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Lead Faculty Dennis Shaughnessy
Founder & Executive Director
Dennis Shaughnessy founded the Social Enterprise Institute, an academic unit within the D'Amore-McKim School of Business, and is its first and only Executive Director. Professor Shaughnessy provided the seed capital to start SEI in 2007, and remains its principal donor. Professor Shaughnessy created the undergraduate curriculum for social enterprise studies at NU in 2008, which now lead to either a business major within the entrepreneurship concentration or an interdisciplinary minor. He also introduced social enterprise to the MBA program at NU. His courses range from an introduction to global social enterprise and economic development, to impact investing and microfinance, as well as field research programs in the Dominican Republic (Haiti), South Africa and Nicaragua. These unique field programs and on campus courses and seminars have led to NU's social enterprise program being one of the largest and most diverse among undergraduate institutions worldwide, with nearly 500 students from NU and partner institutions engaged in social enterprise research, learning and service each year. He also created and teaches seminars in social enterprise in NU's Honors Program, including impact investing programs in which students invest capital from outside donors in organizations providing enterprise solutions to global poverty. Professor Shaughnessy is also the faculty advisor to the SEI Student Association, the SEI Newsletter and the SE Review, and has won numerous awards for his teaching. In addition to his role as Executive Professor at NU, Professor Shaughnessy is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at TSiBA of Cape Town, South Africa (a free university for disadvantaged students) and INTEC of Santo Domingo, DR, where he teaches courses in social enterprise. Professor Shaughnessy is an investor and a philanthropist as well, supporting social enterprises that bring innovative and high impact solutions to global poverty. In addition to his work at NU and SEI, Professor Shaughnessy has more than 25 years of experience as a business executive, corporate director, lawyer and public servant. His advanced degrees include a doctorate in law (Univ. Maryland), and masters degrees in business (NU) and social policy (Univ. Michigan).
Gordon Adomdza
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Gordon Adomdza, PhD, is an Executive Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Prior to joining the DMSB faculty at Northeastern University, Professor Adomdza was a lecturer at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He also worked with Continuum Innovation, in Boston, on projects towards the development of design-innovation curriculum; with the Canadian Innovation Centre, in Ontario, on market analyses for new ventures; and with General Leasing & Finance Co. Ltd., in Ghana, as a financial analyst.
Gordon's research interests are in the areas of micro-level entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship, with a developing interest in innovation & design for the base of the pyramid, as well as sustainable business models for social entrepreneurship. He teaches courses in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship to undergrads and grads at Northeastern. The innovation course identifies ideas through design strategy and was co-developed with Continuum Innovation. Gordon also teaches a course utilizing human centered design and innovation concepts for emerging markets and the base of the pyramid.
Gordon graduated from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 2008 with a Ph.D in Management of Technology, an MASc in Management Science and an MA in Applied Economics. He also got a BA in Economics from University of Ghana, West Africa.
Sophie Bacq
Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Sophie Bacq, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the College of Business Administration. Professor Bacq received her PhD in Economic and Management Sciences from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Her research interests include social entrepreneurship, governance and management issues in hybrid organizations, and international new ventures. She has published book chapters and articles in international peer-reviewed journals and is the author and editor of several forthcoming books. Professor Bacq's teaching experience covers entrepreneurship, corporate strategy, social entrepreneurship, as well as field trip experience in India, among others.
Prior to joining Northeastern University, Professor Bacq was a Visiting Scholar at New York University Stern School of Business. She holds a Master's degree and a Bachelor's degree in Business Engineering from the Université Catholique de Louvain and studied a semester at the National University of Singapore in 2005.
Sara Minard
Executive Professor, Assistant Academic Specialist
Dr. C. Sara Minard is a socio-economist, lecturer, writer, development practitioner and policy analyst with 15 years of experience working in the areas of economic development policy, market-based approaches to development, design methods for development practice, social entrepreneurship, social finance, and program design, monitoring and evaluation. Before joining Northeastern, Dr. Minard taught for five years in the Economic and Political Development concentration at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) where she launched the school's first courses in social entrepreneurship for development and social enterprise in India, and taught the core courses in methods for development practice.
Prior to Columbia, Dr. Minard's economic policy research expertise includes five years at the OECD (Paris) leading research and policy dialogues on private sector development, informal economy and policy coherence for development in 18 countries in West Africa, and consultancies with the World Bank, IFC and UN agencies where she has designed strategies on socially responsible investing and banking, as well as policy strategies for creating enabling environments for social enterprise, including the tools for social impact assessment and reporting. She serves as the Chair of Columbia University's Advisory Education Sub-Committee on Socially Responsible Investing and sits on several social enterprise boards.
Dr. Minard earned her PhD in Economics from Sciences Po in Paris (highest honors) and a dual-degree Masters in International and Public Affairs from Columbia/SIPA and Sciences Po. She is fluent in French, Spanish and Wolof, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal.
Ali Matalon
Co- Project Manager
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Ali Matalon is an honors student at Northeastern University and has worked with SEI since her Freshman year. She is a Political Science and Business major with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and minors in Global Social Entrepreneurship and International Affairs. Ali has served with us as an honors scholar, teaching assistant and program coordinator for a trip to Jamaica this past year. Ali now serves as the SEI Project Manager alongside Samantha Odreman, planning and executing local events, international trips and acting as Teaching Assistants for Professor Shaughnessy's ENTR2206 classes. In the past, Ali took part in the SEI field study to the Dominican Republic in 2013. As a Jamaican student, Ali is eager to see positive and lasting change not only in her country but around the world. Holding the Co– Project Manager position, she hopes to use this opportunity to develop relationships and explore possibilities with local and international advocates in the field of social development.
Samantha Odreman
Co- Project Manager
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Samantha Odreman is an Honors student with an International Affairs major and minors in Business Global Social Entrepreneurship. Having been born and raised in Venezuela, she has always been interested in the challenges of poverty and how to overcome them. After taking Professor Shaughnessy's Social Entrepreneurship class in her Freshman year Samantha participated in the Field Study Program to the Dominican Republic in 2013. Alongside 30 other students, she was able to put into practice what she has learned, working with Esperanza International, a company that works to create social change.
Since then, she has worked worked with SEI as an Honors Scholar, a Teaching Assistant, a Program Assistant and now holds the Co– Project Manager position. She has always been impressed by the way in which people come together to help those in need and hopes to facilitate the development of impactful relationships in her new position. This summer 2015, she will join Professor Shaughnessy and 44 other students in a Field Study Program in South Africa.
Gail Batutis
SEI Global Fellow, India Program
Gail is a fourth-year Political Science and Business Administration dual major with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Gail also has a minor in International Affairs. She began her career at Northeastern with the freshman Honors seminar on social enterprise, then went on to be chosen as one of two Honors Program Scholars, and was a Teacher's Assistant for the freshman class the following year. Gail attended the Dominican Republic and Cuba field study in 2012, has been a contributor and Senior Editor to the Social Enterprise Review, has served on the Executive Board of the SEI Student Association, and has tutored local eighth graders in the Citizens Schools Writing Scholars program. This past spring, she spent her second co-op in India as the inaugural SEI Global Fellow. She worked for Aakar Innovations, a start-up social enterprise creating micro-enterprises where women make sanitary pads for themselves and their surrounding communities, bringing education, livelihoods, and health solutions to the rural poor. She is currently working to develop their operations-based impact measurement tool. She has also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Gail looks forward very much to the continuation of her work with social enterprise at SEI and in the world.
Daniel Russotto
Honors Scholar
Daniel Russotto is a Computer Science major in the University Scholars Program who became introduced to the world of social entrepreneurship through Professor Shaughnessy's Voices of Development seminar. This introduction has inspired him to commit to the fight against extreme poverty in the developing world. To this end, he took an active role on the executive board of Northeastern's chapter of Room to Read during its inaugural year. Daniel will work as an Honors Scholar and Teaching Assistant for the Fall 2014 semester of Voices of Development. He looks forward to helping the Northeastern chapter of Room to Read expand in its second year, recruit new members and help them become involved in social entrepreneurship. Daniel is eager to discover innovative and new ways to assist in alleviating extreme global poverty.
Eesha Ramanujam
Honors Scholar
Eesha is a second-year Finance student with minors in Global Social Entrepreneurship and International Affairs. Eesha was intruded to the Social Enterprise Institute through Professor Shaughnessy's Voices of Development seminar. She became further involved through the class's Impact Investing Pitch project and the Dominican Republic Microfinance Field Study program. This past year, Eesha had the opportunity to help start Northeastern University's chapter of Room to Read, a leading literacy and education organization. Apart from her involvement with SEI, Eesha has served as an SAT tutor and college counselor and volunteered with the service organization Circle K. She has also been involved with the Asian Student Union in addition to UTSAV, the South Asian cultural association. This year, Eesha is excited to work as a teaching assistant for the Voices of Development seminar, and to get more involved with SEI's work in any way possible. Eesha is thankful to have been exposed to SEI and the concept of using business as a tool for poverty alleviation.
Nico Rodriguez
Research Associate
Nico is a Business student with concentrations in Marketing, Management Information Systems, and Entrepreneurship. In the summer of 2011, he participated in the SEI Dominican Republic Field Study program where he was first introduced to social entrepreneurship. In the two years following, he continued pursuing social entrepreneurship courses and joined SEI once again on the capstone spring break trip to Nicaragua where he had the opportunity to study how small coffee farmer cooperatives operate. His capstone project involved designing and implementing a drip irrigation system in Mata Los Indios, Dominican Republic to help the community increase their level of income from the sales of their crops and to provide an increase of job opportunities for the residents. Nico's past co-ops include working for PBS, General Electric, and this coming year he will be working for Bluewolf. Nico plans to graduate in May 2014 and pursue a career in consulting, hoping one day to be a part of a consulting organization that works with small enterprises and entrepreneurs in the developing world
Aline Beylerian
President, SEI SA
Aline Beylerian is an honors student who enjoyed taking Professor Shaughnessy's Voices of Development Freshman Inquiry class. Aline is majoring in Economics, minoring in Global Social Entrepreneurship, Arabic, and International Affairs. She is also a very active member of the SEI Student Association's E-Board. She attends Leadership Council meetings for Global Advocacy and Impact Organizations and is the Student Government Association's Liaison to SEI Student Association. Helping others is a priority of Aline's as she is the Service Coordinator for SEI where she coordinates monthly volunteer activities for students and was a writing coach for 8th grade students from Orchard Gardens through the Citizen Schools program this past year. At Northeastern, she also enjoys participating in activities including tutoring Arabic for the Peer Tutoring Program and being a part of the Armenian Students Association. Aline hopes to continue to travel the world while helping people through Social Enterprise.
Miranda Beggin
Treasurer, SEI SA
Miranda is a third-year honors student in the D'Amore-McKim School of Business pursuing a Finance and Political Science dual major with a minor Global Social Entrepreneurship. Miranda is currently a Project Manager for the Social Enterprise Institute, where she co-manages our buildOn chapter, is the Editor-in-Chief of the Social Enterprise Review, works as a Teaching Assistant, and serves on the Executive Board of the SEI Student Association. This past May, Miranda traveled with SEI to the Dominican Republic & Cuba, where she did a Microfinance field study and led a glasses distribution project through VisionSpring. Apart from SEI, Miranda is also involved in the International Relations Council, traveling and competing in Model UN, NATO, and Arab League conferences and IDEA, where she works as an Investment Analyst. Miranda did her first co-op as a Financial Analyst at Amazon.com in Seattle. Miranda looks forward to her next co-op, ideally in impact investing.
Paula Bass Werner
Program Assistant, Field Research Program
Paula is a senior majoring in International Affairs with minors in both Social Global Entrepreneurship and Business Administration. She is originally from Bolivia and was introduced to SEI during her sophomore year at Northeastern University. Ever since, Paula has been interested in perusing a career in Social Entrepreneurship. She has traveled to the Dominican Republic SEI on two occasions; as a student in 2010 and as a Program Assistant during the summer of 2013. Paula has also interned at the Center for Women and Enterprise, a local non profit that helps female entrepreneurs start and grow their own businesses. Most recently, Paula spent the past spring semester in Panama working closely with two women to assist them in opening their own businesses. She provided support in drafting business plans and raising the seed capital needed in the initial phases for their enterprises. In addition, Paula worked in an initiative to bring clean water to San Miguel, a small town in the outskirts of Panama city. She created partnerships with the local Representante and the Water Committee to open a dialogue about the water situation in the town and possible solutions. Paula is eager to continue working in this field and learning more alongside the SEI team.
Becky Darling
Communications Associate, SEI SA
Becky Darling is an international affairs and human services dual major, she is also pursuing minors in social entrepreneurship and communications. Her first co-op was with Root Cause, a non-profit consulting firm which focuses on collaboration as a way to foster social innovation. Becky has also interned at Invested Development, an impact investing firm for innovative technology startups in emerging markets. Additionally, as a founding member of reweave, an organization that provides resources for social enterprises to facilitate social impact, she developed marketing strategies and helped to curate the online social marketplace.
In 2013, Becky traveled to Nicaragua with SEI's capstone course and created a business plan for a women's jewelry cooperative in La Chureca, Managua. This plan was also presented at the Clinton Global Initiative University last spring, with 3 other SEI students
Molly Mohr
Communications Associate, SEI SA
Molly is an honors student pursuing an International Affairs major with minors in Spanish and Social Entrepreneurship. She came to Northeastern with a number of goals, including one of learning more about ways in which to combat poverty. With this goal in mind, she took Professor Shaughnessy's seminar class and has since become very interested in the field of Social Entrepreneurship. She is excited to be learning more about microfinance while participating in the Dominican Republic Field Study Program during the summer of 2013. She volunteers for the Citizen Schools Program as a writing coach for an 8th grader at Orchard Gardens School. In the future, Molly hopes to co-op with social businesses working to fight the vicious cycle of poverty.
Estefania Arenas
Social Media Officer, SEI SA
Estefania Arenas is an International Affairs major with minors in African Studies and Global Social Entrepreneurship. Before coming to Northeastern, Estefania was very interested in the work of multi-lateral international organizations and development. During her first year in Boston, she enrolled in a Globalization class where she first learned about social entrepreneurship. Estefania is currently the Social Media guru with the SEI Student Association at Northeastern. She is originally from Venezuela.


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By: Joangel Concepcion
Are you a mixed martial arts fan?
It's a sport that has become increasingly popular in the last few years.
If you're wondering why you haven't really seen any fights in our area, it's because it's not legal in New York State. In fact, New York State is the only state that won't legalize it.
In case you're not familiar with MMA, it is a full-contact sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques from a variety of combat sports.
Some people say it's down right violent and dangerous.
But advocates say it has the same level of violence as any other sport and New York State is losing revenue by not allowing it.
News10NBC went to the first ever outdoor showcase in the state this weekend.
These fights have filled stadiums across the nation for several years now. According to ESPN, the sport has brought in millions of dollars to almost every state in the nation, all except for our state.
Promoters say New York is missing out on some serious revenue.
The first ever outdoor amateur MMA fight took place this weekend at Frontier Field.
Organizers say the intention was to have the first sanctioned event in western New York, but since it didn't pass in the assembly, it's the first sanctioned amateur event in this area.
More than 100 MMA fans made it out to the fight. Promoters say that if more popular fighters were allowed to grapple in the state, the turn out would mean lots of money for our area.
Organizers still treated this as if it was a professional fight. They pulled some of the refs from different states and adapted many of the rules that are followed in other states, including having paramedics on hand the entire time.
Many say the sport is misunderstood and should be something kids of all ages can enjoy.
"It's economically sound. I mean, it will bring revenue to New York, so it's a tough pill to swallow that we're having to settle for an amateur. But needless to say, we're going to put on this production as if it was a professional," said Mercedes Vazquez, CEO of Pretty Girl Productions.
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Organizers say they know for a fact that fighters have gone to other states, taking a lot of revenue with them.
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Audrey MacLean may be the only Silicon Valley investor who was never floored by Mark Zuckerberg. "I'm just not entirely sure how to gauge the faddiness of the Internet," says MacLean, who, at 61, is one of the nation's most seasoned, well-connected and successful angel investors. That's consistent with the view she's held for at least 15 years, since FORBES put her on the cover. "My motto was, You don't need six fluffy dot-coms when it was questionable whether you even needed one."
MacLean is no Luddite. As a limited partner in the Valley's biggest venture funds, she's been a first-round backer of eBay, Google Google, Netflix Netflix, Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn LinkedIn. But when it comes to making her own bets, this two-time founder looks for transformative technologies she knows something about–like storage infrastructure and data analytics. "Right now the move to the cloud represents the most significant shift in IT that's occurred in my lifetime," she says. "I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud."
These days anyone can be an angel investor, giving startups their first lift. There are, reports the University of New Hampshire's Center for Venture Research, more than 268,000 of them, writing checks for an average $340,000 per deal–a stash that totaled $23 billion last year. (Venture capitalists invest other people's money–$26.5 billion worth in 2012.) MacLean is picky: She invests in just one to two companies a year and currently angels nine. Unlike many VC funds, she's not trying to identify one of the year's ten winning startups. Her hunt for the few technologies–and people–that can potentially reshape industries has led her to businesses she wishes she had created. Her approach can be boiled down to "thinking more like an entrepreneur than an investor."
That's hardly shocking, given her entrepreneurial roots. "I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber," she says. In the summer of 1982, at a time when Silicon Valley wasn't exactly bulging with women founders, MacLean left Tymshare, an early networking company, to launch Network Equipment Technologies, which built a line of switches for wide-area networking products. Five years and nearly $25 million in VC funding later, it went public and she wound up with less than a 1% stake. So when her second company–Adaptive, a maker of high-speed switches–took off in 1988, MacLean held on to 21%. She cashed out her combined holdings, worth $6 million, in order to fund startups that, as she puts it, she would have "wanted to build myself."
While kicking the tires of a prospect, MacLean also puts herself in the driver's seat. "Like all good entrepreneurs I obsess about the opportunity," she says, which is often solving a bottleneck or an acute problem. "Find out who it's hurting and how painful it is." She weighs the startup team: "I'm only going to make investments with people that I'd want to spend time with anyway." Founders "need to be creative; they need to be insanely competitive." As for a technology edge, MacLean looks for a product with "an advantage strong enough that when customers get their hands on it, they won't let you take it away. It's so valuable they'll fight to keep it."
MacLean herself brings a ferocious resolve to the companies she seeds. "I will tenaciously work to make it a success at any cost, even if it's a modest return," she says. By her own account, she has lost money only two or three times. She backed Reed Hastings long before the first flicker of Netflix, putting $245,000 into his Pure Software, which made groundbreaking tools to debug code and get products to market faster, and pocketing $5 million five years later in its 1995 IPO. "I still look to her for inspiration," says Hastings, "and quote her often with such insights as 'Make a difference?–or die.' "
Her $100,000 or so bet on Scott Weiss' IronPort, designed to thwart virus and malware threats to e-mail, reaped a $2 million return when Cisco acquired it for $830 million in 2007. "When you change the rules and become the leader in a market space," she says, "that's when you can make a massive ten-times return."
Of course, every deal doesn't bring a windfall. "Take Centrality," she says, the 2006 startup on which she wagered $300,000. It produced navigation chips and so-called firmware to support GPS on mobile devices. "I made over a three-times return, so almost a million dollars. But you control your destiny a bit less when you have to sell your technology to someone else."
As a consulting professor at the Stanford School of Engineering, MacLean gets an early look at promising upstarts. "I don't think there's a crack team coming out of Stanford that Audrey hasn't touched," says IronPort's Weiss, now a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. She kept her eye on Arijit Sengupta, after he left and went to Harvard, where he communed with Clayton Christensen and launched BeyondCore, an analytics startup that can sift through millions of big data variables within minutes and select the most relevant hypotheses and insights. MacLean, who is chairman, put in $100,000. The idea, she says, is to snatch power away from data scientists and put it in the hands of CEOs and CFOs–"the people who can really do things with that information."
Coraid, where MacLean also serves as chairman, is trying to reinvent data storage. "We started Coraid as a bunch of engineers building products for other engineers," says founder and CTO Brantley Coile, when he realized there was a massive shift of data storage to the cloud. To catch that wave, he'd need an executive staff, a marketing team and legal counsel; that meant real money. MacLean, whom Coile first met 25 years ago as a staffer at Adaptive, was his first call. "I view her as a level-five leader," he says. She kicked in a total $300,000–and took charge. "Don't show this to anybody else," she told him. "We're gonna take it down Sand Hill Road."
That was in 2009. By year-end Coraid raised a $10 million Series A led by Allegis Capital, followed by $25 million in 2010 and another
$50 million in 2011. "Audrey helped to finish the A round with friends and family," Coyle recalls. "She spent 35 minutes on the phone and raised a million dollars." When he eventually met some of those friends, they all told the same story: There was no one else on whose say-so they'd write a $100,000 check for a company no one had ever heard of.


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What materials did you use? 14" white fabric, couching materials, assorted threads, fusible fleece, wonder under, backing fabric, embroidery floss, hoop and needle.
Your embroidery is lovely and that binding sets it off brilliantly
Thank you! The binding is not quite as dark as the monitor/computer displays it... appreciate your comment.
I love the feel of this white background and mostly pastel stitching. Your hand embroidery is sooo sweet. Love the flowers. I think I would have chosen a lighter color for the binding, but it is all wonderful.
Thank you. I agree with your binding comment though I will say the digital image makes it darker than it is... but I think it is too strong either way and reduces the impact of the stitching. I think I'll change it!! Thank you for pointing that out!!


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$2.2M deal to relocate Corpus Christi fire station approved
CORPUS CHRISTI - The City Council approved the following items Tuesday:
Approved a $2.2 million construction contract to relocate Fire Station No. 5 on Leopard next to Miller High School under a partnership between the city and the Corpus Christi Independent School District. Construction work includes tearing down an empty athletic building on the high school campus. In its place, there will be a new fire station and a separate classroom for CCISD to use. It's expected to open in spring 2014. Voters approved the project during the 2008 Bond election.
Approved a resolution further outlining Phase 2 of the Mary Rhodes Pipeline negotiation process to allow city attorneys the authority to use eminent domain if needed to purchase land for the water pipeline project. Eminent domain could be used if land owners are unwilling to settle for an amount that meets the city budget, about $2.5 million for total acquisition. A flurry of activity to build oil and gas pipelines in South Texas could drive up the price some land owners want the city to pay. The total estimated cost of Phase 2 is about $153 million and will be paid for with utility bonds based on customer water rates. City water officials revised the total project cost from a previous estimate of $173 million. No further details about the $20 million drop in cost were made available.
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At the age of 30, Jimmy Bruni, a born-and-raised Hillsborough native, thought he was being responsible when he sought a life insurance policy for himself and his wife.
"We just had a child and we wanted to take care of things just in case," Bruni said. After submitting blood work, Bruni got a call from the insurance carrier that it would be in his best interest to check with his physician, as some of his lab results were abnormal. "It's called IGA-nephropathy, basically the body thinks there is a problem in the kidney and it elevates the white blood cells to help the kidney, thus, it actually harms the kidney," Bruni said.
He lived with the disease for 10 years before he arrived at the point of needing a transplant. Enter Jimmy's sister, Nina Sayre, also of Hillsborough.
"She was a perfect match," Bruni said of his sister. "I don't really consider myself a hero," Sayre said, giggling.
With his sister as a willing donor and a match, Bruni, underwent transplant at UNC nearly two years ago. "Everything is great," Bruni said of his health today. He eventually returned to work as a veterinary technician and his sister resumed her work as an accountant. However, it was during their recovery periods together, bound by a bond through transplant and a bond of boredom, that they each began toying with the idea of crafting and eventually finding a shared interest in making things with their hands and creative eye.
"Having a daughter, I wanted to make bows and that led me to self-learning how to tie bows and eventually Inspired Creations by Nina began as an interest-turned-hobby-turned-business," Sayre said.
"I had always tied knots either through Scouts or other interest so I began experimenting with different ideas and learned to make bracelets, necklaces, dog leashes, collars, anything that can be tied by a knot, and that became a hobby that happens to be a interest that I really love and one that people enjoy, too," Bruni said. His business, affectionately titled Knot Worthy Designs, is one that allows Bruni to express himself both in his craft and his sense of the world of transplant.
"I tell people to wish me good luck but to pray for those that are at the end of life and looking for a transplant. I sometimes feel I am not worthy of this second lease on life and used that to play on words for me creating these bracelets and knot-works," Bruni said.
Linked by blood and eventually by an organ, the brother and sister duo, happened into their respective chapters of life as a result of the gift of life, which allowed the gift of passion to unwrap before them.
"I just create beautiful and unique bows that express my creative side," Sayre said. Though these two downplay the roles each plays in the other's life, there will forever exist the bond of love and the communion of using gifted talents to create for others. "We were both inspired by each other," Bruni said.
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I'm a bit of a Hollywood award season junkie so of course I had to tune into the People's Choice Awards last night. It's always nice to see actors get honored by their fans, but what I love to check out are the fashion and beauty trends. A few actressses stepped out with a bold fuschia or red lip, but for the most part the continual theme that played over and over was minimalist beauty. The People's Choice Awards is always a bit more relaxed than say the Oscars or Golden Globes, however "Young Hollywood" appeared gorgeous in that just-rolled-out-of-bed-ready-to-go look that we always try so hard to recreate. Who knew looking like you didn't even try could take some effort? To be honest, if you're prepping with the right tools and using the right products you could have your own "People's Choice" look in a short amount of time. In saying that, here are my top 5 picks to recreate last nights ongoing look:
Sexy bed head and tousled hair can be achieved by using a great texturizer product. To get Kristin Bell's minimalist tousled hair try using a product like Frederic Fekkai's Bouffant Lifting & Texturizing Spray Gel. Apply to damp hair at the roots for extra lift and all throughout to create texture. Try blow drying your hair with a diffuser head on your blow dryer. By using a diffuser it allows you to retain any natural curl or wave your hair may have. Simply flip your head over and start the drying process. If you'd like to invest in a award winning blow dryer that comes with a diffuser than check out the Featherweight Luxe.
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To radiate from within. To seem as if they're walking on water. To look glamorous whilst still capturing the natural beauty they were born with. The Golden Globe actresses last night simply took my breath away with many bringing back one of my favorite trends: ethereal beauty. Charlize Theron, Rooney Mara (ok, maybe she was channeling he dark side of ethereal), Heidi Klum, Elle Macphereson, Emma Stone rocked my fashion core. Channel and recreate the major beauty trends of the Golden Globe awards by following these steps:
First off ladies, it's all about the preparation. Unless you're divinely blessed which let's face it only a select few of us are then we have to work, work, work for perfection and that all comes down to taking care of our skin. I know it's not always a sexy topic, but at the end of the day prepping your skin with a mask or serum can really make your makeup ever better! If you don't trust me, then trust Hollywood because most of them swear by GLAMGLOW. Created in Hollywood, for Hollywood, and little people like you and me of course, the GLAMGLOW Mud Mask! Quickly becoming a b-glowing staff favorite, this miracle mask gently exfoliates your face with green tea leaves and miracle mud dredged from the exotic South of France will leave your skin glowing from the inside out.
Let's talk about the mane. Up-do's, french chignon, 60's beehive, or Elvira Adams straight, there was plenty to talk about in the hair style department. However, I'm a sucker for soft waves a la Elle Macpherson who look absolutely stunning last night in a gorgeous gown and her signature beach tousled hair. The woman doesn't look a day over 35! To recreate her soft romantic curls it's all in the tools baby and my favorite is T3's Single Pass Whirl Curling Wand. It has a tapered barrel to allow for a loose and distressed curl that doesn't look so darn perfect which is exactly what we want! With all of T3 hair styling tools, the heat chosen remains the same throughout the entire styling process which also cuts your hair prep time in half!
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The French seemed to steal the limelight and most of the awards at the 2012 Academy Awards, but none more so than Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin. The suave frenchmen looked just as debonair in real life as he did playing his silent film character in The Artist, which also won Best Picture. He looked regal from head to toe which came with a bit of help from a stylist and Talika! Celebirty stylist Louise Moon created his dapper look from shoes, to suit to skin! To ensure Jean looked bright-eyed for his big night she applied Talika's Eye Therapy Patch which helps to minimize dark circles and puffiness. These eye patches really get around Hollywood with co-best actor nominee Brad Pitt being a lover of this product to awaken tired eyes. Truly a red carpet Hollywood beauty secret...
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Morning show host Kelly Ripa utilized the talented hands of celebrity hairstylist Oscar Blandi to transform her blonde hair into an elegant chignon with a modern twist for the 2012 Academy Awards. This classic stlye looked glamorous and understated but worked together nicely to compliment and show off her dress and her diamond earrings. If you have a special night planned Oscar has broken down this look to make it totally attainable for us if we have the right tools and determination:
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If you hung out with me last night for our live tweeting of all the fashion and beauty looks as soon as they hit the carpet at the 2012 Academy Awards then you will know there was quite a bit of elegance and glamour. The awards show season runs over the course of a couple months with the main event, the Oscars, being the most important both from a career perspective as well as in fashion. Everybody knows you're supposed to save the best dress for last, but there were a few who played it safe and did the same darn thing again (Jolie AGAIN in black) and Emma Stone taking a slight copy-cat nod to Nicole Kidman's dress she wore to the awards in 2007. Ok, ok, Emma's was reddy-fuschia while Kidman's was classic red. Same, same but different....not really in this case.
The big color trends in gowns was an all out rival between the whites and the reds, with a few other colors thrown in for good measure. Natalie Portman, Michelle Williams and Emma Stone all went for darker hues while Gwyneth Paltrow, Milla Jovovich, Jennifer Lopez, Giuliana Rancic and Rooney Mara all stuck with angelic creamy whites that proved to be a bold contrast against the red carpet. In terms of style of the dress, I have to say the whites took it home with two of them winning best dressed and best overall look in my opinion.
The one beauty trend I saw repeated with a vengeance was the 'ode to classic Hollywood' red lip with darker shaded in eyebrows and minimal other makeup. This is one of my absolute favorite looks which could be achieved easily with Jouer's Hydrating Lipstick in Simone and Kevyn Aucoin's Precision Brow Pencil. In the hair category, I noticed that bangs are back with a...well... bang. Big ones that start from the back of the crown combined with the far over side part seen on Rooney Mara, Rose Byrne and Ellie Kemper.
Although there were many hits of the night, I found it nearly impossible to narrow it down to just one as I loved someone's hair but not necessarily their dress and I'm far to indecisive to pick a favorite. So, all in all my absolute favs were (in as much order as I could muster).....Giuliana Rancic in couture Tony Ward. Her dress and overall look literally took my breath away. The E! host really earned Best Dressed in my opinion. Next, Milla Jovovich who also brought the Hollywood glamour in a white beaded couture Elie Saab number and red lip too of course! See, it's all about the white dress this year! Next, I'm afraid to say Jennifer Lopez. This woman is the epitome of sexy in Zuhair Murad with her hair pulled back tightly off that gorgeous face. Some may think this is to sheer or to sexy for the Oscars but there is nobody else who could wear this dress and rock it than Miss J.Lo! My one lady in red, Michelle Williams looked ravishing in a backless Louis Vuitton gown and her signature Mia Farrow-esque hair teamed with another red lip perfected this look. She's had quite a bit of misses this award season it was nice to see her really shine that night.
And by default I have to include our girl Gwyneth Paltrow because she always nails a red carpet from head to toe, Octavia Spencer who proved a curvier girl can make fashion sexy and....Stacy Keibler. Don't really know who she is but her beau George Clooney and her earned best dressed couple. All in all it's safe to say this was a night befitting of Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth if we look to the classic Hollywood glam that took over the fashion and beauty trends seen at the 2012 Academy awards.
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The annual Met Ball is by far the biggest night in fashion with celebrities, models, designers and the 'style set' coming out dressed to impress. Hosted by Vogue magazine, this event is known to be the fashion world's best red carpet event as well as the top social event in New York. If you'd like to attend next years you better start saving, tickets are a whopping $25,000 a pop with all proceeds going to the Costume Institute. Enough of the details, let's get on to the good stuff, i.e who wore it best, who gave good face and who was red carpet road kill….
By far the most jaw dropping, stunning look of the night from head to toe was actress Camilla Belle. She hasn't done to many movies as of late but she is known for her fantastic style and last night she nailed it in a Ralph Lauren Collection ivory tulle beaded dress with champagne python sandals. Truly the "Belle of the Ball' I immediately fell in love with her dark wine stained lip, bronzed cheeks and brooding brows. Get her wine kissed lips with Jouer's Hydrating Lipstick in Phoebe. Kate Bosworth also rocked the typically winter trended dark stained lip with a slicked back braided chignon and flapper style feather dress.
Jessica Alba sparkled in a grecian style, burnished gold Michael Kors gown. One of the few who actually wore her hair down, it still looked elegant with a delicate pin curl set wave and again a dark lip! Are we on to a new summer trend here?
Cutie pie Emma Stone looked absolutely adorable in a red Lanvin dress with custom designed crystal flowers. I thought her hair perfectly matched the playfulness of her dress with a messy up do embellished with a crystal hair pin.
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It seems the major hair trend from the 2012 Met Ball was the slick back! Bring back the mousse as the wet look seems to be all the rage when paired with an assortment of stylish chignons. From Kate Bosworth's classical braided bun, Gwyneth Paltrow's centre parted up do, to Gisele's matchy-matchy slick back that was fashionably coordinated with beau Tom Brady.
Not only does this type of hairstyle help accentuate the beauty of a rounded shoulder and collarbone, but it also helps us look younger. Pulling back the hair from your face in a tight elastic is like giving yourself a mini face lift. Beautiful actress Rosario Dawson had her chignon done by one of the greats, celebrity hairstylist to the stars Oscar Blandi, and we get the scoop on how to re-create this look ourselves:
Step 1: Prep the hair with Oscar Blandi Volumizing Spray.
Step 2: Blow-dry the hair with an emphasis on the roots to create lift and a solid foundation, but leave the ends of the hair damp.
Step 3: Create a left side part and pull the hair back tightly into a ponytail just above the nape of the neck.
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Whether it was Rihanna and Chris Brown's stage side cuddling, the new 'no gratuitous skin exposure dress code', or Justin Timberlake's stellar musical comeback, there were many things that made the 2013 Grammys show a great night in both musical entertainment and people watching. Watching the red carpet arrivals, it was clear that a lot of musicians or their dates clearly did not get the memo on classying it up a bit more this year. However, if I were them I'd be a bit miffed because this new dress code came out only a few days prior to the awards show and many would have already had their outfits organized. A bit more of a pre-warning Grammy's organizers please!
I always find it interesting when some get the fashion all wrong but the hair and makeup just right. Miss Jo-to-the-Lo Jennifer Lopez for instance. Hello leg! For one Angelina Jolie already did the thigh high exposed cut-off dress at last year's Oscars so there was no need to re-introduce it however, her slick and swept back bun and sexy Cleopatra eye makeup worked perfectly. She has the most beautiful dewy skin and I loved that the eyes were the focal point of the night rather than that leg.
Oh Miss Taylor Swift even though I just want you to find love for more than a few months so you don't have to keep writing these break up songs I have to give you props for your Grammy style! Although I'm getting tired of the the 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' singer I did love her stunning grecian style dress and kempt-unkempt wraparound braided updo. She has that beautiful alabaster skin and the vanilla frosting shade of the dress with bronze lining along with simple fresh makeup really make her look like Aphrodite's sweet but unlucky in love sister.
If there was a lady in red award it would go to Rihanna who took notice of the new dress code and totally redeemed herself from last years revealing white number with a drop dead gorgeous red gown. Red is such a bold color and she really complimented the boldness of the dress with a soft, wavy hair do, matching red lip, and black rimmed eyeliner. From head to toe Rihanna was my absolute favorite of hte night!
Although many celebrity fingers walked E!'s Mani-Cam last night one in particular caught our eye. Singer Kelly Rowland kept it chic and simple last night with a nude manicure paired with metallic adornment on each ring finger. This was a breath of fresh air after to many jewel encrusted, talon nail rings walked the red carpet and screamed bad taste. Want to create the look below? Kelly is wearing RGB Cosmetics nail lacquer in Toast and Flint!
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text: Healthy Recipes Pork Tenderloin 'Rosa di Parma' Recipe E-mail recipe Print recipe To save this recipe, register now! Quick Info: Servings Contains Dairy Contains Red Meat Nutritional Info (Per serving): Calories: 181, Saturated Fat: 3g, Sodium: 526mg, Dietary Fiber: 0g, Total Fat: 8g, Carbs: 1g, Cholesterol: 64mg, Protein: 25g Recipe Source: Prep Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 25 mins Rest Time: 5 mins Total Time: 55 mins Ingredients 2 teaspoon sage, fresh, finely chopped 1 1/2 teaspoon garlic, minced 1 teaspoon rosemary, fresh, finely chopped 1 teaspoon salt, Kosher 1 teaspoon pepper, black ground 2 whole pork, lean tenderloin, (1-1 1/4 pounds each), trimmed 4 slice(s) prosciutto di parma, divided 1 cup(s) cheese, Parmigiano-Reggiano, grated, divided 3 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil, divided Preparation 1. Combine sage, garlic, rosemary, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Set aside. 2. Preheat oven to 450°F. 3. Double butterfly the tenderloins, so they can be flattened, stuffed and rolled. To do so, make two long horizontal cuts, one on each side, dividing the tenderloin in thirds without cutting all the way through. 4. Working with one tenderloin at a time, lay it on a cutting board. Holding the knife blade flat, so it's parallel to the board, make a lengthwise cut into the side of the tenderloin one-third of the way down from the top, stopping short of the opposite edge so that the flaps remain attached. 5. Rotate the tenderloin 180°. Still holding the knife parallel to the cutting board, make a lengthwise cut into the side opposite the original cut, starting two-thirds of the way down from the top of the tenderloin and taking care not to cut all the way through. Open up the 2 cuts so you have a large rectangle of meat. Use the heel of your hand to gently flatten the meat to about 1/2 inch thick. 6. Cover each butterflied tenderloin with 2 of the ham slices, then spread 1/2 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano over the ham, leaving a 1-inch border. Starting with a long side, roll up each tenderloin so the stuffing is in a spiral pattern; then tie the roasts at 2-inch intervals with kitchen string. 7. Lightly brush the roasts all over with 1 1/2 teaspoons oil then rub with the reserved herb mixture. Heat the remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons oil in a large, heavy, ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Add the roasts, bending to fit if necessary, and cook, turning often, until the outsides are browned, 3 to 5 minutes total. 8. Transfer the pan to the oven and roast, checking often, until the internal temperature reaches 145°F, 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer to a cutting board, tent with foil and let rest for 5 minutes. To serve, remove the string and cut the pork into 1-inch-thick slices. E-mail recipe Print recipe To save this recipe, register now!


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This, in the latest of the "what went wrong?" stories, is a helpful guide to the many errors and faults of Clinton campaign guru Mark Penn, famed for perfecting the art of micro-trending (i.e. slicing and dicing the electorate to cobble together a winning coalition of support). Was it that we all "misunderstood" her (i.e., she really did care about big ideas) or that the media was too harsh? That's Penn's take. More realistically, the Clinton team utterly missed the biggest "trend" of all: this was a "change" election. And with a candidate who never connected with voters ("Being human is overrated," Penn joked) they went from inevitable to desperate in less than a year.
But there is a bigger point here than just confirmation of Penn's ineptitude. (And, yes, the incompetence of Harold Ickes and others who failed to organize and compete in caucus and Red states is equally to blame.) Hillary Clinton has never overseen a large operation successfully. For all of her talk that she would be "ready on day one," the only instances of her managerial efforts–the health care task force and her own campaign–indicate she is neither a good judge of talent or a savvy strategist. In that regard, her claim to greater "experience" seems weak indeed.


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Ball - Loan stars reaping benefits
by Stuart Vose
Coach Kevin Ball believes loan deals are vital for players.
Senior development coach Kevin Ball feels going out on loan is an extremely important part of preparing young players for the rigours of first-team football.
Ball has overseen a host of loan spells since moving up to work with the U21 side last summer, including that of Billy Knott who has made excellent progress in the lower leagues.
The talented midfielder spent half a season with AFC Wimbledon in 2011-12 – winning the club's Young Player of the Season award – and has linked up with Conference Premier side Woking this time around.
Knott, who has spent time out recently with a hamstring injury, has scored five goals in 10 games and recently extended his stay until the end of March.
And Ball says the move is a good example of how a temporary switch elsewhere can help members of the development squad sharpen their games.
"Obviously [Woking] is near where Billy is from, which has helped him in terms of being able to go somewhere and be quite settled and being back at home," Ball said.
"What he's been very fortunate with is that Garry Hill, the manager at Woking, is very supportive of what we need from Billy whilst he's down there.
"I speak to Garry on a regular basis about how Billy's doing, and he's been absolutely fantastic as a support mechanism to us."
Ball added: "Billy's thoroughly enjoyed it, he's done very well and our staff have been to watch him play.
"I personally haven't been yet but I'd like to go and watch him in that environment and the reports we've got back have said that he's doing really well.
"One of the major reasons he went there was for him to get fitter and stronger and when [coach] Robbie Stockdale went to see him he said he lasted the full 90 minutes on a really heavy pitch - at the end he was still bombing about, so he's really enhanced his fitness levels."
Other members of the development squad are also currently away at other clubs, including Adam Reed at League One Portsmouth and goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who recently joined Conference club Alfreton.
"For me, sometimes going out and getting the experience anywhere is important, somewhere where there are points to be won and there is a crowd," Ball added.
"With Jordan [Pickford], for example, last Saturday he played at Wrexham and did very well in front of 4,000 people, which was a fantastic experience for him.
"He phoned after the game and said it was a big test for him as well and those are the sort of things we want for the players – to experience these sort of days. It was a massive game for Alfreton and a good result [1-1] for them."


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The Canucks haven't had much luck this season holding on to 1-0 leads in the third period. They've been in that situation twice, and they've lost both times, surrendering two quick goals to the San Jose Sharks, then surrendering two quicker goals to the Chicago Blackhawks a week later. "I wonder who's going to score for Colorado", I found myself thinking when the third period began, "And I wonder who's going to score for Colorado 10 seconds after that."
Sure enough, there were two goals scored in the first 10 minutes of the third. But here's the wacky part: the Canucks scored them both. With the trauma of the worst homestand ever still fresh in my mind, I was pleasantly surprised when I watched this game.
about a game i did not see
Avalanche one and Canucks three
unable was i to watch this game
a birthday dinner was to blame
it was from off the radio
that we had won i got to know
Santorelli was the first to score
signed by Gillis one shan't ignore
he had two goals and one assist
in this good game i'm sad i missed
but bottom line best thing i heard
was that for once we won the third
i trust two points Vancouver gains
tomorrow night against the Canes
we need four up you understand
on Phoenix with three games in hand
"the defensive Patrik Stefan" — brilliant. When Erik Johnson, Jan Hejda, Cory Sarich and some dude named Andre Benoit who I've never heard of are your top four d, even having all those excellent young forwards isn't going to help much.
This was a shockingly lackluster effort from both teams. The Canucks were better but mostly because the Avalanche were worse. Actually the third wasn't too bad for us; the second was terrible on both sides.
I love Patrick Roy and the fact that he pulled the goalie basically to try and ruin the shutout, not to win the game, but to prevent Luongo from getting to one career SO within his own record. That Roy, the consummate not-team player, even when he's the coach and/or GM.
Why wouldn't he pull his goalie there? Occam's Razor suggests to me he still thought his team could win. A quick goal with 5 minutes left would get them back to only trailing by the worst lead in hockey.
I have to say I was peeved at Garrett at the end of the 3rd. Shorty should've deferred to Luongo to give him that slap on the side of the head.
Did anyone else notice that the slashing call was totally crazy?
The Canuck player slashed the Avalanche players' stick in half and then passed his stick to the Avalanche player. The end result was a broken stick on the ice and a whole stick in the hands of the Av' player, and then the Av' player headed to the box.
I've looked for the replay online but haven't found it yet.
I grabbed the video of the replay and posted it to Youtube…


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My mom always seems to complain because my sisters and I love dressing up on Sundays, aka Family Day. Our Sundays are basically the same every week! (not that I'm complaining, it's become a sort of tradition for my family) We have our own family breakfast together, lunch with my mom's side of the family, mass at 430 PM, end up in the mall (depending on our mood), then have dinner with my dad's side of the family. Hearing that I guess you can say we've really got it packed, so I firgured that's why my sisters and I are so eager to dress up for Sundays!
This attire is actually based on the short sleeved jacket, which I inherited from my dear mother! She had it during the 80s :) It's such an amazing piece (and it actually comes with matching high waisted shorts but I prefer not to wear them together haha) I didn't put a close up photo but scattered all over the jacket are rose buds!
Since the jacket was the main attraction to the whole look, I decided on keeping everything else basic. The weather was insanely hot yet again, but because of girl issues (Thank God I'm getting my wax done already!) I could not still bring myself to show some legs! That's why I resorted to wearing these denim leggings! haha
I ended this weekend feeling a bit blue because I was planning on going to the SuperSale Bazaar last Saturday and stupid me I kept thinking it was just in Rockwell, but apparently it was in the Grove, Rockwell. Damn same names! Oh well next time! :)
BTW my title is one of my favorite songs! I got it from my brother a long time ago, has such great taste in music! Check out his music blog! I swear you won't regret it :)


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TUALATIN, Ore. — Nicolas Batum felt that Thursday's practice had warped the Trail Blazers back to the beginning of October.
"It was a hard practice," Batum described. "We played a lot of games. We competed all day today. All day. Every time a team (would) lose, they'd run and keep running. It was almost like training camp today. Almost."
Hardly a coincidence that the Blazers (3-5) get their running legs back -- their first time on the floor since the Tuesday night win in Sacramento -- before meeting the Houston Rockets and their motor James Harden.
"It's tough because he uses a lot of pick and rolls," Wesley Matthews said of Harden, whom he called a friend. "You got to take a lot of bullets. He's going to keep coming at you. They're going to keep throwing the ball to him. He's going to be aggressive. He's going to have seven footers try to take your head off on screens, (and) get him open looks but I look forward to that matchup."
Harden, with his left-leaning drives and Euro-stepping moves, dominates the Houston offense.
He ranks second in the league in scoring at 24.6 points per game and his 50.6 percent Player Impact Estimate (PIE), a calculation that quantifies an individual's statistical contribution against the total statistics in games they play in, is best among Houston starters.
And by Batum's estimation, the Rockets' plays are 75 percent pick and rolls and mostly feature Harden.
So, in other words, Harden's a load — and one that Matthews must carry once again.
On Nov. 3 when the Blazers ruined Houston's home opener, Matthews drew the tough cover, even slapping the ball out of Harden's hands on the last play of regulation.
The Blazers won in overtime 95-85 and Matthews deserved credit for muting the Harden buzz — during the Rockets' first two games,
The Beard had scored 37 and 45 points, respectively, but only 24 on 8-of-24 shooting against Matthews.
"He's a good offensive player. He's methodical, he knows where he's good at. He knows how to get to his strengths and that's what he does," Matthews said, then simplified his assignment.
Matthews just can't let Harden do what he pleases on Friday night.
"His damage comes when he gets inside the 3-point line," Matthews continued. "My job is to make it hell for him to get past the 3-point line."
Aldridge wrist better
A day's rest and bags of ice have nursed LaMarcus Aldridge's tender right wrist.
On Monday against the Atlanta Hawks, Aldridge strained his wrist by overextending it on a tumble to the court.
His shooting wrist still bothered Aldridge in Sacramento but on Thursday, he reported feeling some improvement.
"It's better, it's a little tender still but it's definitely better than what it was (on Wednesday)," Aldridge said, then joked. "It's hard because it's my right hand and I do everything with it. As you all know, I don't go left."
Aldridge said he tried going to his weak side twice during that Hawks game and each play ended in turnovers. But during Thursday's practice, Aldridge looked like a natural southpaw — at least, according to Aldridge.
"I went left like four times," Aldridge said with a smile. "I actually scored every time."


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The Ford was supposed to be the first of a radically new, post-Nimitz class of carriers. But that idea was scrapped because the new technology was not quite there yet. So the Ford will be, like all her predecessors, an evolution on the original USS Nimitz (CVN-68), which entered service in 1975, and the most recent one CVN-77, which entered service this year. But in the many details of a new ship designed from scratch, the Ford will be quite different.
The Ford won't enter service until 2015, and it will have a new hull, a new look topside, and lots of new tech inside. After that, additional Ford class ships are expected to arrive a 5-10 year intervals, and, like the Nimitzs, each will have lots of modifications. In fact, because the mods have been arriving in larger quantities of late, and involving greater changes to the basic ship design. All of this will be largely the result of powerful 3-D CAD software.
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The best ways to shovel snow this winter
Let's face it! If shoveling snow doesn't loom large on your weekend to-do-jobs-list, it's going to be a long winter. But needs must and certain chores refuse to go away. So the best thing is do them sooner rather than later. Take a look at these tips to shovel your driveway efficiently:
- Warm up before you start shoveling. Brush the snow off your car if it's parked in the driveway or wherever you're going to shovel.
- Start shoveling when there's a thin layer of snow if possible. It's easy to shovel when snow first falls off instead of waiting for it all to accumulate.
- Dress appropriately. Layering yourself is the best way to keep you insulated and you can remove top layers as you start feeling warm.
- Avoid shoveling snow if you have heart-related problems.
- It's important to get the right shovel for the job. There are different models like the straight handle shovel, bent handled shovel and others. The bent-handled shovel is said to reduce back strain as it allows for an upright posture while shoveling. The straight-handle shovel is said to be more flexible as it allows for a wider reach with your hands.
- The right technique to shoveling snow is to try pushing the snow rather than lifting it. And if you have to lift snow, lift small quantities by putting more weight on your legs and throwing the snow straight ahead and not to the sides.
- When you have long driveways, it's best to go with a truck or tractor that has snow remover implements. John Deere compact tractors are powerful and have a front Quick-Hitch that can be used with a snow blower, a front blade or a rotary broom to help you clear away large mounds of snow.
- A John Deere x 300 tractor has automotive style power steering and has power lift for raising and lowering implements. With John Deere snow blowers, snow removal is less laborious.


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CBO: Fiscal cliff deal will add $4 trillion to deficit | Times 247: The Senate deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff" will add roughly $4 trillion to the deficit when compared to current law, according to new numbers from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The CBO determined Tuesday that the package, hammered out late Monday evening by Vice President Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would — over the next decade — come with a $3.9 trillion price tag.
The agreement, which is pending before the House after passing in a 89-8 Senate vote early Tuesday, would extend lower tax rates on annual household income under $450,000 and postpone automatic spending cuts for two months.
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5.7: Integration Techniques
Integration by Substitution
There are a couple of tricky substitutions that are not intuitive. Here are some examples:
The normal course of action is to make the expression inside of the radical equal to our new variable. This is the correct way to start but students may halt when they see the result:
Which they will see as being useless to substitute back into the original integral. The trick here is to solve for x before taking the derivative:
Now we use the equation for and to substitute back into our original integral:
And finally substituting back in:
Another problem where we can apply the same "trick" is the, at first, innocent looking problem:
Normally the rule of thumb is to make the denominator equal to , but in this case, that will not allow us to substitute out all of the variables in the problem. To do so, we will need to again get in terms of .
Integration by Parts
Typically the average person's experience has income arriving in discreet groupings, for example bi-monthly or monthly paychecks from employers. It is not the same for larger businesses, which owing to their size and the amount of their transactions think of income coming more as a stream. Businesses will often model the income with a function to help in making future projections. Since the income is often deposited into interest earning accounts, the value of a company can't be strictly computed just by how much money they are taking in currently. Economists will look at Present and Future values to determine the value of investments considering the "Time Preference" of money being worth more in-hand today than the same amount in the future. The Present and Future Values functions for businesses with income streams are:
Present Value: Future Value: V_f =
Where is the income stream as a function of time, is the number of time periods (months, years) of evaluation and is the interest rate.
Find the present and future values for a seasonal sporting goods manufacturer who's income stream is modeled by the function , where is expressed in months and is in thousands of dollars. The interest earned every month, and the term of the projection is years.
This problem is presented as an application that requires parts to solve. Many times the income stream is expressed as a constant or linear function, which may not require parts, but the multiplication of the exponential is frequently going to. I'll compute the Present Value here:
The integral can be split, and the first term will require parts with
Parts again with:
Distributing the numbers removes the parenthesis and allows us to "wrap around" the integral:
Finishing up:
Very number intensive. The key here is record keeping, but the math is the same as simpler parts problems. The future value function works very much the same way.
Integration by Partial Fractions
What if there is an irreducible quadratic term in the denominator after factoring? For example:
This is still a partial fractions problem. If there is an irreducible factor that is a quadratic in the denominator, then the numerator needs to be a linear term. In this case, the separation by partial fractions looks like:
Once the problem is set up correctly, it is solved in the same manner as all other partial fractions problems.
After finding common denominators set the numerators equal
Gather and factor terms with variables with the same power
Then set the coefficients of each variable equal on both sides of the equation
When solving variable systems and above, I nearly always use matrices on the calculator, as I make fewer mistakes than I do with substitution. Typical mistakes with substitution are going to be centered around distributing coefficients, especially negatives, correctly. After finding the value of each variable, plug those numbers back into original separation and integrate.
It should be pointed out that a major place of confusion for students is in the difference between and . The former is a repeated linear factor and the latter is a irreducible quadratic factor, and they must be treated differently. The technique listed above can also be extended for larger degree irreducible factors.
Trigonometric Integrals
There are a couple of ways to solve a particular integral which will illustrate good practices with trig identities and integration.
Solve three different ways.
It is possible that students can brainstorm the different ways, but it is also a good activity to assign different groups the methods of solution.
Method 1: Substitution
This is the most straightforward method.
Method 2: Integration by Parts
Since these are two functions that are multiplied, it makes sense to use parts:
Method 3: Trig identities
The identities needed here are the double angle identities: .
The last example illustrates the importance of always including the constant added term, and remembering that any constant can be rolled into it, since it is not determined.
Trig Substitution
The best problems in mathematics are often the ones that can be solved using different methods. There is something that captures my imagination about the truth and totality of the major theorems, like those presented by Euclid, that can be proven by straightedge and compass, and then thousands of years later with Galois groups. This is not nearly on the level of such classical problems, but it is valuable and entertaining for students to have the opportunity to verify facts using different methods. Especially those methods that may seem like they were dreamed up for the entertainment of torturing math students.
Here, we will examine the integral: . If you ask the class without prompting, some may believe it looks like many of the problems they have just been working and that they should use a trig substitution. They would be correct. Others may recognize that the denominator can be factored as a difference of two squares, which allows the fraction to be separated using partial fractions. They are also correct. The class should show that the two methods give the same solution. This can be done either by asking every student to choose their preferred method, grouping students to work together with their preferred method, assigning a method or having everyone to work both methods on their own.
Partial Fractions:
Trig Sub:
This does not fit the substitution for sin exactly, but the subtraction indicates that the sine substitution is the one we need.
The unique method for taking this integral is outlined in the previous chapter's example :
Using the rules of logs, then substituting back in x using trig identities, we can find the same answer as above:
Improper Integrals
Coulomb's Law is an equation that gives the electrostatic force between two charged particles. The scalar form of Coulomb's Law is:
where Coulomb's constant, are the individual magnitudes of the two charges and is the distance between the two charges. This can be used to describe the force of attraction between a proton and an electron. In chemistry, ions have the ability to "take" electrons away from atoms. We can ask here, How much energy does it take to strip an electron from a hydrogen atom?
Reference sources state that the charge of both a proton and an electron is , and the distance can be assumed to be the Bohr radius: . Astute students may recognize that Coulomb's Law provides the force between the charges, not the energy required to move them, which would be expressed in joules, or the force times the distance traveled. Now, as the charges are spread apart, that also affects Coulomb's Law, as the force will get weaker, therefore it is not a simple multiplication. Hopefully students will recognize that in order to find a quantity as a product of a changing function over an interval they will need to integrate. One last problem, how far away do we need to take this electron to "strip" it away? To be safe, let's take it infinitely far away from the proton. Now the integral looks like this:
I placed all of the quantities in, but it will probably be easier to integrate using constant variables rather than using all of the very large, or very small numbers involved. The only thing to be careful of is to remember what is a constant, and what is the variable. Also, notice that this is an improper integral, so we will need to express it as a limit:
Now we can see that as n approaches infinity, that term goes to zero, so the integral does converge. Substituting in the quantities left out:
We do expect the integral to converge. As the distance between the particles advances to infinity, the force becomes minimal, and with the squared term in the denominator, this is a classic converging integral.
Ordinary Differential Equations
A common application of differential equation is fluid mixing problems. Given information of about the rate of increase or decrease of both the concentration and the fluid being mixed in sets up as a fairly common separable equation. Example:
A pond near a cement plant has been found to have a concentration hexavalent chromium ( of . The volume of the pond is , and there is a creek that carries contaminated water out that flows at a rate of cubic meters per second. Assuming fresh water with no contaminants is replaced in the pond, and all contaminants mix completely, how long will it take for the pond to return to the EPA specified limit of .1ppm of ?
We need to find the rate at which the chromium leaves the lake. Since the amount that leaves at any single time will depend on the current concentration, the rate that the contaminant leaves will be equal to the rate of water leaving times the concentration of the contaminant. Or put in variables:
Which is a separable differential equation:
This will allow us to calculate the time needed after putting in the initial condition . To deal with more realistic time units, convert the flow rate of the creek to cubic meters per month. The since we can consider the current reading to be time zero, the initial conditions are:
Solving then for the time:
Therefore the pond will be back down to safe levels in just over months, or years.
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