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Undrafted Texas PG Myck Kabongo has signed on with the Heat for Summer League.
George Hill (illness) will start Tuesday vs. the Wizards.
Nene (calf) will play in Tuesday's game against the Pacers.
An MRI revealed nothing more than a left knee contusion for Nik Stauskas, and the 76ers are currently listing him as day-to-day.
Luol Deng (hamstring) sat out Tuesday's practice and is being listed as questionable for Wednesday's game against the Pistons.
Hassan Whiteside (illness) is traveling with the Heat to Detroit for Wednesday's game.
DeMarcus Cousins (back, thigh) sat out Tuesday's practice.
Kobe Bryant did not participate during shootaround, but he's still fully expected to suit up for Tuesday night's game against the undefeated Warriors.
Patrick Beverley (ankle) practiced on Tuesday, and has been upgraded to questionable for Wednesday's game against the Grizzlies.
Joffrey Lauvergne is making good progress with his back injury, but he will remain sidelined for Tuesday's game against the Clippers.
Zach Randolph (knee) is questionable to play Tuesday against the Mavericks.
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It was nearly one year ago that songwriter Adam Arcuragi left Philadelphia and moved to Los Angeles—not to chase Hollywood dreams, but just to get away for a bit. "If you want to, you can be very invisible in Los Angeles. It's a very good place to hide," he says with a wry grin.
He moved to Atlanta after that, and New York is coming next. But as he prepares for the release of his sophomore album I Am Become Joy , he says he's finally centered and ready to commit to music. "I've stopped a lot of the bad habits that I've developed over the years, in terms of what I was doing to cope with being bored and frustrated and not really having the conviction I needed to believe in what I was doing," he says. "Now that's done. I'm ready to do it, just move on and do the next thing."
Arcuragi has been pursuing music for years, since well before the release of his self-titled 2006 debut. Like that album, I Am Become Joy is a collection of lush, dense tunes that, while somber and heartwrenching at times, is simultaneously joyous and uplifting. With the yearning sounds of the dulcimer and slide guitar accompanied by harmonized choruses and Arcuragi's soulful and earnest vocals, his music is superficially pleasant, but resonates with depth and meaning.
Arcuragi finished I Am Become Joy nearly three years ago, but he has no problem with the album only now being released. "I think anybody would hope that what they're doing has an element of timelessness. Not so much that eons and eons from now people will be listening to this record, but you want it to be evocative to people as humans, not as people that are adhering to a specific culture or style," he says. "Hell, it took James Joyce 17 years to write Finnegans Wake . There's nothing wrong with taking a little time to do something right." ■
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Survivors of an Apocalyptic disaster attempt to police a ruined New York City.
In the not-too-distant future, New York City has become a blighted zone surrounded on all sides by an endless expanse of desert. A voiceover explains that solar flares caused this climatological change, along with shutting down all modern electronics and technology. EGAN, a police detective, is chased by anonymous criminals, who eventually catch up with him and kill him with a small sword. HILLBURN (40s), another detective, smokes opium and hallucinates the image of beautiful MAY KELLY (20s) in a white expanse. When Hillburn approaches and attempts to touch May, she crumbles like a dirt statue. Hillburn is snapped back to reality by the RED QUEEN, a gorgeous woman who makes a variety of lewd advances. She notices long scars running down either side of Hillburn's back. Uncomfortable, Hillburn leaves the opium den. He meets his partner, CAVE, who explains to Hillburn, who's new to the NYPD, that tonight's Halloween celebration is a huge deal. On the way to headquarters, they pass a huge tower standing in the middle of Central Park, now known as "the Water District." The tower is a water filtration plant. Crowds of people gather outside with buckets, waiting. A sign announces that they have no water and to come back tomorrow. Hillburn and Cave continue on to their precinct house.
Their captain, RAMSEY (60s), browbeats Hillburn for getting high, then takes them to the morgue. Along with the coroner, they examine Egan's headless corpse. They notice he was killed with a small sword, which suggests a gang led by "Samhain." Ramsey tells Hillburn and Cave not to pursue Samhain, especially not on Halloween. All hell would break loose. Hillburn notices an amulet among the evidence collected at Egan's crime scene. He pockets it. Ramsey sends Hillburn and Cave to investigate the murder, urging them to keep a low profile. In their car, Hillburn and Cave get called in to a suicide attempt at an abandoned church. Detective WEST informs them that the man threatening suicide was Egan's partner, SIMON. Inside the church, Detective TUCCI tries to talk some sense into Simon. Simon rambles incoherently about lies and God. He demands to see Hillburn. Hillburn snatches Simon's gun away. Cave and Tucci cuff him, and they drag Simon out to the car. Hillburn asks Simon about the significance of the amulet. Simon says Egan was out to find the truth, and it got him killed. He overheard something from one of Samhain's crew that would "change everything." Egan's last words were, "Tell Hillburn to keep digging." Simon steals Cave's revolver and shoots himself in the head.
Cave finds out Egan keeps going to a private club called The Havana Lounge. Hillburn is familiar with it. At the club, Hillburn sees May. Hillburn tells May he's in love with her, but May accuses him of insanity. He changes the subject to Egan, whom May knew. She's surprised and upset to learn he's dead. Hillburn asks her about the amulet. May says she gave it to Egan for good luck. May points Hillburn to GAZZI, who most likely ratted out Egan. Hillburn and Cave go to Gazzi, demanding to see Samhain. When Gazzi laughs at them, Hillburn breaks Gazzi's nose and threatens to kill him. From an upstairs office, MAXIMILLIAN WHITE (50s) watches them. White goes downstairs with his main bodyguard, DOYLE, to break up the fight. He smugly demands Hillburn and Cave leave. When Hillburn refuses to leave without Gazzi, White threatens to kill May. Hillburn relents, leaving Gazzi. Later, Hillburn and Cave are dragged into Ramsey's office. He's angry about receiving calls from "the most powerful man in the Water District." Ramsey reminds them that White controls the water and the city and tells them to stay out of the Water District.
While driving, Hillburn and Cave are forced off the road by BRAZZO (40s) and "LUCKY" DONOVAN (50s), two of White's goons. Cave introduces Hillburn to Donovan, who used to be a cop before going to work for Samhain. Donovan warns Hillburn to stay out of White's turf, or else he'll suffer the same fate as Egan. In White's apartment in the water filtration tower, White yells at May for continuing to cry about his threatening to kill her. He then announces that she's only alive because Samhain needs to use her as bait to lure Hillburn down the wrong path. Donovan calls White and asks if he and Brazzo should kill Hillburn. White tells him Samhain has other plans. Hillburn and Cave meet Tucci and West in an all-night diner. Tucci presents Hillburn with a piece of evidence uncovered from Egan's car, which they swiped before evidence control could check it in. It's an ancient skeleton key in the shape of a winged sword. None of them know what it opens, but they assume it's important. The diner is ambushed by three hitmen. A wild gunfight ensues. West is killed. Hillburn chases one of the hitmen and beats him, demanding to know what the key opens. The hitman claims not to know, but Hillburn doesn't believe him. He demands to know where Samhain is. The hitman commits suicide rather than tell Hillburn. Hillburn returns to the diner, where he and Cave find Egan's head with his badge stuffed in the mouth. Donovan, Brazzo, and Gazzi meet White at a warehouse. Donovan apologizes for the hitmen failing to kill Hillburn and retrieve the key. White has Gazzi killed, then sends Donovan and Brazzo to get the key from Hillburn.
Tucci takes Hillburn and Cave to a man known as THE SEER, a blind prophet. They've brought Egan's head to the Seer. He presses against it and is able to see Egan's last few memories. The Seer sees Egan's death but not who killed him. All he can tell them about the key is that Egan thought it would change things in New York. Cave asks who gave Egan the key. The Seer can't quite see, but he knows it's a woman—a "golden angel surrounded by evil." Hillburn assumes it's May. Cave thinks May would be conning them, but Hillburn believes she simply goes along with White and his cronies out of fear. Hillburn wants to crash White's Halloween celebration in order to find Samhain. Hillburn leaves the key with the Seer. Hillburn, Cave, and Tucci drive into the Water District, which is crammed with people. Police stop and tell them they can't pass through. Tucci threatens them with a shotgun until they're let past. White forces May to give him a massage, then goes out to his balcony to address the masses. He tells them to give thanks to Lord Samhain, who brought them out of the darkness out of the Apocalypse. Then, he unleashes a torrent of water onto the grateful crowd. Ramsey comes to the Seer after receiving a call from officers about Tucci threatening them. He demands to know what the Seer told Hillburn.
As Doyle leads White and May through the crowd to his car, Hillburn tries to intercept her. He, Cave, and Tucci follow White's car to Madison Square Garden, where White and May watch a boxing match. They get into a wild gunfight with White's bodyguards. While Cave and Tucci cover Hillburn, he goes to May and demands to know if she gave Egan the key. She doesn't know what he's talking about. Tucci tries to cuff White. White gets away from Tucci and comes after him with his sword. Laughing hysterically, White whispers something into Tucci's ear, causing the color to drain from Tucci's face. Cave sees this and asks Tucci what happened. Tucci says he knows the truth, prompting Cave to shoot him in the head. Cave helps Hillburn and May escape in Cave's Rolls Royce before Ramsey and other policemen arrive. Brazzo and Donovan follow, shooting at them. A bullet pierces the door and hits May in the side. Ramsey puts Cave in a holding cell. Cave insists that Hillburn is dirty, that they stole valuable evidence from Egan with the intention of ransoming it back to Samhain. Cave begs Ramsey to let him find Hillburn, so he can bring him back. Ramsey reluctantly agrees. Hillburn brings May to the Seer, who removes the bullet and stitches her up. The Seer notes Hillburn's love for May. Hillburn tries to deny it, then asks the Seer to penetrate unconscious May's thoughts, so he can see whether or not she gave Egan the key. She didn't.
Cave and Donovan arrive at the Seer's garage, along with bodyguards. They want May. Realizing Cave works for Samhain, Hillburn is shocked by the betrayal. Cave tells him it's the only way to survive, then demands to know where the key is. When Hillburn refuses to say, Donovan begins beating the Seer. Ramsey arrives with some uniforms, who kill Donovan and Cave. Hillburn gives the key to Ramsey. Hillburn notices Cave has scars running along his back, just like his own. The Seer examines Cave's memories and discovers he killed Egan and Tucci, and that he knows what Samhain is hiding and knows they took May to the filtration tower. Hillburn and the Seer go after her. They're ready to come in guns blazing, but they're met in the lobby by a blonde hostess who brings Hillburn directly up to a penthouse to see Samhain. Hillburn realizes the blonde hostess is the same as the Red Queen—and that she is Samhain. Hillburn tries shooting at her, but she can't be killed. Samhain explains that she gave Egan the key, then seduced Cave into getting the key back. She enjoys watching them turn on each other like animals. She slowly reveals she's a fallen angel—and so is Hillburn, and Cave, and Egan. They've all been banished to live with humanity. Samhain can't understand why Hillburn would feel compassion for May, a lowly mortal. They fight. Hillburn wrestles Samhain's sword away from her, then kills her. She is engulfed in flames, then vaporizes. Hillburn suddenly finds himself in a white void with the Seer and May. They're in limbo, standing before the gates of heaven. Hillburn's key will unlock it. May is allowed to pass beyond the gates, but Hillburn can't—as punishment, he must remain on Earth. May leaves, telling Hillburn she loves him. Back on Earth, Hillburn asks the Seer why he was able to defeat Samhain. The Seer explains that Hillburn loved humans as God did. Ramsey is shocked as rain begins to pour down from the sky.
Tribes of October attempts a Matrix-style hybrid of science fiction, action, and mythology. Despite some interesting visual ideas, the mediocre detective story and laughable third act ruin the script's chances for success. As written, it merits a pass.
In the first act, the writers introduce the strange, unsettling world of post-Apocalyptic New York City, whose citizens beg for water and only answer to the mysterious, possibly mythical Samhain. All of this is intriguing, so it's disappointing that they choose to tell a tiresome detective story instead of creating a narrative as unique and compelling as its setting.
The second and third acts simply plod through the investigation into Egan's death, piling on the film noir clichés as their search moves from Egan to White to Samhain. The story contains nothing that hasn't been done better elsewhere, multiple times. This includes the action sequences, which contain little excitement and do nothing to raise the stakes. The writers don't so much build to the ending as they do pad out the running time with predictable plot twists and repetitive gunfights.
The ending itself is absolutely ridiculous. The "fallen angels" reveal is telegraphed well in advance, thanks to elements like Hillburn's occasional memory flashes (which serve no purposes other than to foreshadow the ending). Ignoring the hamfisted foreshadowing, the twist is still handled clumsily, making the script seem silly when it's trying to be deadly serious. The writers downplay the desperation for water and the character of May to such a degree that, when they become essential to the story, audiences will have a hard time caring.
The storyline simply isn't engaging, primarily because none of the characters have a vested interest in the outcome. Hillburn and Cave are simply on the case because Ramsey tells them to, and they approach it with all the energy and enthusiasm of two bored men who hate their job. Hillburn's hot temper and memory flashes never give the impression that they motivate Hillburn to continue with the investigation. Other than these traits, Hillburn doesn't have much in the way of characterization.
Cave and the other supporting characters are equally bland, substituting one or two distinguishing traits for real depth. The worst victims of this are May, White, and Samhain. The entire story hinges on Hillburn's love for May and fear/dislike of White and Samhain. None of these characters get any real attention, which will makesit hard for audiences buy into the love story or the idea of White and Samhain as unstoppable villains.
The dialogue stands out as shockingly atrocious, splitting its time between laughable tough-guy one-liners and melodramatic soliloquies about love and religion. The world's best actors could not make this material sound convincing. Even with well-choreographed, high-energy action sequences, this script has too many problems to find any success.


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HOWELL, THOMAS ALVA, JR. [TOM] (1906–1989). Jazz musician Thomas Alva (Tom) Howell, Jr., was born in Belton, Texas, on May 6, 1906, one of five sons born to T. A. and Mamie Howell. In the year of his birth, the family moved to Cameron. Tom and all his brothers graduated from Cameron High School. Their mother was a church pianist, and their father had won a fiddlers' contest in 1900 in Comanche, Texas. Thomas senior began as a rancher in Lee County, ran a bicycle shop in Temple, and worked as a piano tuner and music-instrument repairman for Mary Hardin-Baylor College in Belton before opening his own music store in Cameron and continuing in that business until his death in 1939.
Tom's older brother Hilton learned to play the piano from listening to a shoeshine man named "Teenus," who came in the back door of the music store, sat down at a piano, and played the blues by ear. All the Howell boys were self-taught, and Tom listened to Teenus for hours. By 1921 the four oldest boys were attending the University of Texas in Austin, where the two eldest organized the popular Howell and Gardner Band, a dance orchestra. Tom moved to Austin with his mother the same year and attended Austin High School. At fifteen he joined his four siblings in the Howell Brothers Moonshiner Orchestra, which played regularly for university dances and in the Central Texas area. The two youngest Howell brothers, Lee and Tom, took up music as a career while both were still completing their degrees. Lee on trombone and Tom on cornet recorded with local bands, and their performances are strikingly impressive.
As the cornetist on a 1930 jazz recording made by Fred Gardner's Texas University Troubadours, Tom Howell was mistakenly identified in England as the legendary Bix Beiderbecke. Howell's playing was similar to the jazz style of Beiderbecke and approached closely his rich, ringing sound. Howell is pictured in the 1929 volume of the university's Cactus yearbook as a member of the Hokum Kings, led by music director Steve Gardner. The Hokum Kings are credited in the Cactus with providing the best dance music by any local band and with being superior to better-known bands from larger cities. Recording in San Antonio but under the direction of Fred Gardner, the same group of university students performed four tunes; especially on the tune entitled "No Trumps," Tom Howell shapes and executes his solos as exceptionally fine hot jazz, while the rest of the group plays with great drive and finesse.
Tom and Lee Howell are present on two sides recorded in 1929 by Sunny Clapp, whose Band O' Sunshine, like the Texas University Troubadours, was recorded in San Antonio. The compact disc that reissues the Clapp recordings, Texas and Tennessee Territory Bands, does not list Tom and Lee among the personnel, but the discographies of Brian Dust and Tom Lord both include the two Howell brothers. It is clear that Tom Howell is present as one of the band's two trumpets, since on the tune "Do Me Like You Do" the lead trumpeter sings the lyrics of the song while Tom can be heard in his very decidedly Beiderbecke style playing obbligato behind the vocalist. That a Texas jazzman could play on a level approaching that of the legendary Bix was a remarkable feat and demonstrates the early achievements of little-known Texas musicians.
In later life, after retiring in 1968 as a special agent with the Internal Revenue Service, Tom Howell performed at times in San Antonio with various River City jazz groups. He died on July 5, 1989, and was survived by his wife, Pat, and two children.
Jazz in Texas, 1924–1930 (Timeless Records, CBC 1–033, 1997). Tom Lord, The Jazz Discography (West Vancouver, Canada: Lord Music Reference, 1992). Milam County Heritage Preservation Society, Matchless Milam: History of Milam Country (Dallas: Taylor, 1984). Brian Rust, comp., Jazz Records, 1897–1942 (rev. ed., London: Storyville, 1975). Texas and Tennessee Territory Bands (Retrieval Recordings, RTR 79006, 1997).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Dave Oliphant, "HOWELL, THOMAS ALVA, JR. [TOM]," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fhoca), accessed November 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Modified on October 1, 2015. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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LONDON—The Human Genetics Commission [2] (HGC), an independent group that advises the U.K. government, issued a plea today to health and research institutions to develop a coherent policy on intellectual property, particularly patents on diagnostic tools. The message came in a new report, "Intellectual Property and DNA Diagnostics [3]," launched at a press conference—the swan song of the soon-to-be-disbanded HGC. The report found that doctors and researchers in U.K. public institutions have mostly ignored biotech companies' patents on numerous genetic tests, leaving patent-holders unsure how much their intellectual property (IP) is worth. IP owners who say their claims are being ignored often don't even try to sue the mammoth National Health Service, according to the report, partly because they don't know where to begin.
The HGC report made several recommendations: First, Research Councils U.K. and other funding agencies should review their licensing requirements. The Department of Health needs to find a way to monitor how IP involving biomarkers affects diagnostics, and NHS should be given governmental support in managing these issues. Finally, the report recommends that data should be gathered on what kind of impact IP has on innovation to bring clarity to what is now a heated and often confused debate on the value of patents.
One panellist at the press conference spoke of the need to minimize the nuisance factor of patents in health care. The patenting of DNA-based tests is "unacceptable, unenforceable, and detrimental," said Gail Norbury, commissioning and governance director of genetics laboratories at Guy's Hospital here.
The U.K. public health system has so far been able to "muddle through" by working around IP issues, said science policy expert Michael Hopkins of the University of Sussex, but it does so at its own peril. "The clock is running on multiple infringement suits. Back royalties can be claimed and those are accumulating. We can't keep muddling."
In the meantime, said Berwyn Clarke of the biotech company Lab21 in Cambridge, the United Kingdom should be concerned that its biotech companies might move to countries where they can more easily assert their IP rights. Because of the strength of NHS, he said, "the U.K. should be the best in world [for developing and clinically testing diagnostic tests], but at the moment it's one of the worst [places] to develop a business."
Hopkins says that Europe is less protective of IP for diagnostic tests than the United States. He cited a 2009 survey [4] that found that only 4% of E.U. public sector labs have had to withdraw genetic testing because of IP claims, compared with 25% in the United States. Seven times more gene patents have been filed in the United States than in Europe. The U.S. market is so large and lucrative, and patents so much easier to enforce, he told ScienceInsider, that many U.S. companies haven't found it worth their while to assert their rights overseas. That could change, however: "It's just a matter of when someone gets hungry enough."
Economist Stuart Hogarth of Kings College London agrees that companies are getting itchy to start getting some returns on their R&D investments, especially as many U.K. regulatory agencies are strengthening their evidence demands. But because IP issues affecting diagnostic tests are case-specific, he couldn't envision a single law or approach resolving the matter.
Many hospitals and research labs devise their own "homebrew" tests, avoiding royalty payments to those who hold key patents. For instance, AstraZeneca holds a patent on a genetic test for non-small cell lung carcinoma. In the United Kingdom, Clarke said, 21 labs test for this marker, but only two use the test approved by U.K. regulators. Some "are of higher quality than others," Clarke said, "and mistakes do get made." Clarke, who advocates standardization of tests, suggests that NHS should be more concerned about this.
Norbury disagrees: Multiple tests, including homebrews, can be used to cross-check results, she said. And homebrew testing makes it possible for patients to get a second opinion even if hospitals aren't willing to buy the company-backed test. She also sees nothing wrong with workarounds that evade royalties. "People find a way around things; how are you going to prevent people copying CDs?" The public health sector, she feels, shouldn't have to worry about patent-holders nipping at its heels.
But many agree that the current system is broken. It's time, said Alastair Kent, a panel member and chair of the HGC's Monitoring Group on Intellectual Property, to "shed light rather than generate heat and dust."


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11:00 PM, Feb 21, 1999 • By ELLIOTT ABRAMS
WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED from the acquittal of Bill Clinton is that the American people are more "disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed" -- or by kicking out a president when the economy is strong. But we had reason to know that already.
We have also learned something surprising: A majority of Americans have bought the line that sexual behavior between (among?) consenting adults is beyond criticism. People don't seem to think that adultery is fine, but they do seem to think that no one may be criticized for engaging in it. As a large minority disagrees with this judgment, we can expect sexual morality to remain a matter of public debate and conflict in the coming years.
What are the political effects? The first relates to the president. Bill Clinton, already a lame duck, is unlikely to see his reputation improve after he leaves office, as Jimmy Carter did. Democrats will probably begin distancing themselves from the president and his behavior very soon and continue to do so after the next election. This process will accelerate if new revelations of misconduct arise, as they may. The Democrats are now hostage to Clinton's report card.
The second political effect relates to our public life, and here the news is bad. The expectation that citizens will be honest in the courts has been permanently damaged. The value of an oath has been undermined. The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
The third political effect relates to the Republican party. The Democrats are now linked in the public mind with the president's behavior. The GOP, once the defender of public morals against the sixties generation, is, well, once again the defender of public morals against the sixties generation, or at least those members of it now running the executive branch and the media. If the Republicans perform this role too zealously, they will be seen as scolds and hypocrites; if they shirk it, they will have ratified the Clinton standards. An appeal to voters to help restore the dignity and even glory of the presidency will fare well. There is a real opportunity here for Republicans. Many Americans share the view that something of value has been lost in our common life and that the Democrats lost it. These citizens are chary of leaders who proclaim their own virtue but eager for leaders who are virtuous.
This week the Democratic party and its president may seem to be winners. It won't last.
Elliott Abrams is president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.


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Maeva Marcus is a leading scholar in the field of constitutional studies. She received a Ph.D. in history with distinction from Columbia University. Her dissertation, Truman and the Steel Seizure Case, was published by Columbia University Press (1977) and remains in print from Duke University Press. As editor of The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800, Dr. Marcus published eight volumes along with many related articles on legal history. She is a research professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and director of the Institute for Constitutional History. From 1983 to 1987, she was a visiting professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. In October 2007, she became president of the American Society for Legal History and will serve a two-year term.
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Having trouble holding a plank I take my mind off the length of time I hold one by trying to do it for the duration of a record on the radio and by concentrating on my breathing. So far (this morning) I've managed 4;23 to Robbie William's Feel.I "Feel" It works every time!
If you haven't done your planks lately, get back to it! It makes a difference in your core, which strengthens your back. Side planks work on your obliques. Held side planks recently for 45 sec 2 times each side. WOW! Did I feel the results the next day! Reminder to do these more often!
Planks on the bed, planks are a good exercise for building a stable core, and doing it on an unstable surface makes it even more challenging. Side planks are a killer.320
Do bridges and planks instead of crunches to get rid of belly fat.


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Barz Optics the Gold Coast based Sunglass Company have released a range of kids polarised sunglasses ideal for active sporting kids – junior sailors, cricketers and the like.
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Best Brand of Drums
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From the forum series beginner set to the pearl masters and reference high end sets, pearl delivers great sound quality, shell and hardare quality and they're not so expensive, I've tried out all of the pearl sets and each of them sounds amazing. (best one is the masters and the free floating snare drum )
Tama is good but I use pearl and I like it and I think dwdrums are better than Tamma not pearl though
I really love pearl.. Trusted for uncountable years of service )
We've been using it for our mini concerts and its very-good music makes our performance 'the best'.
Best drum kit everV127 Comments
All the other companies make great gear. However, the attention to detail that goes into EVERY DW Drum kit, is what makes the difference. John Good, has come up with some amazing ways to get drums to sound the way everyone wants them to. They are VERY pricey (my new 7 piece, drums only, comes to $5,000 - and I got a screaming deal). But I believe the quality is untouched. I have owned 1 Yamaha kit, 2 Pacific Kits (PDP), and a Taye kit. I am super stoked about my newest adventure.
Like I said, the other companies in this list make great gear too, just not as "perfect" as DW in my opinion. I spent MONTHS looking for a new kit. DW, came out on top, but a close second were Mapex and Tama. 3rd was the Yamaha PHX, 4th was Gretsch. Pearl and Yamaha kits were further down the line. Pearl has always seemed "mass produced" to me, and so does a huge portion of the Yamaha line. While I know people will tout about the Pearl Master Series. I had a friend who owned a set. And while he had ...more
I have played every major manufacturers drums over the past 29 years. DW is the most innovative company in the industry today, and has been since the late 90's. Their kits have the best sound and are the easiest to tune of any brand I have tried. Specific endorsees usually are not a good measure of a company as with the top drummers it is a business decision not a personal choice. I am not an endorsee, just a real experienced professional drummer that chooses to buy DW because they are a vastly superior product.
John Good is a mad genius! DW drums are the most innovative and best sounding drums that this world has ever known in the history of music. The work that is put into making these wonderful instruments is so in depth and so precise. I love a good pearl kit, but I feel like they are more of an "assembly line" or massed produced product. You can watch any videos of any other brands and it doesn't seem like half of the work is performed on any other brand than DW. DW drums are definitely built with love and are matched by no other.
The custom measures you get have no bounds. I have a cherry red fading into green colour kit. Compliments the kit nicely. DW is the name!V84 Comments
Lars Ulrich's favorite drums
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I don't think so
I have played early pearl kits made in Japan the quality was unmatchable then but over period of time Tama and ibanez guitars set the standards to near perfection. I played drums for pretty long time premiere was another good make in 70s. I started as drummer and ended up playing lead guitar now one again I have started playing drums and bought this Tama silverstar series drum kit, Tama has given a whole new dimension to drum sound construction build quality and sound is unmatched like ibanez has destroyed Gibson and fender in 40 years purely on merit sound build and to top it all the price is so good. That was yesterday its gone Tama has risen from nowhere to stand right on top cause of innovations they do, they keep surprising you with their quality and competitive price. In my 43 years I have played almost all brands of guitars starting from fender mustang 1960s model but ended up with ibanez jem series. Recently I had the choice of buying mapex pearl Ludwig Tama PDP by DW drums ...more
I've been with Tama for years, in my own personal opinion they are the all round best drum company. They are built very strong with many attachments anyone can get. You can get custom made or just a basic set. I started with a simple 5 piece swingstar and now its a crazy set I play with my industrial band and sessions I do. They are just built to last that's why I've had mine for 13 years, not to say Tamas Iron Cobras are built just as strong and last forever. Just my own opinion, my best friend plays pearl which is just as strong but I stick with Tama baby.
Tama sales moré drums a round the worldV95 Comments
Amazing drum kits! They've got probably the best Snare Drums out of all the drum brands, in my opinion, and nearly the best toms too. Although their cymbals suck but that's what Sabian is for. MAPEX - LethalTortoise
Great sounding kits all round, even for a beginner or even a professional! There drums sound really good but again like some others will say, their Cymbals need a bit of work, but hey, that's why there's Zildjian and Sabian Cymbals there! If you can find a good deal on a Mapex kit, go for it! There probably also one of few drum kits that you get a lot of value in for what you pay for
It is a amazing drum brand. I've tried many other drums and to me I think mapex is the best. My current drum set is the Mapex Meridian Maple series. The mapex drums provides great sounds no matter wood you prefer.
Very nice and superbV46 Comments
Yamaha drums are by far the best sounding drums I've ever played (besides dw), yamaha's higher end drums, such as the maple custom series, produce a really deep, fat, warm, resonant tone, that I really haven't heard from some other companies. The durability of the drums is outstanding due to the fact they use the diagonal seem system which keeps the drums from warping. Yamaha also uses the airseal system which takes all the moisture out of the drums and keeps it out so you don't have to worry about humidity affecting the sound. I was really shocked to see Yamaha so far down the list, in my opinion Yamaha should be up in the top 3.
I'm using Yamaha ( power recording custom and hip-gig ) for about years and I won't change brand ever.
Useless to say which brand is the best, it's all about the sound you are looking for and to the style of music you play.
I think the top model of any brand is good.
In my opinion yamaha should be number one the toms have a nice tone and the bass is just incredible and another good thing is the tom sizes are amller which can help accommodate smaller drummers. Plus most churches and music festivals use yamaha drums. Even my grandmas church bright hope baptist in philly has a yamaha gig maker which wows me with the sound to be a beggining kit
Absolutely the bestV34 Comments
Ludwig has been the standard to which all others have been compared to beyond the years of so many percussionists currently playing. Popularity is determined by high-profile performers which in turn tend to drive polls like these. Ludwig suffered when they also offered for sale their second tier of quality sets. However in my opinion, the best built with the best tonal delivery is still that of the Ludwig top line.
Don't forget Ringo from the Beatles. The set is awesome! I've used a Ludwig for the past 3-4 years. It's still standing. It still sounds great and I honestly love it! Pearl, DW, and Yamaha are good, but nothing beats Ludwig! - Lycanhropy21
Ludwig has to be the best hands down. The most original and innovative drumsets to date. Not only is the sound a perfect, authentic, fluffy sound but the kit finishes have to be the coolest. From Bonham to Starr to even Jack White, Ludwig is the name of drums. Even the standard kits aren't comparable to the basic sounds of wannabe noise-cylinders. Ludwig has been at the top since 1909 and it always will be.
Buddy Rich changed to Ludwig and they didn't sound anywhere as fine as the Slingerland or Rogers kits he played previous. I'm Sure that was about the $$$ He finally ended up playing what he started with. A Radio King set.
Two Names: John Bonham and Ringo Starr. I rest my case.V44 Comments
The rev from avenged sevenfold use this brand too.! Its very brilliant set up..!
Great drums sound clear and just as good snares and toms as DW or any other brands. They sound clear and good and I have a PDP rack and it is more customizable that any I have used before.
I think that pdp should be number 1 in the list. I have 1 pdp set at home and
Hve a wonderful sound
Best quality drums I good valueV21 Comments
I have many kits over the years from pearl, to yamaha to tama to ludwig and many others, but none have compared to the sound that Gretsch produces. Their kits are cheap and the sound is just as good on a cheap Gretsch kit than on a expensive pearl kit. The shells are some of the best I've had the pleasure of listening to, and their tone is pitch perfect. I've talk to many drummers over the years and most agree that Gretsch is either the best or second best make ever. Gretsch kits can accustom any type of music from Jazz to heavy rock.If you're a beginner I would recommend a Gretsch kit, their sound quality and feel would welcome a beginner easily. Their German engineering rings true when you hear the mighty beats of a Gretsch kit.
While not the least expensive, Gretsch Renown's can go up against any kit in the marketplace. When I purchased my kit, there was a DW kit for twice the price next to it on the floor. I was amazed that the Gretsch kits tone seemed to be superior to the the DW. I tune my drums low and w/ Aquarian Performance 10 heads, I receive many compliments from sound engineers commenting on the quality of sound they produce. Just for jazz, I don't think so. These drums sounds like absolute thunder when properly tuned. Best of all, the American name is a true survivor. Gretch... Their slogan says it all... "That Great Gretsch Sound. "
Gretsch drums are top of the line when you pay for the the top shelf stuff.. Also their Renown line is in my opinion the best value in a drum today... They are just shy of the USA kits but for half the price and some rock musicians may even prefer the Renown line as they project incredibly and have all the features that the to USA collection has.. They are pure class and the die cast hoops focus the sound so that when you mic them live you have great control of the sound... Classic looks and elite sound... Worth every nickel...
Gretsch. Hands down. Don't even argue people.V36 Comments
Sonor is best for jazz music or even other music. It has good tone quality. The shells and the drums itself is excellent when it comes to durability and it is the drummer's drum.
It isn't so expensive yet its not cheap but it's price is affordable and the quality is so brilliant. Maybe other brands like pearl, yamaha, tama and other are far more bigger manufacturer of drumset but Sonor is far more better that those drumsets.
acdc plays with sonor, sound is perfect I love it. this is an excellent brand and its quality is very high which is reflected on its sound
Sonor drums are pricey but you won't find anything that is done without the utmost attention to detail.. Also I have noticed over the years the their drums all have very clear fundamental tones that are musical, not just loud and booming but musical and that is something discerning musicians want from their drums...
Sonor Bass drums are the best on the market. Deep, powerful and mighty. And believe me, I played all of the other brands too and no one comes close.V24 Comments
For me the symbols are off the hook, they ring like crazy! If you want to make some serious music buy zildijian symbols as for the rest of the drum am not so sure, cause I have'nt got the chance to try it yet. But seriously music calls for zildijian, sambian and tama now that is a drum for sure play hard my brothers!
Amazing! Really good to use. For beginners and even higher level pros! Should be the top 3 instead
The best hands down!
Just great cymbalsV10 Comments
The Contenders
Keep a close eye on this company(Ddrum) They are building superior products in just a short amount of time. I've played DW, Pearl, Tama, Ludwig, and none of these sets holds a candle to my custom maple Dominion Dominator set-up. Stix143
Have played many different brands of drums. Ddrum has them all beat. They sound awesome and look great as well. Best of all the price is not that bad.
Up and coming with a commitment to creating classy drums. Started without knowing what they truly wanted. Now moving in the right direction.
Why do you think many drummers are moving to ddrum? Great qualityV8 Comments
Zildgian has great cymbals... They're hand hammered... I love that, but if it breaks it's hard to find the same sound... I like sabian the most because the make both auto anvil and hammered cymbals. For my ride I like it constant sounding... But for my crashes... I like to experiment.
This cymbals are for the beginners, non-beginners, intermediate and advanced players
Sabian is the bestV4 Comments
"Best underrated drum brand"
Keith Moon, among many other drummers have used this brand of drum. I had the pleasure to play a Premier set a few weeks back, best set I've ever played.
Perhaps not the most famous brand at the moment, but are definitely one of the best in history.
Legacy. No need to say anything else.V13 Comments
They are great my dads uses them all his life
DW has natural EQ, it sound is unbelievable and powerful, very inspiring and just a look at it will make you want to play
Dw is the best drums
Yes dw is the best
I believe pulse is underrated. The quality and sound that you get from this drum set is uncomparable considering how cheap they are to buy. Many people think that because they are less expensive means that they are cheaper, not the case. Make sure to give pulse a chance. I've played on a Yamaha Custum Stage and a standard pulse is better sounding and has higher quality
Just a great intermediate drum set
Paiste offer the most musically complex, consistently cymbals in the world. You can listen to their sound samples online and you can know your cymbal will sound like the sample! They have an incredible range of sounds - from bright to dark. I find Paiste cymbals to have the most "pure" tone quality. I constantly get compliments from engineers and fellow musicians. They also make the best gongs in the world.
Used paiste for my music exams in year 12, and I felt like it had improve the sound and performance that I wanted the examiners to hear. Deserves more credit
I have got a set of 2002's and they just amazing. I just don't why this brand wasn't on this list until now.
I use paiste symbols and they the best things I've ever hadV5 Comments
Just bought MCS set for my son. He like so much and I am happy because, its sound so good for my budget
I like meinl cause most of their cymbals sound really good. The only thing is the price, but most good soundong cymbals are a lot of money
Best sounding cymbals I've usedV4 Comments
I put up that but Vic firth is great
There drum sticks are good and symbols
I love this brand I have been playing those for a long time
I got vic firths had them all my life hash tag awesomeV6 Comments
This is also one of my drum set, I think it is good because I make it more better within just change all the toms and snare heads, and update all cymbals...
Very ok cause it is half the price as compared to other drums
This brand of drums is just right for a beginner they are selling at very good prices at kmall and comes with one hi hat a crash cymbel a bace drum a snare the three toms a seat and obveislyy the sticks this is just the kit that will let your heart rum to its content
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Control over the hierarchical structure of titanate nanotube agglomerates
Bavykin, Dmitry V., Kulak, Alexander N. and Walsh, F.C. (2011) Control over the hierarchical structure of titanate nanotube agglomerates. Langmuir, 27, (9), 5644-5649. (doi:10.1021/la200527p).
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An alkaline hydrothermal treatment of several types of ordered macroporous TiO2 structures, namely microtubes, sea urchin shapes and anodic nanotubes array has been investigated under stationary conditions. The effect of the size and geometry of these structures on the morphology of forming hierarchical agglomerates of titanate nanotubes have been systematically studied. It has been revealed that at sizes larger than the critical value (ca. 1 μm), the whole geometry of the initial ordered TiO2 structure is maintained under reaction conditions leading to formation of hierarchical structures, in which bulk TiO2 is replaced with titanate nanotube agglomerates. This principle provides a convenient route for the preparation of multi-scale micro- and nanostructures of TiO2 based materials. The analysis of critical size suggests that under reaction conditions, due to the limited transport of dissolved Ti(IV) species, the growth of nanotubes occurs locally.
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The hydrothermal route to metal oxide nanotubes: synthesis and energy conversion application. A First Grant Proposal
Funded by: EPSRC (EP/F044445/1)
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Cambodian women find support in Memphis
November 23, 2013 in Faith Matters, Featured Rotator by David Waters
Since they arrived at Rhodes College in August, the two young women from Cambodia have visited the river, the ballet, the botanic garden and several museums.
"It is strange to see something in a museum from only 50 years ago," said Bormey Sivorn, 20. "In Cambodia museums, we have things from 1,000 years ago."
They've also been to Walmart ("too big"), the grocery store ("so much beef"), and McDonald's. "I want to bring McDonald's to Cambodia," said Lina Hun, 26. "We need more food choices and more jobs."
Lina and Bormey are recent college graduates and aspiring entrepreneurs from a country still trying to recover from the genocidal "killing fields" of the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s. Educated people were targeted; an estimated 70 percent of all teachers died or were executed, including Bormey's grandfathers.
Cambodia is rebuilding by focusing more resources on education, a national effort being aided for current and former Memphians. Lina and Bormey are in Memphis for a year of study at Rhodes College, postgraduate fellowships arranged by the Harpswell Foundation, whose mission is "to empower a new generation of Cambodian women."
Harpswell was founded by Memphis native Alan Lightman, an MIT physicist and best-selling author of "Einstein's Dreams" who now lives in New England.
"This is the most rewarding activity I've ever done in my life," said Lightman, who travels to Cambodia several times a year. "It has given my life meaning and given me much more of an appreciation of what the human spirit is capable of."
For Lightman, empowerment begins with education.
The Kingdom of Cambodia, nestled between Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia, is an impoverished nation about the size of Missouri with more than double the population.
For centuries, females in Cambodia were excluded from schools. Schools are open to women now, but most Cambodians live in impoverished rural areas, and most universities are in the capital, Phnom Penh. That was a problem, especially for women.
Until Lightman came along, there were few college dormitories in the capital and none for women. Male students from rural villages could stay in Buddhist temples in the city, but women were barred.
"There are 100,000 college-age girls in Cambodia every year, and they have nowhere to go," said Lightman, who first learned of the problem when he went to Cambodia in 2003 to help a Unitarian minister who was trying to aid a rural village.
Lightman met female college students who were living underneath the academic buildings. "That's how badly they wanted to go to college," Lightman said. "I was just blown away. I was so overwhelmed by their courage and determination to get an education. I don't know anyone who sacrificed that much to go to college."
The first Harpswell Foundation Dormitory and Leadership Center for University Women opened for 36 female students in 2006. A second dorm, on the other side of Phnom Penh, opened for 48 female students in 2009.
Harpswell residents attend various universities in Phnom Penh. Harpswell provides free food, housing and health care, leadership training, opportunities for community service and critical thinking skills to disadvantaged young women from the countryside.
"We can't help all of the poor girls in Cambodia, so we look for girls with leadership potential who can have a long and lasting impact on their country," Lightman said.
Since 2006, Harpswell has hosted 140 female students. So far, 60 have graduated and gone on to careers in law, business and journalism. Lina graduated in 2012, Bormey this year.
"We call him 'Dad,' " Lina said of Lightman. "My family struggle. At Harpswell, we had everything we needed. Harpswell like heaven to us."
Lina, who has five younger sisters and one younger brother, grew up in a rural area near the northern border with Thailand. She said her family ate a lot of rice and eggs. "Not so many eggs," she said. "Sometimes we have three eggs for nine people."
Her grandfather and other family members were among the nearly 2 million Cambodians who were killed or died in the four years after radical Communist leader Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975.
"My parents were not educated; they don't know much about study," Lina said. "So I had to figure it out myself. My mother push me to study. She want me to avoid her life."
While living at Harpswell, Lina majored in chemical engineering and food technology. At Rhodes, she's taking classes in business and chemistry. When she returns to Cambodia, she wants to start a food processing plant.
"We need more food in Cambodia," she said. "More than rice."
Bormey is from Sihanoukville, a large port city in the Gulf of Thailand on Cambodia's southern border. Its beaches and nearby islands are drawing tourists from around the world.
Bormey and her younger brother were a little better off. Their father is a police officer, and their mother is a teacher. Both of their grandfathers were teachers. Both were killed by the Khmer Rouge.
"Educated people were a threat to the regime," Bormey said. "Nothing is more important to my country now than education. It will empower us."
Because of her family's focus on education, Bormey started to learn English in the second grade.
She moved to Harpswell and began attending college classes at age 16. She majored in economics.
At Rhodes she's taking classes in microeconomics, labor economics and international relations. When she goes back to Cambodia, she wants to start her own business.
"I want to make helmets for motorcyclists," she said. "I want to create jobs. We need more jobs than farming."
They also need more education. There are no master's-level courses in Cambodia. So in 2010, Harpswell began arranging one-year postgraduate fellowships at a few colleges in America.
The next year, Lightman asked his friend, Rabbi Micah Greenstein of Temple Israel, to come to Harpswell to talk to the students about spirituality and faith from a Jewish perspective.
Greenstein was profoundly moved by "their courage — remember, these are among the first women ever to attend college in all-male environments — and their perseverance to overcome living conditions worse than most of us can ever imagine."
Lina, Bormey and other students he met were "literally children of survivors of the genocide who ended up teaching me more than I could ever impart to them."
Greenstein's trip launched a partnership with Temple Israel that continues to expand.
In 2012, the rabbi took five Memphis women to Cambodia with him — Margaret Craddock, Barbara Hyde, Barbara Holden Nixon, Mearl Purvis and Becky Wilson. They were equally moved and inspired.
"To me, the most impressive attribute of the Harpswell girls was their determination to become educated in preparation to become leaders in their communities and of their country," said Nixon, who works for the Urban Child Institute.
This year, Rhodes College joined Harpswell's postgraduate program. Lina and Bormey arrived in August.
"I admire how they manage to have both delightful, girlish enthusiasm combined with a deep, iron-like strength, purpose and will," said Hyde, president of Hyde Family Foundations. "I think of them as steel magnolias. Or maybe it would be better to call them steel lotus blossoms."
Local benefactors are talking about ways to bring even more of Harpswell to Memphis, including opening a Harspwell-like dormitory for young women.
"We realize that many girls in our community live in homes where they suffer neglect and abuse or abject poverty, all of which prevent them from doing their best," said Craddock.
"A safe environment with many opportunities for additional enrichment could help our community nurture our greatest resource, the youth of our city."
Memphis Cambodia has planned four public events, starting Dec. 7. Lina and Bormey will tell their story.
Meanwhile, they plan to spend Thanksgiving with Jim and Martha Boyd, who visited Harpswell last January and picked them up at the airport in August.
"When we embraced Lina and Bormey upon their arrival," said Martha Boyd, "I felt that we were a small part of the world's healing that day."
Memphis Cambodia
Kathy Bates, Academy Award winning actress and Memphis native, is scheduled to speak at the kickoff event for Memphis Cambodia from 10 a.m.-noon Dec. 7 at the Malco Paradiso Theater.
The free event, the first of four scheduled this academic year, will include a showing of the new documentary film, "Girl Rising".
The program will feature the stories of two graduates of the Harpswell Leadership Centers in Cambodia, Lina Hun and Bormey Sivorn. Both are in Memphis for a postgraduate year of study at Rhodes College.
Other events are scheduled for Feb. 8, April 12, and a date in May to be determined. For more information, write firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A registered sex offender accused of moving out of his West Lafayette home and not updating his address as required by law was sentenced Friday to two years in prison, and a man accused of sexual conduct with a minor was sentenced to three years in prison.
Rex A. Duke Sr., 55, was charged in December in Tippecanoe Circuit Court with failure to register as a sex offender, a Class D felony; failure to register while having a prior, unrelated conviction, a Class C felony, and being a habitual offender, which is a sentencing enhancement.
He pleaded guilty to the second charge, according to Tippecanoe County Prosecutor Pat Harrington. Judge Don Daniel sentenced Duke to two years in the Department of Corrections and six years on probation.
On Aug. 31 of last year, Duke registered as a sex offender with the Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Office with an address in the 6000 block of Morehouse Road. In October, a probation officer learned that Duke was no longer staying there. Residents told him he had not lived there for four to six months. Police found and arrested him later that month.
Duke was convicted of child molesting in 1987 in Howard County and of criminal deviate conduct in 1998 in Cass County; the latter conviction required him to register as a sex offender for life. He was previously convicted of failing to register as a sex offender in 2007 in Tippecanoe County, records show.
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Seth Aaron Jonas, 22, was accused of three counts of sexual misconduct with a minor, two as class C felonies and one as a class B felony. Harrington said Jonas pleaded guilty to both class C felonies, contingent on serving the sentences concurrently. In both counts, fondling was the underlying behavior.
The judge sentenced him to three years. After release from the Department of Corrections he will be placed on two years supervised probation with one of those years on home detention.
He also must pay restitution of $1,666.82 to the sheriff's department for the cost of transporting him from Mississippi. He also must participate in a sex offender treatment program and not have contact with the victim or anyone under 16 years of age.
According to court records, Jonas was arrested in April, 2012, on suspicion of having had sex with a 15-year-old female. He was 21 at the time.
Police said the victim claimed she and Jonas kissed while staying in the apartment of her ex-stepbrother during spring break and that in the course of several days the behavior progressed to oral sex and then sex.
The defendant admitted to fondling and oral sex but denied having sex with the victim.
Lafayette attorney Michael Trueblood represented Duke and Jonas.
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The research design for this study was a cross sectional, mailed, self-administered questionnaire. Dillman's (1978) Total Design Method (TDM) was chosen as the foundation of the survey instrument design and mail implementation. There were two follow-up mailings.
Sample Selection
In this study, the small business owner/firm is acting as a surrogate for the entrepreneur/entrepreneurial firm. A small business owner was defined as "an individual who runs a business with 100 or fewer employees on a day to day basis and has an ownership interest in that business." The frame chosen for this final study was three large chambers of commerce in New Jersey that covered northern, middle and southern regions. These chambers had a combined membership of approximately 2500 members. From this frame a sub-sample of 1002 business owners meeting the above criteria was drawn, with approximately 1/3 from each region.
Survey Results
Of the sub-sample of 1002, 354 questionnaires were returned completed, 27 were returned blank and 54 returned ineligible or unreachable. Given the formula provided by Dillman (1978), the effective response rate was 37.34%. This rate compares favorably with that for mail surveys, which is rarely over 30% (Alreck & Settle, 1985). In an attempt to test the sample for response bias, non-response analysis was undertaken by telephone. The results warrant a reasonable level of confidence in the conclusion that the sample used in this study appropriately represents the population. The sample was 84.6% male with a mean age of 48.4 years old. The mean size of their firms based on employment in 1991 was 16.2 employees.
Description of Statistical Analysis
In order to test the direct causal relationships hypothesized by the models, linear structure equations were used. Moderated regression analysis was used to test the hypothesized contingency relationship (H2).
LISREL VIII (Joreskog & Sorbom, 1993), which estimates parameters of hypothesized causal models, was used to analyze the data and to test hypotheses one, three, four and five. Causal analysis is a method for studying patterns of causation among a set of variables (Blalock, 1971). Although causal analysis has been done in the past using ordinary least squared (OLS) regression, LISREL has been found to be a more robust and flexible analytical technique (Goldstein & Dillon, 1984).
Moderated regression analysis was used to test Hypothesis 2 and examine the hypothesized interaction effect of entrepreneurial posture and environmental turbulence. Although LISREL can be used to examine interaction and contingency relationships (Kenny & Judd, 1984), it was not used in this study for three main reasons. One, interaction effects are rarely tested using LISREL. Two, to test the interaction effect, LISREL mimics multiple regression techniques (Hayduk, 1987). Three, the main purpose of the study is to examine a system of relations between the perception of resource availability, entrepreneurial behavior and growth; so the interaction effect is not central to the study.
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Jim Ketchum
It must be time for Christmas. I just put away the porch furniture and Election Day has come and gone.
I realize the Christmas shopping season actually began around Labor Day. Thats when the first fake evergreens started appearing in the stores. Heck, Santa Claus already has shown up in some suburban Detroit shopping malls.
You can tell Christmas 2012 is here because the annual wave of books about Christmas is hitting bookstores nationwide.
One in particular caught my eye. Author Irene Baron has undertaken to explain and to prove whats known as the Christmas star. Some people refer to it as the Star of Bethlehem. Whatever you call it, the Scriptures say it led the Magi wise men from the East to the stable where they worshiped the baby Jesus a couple of thousand years ago.
Baron, a former astronomy teacher, said she surveyed 15 years of astronomical happenings using more than 60 NASA-supplied astronomy computer programs. She relates what she found in her book, Unraveling the Christmas Star Mystery. The book is available on Amazon.com.
According to Barons website, www.irenebaron.com, events were identified through correlation with the symbols, symbolism and interpretations used by ancient astronomers who lived at the time of Jesus Christ.
More than 90 ancient history and archeology reference books also came into play, Baron said.
What she found is this: What the Magi saw, and what the Bible records, happened directly over Bethlehem in 4 A.D. That is the date accepted by many scholars as the year Jesus was born.
Thus, she states on her website, Science once again proves the Bible is accurate. The data ... verifies the Bible story of the Christmas star is true.
I give her credit for pursuing her topic and for pulling bunches of convoluted data together to support her thesis.
Still, I wonder. Why is it necessary to scientifically prove something religion asks us to take on faith?
Do we really need to prove the Star of Bethlehem existed to justify faith?
Im a classic-car enthusiast. I look at this sort of exercise the same way Id look at tearing apart a pristine Packard straight-eight engine to see how it works. Once its torn apart, the engine cant run, and it cant be appreciated the way its builder intended. It works best if you just start it and drive it.
Its that way with faith. I dont need proof that the Star of Bethlehem existed to accept and understand why it appeared. For all I know, it could have been a supernova, flying saucers or a collision of two Packards.
It really doesnt matter what happened in the sky. What matters is what happened in the stable down below.
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