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President's Speeches and Remarks
August 30, 2008
Hello Class of 2012!
I'm Barry Mills, Bowdoin Class of 1972, and the president of the College⎯the 14th president of Bowdoin College. I'm thrilled to welcome you officially to Bowdoin. You'll spend four years on this campus, but you'll be a member of the Bowdoin family forever. The people sitting among you will soon become your friends for life. When you graduate from Bowdoin (which today seems pretty far off), you'll continue your relationship with the College through alumni club activities, student interviews, the Board of Trustees, reunions, and homecoming and like many of us you could find yourself back here again someday working for the College—who knows, you may one day return as president.
The first few days and weeks are exciting, challenging and probably a bit scary and intimidating. All of these emotions are predictable and correct. When I came to Bowdoin as a first year student, I lived on the second floor of Moore Hall. My very first day I met a fellow who lived in the corner room facing what then was the "cage" and is today Smith Union. Andy and I have been the best of friends to this day. So take a breath now your parents are gone, take all of what's happening in at a peaceful, comprehensible pace, you are meeting and making new friends for a lifetime.
After more than 20 years working in New York, I was drawn back to Bowdoin because of the pride I have as an alumnus; the love I have for the College, its faculty and staff; and the excitement I feel about Bowdoin's future. You are an important part of that future, and I look forward to sharing that future with you over the next four years and beyond.
This evening, you're sitting in front of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. In 2012, we will be back on the Bowdoin quad sitting right where you are now, at Commencement. You will walk up the stairs of the museum to receive your degrees, but you've got a lot of learning, a lot of growing and a lot of living to do in the meantime. You've become a part of a wonderful institution with a great history. You'll be a part of its traditions, and you will also forge new ones.
In a couple of days, I'll see each of you again —though a little closer up— as you formally matriculate at the College by signing your name in the same set of Matriculation Books signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Franklin Pierce, Olympic champion Joan Benoit Samuelson, George Mitchell and many others. This will be the first of many symbolic and substantive steps that bind you to the College.
Now as a Bowdoin alum and your president, I promise not to fall into a nostalgic funk and talk about the good old days⎯as my boys would say⎯as an old geezer Bowdoin alum. Since I've been back at Bowdoin, I reinvigorated a tradition that was here when I was here as a student. Let me quote to you from the handbook⎯a little black book⎯that was sent to my entering class in the summer of 1968.
Bowdoin "Hello"⎯In keeping with the democratic traditions of the College, students always speak to one another on the campus and downtown. In the passing of time, this "Hello" has developed into a genial "Hi."
So I would this evening⎯officially, confirm the rebirth of the Bowdoin Hello. Now I know times have changed and people might be cynical, and think this brief encounter less than sincere⎯but making eye contact as you walk across campus and a brief greeting sets the tone for the way we should all interact on this campus. Students, faculty and staff⎯part of one community that supports and respects each other. Civility is what we expect as the norm on this campus. But we must strive for much more⎯we must cooperate with each other, be appreciative of what we do with and for one another and we must celebrate our individual successes and support one another when we fail. So as of tonight for the Class of 2012⎯the Bowdoin Hello lives!
Up until now college has been your goal. You've worked hard throughout high school, and now you're finally here. You've gotten great grades, scored high on your SAT's, done important community service, excelled at athletics, been class leaders, done theater and completed important art works, performed great music. You are an incredibly accomplished group and we are delighted that you are here. But now what? You are entering a new world where there are no checklists of accomplishments to be satisfied. Not exactly⎯for academic excellence and a passion for learning is what we are about. As one of my colleagues at the College says⎯"preparing for college is like 'Mapquest"⎯turn right or left, take this not that subject⎯but college seems a bit like navigating by the stars." We are here to help you find your way through the constellations and help you to avoid meteor showers.
You've chosen Bowdoin⎯a residential liberal arts college and we are delighted. Our core⎯our fundamental mission⎯is academic and intellectual excellence that is guided by our dedicated Bowdoin faculty. Our hope is that you will venture outside of your comfort zone in what you choose to study. So even if you're sure you want to be an English major, try a few science courses; if you're sure you want to study economics, try taking sociology or anthropology. If you've never experienced art or music, take an art history class or a music class. Try to learn a new foreign language or become more proficient in a foreign language you know a little. You might find a hidden talent or even a new dream. But even if you find that your original goals were correct for you, you will have spent some rigorous time thinking and learning in new and different ways and you will be exposed to a different vocabulary. Understanding how others think about a problem and having a familiarity with the vocabulary is essential especially in a world where things are so rapidly changing and one cannot predict the issues of the future.
George Mitchell, Class of 1954, wanted to teach history. Instead he is in the world making history first, as a Senator from the great State of Maine, and as a peacemaker in Northern Ireland and in the Middle East. When I left here, I was going to be a biologist. I got my Ph.D. degree in biology and then decided to change careers; I became a lawyer with the original intent to marry science and law. I didn't actually do that and spent many years as a corporate lawyer. Now I'm a college president. The point is, your aspirations may change, and this education will provide you with the analytical tools to evaluate, and the ability to communicate and interpret complicated concepts for whatever your future holds.
Once you have explored our curriculum and have identified your area or areas of interest⎯make sure you take full advantage of Bowdoin and of your own minds. Challenge your professors, challenge yourselves, think and write about your area of interest in the most rigorous and thoughtful manner. It is those extra moments where you rigorously and passionately attack an issue or a problem that you begin to understand what it means to critically and thoughtfully approach a topic with insight, perspective and judgment. We strive for excellence here at Bowdoin⎯it is our gold standard! There are many, many of us on the administrative staff at Bowdoin who are here to assist you. Residential life leaders, student affairs deans, coaches⎯even presidents. We can all be very helpful and are ready, willing and able to do so.
It isn't obvious or natural to understand how and when to ask a professor or frankly, anyone for help. Some of you may be shy, some may be afraid of admitting that you don't understand or are merely a bit confused about something the professor said⎯some may just not know how to ask for help. Please be assured that the professors are eager to help to clarify, to work with you as individuals and that it is much better to get on the right track early. College is new for everyone here. Going to a professor for advice and guidance will reward you in more ways than you know and it isn't only about making the relationships if you are having a problem or issue. Creating lasting relationships is an opportunity for all and is what Bowdoin is about. You may find yourself doing better in the class, and you might find yourself with a new friend as well.
Professors are at Bowdoin because they are passionate about teaching and they care about students. Forging friendships with professors will be one of your greatest rewards, and when you've found a professor you admire and topic you are passionate about—design an independent study project. As Bowdoin students, you have the chance to perform and research and do scholarly work at the elbow of our faculty⎯it is one opportunity to do the rigorous, in depth thinking I talked about earlier. Many students find their independent study projects to be one of the most rewarding parts of their Bowdoin experience. Working in a lab here at Bowdoin in my senior year is what led me to graduate school in biology.
Now let's talk a bit about our culture⎯a pluralistic environment designed to be by its nature inclusive. Every one of you has unique talents and every one of you has a unique past. You deserve respect for your achievements, and we expect you to respect others. Some of you are from advantaged families, others aren't. Some of you have relatives who went to Bowdoin, others don't. Some of you can paint, some can sing, some can skate, some are liberal, some conservative. For some, English is not your first language; for others, you've never been outside of Maine and for some of you, this is your first time in Maine. You share at least two important things in common which will allow you to bridge the differences in your backgrounds and interests. You can all learn from each other, and you all have something to teach. Second, you have a shared value⎯demonstrated by being here at Bowdoin tonight⎯a desire to learn and to open your minds to the pleasure of learning.
Bowdoin is in many ways a unique experience. In some ways, one could say that our residential liberal arts model is artificial. Never again will you come to a place to live where someone else chose your 1700 neighbors and says live together. If you are open minded, kind and respectful you will learn an immense amount from your new friends about their customs, the way they think, what they believe and what is important to them.
I am not a pollyanna⎯you will not always agree with everything you hear or see⎯but respectful disagreement; respectful questioning and challenging, respectful listening and communication is what we are about. This means real engagement with each other—not "politically correct" platitudes. You are here to become part of this community in an engaged and serious manner.
We also expect that you will respect the people who work at this College. From the housekeeping staff, to the food service people, to the athletic trainer⎯these people care about you and have committed their working lives to serve Bowdoin and they make the place work. They deserve our respect.
A word about the Bowdoin Honor Code and Social Code. At Bowdoin, we don't have many rules⎯this is a place based on developing leaders and self-reliance. But we will expect, and demand, that you uphold our Honor Code and Social Code. The rules are pretty simple⎯do your work on your own⎯be careful, very careful that the material you find on the internet doesn't find its way inappropriately into your papers. On the social code⎯respect each other⎯under no circumstances can we condone or permit violence (either verbal or physical) to another person or destruction of personal property. Read the Honor Code and Social Code so that there is no confusion. I wish I didn't have to mention this tonight but every year we have a number of unfortunate incidents where a momentary lapse of judgment has lasting effects.
Finally, two ideals are at the heart and soul of Bowdoin College. This is Bowdoin lore that I must share with you tonight. One is the importance of the Common Good and the other is the Offer of the College.
Bowdoin's first president, Joseph McKeen, established the ideal of service to the Common Good as a guiding principle for Bowdoin. "Literary institutions," he said, "are founded and endowed for the Common Good and not for the private advantage of those who resort to them for education." One of the best ways to live out this ideal is community service. Nearly three-quarters of Bowdoin students are involved in community service in some way. Each fall on Common Good Day, the entire college community is encouraged to come together to work on service projects throughout our local area. This year Common Good Day is September 20, and I hope you'll all participate. But don't limit your involvement with the community around you to one day a year. The College has a limitless number of student-run volunteer programs and partnerships with more than two dozen of the nonprofit organizations in the greater Brunswick community. Bowdoin students tutor local school children, visit with the elderly, help with local arts events. Whatever your particular talent, there is a way you can put it to use in the Brunswick area, and there is work to do nationally and globally. Find other ways to get to know Brunswick as well: visit local businesses and restaurants, stroll down to the mall for shopping at the farmer's market or skating on the ice rink, or be a part of the host family program. Your time at Bowdoin will be all the more valuable if you remember that the College is a part of a town, and there is much to be learned beyond the gates of the campus.
Our other institutional canon, "The Offer of the College," is adapted from a passage written by William DeWitt Hyde, Bowdoin's seventh president. He wrote:
TO BE AT HOME in all lands and all ages;
To count Nature a familiar acquaintance,
And Art an intimate friend;
To gain a standard for the appreciation of others' work
And the criticism of your own;
To carry the keys of the world's library in your pocket,
And feel its resources behind you in whatever task you undertake;
To make hosts of friends...
Who are to be leaders in all walks of life;
To lose yourself in generous enthusiasms
And cooperate with others for common ends —
This is the offer of the college for the best four years of your life.
This, my new friends, is now Bowdoin.
Two final thoughts⎯I look forward to getting to know each of you.
Have fun! Enjoy. This will be a great adventure!


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Monterey Park's 14th annual Cherry Blossom Festival on Sunday featured cultural dance and music performances, along with an appearance by a world champion sumo wrestler.
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Washburn University Student Government Association will collect non-perishable food items, to be given to area food banks for Can Emporia, the 6th annual competition between Washburn University and Emporia State University student government leaders to see which school can donate the most, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. during Washburn's Family Day activities. Cans collected by WSGA will be donated to the Topeka Rescue Mission.
At the kickoff announcement for Can Emporia, on Sept. 27, Barry Feaker, executive director, Topeka Rescue Mission, and Washburn alumnus, reminded the audience, "food equals hope and hunger equals hopelessness."
The student government president of the losing school will receive a pie in the face at halftime of the Washburn football game verses Emporia State University on Saturday, Nov. 10.
Washburn Student Government Association will sponsor several events to raise awareness and participation in the food drive. Donors may bring cans to the WSGA office, lower level, Memorial Union. For a list of items to donate, contact Micah Offermann, director, public relations, WSGA.
The Can Emporia competition between WU and ESU began in 2007. Washburn has logged three wins; Emporia two. WSGA is celebrating 100 years and was founded in 1912 on the grounds of improving the lives of students on and off campus.
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Time Magazine has announced its choices for the best video games of 2012, and the list is surprisingly eclectic. But while all of them are great, we feel that some are more deserving than others. Here are all ten, with our reviews and some personal thoughts on some from the Side Mission staff.
10. Torchlight 2
Dan: Does making a game cheap make it great? Time's reasoning seems both a little suspect and a bit dismissive of a game that, yes, is very much like Diablo, but does stand out in other respects. I enjoyed Torchlight because it didn't feel guilted or bribed into playing. I played it because I wanted to… and I enjoyed the hell out of it, derivative or not.
9. Halo 4
Denny: It's a bit surprising that Time doesn't mention the multiplayer aspect of the first-person shooter. I agree that the campaign returns to the greatness of the original Halo, but it's the addicting multiplayer that keeps me from putting the game down.
Rocco: I grabbed the first Halo a few years after its release (Xbox launched during my college years; couldn't afford it then). Saw the gaudy reviews, eventually dove in.
Holy ****.
I hadn't played a game that got feel as spot-on in years. The gunplay was just incredible, especially for the console space. I was hooked… on the game, the franchise, all of it.
Fast forward a decade or so and my anticipation for Halo 4 was high. Really high. And while I won't say 343 Industries surpassed those expectations, Halo 4 certainly lived up to them. Everything felt right, felt like Halo.
Which is great.
8. LittleBigPlanet Vita
7. The Last Story
6. Papo & Yo
5. Assassin's Creed III
Dan: The historical research in this game is superb, and the sandbox is a lot of fun to play in. Still, I'm not sure it's different enough from other games in the series in some respects to really make it Top Ten material, especially with the controls.
That said, the naval combat is superb and practically a game in itself, and there's just so much to do that it's easy to get lost for hours. Top Ten, maybe not, but great, absolutely
4. Dishonored
Dan: While Dishonored is superb, I have to disagree with the "sandbox" term. It's a linear level with dozens of solutions, and each level is exquisitely designed… but you can't go goofing around Dunwall for giggles. That said, you hardly miss it, and each level is so crammed with nooks and crannies that you'll spend hours just looting, forget actually beating the game
3. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Rocco: Firaxis has been a favorite developer of the DeMaro household for a while now; Civ V remains one of my favorites from the past five years.
So you can imagine my excitement when word came out that Firaxis would be re-making / spiffing up the legendary XCOM formula.
What the company eventually produced is impressive; I describe the genre-bender as Valkyria Chronicles meets Fire Emblem meets the Civ franchise… in other words, it's the best of several highly-addictive worlds. And while XCOM: Enemy Unknown isn't as replayable as the CIv games, it more than stands on its own as one of the best titles of 2012 and a faithful hat tip to what many consider the greatest PC game of all time.
It's my Game of the Year.
2. Xenoblade Chronicles
Rocco: I'm only 10-15 hours into Xenoblade Chronicles, which is to say I've barely scratched its surface. But in that time, I've realized why so many publications have heaped so much praise upon it since hitting the Japanese marketplace in June of 2010.
Carrying a score of 92 in the critical aggregate, Xenoblade might well represent the peak of JRPG evolution, as we know the sub-genre.
Virtually everything in the game is streamlined… from the save system to the way questing is handled to the in-game traveling options, Monolith Soft has learned from the mistakes of other JRPG's and has given us the byproduct of that knowledge.
The game is complex, but rarely obtuse; detailed, but never at the expense of your time or patience.
In short, Xenoblade is, at the same time, deep and accessible. Combine that elegant design foundation with a solid narrative and fun battle system and you've got a JRPG that seems downright Darwinian in its execution.
1. Guild Wars 2
Denny: While playing Guild Wars 2, I didn't experience quite the same level of magic that the folks at Time did. However, the MMO does deliver some great dynamic events that make Tyria feel like a living world. In that sense, the game does stand out this year.


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Karen M. Frank, M.D., Ph.D., D(ABMM) ('15)
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MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry for Microbial Identification, Including Mold Database Validation at NIH Followed by Incorporation into Routine Clinical Workflow
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is a powerful tool for the rapid and highly accurate identification of clinical pathogens. Bacterial and yeast identification, as well as rapid identification directly from blood cultures, are now part of routine practice in some clinical laboratories. At NIH, a simple, fast mold extraction procedure was developed and a highly stringent, comprehensive mold database developed. Investigations are underway to expand the use of MALDI-TOF into new areas such as resistance testing, typing, and improved identification from direct specimens.
Investigations of Two Unexpected Fatal Infections: Disseminated Histoplasmosis in a Gene Therapy Trial and Yersinia pestis Septicemia in a Researcher
During what started as routine work-up, the clinical microbiology laboratory received specimens from two very unusual cases. The first investigation was of a case of disseminated histoplasmosis, complicated by retroperitoneal bleeding in a patient who was receiving systemic immunosuppressive therapy for rheumatoid arthritis and who was enrolled in a gene-therapy trial of a tumor necrosis factor α antagonist through an adeno-associated virus delivery system. The second investigation involved a case of lethal septicemic plague caused by an attenuated Yersinia pestis isolate in a researcher with previously undiagnosed hereditary hemochromatosis. The cases highlight multiple issues for current research studies and clinical trials, including safety, analysis of uncommon organisms, processes for the management of complications during clinical trials, and the balance of patient privacy with media involvement in such cases.
Quantitative Detection and Monitoring of Viremia in Transplant Patients
Viral infections are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients who are immunocompromised due to solid-organ and bone marrow transplantation. Detection and monitoring of the viral load of cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, BK virus, and adenovirus are increasingly used to guide patient management. The transplant population is growing, as is the need for more laboratories to offer this testing. While quantitative real-time PCR is a rapid and sensitive technique, validation of these assays is challenging; there is significant interlaboratory variability and a need for standardization and proficiency testing.
Molecular Testing for Respiratory Viruses: Integration into Clinical Practice
Molecular methods for rapid diagnosis of respiratory infections have superior sensitivity and specificity compared to more conventional methods, with more rapid turn-around-time than the slower culture methods. Efficiency and cost are important variables to consider as these molecular assays are implemented because the reagents can be quite expensive and the assays can be very labor intensive and may require a higher level of technical skill. Important issues to address include the ability to detect newly identified and newly emerging respiratory viruses, understanding the clinical significance of such viruses, and understanding the clinical significance of detecting multiple pathogens in a patient.
The Pathogenesis of Staphylococcal Pneumonia
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In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo (in Greek, Ἀπόλλων—Apóllōn or Ἀπέλλων—Apellōn), is one of the most important and many-sided of the Olympian deities. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu. Apollo was worshipped in both ancient Greek and Roman religion, as well as in the modern Hellenic neopaganism.
As the patron of Delphi (Pythian Apollo), Apollo was an oracular god — the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle. Medicine and healing were associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius. Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague as well as one who had the ability to cure. Amongst the god's custodial charges, Apollo became associated with dominion over colonists, and as the patron defender of herds and flocks. As the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musagetes) and director of their choir, Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Hermes created the lyre for him, and the instrument became a common attribute of Apollo. Hymns sung to Apollo were called paeans.
In Hellenistic times, especially during the third century BCE, as Apollo Helios he became identified among Greeks with Helios, god of the sun, and his sister Artemis similarly equated with Selene, goddess of the moon. In Latin texts, however, Joseph Fontenrose declared himself unable to find any conflation of Apollo with Sol among the Augustan poets of the first century, not even in the conjurations of Aeneas and Latinus in Aeneid XII (161-215). Apollo and Helios/Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the third century CE.
It has also been suggested that Apollo comes from the Hurrian and Hittite divinity, Aplu, who was widely evoked during the "plague years". Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning "the son of Enlil", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.
Homer illustrated Paieon the god as well as the song both of apotropaic thanksgiving or triumph, and Hesiod also separated the two; in later poetry Paean was invoked independently as a god of healing. It is equally difficult to separate Paean or Paeon in the sense of "healer" from Paean in the sense of "song."
Such songs were originally addressed to Apollo, and afterwards to other gods, Dionysus, Helios, Asclepius.. About the fourth century BCE, the paean became merely a formula of adulation; its object was either to implore protection against disease and misfortune, or to offer thanks after such protection had been rendered. It was in this way that Apollo had become recognised as the god of music. Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.
Apollo's links with oracles again seem to be associated with wishing to know the outcome of an illness. He is a god of music and the lyre. Healing belongs to his realm: he was the father of Asclepius, the god of medicine. The Muses are part of his retinue, so that music, history, poetry and dance all belong to him.
Oracles were also given by sons of Apollo.
Apollo's most common attributes were the bow and arrow. Other attributes of his included the kithara (an advanced version of the common lyre), the plectrum and the sword. Another common emblem was the sacrificial tripod, representing his prophetic powers. The Pythian Games were held in Apollo's honor every four years at Delphi. The bay laurel plant was used in expiatory sacrifices and in making the crown of victory at these games. The palm was also sacred to Apollo because he had been born under one in Delos. Animals sacred to Apollo included wolves, dolphins, roe deer, swans, cicadas (symbolizing music and song), hawks, ravens, crows, snakes (referencing Apollo's function as the god of prophecy), mice and griffins, mythical eagle-lion hybrids of Eastern origin.
As god of colonization, Apollo gave oracular guidance on colonies, especially during the height of colonization, 750–550 BCE. According to Greek tradition, he helped Cretan or Arcadian colonists found the city of Troy. However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars. In this interpretation, Apollo's title of Lykegenes can simply be read as "born in Lycia", which effectively severs the god's supposed link with wolves (possibly a folk etymology).
In literary contexts, Apollo represents harmony, order, and reason—characteristics contrasted with those of Dionysus, god of wine, who represents ecstasy and disorder. The contrast between the roles of these gods is reflected in the adjectives Apollonian and Dionysian. However, the Greeks thought of the two qualities as complementary: the two gods are brothers, and when Apollo at winter left for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus. This contrast appears to be shown on the two sides of the Borghese Vase.
Apollo is often associated with the Golden Mean. This is the Greek ideal of moderation and a virtue that opposes gluttony.
In art, Apollo is depicted as a handsome beardless young man, often with a kithara (as Apollo Citharoedus) or bow in his hand, or reclining on a tree (the Lycian Apollo and Apollo Sauroctonos types). The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century; for centuries it epitomized the ideals of Classical Antiquity for Europeans, from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BC.
The lifesize so-called "Adonis" (shown at left) found in 1780 on the site of a villa suburbana near the Via Labicana in the Roman suburb of Centocelle and now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is identified as an Apollo by modern scholars. It was probably never intended as a cult object, but was a pastiche of several fourth-century and later Hellenistic model types, intended to please a Roman connoisseur of the second century AD, and to be displayed in his villa.
In the late second century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus (right), he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire. Another haloed Apollo in mosaic, from Hadrumentum, is in the museum at Sousse. The conventions of this representation, head tilted, lips slightly parted, large-eyed, curling hair cut in locks grazing the neck, were developed in the third century BCE to depict Alexander the Great (Bieber 1964, Yalouris 1980). Some time after this mosaic was executed, the earliest depictions of Christ will be beardless and haloed.
It is also stated that Hera kidnapped Ilithyia, the goddess of childbirth, to prevent Leto from going into labor. The other gods tricked Hera into letting her go by offering her a necklace, nine yards long, of amber. Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo. Apollo was born on the seventh day (ἡβδομαγενης) of the month Thargelion —according to Delian tradition— or of the month Bysios— according to Delphian tradition. The seventh and twentieth, the days of the new and full moon, were ever afterwards held sacred to him.
Hera then sent the giant Tityos to kill Leto. This time Apollo was aided by his sister Artemis in protecting their mother. During the battle Zeus finally relented his aid and hurled Tityos down to Tartarus. There he was pegged to the rock floor, covering an area of nine acres, where a pair of vultures feasted daily on his liver.
Apollo helped Admetus win Alcestis, the daughter of King Pelias and later convinced the Fates to let Admetus live past his time, if another took his place. But when it came time for Admetus to die, his parents, whom he had assumed would gladly die for him, refused to cooperate. Instead, Alcestis took his place, but Heracles managed to "persuade" Thanatos, the god of death, to return her to the world of the living.
When Diomedes injured Aeneas (Iliad), Apollo rescued him. First, Aphrodite tried to rescue Aeneas but Diomedes injured her as well. Aeneas was then enveloped in a cloud by Apollo, who took him to Pergamos, a sacred spot in Troy.
Apollo aided Paris in the killing of Achilles by guiding the arrow of his bow into Achilles' heel. One interpretation of his motive is that it was in revenge for Achilles' sacrilege in murdering Troilus, the god's own son by Hecuba, on the very altar of the god's own temple.
Apollo had an affair with a human princess named Leucothea, daughter of Orchamus and sister of Clytia. Leucothea loved Apollo who disguised himself as Leucothea's mother to gain entrance to her chambers. Clytia, jealous of her sister because she wanted Apollo for herself, told Orchamus the truth, betraying her sister's trust and confidence in her. Enraged, Orchamus ordered Leucothea to be buried alive. Apollo refused to forgive Clytia for betraying his beloved, and a grieving Clytia wilted and slowly died. Apollo changed her into an incense plant, either heliotrope or sunflower, which follows the sun every day.
Marpessa was kidnapped by Idas but was loved by Apollo as well. Zeus made her choose between them, and she chose Idas on the grounds that Apollo, being immortal, would tire of her when she grew old.
Castalia was a nymph whom Apollo loved. She fled from him and dived into the spring at Delphi, at the base of Mt. Parnassos, which was then named after her. Water from this spring was sacred; it was used to clean the Delphian temples and inspire poets.
By Cyrene, Apollo had a son named Aristaeus, who became the patron god of cattle, fruit trees, hunting, husbandry and bee-keeping. He was also a culture-hero and taught humanity dairy skills and the use of nets and traps in hunting, as well as how to cultivate olives.
With Hecuba, wife of King Priam of Troy, Apollo had a son named Troilus. An oracle prophesied that Troy would not be defeated as long as Troilus reached the age of twenty alive. He was ambushed and killed by Achilles.
Apollo also fell in love with Cassandra, daughter of Hecuba and Priam, and Troilus' half-sister. He promised Cassandra the gift of prophecy to seduce her, but she rejected him afterwards. Enraged, Apollo indeed gifted her with the ability to know the future, with a curse that she could only see the future tragedies and that no one would ever believe her.
Coronis, daughter of Phlegyas, King of the Lapiths, was another of Apollo's liaisons. Pregnant with Asclepius, Coronis fell in love with Ischys, son of Elatus. A crow informed Apollo of the affair. When first informed he disbelieved the crow and turned all crows black (where they were previously white) as a punishment for spreading untruths. When he found out the truth he sent his sister, Artemis, to kill Coronis (in other stories, Apollo himself had killed Coronis). As a result he also made the crow sacred and gave them the task of announcing important deaths. Apollo rescued the baby and gave it to the centaur Chiron to raise. Phlegyas was irate after the death of his daughter and burned the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Apollo then killed him for what he did.
In Euripides' play Ion, Apollo fathered Ion by Creusa, wife of Xuthus. Creusa left Ion to die in the wild, but Apollo asked Hermes to save the child and bring him to the oracle at Delphi, where he was raised by a priestess.
One of his other liaisons was with Acantha, the spirit of the acanthus tree. Upon her death, Apollo transformed her into a sun-loving herb.
Apollo, the eternal beardless kouros himself, had the most prominent male relationships of all the Greek Gods. That was to be expected from a god who was god of the palaestra, the athletic gathering place for youth who all competed in the nude, a god said to represent the ideal educator and therefore the ideal erastes, or lover of a boy (Sergent, p.102). All his lovers were younger than him, in the style of the Greek pederastic relationships of the time. Many of Apollo's young beloveds died "accidentally", a reflection on the function of these myths as part of rites of passage, in which the youth died in order to be reborn as an adult.
Hyacinth was one of his male lovers. Hyacinthus was a Spartan prince, beautiful and athletic. The pair were practicing throwing the discus when Hyacinthus was struck in the head by a discus blown off course by Zephyrus, who was jealous of Apollo and loved Hyacinthus as well. When Hyacinthus died, Apollo is said in some accounts to have been so filled with grief that he cursed his own immortality, wishing to join his lover in mortal death and made Zephyrus into the wind so that he could never truly touch or speak to anyone again. Out of the blood of his slain lover Apollo created the hyacinth flower as a memorial to his death, and his tears stained the flower petals with άί άί, meaning alas. The Festival of Hyacinthus was a celebration of Sparta.
Another male lover was Cyparissus, a descendant of Heracles. Apollo gave the boy a tame deer as a companion but Cyparissus accidentally killed it with a javelin as it lay asleep in the undergrowth. Cyparissus asked Apollo to let his tears fall forever. Apollo turned the sad boy into a cypress tree, which was said to be a sad tree because the sap forms droplets like tears on the trunk.
In the Odyssey, Odysseus and his surviving crew landed on an island sacred to Helios the sun god, where he kept sacred cattle. Though Odysseus warned his men not to (as Tiresias and Circe had told him), they killed and ate some of the cattle and Helios had Zeus destroy the ship and all the men, except Odysseus.
Apollo also had a lyre-playing contest with Cinyras, his son, who committed suicide when he lost.
Apollo killed the Aloadae when they attempted to storm Mt. Olympus.
It was also said that Apollo rode on the back of a swan to the land of the Hyperboreans during the winter months, a swan that he also lent to his beloved Hyacinthus to ride.
Apollo turned Cephissus into a sea monster.
Apollo has ominous aspects aside from his plague-bringing, death-dealing arrows: Marsyas was a satyr who challenged Apollo to a contest of music. He had found an aulos on the ground, tossed away after being invented by Athena because it made her cheeks puffy. The contest was judged by the Muses. After they each performed, both were deamed equal until Apollo decreed they play and sing at the same time. As Apollo played the lyre, this was easy to do. Marsyas could not do this as he only knew how to use the flute and could not sing at the same time. Apollo was declared the winner because of this. Apollo flayed Marsyas alive in a cave near Celaenae in Phrygia for his hubris to challenge a god. He then nailed Marsyas' shaggy skin to a nearby pine-tree. Marsyas' blood turned into the river Marsyas.
Another variation is that Apollo played his instrument (the lyre) upside down. Marsyas could not do this with his instrument (the flute), and so Apollo hung him from a tree and flayed him alive.
In Apollo's role as healer, his appellations included Akesios, Iatros, and Acestor meaning "healer". He was also called Alexicacus ("restrainer of evil") and Apotropaeus ("he who averts evil"), and was referred to by the Romans as Averruncus ("averter of evils"). As a plague god and defender against rats and locusts, Apollo was known as Smintheus ("mouse-catcher") and Parnopius ("grasshopper"). The Romans also called Apollo Culicarius ("driving away midges"). In his healing aspect, the Romans referred to Apollo as Medicus ("the Physician"), and a temple was dedicated to Apollo Medicus at Rome, probably next to the temple of Bellona. As a sun-god he was worshiped as Aegletes, the radiant god.
As a god of archery, Apollo was known as Aphetoros ("god of the bow") and Argurotoxos ("with the silver bow"). The Romans referred to Apollo as Articenens ("carrying the bow") as well. As a pastoral shepherd-god, Apollo was known as Nomios ("wandering"). As the protector of roads and homes he was Agyieus.
Apollo was also known as Archegetes ("director of the foundation"), who oversaw colonies. He was known as Klarios, from the Doric klaros ("allotment of land"), for his supervision over cities and colonies.
He was known as Delphinios ("Delphinian"), meaning "of the womb", in his association with Delphoi (Delphi). At Delphi, he was also known as Pythios ("Pythian"). An aitiology in the Homeric hymns connects the epitheton to dolphins. Kynthios, another common epithet, stemmed from his birth on Mt. Cynthus. He was also known as Lyceios or Lykegenes, which either meant "wolfish" or "of Lycia", Lycia being the place where some postulate that his cult originated.
Specifically as god of prophecy, Apollo was known as Loxias ("the obscure"). He was also known as Coelispex ("he who watches the heavens") to the Romans. Apollo was attributed the epithet Musagetes as the leader of the muses, and Nymphegetes as "nymph-leader".
Acesius was the epithet of Apollo worshipped in Elis, where he had a temple in the agora. This surname, which has the same meaning as akestor and alezikakos, characterized the god as the averter of evil. Acraephius or Acraephiaeus was his epithet worshipped in the Boeotian town of Acraephia, reputedly founded by his son, Acraepheus. Actiacus was his epithet in Actium, one of the principal places of his worship.


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CouchBotato Building Instructions
I have uploaded 115 images that contain the building instructions for the CouchBotato.
You can find Step1 starting here.
UPDATE: The purpose of the CouchBotato is silly - for ROBOT magazine, I wrote about a silly desire to have a bot that would roll out and get a bag of potato chips sitting about 10 feet from my couch. I programmed it to use the Sound sensor to determine Left/Right directions and to stop and close the claws around the bag.
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Would brickshelf work?
- Sep 22, 2006, 10:58:00 AM
- Rick Rhodes said...
You have this on Flickr, right? (That's not a file, but good enough for those who want to download the pics one by one).
- Sep 22, 2006, 11:26:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Nope... uploading 110 images to Flickr could take a while. I guess I could do that, but I'll wait and see if anyone has a better idea.
Brickshelf would also require me uploading 110 photos and that's not something I really want to do if I can avoid it.
- Sep 22, 2006, 11:33:00 AM
Notice how, on the upload page, it says, "Zip files will be automatically unzipped without sub directories". Maybe this means you could just upload the zip file, and it will automatically be unzipped, putting the pictures in the folder?
P.S. I have a free, limited, uploading space (came with my e-mail address), and if other things don't work I could probably just upload it to there...
- Sep 22, 2006, 11:43:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Didn't notice that on Flickr... I'll take a look and see if it can handle 110 images in a zip file. Thanks!
- Sep 22, 2006, 11:48:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Okay, the files are uploading as I write this... could take a while. Tag on all files is "CouchBotato"
- Sep 22, 2006, 12:07:00 PM
You might want to consider Amazon S3. Once your file is uploaded, people can download it directly via a URL. The cost will be small given their $0.20/GB transfer pricing. You'll probably want to use a program to simplify uploading like jSh3ll.
- Sep 22, 2006, 12:30:00 PM
- Rick Rhodes said...
Thanks, Jim...the Flickr files look great.
This is from the retail kit, right?
Can it turn? (If so, looks like its turning radius is about eighty feet). :)
- Sep 22, 2006, 1:02:00 PM
Oh, lol, I was talking about Brickshelf! Oh well, glad to hear it worked out anyway. :-)
- Sep 22, 2006, 9:13:00 PM
- Jim Kelly said...
It turns fairly well... the front wheel is a plastic gear, so there's very little resistance. It's best to program it to stop completely and then make a left or right turn rather than turning while moving forward... and yes, no measurements, but the turning radius is probably quite large.
I built it from the retail kit and used up ALL of the black connectors and (I think) all of the white beams. I used all the sensors and motors and just tried to go crazy.
- Sep 22, 2006, 10:26:00 PM
- Jim Kelly said...
Shoot me an email when you get a chance...
jktechwriter at gmail dot com
- Sep 23, 2006, 12:25:00 AM
This is way OT, but RIF is closing down. They've gotten lots of trash e-mail from people who are angry that they're selling their stuff instead of giving it away. Also, they didn't get many sales.
I can't believe people (especially as they said, people in the lego community) would act like this! Poe and David spent so much time putting together a spectacular website, and some people are mad because they charge $6 for it! If they wanted it for free, I'd suggest they make it themselves (and give it to everyone else for free), instead of trash-talking the RIF.
All in all, I feel very sorry for Poe and David. They made a great attempt to give us a lot of fun, and were rudely awarded with complaints because there was a small fee.
- Sep 23, 2006, 2:49:00 AM
thanks for the photos~!
- Oct 1, 2006, 6:07:00 PM


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Wednesday I went out for asian food for lunch. Crispy vegetable spring rolls, Edamame, and Sesame chicken. YUM!
I was so tempted to keep a pod and pull out a bean and draw a face on it and bring it home for Landon
We love Memeshiba!!
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Location: Walnut Crick, Cal.
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Little Bean Dogs! one a day trivia lalala
Hai. I gets it now!
"Coffee first..."
Next Trip: Divide & Conquer...
"it's a dog's life.............and I love it"
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Reflections of a trail, well done.
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You can do it!
Joined: Aug 2009
Location: behind BigWan, trying to keep my feet tucked in :)
Oddometer: 1,792
I hadn't thought about a cone/bean hybrid, but PinkPillion is right - it would probably be similar to her little guy!
Still so glad you got him before they threw out all the tea kettles!
(Yep, we're slowly making our way towards Cali. We thought of you...)
Oh, here's an orange mameshiba -
This one's wearing a swimming pool floaty ring - it gives him that cone look...
Hmmm. I'll have to work on that. Coneyshiba! (Mameconey?)
Anyway, great idea GISdood! Thanks!
Heh, that reminds me -
I saw this the other day...
It was something about Shatner being the Mooseking of Canada...
I haven't made any mameshiba yet (too busy), but I think I'll have to put that on my list.
Landon needs an edamame friend...
I'm so glad you can fully appreciate them now!
Thanks, Rob! I hope you don't get sick of it, I did a bunch more.
I really like that trail.
Hey, have you ever been on crane mtn? I know you've been all over that part of oregon...
Wann, Oklahoma!
Haha, we've never seen that before.
Matt and I have gone through OK on I-40 a bunch of times, but never been up to Wann.
Next time, we might have to take a detour for the photo op.
Thanks, sion!
Day 52: 8/12/12 continued
Christmas Valley, OR to Ram Horn Campground, CA 306 miles
This is one of those endless days...
I can sum up hundreds of miles of slab with a few pics and a couple sentences,
but when the trail is good...
You get a blow by blow account of every rock.
I recognized this spot...
See that rock with the pink dot? It has a little split... I also marked it in the next photo.
In 2010, Matt was so exhausted after wrestling the bike through the trees, over the snow...
(there was no obvious trail at the time, it was covered in snow and logs)
He had a little crash here. Right onto those big rocks in middle.
The arrow shows the path he was riding...
It was so scary.
Good thing neither he nor the bike got hurt!
We would have been seriously screwed.
The trail had a surprising number of landmarks.
Y'know, considering it's all trees and rocks. Nothing man made.
We remembered this big tree...
Last time, it was sort of hanging there...
I was scared it was going to fall and crush us.
It was really neat to ride this trail again.
And so much easier without the snow!
This is another spot where I have a snow pic...
Looking back the other way, 2010
I wasn't quite sure this was the right spot, until I checked the rock with the pink dot.
Yep, same rock, opposite direction.
This part - Gah!
It's steep. I think you can kind of see it in the photo from 2010...
I took this as I was walking up the hill.
But it just doesn't look that bad, going the other direction.
The GoPro doesn't capture it very well, but it was no joke.
You can hear us break out the nervous laughter in the video (coming up)
I really had fun finding the same rocks and trees.
With snow...
Without (looking the opposite direction)
With snow...note the fallen tree.
Without (opposite direction).
The schoolbus felt extra wide on this trail.
I don't know if you've noticed, but a lot of the trees closest to the road are missing big chunks of bark!
These rocks looked familiar...
Yep, here they are in 2010!
we had stopped to check out some snow...
Okay. I think that's enough for today. I'm so tired.
Gotta figure out what to do about video, too.
I really enjoy the video we shot, but it might be boring for you guys.
This next one is short, but it's a nice representation of the trail.
Matt was trying to challenge himself by riding this stuff without putting his foot down at all.
Remember, we're on the schoolbus with full bags!
OK - no dabsies!
Hey look, right there in the thumbnail, you can see that tree is missing a bunch of bark!
HD for the rocks!
Well, it's friday night - normally you'd get some Mameshiba.
But now that I posted that last batch of sub-titled ones, you guys have seen all the Mameshiba videos.
Except one.
OSO LOCO!! osoooo!
Oso bored? you can find the rest of our ride reports HERE
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That trail looks like so much fun! Doubt I could do it 2 up, but I'd have a blast trying it solo. Not quite single track, difficult enough but nothing too scary. Man, I need to scout out some stuff down here. There's gotta be stuff just like that in the Sierras.
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No, I don't think I've been there. I seem to gravitate to the High Rock area when I'm up there.
I like the no dab video...gigglers. (puter is fixed, I haz video now.)
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Cranes Mtn, my kinda stuff.
No, I don't know where that road goes, let's find out!
You can do it!
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Oh Hai!
So, yesterday I was too busy to post.
Was I working? nope.
Riding? nah.
Doing some important adult-type things like paying bills, cleaning, or preparing for the holidays? hell no.
I was making Mameshiba!
This little dog bean is going to be winging his way across the country to live with his new friend in NY.
Hope you like him, Landon!
Its not us, its the trail that rocks!
Yay, you haz video! About frickin time.
Hmmm. Well have to check out this High Rock that you speak of...
Make rocks your favorite!
Day 52: 8/12/12 continued
Christmas Valley, OR to Ram Horn Campground, CA 306 miles
Its weird that Crane Mountain looks easy in photos/video.
Because its not. At all.
Actually, this was some of the most dangerous riding we did all summer.
More challenging than Black Dragon Wash.
More technical than Lockhart Basin.
More difficult than anything we did in BC.
And its not just a short section. This stuff went on and on.
The turns are tight and there are rocks and trees to hit everywhere.
Youll notice Matt was going a lot slower than usual.
Because you just can't go fast. Not fully loaded.
its a tough trail for big bikes.
As far as leg-breaking potential goes, Crane Mtn is right up there with Porcupine Rim.
We stopped here after my foot got whacked on a rock.
I messed up Matts no dabs game.
Sorry, Big Wanimal...
Sometimes the trail would open up for a bit...
Then it was back to rocks and trees.
Oh, this snow photo was taken around that part of the trail (see above )
This little pile of rocks doesnt look like much,
but Matt came close to breaking his leg here.
As we were riding over them, one of the rocks kicked up and knocked his right foot off the peg.
His foot got sucked behind the bike, under the sidebag, just as we started to fall to the right...
If we had fallen over, his twisted right leg would have landed on that rock down there,
with all of our weight on top of it.
Luckily, Matt goosed the throttle and the bike surged ahead.
he was able to get his foot back on the peg - disaster averted!
It was pretty scary, though.
So close.
The trail was beautiful.
And different.
But, so much work on a big bike, 2up.
I have a little video (including the "Ow, my foot!" portions )
When Matt stops and says, "That was nasty..."
he was really thinking, Mother brother! That was close!
(right about 1:07)
HD for the rocks, of course.
There's a lot of talking on this video, and sometimes it's hard to understand.
At one point we're laughing really hard (around 1:20).
Earlier in the video, Matt says "What the hell were we thinking, coming up here in the snow??"
and at 1:20,
I say, "What the hell were we thinking, coming up here without the snow??"
At least the snow made everything look friendlier and softer.
The trail was so much pokier with all the rocks exposed...
(Oh well. I guess you had to be there)
Hey, I know these rocks!
We stopped here last time, to check out the snow ahead.
Theres a marker on this tree, too.
We saw them nailed to various trees along the trail.
This next bit doesnt look like much either (what is it with this trail and the GoPro?? )
But it was a mess in 2010.
The bike was overheating here in 2010 and we had thought we were going to have to turn around.
It was slick and muddy and nasty.
Hmmm. Even this photo from 2010 doesnt look bad.
Well, it was.
Matt said the trail would have been easy on his XR650R, but the schoolbus is a handful.
Not that we would have done anything different - I was happy we made it back to Crane Mtn.
We had a lot of fun, and we were glad to ride something challenging...
It just kind of sucks that we need riskier and riskier rides in order to get our jollies.
When we stopped to think about all the "what ifs," we got kind of freaked out.
A broken leg here would have been a lousy way to end a great trip.
Stupid is as stupid does.
But, nevermind that...
We need to get more people up here, to document their rides!
So, you Oregon guys - go up to Crane Mountain and check it out...
Take a friend and a SPOT...
We were done with the rocks now, and onto to the trees.
Again, probably fine on something smaller, but a tight fit for the 990!
Matt thought this was probably more of a quad trail.
Last time, the only tracks we saw were from a quad.
I'll bet they do pretty well with those rocky sections, too.
A lot of the trail is more about picking your way through stuff, not blasting along...
So many things to hit!
Now we were in the sage brush.
OK - there's a little bit of blasting along, here and there...
We stopped at the top and checked out the views.
It was a nice place for some water and a break.
Happy to have all limbs intact!
Looking back the way we came.
Oh, I have a pic of that from last time...
Driver and schoolbus.
Back on the trail...
We still had a long way to go...
More Crane Mtn coming up - the next section is all about trees (and not hitting them)...
OSO LOCO!! osoooo!
Oso bored? you can find the rest of our ride reports HERE
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Dec 2011
Location: Rochester, NY
Oddometer: 336
then and now
I love all the pictures of the trail from 2010 and now! It's really cool to see it both snow covered and not snow covered, not to mention in reverse! Glad your limbs are in one piece! I am a member of the cyborg club
We also can't wait for our new friend to come live with us!
dirt is just better
Joined: May 2009
Location: Earth
Oddometer: 111
Love the Mameshiba. .
Leave tracks, take photos, mind the gate.
another old fart....
Joined: Mar 2009
Location: SoCal (LAX)
Oddometer: 80
Y'all should be a cable tv show!!
Thanks for sharing...
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Location: Newport Beach
Oddometer: 345
wow, fantastic! Thanks for sharing!!
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Now Mike D'Antoni can "bust' the Phoenix Suns.
The former Suns coach is now the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, and contrary to those who object, this is an absolutely great hire for the purple and gold. Mike D'Antoni and his system are a better fit than Phil Jackson and his triangle offense with the personnel the Lakers have.
There are no if ands or buts about it. You don't trade for Steve Nash and give him a three-year contract and have him run a Princeton or Triangle offense. Nash is good enough to fit in any offense, but for him to be special, for him to be dominant, he needs to play in his offense, the one created by D'Antoni. Look, it was simple to see in the preseason when the Lakers went 0-8 that Steve was not Steve.
Now Nash gets to be himself, to run the show, to get everyone involved and to win. Nash is the only player in the history of the NBA to play his best basketball beyond the age of 32. And why did that happen? Mike D'Antoni.
With Dwight Howard and the pick-and-roll game, the shooting of Pau Gasol, Kobe Bryant and Ron Artest this is going to work. Is it a perfect system for Bryant? No. But while Kobe is used to being the whole show, at 34 years old and with 220 playoff games under his belt, he is no longer capable of being the show night in and night out. He needs help and he knows it. And with this system Bryant, who is good without the ball will get open looks, knock down a ton of three-pointers and at times when the offense is stagnant, will get to run his isolation plays and get to the free throw line. So this will work for Bryant.
As for the defense -- or the lack of it in D'Antoni's system -- he now has Dwight Howard, a three-time Defensive MVP. which is something he never had in Phoenix. He also has Ron Artest, who is a good on-the-ball defender. And the Lakers have size, which is something Phoenix never had. So the Lakers will be fine defensively.
And for the LA Times columnist worried about the Lakers' age, seriously? You're worried about finely-tuned athletes running up and down the court? That is the easy part. The hard part is physical half-court defense. That wears players down, not easy transition baskets. I'm sure a bunch of 30-something-year-old guys have no issues running.
So to think this won't work is foolish. The Lakers may not win the championship, but hiring D'Antoni gives them the best chance to win it all.
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Staff Writer | March 28,2013VERNON The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant reported that a failed underground flood seal last week compromised the flooding-prevention design of a nerve center where cables from the plants control room are routed to the rest of the plant.
The problems required formal notification to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Vermont Yankee has been shut down since March 9 for refueling and maintenance work, and the problems were in part triggered by maintenance work.
While the so-called switchgear room was not flooded, the 2 feet of water in a manhole in the room was only discovered because the manhole cover was off to allow preparatory work on a new replacement auxiliary transformer, according to Neil Sheehan of the NRC.
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If it had been a regular flood, there could have been serious damage, he said. Clearly the system, and the seal, were not functioning well. Whether it was one of the new seals or an old seal, I dont know.
Sheehan said the problem started last week when workers, who were cleaning out the Connecticut River water intake structure at the plant, placed watery silt on land adjacent to a manhole. The watery silt created a ponding effect, and the water ran off into the manhole, he said.
That manhole cover seal failed, letting the silty water into the conduit system, and it eventually made its way via a displaced conduit pipe seal to a manhole in the switchgear room, said Sheehan.
The water came up 2 feet in the manhole in the switchgear room, but sump pumps were used to remove the water. The manhole itself is 8 feet deep.
The level of water inside the switchgear room manhole was less than 2 feet at all times and remained well below the level of the switchgear room floor, Sheehan wrote in an email.
Uldis Vanags, the state nuclear engineer, said Wednesday in a memo to the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel that Entergy was required to submit a licensee event report to the NRC within 60 days of their identification of the degraded flood seal.
Vermont Yankee has entered this event into their corrective action program and is conducting a cause investigation, Vanags wrote.
Vanags didnt respond to a request for further comment.
Williams said the water traveled about 400 feet from the dredging near the intake structure to the switchgear rooms. He said the water did not contact the contaminated areas and was not radioactive.
Sheehan said after the water was discovered, Yankee personnel began inspecting outside manholes and Saturday discovered the mechanical seal that had become displaced, which allowed the water to flow from the outside manhole into the switchgear room manholes.
He said the seal was initially reinstalled, but Yankee workers put a new foam seal in place Sunday.
Williams said the failed conduit seal, which did have a mechanical seal threaded into place, was replaced with what he called a better design to preclude a similar situation in the future.
Sheehan said the NRC was continuing its post-Fukushima assessment of flooding risks at all nuclear power plants, and that the seals were designed to prevent flood and remain an area of focus.
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Robinson, R., Kingman, S., Snape, C., Bradley, M., Bradshaw, S., Thomas, D. and Page, P. (2009) Microwave treatment of oil-contaminated drill cuttings at pilot scale. SPE Drilling and Completion, 24 (3). pp. 430-435. ISSN 1064-6671 (print), 1930-0204 (online) (doi:10.2118/111637-PA)


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Cruel intentions, in the end.
3oo, its a movie that I would describe with one word: võimas. In English it means: powerful, mighty, potent, overwhelming, spectacular, high-powered.
The part in Bones, when Vincent Nigel-Murry died. Too.
When Daniel Jackson died in Stargate SG1.
PS, I love you. Cant remember exactly where.
Supernatural, when Dean died.
Castle, when Beckett almost died.
The end of Chuck.