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Hangar 9 Super Decathlon 100cc ARF
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- Huge 138 wingspan sport aerobatic model of the popular Super Decathlon civilian aircraft
- Balsa/plywood construction
- Plug-in wings with fast-connect struts make it easy to transport and fast to assemble
- Opening left side window and door scale cockpit
- Removable cabin top for easy access
- Concealed servo mounts for scale looks
- Factory-installed fuel tank and plumbing
- Painted fiberglass cowl and wheel pants
- High-quality hardware included
Designed by Mike McConville, the Hangar 9® Super Decathlon 100cc ARF aerobat is an accurate Giant-Scale representation of the classic general aviation and sport aerobatic, measuring in at an impressive 138-inch wingspan. It easily accepts most popular 80 to 120cc gas engines. Plug-in wings struts make transportation and field assembly a snap. Along with its factory-painted fiberglass cowl and wheel pants, the model features a scale cockpit with a functional door and window. The cabin top can be removed for easy access. All servos all hidden from view to preserve scale looks. And it has an eye-catching UltraCote® trim scheme that anyone would be proud to own and fly.
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The Lakers and the rest of the Lakes Eight field return to action today as Fruitport hosts its jamboree at 1:30 p.m. at Oakridge Country Club.
Grand Haven received several outstanding performances, including a round of 46 from John Morehouse, as the Buccaneers edged the Grandville Bulldogs.
The teams each shot a 163, but Morehouse's 46 was one stroke better than Grandville's fifth man score, giving the Bucs the victory.
Kevin LaCroix shot a 37 and Mark Nalley a 40 for Grand Haven. Patrick Ferris and Ben Lewis each shot a 43.
Host Western Michigan Christian finished third out of 10 teams Saturday at the Western Michigan Christian Open for Christian Schools at Chase Hammond Golf Club in Muskegon.
The Warriors scored 339 behind meet winner Grand Rapids South Christian at 320 and Grand Rapids Christian at 334. Other schools competing were Kalamazoo Christian-341, Hudsonville Unity Christian-346, Grandville Calvin Christian-360, Covenant Christian-380, NorthPointe Christian-389, Fruitport Calvary Christian-416 and Hudsonville Freedom Christian-428.
Medalist was Ben Cook of South Christian with a 73.
Alec Breit of WMC finished second overall with a 78 and Collin Breit finished fourth overall with an 80. Sam Vos had a 90 and Jon Cook a 91 for the Warriors.

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Ah, prom! Remember that magical night? That unforgettable evening where you spent a lot of money on a tux, limo, and corsage all because your platonic female friend's older boyfriend didn't want to go with her? No, just me? Well, either way, that's not the plot of the upcoming Disney film Prom, which revolves around that ever so pivotal (at least in movies) night in the lives of several archetypal teenagers. Good luck to you, awkward kid, pretty girl, outcast, token black couple, and kid planning to lose his virginity! The film stars Aimee Teegarden, Cameron Monaghan, and Nicholas Braun, and it's in theaters April 29th. It promises to be fun for the whole family!*
*If you're 12 years old and an orphan.
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British government to approve church services for same-sex unions
Catholic World News - February 15, 2011
The British government will propose an end to the current ban on religious ceremonies to formalize same-sex partnerships.
A new policy proposal would authorize churches to solemnize gay "marriages." But government leaders say that no church would be required to offer such ceremonies. The Church of England has indicated that it will not allow gay partnership ceremonies in Anglican churches.
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General Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Mike Abbott is a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He joined the firm in 2011 and focuses on investments in the firm's digital practice, helping entrepreneurs in the social, mobile, and cloud computing sectors rapidly scale teams and ventures. Mike serves as an expert resource on enterprise infrastructure, cloud computing, and big data. He also helps entrepreneurs win the race for talent in a hypercompetitive recruitment environment.
An engineering leader, entrepreneur, and investor, Mike led the building of innovative, high-performance applications, and services at Twitter, Palm, and Microsoft before he joined KPCB. Mike is also an expert in big data businesses, having founded Composite Software. Formerly the Vice President of Engineering at Twitter, Mike led the team to rebuild and solidify Twitter's infrastructure, growing the engineering team from 80 to more than 350 engineers in less than a year and a half, and scaling Twitter's architecture to support 250 million daily tweets. Before joining Twitter, Mike led the software development team at Palm that created HP/Palm's next-generation webOS platform. Earlier in his career, Mike was the General Manager at Microsoft for .NET online services, which became Azure.
Mike holds a bachelor's degree from California Polytechnic State University and has completed coursework toward a Ph.D. at the University of Washington.
CEO and Chairman of the Board, AOL
Chairman of the Board, IAB Education Foundation
Tim Armstrong is CEO of AOL Inc., a leading global media technology company headquartered in New York City and operating in over 20 countries worldwide. Today, AOL serves nearly 400 million consumers every month across the globe, and maintains partnerships with thousands of the world's leading companies. AOL owns, builds and operates global media brands and provides technology and services to over 10,000 other brands and media companies. Under Tim's leadership, AOL was acquired by Verizon for 4.4 billion dollars on May 12, 2015.
Prior to joining AOL, Tim spent almost a decade at Google, where he served as President of Google's Americas Operations and Senior Vice President of Google Inc. as well as serving on the company's global operating committee. Tim started in his career by co-founding a newspaper in Boston, MA before moving into the Internet industry, where he has worked as a team member, investor or co-founder at numerous companies, including Starwave (sold to Disney / ESPN / ABC Internet Ventures), Snowball (IPO), Associated Content (sold to Yahoo), and Patch (sold to AOL). Tim has also been an active investor in the start-up community, both on and offline.
Tim serves on the board of The Priceline Group, Inc., The Paley Center for Media, the New York regional board of Teach for America, the Waterside Charter School in Stamford, CT, as Chairman Emeritus for the Ad Council, and as a trustee for the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation. He also acts as an advisor to the McChrystal Group, a leadership consulting firm driven by former Commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, General Stan McChrystal. Additionally, Tim is the chairman of the IAB Education Foundation, a new non-profit working to improve diversity and close the skills gap across the digital media and advertising landscape. An ardent champion of community service, Tim was honored by the Ad Council with their 60th Annual Public Service Award in 2013.
Tim is a graduate of Connecticut College and Lawrence Academy. He has served as a trustee for both.
Executive Chair, sovrn Holdings Inc.
Founder, Federated Media
John Battelle is the executive chair of the newly created Sovrn Holdings. He is also the founder of Federated Media Publishing, which ranked as one of the top properties on the Web. John was also the co-founder, Executive Producer and Program Chair of the Web 2 Summit. He maintains Searchblog, an ongoing daily site, which covers the intersection of media, technology, and culture at www.battellemedia.com.
John is also an entrepreneur, author and journalist. Best known for his work creating media properties, he was Chairman and CEO of Standard Media International (SMI), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Prior to that, he was a co-founding editor of Wired magazine and Wired Ventures.
Previously, John occupied the Bloomberg chair in Business Journalism for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. John was a founding Board member of the Online Publishers Association and currently sits on the board of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
John's honors and awards include: "Global Leader for Tomorrow" and "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; "Innovator – One of Ten Best Marketers in the Business" by Advertising Age; and one of the "Most Important People on The Web" by PC World. In 2005 he authored 'The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture' (Penguin/Portfolio), an international bestseller published in more than 25 languages. His new book entitled 'What We Hath Wrought' is due out in 2013.
Senior Vice President and Group General Manager, Advertising Sales and Marketing
Time Inc.
Cyrus Beagley is Senior Vice President and Group General Manager, Advertising Sales and Marketing, Time Inc. In this role, he leads strategy, business operations, and ad solutions for the company's advertising sales and marketing functions.
Cyrus has been instrumental in developing and bringing to market Time Inc.'s next generation of advertising solutions, including new offerings such as Time Amplify, Time Engage, and Time Exchange.
Cyrus joined Time Inc. from McKinsey & Company where, as associate principal, he was a leader of the Media and Entertainment and Marketing and Sales practices, focused primarily on publishing, online business building, growth strategy, and operational effectiveness.
Prior to joining McKinsey & Company, heworked as a senior consultant and auditor for Société Générale, the European banking group.
He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and received his Master's degree in Economics and Finance, summa cum laude, from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France.
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Tom is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Krux. Tom most recently served as General Manager for the Online Publisher Business Group in Microsoft's Advertiser and Publisher Solutions (APS) group. Before Microsoft Tom was the Chief Executive Officer of Rapt from its founding in 1999 to its acquisition by Microsoft in April 2008. Before Rapt Tom worked as a systems architect at Sun Microsystems and as a researcher at the Rockwell Palo Alto Science Lab. He holds a B.A.. in Computer Science and Philosophy from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford. He sits on the Board of Meritus, a San Francisco non-profit that helps low income students enter and complete a four-year college degree. You can reach him at [email protected].
Greg Coleman has made a career in explosive sales growth for influential media and technology companies. Simply put, he builds and revs the commerce engine around great content. As global President of Criteo (www.criteo.com) beginning April 2011, Greg is leading the U.S. expansion of the company that created performance advertising and leads the pay-per-click market in Europe. At his command are the retargeting tools that can truly personalize marketing online.
As the President and Chief Revenue Officer of The Huffington Post, he built a $30 million ad business in one year. As Executive Vice President of Global Sales at Yahoo!, he assembled a pre-eminent sales team to grow ad revenues from $600 million to more than $6 billion. As President of U.S. Magazine publishing for Reader's Digest Association, he turned advertising from an afterthought to more than 25 percent of corporate profit.
Greg's experience has translated to the top-ranked class for three years running at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, and he was recently appointed adjunct professor at The New York University business school. He is a Board member and Chairman Emeritus of The Advertising Council.
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Chris Cunningham co-founded appssavvy, an activity advertising technology company focused on native display, and serves as Chief Executive Officer. His and appssavvy's vision has pioneered a new advertising model through its native, activity-based advertising platform, adtivity, focused on people's activity.
The vision of native, activity-based advertising has established Chris as a recognized thought leader. He frequently speaks at industry conferences and forums, including ad:tech, IAB, iMedia, and 4A's events, and comments on the latest developments in the digital ad industry live on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, or in leading publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and USA Today. For insight into Chris' unique perspective, read The New York Times' Corner Office.
In 2012, he was named as one of the "Most Important People in Mobile Advertising." In 2010 and 2011, he served as co-chair of the IAB Social Media Committee and was a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award. Today, appssavvy has more than 40 employees in four offices across the U.S. and is recognized as a great place to work by Crain's New York Business' Best Places to Work in NYC—an honor won in 2009, 2010, and 2011.
He's a member of Doodle.ly's and United Contests' Advisory Boards and The Young Entrepreneur Council. Follow Chris on Twitter @chrisappssavvy.
Co-Founder, Activate, and
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ThinkUp
Anil Dash is Co-Founder and Managing Director of ACTIVATE, the strategy and technology consulting firm that helps the world's major media, technology, and entertainment companies reinvent their businesses and build new ones. In addition, he is co-founder and CEO of ThinkUp, a new app which helps people get more meaning out of the time they spend on social networking. Dash is an active advisor to several of the most prominent and innovative technology startups and non-profit organizations and has been a columnist for Wired magazine. He has been recognized for his role in popularizing web culture and advocating for social and civic responsibility within the technology industry, earning showcases in museums including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and honors including a Webby citation for Dashes.com in 2010 in the Personal Blog category. The New York Observer named him one of its 2012 Tech Insurgents. He was the first employee at the pioneering blogging technology company Six Apart (now SAY Media), where he helped guide the company to become world's leading blogging company.
Chief Operating Officer
Henrique de Castro is the chief operating officer (COO) of Yahoo! Inc., where he is responsible for the management of Yahoo!'s sales, media, business development and operations worldwide.
Henrique brings more than 20 years of experience leading global business for some of the world's leading brands. Most recently, he was the vice president of Google's worldwide Partner Business Solutions group, where he built a solutions-focused organization to help partners develop audiences and build multi-platform distribution and monetization businesses. Previously, he oversaw Google's media, mobile and platforms organization globally, where he led the business to significant growth.
Prior to Google, Henrique managed sales and business development operations across Western Europe for Dell Corporation. Previously, he consulted for McKinsey & Company, where he advised clients across multiple industries. His career also includes senior positions in private equity and advertising businesses.
Henrique received his Masters in Business Administration from the IMD - International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland and his Licenciature in Business Administration from the University of Lisbon in Portugal.
Executive Director
World Privacy Forum
Pam Dixon founded the World Privacy Forum in November 2003. An author and a researcher, she has consistently broken critical new ground in her work. She has written highly respected and influential studies in the area of privacy, including the impactful Medical Identity Theft report that named this crime for the first time and led to new understandings about health privacy and technology. Currently, Dixon is actively working on a joint mobile app privacy voluntary code for the NTIA Multistakeholder process with civil society and industry. Recently, Dixon has completed more than 7 months of research and privacy work in India focusing on technology and privacy. Her most recent book, Online Privacy, was published in 2011/2012 by ABC-CLIO books. Dixon was formerly a research fellow with the Privacy Foundation at Denver University's Sturm School of Law, where she worked with privacy and security technologist Richard M. Smith. Her books include titles for Random House/Times Books, among other major publishers.
Former Vice Chairman and CEO
Andrew Essex is the former Vice Chairman and Co-founder of Droga5, a global advertising agency headquartered in New York. Founded in 2006, Droga5 has been named Agency of the Year five times and was named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2013; the firm was partially acquired by William Morris Endeavor in 2013.
Before co-founding Droga5 in 2006, Essex was executive editor at Details magazine and held senior editorial posts at The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly and Salon.com, among others. Since Droga5's inception, Essex has overseen the growth of the company's client base to include the Clinton Foundation, The Coca-Cola Company, Georgia-Pacific, Hennessy, Mondēlez International, Newcastle Brown Ale, Prudential, Reckitt Benckiser and Toyota, among others.
In addition to blue-chip clients and award-winning projects with partners including Jay-Z and the United Nations, the agency is well-known for innovative social initiatives such as UNICEF's Tap Project and The Great Schlep for the 2008 Obama campaign, both of which won Titanium Lions at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. Essex sits on the boards of the IAB, the AAF and several other media industry organizations.
In his free time, Essex can usually be found writing (he has coauthored books with Globe.com's Stephan Paternot, former Barney's CEO Gene Pressman and acclaimed musician Nile Rodgers) or around New York with his wife and two children.
Senior Vice President and Head, Strategy
As Head of Strategy at AOL, John Frelinghuysen leads development of the global corporate strategy and supports key strategic initiatives at the brand, product line and geographic levels. Prior to joining AOL, John was a partner with Bain & Company, serving as a member of the firm's global Telecom, Media and Technology Practice. Previous to Bain, John was a partner at Booz & Co. where he led the North American media practice.
An industry veteran with over 18 years of experience in media and entertainment, John is an active supporter of the IAB and has participated in a series of projects focused on boosting the effectiveness of brand advertising in digital media. The most recent project, "Making Measurement Make Sense," has focused on enhancing brand metrics online and has also involved the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As).
Executive Director and General Counsel
As Executive Director of NAI, Marc Groman leads the organization's growth and ongoing efforts to develop and maintain high standards for online behavioral advertising. Widely recognized as a thought leader on privacy, e-commerce, and marketing law, Marc brings a unique perspective to his role, having engaged with privacy issues for over a decade and from nearly every angle—government litigator, senior policy advisor, compliance officer, and legislative staff.
He is passionate about self-regulation and believes that the industry must proactively address privacy challenges presented by new technology and business models. His vast government experience includes two years on Capitol Hill and over a decade with the Federal Trade Commission.
Prior to joining the NAI, Marc served as the FTC's first chief privacy officer, where he built an award-winning privacy program from the ground up. In 2009 and 2010, he served as counsel on the Energy and Commerce Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. While on the Committee, Marc drafted a significant consumer privacy bill and shepherded data security and breach notification bills through passage in the House.
Marc's decade-long FTC career also included positions as counsel to the director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection and staff attorney in the Division of Marketing Practices. As counsel, Marc advised the bureau director on a wide range of consumer privacy issues, including online advertising, children's privacy, data security, email marketing, spyware, identity theft, and international privacy. In Marketing Practices, he litigated a number of high-profile FTC enforcement actions and received multiple awards for his efforts to help develop the FTC's Internet fraud program.
Marc started his legal career in the private sector as a litigation associate with Peabody and Arnold LLP in Boston, Massachusetts. Marc received a B.A. magna cum laude in international relations from Tufts University and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Marc also serves on the Board of Directors of the Digital Advertising Alliance.
Global Chief Revenue Officer
The Weather Company
and IAB Board of Directors
Curt Hecht serves as Global Chief Revenue Officer for The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC). He joined TWCC after 20 years with Publicis Groupe, most recently as Cheif Executive Officer of the VivaKi Nerve Center in Paris. In this newly created role, Curt is responsible for the overall strategic definition and management of TWCC's international business. He also leads digital and cable ad sales revenue generation, including all aspects of sales operations for the company's category—leading digital products such as weather.com, its category-leading mobile and tablet apps, and The Weather Channel, which is the most-distributed cable network, available in more than 100 million homes. He reports to Chairman and Chief Exective Officer David Kenny.
As Chief Executive Officer of the VivaKi Nerve Center in Paris, Curt had been entirely focused on developing the next generation of technical platforms to allow Publicis Groupe and its clients to digitize their processes and scale their digital marketing efforts, as both media channels and consumers become digital. He acted as Publicis Groupe's primary liaison to digital media companies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter, developing open and scalable platforms that can be activated by Digitas, Razorfish, Starcom MediaVest Group, and ZenithOptimedia, which collectively are the largest buyers of digital media worldwide. Het was a member of the VivaKi Board of Directors and Publicis Groupe Strategic Leadership Team.
Prior to VivaKi, Curt was Chief Digital Officer at Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG), a subsidiary of Publicis Groupe. There he focused on forecasting the evolving digital media landscape for a client portfolio that invests nearly $26B in media each year. At SMG he was also dedicated to General Motors and worked closely with the client to transform GM into the world's largest digital marketer.
President and Chief Executive Officer
As CEO and President of Acxiom, Scott drives a strong, results-oriented culture for Acxiom's approximately 6,200 associates as the company deepens and expands its offerings of global marketing and technology products. Scott is a marketing and advertising veteran with extensive experience in digital media and technology. As the lines between traditional and digital marketing disappear, Scott insists on a singular focus on helping Acxiom's clients understand the complexities of this new marketing era.
A native of Milwaukee, Scott is a former Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Advertising Business Group. In this role, he managed a multibillion dollar business encompassing all emerging businesses related to online advertising, including search, display, ad networks, in-game, mobile, digital cable and a variety of enterprise software applications.
Previously, Scott was a corporate officer at aQuantive, where he managed three lines of business, including Avenue A|Razorfish (one of the world's largest digital agencies), DRIVE Performance Media (now Microsoft Media Network) and Atlas International (one of the top two applications for enterprise software for advertising). Earlier in his career, he was with the Boston Consulting Group and also Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc.
Scott is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, with a degree in economics, and he earned an MBA from Harvard University. He serves as a director of Blue Nile, Inc. (NASDAQ: NILE), a leading online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry, is on the board of the Center for Medical Weight Loss, and is a former director of Geeknet (NASDAQ: GKNT), the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Turn, Inc., a digital advertising company.
Data Reporter
Advertising Age
Kate Kaye covers the data industry for Advertising Age. Before joining Ad Age in November 2012, Kate worked as a writer and reporter covering the digital marketing industry since 2000, focusing on beats including data-driven targeting, privacy, and government regulation. Kate helped cultivate the online political campaign beat and in 2009 wrote "Campaign '08 A Turning Point for Digital Media," a book about the digital media efforts of the 2008 presidential campaigns. Before joining Ad Age, Kate was managing editor of ClickZ News, where she worked for nearly 7 years.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The Weather Company
David Kenny is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Weather Company (TWC). An experienced executive with a strong record in the media and digital industries, David works closely with the management team and the Board of Directors to leverage the company's unique collection of media assets and spearhead the further development of a comprehensive, integrated strategy to accelerate its growth in the United States and globally.
David brings strong leadership experience from the media industry, a deep understanding of the TV and digital businesses, and vision to drive global initiatives across all platforms. He joined TWC after serving as President of Akamai, the leading cloud platform designed to help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences to mobile and fixed Internet users.
Previously, he co-founded and served as managing partner of VivaKi, the combined worldwide media and digital arm of Publicis Groupe, and he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Digitas, a top global integrated brand agency.
The Weather Company is the world's leading weather authority. Through The Weather Channel, weather.com, Weather Underground, Intellicast.com, and third-party publishing partners, the company provides millions of people every day with the world's best weather forecasts, content and data, connecting with them through television, online, mobile, and tablet screens. Through WSI and Weather Central, the company delivers superior professional weather services for the media, aviation, marine and energy sectors.
Director, Americas, Publisher Product Sales and Commercialization
With over a decade of experience Chris LaSala is a seasoned veteran in the digital media space. Chris currently heads Google's New Products & Solutions team for the Americas Publisher Business Solutions organization where he leads a team that drives emerging product commercialization in the North and South American markets. Chris has held several previous roles at Google including leading their mobile publisher business development efforts, building a channel program aimed at delivering Google's advertising solutions to local business and leading Google's advertising agency strategy.
Prior to joining Google, Chris held the roles of director of business development at Looksmart where he was responsible for developing partnerships for the distribution of LookSmart's advertising and search solutions, and strategy development consultant at Strategic Decisions Group, where he advised clients in the oil and gas and technology industries on making multi-billion dollar investments. Chris began his career as a public accountant for five years at Coopers & Lybrand. Chris holds a bachelor of science from Boston College and an MBA from Duke University.
Executive Vice President of Advertising
The New York Times Co.
Meredith Kopit Levien was named executive vice president of advertising for The New York Times in July 2013. Ms. Kopit Levien is responsible for the generation of all advertising revenue from The Times's multiplatform products and services and for leadership of the global advertising sales team.
Before joining The Times, she was the chief revenue officer at Forbes Media, where she led the North American and European revenue operations for Forbes.com, the Forbes Magazine Group and Forbes Conferences since 2011.
Ms. Kopit Levien began her professional career in 1993 at the Advisory Board Company in Washington, DC. From 1999 to 2001, she served as an account manager and director of new business for the digital advertising agency and web site development firm, I33 Communications. Before joining Forbes in 2010 as vice president and publisher of ForbesLife and ForbesWoman.com, she held various senior and strategic advertising sales positions at The Atlantic Media Company from 2001 to 2008.
Ms. Kopit Levien received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1993.
Senior Vice President, Advertising Sales
Peter Naylor is the SVP of Advertising Sales at Hulu where he oversees the company's advertising sales and sales operations functions. Prior to Hulu, Naylor was an EVP of Digital Media Sales for NBCUniversal (NBCU) where, during his tenure, he ran digital advertising sales for NBCU's entertainment, news and sports digital properties. Prior to his time at NBCU, Naylor served as the SVP of Sales for the iVillage Properties, which was acquired by NBCU in May 2006. Before joining iVillage, he served as VP of Sales for Terra Lycos. He started his internet sales career at Wired Digital. In the advertising community, Naylor served as the Chairman of the Board of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) in 2012 and sat on the board for over ten years. Naylor also served as Treasurer for the Online Publishers' Association from 2010 to 2013 and sat on the board for over ten years. Naylor is the recipient of the 2015 ASPY Industry Luminary Award and the 2014 ad: tech Industry Achievement award. Currently, Naylor is the founding chairman for the IAB's Video Center of Excellence.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jonah Peretti is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BuzzFeed, the first true social news organization that provides a pioneering mix of breaking news, entertainment, and shareable content. Jonah known for creating viral hits, tracking online social behavior, and building technology to amplify buzz. He is also a co-founder of The Huffington Post. He has been called a "viral marketing hotdog" by the New York Times, "the poster boy of guerilla media" by AlterNet and a "computer-whiz" by The New Yorker. Fast Company named Mr. Peretti one of the "New Faces of Social Media" and Business Insider listed him as one of the "11 Rising Tech Stars to Watch in 2012."
Jonah is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab and has taught at NYU and the Parsons School of Design. His work has been covered by Time, the Economist, Fortune, and Business Insider and he has appeared as a guest on the Today Show, Good Morning America and CNN.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Randall Rothenberg is the President and Chief Executive Officer of IAB, the trade association for interactive marketing. IAB represents over 500 leading interactive companies. Its members include Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, The New York Times, Walt Disney Co., NBC Universal, CBS, Cars.com, Yelp, and scores of other ad-supported digital media companies, which are responsible for selling more than 86 percent of online advertising in the U.S. To support the growth of the interactive advertising and marketing industries, IAB serves as the industry's public policy and lobbying organization, market and consumer research center, training and development base, and hub for the development of technical standards and operating best practices. IAB has 40 affiliate associations around the world.
Randall led the IAB from 2007 through 2010, and rejoined the association in March 2011, after a stint as Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of Time Inc. Prior to his IAB role, Randall was the Senior Director of Intellectual Capital of Booz Allen Hamilton, the international strategy and technology consulting firm, where he oversaw business development, knowledge management, and thought leadership activities, and directed the award-winning quarterly business magazine strategy+business, Strategy+Business Books, www.strategy-business.com, and other electronic and print publications published by Booz Allen for senior business executives. Previously, he served as the firm's Chief Marketing Officer.
Prior to Booz Allen, he spent six years at The New York Times, where he was the technology editor and politics editor of the Sunday magazine, the daily advertising columnist, and a media and marketing reporter. For 10 years, he was a marketing and media columnist for Advertising Age, and he continues to blog on the subject at www.randallrothenberg.com. Randall is the author of Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), a critically-acclaimed chronicle of the birth, evolution, and death of a single advertising campaign.
Mr. Rothenberg received an undergraduate degree in Classics from Princeton and currently lives in New York City.
Executive Vice President, Global Media Products
Amit Seth is Executive Vice President, Global Media Products at Nielsen. In this role, he is responsible for leading Nielsen's cross-platform advertising measurement and precision marketing initiatives, and identifying new growth initiatives.
Prior to joining Nielsen in 2010, Amit consulted, coached, and mentored Cheif Executive Officers, founders, and investors of early stage venture-backed companies as an EIR at the largest incubator in the Silicon Valley. He has over 20 years of experience across the Internet, TV, mobile, and retail industries, also holding senior product management and business development roles at Yahoo!, Visto Corporation (now Good Technologies), Microsoft, and IBM.
Amit has nine patents applied for in his name and also chairs a global forum on data mining that he founded.
Author, Statistician, and Founder
Nate Silver has become today's leading statistician through his innovative analyses of political polling. He first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when he correctly predicted the results of the primaries and the presidential winner in 49 states. Today, Nate runs the award-winning political web site FiveThirtyEight.com, where he publishes a running forecast of current elections and hot-button issues. Now published in the New York Times, FiveThirtyEight.com has made Nate the public face of statistical analysis and political forecasting.
His new book is titled The Signal and The Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail—But Some Don't. Data-based predictions underpin a growing sector of critical fields, from political polling and hurricane watches to the stock market and even the war on terror. That means it's important to ask—what kind of predictions can we trust? What methods do the most reliable forecasters use? What sorts of things can be predicted—and what can't? Nate takes us on a tour of modern prediction science, uncovering a surprising connection among humility, uncertainty and good results. It's an essential read for anyone interested in how data can be used to understand the future.
Before he came to politics, Nate established his credentials as an analyst of baseball statistics. He developed a widely acclaimed system called PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm), which predicts player performance, career development, and seasonal winners and losers.
Nate Silver has been honored by a series of accolades, from Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2009 to Rolling Stone's 100 Agents of Change. FiveThirtyEight.com won Best Political Coverage in the 2008 Weblog Awards.
Consumer Advocate
Consumer Watchdog
John M. Simpson is a consumer advocate for Consumer Watchdog. He is the director of the organization's Privacy Project. He also directed the nonprofit public interest group's Stem Cell Oversight Project, which was intended to ensure that the people paying for California's $6 billion stem cell research program—the taxpayers of the state—receive direct benefit from the research they are funding.
Simpson is a leading voice on technological privacy and stem cell research issues. His investigations of Google's online privacy practices and book publishing agreements helped trigger intense media scrutiny and federal interest in the Internet giant's business practices. For the last year he has been an "invited expert" participating in the W3C's Tracking Protection Working Group.
A frequent contributor to op-ed pages across the country, Simpson is a veteran journalist who held top editing positions at international, national and community newspapers. Most recently he was executive editor of Tribune Media Services International, a syndication company. He was previously deputy editor of USA Today and editor of its international edition.
Simpson taught journalism at Dublin City University in Ireland, and consulted for The Irish Times and The Gleaner in Jamaica. He served as president of the World Editors Forum; was Treasurer, Inter American Press Association; is a former Executive Board member, World Press Freedom Committee; and former Board member, American Committee of the International Press Institute. He is also a former director of The Gleaner Company (NA) Ltd., New York, (Overseas subsidiary of The Gleaner Company, Kingston, Jamaica).
As part of the Stem Cell Project, he wrote Consumer Watchdog's report, "Affordability, Accessibility & Accountability in California Stem Cell Research." His articles have appeared in the Baltimore Sun, the Albany Times-Union, the San Francisco Chronicle the San Jose Mercury News, the Sacramento Bee, the Wisconsin Technology Network News, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Wisconsin State Journal, the New Scientist and Politico.
Simpson has a B.A. in philosophy from Harpur College of SUNY Binghamton and holds a Graduate Certificate as a Gannett Fellow from the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Hawaii. He also has a certificate from the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute. In 2006 he was awarded an M.A. in Communication Management from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication.
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During his more than 35 year career, he has led marketing and communications for some of the largest companies including: Chief Marketing Officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies; Chief Marketing Officer and Partner at Ernst & Young LLP where he successfully drove marketing and communications efforts across 140 countries during his 8 year tenure; and as Vice President, Advertising and Marketing Communications for AT&T for 19 years where he directed a variety of award winning programs including the "Reach Out and Touch Someone" and "You Will" campaigns—the later for which he is credited with placing the very first banner on the web in 1994 on Hotwired. Jim also chaired AT&T's global branding council and directed all of the company's multicultural marketing efforts in 17 languages.
Jim is considered one of the top thought leaders in marketing and advertising and is recognized for his strong creative and leadership skills having served on the Board of Directors of the Advertising Council, Chairman of the Board of BPA International and Chairman of the Board of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). He also initiated and chaired the ANA's Multicultural Marketing Committee and launched the industry's first-ever Multicultural Excellence Awards in 2001.
He earned his bachelor of business administration degree, magna cum laude, in marketing from Bernard M. Baruch College in New York City. In addition, he received an Advanced Management Certificate from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
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As Chief Innovation Officer for GroupM, Cary is responsible for leading the company's efforts in the in the identification, evaluation and development of new and emerging digital platform technologies.
Appointed in January 2013, Cary works with all of GroupM's media agencies, helping them to engage with established players and identify new game changers that will best enable them to powerfully employ "tech stack" digital tools such as search, social, and mobile in the development of marketing strategies for clients.
Cary came to GroupM from its GroupM Next where she served as Chief Innovation Officer and in her new role she continues to partner with the unit on identification of first-look technology initiatives and experiences for agency partners and clients. Previously, Cary worked as the North American Leader of Digital Media Operations for Mindshare, ensuring that the GroupM agency's clients received best-in-class digital thinking and execution. In that role she was responsible for evaluating and providing strategy and vision for the integration of people, process, systems, media opportunities and technologies in the agency's digital initiatives for clients.
Earlier in her career, Cary worked on macro digital strategies for Unilever North America, and from 2007-2010 she was the Leader of Digital Media Operations for Team Detroit where she led a team of digital media strategists who developed and implemented digital media strategies for Ford Motor Co.
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Susan Wojcicki is CEO of YouTube, the world's most popular digital video platform used by a billion people across the globe to access information, share video, and shape culture. An early champion of online video who was instrumental in Google's 2006 acquisition of YouTube, Susan now oversees YouTube's content and business operations, engineering, and product development.
Prior to joining YouTube in February 2014, Susan was Senior Vice President of Advertising & Commerce at Google, where she oversaw the design and engineering of AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, and Google Analytics. She joined Google in 1999 as the company's first marketing manager and led the initial development of several key consumer products including Google Images and Google Books. In 2002, Susan began working on Google's advertising products and over the next 12 years she led teams that helped define the vision and direction of Google's monetization platforms.
Susan graduated with honors from Harvard University, holds a master's in economics from UC Santa Cruz, and an MBA from UCLA. In 2015, Susan was named to Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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Michael J. Wolf is Co-Founder & Managing Director of ACTIVATE, the strategy and technology consulting firm that helps the world's major media, technology and entertainment companies reinvent their businesses and build new ones. He is also a member of the board of directors of Yahoo, Inc. which he joined after a successful proxy battle and was part of the group that installed new executive leadership to turn the company around.
Previously, Wolf was President & COO of MTV Networks and led the business, tech. and production operations of the $7Bn company's major brands, including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and VH1. Prior to MTVN he was with McKinsey & Co. as global managing partner of the Media, Entertainment & Internet practice. He joined McKinsey from Booz Allen Hamilton where he was Sr. Partner and Founder of the global Media, Entertainment & Internet Practice and on the executive management team and board of directors. He is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in New York City.
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Mark brings more than fifteen years of digital marketing leadership to his role as CEO. He is responsible for spearheading corporate growth and driving the strategic vision of eXelate's dynamic "smart data" modeling and analytics engine. Since launching the company's U.S. operations in 2008, Mark has subsequently built offices in London, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Tel Aviv, expanded the company's global data footprint to over 500M UV worldwide and been instrumental in closing $28M in Series B and C funding, while creating long-term relationships with digital powerhouses including Nielsen, Google and MasterCard.
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"Not a bad suite of applications, but VERY slow."
Version: OpenOffice.org 1.1.3
It's free. Handles basic tasks of the major office applications okay.
Very slow. Presentation software doesn't come close to PowerPoint. Word processing lacks some of the functionality of MS Word. I haven't used the other things much.
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This program is meant to be a free alternative to the ever harder to pirate and more expensive Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office is also not available for online download. It works great, and it's price is right on. Many people don't understand that this is a community supported, free program that you can alter yourself. The source is available, and if you don't like something or you want to add a feature, you can if you know how. I recommend this program to anyone who doesn't want to spend the well over $150 for Microsoft Office (depending on the version, it can be up to $400.)
You can't critisize something that is free, that you can improve on yourself.
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Wow! I can't believe this software is free--it does absolutely everything I need (as an amateur author) as far as word processing and even beyond, and it's just as good as Microsoft Word! I haven't even tried the other programs yet, but I'm sure if I need them they'll be just as good. It has the functions I was looking for (mainly replacing dashes, quotations marks, etc. with formatted ones) and opens all my old Word documents... I just moved to a new laptop and it didn't have Word, so instead of purchasing it I did some research and found this awesome program! Thanks, OpenOffice...
I can't think of much that should be changed--maybe there could be fewer warning messages in relation to saving in different formats, but I'm sure there's an option to turn that off.
"Everything you need in one package."
Version: OpenOffice.org 1.1.3
This is really great freeware software that allows you to do everything office related in one program. You can use their file types to save files, but you can also use the standard Microsoft Office file types as well. It has spell check in it which is something that is essential for me. It is also compatible with Linux and even comes with some Linux installation discs. If you don't feel like spending money for office software, then look no farther then openoffice.org.
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Good.But too features,better if it is the free version like the office 2003 standard edition trial version.
Too less features especially the Impress(Presenter).I recommend you to use powerpoint as the features was too less.Too bad the generation version is 1.1.4,The coming version is 1.9 or 2.0,I bet it is 2.0.More features than 1.1.3 & 1.1.4 .
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1) It's free
2) It reads MS Office files
3) It can save as MS Office files
Very rarely sometimes when I send someone a doc it's not formated as it was for me.
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Supports varraity of formats.
Its free.
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My Microsoft Word became corrupt. I didn't feel like manually restoring the .dll files it lost. So, I downloaded this puppy. It automatically converts Word files to open office files. AND, you can re-convert back to Word, or just use Open Office, and save it Word Format!!! If you have any experience with Word, and are fairly apt with your PC, then this Free word processing utility is something you should consider.... It comes bundeled with a Word Alternative, a Powerpoint Alternative, a Quickbooks Alternative and MORE. Several hundred dollars if you would buy it from Microsoft. Free, and safe from Sun Microsystems (they make processors and software in CA), this is a MUST HAVE utility!!!
Cons: That I didn't find out about it sooner!
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open office 1.1.4 Well designed, exelent alternative for MS word (what a rip off)
I haven't had any problems so far :)
the color and feel is a little
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Wink, wink... IBM are going OpenOffice and saving MILLIONS in licence fees to Microsoft. It's going to be a HUGE corporate product over the next year or so! Run on Linux with Firefox and Thunderbird and who needs Microsoft anymore? Bill Gates is quaking in his boots...
Some flaws, interface not so slick, but just watch as Sun & IBM pump this product up.
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At Ole Miss, we strive to have the best possible gameday experience at all of our venues. We pride ourselves on providing excellent customer service and useful amenities as well as using audio and video to create an environment that gives our Rebels a home court advantage.
While a new arena is on the horizon, we recognize the need to constantly improve Tad Smith Coliseum. Here are some changes that you'll see at tonight's basketball doubleheader:
- Approximately six traffic coordinators have been added around campus to improve the flow of traffic pre-game and post-game.
- All ticket takers and security personnel have been given extensive customer service training.
- Exterior graphics at the main entrance will be installed over the next several weeks.
- To encourage student participation, the student section has been rebranded "Club Red."
- The student section has been completely repainted to align with the Club Red concept.
- All exterior doors with the exception of the student entrance have been painted grey.
- All portal signage has been made more efficient, therefore eliminating clutter.
- Additional signage has been added for restrooms.
- Various in-bowl signage has been updated.
- Various areas of the concourse and restrooms have been repainted, with additional aesthetic improvements coming.
- A new "leg room" section has been created. To learn more, call the UMAA Foundation at: 888-REB-TKTS.
- All carpet in the court side seating section has been replaced.
- All chairs in the court side seating section will be replaced in January.
- In-seat wait service will be available to all patrons in the court side seating section.
- Queue lines for concessions have been added to reduce congestion in the concourse.
- TVs will be added near concessions locations.
- Chops BBQ has been added between portals 6 & 7.
- Chick-fil-A and Papa Johns have been located between portals 13 & 14.
- A brand new Rebel Grill has been added outside portal 3 and will service fresh grilled burgers with homemade chips.
- The popular refillable souvenir soda has been added to the concessions offering for only $5.
- Bottled water price has been reduced from $4 to $3 at all basketball games.
- Kids meals (hot dog, chips, and CapriSun) have been added for $5.
- The informative bottom line "ticker" will be present on the video board at all times.
- Look for a new and improved www.olemisshoops.com next week as we transition the site into a gameday central. It will feature all of the upcoming game information including promotions, a feedback button for all fans, and much more.
The women tip-off at 5:30 p.m. and the men tip-off at 8:00 p.m. So come check out the Rebels. Don't worry about dinner, because with all of the new food amenities, we have everything you need. See you at the game!
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Massena 5, Monroe-Woodbury 1: At the Sport-O-Rama Rink in Monsey, the Raiders (17-5-1) worked their way to a 2-1 lead through the first two periods before breaking open a close game with three goals in the first 5:35 of the third as they advanced past the uncontested Section 9 champion Crusaders in the first round of the state tournament for the second year in a row.
We played a great first period but we let off a bit in the second and they really came at us. Fortunately, we were able to survive. We worked on getting the kids refocused for the third period and they came out and played the way were capable of playing, said coach Mike Trimboli afterward.
The Raiders now get set to take on Section 5 champion Fairport in the state semi-finals next Saturday at 12:30 p.m at the Utica Aud. Fairport advanced by outlasting Section 3 champion West Genesee 1-0 in another opening round matchup on Saturday.
In the win over Monroe-Woodbury (5-8-4), the Raiders built a 2-0 lead in the first period when freshman Wyatt Wilmshurst finished off a play by sophomore linemates Jordan Robert and Patrick Manning at the 6:12 mark. Defenseman Devin Page tallied the eventual game-winner with 56 seconds left in the opening frame when he stepped into a pass back to the blueline by senior Ryan Thomas and blistered a low shot from the point through traffic and into the back of the net. Both Massena goals came while Monroe-Woodbury was being whistled for a delayed penalty.
After being outshot 13-2 in the first period, the Crusaders regrouped to outplay the Raiders for the majority of the second and got on the board at the 6:52 mark when Nick Pelosi converted from Joe Cromwell and Chris Carey.
We knew coming into the game that Monroe-Woodbury was a very hard-working team and they showed that in the second period, Trimboli noted. We got away from our game plan but (netminder) Connor Paquin came up with some big saves for us and we were able to hold the lead going into the third.
Whatever the Raiders lacked in the second period, they more than made up for in the opening stages of the third period where they broke the game open. Junior Dylan Stone made it 3-1 just 27 seconds into the final frame when he knocked home a rebound through a scramble. Senior Tyler Young and sophomore Ben Sprague combined to set up the third Massena goal. Junior Evan Kassian then connected off a pass from senior Ryan Thomas at the 3:19 mark before Manning capped the scoring 76 seconds later when he converted on a lead pass from Wilmshurst.
Paquin made nine of his 16 saves in the middle frame en route to backstopping the win while Ryan Fischer turned aside 30 shots in the losing cause.
During the second intermission we talked about regaining our composure and getting back to playing our style of hockey, Trimboli said. Im just very proud of the way our guys pulled together and got the job done in the third period.
Webster-Schroeder 6, N-N 5: At the Webster Arena, the visiting Icemen fell behind 3-0 by the end of the first period but twice battled back to make it a one-goal game before falling short of their bid to earn their first trip to Utica.
We got off a to a slow start but our kids worked hard and battled back to make it a game. We represented Section 10 very well, noted coach Paul Durant after his squad closed out the 2013-14 season at 17-5.
This was heartbreaking tonight but our kids had a great season and they have a lot to be proud of this year, he added.
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The Icemen got on the board 20 second into the second period when junior Zeb Brown connected from freshman Kaden Pickering. Schuler made it 4-1 at the 12:26 mark before the Icemen generated some late-period momentum, cutting the deficit to 4-3 when Pickering finished off a play set up by Brown and freshman Zeb Zagrobelney at 13:06 and Brown connected from sophomore Shane Cryderman with 30 seconds remaining.
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Sen. Bob Corker: "What is it you're seeking?"
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "I can't answer that, what we're seeking."
Sen. Bob Corker: "What is it you're seeking?"
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "I can't answer that, what we're seeking."
— Senate hearing on the use of force in Syria, Sep. 3.
WASHINGTON — We have a problem. The president proposes attacking Syria, and his top military officer cannot tell you the objective. Does the commander in chief know his own objective? Why, yes. "A shot across the bow," explained Barack Obama.
Now, a shot across the bow is a warning. Its purpose is to say: Cease and desist, or the next shot will sink you. But Obama has already told the world — and Bashar al-Assad in particular — that there will be no next shot. He has insisted time and again that the operation will be finite and highly limited. Take the shot, kill some fish, go home.
What then is the purpose? Dempsey hasn't a clue, but Secretary of State John Kerry says it will uphold and proclaim a norm and thus deter future use of chemical weapons. With a few Tomahawk missiles? Hitting sites that, thanks to the administration having leaked the target list, have already been scrubbed of important military assets?
This is risible. If anything, a pinprick from which Assad emerges unscathed would simply enhance his stature and vindicate his conduct.
Deterrence depends entirely on perception and the perception in the Middle East is universal: Obama wants no part of Syria.
Assad has to go, says Obama, and then lifts not a finger for two years. Obama lays down a red line, and then ignores it. Shamed finally by a massive poison gas attack, he sends Kerry to make an impassioned case for righteous and urgent retaliation — and the very next day, Obama undermines everything by declaring an indefinite timeout to seek congressional approval.
This stunning zigzag, following months of hesitation, ambivalence, contradiction and studied delay, left our regional allies shocked and our enemies gleeful. I had strongly advocated going to Congress. But it was inconceivable that, instead of recalling Congress to emergency session, Obama would simply place everything in suspension while Congress finished its Labor Day barbeques and he flew off to Stockholm and St. Petersburg. So much for the fierce urgency of enforcing an international taboo and speaking for the dead children of Damascus.
Here's how deterrence works in the Middle East. Syria, long committed to the destruction of Israel, has not engaged Israel militarily in 30 years. Why? Because it recognizes Israel as a serious adversary with serious policies.
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Revolutionary War supporter, innovative planter brought to life by author Mueller
By W. WINSTON SKINNER
Award-winning author Pamela Bauer Mueller shared insights into the life of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, a Revolutionary War supporter and innovative planter, at an event sponsored by the Friends of the Powell Library.
The Powell Friends held their 2012 Author at the Asa M. Powell Sr. Expo Center. Mueller, who lives on Jekyll Island who was Georgia Author of the Year in 2006, 2008 and 2009.
Pinckney was born in Antiqua in the West Indies. Her father, George Lucas, was a British officer. Mueller talked about the strong connection between father and daughter.
There was a "need to find a cash crop," and George Lucas wanted to find a way to grow indigo in the Carolinas. Farmers there said it was impossible to grow the crop in that region, though it was a popular and lucrative crop in the West Indies.
"He leaves her in charge of these three plantations. She was 15-and-a-half, maybe 16, when he takes off," Mueller related. Lucas told his daughter he would be sending her some indigo plants.
The first set of plants were victims of an early frost. Eliza Lucas oversaw planting of a second set of plants only to find "the cutworms have eaten them all," Mueller said.
"In the meantime, she's asked her father to send her an expert," the author said. The teenage girl felt an expert could help her not only with planting and growing indigo but with the process to use the plant to make a valuable dye for cloth.
Nicholas Cromwell was sent from Montserrat. "He did not want to be there. He knew if he taught her to grow indigo, she would teach others," Mueller said. "He came with a plan to sabotage it."
The young woman figured out Cromwell was leading her astray, but by then she had gathered enough information to successfully grow the crop. "She says, 'Now I know how to do it myself. I don't need him,'" Mueller said.
At 17, Pinckney saw her first successful indigo crop harvested. She taught her methods to her neighbors. "All of them became very wealthy based on Eliza's indigo," Mueller said.
At 20, Eliza Lucas married a widowed neighbor, Charles Pinckney. Mueller spoke of "the love she had for her husband even years after his death."
The Pinkneys went to England for awhile where the vivacious bride became a favorite of Augusta, the Duchess of Wales. The two shared a discussion on the merits of breastfeeding infants.
The family returned to America and became involved in the patriot cause in the years leading up to the Revolution. Pinckney's sons became friends of George Washington.
At one point, Martha Washington wrote to Pinckney, telling her George Washington would like to stop at the Pinckney plantation for breakfast. The future president enjoyed being there so much, he spent the entire day and ate three meals at Eliza Pinckney's table.
Though Pinckney was widowed for many years and had numerous suitors, she never remarried. She died – "still stunning" – at 71, Mueller said.
Her sons, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney, added to the lustre of their family name. Charles ran twice for national office with John Adams. "They were defeated by Jefferson and Burr," Mueller noted.
Thomas Pinckney served as governor of South Carolina and later as minister to Spain.
"Her life was hard but very exciting for a person of her time," Mueller said of Eliza. She described her book's heroine as "very strong in sprit but very gentle at the same time." Pinckney went to Philadelphia in search of treatment for breast cancer and died and was buried there.
Mueller said her next book will probably be about Catherine Littlefield Greene, another prominent colonial figure. Greene was "another amazing woman – not nearly as nice as this one," she said.
About 45 people attended the Powell Friends event. "You have to be very disciplined when you write," Mueller said. She told the group she can write for about three hours straight – with some coffee.
Because she writes historical fiction, Mueller said she keeps notes and folders at hand.
"I don't always write in sequence," Mueller said. "You can do the hard stuff after you do the easy stuff. At least that's my method."
Historical fiction is "a very narrow genre," Mueller said "Truman Capote started the genre I'm writing – the non-fiction novel." His book, "In Cold Blood," is still considered a classic by many.
"I like history much better in the novel form than in the history form," Mueller said.
Jane Westberry presented awards to the winners of the art – Julia Wilkins, Kyle Waters, elementary; Morgan Lichty, middle school; and Olivia Wright, high school.
"I really want to thank our community of supporting our art contest," she said. Westberry said parents and art teachers encourage the talented young artists to participate and the results were "just outstanding."


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Crash.Net F1 News
Schumacher leads Mercedes bid to tear 'red veil'
5 September 2012
Michael Schumacher has admitted that he needs to put aside his fondness for Ferrari and its legendary
as he continues to pursue a first race win for new team Mercedes.
The German ended his first F1 career as a member of the Scuderia, and his five wins in front of the adoring hoards remain the most ever by one driver at Monza. Since returning from a three-year 'retirement' in 2010, however, he has but one podium finish - achieved this season in Valencia - and is hoping that seventh place in a Belgian Grand Prix that didn't go to plan for Mercedes can be the result that propels him to better in the royal park.
Remarkably, Schumacher has finished three of the last four races in seventh spot - interrupted by a DNF in Hungary - but enjoyed a better run in last year's Italian Grand Prix, where he mixed it with both McLarens before finishing fifth.
"When I think of Monza, I immediately see everything through a red veil," the 43-year old concedes, "It is the beating racing heart of Italy, everything there lives and
breathes Ferrari, and I must inevitably think of the good times I spent there. What makes me particularly happy is that after all these years, the
still welcome me so warmly, and I would like to thank them for that.
"Naturally, now I'm racing in Mercedes silver, I hope I can offer them a nice fight and be a worthy rival. They can be just as sure as our own fans that everybody in the team is looking to have a successful finale to the European season, and is therefore fully motivated to put on a good show in Monza."
Mercedes may need to get its double DRS system working perfectly in qualifying to give Schumacher a shot at adding to his Monza victory tally, as six of the last ten races at F1's fastest venue have been won from pole - and seven of this season's twelve races likewise. In last year's Italian Grand Prix, DRS overtakes outnumbered normal passes by 18 to 15
"Monza is a circuit that demands very diverse strengths from the technical package - high straight-line speeds through low levels of drag and downforce, with the cars exceeding 300kph on four separate occasions, and a good mechanical base for braking stability into the chicanes and corners, and good traction exiting them," Mercedes' Norbert Haug confirmed.
"It is also well known as an engine circuit thanks to its high-speed layout, with over 80 per cent of the lap distance spent at full throttle. The races in Belgium and Italy are separated by just a week, but the circuit-specific modifications made for Monza are only run once a year and could possibly mean that the competitive order won't be quite the same as that we saw in Spa."


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Wondering what "graupel" is? Or how about "virga"? You have come to the right place. This section contains the definitions of several hundred weather related terms.
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Cap (or Capping Inversion) - A layer of relatively warm air aloft (usually several thousand feet above the ground) which suppresses or delays the development of thunderstorms. Air parcels rising into this layer become cooler than the surrounding air, which inhibits their ability to rise further. As such, the cap often prevents or delays thunderstorm development even in the presence of extreme instability. However if the cap is removed or weakened, then explosive thunderstorm development can occur. See CIN.
The cap is an important ingredient in most severe thunderstorm episodes, as it serves to separate warm, moist air below and cooler, drier air above. With the cap in place, air below it can continue to warm and/or moisten, thus increasing the amount of potential instability. Or, air above it can cool, which also increases potential instability. But without a cap, either process (warming/moistening at low levels or cooling aloft) results in a faster release of available instability - often before instability levels become large enough to support severe weather development.
CAPE - Convective Available Potential Energy. A measure of the amount of energy available for convection. CAPE is directly related to the maximum potential vertical speed within an updraft; thus, higher values indicate greater potential for severe weather. Observed values in thunderstorm environments often may exceed 1,000 joules per kilogram (j/kg), and in extreme cases may exceed 5,000 j/kg. However, as with other indices or indicators, there are no threshold values above which severe weather becomes imminent. CAPE is represented on a sounding by the area enclosed between the environmental temperature profile and the path of a rising air parcel, over the layer within which the latter is warmer than the former. (This area often is called positive area.)
Cb - Cumulonimbus cloud, characterized by strong vertical development in the form of mountains or huge towers topped at least partially by a smooth, flat, often fibrous anvil. Also known colloquially as a "thunderhead."
CC - Cloud-to-Cloud lightning.
Cell - Convection in the form of a single updraft, downdraft, or updraft/downdraft couplet, typically seen as a vertical dome or tower as in a cumulus or towering cumulus cloud. A typical thunderstorm consists of several cells (see multi-cellular).
The term "cell" also is used to describe the radar echo returned by an individual shower or thunderstorm. Such usage, although common, is technically incorrect.
CG - Cloud-to-Ground lightning flash.
Chaff - Small strips of metal foil, usually dropped in large quantities from aircraft or balloons. Chaff typically produces a radar echo which closely resembles precipitation. Chaff drops once were conducted by the military in order to confuse enemy radar, but now are conducted mainly for radar testing and calibration purposes.
Chinook winds - They are warm, dry downsloping winds that race off the peaks to the west and down into the metro area and surrounding communities. The air warms as it descends at a rate of about 5.5 degrees for every thousand feet of descent. This warming is caused by compression of the air as it drops into a more dense atmosphere at lower elevations. An air mass that is at 10 degrees above zero at the Continental Divide, will warm by nearly 45 degrees by the time it falls into the Denver area. As the air warms, the relative humidity drops and the air becomes very dry. This warm, dry and gusty wind can quickly wipe out a snowpile in Denver or Boulder. The term Chinook comes from a Native American word meaning "Snoweater". Chinook winds are most common in mid-winter as the winds aloft are very strong, but surface heating from the sun is minimal. Once spring gets nearer, the higher sun angle warms the Earth more readily and this causes rising columns of air called "thermals". These rising air columns tend to break up the flow pattern of the Chinook winds and make them less of a factor by March and April. Chinook winds are not only warm and dry, they can be quite strong and sometimes cause gusts of over 100 mph in Jefferson County near Rocky Flats and around Boulder. These locations are close enough to the mouths of canyons or the ridges to the west, to get the really powerful gusts as the winds squeeze through the tight landforms to the west.
CIN - Convective INhibition. A measure of the amount of energy needed in order to initiate convection. Values of CIN typically reflect the strength of the cap. They are obtained on a sounding by computing the area enclosed between the environmental temperature profile and the path of a rising air parcel, over the layer within which the latter is cooler than the former. (This area sometimes is called negative area.)
Cirrus - High-level clouds (16,000 feet or more), composed of ice crystals and appearing in the form of white, delicate filaments or white or mostly white patches or narrow bands. Cirrus clouds typically have a fibrous or hairlike appearance, and often are semi-transparent. Thunderstorm anvils are a form of cirrus cloud, but most cirrus clouds are not associated with thunderstorms.
Clear Slot - A local region of clearing skies or reduced cloud cover, indicating an intrusion of drier air; often seen as a bright area with higher cloud bases on the west or southwest side of a wall cloud. A clear slot is believed to be a visual indication of a rear flank downdraft.
Closed Low - A low pressure area with a distinct center of cyclonic circulation which can be completely encircled by one or more isobars or height contour lines. The term usually is used to distinguish a low pressure area aloft from a low-pressure trough. Closed lows aloft typically are partially or completely detached from the main westerly current, and thus move relatively slowly (see cutoff low).
Cloud Streets - Rows of cumulus or cumulus-type clouds aligned parallel to the low-level flow. Cloud streets sometimes can be seen from the ground, but are seen best on satellite photographs.
Cloud Tags - Ragged, detached cloud fragments; fractus or scud.
Cold Advection - Transport of cold air into a region by horizontal winds.
Cold-air Funnel - A funnel cloud or (rarely) a small, relatively weak tornado that can develop from a small shower or thunderstorm when the air aloft is unusually cold (hence the name). They are much less violent than other types of tornadoes.
Cold Pool - A region of relatively cold air, represented on a weather map analysis as a relative minimum in temperature surrounded by closed isotherms. Cold pools aloft represent regions of relatively low stability, while surface-based cold pools are regions of relatively stable air.
Cold Front - The leading edge of a cold air mass that is moving.
Collar Cloud - A generally circular ring of cloud that may be observed on rare occasions surrounding the upper part of a wall cloud.
This term sometimes is used (incorrectly) as a synonym for wall cloud.
Colorado Hooker - This low pressure forms east of the Rockies in Colorado, or in the panhandle of Texas. Bringing heavy snow to the eastern plains of our state, the storm pulls in moisture from the Gulf of Mexico dumping 6 to 12 inches of rather wet snow along its path. Easterly winds swirling against the foothills create upslope conditions that can greatly increase snowfall in some areas. If the low develops over northeast Colorado, most of the snow will fall near the Wyoming border and farther north. If the low forms over southeast Colorado, Denver and the Front Range get heavy snow. This snow system is called a "hooker" because of the curved or hook shaped path it takes toward the Great Lakes.
Comma Cloud - A synoptic scale cloud pattern with a characteristic comma-like shape, often seen on satellite photographs associated with large and intense low-pressure systems.
Comma Echo - A thunderstorm radar echo that has a comma-like shape. It often appears during latter stages in the life cycle of a bow echo.
Condensation - A process that releases heat that occurs when a gas becomes a liquid. See evaporation.
Condensation Funnel - A funnel-shaped cloud associated with rotation and consisting of condensed water droplets (as opposed to smoke, dust, debris, etc.). Compare with debris cloud.
Condensation Nuclei - Tiny objects in the atmosphere such as dust where condensation of water vapor into water droplets take place.
Conduction - Transfer of heat by molecular activity. Heat always flows from hot to cold objects.
Confluence - A pattern of wind flow in which air flows inward toward an axis oriented parallel to the general direction of flow. It is the opposite of difluence. Confluence is not the same as convergence. Winds often accelerate as they enter a confluent zone, resulting in speed divergence that offsets the (apparent) converging effect of the confluent flow.
Convection - Generally, transport of heat and moisture by the movement of a fluid. In meteorology, the term is used specifically to describe vertical transport of heat and moisture, especially by updrafts and downdrafts in an unstable atmosphere. The terms "convection" and "thunderstorms" often are used interchangeably, although thunderstorms are only one form of convection. Cbs, towering cumulus clouds, and ACCAS clouds all are visible forms of convection. However, convection is not always made visible by clouds. Convection without cloud formation is called dry convection, while the visible convection processes referred to above are forms of moist convection.
Convective Outlook - A forecast containing the area(s) of expected thunderstorm occurrence and expected severity over the contiguous United States, issued several times daily by the SPC. The terms approaching, slight risk, moderate risk, and high risk are used to describe severe thunderstorm potential. Local versions sometimes are prepared by local NWS offices.
Convective Temperature - The approximate temperature that the air near the ground must warm to in order for surface-based convection surface-based convection to develop, based on analysis of a sounding. Calculation of the convective temperature involves many assumptions, such that thunderstorms sometimes develop well before or well after the convective temperature is reached (or may not develop at all). However, in some cases the convective temperature is a useful parameter for forecasting the onset of convection.
Convergence - A contraction of a vector field; the opposite of divergence. Convergence in a horizontal wind field indicates that more air is entering a given area than is leaving at that level. To compensate for the resulting "excess," vertical motion may result: upward forcing if convergence is at low levels, or downward forcing (subsidence) if convergence is at high levels. Upward forcing from low-level convergence increases the potential for thunderstorm development (when other factors, such as instability, are favorable). Compare with confluence.
Core Punch - [Slang], a penetration by a vehicle into the heavy precipitation core of a thunderstorm.
Core punching is not a recommended procedure for storm spotting.
Crepuscular Rays - One of the most glorious sights in our skies are the beams of light that stream out from clouds as if they were sent from Heaven. These light rays often take a subtle beautiful golden color in out late afternoon sky as they fan out from between the clouds. The light beams are called "crepuscular rays" and they are yet another optical effect that is very fascinating. The rays are visible because of dust in the air that reflects the light from the sun. The golden color is due to late afternoon or early morning filtering of the incoming sunlight as it travels through more of the atmosphere (due to the low angle of the sun). The more atmosphere the light has to traverse, the more the shorter wavelengths are filtered out by the dust, leaving only the longer yellow, orange and red light. The light rays seem to fan out from a central point, but it is really just an illusion. The light rays are actually parallel! This illusion is due to the fact that the source of the light (the sun) is so far away, that the light essential starts from an infinite point. The best way to think of this is to envision a pair of railroad tracks. If you look way down the tracks into infinity, the tracks seem to converge in the distance. Of course they do not, they remain parallel, but to our eye it would appear that the tracks are fanning out from a point way in the distance. The same illusion is what creates the fanning out of the crepuscular rays. Another phenomena that is seen on rare occasions are "anti-crepuscular rays". These take a little imagination to figure out. If the sun has already set from your vantage point (or has yet to rise), you may see beams of light seeming to come together along the opposite horizon (180 degrees from the sun). This is caused by the sunlight and shadows cast by clouds in front of the sun. At the cloud level (higher in the sky) the sun has already risen about the horizon. The light from the sun shines on to the clouds, casting parallel beams of light and shadow across the sky. In the distance behind you, those beams seem to converge just like the railroad tracks!
Cumuliform Anvil - A thunderstorm anvil with visual characteristics resembling cumulus-type clouds (rather than the more typical fibrous appearance associated with cirrus). A cumuliform anvil arises from rapid spreading of a thunderstorm updraft, and thus implies a very strong updraft. See anvil rollover, knuckles, and mushroom.
Cumulus - Detached clouds, generally dense and with sharp outlines, showing vertical development in the form of domes, mounds, or towers. Tops normally are rounded while bases are more horizontal. See Cb, towering cumulus.
Cumulus Congestus (or simply Congestus) - Same as towering cumulus.
Cutoff Low - A closed low which has become completely displaced (cut off) from basic westerly current, and moves independently of that current. Cutoff lows may remain nearly stationary for days, or on occasion may move westward opposite to the prevailing flow aloft (i.e., retrogression).
"Cutoff low" and "closed low" often are used interchangeably to describe low pressure centers aloft. However, not all closed lows are completely removed from the influence of the basic westerlies. Therefore, the recommended usage of the terms is to reserve the use of "cutoff low" only to those closed lows which clearly are detached completely from the westerlies.
Cyclic Storm - A thunderstorm that undergoes cycles of intensification and weakening (pulses) while maintaining its individuality. Cyclic supercells are capable of producing multiple tornadoes (i.e., a tornado family) and/or several bursts of severe weather.
A storm that undergoes only one cycle (pulse), and then dissipates, is known as a pulse storm.
Cyclone - An area of lower pressure dictated by stormy, unsettled weather. Wind flows counterclockwise around a "low" in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. A red "L" on a weather map.
Cyclogenesis - Development or intensification of a low-pressure center (cyclone).
Cyclonic Circulation (or Cyclonic Rotation) - Circulation (or rotation) which is in the same sense as the Earth's rotation, i.e., counterclockwise (in the Northern Hemisphere) as would be seen from above. Nearly all mesocyclones and strong or violent tornadoes exhibit cyclonic rotation, but some smaller vortices, such as gustnadoes, occasionally rotate anticyclonically (clockwise). Compare with anticyclonic rotation.
Portions of the 9NEWS Weather Glossary were taken from the second edition of the Glossary of Meteorology published by the American Meteorological Society (AMS). © 2009 American Meteorological Society