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By Janie Chang
August 22, 2012 9:00 AM PT
Microsoft Research maintains strong ties to the academic world through a variety of programs, including its popular hosting of summer interns. All Microsoft labs support this program, and it would be hard to find a researcher who did not consider it a rewarding effort in academic outreach.
While interns benefit from working with some of the best minds in computer science, researchers benefit just as much from the fresh perspectives their young colleagues bring. In fact, some Microsoft Research interns bring expertise from disciplines that have little to do with computer science—or so it might seem.
Patrick Meegan is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. This made him an ideal candidate to work on a Rich Interactive Narratives (RIN) project with Microsoft Research India.
"The beauty of RIN," Meegan says, "is that the technology hides in the shadows and lets the content shine, so my focus has been on the nature of digital storytelling itself. My film-editing experience has proven invaluable, since the RIN authoring tool is similar to non-linear video-editing software."
Meegan's RIN production, an original interactive story called We Bring Fire, incorporates live-action video, super-slow-motion video, panoramas, documents, original music, and drawings. Like his mentor, Joseph Joy, Meegan believes this new medium requires a different approach to deliver interactivity that feels natural and inherent to the story.
"To this end, Joseph pushes all of us on the content side to develop our unique visions," Meegan says, "which, in turn, pushes the team's developers to figure out technical solutions that transcend a specific creative project."
For Meegan, a highlight of his internship has been the opportunity to work with so many talented individuals.
"Curtis Wong, who has grappled with questions about the deeper nature of storytelling ever since the earliest days of interactive digital media, shared some great insights," Meegan says. "I also got help from Sing Bing Kang of the Interactive Visual Media Group and his intern, Eduardo Gastal. Then there was Research Media Works, our in-house video-production group, whose generosity with tools and support allowed me to devote my attention to the story I'm telling.
"RIN is a medium where you're not bound to a script or a single linear plot," Meegan reflects. "You're not sure how the story is going to end until you finish. It reminds me of what our managing director, P. Anandan said, that in research, you can't set out knowing exactly what you want to do. Then it wouldn't be research."
Iris Howley is studying ways to incorporate social factors into educational technologies. At Microsoft Research's FUSE Labs, Howley, a Ph.D. candidate in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, is working on a project complementary to her interests, one that makes use of So.cl, an interest- and knowledge-sharing social-networking website.
"My research goal is to help users overcome obstacles to effective participation in the community," Howley says. "My mentor, Todd Newman, and I wanted a project that would fit my overarching research goal, but also provide valuable knowledge to the So.cl team and external research communities. The project examines how people share knowledge, who interacts with what knowledge, and ways to connect users to the content they're most likely to respond to. It's fascinating!"
Howley's past research experience provided her with a tool set for examining language and behavior, which she found extremely useful for better understanding So.cl community participation and knowledge sharing.
She finds it interesting to be on a team that maintains a social-networking website for public use.
"There are pressures on and structures within the team that do not exist in smaller, academic research teams," Howley explains. "Having questions answered, acquiring data, and seeking feedback all require adjusting to a different process."
Outside the lab, Howley considers life in Seattle a highlight of her time as an intern.
"There's nothing quite like watching seaplanes take off from the park down the street or picking blackberries from the side of the road as you bike to the local beach."
What does it really mean for online content to "go viral"? Can this intuitive concept be made mathematically precise? These are the questions that keep Ashton Anderson busy during his internship at Microsoft Research New York City. A Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Stanford University, Anderson is working with mentor Sharad Goel, as well as Jake Hofman and Duncan Watts, to examine the "greatest hits" of online content—the most popular news stories, images, videos, and more.
"People have this idea that content diffuses through social ties, much like a virus." Anderson says. "But in previous work, Sharad and Duncan found that for most content, this almost never happens. It's much more likely that most people get exposed to it from a major hub, like a news website."
It's still possible, though, that some popular pieces of content—the "greatest hits"—spread virally. Anderson's project explores this possibility by analyzing the structure of the spreading patterns of the most popular stories, videos, and images. After first nailing down a precise definition of virality and identifying examples of truly viral content, the next step will be trying to find which features of content are more likely to lead to viral spread.
"I love basically everything about my internship," Anderson says, when asked about highlights. "My research group is absolutely top-notch, and they're also very fun to be around! There's a wonderful atmosphere that supports both stimulating conversations and hilarious banter. And I'm really loving spending my summer in New York City. What could be nicer?"
Bei "Penny" Pan studies traffic. A graduate student from the University of Southern California, she was working on her Ph.D. researching Los Angeles traffic when she met her mentor, Yu Zheng, during a conference and discovered that he was studying traffic in her hometown, Beijing. Both saw an opportunity at Microsoft Research Asia for Pan to leverage her experience with Los Angeles traffic to study the situation in Beijing.
"I'm working on the detection of anomalous traffic events in a city using GPS trajectories generated by a large number of taxicabs," Pan says. "The event could be anything unusual, such as accidents, broken traffic lights, or even disasters like floods or road collapses. The insight is that GPS-equipped taxis can be regarded as mobile sensors, constantly probing the traffic rhythm of a city. This work is different from other studies because it concerns events that lead a large number of drivers to alter their regular behaviors, rather than those that alter the behaviors of only a few drivers."
Armed with domain knowledge of how a traffic accident evolves, it has been easy for Pan to interpret irregular behaviors when an event happens and to derive more interesting insights from the data.
"Ultimately, we want to create an online event-detection system," Pan explains, "so that when anomalous events happen, the system can report events and send out real-time alerts and suggest alternative routes for drivers. This system would benefit not only individual drivers by providing them more efficient driving experiences, but also governments and transportation agencies, who need to monitor urban traffic and develop more effective policies and plans."
What has been the highlight of Pan's internship?
"The work itself is a great motivation for me," she says. "In graduate school, we are always aiming at publishing papers, but here, our goal is far more than that. We want our achievements to enhance people's lives."
Vasilis Syrgkanis, a Cornell University Ph.D. student in Computer Science, is fascinated by online markets such as auction marketplaces, crowdsourcing markets, and ad markets. He formulates theoretical models of such markets to study their efficiency—and, potentially, to develop ideas on how to make small functional modifications to improve efficiency.
He couldn't be happier with his time at Microsoft Research New England. With the help of manager Jennifer Chayes, Christian Borgs, other researchers, and fellow interns, Syrgkanis has been working on a number of projects focused at the intersection of economics and computer science.
Syrgkanis admits that the lab's vibrant collaborative environment, interesting topics, and availability of talented researchers and interns made it tough keeping to just one research project. His main project has been studying how to design incentive mechanisms in a way that resists manipulation.
"Consider a company that hopes to do viral marketing through free product offers on social media," Syrgkanis explains. "They want to make the offer to users whose behaviors indicate they are good potential brand advocates. The challenge is to identify the most valuable users via the users' posts, discussions, status updates, and chats. However, just knowing such an offer exists could lead a user to alter her or his normal behavior to win the freebie. Therefore, we need to examine how one should create offers in a way that doesn't distort the user's authentic, normal behavior."
Syrgkanis feels positive about the contribution he has made, thanks to his experience in analyzing the efficiency of systems that cope with "selfish" individuals who try to maximize personal gain at the expense of an overall social goal.
"My knowledge in this area proved helpful in many of my projects at Microsoft Research," he says, "and I also managed to use some of the techniques I had developed in my thesis research."
Jessica Lingel is working towards a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science at Rutgers University. This domain expertise has been put to good use at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where Lingel has been guided by mentor Tim Regan.
"Tim was primarily interested in how the tools used to build software shape the actual products that get developed," Lingel says, "as well as how notions of tool use and craft are, or aren't, apparent in current paradigms of education in computer science. This research has been really interesting in turning up connections between something we generally associate as very old—craft—and something we associate as very new—software. Putting software development, as a learned set of skills that relies on a set of tools, into the context of craft is helping us tackle some core assumptions about technology, ownership, and collaboration."
Lingel interviewed software engineers about tools they have used for a long time and asked them to bring in actual examples of code from different parts of their histories as software developers. Her experience at Rutgers, which focuses on information practices and technological appropriations at the level of community, proved especially valuable.
"I used similar approaches of layering different interviewing strategies that range from focus groups to cognitive mapping to interviews," Lingel explains, "to unpack the different phenomena related to information, technology, and everyday life."
Lingel enjoys the welcoming, supportive environment at Microsoft Research and the freedom to take ownership of her project.
"That was great, and I felt like I was contributing a different set of methodological experiences and theoretical frameworks to this project, as well as sense of connection to craft as a practice."


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Far Hills, NJ (Sports Network) - The United States Golf Association named the
remaining five members of the Walker Cup team on Sunday.
The five, who were named to captain Jim Holtgrieve's team, were Jordan
Niebrugge, Nathan Smith, Michael Weaver, Todd White and Bobby Wyatt.
They join previously named members Max Homa, Michael Kim, Patrick Rodgers,
Justin Thomas and Cory Whitsett.
This year's Walker Cup will take place September 7-8 at the National Golf
Links of America in Southampton, N.Y., which last hosted the matches at the
inaugural Walker Cup in 1922.
"These players are great additions to the USA Walker Cup Team and have a
special opportunity to compete in international team competition when this
prestigious event returns to its historic birthplace," said Thomas J. O'Toole
Jr., USGA vice president and chairman of the USGA's Championship Committee.
"We have assembled another outstanding team with the talent, experience and
leadership to face the challenge presented by the team from Great Britain and
Ireland. We know each will perform with excellence and bring honor to a
competition and a place that have a unique connection to the game's history."
Niebrugge, 20, defeated Kim to win the U.S. Amateur Public Links earlier this
year. Niebrugge has also won the Western Amateur, the Wisconsin State Amateur
and the Wisconsin State Match Play championship in 2013.
The 35-year-old Smith is a four-time winner of the U.S. Mid-Amateur. He will
play his third straight Walker Cup.
Weaver, the 2012 U.S. Amateur runner-up, is teammates with Homa and Kim at the
University of California. Weaver, 22, missed the cut at the Masters, but
shared 64th at the U.S. Open.
White, 45, has played in 11 USGA Championships. In 2012, he fell in the
semifinals at the U.S. Mid-Amateur to Garrett Rank.
Wyatt joins Alabama teammates Thomas and Whitsett on the Walker Cup squad.
Wyatt, 21, was the runner-up in the SEC Championship and at the NCAA
Regionals. He was first-team All-American this year, his third straight year
as an All-American.
The U.S. team won five of the 10 singles matches in 2011 at Royal Aberdeen
Golf Club, but Great Britain & Ireland hung on for a 14-12 victory. The USA
leads the overall series 34-8-1, and has not lost on American soil since the
2001 Match at Ocean Forest Golf Club in Sea Island, Ga.
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Last year a young Eastern Mennonite women's basketball team got on a roll and finished with a 22-4 record, tied for second-best in program history. Yet the Royals lost in the ODAC Tournament semifinals and missed out on the NCAA Tournament. Coach Kevin Griffin knew he had a talented crew last winter, but with just three upperclassmen on the roster, Griffin didn't expect the ...More


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For all those negative experts who said weeks ago we aren't going to the big dance, YOUR WRONG!
Thanks to all those positive fans who kept believing.
Thanks to Coach Hoiberg for staying positive and moving us forward.
Thanks to the players for working together and solving their own problems.
Thanks to the LOYAL FAN base who remains Faithful, committed to our teams.
Can't wait to play someone besides a Big 12 team.
Sure the season will end but we have done well, celebrate the successes.
Go Cyclones!
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Your wrong?
I am with you. I would love to see us play Colorado St. Nice tie in with Coach E. Would be a fun game and if we can hit some threes there are a couple of upsets in the making.
As always trying to stay positive. Go Cyclones!!
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
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Couldn't agree more, OP. It's fantastic to have something to look forward to this time of year. Better than Christmas when my Cyclones are dancing. Fred has exceeded all reasonable expectations in his first three years.
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Your wrong?
Don't you just hate it when your WRONG!
Humble pie best served cold.
Go Cyclones to the BIG DANCE!
I am still nervous.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775
Originally Posted by berther48
Don't you just hate it when your WRONG!
Humble pie best served cold.
Go Cyclones to the BIG DANCE!
So ironic.
Go Clones!
'Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.'
Originally Posted by brianhos
I am still nervous.
We shouldn't be nervous because we are most likely in, but I can't shake that feeling either.
Were in. Even Palm has us in now. That should tell you that we are a lock.
Ill put any dollar that if I get this ball again, Long said, Its going in.
- Naz Long to Markel Brown before hitting the game tying shot.
I think he means your Wong.
Lunardi has us playing Carolina in Philly.
I tell you what, had we not beaten Oklahoma in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament then I would have been extremely worried going into Selection Sunday. There is no question we are in! Really the tables are turned on Oklahoma..
Originally Posted by brianhos
I am still nervous.
Originally Posted by mjhavlo76
I tell you what, had we not beaten Oklahoma in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament then I would have been extremely worried going into Selection Sunday. There is no question we are in! Really the tables are turned on Oklahoma..
I think we would have been in, but very possibly in a play in game. No worries at all now.
Originally Posted by brianhos
I am still nervous.
Nervous for what? We're in the field. We are going dancing.
Your write, bro.
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CAMERON - Over the creek and through the woods to the finish line they go.
That was the theme Saturday morning as men, women, small kids and bigger kids took part in Cameron's Wet and Wild Cross Country meet deep in the hills of Marshall Country.
Dragons' cross country coach Dave Evans, co-creator and overseer of the event, welcomed another large crowd as races were held in the Open Division, for men and women of any age, small kids, junior high and the main event, the boys' and girls' high school meet.
While there were plenty of ribbons, plaques and awarded handed out, it was Hampshire High School that swept its way to the titles in the boys' and girls' meets.
Hampshire finished 40 points on the girls' side with University second with 88, Charleston Catholic third with 96 and Weir High fourth at 110. The Trojans also took the boys' race with 29 points with the Hawks again second at 63, John Marshall took third with 86 and the Fighting Irish fourth with 103.
Ohio Valley Athletic Conference athletes did well in both races with Oak Glen junior Kelsey Chambers winning the girls' event in 21:19 and the Red Riders' Kristen Mastrantoni third in 21:30.
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Cameron Wet and Wild Meet
Boys' Team Scoring
1.Hampshire, 29; 2. University, 63; 3. John Marshall, 86; 4. Charleston Catholic, 103; 5. Oak Glen, 108; 6. Parkersburg South, 119; 7. Sherman, 195; 8. Trinity Christian, 227; 9. Brooke, 236; 10. Wheeling Central, 252; 11. Tyler Consolidated, 263; 12. Weir, 271; 13. Wirt County, 351.
Top 15 Boys' Finishers
1.Marcus Black (CC), 17:58; 2. Casey Feezie (Hamp.), 18:25; 3. Eli Lipps (Hamp.), 18:51; 4. Dylan McKeag (JM), 19:09; 5. Dustin Shannholtz (Hamp.), 19:20; 6. Ethan Malcomb (OG), 19:24; 7. Justin Thompson (PS), 19:25; 8. Brill Dolly (Hamp.), 19:26; 9. Andrew Paladino (U), 19:31; 10. Seth Edwards (U), 19:32; 11. Nathan Coyle (Hamp.), 19:33; 12. Caden McClanahan (CC), 19:41; 13. Reed Phares (U), 19:44; 14. Eric Cappelinni (U), 19:47; 15. Clay Thorn (JM), 19:48.
Girls' Team Scoring
1.Hampshire, 40; 2. University, 88; 3. Charleston Catholic, 96; 4. Weir, 110; 5. Parkersburg South, 112; 6. John Marshall, 116; 7. Oak Glen, 174; 8. Wheeling Central, 177; 9. Tyler Consolidated, 217; 10. Wirt County, 278.
Top 15 Girls' Finishers
1.Kelsey Chambers (OG), 21:19; 2. Ashleigh Martin (Hamp.), 21:23; 3. Kristen Mastrantoni (W), 21:30; 4. Morgan Roach (Hamp.), 21:48; 5. Sarah Wills (U), 22:08; 6. Mary Feaster (Hamp.), 22:30; 7. April Kirk (PS), 22:36; 8. Emily Gordon (WC), 22:43; 9. Alexis Virtue (W), 23:05; 10. Karissa Duke (JM), 23:15; 11. Hannah Surface (ER), 23:21; 12. Amelia Sebok (Sherman), 23:22; 13. Nakia Dornbusch (Hamp.), 23:48; 14. Sydney Doytson (U), 24:04; 15. Katherine Warner (U), 24:38.
Other local runners in the top 15 included University's Sarah Wills (fifth), 22:08, Parkersburg South's April Kirk (seventh), 22:36, Wheeling Central's Emily Gordon (eighth), 22:43, Weir's Alexis Virtue (ninth), 23:05, John Marshall's Karissa Duke (10th), 23:15, East Richland's Hannah Surface (11th), 23:21 and the University duo of Sydney Doytson (14th, 24:04) and Katherine Warner (15th, 24:38).
The Monarchs' Dylan McKeag was fourth on the boys' side in 19:09 with the Golden Bears' Ethan Malcomb sixth in 19:24. Other OVAC top-15 placers included Justin Thompson (seventh) of Parkersburg South in 19:25, University's Andrew Paladino (ninth, 19:31), Seth Edwards (10th, 19:32), Reed Phares (13th, 19:44) and Eric Cappelinni (14th, 19:47) and John Marshall's Clay Thorn, 15th in 19:48.
The 15th annual event, which Evans originated along with former assistant coach Bob Neely in 1998, has grown significantly year in and year out and Evans called the 2012 version a major success.
"Bob and I started this in 1998," Evans said. "It was a lot of work, we had to cut a lot of trees and brush off of the hill and do a bunch to get the course ready. Everything started so small, now it has really grown and we offer so much.
"No school leaves here without some kind or trophy or plaque or something. But make no mistake, we could not do this without all the support we have from the parents, past parents, former runners and just all of the people who don't even have anything to do with school who lend a hand.
"This event is now one of the five or six biggest cross country meets in the entire state and the kids have so much fun. It is the final race of the season before the state meets start next week and we relax the rules a little bit and let them go.
"I know that most of the kids love running through the water holes - that is a big draw. But we also offer so much with the open race and letting the smaller kids get involved, it has just turned into a huge event.
"It normally takes us about two or three weeks to get the course ready, but it is all worth it when it comes time for the races. And the weather (Saturday) is just great. The people love the food, the fun and the atmosphere and I think everyone has a great time."


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Gday Freddie -- thanx for that stuff.
What sort of joint are Joint 1 and Joint 2 of lebow cue, and of gilbert cue?? And what sizes etc.
Are they lite wood to wood joints (if steel or collared then would be noze-heavy I guess).
Are they thick dia joints (if thick then cues would be noze-heavy I guess, no big deal u get used to it).
I suppose that your Joint 1 dia and Joint 2 dia are exactly what u would find at the third-points of standard cues (or did u ask for different).
(All of my Joint 1's are 0.850", ie same az mid-point joint of standard mid-joint 2pce pool cues).
Iz there a wt-bolt added at end of butt (for balance)(I will probly add a wt bolt in mine).
What total wts are the cues.
How do they play?? Praps if heavy joints then praps they don't play very well (especially if thin joints).
[My 3pce iz playing well, alltho I am having trouble with the new elk tips (too hard). Anyhow my 3pce iz looking promising -- kood be a goer for the 2014 billiards season. I am going to make a second separate 3pce cue this morning -- this cue will be 3 by 20"].
Re a cue-case -- I am looking at secondhand ukulele-cases (or viola or clarinet or ???)(but I would look like a hoodlum, especially if I wore a white panama with a purple hatband). And I am looking at a soft bag/pouch sort of folding thing, praps with individual pockets (would havtabe homemade I guess).


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Jonathan Nelson from Adventure A Week.com has commissioned me to make some maps for a series of adventures his company is working on.
The adventures are being written by different authors as part of a contest. I have completed one dungeon map and have started another, but there are more maps than I can handle alone and some are map subjects ( like City & Regional maps) that you guys are way better at than I am.
Here are a couple of the sketches that they need turned into great maps. There are many others as well.
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London 2012 - Great Britain easily passes the test of the men's four semifinal by finishing their heat in first place.
London 2012 - USA women kiss the gold they've won in rowing women's eight competition.
London 2012 - A tall American rower gives a big embrace to diminutive (5'4" 163cm) coxswain Mary Whipple for directing the US boat to gold in women's eight rowing.
London 2012 - Coaches use bicycles to ride alongside the canal to analyze and encourage Olympic rowing athletes.
London 2012 - Australia's women's eight boat rows away in the gold medal final.
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While I was on vacation one of my co-workers used a mailbox move script that I wrote to move some mailboxes from one mailstore to another. Unfortunately, he did not purge them all - and did not record where the original mailboxes were located.
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Here we are trying to decipher the small engraving on the bottom of the headstone.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Margaret Leffel Headstone - Bethel Cemetery
Here we are trying to decipher the small engraving on the bottom of the headstone.
2 comments:
- medquest1013 said...
I found it by Googling the first line. It's from a hymn. Here is the link - http://www.hymns.me.uk/how-blest-the-righteous-when-he-dies-funeral-hymn.htm
My name is Garrett Smith and I am one of the many great grand children of Jess and Mabel. My grandmother was Leona May. I am in the process of transferring the video tape of Great Grandma's dedication after she died to DVD and thought I would punch her name into Google to see what came up. You must be a cousin of my mom's, Clara Sue.
- November 30, 2009 at 11:53 PM
From a hymn called, "How Blest The Righteous When He Dies." This hymn was written by Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825), the eminent English poetess.
Below is the text to the hymn:
How blest the righteous when he dies!
When sinks a weary soul to rest,
How mildly beam the closing eyes,
How gently heaves th'expiring breast!
So fades a summer cloud away;
So sinks a gale when storms are o'er;
So gently shuts the eye of day;
So dies a wave along the shore.
A holy quiet reigns around,
A calm which life nor death destroys;
And naught disturbs that peace profound
Which his unfettered soul enjoys.
Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears,
Where lights and shades alternate dwell;
How bright th'unchanging morn appears!
Farewell, inconstant world, farewell!
Life's labor done, as sinks the clay,
Light from its load the spirit flies,
While Heav'n and earth combine to say,
"How blest the righteous when he dies!"
- December 4, 2009 at 12:27 AM


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Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) - Ottawa Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson
suffered a cut to his left Achilles tendon during Wednesday's game against
the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Late in the second period, Karlsson and Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke met along the
boards while chasing down a puck, and Cooke's left skate appeared to graze
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Saturday Aug 08 2009
Win over Arizona makes Lakeside 2-0 in pool play
By: Kurt Johnson, The Press Tribune
Frank tosses complete game
A quick start and another outstanding pitching performance carried the Lakeside Little League Major all-stars to their second win in as many days to open the Western Region tournament in San Bernardino. Nick Frank twirled a complete game and scattered six hits to lead his team to a 4-1 win in pool play Saturday inside Al Houghton Stadium. The win gives Lakeside a leg up in the standings as it moves to 2-0 and hands the all-stars from Arrowhead Little League in Glendale, Ariz. their first loss of the tourney. "Nick located the ball real well today," said Lakeside manager Bill Rockefeller. "He hit his spots and did a great job keeping the ball down." Frank fanned four, and got a lot of help from error-free defensive play as he kept the team from Arizona off the board except for a single tally in the fifth. That frame could have been more trying but for the game's critical defensive play – turned in by right fielder Grant Powers. With Lakeside carrying a 4-0 advantage into the home half of the fifth, the Arizona leadoff batter raked a ball off the barrier in the right-field corner. His attempt to reach second base with an inning-opening double ended badly as Powers dug the ball out of the corner and gunned the runner down at second base with a few feet to spare. "That was a great play," Rockefeller said. "Grant picked that ball out of the corner and threw a pea to Mitch Hart at second base for the out." Hitting at the top of the Lakeside order, Frank also ignited his own team's offense which took a little while to get going in Friday's opener. In this contest, Frank singled to open the game and eventually scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of Powers. The all-stars from Granite Bay/Loomis added another run in the first when a Zach Hall knock chased home Hart, who had reached on a fielder's choice. Hart and Powers were in the middle of it again in the third, after Hart was aboard on a free pass before scoring on a Powers single. Lakeside scored its final run in the top of the fourth as Matt McCord reached on a error and then scored on a Billy Rockefeller double. "We hit the ball well today," Rockefeller said. "We should actually have had more runs, but we ran ourselves out of some things on the bases. We're still working on things down here." Hall delivered another two-hit game with a double and a single to pace the Lakeside attack. Lakeside has Sunday off before returning to pool play at 4:30 p.m. Monday against the team from Utah, Cedar City American Little League. The Utah squad lost its opener 27-1 Friday as it took a pounding from the Southern California team. Lakeside concludes pool play at 12:30 p.m. against Hawaii. The top four teams out of the six-team pool advance to semifinal round bracket play Friday night, and the championship will be determined next Sunday evening. Lakeside currently leads the way with its 2-0 mark, with four teams yet to play a second game in the tournament. Western Regional standings: Lakeside Little League (Northern California) 2-0 Park View, Chula Vista (Southern California) 1-0 Arrowhead, Glendale (Arizona) 1-1 Central East Maui, Wailuku (Hawaii) 0-1 Legacy, Henderson (Nevada) 0-1 Cedar City American (Utah) 0-1


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Wannabe model Ana Ivanovic is appearing in a 2009 calendar for sponsor Verano. The calendar is a special edition and won't be on sale to the public.
You mean I won't be able to have Ana doing her best Bob the Builder on my wall? Boo hoo.
Let's hope the Serb was contractually forced into eating this cheese plate. Otherwise, she's a lost cause.
Click here and here for more images - if you dare.
(image via anaivanovic.com)
Monday, December 15, 2008
PHOTO OP: Ana poses for Verano '09 calendar, layers the cheese on thickly
Labels: Ana Ivanovic, calendar, photo op, sponsorship, tennis
25 comments:
ana does look a little wierd, i admit. knowing sharapova, she wouldn't have been caught dead doing poses like that.ReplyDelete
but knowing ana, she was probably too soft to say no.
ana does look a little wierd, i admit. knowing sharapova, she wouldn't have been caught dead doing poses like that.ReplyDelete
but knowing ana, she was probably too soft to say no.
oh boy. sorry for double posting!ReplyDelete
- Tennis ObserverDecember 15, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Sharapova does worse poses, like laying on the floor in embryo pose who's just been raped and so on. And don't forget about her turd factory dog, source of pathetic ads.ReplyDelete
- johanneDecember 15, 2008 at 9:26 AM
WTF is this now?! Ana seems to be in a hurry to make me really not like her anymore... so lame...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Ana signed a 3 year contract with Verano, the most lucrative for a serbian sportsperson in Serbia.. and yes.. by contract she has to do every promotional activity they request. Including walking around in a mall and taking those pics.ReplyDelete
Sometimes I feel people are searching for excuses to say they don't like her anymore.. what has the girl done? psss..
johanne: I'm asking myself the same thing and I'm not coming up with any answers!ReplyDelete
anon: I actually like her but it's called overexposure. You know - someone is constantly out there begging for attention and it eventually starts wear. Now if she was out there pushing her tennis and training tons maybe there'd be better appreciation.
But you have to be honest, these images are so awful!
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Rich, I don't like the images either.. but well.. she signed the sponsorship deal, they are paying her.. what do you want her to do? Refuse the money because she did not like the concept of the pictures? That's just not realistic..ReplyDelete
Ok. I understand the overexposure. But hey, if it wasn't for the Anando pictures, we would not have seen Ana for more than a month. And we can't really blame her for that.. It's not like she was calling the paps to take her pics. I don't know if you guys know how the paparazzi world works in Spain.. it's worst than in LA, trust me. If it wasn't for that, would you say that she was still getting overexposure? I mean.. she could have many more sponsors.. and she only has a handful. She is not going to say no to the ones that pay her bills.
And she was practicing in Mallorca, and in Madrid. She had her whole team there with her(except Sven). But that's not interesting to the paps. And now she is already in Australia... maybe the first player to get there to prepare on site.
I just think that people are indeed searching for anything that could help their cause to stop liking her. People are holding on to stuff with her that don't seem to bother them regarding others. And that's something I just don't understand.
I don't care if people like Ana or hate Ana or are indifferent to Ana.. just say so.. Everybody has the right to like or dislike someone.. but looking for any excuse, just anything she does, to say that they used to like her but not anymore, is just SO lame. If she poses for pics.. oh! The pics are awful! I don't like her anymore! What's her fault on that? Please! And if she goes out with her boyfriend and paparazzi gets them on video.. oh! They want attention otherwise they wouldn't go out through the front door. They should hide from people, attention seekers! So annoying, I don't like Ana anymore!. If she spends weeks practicing hard.. oh! She is a tennis robot! I don't like her anymore! If she loses a match she shouldn't have lost.. oh! She just doesn't care about tennis! I don't like her anymore! It has been like that the last couple of months and I find that extremely lame. Don't like her? Fine.. say so and stop going around everything she does.
I'm not refering to you in particular Rich.. this is just the feeling I have from reading the comments.. not just on this entry.
>> I don't care if people like Ana or hate Ana or are indifferent to Ana.. just say so.. <<ReplyDelete
Anon: Isn't that what we're doing? In my opinion, this blog is all in good fun! :) We wouldn't be reading it if we didn't like tennis and those who play the sport. But if you're looking for a totally PC blog where there's no joking around and poking fun, this is probably not the one for you. Just saying!
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2008 at 12:54 PM
johanne, I think you did not get my post.. I'm all for the poking fun. The pics are cheesy.. I also think so..ReplyDelete
I just find it lame to get everything Ana does to say.. oh! she really is trying to make me not like her anymore. Holding on to stupid tiny things to say so.. things that seem very normal when it's about other players. Don't like her? Fine.. poke fun of her, criticize her.. but don't go oh! I used to like her, but since she did this terribly cheesy photoshoot I don't anymore.. like it's her fault the pictures are laughable.. This is lame.
- johanneDecember 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Hmmm... you confuse me... I don't think everything she does gets people to say they don't like her anymore. I think you're just hung up on my comment that "Ana seems to be in a hurry to make me really not like her anymore." All I was saying is that the majority of her recent press has been stupid stuff, IMO. That's all. I don't actually totally hate her now, because of all this. It was just a jab at her media frenzy lately - which I maintain has been super lame. But even if it was the "last straw" for me, who cares? Why do you get to decide what constitutes a legitimate reason for liking someone or not? Chill out! It's just a blog!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2008 at 1:40 PM
No.. I just took your post as an example because it's in this entry. I've read myself again and it might seem that I totally overreacted because this entry is not that big deal.. but it's something that I have been noticing for quite some time.
And the same way you think all her recent press is stupid.. I find those excuses totally lame.. it's just not something to like or dislike someone for me.. isn't blogs all about opinion? Then this is mine.. not better nor worse than yours..
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2008 at 1:46 PM
By the way.. what's her recent press? I mean.. I was thinking about it to see if I also find it stupid.. and I could only really remember this and the L'Equipe cover.. and then the FHM photoshoot that was almost 6 months ago.. And yes, the FHM pics were totally unnecesary.ReplyDelete
You know all of these things - her tennis, her marketing, image, gossip tidbits - all go into how much someone will or won't be drawn to a certain baller as a fan. It's all just part of it these days because of the availability of media especially websites and blogs.ReplyDelete
So someone could like her game purely but be so turned off by the type of marketing they do, the stuff they do in their personal life, etc. It's pretty nuanced these days.
Ana for me is the perfect example. She's a sweet girl with a good game that has potential to be better. But the type of marketing she does and the "modeling" turn me off. She's fun to blog about, though, because she's into being a celebrity and going to events, etc. But on a personal level I'm not drawn to her because of those reasons and that goes for a lot of other ballers too.
But she's very young and my thinking on her may change.
It's almost like you can feel her cringing... these photos are so awful, and they contrive to make her look not as pretty as she really is.ReplyDelete
Going off topic slighty, I wonder how much control players get to have over sponsor shoots like this? Like, if they hate it, can they do something about it? I'm thinking back to Rafa and his New York Magazine moment, where he later said he was unhappy with them. It must be hard for a player to totally manage their media-facing side.
- MichelleDecember 15, 2008 at 2:22 PM
wow so much fuss haha...ReplyDelete
Well I also think the pictures are a tad cheesy but not terrible, for advertisement they are ok. I agree with Rich, ana has a great game and has a lot of potential, I like her style but it needs more consistency.
I'm not a huge fan of the ''model'' ana and her off-court activities, although she can shoot some beautiful pictures from time to time (Like the l'equipe one). She's a sweet girl and all but her personality doesn't really interest me..sorry if that comes off as a bit harsh. She is not as fun as for example a Jankovic or as bitchy as Sharapova or Serena.
And anonymous said that she wasn't seeking attention; ummm I don't know if you noticed but there are quite some pictures where she was posing for the paps; the awkward family portrait with nando's family and the one at the real madrid match.
I'm not trying to bash ana, I'm just giving my opinion about her.
- MichelleDecember 15, 2008 at 2:28 PM
umm after looking at the pics again...I changed my mind they are bad :P stupid sponsors can't even hire a proper photographer lolReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2008 at 2:35 PM
I agree that the picture with Verdasco's family was awkward and I don't get it. Maybe it was an agreement with the paparazzi so they would just not follow them for the rest of the day.. But all the others were either total out of her control pictures.. or one only picture where she posed for the Real Madrid website. Well.. if they invite you to their tribune of honor, you might as well let them put it in their web. I still don't know how we can see that as seeking atention.. especially since Ana doesn't need this atention, nor it would add anything to her... but obviously everyone is entitled to an opinion on this.
And yes.. the pictures are horrible. The more you look the worse they look.. She is a natural beauty and not even that translates to the pics.
- MichelleDecember 15, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Hi anonymous,ReplyDelete
Yeah maybe it's the fact that ana is still young and very inexperienced with situations like these. I just hope that nando isn't going to pimp her out you know...he does seem the type of guy that does like the attention.
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2008 at 2:54 PM
Yes Michelle.. that is a concern I also have. Ana is young and inexperienced.. she might just go along with the flow.. And Fernando does have a history os liking the spotlight. I don't want to judge though.. who knows..ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2008 at 4:35 PM
after seeing these pics, i seriously want to bang dan holzmann's (and gavin versi's) head on the wall. i mean, come on people, you're managing one of the most beautiful athletes on the planet and you make her do these! anyway, i've visited several forums and many seem to like these verano motors pics so...ReplyDelete
slightly off-topic, people lament the lack of a dominant WTA player at the moment. i, on the other hand, think it's the most exciting to be a WTA fan. you have people in the top 10 who have contrasting personalities and different playing styles and one can only expect a big "cat fight" to ensue for the #1 ranking next year, that is if most stay healthy and consistent throughout the year. both ana and JJ have been bold enough to say that they want to win slams next year and go after (remain) #1. JJ is practicing harder than before and is more professional in her training. will it pay off next year? we'll have to wait and see. ana, who is the most talented player of the two, will take a lot of lessons from her terrible second half. while we haven't seen pictures of her practising (a la JJ or murray), it doesn't mean that she's not practicing at all. will she come out as a more mature and confident individual and competitor in 2009? again, we'll have to wait and see.
sorry for the long post.
kelsey: no, please don't apologize. i love hearing fans' thoughts on these topics which is why i love doing this blog.ReplyDelete
you know, i think it's incredible she has these opportunities to do these things but i wish she was a bit more picky. but that might be a matter of age, experience, and also ana understanding what she wants and leading the charge. as one reader alluded to, she's kinda going with the flow and not knowing yet what works for her.
that being said, these images are still horrendous and straight up cheese ball.
with regards to state of the ladies' game, it is exciting but there's always a weird sense that if the williams sisters played regularly they would be ranked 1 and 2, even at this point in their careers. so whenever someone comes out who could be the next "thing" they end up getting beat up by V or ReRe in a big match and then the bubble bursts.
i want someone at No.1 who really should be there above any other baller and to dominate - no asterisk, no footnote. i think there needs to be that type of tension but everything is so diffused. it needs a rivalry as well since we're dealing with personalities going one-on-one the obvs example being rafa v. roger.
belle: I think they can, and should have, a big voice in it. They'll make mistakes but that's better than having someone control everything and you just going along with it.ReplyDelete
It's their image out there so I would think you'd want to make sure you're being represented well.
But a lot of times the $$$ makes the decision for you - and you get horrible calendars.
These pics are awful but lets not exaggerate here. She has a contract with Verano and did a little photoshoot in the offseason. Big Deal. As bad as they are and as cheesy as they look, Ana hasn't done anything wrong. She is a sweet, humble girl. I don't believe she is looking for attention. There are a couple of things that her managemnet probably pushed on her such as the FHM shoot. But other than that, there is nothing wrong with these photoshoots even as bad as this one looks. Now if she begins doing SI Swimsuit and Maxim, etc, then that's a whole different story.ReplyDelete
I wonder who the hell would actually put this calender on their wall. LOL. Terrible.ReplyDelete
BTW where did the this discussion about liking Ana come from?!
Here's my two cents on this: this blog is fun, and so are the comments. Everyone should be entitled to decide for themselves what or what not is a good reason to like or dislike someone. I agree with johanne that we're all reading it because we love tennis and the players. It's not like someone is really hating Ana. Like Rich said, sometimes there are aspects that make you wanna prefer a certain player - or not.
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Sunday will be cooler and will turn cloudy with patchy drizzle developing. Hurricane Sandy will move northward and will make landfall anywhere from Northern Virginia to Cape Cod Early Moday or Tuesday. The impacts for our area will vary depending on the storm's track. We will likely see wind and rain sometime in the Monday through Wednesday time frame. The amount of rain, strength of the winds and severity of flooding for the coast and maybe the interior will depend how far north the storm will come. Best guess right now is around New Jersey with low to moderate impacts on us BUT check back for updates on air and online.
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Metairie, LA (Sports Network) - The New Orleans Saints announced Thursday that
the team has agreed to terms with offensive tackle Jason Smith on a one-year
Smith, selected by St. Louis with the No. 2 overall choice in the 2009 draft,
was released by the New York Jets in February. He appeared in all 16 games
last season -- his lone one with the Jets -- serving as a reserve tackle and
extra blocker as a tight end.
The former Baylor All-American, who turns 27 on April 30, was traded to the
Jets by the Rams last August following a disappointing and injury-plagued
three-year tenure in St. Louis. Smith made just 26 starts over that span while
missing large portions of the 2009 and 2011 campaigns with concussion-related
New Orleans had been seeking additional depth along the offensive line after
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hi Kevin and welcome to the guild
Most of us inhere use Photoshop or Gimp as our tool of choice, the latter being free. I don't know anything about the maps you talk about but personally I've drawn my own maps by looking at online real maps thus not using the real map. But mostly I make pure fantasy maps - so made up from bottom and up


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49ers vs Ravens. 5:30 on CBS.
What are your plans for the game?
Who do you think will win?
What's your hope and guess for MVP?
I'm going to a friends small gathering for wings and beer. I think the 49ers win. I hope Frank Gore gets the MVP, but I think if the 49ers win it will be Kaepernick. If the Ravens win, anyone but Ray Lewis will be fine with me.
Ready for the game and food/beer, I do like the NFL, but the hype for the 2 weeks leading up to the game get old...
Can anyone confirm the guy doing sign language knows it? I just saw him saluting and gesturing, but it didn't look like sign language during the National Anthem.
I assume every Cyclone is a Ravens fan tonight. GO K.O.!
National anthem was good, not spectacular but good.
One disadvantage of domed games is the lack of a flyover.
I can't root for Ray Lewis, sorry.
It looks like San Francisco is a little sluggish, can see it from when they came in the stadium
3 and 15 and you do a running play. strange
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I assume every Cyclone is a Ravens fan tonight. GO K.O.!
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I can't root for Ray Lewis, sorry.
TD Ravens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dude, you are Gameday Rulzzz and could probably post about anything.
Please, no more White Stripes chant. So lame.
That kid in the Audi commercial has brass balls.
"That's what I do. I drink, and I know things." - Tyrion Lannister
"Success is just failure that hasn't happened yet." - life advice from Latrell Spreewell
Wow.....the Niners better get something going on offense here. Another 3 and out will spell serious trouble.
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Trey McKinney Jones added a career-high 20 for the top-seeded Hurricanes (27-6), including the go-ahead 3-pointer from the left corner with 6:27 left that started Miami's final push to secure the program's first ACC tournament title.
In a terrific back-and-forth game filled with big shots, the Hurricanes finally slowed P.J. Hairston and the third-seeded Tar Heels (24-10) enough down the stretch to secure what amounted to a road win in front of UNC's home-state crowd.
Hairston scored 28 points and had six of the Tar Heels' 13 3-pointers, the most in the program's tournament history. But it wasn't enough to secure UNC's first ACC title since 2008 nor coach Roy Williams' 700th career victory.
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Why Don't Our Managers Want to Attend Expensive Training?
How do we get managers to attend training sessions that are expensive and feature well-known trainers? The general attitude seems to be that they are 'above' the training. —<i>Irked in Administration, Government, Kingston, Jamaica</i>
Dear Irked:
Tackle this challenge with the following five-step approach:
1. Lead
2. Listen
3. Engage
4. Implement
5. Measure
You've probably put a lot of time and energy into trying to make the training sessions valuable to your managers. You'll have to say goodbye to being irked and accept that your managers are your customers. Be open to feedback and embrace the opportunity to lead positive change.
For you to get honest feedback, employees need to trust you. Namely, it's important that they:
• Trust that you genuinely desire their feedback and aren't merely going through the motions.
• Trust that there will be no repercussions for sharing honestly.
• Trust that their input will really matter and be reflected in the ensuing changes.
Note: If you don't have your managers' trust, you may have more pressing challenges than your training program.
You may want to consider an anonymous survey, paired with in-person discussions with all or a representative sample of your team. Ask questions that will clarify managers' expectations and specific ways that you can rethink training. In some cases, it may also be appropriate to ask others in the organization to pinpoint any skills that your managers need to hone.
Involve your managers so that they are vested in the training process from start to finish. Create a training committee to help select topics, trainers and methodologies (don't forget to leverage the expertise within your organization). Following training sessions, have a process that allows ideas and strategies shared by outside experts to be vetted internally. If there is perceived value, ask managers to take a lead role in integrating the learning concepts internally. By doing so, you'll move from theory to application and thus increase the return on your investment.
Implement the changes that are reasonable within your resource restrictions. Explain why the changes are being made, and make it clear they came from feedback and ideas generated by the managers themselves. Communicate that the expected results will be of the changes, and encourage additional feedback as critical to continuously serve the organization better.
Have processes in place that allow you to assess what is working, what is not working and what needs to be changed to ensure your training remains relevant now and in the future.
SOURCE: Melissa Laughon, Catch Your Limit Consulting, Richmond, Virginia
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The second volume in the highly acclaimed SM Marketplace Series, where realistic characters inhabiting a world built around a slave-based hierarchy confront questions of duty and trust amidst an ambience of pain and eroticism. In this volume, young Robin seeks to become one of the honour-bound and meticulously trained Marketplace slaves, exploring her deepest desires while trying to live up to the standards of her trainer, Chris Parker. With a new short story created especially for this edition, this is a must for all SM readers and fans of the series.
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Alanis Morissette's hit 1995 album "Jagged Little Pill" is to be turned into a Broadway musical.
The seven-time Grammy Award winner will debut a workshop production of the show in 2014.
The production will include the songs from the album, as well as other famous Morissette tracks and some new songs the singer/songwriting has composed for the show.
Two-time Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Kitt, who also helped to bring Green Day's "American Idiot" to the stage, has signed on to provide orchestrations and arrangements.
Announcing the big theater news in a statement issued to WENN, Morissette says, "I look forward to taking the heart of 'Jagged Little Pill' and expanding its story, fleshing it out into ever deeper layers of emotionality, specificity, humanity, power, physicality, spirit and fabulism (sic)."


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After an inspector confirmed the leak, WSSC crews isolated a portion of the pipeline and shut it down Monday night. Water is now being drained from the pipe and an emergency contractor will begin repairs as soon as possible. Officials say no customers are without water, and there is no need for any water use restrictions.
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3rd grade was the best year for me
5th grade was a golden year for me. 2nd grade was nice too...
I dont have to deal with teacher stuff. I am home schooled. My mom is my teacher...(Though she can be anoying... )
I think I would stab myself through the heart before I had my mother homeschool me. I can do all of my subjects better than my mother can. I mean, jesus christ, my mother can't even do 7th grade math. If anything, I'd be the one teaching her.
i would give about anything to be homeschooled by my mom
she wouldnt teach me anything and i'd just get all the stuff done myself pretty quickly and would not be in my school
it would be incredible
what makes you hate your school so much? in all honesty. make it a paragraph or two.
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American Ethnic Studies
AES 144 Topics in American Ethnic Studies (1)
This course provides the flexibility to offer introductory topics of interest in American Ethnic Studies. The course may study a particular topic within American Ethnic Studies, or offer a survey of topics within American Ethnic Studies.
- Prerequisite: Closed to junior and seniors, except by consent of instructor.
- Offering: On demand
- Instructor: Staff
AES 150 Introduction to American Ethnic Studies (1)
This course examines the historical, political and social dynamics of race and ethnicity in the United States. It investigates the creation and effects of these social concepts on the experiences, identities and relations of various peoples, as well as the culture and structures of society. The course will focus on the various ways race and ethnicity are recreated in society, particularly by the media, and the way these "social constructions" perpetuate privilege and social inequality. It will critically investigate the myths and contradictions of race and ethnicity, and will attempt to understand what purposes they serve in a "color-bound" contemporary U.S. society.
- Prerequisite: Freshmen and Sophomores only or consent of instructor.
- Offering: Every semester
- Instructor: Drew
AES 330 Theory and Methods in American Ethnic Studies (1)
In this course, students will become familiar with the theoretical and methodological approaches in the interdisciplinary and evolving field of Ethnic Studies. It examines the key theories and methods that give voice to the realities of people of color, as well as group relations and resistance to inequality. This course analyzes the major theoretical paradigms for understanding race and ethnicity, evaluating the strengths and limitations for each framework in helping to bring about social change. It also explores and utilizes the methods of social science, recognizing the role, contribution and imitations of scientific inquiry for interpreting social reality. Other epistemological approaches will be assessed to determine what they bring to bare on empirical realities.
- Prerequisite: AES 150; junior/senior standing; and at least one elective course in AES.
- Offering: Spring
- Instructor: Drew
AES 344 Advanced Topics in American Ethnic Studies (1)
This course provides the flexibility to offer special topics of interest in American Ethnic Studies. The course may study a particular topic within American Ethnic Studies, or a particular problem dealing with American Ethnic Studies methods and/or theory in depth.
- Prerequisite: Prior coursework in American Ethnic Studies. Closed to first year students, except by consent of instructor.
- Offering: On demand
- Instructor: Staff
AES 491W Independent Study in American Ethnic Studies (1)
This course provides an opportunity for students to engage an area or topic of their choice in American Ethnic Studies, through a program of directed reading, research and writing, discussion and peer review. It involves developing and presenting a major research paper under the close supervision of an AES faculty member, sometimes in consultation with faculty teaching senior seminars outside of the AES program. This process is intended to deepen students' insight into the perspectives, theory and methods of AES; hone their skills of critical thinking; sharpen their abilities to analyze theory and test ideas through research; and ensure that their research designs and methodologies are effective and appropriate.
- General Education Requirement Fulfillment Writing-centered
- Prerequisite: AES 150; senior standing
- Offering: On demand
- Instructor: Staff
AES 499W Senior Capstone in AES (1)
This course provides the opportunity for culminating experience in American Ethnic Studies, one in which students integrate their knowledge from coursework with their own intellectual curiosity and professional interests. As the capstone course for the major, students may select between an internship supervised by on-site professionals, or a thesis for which they conduct original research. Through the internship, students spend 12 to 15 hours each week working for a community organization, institution or program in the Oregon community, and develop an applied research project. Students selecting the thesis will apply their knowledge gained in the major to an original research question of their own choosing, which they will develop and test over the course of the semester. Through a program of directed reading, research and writing, seminar discussion and peer review, the internship/thesis project will allow students to consider the range of theoretical, epistemological and methodological approaches to examining how race and ethnicity relate to history, power, culture and voice in the United States.
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News: Men's Basketball Sees 6-Game Win Streak Snapped In SCC Opener
The host Pasadena City College men's basketball team scored more field goals, 26-18, and outrebounded rival East Los Angeles, 47-35, Wednesday evening during the teams' South Coast Conference North Division opener. So how did the state No. 19-ranked Lancers lose to the 17th-rated Huskies, 65-61? Free throws. ELAC routed the Lancers in the comparison from the line.
While PCC converted just 6-for-15 from the 15-foot stripe, the Huskies put on a clinic, making 26-of-32 attempts (81.3 percent). The 20-point difference was too much for the Lancers, who otherwise played toe-to-toe with East LA.
The teams traded 12 lead changes and 13 ties. ELAC (12-4) would take the final lead as Aaron Cheatum grabbed a defensive rebound and raced the length of the court for a power layup. Cheatum hit a free throw to complete a 3-point play and give the Huskies a 61-59 advantage with 34 seconds left.
The Lancers (12-5) saw their six-game winning streak come to an end.
Pasadena played strong defense inside the paint, drawing six charging fouls. Other than the last-minute basket, the Lancers neutralized the talented Cheatum, an All-State selection last season. Cheatum scored just eight points.
The Lancers used a 9-0 run early in the game to help take a 24-16 lead. East LA would cut it to two by halftime, 33-31.
PCC sophomore guard Jeffrey Dockett scored 18 points with eight rebounds and four assists while sophomore forward Taj Spencer had 15 points before fouling out in the final minute of play. Frosh center Faruk Oyalade contributed eight points and a team-high nine rebounds while second-year forward Bryce Clifton came off the bench to tally six points, six rebounds and two assists.
For ELAC, Zach Hinton scored 16 points and pulled down nine rebounds. The Huskies' sharp shooters from the line included Marcus Romain making 8-for-9 as part of his 12 points and Te'shon Burton, who sank 7-for-8 from the line for all of his points.
The Lancers next play at Los Angeles Southwest College on Friday, Jan. 10 in a 5 p.m. SCC tip-off.
[Photo--Rashad Smith (21) and Bryce Clifton (sleeved shoulders) battle for a rebound with East LA players during PCC's loss at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium Wednesday night, image by Richard Quinton, sports information photographer.]
Release Date: 01/08/2014