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An affiliate division of the National Truck Equipment Association (NTEA), the Green Truck Association (GTA) was established in Spring 2010 in recognition of the growing interest and demand for green products within the work truck industry. The GTA helps fleets, manufacturers, upfitters, government agencies and other industry stakeholders stay up-to-date with relevant regulatory and industry developments, while also helping to expand and improve the market for green truck applications.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Blossom Lounge || Giveaway
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(Washington, D.C.) Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) and Co-Chairman Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), will hold a hearing entitled, "Promises to Keep: Kazakhstan's 2010 OSCE Chairmanship," on Tuesday, July 22 at 3:00 p.m. in room B-318 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
This is the second in a series of hearings that will be held on Kazakhstan as the country is preparing for the Chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2010. Kazakhstan's bid to lead the organization was controversial because of its record on human rights and democratic reforms. Last November, at the OSCE Summit in Madrid, Kazakh Foreign Minister Marat Tazhin pledged to implement a number of key reforms. The purpose of the hearing will be to assess the progress that has been made since then and to discuss how Washington can help Kazakhstan come into compliance with its commitments.
Co-Chairmen Hastings and Cardin recently led a bipartisan delegation to Kazakhstan, where they attended the 17th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The delegation also met with leading Kazakh officials including, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Prime Minister Karim Masimov, and Secretary of State Kanat Saudabayev as well as with prominent human rights activists and opposition leaders.
The Honorable Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Department of State
The Honorable Askar Tazhiev, Charge d'Affaires, Embassy of Kazakhstan
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Iowa State Faces K-State Thursday At Big 12 Tourney
AMES, Iowa - Iowa State (23-7, 11-7) opens postseason play Thursday against Kansas State (20-11, 10-8) at the Big 12 Championships. The Cyclones and Wildcats tip at 11:30 a.m. at the Sprint Center. ESPN2 will have the coverage.
Where: Kansas City, Mo. - Sprint Center (18,972)
When: March 13, 11:30 a.m. CST
Radio: Cyclone Radio Network/Learfield
Talent: John Walters (PxP), Eric Heft (Color)
Talent: Brent Musburger (PxP), Fran Fraschilla (Color); Holly Rowe (Reporter)
Webcast: WatchESPN
Live Stats: Live stats will be available at Big12Sports.com
Live Blog: Matt Shoultz, assistant director in the athletics communications department, will be holding a live blog during the game at Cyclones.com. Fans are encouraged to participate in the blog by asking questions.
Cyclone Notebook
- Fourth-seeded ISU (23-7) opens Big 12 Championship play Thursday against fifth-seeded Kansas State (20-11). The Cyclones are 1-3 in conference tournament play under the direction of Fred Hoiberg. The Cyclones won at least 10 conference games for the third-straight season, a first in program history.
- Hoiberg won his 85th game as head coach of the Cyclones vs. OSU, which makes him the winningest coach in the first four seasons at ISU (Larry Eustachy, 84).
- ISU is one of just four schools nationally with three players averaging at least 16 ppg (VMI, Delaware, Grand Canyon). The Cyclones have had five different players tally 20+ points in a game this season.
- Ejim has been named the Big 12 Player of the Year. He is the first Cyclone to earn the award since Jamaal Tinsley (2001). He is second in the conference averaging 18.2 points, up 6.9 ppg from last season. The last Cyclone to lead the conference in scoring was Marcus Fizer (1999, 2000). Ejim is the only player in a power conference averaging at least 18 pts, eight rebounds while also shooting at least 50 percent from the field and 32 percent behind the arc.
- Ejim has been named a Capital One First-Team Academic All-American, joining Fred Hoiberg as the only first-team members in school history. No first-team pick has led the Big 12 in scoring.
- Against OSU, Ejim became the fourth player in Big 12 history to score 1,500 points and grab 1,000 career rebounds.
- Big 12 Newcomer of the Year, DeAndre Kane has scored 20+ points in four of the last five games and is averaging 21.7 ppg, 7.3 rpg and 5.2 assists in the last six games. Kane is shooting a career-best 36.8 percent behind the arc (previous: 31.8, 2010-11). He has scored more than 2,000 career points.
- Freshman Monté Morris has started the last 11 games and is currently on pace to break the NCAA record with a 5.5 assist-turnover ratio. In conference play, his a/to ratio was 6.9. Morris had 12 assists and no turnovers in ISU's win against West Virginia. The 12 assists were an ISU freshman record.
- Niang has scored 17 or more points in 11 of the 14 games since Jan. 18. Niang, a third-team All-Big 12 pick, is the only post player to rank in the top-10 of the Big 12 in assists per game (3.6).
- Iowa State is leading the Big 12 in scoring (82.4). The Cyclones share and protect the ball as well as anyone in the country, dishing out 18.6 assists (1st in nation) and posting a 1.78 assist/turnover ratio (2nd in nation, 1st in Big 12).
- ISU's seven wins against top-25 teams ties the school record set in 1999-2000. The Cyclones are 7-2 against the top-25 this season and have nine wins vs. the RPI top-50.
Iowa State Conference Championship History
- The Cyclones earned the No. 4 seed in the Big 12 Championship.
- It is just the seventh time ISU has received an upper-half seed in the Big 12 Championship: 1997 (4), 2000 (1), 2001 (1), 2005 (5), 2012 (3), 2013 (5), 2014 (4).
- ISU is 8-16 in Big 12 Championship history with one Big 12 title (2000).
- ISU is 66-88 all-time in conference tournaments with four league tournament championships (1955-Big Seven; 1959-Big Eight; 1996-Big Eight; 2000-Big 12).
- The Cyclones face No. 5 seed Kansas State in the second round after receiving their sixth first-round bye: 1997, 2000, 2001, 2012, 2013, 2014.
- Iowa State has met K-State just once at the Big 12 Championship, going 1-0 vs. the Wildcats in the Big 12 Tournament. The Cyclones beat KSU, 78-64, in the 2004 Big 12 Tournament.
- ISU is 9-9 vs. the Wildcats all-time in conference tournament action: Big 6/7/8 Holiday (8-7), Big Eight (0-2) and Big 12 (1-0)
- ISU has lost its first game in the Big 12 Championship in seven of the last eight seasons with last season against Oklahoma (73-66) being the exception.
Series Notes vs. Kansas State
- Kansas State leads the all-time series at 136-81, but Iowa State holds an 8-7 edge in games played in Kansas City.
- ISU has won four of the last six meetings. The last neutral site meeting between the teams came in 2004 at the Big 12 Tournament, when ISU won 78-64.
The teams split during the regular season, with both teams winning at home. The Cyclones won by six (81-75) at home and Kansas State won by seven in Manhattan (80-73).
- Melvin Ejim averaged 25 points and 12.5 rebounds in the two regular season meetings, including a 30-point, 16-rebound performance in Manhattan. DeAndre Kane averaged 17 points in the games and Georges Niang posted 13 points per game. Niang hit 5-of-10 threes in the two games.
- ISU head coach Fred Hoiberg is 4-4 vs. KSU as a head coach and was 5-3 vs. KSU in his playing career at ISU (1992-95). Hoiberg averaged 19.5 points and 5.9 rebounds vs. the Wildcats in his career.
- Hoiberg scored 20 or more points vs. the Wildcats in his last four games.
- KSU head coach Bruce Weber is 3-2 vs. ISU as a head coach. Weber's Southern Illinois team defeated Iowa State, 66-57 on Nov. 22, 2001 in Las Vegas, Nev.
- As an assistant at Purdue (1981-98), Weber faced Iowa State three times, going 2-1. One of those victories came against Hoiberg when he was playing at ISU, as the Boilermakers defeated the Cyclones, 88-87 in overtime (Nov. 27, 1994) in Hilo, Hawaii. Current Tennessee coach Counzo Martin made two free-throws in the closing seconds to seal the victory. Hoiberg scored 23 points.
Melvin Ejim - The Best On The Court & In The Classroom
- Melvin Ejim's impact on the court has been recognized....and so have his achievements in the classroom. Ejim has been named a Capital One First-Team Academic All-American. The history major has a 3.70 GPA and is just the fifth Iowa State player to earn the honor. He joins Fred Hoiberg as the only first-team honorees. No Academic All-America First Team selection has ever led the Big 12 in scoring like Ejim is attempting to do.
- After being lightly recruited out of Brewster Academy, Melvin Ejim blossomed into the Big 12 Player of the Year this season. He ranks in the top-10 of the Big 12 in eight categories: scoring (2nd, 18.2), rebounding (2nd, 8.6), FG percentage (3rd, 51.3), free-throw percentage (6th, 78.1), steals (10th, 1.2), offensive rebounds (6th, 2.7), defensive rebounds (3rd, 5.9) and minutes played (9th, 31.6).
- Ejim is just the fourth player in Big 12 history to record 1,500 points and 1,000 rebounds. He joins Damion James (Texas), Nick Collison (Kansas) and Aleks Maric (Nebraska).
- The Toronto, Ontario, native missed the first two games of the season with a knee injury before returning to score 22 points against Big Ten Champion Michigan. He has scored 20+ points in 12 games, 30+ points twice and 40+ points once.
- Ejim led the Big 12 in rebounding as a junior, becoming one of the shortest players (6-6) to lead the league on the boards. His technique is based on hustle and heart. Only three players in Big 12 history led the league in rebounding at 6-6 or shorter: Terry Black (6-5), Baylor, 8.4 rpg in 2001; P.J. Tucker (6-5), Texas, 9.5 rpg in 2006; Melvin Ejim (6-6), Iowa State, 9.3 in 2013.
- Ejim is the Big 12's active career leader in double-doubles with 31. No other player has more than 22 career double-doubles (Cory Jefferson, Baylor).
- Ejim ranks third in career rebounds at Iowa State with 1,007.
- Ejim has recorded a double-double against all nine Big 12 teams and 23 different teams overall. He has four double-doubles against Oklahoma in his career.
- Ejim is the only player in ISU history with over 1,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and 100 steals in a career.
Kane Filling Stat Sheets, Getting Recognized
- DeAndre was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year and an All-Big 12 First-Team selection. It is the third-straight Big 12 Newcomer of the Year award for the Cyclones (Royce White & Will Clyburn).
- Kane is one of three players nationally averaging at least 17.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists. (Shabazz Napier, UCONN & Elfrid Payton, Louisiana-Lafayette).
- Since 1998, only four Division I players have averaged 17.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 5.0 assists.
- This isn't something new for Kane, who has accumulated 2,008 points, 700 rebounds and 609 assists in his career.
- Kane has been named to the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25, Oscar Robertson Trophy Watch List and the Bob Cousy Award Final 20.
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2010 holds the promise of a gubernatorial election, wrapping up the effects of the last election, which was a political free-for-all between movie actors, moguls, child actors, and Gallagher.
But even with the inordinate amounts of fun we had those seven (long) years ago, at least our California political machine never reached the following heights.
Awakened and Amazed
Political Awakenings: Conversations with History by Harry Kreisler has some great interviews with influential people who describe their most profound political influences.
If there is a sequel to the book, I hope the founders of some of the parties below are interviewed.
Here's a list of some of the strangest political parties still in existence:
The We Like Women Party
Also known as the "Robotic Wealth for Women Party" and the "We Like Women and Science Party."
OK, so this is Californian political party, but it's low on the list, so it can be excused.
What are they all about? Well this is what they say: "(WE WILL LITERALLY CONDITION ALL BOYS TO WANT TO FALL IN LOVE WITH WOMEN FOREVER AND EVER WHEN THEY GROW UP!)" Using neuroscience, they plan on brainwashing men into loving women and giving women all of their money because "Every woman must live in wealth with robotic servants & issues like the flying car." See Neuroscience Likes Women for details.
The Blue Enigma Party
This party from Delaware doesn't seem like it's too crazy compared to some of the fringe elements out there in the world, but they do have one great thing going for them--their candidate Jeff Brown is listed as "SWM able to leap tall buildings in a single bound." How could one possibly vote for any other party when this one has Superman? Their website is called Blue Enigma Party.
The Guns and Dope Party
No, this is not Hunter S. Thompson's party, it is Robert Anton Wilson's party, and they have a simple goal: "May we suggest everybody for president!" The Guns and Dope Party wants everyone to write in their own name in the next election, that way everyone can be president (or governor, in this case). Their first order of business upon assuming office will be to "fire 33% of the Congress [names selected at random] and replace them with full-grown adult ostriches, whose mysterious and awesome dignity will elevate the sudden barbarity long established there."
This political party is based heavily on Robert Wilson's "Discordian" themes, themes that he developed in his Illuminatus! Trilogy and was formed in response to the 2003 recall election that was eventually won by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
This British Party says it all right there in the title. They have many fabulous ideas such as adding the Loch Ness monster to the endangered species list and banning the use of asterisks. Although these ideas may seem impractical, several of their other original ideas have actually been signed into law, such as lowering the voting age to 18. Their party was started by musician David Sutch in the 80s, and is still going strong today. OVer the years, the OMRLP has been able to win seats in local government throughout Britain, which is more than any of these other parties can claim.
The Church of the Militant Elvis Party
"The Church of the Militant Elvis Party was founded in 2001 to overthrow the Corporate Capitalist State which turned Elvis, a man of immense talent, into a fat media joke." They also have a bone to pick with the grocery chain Tesco, though why that is isn't made very clear. The founder, Lord Biro, was demoted due to his age and was replaced by "Lesbian Elvis," who is a female dummy. This is justified, claims the Church of the Militant Elvis, because many dummies have held political office before, such as Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford. One of the main points of their manifesto is "If elected our candidate would like to see lonely people given the legal right to marry their live-in blow-up rubber dolls."
After carefully reviewing the many qualifications of each political party, I have decided to cast my vote with the "We Like Women Party," because they promise to develop a flying motorcycle, and that's all it takes to win me over.
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Making bioinformatics data more accessible to researchers worldwide
Built on Windows Azure, NCBI BLAST on Windows Azure enables researchers to take advantage of the scalability of the Windows Azure platform to perform analysis of vast proteomics and genomic data in the cloud.
BLAST on Windows Azure is a cloud-based implementation of the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). BLAST is a suite of programs that is designed to search all available sequence databases for similarities between a protein or DNA query and known sequences. BLAST allows quick matching of near and distant sequence relationships, providing scores that allow the user to distinguish real matches from background hits with a high degree of statistical accuracy. Scientists frequently use such searches to gain insight into the function and biological importance of gene products.
BLAST on Windows Azure extends the power of the BLAST suite of programs by allowing researchers to rent processing time on the Windows Azure cloud platform. The availability of these programs over the cloud allows laboratories, or even individuals, to have large-scale computational resources at their disposal at a very low cost per run. For researchers who don't have access to large computer resources, this greatly increases the options to analyze their data. They can now undertake more complex analyses or try different approaches that were simply not feasible before.
BLAST on Windows Azure in Action
One of the major challenges for many bioinformatics laboratories has been obtaining and maintaining the very costly computational infrastructure required for the analysis of vast proteomics and genomics data. NCBI BLAST on Windows Azure addresses that need.
Seattle Children's Hospital: Solving a Six-Year Problem in One Week
At Seattle Children's Hospital, researchers interested in protein interactions wanted to know more about the interrelationships of known protein sequences. Due to the sheer number of known proteins—nearly 10 million—this would have been a very difficult problem for even the most state-of-the art computer to solve. When the researchers first approached the Microsoft Extreme Computing Group (XCG) to see if NCBI BLAST on Windows Azure could help solve this problem, initial estimates indicated that it would take a single computer more than six years to find the results. But by leveraging the power of the cloud, they could cut the computing time substantially.
Spreading the computational workload across multiple data centers allowed BLAST on Windows Azure to vastly reduce the time needed to complete the analysis.
BLAST on Windows Azure enabled the researchers to split millions of protein sequences into groups and distribute them to data centers in multiple countries (spanning two continents) for analysis. By using the cloud, the researchers obtained results in about one week. This has been the largest research project to date run on Windows Azure.
Fueling Hydrogen Research
Rhodopseudomonas palustrisScientists at the University of Washington's Harwood Lab are working on a project to identify key drivers for producing hydrogen, a promising alternative fuel. The method they adopted characterizes a population of strains of the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris and uses integrative genomics approaches to dissect the molecular networks of hydrogen production.
The process consists of a series of steps using BLAST to query 16 strains to sort out the genetic relationships among them, looking for homologs and orthologs.
Each step can be very computation intensive. Each of the 16 strains, for example, is computationally predicted to have approximately 5,000 proteins. A BLAST run can require three hours or more to analyze each strain. When Harwood Lab's local resource was unable to handle the computation, the researchers submitted their request to a nationwide computer cluster, but the request was rejected after two days due to the long job-queuing time.
The researchers then contacted the XCG team to see if BLAST on Windows Azure could help them with this problem before their deadline—and it did. BLAST on Windows Azure significantly saved computing time:
- The time for BLAST on Windows Azure to process 5,000 sequences of one strain was reduced from three hours to fewer than 30 minutes.
- The entire analysis, coordinated by SEGA and XCG teams, was completed in three days.
The on-demand nature of BLAST on Windows Azure totally eliminates the job-queuing time, which sometimes is even longer than the computation time when running on the high-performance public computing resources that researchers often rely upon.
Scientists are using BLAST on Windows Azure to sort out genetic relationships among 16 strains of the bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris, looking for homologs and orthologs.
Implementing BLAST on Windows Azure
The implementation of NCBI BLAST on Windows Azure consists of two distinct stages. The first stage is a preparation stage, in which the environment for the BLAST executable is staged and sent to each cloud "worker"—or compute node. In the second stage, the actual BLAST runs are carried out in response to input from the user.
Two crucial items need to be made available to each cloud worker that will run a portion of the BLAST job. The first is the BLAST application. BLAST on Windows Azure uses the latest version of BLAST+ executables (BlastP, BlastN, and BlastX) that are made available by NCBI. These applications can be used without any modification. In addition, the user needs to have access to one or more databases against which the BLAST application will search for its results. These are available from several sources on the web, including NCBI.
BLAST executables are bundled as a resource inside a cloud service package. Once the user deploys the package on their Windows Azure account, the BLAST+ executables get deployed on each worker for local execution. NCBI databases (such as nr, alu, and human_genome) are downloaded from the NCBI FTP site to Azure Blob storage by using a database download task that is executed by any available worker.
A web role provides the user with an interface where they can initiate, monitor, and manage their BLAST jobs. The user can enter the location of the input file on their local machine for upload, specify the number of partitions into which they want to break down their job, and specify BLAST-specific parameters for their job.
Once the user submits a job through the web role interface, a new split task entry gets created in the Azure Table. All available workers look for tasks in this table. The first available worker retrieves the task and splits the input file sequence into the number of partitions that were specified by the user. For each segment of the input file, a new task is created in the task table and the next available worker retrieves this task from task table.
Once all of the tasks in the queue have been completed, a worker takes the output of each task and merges them into a single file. That file is placed in a blob in Windows Azure storage and a URL to the result data is recorded in the job history for the user. This output can then be downloaded from the web role user interface.
Lessons Learned
The application of BLAST on Windows Azure to the large runs provided us by the University of Washington and Children's Hospital groups taught Windows Azure researchers many important lessons about how to structure large-scale research projects in the cloud. Most of what we learned is applicable not just to the BLAST case but to any parallel job run at scale in the cloud.
Design for failure: Large-scale data-set computation of this sort will nearly always result in some sort of failure. In the week-long run of the Children's Hospital project, we saw a number of failures: failures of individual machines and entire data centers taken down for regular updates. In each of these cases, the Windows Azure framework provided us with messages about the failure and had mechanisms in place to make sure jobs were not lost.
Structure for speed: Structuring the individual tasks in an optimal way can significantly reduce the total run time of the computation. Researchers conducted several test runs before embarking on runs of the whole dataset in order to make sure that the input data was partitioned in such a way as to get the most use out of each worker node. For example, Windows Azure expects individual tasks to complete in fewer than two hours. If a job takes more than two hours, Windows Azure assumes that the job failed and starts a new job doing the same work. If a job is too short, you don't get all the benefits of running the jobs in parallel.
Scale for cost savings: If a few long-running jobs are processing alongside many shorter jobs, it is important to not have idle worker nodes continuing to run up costs once their piece of the job is done. Researchers learned to detect which computers were idle and shut them down to avoid unnecessary costs.
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- Steve Hodges, Time for Gadgeteer, in IEEE Spectrum, IEEE, April 2013.
- Sue Sentance and Steve Hodges, .NET Gadgeteer Workshop, in International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives (ISSEP), Springer, 2 March 2013.
- Steve Hodges, James Scott, Sue Sentance, Colin Miller, Nicolas Villar, Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Kerry Hammil, and Steven Johnston, .NET Gadgeteer: A New Platform for K-12 Computer Science Education, in SIGCSE '13 Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, ACM, March 2013.
- Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Nicolas Villar, James Scott, Dominik Bial, and Patrick Tobias Fischer, Prototyping Connected Devices for the Internet of Things, in IEEE Computer, IEEE Computer Society, February 2013.
- Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Nicolas Villar, James Scott, and John Helmes, Exploring Physical Prototyping Techniques for Functional Devices using .NET Gadgeteer, in Proceedings of TEI 2013, ACM, February 2013.
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MCLEAN, Va. (WUSA) -- The U.S. Military is using new techniques to help reduce PTSD and increase soldier resiliency. Experts with the Mind-Fitness Training Institute (MFTI) in Alexandria are training soldiers and civilian emergency responders in mindfulness meditation. Military officials are working with this non-profit organization, offering 8-week courses that teach mindfulness and resilience skills.
Elizabeth Stanley, Ph.D., the founder of MFTI, used meditation exercises to conduct studies with military personnel. They found that regular practice of mindfulness meditation is linked to a decrease in stress and slows the development of functional impairments in high stress situations.
Dr. Gary Kaplan, founder and director of the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine in McLean has practiced mindfulness meditation for years and sees positive results in his patients.
Dr. Kaplan says, "Meditation in general is about being present in the moment in a non-judgemental way. That seems like not a tough thing to do but the fact of the matter is we spend a huge amount of time time-traveling, we spend a huge amount of time in our past about regrets and depression, and we spend a huge amount of time in the future. Issues about anxiety disorders and things that we either have no control over or things that have never happened yet."
Dr. Kaplan says those suffering from PTSD never fully dealt with past issues and those traumatic experiences come back to haunt them.
"There's a couple of specific characteristics that we see in people with post-traumatic stress syndrome. One of the characteristics we see is avoidance behavior, they attempt to avoid any situation that may remind them of the event or even thoughts about the event," explains Dr. Kaplan.
Others include emotional numbing, trouble sleeping, higher irritability and hyper-arousal.
Dr. Kaplan says, "They'll have situations where they hyperreact to things, so hearing the backfire of a car in McLean, Virginia gets reacted to as if there's been an explosion of an IED in the battlefield."
Retired U.S. Navy Commander Peter Griffiths hopes these techniques can help today's soldiers reach deep inside themselves to heal and strengthen their mental healthiness. He used holistic techniques along with his medical treatments to banish the emotional stress that contributed to his physical pain.
Navy Cdr. Griffiths (ret.) says, "When you can get under the surface, spend some time hearing your inner voice and just take a couple of moments just to be under that surface just to see what's bubbling under that surface."
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A prominent school safety speaker has advocated the imposition of a 10-day moratorium on video game play and television viewing by students, reports the Grand Forks Herald.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author, retired military man and longtime critic of video game violence, made the remarks during a keynote presentation to North Dakota school officials yesterday.
As he typically does in his speeches, Grossman linked violent video games with school shootings:
[Grossman] described, in chilling detail, school massacres at Columbine High… the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota and Virginia Tech. Just as graphically, he conjured the brutality of video games such as "Grand Theft Auto" and "Manhunt."
Grossman, an expert on school violence, went on to trace a connection between the two, complete with brain scans and a study of juvenile murderers. And he pitched a singular idea to gathered educators – a 10-day television, movie and video game "detox"…
"This is not business as usual," he said. "This is our world coming unglued. This is our society coming unhinged."


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Six years ago, Bay Area native, David Caler, opened Bae (pronounced beh) Home & Design with co-owner, Matt Bissinger, in Presidio Heights. The vision was simple: to create a home decor shop that sells items of both luxury and purpose. The two believe that having a beautiful home is about seamlessly blending your get-away-from-it-all sanctuary with your favorite entertaining space.
Much of Bae's merchandise is local or imported from Europe, and combines old-world elegance with modern, eclectic charm. While their furniture selection is next-to-none, we love Bae for their smaller accents and unique gift solutions for Mother's Day, graduations, bridal showers and "just because." Here are our picks for perfect spring gifting.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jessica Meuse is going home — but not in the way she wanted.
Meuse was voted off "American Idol" last night. So, she won't be making a hometown appearance for the show.
The three remaining "Idol" hopefuls will be getting heroes' welcomes and doing concerts, in taped segments for next week.
Caleb Johnson, Alex Preston and Jena Irene are this season's top three, as the reality singing competition goes into its final couple of weeks.


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Twitter: @ZachGermain
Born: 10/30/1984
Hometown: Columbus, OH
Residence: Mooresville, NC
Marital Status: Single
Hobbies: Wakeboarding, snowboarding, spending time outdoors with Rocket (his yellow Labrador retriever), travelling with family and attending concerts with friends
Zach Germain, 25, is a native of Columbus, OH. To prepare for his debut season in NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, Zach moved into a one-room efficiency at Germain Racing's headquarters in Mooresville, N.C. The graduate of Miami University of Ohio gave up hometown comforts such as friends, life with his parents, Steve and Kim Germain, and his siblings Jessica and Austin, in exchange for a real-time, hands-on education in building race cars, running a race team and learning the subtle tricks needed to continue to develop as a race car driver.
As a teen and young adult, Zach spent countless hours learning the family's primary business of selling automobiles. Steve Germain, Zach's father, is president of Germain Motor Company, a Top-25 automotive dealership network with over 60 years experience in the automotive retail industry. While Zach definitely enjoys the automotive retail business, his passion lies in another family venture - Germain Racing. Germain brothers Steve, Bob and Rick formed the team in 2004 and the championship winning race team now operates in each of NASCAR's three national series as well as the K&N Pro Series East.
At 21, Zach kicked off his racing career by stepping into a Legends race car. That experience saw the young driver progress into the Super Late Model division - a move that progressed into what has become a NASCAR racing career.
Germain continues to work at the race shop as a crew member on the No. 24 Germain.com Camry and enjoy the wealth of experience and expertise available to him at Germain Racing. Zach and the No. 24 team plan to compete in the full 2011 K&N Pro Series East schedule and may add KNPSW, late model, ARCA or Truck Series events to this year's schedule.


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|Family fun planned for July 4
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Teaming up to provide an afternoon and evening full of Independence Day activities and family fun are the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, City of Holyoke and 4-H council. Among other events, the Chamber will be hosting its sixth annual Consumers and Producers Appreciation Day at Homesteaders Park from 3-7 p.m.
Activities kick off at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 4 with free swimming available at Holyoke Swim Pool. Due to overcrowding at last year's free swim, the City of Holyoke is emphasizing that children under 8 years old must be accompanied by an adult 18 years or older. Also, the pool will only be open for two hours, from 1-3 p.m., instead of four.
After drying off, head over to Homesteaders' Park to watch the lighting of the grills in the Chamber of Commerce sponsored steak grill-off. Community members will be showing off their grilling skills, and everyone is encouraged to purchase a steak dinner to see for themselves who the best cook is.
Participating in the steak grill-off this year are the Dan Denbo Family, Lance Williams, Matt Winterrowd and Russell Adels. The rib eyes will be served at 4 p.m. and judges will evaluate the steaks at 5 p.m. with awards to follow.
First place will be determined based on appearance, degree of doneness, tenderness and taste. The traveling trophy will be passed on to this year's winner and Holyoke scrip will be the prize for subsequent places.
Competing in their own hot dog cookoff at the Park on Saturday afternoon will be Jorge Bencomo and Casey Blake. The hot dogs, as well as watermelon, will also be sold.
Alternate site for the dinner, in the case of inclement weather, is the Peerless Center gym.
While waiting for the steaks to cook, kids can work up an appetite by enjoying the bouncer and participating in the kids games that will be offered by the 4-H council from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Sponsoring the prizes for the kids games is Holyoke Community Federal Credit Union.
Having enjoyed a steak dinner, be sure to waddle over to the grandstands to take in the stock car races. These will include IMCA BST modified series, street stocks and hobby stocks, starting at 6 p.m.
In traditional Fourth of July spirit, the Holyoke Volunteer Fire Dept. will be shooting off fireworks for the community to enjoy. However, the show will take place in a different location from last year, with the firefighters shooting them off in the fields south of City Park when it gets dark.


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UNTIL RECENTLY, BUILDING UP PHARMA'S ARMS RACE OF REPS WAS CONSIDERED a best practice. Since reps were the primary influencers of physicians' prescribing behaviors, increasing the number of feet on the street proved that companies were hard at work, with reps reaching the high prescribers with as much frequency as possible. The "mirrored" or "pod" sales force—criticized today by many—was an insurance policy of sorts back then, intended to gain greater message penetration than the competition. This approach was considered safe: Just as no one had ever fired the head of information technology for buying IBM, no head of sales at a pharmaceutical company was ever criticized for beefing up his sales force to maximize share of voice in a particular product category.
Companies must now take into account a plethora of influences when planning their sales and marketing efforts. To that end, as companies experiment with and establish new sales models, they should think about creating a framework based not on voice but instead on influence. They should understand the key levers of influence, and how those levers work together for a given product—be they formulary restrictions, peer influence, or patient requests. In doing that, pharmaceutical companies can identify the sales and marketing approaches and messages that best affect these varying influences, which, ultimately, will affect prescribing.This new paradigm requires companies to understand the nuances of influence at every level—from what affects doctors' prescribing habits to which physician is most influential in an office. There are certain benefits inherent in this approach:
Share of influence affects every aspect of sales-force infrastructure—recruiting, training, sales operations, and performance management. While no silver bullet exists to rapidly identify and implement the sales-force model of the future, the new share-of-influence approach has certain implications that affect how companies should define any new model. Here, we offer five strategic and tactical implications of the influence model, and some ideas about how to deploy and organize the sales infrastructure around it.
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(1) Use influence mapping to define target audiences
Influence mapping is one key to unlocking the share-of-influence paradigm. It is a sophisticated approach to physician targeting that goes beyond understanding the number of prescriptions physicians write, and instead examines the complicated and interrelated influences within the peer-to-peer medical community at the local level. It zeros in on why high-level influencers have prescribing preferences, and how those preferences are translated along that intricate web of relationships. By looking at the market this way, companies can more efficiently allocate sales and marketing resources because they can direct their efforts toward those influences that have the most impact on actual prescribing and dispensing behaviors.
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New M12/13 in Montana
Kyle Vassilopoulos has established House of Flying Daggers, a new M12/13 mixed climb in Montana's Hyalite Canyon. The new addition to Hyalite Canyon could be a contender for one of the country's hardest mixed climbs.
Vassilopoulos, a prolific Montana rock climber based in Bozeman, is currently enjoying his second season as an ice and mixed climber. Last year, he got off to a quick start by repeating another Hyalite Canyon testpiece—Inglorious Basterds (M12). Now Vassilopoulos has upped the ante with House of Flying Daggers, which he says is harder than Inglorious Basterds.
"The climbing style of this route is much different than Inglorious Basterds," says Vassilopoulos. "It is much more bouldery, dynamic, and powerful. If my memory serves me right, it is harder than Inglorious by a healthy amount."
House of Flying Daggers is located in Hyalite's Bingo Cave, and the bolt line was started by Conrad Anker and then finished by Vassilopoulos. The route begins with 30 feet of vertical rock and then kicks back with a 35-foot horizontal roof that leads to a hanging ice dagger.
"The moves include full extension body lever reaches in a horizontal roof, one arm lock off swings and cuts, and dynamic deadpoints from figure four positions," says Vassilopoulos. But House of Flying Daggers is not over once you reach the ice, according to Vassilopoulos. "The transition to the ice was very hard as the ice dagger is hanging 6 feet away from the lip of the cave instead of hanging right off the lip," he says. "Also the first 30 feet of ice climbing once on the dagger was very overhanging, difficult, technical, scary, and hard."
Vassilopoulos has FA-ed more than 100 rock climbs up to 5.14, and has authored a guidebook to Montana rock climbing. He currently divides his time between the culinary arts—Vassilopoulos is a high-end chef—and climbing hard during his time off.
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Climate Counts use a 0-to-100 point scale and 22 criteria to determine if companies have:
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- Supported (or suggest intent to block) progressive climate legislation
- Publicly disclosed their climate actions clearly and comprehensively
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Wow, that is an epic project! Good luck
Hi everyone!
Introducing my new project: in order to practice my pen-and-ink drawing, I decided to map the whole of Westeros (from A Song of Ice and Fire, by G.R.R. Martin) at 1mm:2miles scale, on A3 (297mmx420mm) sheets. That's a total of 15 maps (!), I don't know if I'll be able/have the motivation to see it to the end, but I'll try!
Here's my planned cut (thanks Tear for the basemap...):
And the beginning of my work on the first map (going north to south for now: Beyond the Wall):
My plan is to use a style "à la" Karen Fonstad, as the Gondor map I reproduced some time ago.
I'll have to find a way to scan A3 sheets though, there is a bit of distortion at the center where I joined the two halves of the map...
I'll post my progress from time to time (I hope regularly... but being in the middle of a P.H.D., that's not guaranteed), feel free to comment and especially to give some advice, since the main goal of the adventure is to practice and improve myself...
Wow, that is an epic project! Good luck
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A fascinating project, and I see you're planning on using Karen Wynn Fonstad's mountains from the Atlas of Middle Earth. I love that book. It helped start my mapping, too!
Looks like a worthwhile project. Look forward to seeing it progress.
Hi everyone!
It's been quite a long time since the first sketch of the map... But it is now done! I present to you: Beyond the Wall.
As always, don't hesitate to post comments, this is a training project, so ANY type of feedback is important: what you find good, bad, not so great, any advice, etc.
The next map should be smaller, since I'll be mapping the area just west of this one: Skagos. And I'll be applying the feedback from you guys. Hopefully in 15 maps the style will be decent (and production time faster).
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Wow! That is fantastic work Eochaid. I really like the way you did the mountain contours. Have some rep!
This project is momentous and you're doing incredibly so far! All the best for the other 14 maps, and I hope they turn out as great as this one!
An impressive piece of work inderdad!
Comment wise: did you think about maybe doing the labelling on a separate sheet of paper or on tracing paper? that way you could compose the two together digitally & it would probably be easier to make smooth looking labels.
This is really impressive. Reminds me of the maps in The Atlas of Middle Earth.
This cavern is below all, and is the foe of all. It is hatred, without exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the inkstand. Never have the fingers of night which contract beneath this stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper.
Thanks everyone for your kind words and comments!
@Lukc: I didn't think about it, no... but I think, for this project at least, that I prefer having a 100% completely hand-drawn map, and no tinkering with the computer. But that's a good idea for future, and more digitally-oriented projects.
@Lalaithion: Yes indeed... Where do you think I picked this style?
As for the update, I drew the coasts and labels for Skagos, I hope to finish the map soon... But the elements left are mountains and forests, not the easiest and quickest things to draw...


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Baseball great and Orlando resident Ken Griffey Jr. has called it a career and announced his retirement Wednesday after 22 seasons in the MLB.
There were no bells and whistles to a mostly storybook career for 40-year-old Ken Griffey Jr. Just a simple press release.
"While I feel I am still able to make a contribution on the field and nobody in the Mariners front office has asked me to retire, I told the Mariners when I met with them prior to the 2009 season and was invited back that I will never allow myself to become a distraction," Ken Griffey Jr. said. "I feel that without enough occasional starts to be sharper coming off the bench, my continued presence as a player would be an unfair distraction to my teammates and their success as a team is what the ultimate goal should be."
This has got to be one of the most lackluster endings since the series finale of ABC's "Lost."
Say what you will about Ken Griffey Jr.'s nap time schedule, but don't forget about his remarkable contributions to the sport. His 630 home runs were just a slice of "The Kid's" story, which includes saving the Mariners' struggling franchise in the 1990s where he played alongside his father Ken Griffey for a short time.
Ken Griffey Jr. obviously wanted to end his career without much attention. That doesn't strike me as strange considering this is a guy who watched varsity girls basketball games this season in Orlando despite the fact that his daughter wasn't playing. (She begins her high school career this fall).
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|Dried on the vine rose hip, best from the species Rosa rugosa
I love the tart, cranberry-like acidity of rose hips, chopped up and infused into teas, added to sauces served with fish, or made into jam. Walk on by this dried up one and harvest them earlier, just after the first frost (they are sweeter then). Peggy over at About.com wrote a nice little piece about the culinary uses for rose hips but what stuck in my craw was her little note at the end:
For what it's worth, Peggy was not able to find any corroboration of this fact; all the same I will be dutifully de-hairing my rose hips (essentially cutting them in half and removing the seeds) from here on out. Warnings that come on any food, whether wild or processed are to be heeded - I'm reminded of the warning on foods containing Olestra. I need only a passing reference to 'anal leakage' or 'fecal urgency' to get me to pay extremely close attention.
|This is miner's lettuce, aka Claytonia perfoliata
I don't eat miner's lettuce to prevent scurvy - I eat miner's lettuce because a walk in the woods is merely an end to the means of grazing like a cow through edible wild foods. Miner's lettuce is a convenient edible to lazily request an exercise break around when your more fit friends are leading you on a death march up some imposing elevation gains. Oh, and its flowers are so cute you want to pinch their petals.
|Smoked sockeye salmon with parsley sauce, nettle gnocchi and miner's lettuce salad
|Only an oompa-loompa could make a meal out of this fiddlehead.
My buddy Langdon Cook has a lot to say on the topic of ferns and frankly, he says it a lot better than I do, so read his book Fat of the Land and check out his blog of the same name.
|Spring fiddleheads with porcini and nettle sauce waiting for some smoked halibut.
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Yeah, yeah, so everyone's talking about sardines these days in the food circles. I'm hesitant to jump on fish bandwagons because fish fads are why many species are in trouble these days: see Chilean Seabass or Orange Roughy. Chefs pimping out fish can be very powerful and if they pick the wrong fish (say one that is very vulnerable to fishing pressures - for example, if they reproduce later in life and are caught as juveniles) it can have pretty damaging effects. But pick the right fish - one that is short lived, highly fecund (gets it on early and often) and is pretty much built to be eaten by the bigger fish, well then I can get on the sardine bus. In fact I might even dress in sardine drag and ride on a float in the Sardine Pride Festival '12.
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1 medium onion, chopped
1 can stewed tomatoes, cut up
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1 large green pepper, sliced
½ cup water
3 tsps. Italian seasoning
1/4 tsp. pepper
3 Tblsp. flour
¼ cup cold water
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – There was no finish in the "battle of finishers," but Chris Lozano and Brent Weedman put on quite a show in front of a highly-enthused New Jersey crowd.
Heading into the bout Lozano had accumulated eight finishes in his eight career wins, while Weedman had 17 in his 18 career victories. Something had to give. Except nothing ever did.
The fight served as the main event of Bellator 49, which took place Saturday night at New Jersey's Caesars Atlantic City and aired on MTV2. The preliminary card streamed on Spike.com.
Predictably, as soon as the bell sounded to begin the first round, both fighters rushed to the center of the cage and went to work. In the initial exchange, Weedman dropped Lozano with a right hand, but he was able to quickly recover. From there, it was Weedman's multiple takedowns and formidable back control that dominated the rest of the frame and secured it for him.
In the second round the tables turned quickly. Lozano began to get the better of Weedman in the kickboxing exchanges by using superior power and pulling the trigger before his opponent. The heavy-handed Lozano did major damage to the chin of Weedman, who somehow kept it together and even continued moving forward into the onslaught.
The third and final round began with Lozano attempting two spinning back kicks, the second of which was caught and resulted in him being on bottom. Lozano worked his way back up and tripped Weedman to the ground, where he promptly began pounding the body of his foe and looking to transition to a keylock. Lozano then took his opponent's back, but Weedman got out and dragged him down. The back-and-forth scrambles continued until the final bell sounded.
In the end, judges Ricardo Almeida, Romulo Bittencourt, and Cardo Urso all gave rounds one and three to Lozano.
With the win, Lozano (9-1 MMA, 2-1 BFC) rebounds from his first Bellator loss, while Weedman (18-7-1 MMA, 4-2 BFC) falls to 0-2 in his past two outings.
Saunders outclasses late replacement Cisneros
It took him two rounds to get warmed up, but Ben Saunders put the pedal to the metal in the final stanza and finished off an overmatched Chris Cisneros.
Cisneros took the fight on just a couple weeks of notice, filling in for the injured Rick Hawn.
Rounds one and two saw Saunders control the Hawaiian native with his grappling and top control. While he did not do any significant damage with strikes, Saunders was able to actively seek out submissions and keep Cisneros on the defensive.
In the third, Saunders' launched a flurry of his patented knees from the thai plum. The blows eventually doubled over Cisneros. A couple ground-and-pound strikes later and the referee had seen enough.
The finish runs Saunders' (11-3-2 MMA, 2-0 BFC) unbeaten streak inside the promotion to two, while Cisneros (13-4 MMA, 0-1 BFC) loses for the first time since Nov. 2008.
Santos outpoints Hornbuckle in unanimous fashion
The first round was quite the feeling-out process for southpaws Luis Santos and Dan Hornbuckle.
While both men traded leg kicks and grazing punches, Santos appeared to have landed with the superior force. It was enough to win him the round on all three judge's scorecards.
In the second, and throughout the better part of the third, neither man appeared to want to take control of the fight, and there were long stretches of inactivity.
However, late in the third, Santos put his stamp on the round (and the fight) with a high kick that caught Hornbuckle in the neck area that may have also grazed his chin.
It was easily the best strike of the match and briefly stunned Hornbuckle, relegating him into retreat mode. A brief flurry from Santos followed just before the bell sounded to end the contest.
The victory doubles Santos' (50-6-1 MMA, 2-0 BFC) win total in Bellator to two. Hornbuckle (22-5 MMA, 3-3 BFC), on the other hand, is reeling having lost three of his past four.
Former MFC champ Lima grinds out decision after early scare
In the evening's broadcast-opening bout, former MFC welterweight champion Douglas Lima earned a workmanlike decision in his much-anticipated promotional debut.
Well, workmanlike after an initial tense moment.
Early in the opening frame his opponent Steve Carl was able to land a looping right hand that caught Lima behind the ear. The punch staggered the 23-year-old, who immediately dove for a leg to regain his wits. Lima was able to fight through the adversity and avoid any further damage.
From then on it was all Lima, who established his jab at range and was able to land clean left hooks when Carl rushed inside. Lima also dominated the positioning when the fight hit the floor in rounds two and three, while avoiding Carl's repeated kimura attempts with ease.
In securing his spot in Bellator's season-five welterweight tournament semifinals, Lima (19-4 MMA, 1-0 BFC) extended his win streak to seven. Meanwhile, Carl (14-3 MMA, 2-2 BFC) lost for just the second time in his last eleven bouts.
- Chris Lozano def. Brent Weedman via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Ben Saunders def. Chris Cisneros via TKO (knees and punches) – Round 3, 0:29
- Luis Santos def. Dan Hornbuckle via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
- Douglas Lima def. Steve Carl via unanimous decision (29-28, 30-27, 30-27)
- Alexandre "Popo" Bezerra def. Scott Heckman via TKO (punches) – Round 2, 1:38
- Giedrius Karavackas def. LeVon Maynard via TKO (punches) – Round 3, 1:32
- Joel Roberts def. Brylan Van Artsdalen via submission (triangle choke) – Round 2, 1:47
- Lester Caslow def. James "Binky" Jones via TKO (strikes) – Round 2, 0:15
- Azunna Anyanwu def. J.A. Dudley via TKO (strikes) – Round 2, 4:16
For more on Bellator 49, check out the MMA Events section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Vibram Five Fingers Trek SportBuilding on the success and versatility of the KSO and KSO Trek, Vibram FiveFingers presents the TrekSport. Our TrekSport offers a 4mm EVA midsole for plating protection and a lightly cleated 4 mm Vibram performance rubber outsole for added traction on a variety of surfaces. The Coconut Active Carbon upper offers natural breathability and abrasion resistance for maximum performance during your outdoor and athletic pursuits.*Machine washable. Air dry.TREKSPORT IS BEST FOR: Light Trekking, Trail and Road Running, Cross Training, Walking and Travel
Shoe Size: 33% of people said that this shoe "Felt true to size"
Shoe Width: 66% of people said that this shoe "Felt true to width"
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