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Full detailed profile on Arianna Hernandez (Past) Played by Felicia Terrell on Days of Our Lives Daytime Soap Opera.
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Birthday: March 16 1979
Arianna brings Rafe cupcakes and he's so happy, he wonders how he can repay her. He shows her the painting of the dogs playing poker and she laughs! "You can't be serious." She jokes that she'll hang it in the den, right above the bearskin rug. She comments on him moving in with Sami, wondering what took him so long. She doesn't approve, doesn't think Sami's a bad person but thinks he ought to take it slowly. Rafe tells her it's not like it was with Emily and asks about her love life. She tells him she had to stay away from the really nice guy she likes, who challenges her, doesn't put up with her crap, but when it came time for them to go on a date, she changed her mind about him. Rafe questions her and she admits he's a recovering addict. She likes her uncomplicated life.
Arianna finds Melanie soothing herself by eating an ice cream sundae. Melanie says she thinks she bombed her exam. She used her own answers instead of buying them on the internet for $50. Melanie turns talk to Brady and asks why Arianna turned him down. Arianna can't take the risk of being with a recovering addict, but Brady has been sober for ages, Melanie says. "Give him a chance…" Arianna goes off to work and Melanie texts Brady.
At the Horton cabin, Philip apologizes to Stephanie and wants to give her a proper goodbye. He tells her he'll always love her as Melanie watches from outside. Brady walks up behind her and asks her what she's up to. Melanie jokes that she's working on her sunburn, but Brady says she's trying to get Philip and Stephanie back together. They both look on as Philip asks Stephanie how she could say it's over if she still loves him. Philip kisses Stephanie, as Melanie tells Brady that she is "two for two." Brady tells her that he and Arianna flopped since she turned him down. Melanie tells him not to give up. Brady says what Melanie's doing is great but wonders what's in it for her. He reminds her that she had a crush on Philip but Melanie says that's in the past and she just wants to see them happy because she feels guilty for what she did to them before. Inside the cabin, Stephanie tries to explain to Philip again why they can't be together but he doesn't want to hear it. Stephanie tries to leave but Philip stops her and pleads for another chance. Stephanie says it doesn't matter how many times they pick up the pieces, and walks out as Philip follows her. Brady stops Philip and leads him back inside the cabin. He reminds Philip that women hate being pressured. Outside the cabin, Stephanie tells Melanie she can't believe she did this, but cools off and says she doesn't blame her. Melanie reminds Stephanie that she still loves Philip, but Stephanie says that even if you're madly in love, it is not enough. Melanie apologizes for interfering but Stephanie says it's okay since her heart was in the right place. She leaves to catch the ferry. Brady walks out and asks Melanie how it went, Melanie tells him it didn't go well and Brady excuses himself to catch the ferry. Melanie walks into the cabin and tells Philip that he must hate her for what she did. Philip reassures her that he doesn't because she meant well. Philip says there's nothing he can do to change Stephanie's mind and it's finally over this time. Melanie says she'll help him get Stephanie back, but Philip says he's not going to pressure her anymore. Philip thanks Melanie for her help and calls for his speedboat to get them off the island.
Brady finds Arianna working behind the bar at the pub. She apologizes for being so abrupt, but Brady appreciates her honesty. He asks to meet her on her break and goes to take a seat, elsewhere. Later, they talk and Arianna says it's not him. She has her own history. This is tough because she really likes him, but she had a beau who was an addict. Brady leaves and Arianna thinks to herself how she can't tell him the truth!
Melanie says it's getting a little stuffy in the cabin and Arianna smirks. She feels overdressed. Melanie deals seven card stud and Arianna asks if they should let one of them win so they're not completely humiliated but Melanie reminds her they made fun of them and Brady catches her counting cards! Nathan laughs. He's not surprised. "It's not the first time this body has driven women to desperate measures." He flexes as the girls roll their eyes! Melanie and Nathan argue when Nathan urges Melanie not to spill cranberry juice on his designer clothes. Melanie notes the shirt is a knockoff and tells him he'll have to buy it back! Arianna thinks it'll be fun to see how they get back to Salem in their boxers! Nathan asks Brady to borrow $30 for the jeans, until pay day. Melanie asks him to dinner, and he's in. He wants to know where she learned to count cards. They should take on Vegas, he suggests! Brady asks Arianna to dinner as well, in exchange for his clothing! Melanie and Nathan take a rain check as Nathan's got rounds to make and Melanie has studying for a test for nursing. They banter and he admits he can't help her study because he's her teacher's assistant! Melanie secretly tells Brady to go after Arianna, but he tells her not to match him up with anyone again. The foursome leaves for the ferry.
Arianna and Brady arrive at the pier and discuss where they'll go eat. Arianna asks why he looked so intense when Nathan asked them to play poker for beer. Brady lets her know he was a coke addict, and tries to stay as clean as he can. He explains the situation and asks if she'd like to get Thai food. Arianna says this isn't going to work. She's not having dinner with him – ever.
Nathan walks in on Melanie showering outside the cabin. He keeps staring at her and she yells for him to cut it out.
As they're about to kiss, inside the cabin, Brady and Arianna hear Melanie scream. They rush outside and Brady grabs Nathan, thinking he's an intruder.
Inside the cabin, Brady gets to know Nathan and asks how he got there, considering Melanie told them there was no way off the island until tonight, on the ferry. He glares at Melanie when he finds out that he took the Horton motorboat there! Later, Melanie notices how Brady and Arianna are gazing at each other, so she pulls Nathan outside on the pretext of bird watching. Once they're gone, Melanie watches as they start playing poker. She storms in! "You guys have the cabin to yourself and all you can think of doing is playing cards?" Nathan comes in and they're all dealt in. Melanie suggests strip poker! The guys are all for it but Arianna's not so sure. Nathan suggests Melanie get her beach towel ready. "You're going to need it!" Melanie, all wide-eyed and grinning, says, "Oh yeah?!" Later, the guys have lost most of their clothing and Arianna say she's out. Brady and Nathan are forced to remove their pants when Melanie gets a full house!
Arianna arrives at the Horton cabin just before Brady does and both are shocked to see the other, until Melanie comes out of another room to greet them. They see they've been set up! Melanie denies matchmaking and tells them she simply wanted help cleaning the cabin and preparing for summer. Arianna wants to leave but Melanie says there's no ferry until this evening! Brady and Arianna aren't happy with her so Melanie tells them there's plenty of work to do. They'll do it in silence if that's what they want. Later, Brady asks what possessed Melanie to do this. She felt good doing something nice for somebody else when they were searching for Stephanie and wanted to do it again. Brady asks her to butt out of his love life in the future and she laughs. Arianna comes into the cabin, ready to dust but she falls off a ladder into Brady's arms when she starts dusting! Melanie giggles to herself while Brady and Arianna gaze into each other's eyes. Arianna and Brady glare at Melanie but she acts innocently. "I'm just sweeping," she says. Arianna dumps a bucket of water over Melanie's head and acts as though it was a mistake. Melanie goes off to shower and Arianna and Brady have a laugh. Arianna says there's no need to be hostile or walk on egg shells around each other. Brady agrees. They admit they like each other and Brady takes paint off of Arianna's hair. She thanks him for catching her when she fell. "It's okay. You're light," he says. Arianna thinks he's strong, and looks at his half nude torso!
Rafe meets Arianna at the pier and she tells him the good news about managing the pub. Talk turns to Sami and she assumes Sami will keep digging until she finds out the truth about Emily. Rafe asks Arianna to give Sami a little credit. They agreed to leave things in the past, he shares, but Arianna still doesn't believe that Sami will stay out of it! "Ten to one right now, she's at home, doing an internet search," says Arianna. Rafe says they trust each other and sometimes he feels as though he should tell Sami about Emily. Ari doesn't think it's a good idea, but Rafe says it's all about trust and he knows everything about Sami. Arianna asks him to leave it alone, for her. "Yeah, for now," he says. He'd never do anything to hurt her. Arianna relaxes a little and knows he's just trying to protect Sami. Rafe loved Emily too, he says and Rafe grabs the Chinese food and leaves.
Arianna comes out of the pub and bumps right into Brady. She turns to leave, but stops and asks if he can talk Sami into stop seeing Rafe. Brady finds her request to be bizarre. Later, Brady finds Arianna at the pier. She jokes that he's following her. He says he's concerned. She seems wired. Arianna's insulted but Brady thinks she could use some relaxation. Arianna thinks Brady's nice – creepy, but nice, but she's not looking. Neither is he, Brady admits. He says Salemites seem to think those who are single need to be pushed together. Both of them enjoy their own company and Arianna says they're friends. They go their separate ways, but look back at one another on their way.
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Nicki Robert, Principality of Zeon rookie has had a hard day in the Simulator, where he had to fight various scenarios that have happened throughout the One Year War. Surviving was a pain, especially against the Gundam! But on that day, he had a chat with some other guy in a bar, who's face was obscured by his space suit.
Nicki: *sigh*
OZ Soldier: Why the long face?
Nicki: Kinda had a bad day, I got shot down countless times, good thing it was just a simulator... but when I think we'll have to face that white guy in action someday gives me the shudders.
OZ Soldier: Oh, so you're a trainee? Well I can give you some tips, I'm an elite pilot of the OZ!
Nicki: Really? That would be great! By the way, I'm Nicki Robert of the Midnight Fenrir Squad, and you are?
OZ Soldier: I am?
Nicki: Your name?
OZ Soldier: Oh uh, I forgot my name to be honest. Guess thats why I follow Treize, he's the only one who knows our names.
Nicki: Huh?
OZ Soldier: Nevermind that, so whats the "White Guy" you got so much trouble with?
Nicki: You know, that monster of the Federation, the White Devil of the Troy Horse.
OZ Soldier: Rings no bells.
Nicki: Wait, I got a picture here from this briefing...
OZ Soldier: IT'S A GUNDAM!!!
Nicki: Augh! you yelled into my ear dude!
OZ Soldier: Oh I'm sorry its just it was kind of a reflex
Nicki: *looks at picture* well I guess the reputation it has spread a lot huh? *turns picture towards the OZ soldier again*
OZ Soldier: IT'S A GUNDAM!!!
Nicki: Woah man cut it out!
OZ Soldier: Oh sorry, well about those Gundams, hehe yeah we're getting trouble from them too but we have our ways to deal with 'em.
Nicki: Really? But it can down my unit in one good shot! I've tried taking cover but-
OZ Soldier: And thats where you're doing it wrong, boy! When the Gundam comes guns a blazin', you don't take cover! You must stand perfectly still in an open area with the body of your MS fully exposed. Its best you forget that the terrain around you even exists!
Nicki: If you say so... so you mean I should just focus on attacking?
OZ Soldier: Exactly! Rely on your unit's sensors, radar guidance and the automatic aiming systems!
Nicki: But don't they get jammed in the Minovsky interference?
OZ Soldier: Minwhatsky? What the hell you babblin' about kid?
Nicki: I thought our radar sensors get jammed and locking on should be impossible over longer distances, thats why we have to rely on our own marksmanship right?
OZ Soldier: Marksmanship? Who told you that bull? Since when do soldiers need marksmanship? Listen up, if you aim, you're doing it wrong! Keep firing in the general direction of the enemy and eventually the unit will lock on all by itself, don't go on nilly-willying about trying to aim and stuff.
Nicki: But with minovsky inter-
OZ Soldier: Now shut up about that MacGuffsky! We're pilots, not geographologists! And I'm here to teach you pilotising.
Nicki: So the way I understand it now is, you're telling me to simply focus fully on offense, something like to keep the pressure up on the enemy with suppression fire and stuff, right?
OZ Soldier: ...Yeah... superfission fires... and stuff... something like that.
Nicki: But from my experiences, my 120mm Zaku Machinegun just doesn't jack much against the Gundam. Shouldn't we rather try to knock it over and subdue it with a ruse or ambush or supress it with a pincer move and let aces in stronger units like Gelgoogs go in for the killing blow?
OZ Soldier: Gelgoogs? Whats that? And I thought I told you to leave the terrain outta this! There's no such thing as a unit resistant to bullets! Don't listen to these reports about Gundanium-
Nicki: You mean Gundarium? Yeah, if its so hard to take down the Gundam, shouldn't we try avoiding it to preserve our numbers and assist a capable ace to increase our chances of success?
OZ Soldier: Aces? you mean like Zechs?
Nicki: Uh... yeah, like "Zechs" (I wonder who that is)... or any of the other aces! Maybe they should send a team of aces like the Black Tri-Stars!
OZ Soldier: There are other aces in the OZ?
Nicki: Aren't there? I mean you have Valder Farkill, right? And he has nothing better to do doesn't he? Why not send him to back Zechs up?
OZ Soldier: Who? Whatever! Those hearsay things about some material being resistant to bullets and all is complete bogus! Its just a rumour!
Nicki: But we have solid reports on this and-
OZ Soldier: I said its bogus! When the Gundam comes, you just take out your trusty machinegun and pump it full of bullets!
Nicki: But it's going to shoot back at me, right? Shouldn't I consider Evasive Maneuvers?
OZ Soldier: What are those silly things you keep talking about? What the enemy is doing is completely irrelevant! Wether he's approaching you from afar brandishing a melee weapon charging a huge laser cannon over multiple seconds to shoot it at you, that is none of your concern! You're here to fight! So stand firmly in your fully exposed open place, ignore whats happening around you and keep on shooting! , its gonna work! I swear by my life and reputation as elite pilot!
Nicki: Wow, really? thats great! I can't wait to face the Gundam in the simulator again now! If I even manage to beat the Gundam... Boy thats gonna surprise the Lieutenant Colonel for sure! Maybe I can even ask Charlotte out for a drink!
OZ Soldier: You have social relations to your squadmates?
Nicki: Yes, don't you?
OZ Soldier: Well actually I don't know their names... they probably don't know their names either. We should seriously go ask Treize someday. But then again, if I had like friends and family that depend or care about me, it would upset people if I would die wouldn't it?
Nicki: Yeah, war is a sad thing...
OZ Soldier: War... we should have peace, but war is needed to bring peace, so war is peace and peace is war and war is war and... uh... PROFIT!!!
Nicki: Huh?
OZ Soldier: Well kid, thats not important to you, leave such discussions to smarter people, like 16 year old pubescent boys. Now go out there and make the world proud! Remember, we elite pilots must keep a standard, because if we'd all suck, anyone could just come and just whipe us out!
Nicki: And that would heavily damage the repute of the elite pilots, yeah, I get what you mean there. I wouldn't be the one tarnishing the name of Midnight Fenrir Corps...
OZ Soldier: Yes, though there's also a chance that people will think the people killing us would have mad awesome badass skills at piloting, the niveau of piloting mobile suits would plummet! But thats not going to happen as long as elite pilots like us are around, and I hope you grow to be like that as well!
Nicki: Thank you so much! I hope we meet again, and be sure to ask Treize about your name so you can tell me!
OZ Soldier: Hahaha, I will!


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Pet form of Andrew, now sometimes bestowed in its own right.
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North German: nickname for a restless person or someone of little importance, from Middle Low German fleege 'fly'.
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text: Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson on Tuesday sent a letter to the NCAA on Boise State's behalf stating its opposition to the proposed rule change that would prevent the Broncos from wearing all-blue uniforms on the blue turf. The Mountain West required Boise State to wear a contrasting color for conference home games the past two years as part of the Broncos' membership agreement. However, the league agreed to allow the blue uniforms beginning in 2013 as part of the school's renewed commitment to the league.


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RC Pilot Camp
Camp Dates: (RC Camp Cancelled for 2014)
Basic Requirements
This is a flight training camp where students are taught how to operate Radio Controlled Aircraft. The age requirement to participate is 15-18 years. The idea is to learn to fly, operate, and maintain RC aircraft models. Although attending the Aerospace Engineering Camp is not required, the RC pilot camp draws upon the knowledge learnt in the AE Camp. All the material required for the camp is provided - students do not need to bring any equipment. However, students are welcome bring their own RC aircraft if they wish. Students will be responsible for all the equipment they bring to the camp.
General Information
Lunch is not provided during the camp. Students are requested to bring their own lunch / snacks. The camp is limited to 10 students. The registration is done on first come first served basis. We stop taking registrations when the camp is full.
Ground School
Following topics will be covered as part of the ground school.
- Radio Control Systems
- What do all the controls really means
- Parts of Aircraft
- Motions of aircraft
- Coordinated Turns
- Flight Maneuvers - Going up and down
- Going faster or slower
- RC Flight Simulator
Flight School
Students will be taken to the Stone Mountain Radio Control flying club. More information about the club is available on their website.
Students will fly with the camp director, who is a member of the club and holds the necessary insurance to fly RC aircraft. Following topics will be covered.
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The camp fee is $250/student. The fee covers all the instructions, RC flight simulator experience and lots of hands on RC flying. Note that the camp fee is non-refundable. Make the check payable to 'Aerospace Engineering Camp' and mail it to:
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Air Arms TX200 MkIII air rifle
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Air Arms TX200 HC - Hunter Carbine
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Things I liked:This was on of my Dad's air rifles and he gave it to me before he passed away. He also gave me an RWS M48 which made for a good comparison of accuracy vs velocity. The HW77 was the more accurate and made up for the trade off in power. I do mostly long range shooting out to 100 yds. With good pellets this rifle is dead on from about 50 to 65 yds (2"target) and I'm getting hits on circular saw blades at 100. Saw blades make a nice ring when hit and come in a variety of sizes...great field targets painted white. This is a very nice looking rifle and very accurate...it's a keeper after selling off my other air guns.
Things I would have changed:I'd make it lighter if possible to so without effecting accuracy and durability. This rifle with a scope mounted feels about as heavy as my .308 sniper rifle.
What others should know:It would be hard to beat this rifle for looks, power, accuracy and price.
I forgot to mention that this rifle is the carbine version and as such is a bit lighter and better balanced than the full length rifle. I don't think I'd be as happy with the longer version.
Things I liked:Everthing. Ease to cock. Can drive tacks with this rifle ( have lit matches at 10 yards ). It bets my favorite .22 hands down for accuracy. BTW I used to shoot competition .22 rimfire and this gun is more accurate.
Things I would have changed:. Could save weight if cocking lever was an alloy. A nitro piston underlever would be the ultimate gun. Higher velocities (with a good spring tune or even beter a quality nitro piston) on .22 should be attainable for heavy loads and long shots. I may be speaking out of place but this would give more velocity and should be caried over to the new Hatsan line you carry.
What others should know:My gun is a mkI. Had it over 25 years. Sent it in to get a minor repair and tune ( will folow up with review of my tune and changes soon ). My HW77 .22 auto and probably my 25-06 bolt action would be my 3 guns for the Americas. If I could take another it would be a 686 SW 357 mag. If you buy this gun you, and your son, will never be sorry as you will pass it down as with any cherished hunting implement.
Things I liked:ease too cock, shots dead on strait out of the box , FUN too shot, an if you compare it too a rimfire .22 am ask too point out the air gun i bet most people could not till the difference as the quality is the same
Things I would have changed:nothing
What others should know:installed a hawke varmint sf 4-16x44 scope with beeman high match mounts . it will hit a small tin can at 50 yds every shot with JSB exact 14.30gr pellets an go though it both sides of the heavy tin can NOT aluminum i rest the front stock on a bipod an it will hit every time this is the the first air gun ive owned an ive put apx. 100 pellets though it .so i know when i shot free hand and miss its not the guns fault its mine.
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COLUMBIA CITY — In July of 2012, Cindy Baker presented her plans for the United Way of Whitley County at the nonprofit's Annual Celebration of Giving.
At that time, she was new to her role as executive director. Fast forward a year to the 2013 annual breakfast — Baker celebrated a long list of accomplishments for her first year with the United Way Tuesday.
"It really isn't about me. I am just one person," Baker said. "It really is about all of you who have helped the United Way be successful."
Each year, the nonprofit's annual fundraiser generates monies that are then spread among several organizations within the county.
For the 2012 campaign, the United Way exceeded its goal of $190,000, raising a total of $205,385.
"For me it's not about the money," Baker said. "It's about what we can do for the community. The amount of money each of us could give individually is multiplied when given to the United Way."
When setting the 2012 goal, Baker set the mark $30,000 higher than the year before. It seemed like a "lofty" goal at the time, but Baker had faith in the county.
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Bhaumik, SK and Divakar, C and Rangaraj, L and Singh, AK (1998) Reaction sintering of NiA1 composites under pressure. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 257 (2). pp. 341-348.Full text not available from this repository.
Intermetallic matrix composites are a new class of engineering materials for high temperature structural applications in oxidizing and aggressive environments. Attempts have been made in the present investigation to synthesize TiB2x2013;NiAl composites, in which the matrix phase NiAl was produced in situ by reaction synthesis. The composites with 10, 15 and 30 vol.%NiAl were fabricated from the mixtures of elemental Ni and Al and TiB2 powders by high pressure reaction sintering (HPRS) and reactive hot pressing (RHP). The HPRS and RHP were carried out at 3 GPa and 900xB0;C, and 20 MPa and 1650xB0;C, respectively. The different phases in the sintered compacts were identified by X-ray diffraction and microstructural studies. In HPRS, the reaction was incomplete which gave rise to various intermediate phases (Ni2Al3, Ni3Al). It was necessary to anneal these compacts at 1100xB0;C to obtain TiB2x2013;NiAl composites with single phase NiAl matrix. The densities of the HPRS compacts were not, vert, similar99%. The hardness and fracture toughness values were in the range 10 to 20 GPa and 3.9 to 5.7 MPax221A;m, respectively. The RHP compacts contained AlB2, Ni2B and NiTi2 phases in addition to those present in the HPRS compacts. The RHP composites were fully dense. These had superior hardness (15x2013;22 GPa) but inferior fracture toughness (2.9x2013;3.8 MPax221A;m) compared to those obtained by HPRS.
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Transferred use of the surname, which was originally a nickname from an English dialect word meaning 'fox'.
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A number of indictments were handed down at the recent session of the Barren County Grand Jury. On our newscasts over the next several days we will review those indictments returned. Among the indictments are:
Michael Ray Hammer age 39 of Glasgow for assault for causing physical injury to Kevin Wheeler using a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.
Dallas W Austin age 20 and Deanna Pauline Austin age 23 of Glasgow for criminal abuse against a child 12 or under and wanton endangerment.
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WaPo hires NBC/MSNBC vet for video
The Washington Post has hired longtime NBC News & MSNBC political producer Alice Rhee to serve as as Senior Producer of Shows for its forthcoming video channel, according to an internal memo to staff.
Rhee spent 15 years at NBC News and MSNBC, most recently working with NBC's chief foreign affairs correspondent and an MSNBC daytime host Andrea Mitchell. She will now assist in the launch of the channel, directly overseeing producers of two new shows and working closely with the Post's national political team.
The news comes amid a hiring spree of producers, technicians and talent ahead of the channel's scheduled launch this summer. Last week, the paper announced the hire of USA Today's Jackie Kucinich to co-anchor the channel's flagship political program with Chris Cillizza.
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Macklowe Likely To Forfeit His 7-Property New York City Portfolio
February 6, 2008
After taking control of a $7B portfolio of properties from Equity Office last year, Harry Macklowe's financing situation is rumored to have led to a deal to relinquish control of his properties to his lender, Deutsche Bank.
His financing package, when he acquired the buildings, only required him to put $50M worth of equity into the deal. In addition however, Macklowe was required to provide a personal guarantee of $1b for the deal.
As a result, CBRE has been retained by Macklowe to sell his trophy asset, the GM building in New York, possibly to help satisfy his obligations. The GM Building which Macklowe picked up in 2003 for $1.4B is estimated to be worth north of $3B.
The commercial paper market has taken a bite out of some investors but fortunately it seems that it is a manageable exit for Macklowe and the market.
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Bluewater Productions, the publisher behind previous comic-book biographies of Anderson Cooper, One Direction and Tina Fey, announced Monday that the Internet's favorite film star would be the subject of the next installment of its Fame series.
It's sound logic: The Hunger Games star is already a box-office draw on par with Spider-Man, and her legions of fans are as intense as any other group you'd find at Comic-Con.
An origin story of sorts, Fame: Jennifer Lawrence will tell the story of how a young girl from Kentucky became one of Hollywood's biggest stars. Future versions will likely explore her superhuman abilities to breathe fire and offer charmingly self-deprecating red-carpet quotes.
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This weekly course covers the most common questions videographers encounter when shooting and editing with DSLR cameras, from choosing a frame size and frame rate to understanding moiré. Authors Rich Harrington and Robbie Carman will also help you understand the impacts of compression and the difference between cropped (or micro 4/3rds) and full-sized sensors in cameras, and much more. This continual FAQ guide is a handy way to find the answers to the questions that plague you the most.
Male 1: So Rich, we've talked about using Fonica Pro Ten and Adobe Premier Pro to do conforms of high-speed footage, 60 frames per second footage down to 2398. Male 2: Yeah. Male 1: There's one more tool that we want to show and that is using Adobe After Effects. Now, After Effects is something that if you're uninitiated to it, can seem a little intimidating. It's a big, deep program motion graphics, visual effects, it's not you know a traditional editing application. However, it can be used to accomplish some editorial tasks like conforming slow motion footage and it does an exceptional job with some more advanced features.
Male 2: Yeah, I really like how it handles the footage here, because same idea over in Final Cut and in Premiere, you know, you bring the footage in you have to tell it. How you want to interpret it. Male 1: Right, and right now you can see up there in the little info window, it's saying, hey this is 5994. Male 2: So I'll right click and I'll go to interpret footage, and choose main. Male 1: Okay. Male 2: And essentially, I just need to dial in a new frame rate of 23.976. Male 1: And really, this could be anything you wanted, right. I mean Male 2: Yeah. Male 1: If you wanted this to be 4 frames a second, you could make it 4 frames a second. Male 2: Absolutely, and I'll choose that.
And that's all set. And then I'll make a new composition. Male 1: Okay. Male 2: Now with the composition, you wanted to go ahead and match your deliverable size. And if I was going to scale the shot up, I would do the scaling in After Effects, because its scalars are better than both Final Cuts and Premiers, probably combined. So I've got 1080, and I'll set my frame rate for my delivery. Male 1: Okay. Male 2: It's all good, and I'll just make this a longer comp here. Male 1: Now just to be clear, in the previous 2 examples, we didn't change the frame size, but we're going to change the frame size and, and scale up a little bit here as well.
Male 2: Yeah. And that's because I think After Effects does a better job at it. Male 1: Right. Male 2: Now, I've got that, I'll click OK. And let's just double-click to load the file. A lot of folks don't realize that in After Effects, you actually can set in and out points as well, so you don't have to just dump everything in your timeline. So you just double-click and it loads into the footage monitor, which is kind of like a source monitor. Male 1: Yup. Male 2: There we go. Male 1: Okay. Male 2: And I'll mark my out. And let's just drag through, make sure that's what we want. Male 1: Yep, looks good. Male 2: And so I will add that to my timeline, look it's the same sort of button.
Male 1: Male 2: Yep, there it is, but it's the wrong size. Male 1: Yeah it is, so you can see all that transparent space around it. Male 2: Now we can scale this up and you probably have this number memorized by heart. Male 1: You're tricking me, Rich. 150! I knew it! Male 2: It's a very easy blowup, but there's a great shortcut inside of After Effects, which is just Cmd+Alt+F, or Ctrl+Alt+Ff for forced fit. Male 1: Beautiful. Male 2: And they'll scale it up to fit as well. Male 1: Okay. Male 2: Now in this case, you're not going to see anything different than before.
Let me just mark out the work area. b and n for beginning and end of the work area. Male 1: I'll just cache that real quick. Male 2: Yep, and in After Effects, we don't play footage, we click ram preview so it loads and plays back. It's a compositing tool, not a real time video playback tool. So it's fine. You know, there it is at 24 frames per second. We didn't slow it down. Male 1: Right. Male 2: Now in After Effects, I can stretch things, so why don't we stretch this 200%. And the tricky thing here is, in Premier, you had a playback speed, so a 50% speed is the same as a 200% stretch.
Male 1: Right, got it. Male 2: Different program, same manufacturer, kind of weird. Male 1: Same idea, though. We get the same end result. Male 2: So I'll go ahead and stretch that from the end point. And we'll just mark out an area there. And that's been stretched 200%. So when I'm looking at that there, it's fine, it's working. You know, everything's good. But it's not as high-quality as it could be. Male 1: No. Male 2: Now, we have 3 ways. We have this method, which is just repeating frames. Male 1: Mm-hm. Male 2: I can turn on frame blending. Male 1: Yup. Male 2: So we first have to turn it on for the composition to globally allow it.
Male 1: Okay. Male 2: And then we turn it on for the individual layer. Male 1: Okay. Male 2: Frame blending takes a lot of processing power and you wouldn't necessarily want it on everything. Male 1: Right. Male 2: So you can selectively do this per clip, maybe you're doing a composite. Now let's go ahead and preview that. And it's at draft quality. Male 1: Right, and you can tell draft quality there in the little switch. It's sort of a backward / and its kind of dotted line, not full quality. Male 2: Yeah, and what's happening is, is it's actually dissolving between 2 frames. Male 1: Mm-hm. Male 2: So if this was frame 1, and this was frame 2 and you slowed that down? Male 1: Mm-hm.
Male 2: The middle frame is going to be half of those 2 frames dissolved together. Male 1: Right. Male 2: Which is fine, but it's not great. Male 1: No, it's not. Male 2: And I'm going to actually stretch this 400% now. Male 1: Okay. Male 2: Really slow motion. Male 1: Okay. Male 2: And, what we can do with that, is turn on full quality. Male 1: Okay. Male 2: And this is basically going to do the similar thing of optical flow. It's an advanced frame blending. And when we're in the high quality mode with that, now if I step through frame by frame, you're going to see as it plays back.
That it's actually making entire new frames. It's morphing between frames. Male 1: Yeah, and because it's doing that, it's much more complex math. Guess what, it's a little longer to cache that. Male 2: Yeah, so we'll quickly preview that. I'm at full quality on my previews here, you see the green bar going, it does take a bit more time. Male 1: Mm-hm. Male 2: But, I'll just mark out the critical area there. b for beginning. And n for end. And we're doing this at full quality, so you can really see it. But you kind of get a good idea there. You could see as it goes frame to frame. Male 1: Mm-hm. Male 2: Just how clean every single frame is.
Male 1: Yeah, it's beautiful. Male 2: Now there are things that can screw this up. You see there with the advanced frame blending with the liquid, we did get a little bit of a warble, but you know, that was also the liquid. You've probably seen those crazy videos where people are, you know, boxers shot at high frame rates, and it looks really unusual. Sometimes slow motion looks unusual because your eye is not used to seeing it. Male 1: Right. Male 2: The other thing to realize with this as it builds this out Is that things like flash photography could really screw this up. Male 1: Well in general, anytime you're doing you know slo mo work like this whether you're shooting higher frame rates, you gotta be careful with lighting.
Flickering could be more noticeable with with lights. You know flashes as you mentioned. Something you're needing to pay attention to, for sure. Male 2: So there, we're at a 400 percent stretch factor. So if you think about that, we already slowed it down from 60 to 24, so that went okay 24 frames a second and now at a 400% stretch, we're really playing back 6 frames per second. Male 1: Yup. Male 2: If you do the math, and I know none of us like doing math, that really means that 1 second of reality, has just become 10 seconds of finished footage, and that's a dramatic effect and I would call this air worthy.
I would use this in a national spot at that quality. In fact, I have. For lynda.com my name's Rich Harrington. Male 1: And I'm Robby Carmin. Male 2: Be sure to tune in each week where we'll have more tips on how to get things done with your DSLR camera, as well as post production software.
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Chattanooga Head Coach Will Wade
Thoughts on the game
"First off I want to thank the crowd. I think that was the first time since 1998 we've had back-to-back crowds of over 5,000 people. That was great, that was a big lift, and I appreciate them coming out and showing faith in us. I want to thank two people in particular who were in the crowd they'll probably be embarrassed, and I didn't mean to do this but I saw Dewayne (Gass) when we were walking out and there's a guy named David Gibbs as well. So we rolled the bus up off of MLK at 4 a.m. Friday morning and Dewayne, his son, and David Gibbs were sitting there at the apartments where our players live to give our guys encouragement, welcome us back and let us know they were still behind them. So that meant a lot to our players, and it meant a lot to me and our staff. They'll probably be embarrassed that I said that but I really wanted to thank them and thank everybody who came out tonight. Basketball-wise I thought we responded well. We played with great energy and great enthusiasm. It wasn't perfect but we got the job done and I was proud of our guy's response. That's tough to do. We didn't make any excuses. Tough loss on Thursday, we got back at 4 a.m. and the guys got up and went to class. We went through our normal prep, so it was a tough couple of days for our guys. But they responded the right way, did a really nice job and put together a really good win. Proud of the effort, proud of getting the win and we have a quick turnaround to get ready for Tuesday."
On the defensive pressure's effectiveness
"It was good. The best it's been probably all year. We've made some adjustments from the first game. Our guys pressed with energy like that and we fly out of it so it works well. I think we had 19 or 20 turnovers and we got 10 steals or so. I thought we left it all on the table. We were slow in our rotations but our guys did a good job with that. Our guys running the baseline out of bounds in the press did a good job. We got five-second counts and we got some steals off of that. So we had the press going and that was good. That helped us out tonight."
On pushing it from a 10-point game to a 17-point game
"We got stops. We were able to sit down and get stops, and when we get stops we can get out in transition. When we get into transition we're a pretty good offensive team, and then when you score you can set the pressure. It all kind of goes together. We were able to get stops and get out in transition, set the press, get some steals and get the pace going. Unfortunately they're pretty banged up and they don't have very many players. They have to play guys a lot of minutes. We knew if we could get the pace going and make them work that we could wear them out. We knew it would be to our advantage in the last part of the game."
Thoughts about the upcoming schedule
"We're going to mostly take the day off tomorrow. Then we're going to practice Monday and leave for Eastern Kentucky, who's a very good team in to Ohio Valley Conference. They're picked at the top or maybe to win the Ohio Valley Conference. I think they are sixth or seventh in the league right now. Good team, great guard play, very good three-point shooting team and then we turn around on Saturday and play Samford. They're a team that we already played once here. We go on the road to Birmingham and get ready to go into another tough conference game. We have two road games and we have to be good on the road. We have to find a way to dig some road wins out."
Furman Head Coach Niko Medved
Thoughts on the game
"I thought that Chattanooga responded very well tonight. They came out with a lot of energy. I thought their pressure really bothered us, and they had a good game plan. They wanted to take the ball out of Stephen Croone's hands in the full-court and half-court press, and clearly with us being limited from a ball-handling perspective I thought that really bothered us. I thought we missed a lot of easy shots in the paint to start the game and they capitalized on that. I thought our kids' half-court defense was good when we got back and got set, but we just couldn't do enough on the offensive end to take care of the ball and get quality shots. We just got out-played tonight."
Thoughts on Chattanooga's defense
"I thought that was the key to this game was that they had pretty good energy. I just thought we really quit moving, and they are a team - with the way they play defense – that we really stood around and tried to point the ball in the post and they doubled for error. I thought that was a good move on their part. We didn't do a good job of handling that and making the extra pass. We just didn't make the simple play, and that allowed them to get out in transition with turnovers. I thought we took poor shots, and they blocked eight of our shots. That's what Chattanooga does really well. They block a shot and it fuels their transition. We just simply couldn't finish enough plays tonight to get back on defense."
Casey Jones, sophomore, guard
Thoughts on his hot start
"I just do what I usually do. I run the court and make layups. Making layups is what I do best and my team mates follow me in transition. All I do is finish. I didn't really do anything special. I just made layups."
On his limited playing time in the first half
"As long as we are winning and we're playing good, I don't care if I am on the bench. I just want to win and that's the only thing that matters. I play aggressive and pick up easy fouls, but I would not change the way I play to stay out of foul trouble."
Thoughts on Chattanooga's defense
"We did a great job on defense. We had Lance in the diamond and were just trapping. Furman was putting a lot of people on the court so there were some guys out there tired. Croone wanted to back it out a little more than to take it in and attack. We had a lot of people coming in and stayed fresh. I guess that was the biggest difference was that we had more man-power. We had a lot more people coming in than Furman. They were a little fatigued, but they are a good team."
Z. Mason, senior, forward
On hitting the 1,000 point/100 blocks/500 rebounds mark
"I don't keep up with the numbers. I didn't know how close I was in points until Johnny Taylor told me I was a point away from 1,000 on Thursday. I didn't know about the blocks or the rebounds until last night. I've just been focusing on getting better day-by-day."
Thoughts on Chattanooga's defensive press
"Obviously it worked. We got them to turn the ball over 19 times. That made it easy for us to get easy buckets off of the steals in transition. We had them scrambling. The press gave them trouble and it was able to help us defensively. We held them to 19 points in the first half so it helped us out a lot."
On how Chattanooga went on a run to begin the second half
"The press allowed us to get steals. I know I started out with a dunk and somebody made a layup. We just made a lot of effort plays that really helped us. We were able to make plays on defense that helped ease the offense. It helped shut them down and it gave us easy buckets. We pushed open a lead."
Thoughts on the crowd
"We really feed off of the crowd. We really appreciate their support. We've had big crowds over the last three games and we want it to continue to increase. We have three game games left, we are appreciative of the support we've gotten so far and hope that it continues for us."


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Many technology investors avoid hardware startups, fearing high costs, manufacturing headaches and distribution problems. A new hardware startup accelerator, HAXLR8R ("Hack-celerator"), is building on technology advances and the "maker movement" and hoping to change that.
The firm describes itself as the first seed-stage accelerator for hardware startups. In order to make it easier for hardware startups to develop, the 111-day program was based in Shenzhen, China so that the companies could get their prototypes quickly built while working closely with manufacturers.
The incubator held its first demo day for its nine startups–which are in areas such as robotics, appliances, energy and healthcare–to pitch to investors Monday in San Francisco. HAXLR8R is headed by Sean O'Sullivan and Cyril Ebersweiler. O'Sullivan founded Mapinfo and is managing director of SOSVentures, which has a $180 million fund. He also invested in LEAP Motion and Harmonix/Guitar Hero. Ebersweiler, who has lived in Asia for 12 years, is a venture partner at SOSVentures. Five of the nine presenting companies are from the U.S., two are from Europe and two are from Asia. O'Sullivan and Ebersweiler also head the China Accelerator program in China and came up with the idea for the hardware accelerator after meeting hardware startups that wanted to be part of its program.
Hardware startups need lean startup models that software accelerators use, but also need knowledge in areas such as packaging design and circuit board manufacturing, Ebersweiler says. By working in Shenzhen, these companies can work with manufacturers, iterating and building prototypes extremely fast with a software mentality, he says. "That's not the way hardware companies have been in the past, but that's how they'll need to be in the future: very agile, with quick iteration," Ebersweiler says.
With the "maker movement," which has grown in recent years focusing on creative independent makers of physical products and artwork, and funding sources such as Kickstarter, there are more possibilities for hardware startups, he says. HAXLR8R helps its startups in areas such as supply management, distribution, manufacturing, design and engineering. Here are the companies that presented:
Makeblock: The company provides high-end construction tools for building robots, 3D printers, artwork or other devices. The tools can connect with boards, sensors, motors, drivers, electronics and even Legos. And the products look a little like sophisticated Lego pieces. The tools aren't designed to be toys–at least not yet. Makeblock is going after the hobbyists, businesses that want to do prototyping and educational markets. But the company could eventually move into the toy market. Makeblock will sell kits for between $50 and $300, as well as extension kits. The company started selling two weeks ago and is now raising a seed round.
Bilibot: The company provides a platform for people to build robots. Bilibot builds on technology such as the Microsoft Kinect platform. Creating robots has previously been challenging due to high costs, complex software, and new technology, but new open source groups have made development cheaper, the company says. But there's no strong platform for that open source technology. Bilibot is designed to provide that, enabling companies to develop robots and build commercial applications in areas such as healthcare, telepresence and warehouses. Initially, Bilibot is targeting hobbyist and university markets. But it's also hoping developers will buy its kits to build their own applications. Bilibot is renting out its robots to trade shows as its first vertical. The Bilibot can act as a moving billboard, talk to conference attendees or pass out materials at conferences.
Axio: The company provides a EEG headband that connects via Bluetooth. The headband connects to a computer and provides a graph that shows your focus levels in real-time while you work, or do other things during the day. The company's EEG technology measures electrical activity from your brain (in the way that EKG measure electrical activity from the heart). Axio can also connect to mobile apps to measure long-term performance.
Nomiku: For all you Top Chef fans, this startup makes a new kind of "immersion circulator" for cooking in the sous-vide method, selling a tool that previously was only available to professional chefs. The tool makes it possible to make things as steak evenly cooked while cooking in plastic bags. Nomiku's tool, which looks a little like a blender, is much smaller than large devices that professionals use. It's also cheaper, at a $299 price, while some others can cost $2,000. People can also just use Ziplock bags to cook because the device does not enclose the food itself.
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Chinese Food
Beyond Fish Sauce: 4 Asian Ingredients You Should Be Cooking With
Make some room in your pantry next to the soy sauce, miso, and fish sauce for these 4 new staples.
Eat the World (Yes, the Entire World) Along Atlanta's Buford Highway
Where to find Atlanta's best dim sum, tacos, and pho.
DIY Dim Sum: How to Make Authentic Soup Dumplings at Home
Making soup dumplings isn't hard. Okay, it kind of is. But this step-by-step video will teach you everything you need to know.
Mapo Dofou
Just a little bit of spicy, salty chile bean paste is the reason this dish packs such an insane flavor punch.
Stir-Fried Pea Shoots
You can find pea shoots at Asian markets and some specialty markets, too. Look for those with firm, bright green leaves, a sign of freshness.
How to Make Sichuan Chili Oil
A step-by-step guide to making your own Sichuan-style chili oil, with ingredients you can get at Asian supermarkets or online
How to Cook Chinese Food Even Kids Like—Without a Wok
After years of failing at General Tso's, columnist Manny Howard ditches the wok for a cast-iron pan—and finds a new dish his children love: velvet chicken with broccoli
Hot Pepper Noodles
These rice noodles come together faster than your favorite Thai place can deliver, guaranteed. They're equally good with tofu, beef, or shrimp in place of the chicken.
Shrimp Fried Rice
If you forget to thaw the shrimp in the morning, set the bag in a large bowl filled with cold water. It will defrost in minutes. One cup of dry rice will yield 3 cups cooked; leftover rice, which is slightly dried out, makes the best stir-fries.


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In my career, I have conducted thousands of interviews, been interviewed hundreds of times and as a media consultant, I have also observed thousands of interviews from a neutral seat. There are a few tips that have worked consistently well for me and perhaps they will help you. I write this from a media professional's point of view, but I think many of these points are applicable to business and employment interviews as well.
1. Start slow, safe and personal.
I usually begin with a question that focuses on the person and not the topic at hand, such as: "Where did you grow up," or "what was your first job out of college?" First off, you relax your subject and you humanize the interaction. This relaxes the atmosphere, starts the conversation on safe ground, and let's you get a sense of the where your subject is coming from. Second, you sometimes get a surprisingly good story.
Many years ago, when Oracle was a startup on a meteoric rise, Larry Ellison was interviewed by a veteran magazine reporter. The subject was corporate strategies related to database software. But the reporter started by asking Ellison where he was born an raised. Ellison known for his aggressive and independent style, revealed that he was raised by a single mom and spent much of his youth on the streets of Chicago. This, for many years, became a key component of the Ellison persona and the Oracle's street-tough competitive style.
2. Coax, don't hammer.
The "shock jock" interviewer may get daytime TV audiences to cheer and jeer, but chances are your audience is too sophisticated and businesslike for such low-rent tactics. I prefer interviews who have the up-close, but soft style that coaxes revealing, newsworthy, useful answers. For that reason, I am a huge fan of NPR's Terry Gross, host of the long-running Fresh Air. She coaxes the most revealing content out of her subjects, by adopting a very personal rapport and asking questions, in a "c'mon, you can tell me" style. People tell her the most amazing stuff. I'll bet a few of them later wonder whatever possessed them to reveal certain matters on national television.
3. Make some questions open ended.
All interviews require you to ask specific questions that get answered with narrow data points. "What was you last job title?" But, in my experience, the most interesting responses I get come from open-ended questions, such as, "What is your vision for your organization five years from today?" or one of my current favorites, "Do you worry about any unintended consequences from what you are trying to accomplish?"
Years ago, I interviewed Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace a controversial segregationist running for the presidential nomination. I was no fan of his, but made it my business not to show my personal animosity. I asked hom what he thought the voters of Massachusetts shared in common with him. "They are as tired as I am of big government stomping on hard-working folks butts," he said. This is a tired old saw today, but that interview may be the first time a candidate personified "big government" bullying everyday people. Wallace almost won that Massachusetts primary. His campaign sent me a thank you note for giving Wallace the chance to state his case. I have regretted it ever since, but it was where I learned my job was to get the interviewee to tell his story and let the readers decide what they think of his or her ideas.
4. Ask what you don't know.
There's a lawyer's tip that advises you to only ask witnesses questions that you already know the answers to. I do the opposite. I ask questions on issues where I am clueless what the answer will be. Lawyers hate surprises. As a journalist–or reader–I love them. Surprises mean I have something that has not been previously reported.
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About FOGcon
FOGcon Needs Volunteers!
FOGcon 5
Dates: March 6-8, 2015
Location: Walnut Creek Marriott (same as FOGcon 2, 3, and 4)
Theme: The Traveler
"All great literature is one of two stories; someone goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town."
--Leo Tolstoy
From The Odyssey to Dr. Who, Margery Kempe to Alyx, the Traveler is an iconic figure. This trope evokes a whole class of stories in both SF and fantasy in a compact and emotionally suggestive form. The titles practically jump into mind: Stranger in a Strange Land; The Hobbit, or There and Back Again; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Picnic on Paradise, and so many more.
We will explore such topics as modes of travel, evolving attitudes toward the idea of an alien realm, the range of metaphors travel stands for, changing expectations about the experience of earthly or space travel, and how to be an extreme wilderness hiker - or an extreme hitchhiker. And lots more.
Honored Guests
Kim Stanley Robinson
Catherynne M. Valente
Joanna Russ (posthumous)
What Is FOGcon?
Friends of the Genre (FOGcon) is a literary-themed San Francisco Bay Area SF/F con in the tradition of Wiscon. Each year we focus on a new theme in speculative fiction and invite Honored Guests ranging from writers to scientists to artists. We build community, exchange ideas, and share our love for the literature of imagination.
FOGcon is a project done jointly by Friends of Genre and the Speculative Literature Foundation.
Genre Fiction
The definition is "genre" in fiction is as loose and baggy as the form of the novel. It can refer to setting (Western), intended audience (children's or young adult fiction), subject (murder mystery), writing style (literary fiction), time period (historical fiction), or emotion evoked (horror, romance). Every genre has its own rules, traditions, ideas, and stock characters that the reader will expect to find. The reader enjoys the author's skill in combining the familiar elements of the form with fresh ideas, unexpected twists, unusual insights, and evocative language.
All these and many more genres of modern prose fiction fall into two basic categories:
Realistic fiction, which places (usually) imaginary characters in recognizably true-to-life settings.
Speculative fiction, which places its characters in settings that are in some way counterfactual, and that difference from what we usually call "real life" is the driving engine of the plot. Perhaps all but one of a world's unicorns have disappeared. Perhaps there's a planet where human beings are almost all hermaphrodites. Perhaps the Roman empire is still going strong in the fifteenth century. What happens then?
Speculative fiction, what we are calling the Literature of the Imagination, answers that question, and in exploring small differences illuminates our common humanity.
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- Willamette
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- 2010
- April
- Clothier and Uhlich Set Personal Records in Field Events at NWC Championships
Track and Field | Friday, April 23, 2010
Clothier and Uhlich Set Personal Records in Field Events at NWC Championships
SPOKANE, WASH. -- Willamette University athletes Josh Clothier (Jr., Walla Walla, WA/Walla Walla HS) and Natalee Uhlich (Fr., Yamhill, OR/Yamhill-Carlton HS) achieved personal records in field events on the first day of the Northwest Conference Track and Field Championships on Friday, April 23. Clothier registered his career-best throw in the discus, while Uhlich earned her top throw in the javelin.
The first day of the NWC Championship also included successful results for the Bearcats on the track.
Kimber Mattox (So., Bend, OR/Bend HS/Cornell University) won the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase and Ben Donovan (So., Minneapolis, MN/South HS) won the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase (see related article).
In the six women's events with preliminary heats (sprints, 800m, hurdles), Willamette advanced eight runners filling 11 spots in the finals. The Bearcats advanced 10 men's runners who will fill 14 spots in finals of the six men's events that featured preliminary heats. Willamette also will be represented in the men's and women's 1,500-meter and 5,000-meter runs on Saturday.
Clothier's personal record in the men's discus covered 152' 5". His previous best was 144' 8" at the Charles Bowles Spring Break Classic earlier this season. Clothier placed fifth at the NWC Championships on Friday. Ron Whitley of Whitworth University won the event with a distance of 166' 2".
Uhlich threw the javelin 124' 6" to set her personal record, as she placed fourth in the event on Friday. Her previous top throw this season was 115' 4". Beth Stam of George Fox University won the women's javelin with a toss of 143' 3".
Christina Edholm (Sr., Pleasanton, CA/Foothill HS) of Willamette placed sixth in the women's discus with a distance of 108' 2". Edholm also will compete in the shot put and the hammer throw on Saturday.
The Willamette women's team also received an eighth place finish from Tina Patel (Sr., Bend, OR/Summit HS) in the 10,000-meter run. She clocked in at 39:32.40 to finish in front of more than half of the 19 runners entered in the event.
Clothier was one of two Bearcats to score points in the men's discus. David Oppat (Jr., Beaverton, OR/Southridge HS) placed seventh with a throw of 147' 10" to tie his career best.
Brandt Nevin (Jr., Eagle Point, OR/Eagle Point HS) and Evin Colignon (Jr., Poulsbo, WA/Charles Wright Academy) placed in the men's javelin. Nevin took fifth place at 171' 9" and Colignon was seventh with a toss of 164' 6".
In the men's 10,000-meter run, Willamette's Kevin Aubol (Fr., Ellensburg, WA/Ellensburg HS) placed seventh. He recorded a time of 33:42.18 for a new personal record.
Jennifer Luecht (Sr., Milwaukie, OR/Rex Putnam HS) reached the finals in the 200-meter dash and the 400-meter dash. She has won seven NWC championships in the sprints and relays during her career.
Other Willamette highlights in the women's preliminary heats included three Bearcats reaching the finals in the 800-meter run. WU's finalists were Theresa Edwards (Fr., Lake Tapps, WA/Bonney Lake HS), Kaitlin Greene (So., Pullman, WA/Pullman HS) and Erynn Rebol (Fr., Cottonwood, CA/Red Bluff Union HS).
Brandi Miller (So., Grants Pass, OR/North Valley HS) of WU advanced to the finals in the 100-meter hurdles and the 400-meter hurdles.
Four Bearcats gained slots in the finals of the men's 200-meter dash. They were Paul Winger (So., Bonney Lake, WA/Bonney Lake HS), Neal Howard (So., Seattle, WA/Ballard HS), Tristan Bodding-Long (Sr., Woodinville, WA/Woodinville HS) and Nate Dick (Sr., Stanfield, OR/Stanfield HS/So. Oregon Univ.).
Howard and Dick also advanced to the finals in the 100-meter dash, while Winger and Bodding-Long reached the finals of the 400-meter dash. WU sent at least two men to the finals in all six races with preliminary heats.
The Bearcats had three athletes register the top time of their respective events in the prelims.
Luecht finished her preliminary heat in the 400-meter dash in 59.62 seconds to lead the field. Winger registered the fastest prelim time in the men's 400 at 50.27 seconds, while Andy Meuser (Sr., Portland, OR/Woodrow Wilson HS) had the top time in the men's 400-meter hurdles at 57.01 seconds.
Whitworth led the men's team standings after the first day with 105 points. Linfield College was second with 48.50 points, followed by Willamette in third at 45. George Fox University was fourth with 44.50 points, the University of Puget Sound was fifth at 11, Lewis & Clark was sixth at 10 and Pacific Lutheran University was seventh with eight points. Pacific University did not score on Friday.
The women's team standings were topped by George Fox with 60 points. Whitworth and Linfield were tied for second at 53 points and Willamette was fourth with 32 points. Puget Sound held fifth place at 31 points, with Pacific Lutheran in sixth at 23, Lewis & Clark in seventh with 15 and Pacific in eighth with six.
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The commissioners will also discuss the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget but will take no action at today's workshop.
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TD Arena will shake the peninsula tonight. The House That John Kresse Built will scream when someone in maroon forces a Peyton Siva turnover, roar from here to North Myrtle Beach when Andrew Lawrence nails the 3-point shot that forces overtly slick Rick Pitino to call a timeout.
"We're going into a hornet's nest, we realize that," the Louisville head coach said Monday. "We have to be ready to play."
No. 5 Louisville, due on Meeting Street tonight, is the best team ever to play at the College of Charleston. The Cardinals are between Final Four appearances, a legitimate beast still technically in the Big East.
No. 9 North Carolina in January of 2010?
A House of Cards trumps Carolina blue and it's not even close. The magnificence of the Cougars' overtime victory at TD Arena gradually was diluted as those aberration-riddled Tar Heels missed the NCAA tournament.
No. 7 Connecticut in December of 1995?
Very good team. All-American Ray Allen, a graduate of Hillcrest High School in Dalzell, led the way. The Huskies' 30-2 record included a 77-60 victory over the College of Charleston. But the game was at the North Charleston Coliseum and UConn suffered a Sweet 16 loss to Mississippi State.
That was the year Pitino led Kentucky to the NCAA title.
This Pitino-coached team is his latest version of pressure defense built to create suffocating scoring outbursts. Siva and Russ Smith form the best backcourt in the country.
Thus, a Cougars victory equals the biggest home win in school history.
Baylor and Kentucky
Hope is grounded in logic. Head coach Doug Wojcik's 5-2 Cougars won Nov. 24 at Baylor and the Bears bounced back by snapping Kentucky's 55-game home winning streak on Saturday to knock the Wildcats out of the Top 25.
As schoolchildren in the Bluegrass State must recite daily, Kentucky slipped by Louisville, 69-61, at the Final Four last April before beating Kansas for the national championship.
The Cardinals seem a bit vulnerable after a 69-66 home victory Saturday against Illinois State.
"Charleston obviously is like Northern Illinois," Pitino said. "They're one of the teams in the country that could surprise a lot of people. They won't surprise us. They could win, but they won't surprise us, because with two minutes left in the game last year it was anybody's game; it was a war all the way to the end."
Charleston's 69-62 loss before a crowd of 20,752 at the KFC Yum! Center was perhaps its most impressive performance in Bobby Cremins' final season as head coach. Matt Sundberg came off the bench to go 3 for 3 from 3-point range.
Pitino has College of Charleston family ties. His son Richard, in his first-year as head coach at Florida International, served as a Cougars administrative assistant under Tom Herrion during the 2004-2005 season.
His daughter Jacqueline is a College of Charleston student.
Credit to Cremins
But tonight's game is about friendship, not bloodline. Soon after Cremins resigned for health reasons, he emailed Pitino and asked that Louisville honor a contract that stated the Cardinals would play in Charleston as long as Cremins was still the head coach (Roy Williams also had a Cremins Clause in North Carolina's contract).
"We took this game because of Bobby Cremins, a longtime friend," Pitino said. "If it wasn't for Bobby, this game wouldn't exist. It has nothing to do with my daughter; I see my daughter quite often."
While the Cougars miss versatile forward Trent Wiedeman, out with an ankle injury, Louisville is in the second of four to six weeks without center Gorgui Dieng (broken wrist).
"People take it to us more," Pitino said of life minus the 6-11 Dieng, who set a school record with 128 blocks last season.
So Louisville won't be peeking ahead to a home game against the Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos.
It all makes for intriguing basketball.
Unprecedented on a home court around here since Duke happened by McAlister Field House for an 83-60 victory over The Citadel. That was January of 1991, two months before Mike Krzyzewski claimed the first of his four NCAA championships.
Small craft advisory tonight: wakes well worth the wait might splash the walls of Fort Moultrie.
Reach Gene Sapakoff at 937-5593 or on Twitter @sapakoff
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Shares of handyman's haven Home Depot Home Depot were up 3.6% to $82.54 in pre-market trading, as third-quarter earnings pushed shares toward a new all-time high.
Net earnings of $1.4 billion were up42.7% from the same period last year. Earnings per share of 95 cents were up 50.8% and handily beat the Street's 89-cent estimate. Net sales were also up 7.4% to $19.5 billion.
The significant earnings growth growth is due in part to a $165 million charge the company took last year after closing seven stores in China. Adjusted to reflect this one time charge earnings per share grew 28.4%.
Same store sales were up 7.4% company wide beating the consensus estimate of 5.9%. In the United States same store sales were up 8.2%.
"Our third quarter results reflect the continuing improvement in the housing market and our solid operational performance," said CEO Frank Blake. Home Depot record 4% more transactions than the same period last year for a total of 344.3 million. The average ticket was also up from $54.55 to $56.27.
Thanks to the better than expected results, Home Depots improved its full-year outlook. The company now expects sales growth of around 5.6% to $78.9 billion and same store sales to be up 7%. Per share earnings are now expected to hit $3.72, up from a previous $3.60 outlook.
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Book Review: 'Remix' Calls For A Truce In The Copyright Wars
Professor Lawrence Lessig is quoted in the San Jose Mercury News in a review of his book "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy:"
For 10 years Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig has watched the entertainment industry train its legal guns on everything from Napster to YouTube, blasting away at children and their parents, college kids and remix artists.
In "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy," a ferociously argued new book, Lessig calls for a truce.
The Mercury says: "A study by the Institute of Policy Innovation that calculated that $12.5 billion is lost every year as a result of piracy, or unauthorized sharing, along with $422 million in annual tax revenue and 71,060 jobs."
This is bad, and Lessig claims the copyright wars are making it worse.
Instead of treating these zealous consumers of culture as criminals, Lessig makes a convincing case that remixes of music and video can be seen as a form of speech. After all, human babies learn to talk by mimicking adults, artists learn to paint by copying the masters, and musicians learn to play by practicing copyrighted music.
Lessig's own book — and this review — build on the work of other people. Sources for this review include everything from e-mails from the Recording Industry Association of America, the Institute of Policy Innovation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, news articles by the New York Times and the Washington Internet Daily and blogs like TorrentFreak.com.
What Lessig wants is smarter rules (laws) and business models that provide creators of art, music and film with some compensation while allowing fans the freedom to engage with products they pay for.
Not surprisingly, Lessig also has a couple of ideas of how copyright law can be improved in ways that both promote the commercialization of artistic creations and limit the criminalization of fans. He believes the 266-page code should be simplified and that non-commercial uses should be exempted. Some of his suggestions, like decriminalizing the act of copying, arguably bring the law back into alignment with the intent of the writers of the U.S. Constitution. The Founding Fathers wrote that authors and inventors should have exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries for a limited time to promote science and useful arts. It's a standard that could well form the basis of copyright peace.


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All proceeds from this event will allow River Valley Riders to provide greater therapeutic riding and driving opportunities for people with special needs.
The Walk-Wheel and Ride-A-Thon will feature a 3 mile walk or wheel on trails in the beautiful Lake Elmo Park Reserve. Breakfast and lunch will be served before and after the walk.
For more information call (651) 439-2558 or visit the River Valley Riders website.
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WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon is telling Congress that although Afghanistan's military is getting stronger, it will still require much more training - as well as financial help - after the U.S. and NATO combat mission ends next year.
The Pentagon's argument comes amid debate about the White House's reluctance to announce how many - if any - U.S. forces should remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014 to help Afghan forces hold off the Taliban.
White House officials have held out the possibility that no U.S. forces would stay, but no decision has been made.
In a twice-a-year report to Congress, the Pentagon said Tuesday that it will be difficult to judge whether Afghanistan can keep the upper hand against the Taliban until the exact size of a post-2014 U.S. military presence is determined.
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Does this tell us something about the vaunted cell phone "emergency locator" system that we were all required to get on our phones? Wasn't it required for JUST this kind of situation? Where the caller wasn't able to tell emergency call takers where the problem was.
There is a better way to do police work. If not, cut police. Including officers. The idea of the police taking over EMS returns Grand Rapids to the era of the 70s and 80s when the Police Emergency Units (E-units) were the most highly trained, fastest, most competent medical first responders in the country. It is a GREAT idea from a policy viewpoint. It won't ANYTHING to save money except to keep fire equipment in the fire station. The reason that the Police E-unit program was ended was to give the fire crews some more work instead of allowing them to sit in stations. It was a false economy then and now. The cost of having multi-million dollar pieces of fire equipment respond to minor medical emergencies with a full crew is crazy. Now we've proven it. The Fire Department is returning to two person SUV-type vehicles for medical responses JUST LIKE the Police E-units. And it takes a fire crew out of service. Dumb, dumb, incredibly dumb. Take the Police Chief up on the offer to have Police do EMS. Find something else for the Firefighters to do for their incredibly high pay.
Question: What keeps the Democrats from mounting a write-in campaign for a credible candidate? This fraudulent straw man candidate shouldn't make it impossible for the Democrats to field a good candidate. The candidate would only have to be somewhat well-known, honest, ethical and have integrity to be Roy, the opportunist.
Has anyone read Jase Bolger's comment? 'We would not have beaten Roy Schmidt.' So they suborned him instead. Tell me that just happened overnight. Tell me that it was a coincidence that the SAME person withdrew Roy's Democratic candidacy, filed his Republican candidacy and filed a highly questionable candidacy for a highly questionable Democrat.
When cyclists start obeying traffic laws, I'll start understanding them. Never have seen one stop at a stop sign unless there was traffic on the cross street. Never.
Interestingly, Meijer started putting pharmacies at the FRONT of the store - near the door - when it built or renovated stores. This means that the sick, mobility impaired and elderly don't have to navigate to the back of the store like they do in the layout of most every chain drug store in the area. A marvelous idea. Ditto for the electric wheelchairs that make it easier for the CUSTOMER. Too bad Walgreen's new "user friendly" format neglects these features.
BTW, putting patients. names on a publicly readable "tote" board violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the privacy protections of federal law (HIPAA). I certainly don't want the fact that I'm having a prescription filled known to everyone in the store. Did anyone ask the patients/customers about these changes or is it an invention of the Walgreen's marketing department?
Great synopsis! Keep it up!
Roy has always been pro-business and anti-regular folks. He was known during his City Commission years as being in the pocket of certain businesses that didn't have his District's constituents interests at heart. Now, he has shown publicly what he has practiced privately. He lacks the integrity and ethics that I would have expected him to show to join an increasingly partisan and anti-local government party that will drop him as quickly as he dropped the party that supported him for years. To Roy: It's about ETHICS and INTEGRITY. Your name won't carry the new District and neither will Republican $$$$. Even fair Republicans will not vote for your because of your lack of ethics and integrity.
Ed Kettle, where did you end up on this? You're a lifelong Democrat.
With the economics problem GRCC faces, especially after the millage defeat and Terri Handlin's ill-conceived comment about raising tuition, a recent article in the NY Times about this very issue may be of interest to you in covering the higher education beat and, especially, GRCC. The Times article is about how colleges and universities CAN'T just raise tuition to cover shortfalls in revenue. Great article. I'd be surprised if anyone in the GRCC administration has sent it to the Trustees. Maybe you can ask about it.
Terri Handlin needs to understand that SHE is a large part of the problem. The "deferred maintenance" happened on her watch and, one expects, with her knowledge and approval. The maintenance was deferred because the Trustees CHOSE to pay outrageous compensation and benefits to a greedy and unappreciative faculty, administration and staff. The Trustees did it! (There was a pro forma new contract with the faculty that fooled no one and left the pay scale for existing faculty largely in place). The Trustees CHOSE not to help the voters understand the PLAN for use of the millage or to help voters understand why the same thing wouldn't happen again. What was the $100 MILLION for? Having just spent $15 million + on the newly acquired Davenport campus in acquisition and renovations, GRCC was not forthcoming as to why there was such a critical need for the millage. This was the strategy that the GRCC Trustees CHOSE.
There was a complete lack of fiscal responsibility, accountability, transparency, and common sense on the part of GRCC Trustees, administrators and faculty. GRCC did not provide good service to it's customers (students). This is what the Trustees CHOSE to let happen. They weren't minding the store. The Trustees CHOSE the cynical and underhanded use of a May election with the concomitant costs. It didn't work either. "Money well spent" was what one administrator said. What's that person say now?
Terri Handlin should be looking elsewhere for the solution rather than ranting about making the students pay since the voters didn't roll over to cover the bad CHOICES by the Trustees. She has been a Trustee for TWENTY years and needs to look inward for reasons for the millage defeat. Ditto for Ellen James. The are founding members of the Board of Trustees and, as such, responsible for the current problems. The best thing for them to do would be to resign.
There are solutions other than tuition increases. (Tuition was raised this year, by the way. Before it was needed?). Sell some of that new property, for example. Rent out space in the buildings for other institutions to use. Cut back on unnecessary and unproductive programs. GRCC does not have to be all things to all people. Bring back some academic rigor to the classes to attract better students. Go for quality and not quantity. Make students EARN the right to attend GRCC and cut back on the "open admissions" policy.
Getting firefighters to work more than eight of the 24 hours that they are on duty every three days would be one way to get more work done with less people. Drive by the LaGrave station in nice weather and you'll see the intrepid firefighters sitting out in front on a park bench watching all the women going to the Cottage bar and One Trick Pony. The other stations have similar benches. At Bridge Street, they watch the women going to the bars down the street too. Another option would be for the firefighters to go out during their work period (days) and work on public works or public service projects with other City employees. They can take their machines with them - just like they do when they go to the grocery store or the tennis courts at Wilcox Park. I don't begrudge the firefighters some activities outside the fire station but they DO have a lot of downtime that they are being paid for with their only duty one of being available to respond to dispatches.
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Right! Get "those" people into the suburbs and, especially, into the townships. Move 'em out of the City and put 'em out with the rednecks where they belong. Great idea. . Typical of the simplistic approaches that are so often posted here. Not to mention useless.
If the officer isn't busy doing actual crime-fighting or investigation, there is nothing better for that officer to do than to interact with citizens on a non-confrontational basis. It's call community policing. It is the philosophy embraced by most of the effective and efficient police departments in North America. Having a good, positive relationship between the citizen and police officers reduces crime, it deters criminals and it makes crime easier to respond to and solve because the police officers and the people know one another. Losing that "soft" contact would make police work more difficult. Not to mention which, police officers on a non-essential call can always leave to respond to a more important incident.
Law schools are expanding and collecting tuition while the demand for lawyers declines. Something wrong with that?
Is Law School a Losing Game?
Amid a challenging time in the legal industry, a growing chorus of law-school graduates are bemoaning the lack of job opportunities. *** The decision deals a setback to a flurry of similar cases filed across the country, and it comes at an uncertain moment for both the legal academy and the law profession. For the second-consecutive year, the number of those taking the law school entrance exam has sharply declined, reflecting a view that the sluggish legal market will continue to retrench. And while most graduates of top law schools continue to secure legal employment, alumni of less-prestigious institutions are having a hard time finding work.
"Law graduates today and over these past few years have been faced with the effect of the most severe contraction in demand for legal services that this court can recall since the early 1970s," Justice Schweitzer wrote. "Now it is recent law graduates who are caught in the midst of an unanticipated squeeze."
Democrat is a noun. Democratic is an adjective. As much as the Republican (noun and adjective) people use the "Democrat Party" as a litmus test for Republicans. Locally, Mayor Logie is the smartest, most perceptive, most collegial and hardest working Mayor that Grand Rapids has has in decades. And he has never failed to work cooperatively with adherents of every party and philosophy in the region and the nation. TOSOR is impossible. Reason is a shared quality.
Single study. Not supported by other studies. Showing, at most, correlation and not causation. THAT'S how it's explained. The overwhelming scientific evidence does not support claims that abortion causes breast cancer.
This has NOTHING to do with who should be the Democratic nominee for Congress.
No candidate favoring abortion (aka: choice) has ever been elected in this District. Trevor is so anxious to win the nomination that he is willing to concede the general election.
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More on the Cardinal, defended by a Vatican spokesman, who hid the abuse of children by a fellow priest from the authorities.
No is the only rational vote in the GRCC election. To vote otherwise is to reward incompetence, poor management and non-existent planning by the GRCC Trustees, Administration and Faculty. They've been riding the taxpayer gravy train for a long time. They have been poor stewards of the public funds with which they've been entrusted. Now, the public is faced with a SECRET election which GRCC has scheduled with the expectation that supporters of the TAX will turn out and opponents will not. Another example of disrespect for the taxpaying public.
As Mr. Todish says in a letter to the editor:
"These increases for maintenance and other items should be budgeted for well ahead of time. When I need a new roof, I can't go to taxpayers and say that they should pay for it because I have failed to adequately plan.
School administrators should be no different."
Voters, think about it! Get out and vote on Tuesday. Vote no and remind the GRCC Trustees, Administration and Faculty that they, like the rest of us, have to live within their means.


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It's been a year since President Obama allowed states some 'wiggle-room' with the No-Child Left Behind mandate.
New numbers are out and several schools across the commonwealth didn't have strong enough reading and math scores.
36 of them are considered to be on the 'priority' list.
Four of them are in Norfolk including Lake Taylor Middle, Lindenwood Elementary, Tidewater Park, and Ruffner Middle School. They must all team up with a "lead turnaround partner" if they haven't already.
The "partners" are education institutions or non-profits that work to turnaround troubled schools.
They're funded with federal dollars from the title one program.
In Hampton, Bryan Elementary and both Newsome Park and Sedgefield in Newport News are on that list as well.
Officials are hoping these schools can make significant progress within a year.