 pounds, but we'll see what happens.
Dana White: The fact that people say this move was all about the ratings means this will probably do great ratings so I like it.
Chuck from FX: This season will be epic
Jon Jones: I think TRT is terrible. If you're gonna consider yourself an athlete. TRT would be perfect for Chael Sonnen if he wasn't one of the most difficult sports in world. Right now I'm 25 and I'm sure I'm not as happy-go-lucky as I was at 20. If I took a drug to make me like I was at 20, people would hate me.
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The Dissassociative Investigative Team Correspondents (DIT-C) Press has revealed plans by the pharmaceutical industry and editors of the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Disorders (DSM) to "recruit more patients and sell more drugs," according to critics.
"With increasing numbers of people electing 'natural' treatments such as meditation, diet, and easily cultivated medicinal herbs, pressure on Big Pharm and the psychiatric industry to produce more consumers is at an all time high," says an anonymous source at the APA, apparently unhappy with the trend.
"The medicalization of behavior," he further states, "led DSM-4 editors to include normal shyness and introversion as 'Social Phobia,' and the jitteriness and agitation from too much coffee as 'Caffeine Related Disorder.' "
Currently in its fourth revision, the DSM is used around the world by clinicians, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and regulation agencies to diagnose and treat mental disorders.
According to leaked documents, The American Psychiatric Association requested its sister organization, the American Society for PsychosocialSilliness to contribute suggestions for the DSM revision in 2013.
A leaked internal email to the DSM 5 Revision Committee, from ASPS President, Dr. Itza Kon, lists the following newly identified disorders recommended for inclusion:
CHRONIC HYPERDIGITIZATION: the frequent use of a finger or fingers to engage in a variety of acts on an escalating scale of severity. Symptoms of HPDT are:
1. Pointing the finger at others when things go wrong.
2. Pointing it at oneself after successful accomplishments have been achieved, no matter who was responsible.
3. Tendency to gesticulate wildly when angry, using the middle finger of either hand, generally directed at one or more individuals other than oneself.
4. Excessive use of index fingers and thumbs to poke at keyboards, keypads, car horns, and perhaps the most dangerous symptom, the forceful poking directly upon the chest of another person when both are in a heightened state of anxiety and face-to-face.
ANTISOCIAL CELLULARITIS: condition in which the individual seems permanently attached to a cell phone, and displaying one or more of the following symptoms:
1. serious inattention to one's immediate surroundings,
2. accidents in moving vehicles or to a lesser extent, on foot,
3. loss of friendships, dining companions, and in the worst cases, normal family member interactions as a result of the condition,
4. mild to moderate hearing loss with some evidence of long term brain atrophy.
ATYPICAL FILLERILIA: a condition in which the individual is obsessed with injecting mostly foreign substances into his or her face to attempt to quell the effects of aging. Symptoms include:
1. wearing sunglasses at regular intervals of about three to six months, indoors or out, when such behavior is not typical of the individual,
2. mild to moderate bruising around the jaw, lips, eyelids, and forehead with no evidence of an encounter with a door, fist, or auto accident,
3. headaches at regular intervals generally coinciding with one or more of the aforementioned events,
4. gradually declining bank balances with long-term diminishing return on investment.
HYPOWRINKLEOSIS PSYCHOSIS: generally associated with A-Fillerilia, but including obsessive attention to other regions of the body as well as the face. Symptoms are similar to A-FILL.
BORDERLINE ENTITLEMENT DISORDER: described as "epidemic" in the USA, severe BED results in an almost total lack of motivation to achieve anything but the most rudimentary accomplishments: eating, drinking, fraternizing with members of the opposite (or same) sex, texting, watching TV, and necessary body functions.
Symptoms rapidly get worse without intervention, and can escalate from "Juvenile BED" (not wanting to clean one's room), to full-blown psychosis in which sufferers are barely able to get out of bed.
BED is among the most difficult conditions to cure, since it's often found in the presence of those with BORDERLINE ENABLING DISORDER, which is almost as difficult to treat.
Treatment for Entitlement Disorder requires very early and consistent intervention with "Get It Yourself" therapy. Therapy for Entitlement Disorder may require an initial period of total withdrawal from all appliances, electronics, automobiles, fast-food, indulgent relatives and associates, especially for the juvenile BED patient.
Treatment for people with Enabling Disorder is most effective in the absence of patients with Entitlement Disorder. The former may go into remission after the latter's symptoms are resolved, although it's difficult to "cure" one without simultaneous management of the other.
The following is, according to Dr. Kon, "endemic in Western society, and has been noted with increasing frequency throughout countries adopting Western habits."
MALIGNANT VERBOSITY: a condition in which the sufferer just can't shut up. Symptoms include:
1. rapid, frequent flapping of one's jaws, generally accompanied by meaningless chatter, vague staring into the distance, and lack of eye contact unless others attempt, generally unsuccessfully, to speak.
2. Shortness of breath, indicated by occasional gasps for air between long sentences which are most often prefaced with the personal pronoun "I."
3. Inability to formulate anything other than purely rhetorical questions not requiring a response by anyone other than the patient,
4. Inability to answer questions that have nothing to do with the patient, without redirecting the conversation immediately back to himself.
This condition is also found in about 50% of those with Social Cellularitis and is thought to run in families. Occurrence is possible among close associates over time, suggesting an environmental cause, resulting in a complete absence of silence at any given moment in their association.
Treatment for MVB has the greatest likelihood of success when the patient still has at least a rudimentary ability to stop talking when interrupted, listen for more than one minute at a time, make eye contact with another speaker, and actually ask a question unrelated to the patient herself.
Sources tell DIT-C Press that these and other conditions will prove a boon to both the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatrists/psychologists. Estimates are that 9 out of 10 people in the USA will have a diagnosable disorder if these conditions are included in DSM-5, and DIT-C sources say the 10th will be at serious risk.
Efforts are already underway to secure the inclusion of these conditions so insurance and Medicare will cover them, threatening to further bankrupt the healthcare system.
Representatives of the APA, pharmaceutical industry and Dr. Kon of ASPS could not be reached for comment by press time.
Dissassociative Investigative Team Correspondents Press (DIT-C), for The Naples Daily News, January, 2011.
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- January 10, 2011
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As usual, you have provided another service to mankind by elucidating on our (not yours or mine, but others) many strange behavioral habits. But what about "Puncturofilia?"
Unfortunately, I saw no mention of society's recent infatuation with punching holes in themselves (in the most inappropriate locations) as a symbol of trendiness. (Isn't there an Rx to get folks to stop doing that?)
Have you ever tried to eat and chew your food with a pearl pin through your tongue? And what about those sad folks who put dangles on their dangle, or jewelry on their jewels?
Some people have many, many manifestations! It even makes me wonder how they get through airport security screening devices?!?!?
- January 10, 2011
- Reply to comment #2
lol....ever wonder how they get thru airport security?
When was the last time you saw one on an airplane.......(sly grin)....
Thanks for writing, Lee.
- January 10, 2011
- Reply to comment #3
Loved this column! So many of these I have seen first hand, including Lee's with all the punctures. I once saw a teenage boy have to have multiple metal pieces removed from various parts of his anatomy before going to surgery. He was not a happy camper! I also especially identified with seeing the ones with cell phones glued to their hands. I have almost been hit multiple times by people so intent on them that they were walking right into me! Can't imagine being that oblivious to your surroundings, can you? Keep up the good job of pointing out all our foibles, won't you?
- January 11, 2011
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ouch....I don't understand the fascination with multiple piercings.
I won't even let anyone pierce my EARS...lol
Thanks for writing, Musicluvr.
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Google has to fix this Android issue (LAG)
Forget all the new Google services Google is working on and Android 4.3 or whatever is coming out. You know what I want from Android? A no lag experience on even the lowest of phones. Why is it that Lumias and iPhones with horrible specs outperform a nexus 4 on day to day swiping and browsing (Chrome sucks too BTW) .
The Nexus 4, GS4, HTC one, and all of the android high end phones are smooth, but then anything mid range or low end is MISERABLE. And even the high end devices still aren't as smooth as something mid range iOS or WP8....
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Saturday might have been the official start of the 2013 NBA Playoffs, but Sunday things really ramp up as the defending champion Miami Heat take the floor in an Eastern Conference first round matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks. Miami is not the only No. 1 seed in action on Sunday, as the Western Conference's top seed, the Oklahoma City Thunder, will battle the Houston Rockets in the evening.
After dominating the Eastern Conference throughout the season, the Heat will take on the No. 8 seed Bucks on Sunday (7 p.m. ET, TNT). Miami had a 27-game winning streak during the season, finished 12 games better than anyone else in the East and won three of four contests with Milwaukee. The main intrigue in this series will be how Miami responds to remarks from Bucks' guard Brandon Jennings, who made it known his team does not fear the defending champs and is looking forward to this playoff matchup.
Out West, an intriguing first-round No. 1 vs. No. 8 matchup will pit Oklahoma City against Houston and former teammate James Harden (9:30 p.m. ET, TNT). The Thunder took two of three games during the regular season, but in Houston's one victory Harden torched his former team for 46 points. The bearded one, no longer coming off the bench as he did in Oklahoma City, ended the year fifth in the NBA in scoring. The series should be a high-scoring affair, as it will feature two of the NBA's top three scoring teams (Houston, 106 points per game and Oklahoma City, 105.7 ppg).
Also in action on Sunday, the No. 6 seed Atlanta Hawks face the No. 3 seed Indiana Pacers (1 p.m. ET, TNT) and the Kobe-less Lakers, the No. 7 seed out West, tip off against old nemesis Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC). Atlanta and Indiana split their season series 2-2, while the Spurs took two of three from the Lakers during the regular season.
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I just tried it and it worked just fine for me. Is that it "looks" like a parabola? Because most likely your profile view has a vertical exageration to it. Set the exageration to1 in the profile view style and check it again. After doing that, draw a 3 point circle on the profile and see if they are the same.
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Welcome to Circlet 2.0.
These are the submission guidelines for writers. (Artists have their own page now. See navigation tabs above.)
Types of publications
- Traditional Print Books
- Ebooks
- Writers on Writing Essays
- Microfictions (short-short stories)
- Aural stimulation
Traditional Print Books: At the moment we are not reading submissions for print publications. That means do NOT send stories intended for printed books. (It also means do NOT post comments in the blog with your book proposal. No. Do not.) It'll say here when (if) we re-open, so please do not waste your time sending manuscripts, nor proposals, at this time. (Blog and ebook submissions are being accepted as described below.) We are also not accepting submissions or nominations for a "Best of" contest at this time. Watch the blog for updates.
Ebooks: We have two ebook programs in the works right now, our regular anthologies and a paranormal romance imprint called Clasp Editions. Clasp does not accept over the transom submissions at this time. To submit to Clasp, authors must publish one or more short stories in our anthology program. An interested author would then submit a proposal to the editor with whom they have worked on the anthology. A full proposal should include a cover letter, plot synopsis, three sample chapters, a list and discussion of comparable and competitive books in the genre, and a marketing plan/promotional ideas.
Anthology submissions are accepted from all who are 18 years of age or over. All stories for ebook publication will conform to the same standards of quality and sensuality as in all Circlet's print books. Ebooks pay $25 per story, with an additional $25 if a book goes into print or POD. To see the most recent calls for submissions on specific anthologies, click here: http://www.circlet.com/?tag=call-for-submissions Each anthology has its own deadline, submission address, and subject matter or theme.
Writers on Writing: Circlet 2.0 seeks 500-1000 word "guest blog" entries, essays, articles, thoughts, advice, and book reviews, etc… from erotica, paranormal romance, and sf/fantasy writers about topics of interest to our readers and enthusiasts of the erotic sf/f genre. That includes personal thoughts on the writing process, book reviews or reactions, interviews, experiences in the genre, con panel follow-ups, et cetera, for our Writers On Writing columns. Please browse the Writers on Writing category to see the latest examples. We have had Jean Roberta writing about sf/f books that seem to forget that sex leads to reproduction, Kal Cobalt on how Asimov's laws of robotics would affect BDSM play, and many more. Writers on Writing pieces, guest blogs, and other non-fiction essays pay $5 via Paypal (you must have a Paypal account) or a free print book of your choice if you are in the US/Canada (or an ebook, if you prefer, no matter where you are).
Microfictions: Also for the web site, we are looking for 250-1000 word short-shorts of erotic sf/f and related genres (no horror, though) that make an enticing fictive snack. Microfictions should be sex-positive. literary quality, and although they may be explicit should be tastefully written. Microfictions pay $5 via Paypal (you must have a Paypal account) or a free book if you are in the US/Canada (or ebook, if you prefer). Check out the "free reads" tab above to read previously published microfictions on the site. Microfiction submissions should be made to the address "circlet.microfiction {at} gmail (dot) com."
Aural Stimulation: We are also producing podcasts and MP3 downloads of microfictions as described above, essays, reviews, and interviews. These fall into two categories: minis and standalones.
Aural Mini: A 5-7 minute piece, recorded by you as an MP3 and then submitted to us may be incorporated as part of a larger podcast, which would also include interviews, book reviews, and the like, or fiction be made available as a post of its own. Be sure to state your name, the title of the piece, and where it comes from or your own blog/website when you record. Think NPR for erotic science fiction. Non-fiction contributions to the podcast are paid only in free books. Fiction is paid $5 via Paypal or a free book (or ebook).
Aural Standalone: If you have a short story 2500 words up to 12,000 words, of erotic science fiction, which you can provide to us as an MP3 recording, we may be interested in selling it on the site. Submit by sending the whole manuscript along with a 2 minute recording sample to circletintern (at) gmail (dot) com. Our terms on MP3 sales are that Circlet and the author would split 50/50 any income from sales of the MP3 through our site.
Microfiction submissions should be made to the address "circlet.microfiction {at} gmail (dot) com." Other submissions for the Circlet 2.0 website should be made to the address "circletintern" {at} gmail (dot)com. Please allow 2-3 weeks for reply. Submissions for individual ebook anthologies should be sent to the individual editors working on each one, as listed in the individual calls for submissions.
Bogus Submissions & Queries
If you write something OTHER than erotic science fiction, erotic fantasy, or blog essays that relate to these genres, we ARE NOT INTERESTED. Also, do not think you are being smart and clever and proactive with your writing career by posting a comment here in the blog with your book proposal or pitch for what kind of material you write. No. Don't do it. You're being rude, stupid, and an amateur if you do. No, really.
We also do not take QUERIES on erotic sf/f short stories. If you have a story you think we'd like, submit it to an anthology that it fits. If there is not an anthology that it fits open at the moment, then we DO NOT WANT IT RIGHT NOW and querying us about it only makes you look like you didn't bother to read these guidelines. Okay? Now you know.
Some other places to look for submission guidelines if your work didn't fit here:
+ Erotica Readers Association
+ Duotrope Market Listings
Manuscript Formatting Requirements
Most anthologies are only accepting email submissions, but the final choice is up to the project's editor, so read the call for submissions carefully. For email submissions, send your story as a word processor document (.doc, .rtf, .txt, etc.) attached to the email, but do not forget to include your complete contact information on the attached document! (If it's only in the body of the email, it's quite easy to have a brilliant story come out of the printer and then have no way to trace back where the heck it came from.) Manuscripts should be correctly/professionally formatted for submission using standard manuscript format. (If you're not sure what we mean by that, Google it. Hint: do include your contact info on the ms and DON'T use 17-point Curlicue font in purple.) And yes, we expect professional writers and those who aspire to at least some professionalism to provide their real names and phone numbers, even if planning to publish under a pseudonym.
Our Genre & Editorial Preferences
Typically we want short stories between 3000 and 7000 words, with some flexibility about the lengths. Generally we've found that below 2500 words there isn't enough room for an author to get sufficient plot, characterization, and erotic action in to make it a good story, though it has occasionally been done. Over 8500 words and we are often looking at a novel or long novella that someone tried to cram down into short story size. Begin a short story in medias res and use your craft to keep it paced like a story and not like a novel.
As for our genre, people often want to know just what do we mean by "erotic science fiction?" What follows is as detailed a description as we can give.
1) Erotic Content: Erotica means sex. We reject many manuscripts because they do not have enough sexual content. No level of explicitness is required, but erotic interaction must take place! It need not be described graphically or vulgarly but it must be focal and integral to the characterization, plot, and conflict resolution. Also, the sex must be enjoyable for the characters–positive, celebrating sex and sexuality! No rape, exploitation, mutilation, suicide, or snuff. Most other manuscripts we reject are because they have a negative attitude toward sex and/or they portray not a sexy, enjoyable scene, but a terrible rape/exploitation.
2) Science fiction / fantasy: We don't split hairs between sf and f. Our main prerequisite is that the story not take place in the "real world." Magical realism, alternate realities, other times and planets are all welcomed. (However, please note we do not publish horror! The rule is: no murder, dismemberment, rape, castration, or other gruesome topics.) The best blendings of erotica and sf we have seen accomplish the mix by making the science fictional element inseparable from the erotic one. For example, in a story in which two telepaths fall in love, the telepathy sf aspect could be what gives their erotic relationship fire. Merely transporting your erotic scene to a space station isn't really enough.
Editorial Biases: We are strong supporters of "alternative" sexualities, including lesbian, gay, transgendered, S/M, leather, other fetishes, and so on, but do not try to "queer up" your story for us if the characters are heterosexual. Though we admit we have a taste for the hot and kinky stuff, work need not be overly kinky to get our attention. We encourage works that are fresh & original, left of center, and so on. We admit to a certain bias away from the sometimes cliched aspects of all genres, including pornography. If it seems like it's "been done before" we may not have a place for it. See below for some specific examples to avoid.
DONT'S: We're really serious about these: Don't send anything too long (over 10,000 words). Don't send horror. Don't send erotic stories that have no science fiction or magical element. Don't send sf/f stories that don't have a lot of actual sex in them. Don't send stories with negative attitudes about sex and sexuality. Don't send stories where the sex takes place "off camera." Don't send stories that lack plot or characterization. Don't send novels; novels are not "stories." Don't send anything centering on nonconsensual violence, rape, castration, murder, necrophilia, or other purposefully gross topics. Don't send stories with homophobic, racist, or sexist messages. Don't send stories that have no plot, pastiches of "images," or poetry. Don't send stories featuring trademarked or copyrighted characters (Batman, Captain Kirk, etc.) Don't send ms on disc.
Please note that we're almost certainly never going to buy any stories that contain any of the following ideas, which have become cliches. No really, we're sick of these plots and ideas, even when they are good ones:
- Humans have sex with aliens as part of "diplomatic relations."
- Aliens come to Earth in search of semen/life energy.
- Two people have sex and THEN we find out one of them is an alien/vampire/android/elf! (Who knew!)
- Vampire falls in love with a blood doctor/researcher/scientist.
- Dragon falls in love with "virgin sacrifice."
- Human stumbles accidentally onto a faerie ring orgy.
- Artist falls in love with beautiful man or woman in a painting–turns out he or she is a vampire, is still alive, and becomes his muse.
- Vampire picks up victim in a bar under auspices of sex, seduces victim, then kills victim. (Nor Surprise Ending #1: The 'victim' is a vampire hunter! Nor Surprise Ending #2: Victim turns out to be a vampire, too!)
- Lonely woman conjures perfect man out of magazine, off cover of romance novel, or from her own dreams.
This isn't to say that these ideas automatically make bad stories. Some of them were good–once. But we've seen them too many times already. Originality counted for a LOT in choosing the winners of the Best Fantastic Erotica contest.
Editorial director Cecilia Tan was on a panel at a convention a few years ago about the overused ideas in erotic sf/f, and the audience came up with an even longer list of things they have already seen and don't need to see again. The list included: the "ghost sex" haunted house story, story of the last man alive/last woman alive getting it on, Adam & Eve references, naughty tentacles and alien anal probes, multiple breasts, the "interstellar whore," a chemical or disease turns everyone horny, time-travel leads to sleeping with your parent(s) to create yourself.
Use any of these ideas at your peril–even the readership says they are sick of them.
What about novels? — Since 1992 we have had a policy that we do not accept unsolicited novel queries or manuscripts. We do not publish novels, usually. In our ebook program, we are experimenting with some novels, but they are solicited from writers we have worked with before and have relationships with. So the rule stands: no over-the-transom or unsolicited novel queries are accepted. They will be discarded unread. The way to get in the door here is to sell stories to our anthologies and develop a relationship with an editor who may consider your novel-length manuscript.
WEB SERIALS? — We've seriously considered starting to try to serialize some fiction. Email editorial director Cecilia Tan at ctan.circletpress at gmail dot com if you'd like to pitch such an idea or if you have an unpublished long-form work that could be serialized, and we can talk about it. We're not quite sure what we're looking for here, but we'll probably know it when we see it. (Our current Wednesday web serial is being written in-house and seems to be doing well.) Pay would be minimal, probably $1.00 a week at most to start, along with a deal for Circlet to publish the finished whole as an ebook at the end, in which the author would share royalties of 35% of the net profits. (As ad revenue on the site picks up, the pay rate could go up.)
Finally, we reiterate the following in the hopes of saving some of you pain and embarrassment:
Bogus Submissions & Queries
If you write something OTHER than erotic science fiction, erotic fantasy, or blog essays that relate to these genres, we ARE NOT INTERESTED. Also, do not think you are being smart and clever and proactive with your writing career by posting a comment here in the blog with your book proposal or pitch for what kind of material you write. No. Don't do it. You're being rude, stupid, and an amateur if you do. No, really. We also do not take QUERIES on erotic sf/f short stories. If you have a story you think we'd like, submit it to an anthology that it fits. If there is not an anthology that it fits open at the moment, then we DO NOT WANT IT RIGHT NOW and querying us about it only makes you look like you didn't bother to read these guidelines, like the poor schlubs below in comments, whose heads we have left on pikes for you to see as a cautionary measure.


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Get the inside story for your weekend music choices here each Friday. A member of the local music scene, Richard Guerrero plays in the three local bands. When he's not playing, he's listening to the many of the local bands and those on the Texas tour.
LOCAL361: David and the Black PandaJuly 11, 2008 11:43 AM
Welcome to the seventh installment of LOCAL361, the Amped Up! monthly feature that focuses on local bands and scene movers, shakers and rock 'n' roll deal-makers. This month, Amped Up! is pleased to present indie rock unit David and the Black Panda, a relatively new act comprised of members who've seen service in other outfits.
David and the Black Panda ... live at the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Battle of the Bands event earlier this year.
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If you haven't yet seen David and The Black Panda, don't feel left out. The band is relatively new on the scene but that's not to say the band personnel don't have their own respective histories. Frontman Damon Ballweg hails from the Valley -- McAllen, to be specific -- and got his start with the Decadent Suits. He enrolled at TAMU-CC and soon found himself auditioning for the bass slot in Black Market Revival -- a heretofore two-piece garage rock combo in the vein of the White Stripes. The band was looking to expand their sound and Ballweg jumped at the opportunity to help them do so.
A singer-songwriter is rarely ever satisfied being relegated to performer and such was the case with Ballweg. "When I started to introduce songs and wanting to sing, there in itself lay a problem," he says. "Giorgio Suarez (formerly the band's drummer, now lead guitarist) was dead fixed on the fact that John Medina was the lead singer and songwriter. I know somewhere deep down he wanted me to do my thing, just not in his band."
Determined to stay active, Ballweg was approached to join a fledgling alt. rock combo called Chartreuse. He accepted the offer on the condition that he would be able to write, sing and play guitar.
For awhile, things went well.
"I really enjoyed jamming with those guys cause it was so experimental and nothing like I had done before," he notes. "They took my songs and did good them to 'em and I took two or three of their older songs and put lyrics and other guitar parts to them."
Inevitably, things came to a head over creative direction. "They were trying to basically tell me what to say as a lyricist and I just figured that was my job and that's what we agreed on," he says, adding: "I'm all for being critiqued because every good musician needs it and no one is perfect. But I think it had more to do with me not being much like most of them."
With two strikes under his belt, Ballweg was starting to get jittery. "I felt really crappy," he recalls. "It looked like I couldn't hold down a band and it got to the point where people were asking, 'which band are you in again?'
So Ballweg looked to his friends to form a new project.
"After I left Chartreuse, I started talking to my freshman dorm room college buddy named Matt Carlock and my other friend Bill Johnson, who played bass.
"Matt was already playing drums in a band named Wyrd Fate -- they took third at the TAMU-CC Battle of the Bands in '07," he continues. "But they weren't playing that many shows and they were on the edge of breaking up. So Matt agreed and so did Bill."
The trio added guitarist/keyboardist Bobby Vaziri to the line-up and David and the Black Panda was born.
Well, that's one version.
The bio on the band's Garage Band profile says the David and the Black Panda was born out of a short-lived two man operation called "Matt Damon" -- guess which two were in that band?
Currently, Johnson, the bassist, is working in Maine which means the band has a friend on loan from Dalton's Eyes until the end of summer.
Multi-instrumentalist Bobby Vaziri is a songwriter in his own right but the band is still focused on Ballweg's compositions. "Many don't even know he writes his own songs and is a songwriter. Getting the band to work on a song of his is hell though," Ballweg notes. "He's too shy to introduce his stuff. You can see a lot of his touch shine through on our pieces though."
So what does David and the Black Panda actually sound like? The band's Myspace page lists influences like Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Dylan, CCR, The Beatles and Superdrag (an Amped Up! fav), to name a few and that's a pretty close approximation. There's enough indie to keep the sound modern but plenty of classic rock feel to appeal to a wider range of fans than the college set they take classes with.
And so we come to the band's name. Ballweg's got an explanation for that one too.
"We actually had a band meeting at Applebee's just to throw names back and forth at each other and decide on one because we had been putting it off for a while," he recalls. "At first, Bill wanted to have a Panda in the title for some odd reason, I was kind of opposed to the idea. But then Matt just said 'David and the Black Panda,' and I said something like 'Well, that's funny'. Then he said, 'It has a biblical ring to it, you know, like David and Goliath.' "
The band took an instant shine to the name, Ballweg adds, and nowadays, the name is part of the band's shows. "When we get the crowds riled up, they chant, "Panda..... Panda..... Panda."
At the moment, the band's got slots at the House of Rock (July 31, Bar Olympics) and two dates (Aug. 8 and Sept. 12) at the Texan on the calendar.
And while gigs are a regular hap for David and the Black Panda, the band is still without a full-length demo -- a situation Ballweg hopes to rectify before the summer is out.
"The first recording we did was 'In Medina.' We did it by ourselves, and I really can't wait to erase it and re-record it," he says, referring to the track that's currently available for download on the band's Myspace page. "The second one we did was with (local sound engineer) James Arriaga of NeoSound Resources. We did a song called "Silence of Control," and I was very pleased with that one and his professionalism. We're hopefully going to get back with him in August and start a demo."
And it's a good bet that if you haven't yet seen David and the Black Panda, there's going to be plenty of chances in the not-to-distant future for you to do so then.
Until next time, it's better live. It's always better live.
7/17 Hobo @ Executive Surf Club, Water Street Market
7/19 Hobo @ Yin Yang Fandango
7/26 Hobo w/ Bob Schneider, Joe Ely, more @ Ziegfest
8/16 Hobo on Aquaholic Party Barge, Lake Travis
ABOUT THIS BLOGGER: Richard Guerrero's rock features have appeared in The Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Go! Magazine, Maximum Rock and Roll and numerous college and DIY publications. The Amped Up! five-part blog series, "DIY: The Rise of Hardcore Punk in Corpus Christi" is being re-published by Citizine. His journal entry about his band Laughing Stock was published in Rachel Almada's book: "Anecdote: Stories from the Road." An active musician, he currently performs with Hobo and is presently at work on a solo disc under the name, Needle Points North.
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Record Store: The Disc Go RoundJuly 3, 2008 1:43 PM
If you're still reading Amped Up! these days, you're quite familar with the author's rather ridiculous obsession with the phonograph and vinyl LPs. As a lover of all things rock and eccentric, Amped Up! struggled in recent years to fill this need as the city lacked a decent record store. No longer. Just a block down from its former location, The Disc Go Round has taken the opportunity to add new and used vinyl to expand its heretofore uninspired offerings. So what's the verdict? Click the link and found out.
Amped Up! is not normally a cynical guy but having suffered through a handful of local record shop store closures over the last 15 years despite his frequent and consistent patronage is enough to make anyone more than a tad bit doubtful.
So when, commercials started appearing for a Grand Opening celebration for Disco Go Round, a small CD/DVD shop formerly located on the near the corner of McArdle and Airline, let's just be polite and say it failed to make much of an impression on Amped Up!'s radar.
To be clear, Amped Up! is no stranger to the former Disc Go Round. He'd been in on a number of occasions several years back and struggled -- actually struggled -- to find used CDs that suited his particular tastes. As an avid pop music fan with music from dozens of genres and sub-genres, it's not all that hard to make him happy. And yet those early ventures yielded precious little.
Fast-forward to 2008 ... Amped Up! got a bit of tasty recon from Jonivan Jones a.k.a. AnimalSounds, who had played a couple of sets there on weekends. So in late April, Amped Up! finally got around to making his own site visit. What he found left him flabbergasted.
Disc Go Round, now located at 5734 McArdle, Ste. A, now features an extensive selection of rock, pop, some country and jazz and even blues on new and used CD and vinyl. There's thousands of records in the shop .... Amped Up! got his grubby little hands on such hard-to-find wax offerings such as the "Love Bites" LP by The Buzzcocks and the "Bleed For Me" 12 inch EP by the Dead Kennedys as well as a recent release by the Canadian Subhumans. Other trainspotting items of note: Motorhead and Bob Dylan reissues and a copy of the latest Bauhaus LP.
Be advised that you'd be wise not to assume that the DGR has been reborn as a Punk store. While Amped Up! did score a copy of the brand new Amebix "No Sanctuary" LP+EP from Alternative Tentacles and there is a copy of the Bad Brains "To Build a Nation" singles box set up on the shelf, Amped Up! also secured a cool copy of the The Jicks 10" that came out just in time for Record Store Day and there's a few Flaming Lips and Bright Eyes LPs to be had as well.
Other great finds include the Carcass "Choice Cuts" CD and the first Santana LP for $3.
But enough boasting. Check it out for yourself. DGR also has t-shirts and DVDs (Amped Up! found a boot copy of "D.O.A." -- the Sex Pistols documentary by Lech Kowalski .... brilliant in all its sloppy spilled-beer glory!).
About the only thing that's missing is a local music section. But Amped Up! is sure that that is in the works.
Owner Justin Pico has evidently studied Austin notables like "End of An Ear" on South First (an Amped Up! haunt on road trips) and the venerable Waterloo and has come away with a modern indie shop that does a small city like Corpus Christi proud.
But Pico's got one up on all of the others. If you spend a few minutes on the store's web site, you might stumble across the actual store inventory section where you can search for a title by name or by category. Holy broken record needles ... they've got "Damaged" on vinyl!
Methinks it's high time for another visit.
Until next time, it's better live. It's always better live.
7/17 Hobo @ Executive Surf Club, 309 N. Water St. (free)
7/26 Hobo w/ Bob Schneider, Joe Ely and much more @ Zeigfest @ North Beach
ABOUT THIS BLOGGER: Richard Guerrero's rock features have appeared in The Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Go! Magazine, Maximum Rock and Roll and numerous college and DIY publications. The Amped Up! five-part blog series, "DIY: The Rise of Hardcore Punk in Corpus Christi" is being re-published by Citizine. His journal entry about his band Laughing Stock was published in Rachel Almada's book: "Anecdote: Stories from the Road." An active musician, he currently performs with Hobo and is presently at work on a solo disc under the name, Needle Points North.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PernixData exited stealth mode today to introduce its software-defined Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP) that virtualizes server-side flash into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers. Designed to address virtualization's ever increasing storage performance requirements, PernixData's FVP is the first product that enables organizations to use server-side flash storage in a seamless manner.
"In recent times there have been efforts to bring data closer to compute. I was involved in one such proprietary hardware-based effort when I co-founded Oracle Exadata. PernixData, on the other hand, is bringing data closer to compute via a transparent software platform that seamlessly integrates server flash with virtualization," said Poojan Kumar, CEO and co-founder of PernixData. "We have built an enterprise class, server-side, scale-out flash virtualization platform completely in software, which provides orders of magnitude more storage performance without making any changes to virtual machines or existing storage systems. PernixData has done for server flash what VMware did for CPU and memory."
"Virtualization and server flash are made for each other, but there is no way today to bring the two together without breaking critical virtualization features," said Satyam Vaghani, CTO and co-founder of PernixData. "At PernixData we have built a platform that allows users to leverage server flash seamlessly as a clustered resource in virtualized environments. For the first time, users can now deploy a server-side, scale-out tier for data in motion while leveraging any existing storage system for data at rest. We essentially bring scale-out storage to everyone."
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Steve Larosiliere founded STOKED in 2005 and oversees the programmatic and administrative sides of the organization's operations. Prior to founding STOKED, Steve worked at Mentoring USA as a mentor recruiter where he advocated for foster care youth by presenting the benefits of mentoring to corporations and government officials. In addition, he served as a mentor to foster care youth for eight years. He holds a BA in History from Stony Brook University and an MPA from Baruch College School of Public Affairs. In addition to snowboarding really big, steep mountains, skating around Brooklyn, running marathons, and reading lots of books, Steve loves spending time with his wife Ashley, baby boy Toren, and dog Dash.
Antonia Smith, Director of Programs and Operations
Antonia supervises both the regional programs and operations for New York and Los Angeles. Before joining STOKED, Antonia directed arts and education programs at Greenwich House and The Children's Aid Society in Greenwich Village for eight years. Antonia is a doctoral student in the History and Education program at Teachers College Columbia University where she served as a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for History and Education. She also volunteers as the Program Coordinator for the S.O.S. Tutoring Program for court-involved youth at the Eastern District of New York. Antonia earned her B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.A. from Teachers College. When not at work trying to make the world a better place, you can find Antonia hiking in the woods, eating spicy food, or scuba diving somewhere warm and tropical!
Hannah manages and facilitates all programming based in New York City. She also collaborates in volunteer recruitment and retention. Before joining STOKED, Hannah was an English Teaching Assistant in Bogotá, Colombia with the Fulbright program. She also has experience creating and implementing civic engagement programs for youth and young adults. Hannah is a proud New Yorker and sees STOKED as her opportunity to pay it forward. Hannah is passionate about volunteering and traveling. Outside of STOKED, she can be found in a boxing class, at a spoken word showcase, spending time with family, at a local bookstore or checking out a new restaurant.
Molly comes to New York by way of Buffalo, New York and with Hannah, is also responsible for managing and facilitating a;; programming in New York City . She has been snowboarding and skateboarding since she was 14 and is an Action Sports super-fan. Outside of STOKED, Molly loves spending time outside - preferably on a beach or a mountain and is probably 'social media'ing her experience. She can be seen riding around Brooklyn on her bike, probably carrying a million things. If not at work, Molly can be found on the rugby pitch playing with The Village Lions Women's Rugby Club, or assisting with The SunsTruck – a mobile sunsglasses store.
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Barry is a New York native and has been skating for over 10 years. STOKED serves as his outlet to inspire kids. Outside of Barry's involvement with STOKED, he produces works of short fiction that he sells independently. Barry likes to spend his time with his girlfriend Erica, enjoying good dinners, movies, walks, and the arts. Barry also works in the STOKED office with Program Coordination.
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Harmeet is a contemporary New Yorker by way of Cleveland, Ohio. His passion for music began at Ohio State University where as a full time student he DJ'd and met creatives with a shared love of music and entrepreneurial spirit and also where he initiated, nurtured and fostered his career in marketing. Innovative companies such as The FADER, Cornerstone and PUMA, programs for LaFace, Sony, Sprite, Microsoft, adidas, Paramount Pictures and Nike received the benefit of Harmeet's sensibilities and insights. Like many, the India born Brooklynite hones his cultural and creative spirit engaging in NY culture, taking photos, playing basketball and riding his bike and along the way, missing his mother's cooking.
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Dave is a native of Hartford, Connecticut and has been skateboarding for over 10 years. He attended Connecticut College where he got his BA in Psychology, and is thrilled to be able to work with youth and share his love of skateboarding. In his free time, Dave is involved in acting and music, having sang and played guitar in numerous bands over the years. He is currently in the process of starting a new project with some former bandmates from college. In addition to coaching for Stoked, Dave works as a booking agent for the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre where he also takes classes and performs improv comedy.
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Police dog used in search for Tia
Police investigating the disappearance of missing 12-year-old Tia Sharp today took a German Shepherd dog into the house where it is believed she was last seen.
The police dog was taken into the terraced property at the Lindens, New Addington, south-east London, by a dog handler shortly after the family were given an inquiry update by Detective Chief Inspector Nick Scola.
The officer emerged from the house, where the schoolgirl's grandmother Christine Sharp, 46, lives with her partner Stuart Hazell, 37, and told reporters: "This morning I have been in to see the family and update them with details of the investigation.
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