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Women's participation in local union leadership: The Massachusetts experience
A 1989 survey of leaders of a sample of Massachusetts AFLCIO-affiliated union locals indicates that although women are represented in these union locals' leadership in numbers nearly proportional to the female percentage of membership, they are under-represented in the most influential positions. Women are over-represented as secretaries and seriously under-represented as presidents; they chair many committees, but rarely the key grievance or negotiations committees. Minority women appear to be even more under-represented in leadership positions than are white women. Both male and female union leaders said they would like to see more women in leadership, but most of the men did not seem to view the need for more female leaders as urgent, since they indicated that women's issues were adequately represented by male leaders. (Abstract courtesy JSTOR.)
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How Jim Click brought Oklahoma State, Arizona together
"Hello, Oklahoma," Jim Click answered the phone, not knowing who was calling but knowing where they were from.
Forty years in the Arizona desert, and Click hasn't forgotten the 405 area code. Hasn't forgotten his days as tri-captain of OSU's historic 1965 football team.
"I can talk all day about Oklahoma," said Click, who graduated from Altus High School in 1962 and from Oklahoma State in 1966. Then Click proves it, jumping from story to story about his days in Stillwater, as one of Phil Cutchin's survivors.
And yet, there was a day last year, and there will be a day this year and next, when Click uses the term "we" and won't mean the Cowboys.
The Jim Click Auto Group is one of the nation's largest, which has been as large as 24 dealerships in southern Arizona. Click bought Pueblo Ford in 1971 at the age of 27; now he's a Tucson institution.
"I made most of my money in Arizona," Click said.
But Click talks like he made most of his memories during four years in Stillwater.
"Best four years of my life," he said.
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Click entered the car business through his great uncle, Holmes Tuttle, who was a postwar Los Angeles auto dealer and rose to great wealth and influence. Even headed Ronald Reagan's unofficial "kitchen cabinet." Helped get Reagan elected governor of California in 1966.
Holmes Tuttle, from the family for whom Jason White's hometown was named, is in the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
Click's father was raised by the Tuttles and got into the car business himself, opening a Chevy dealership in 1958.
When Click graduated from OSU, he went to California, worked five years for Holmes Tuttle's company and then purchased the Tucson Ford dealership.
Now Click is a Tucson icon, one of its most influential and respected philanthropists, and a big supporter of the University of Arizona. A few years ago, Cigar Aficianado magazine profiled three of the most generous boosters in collegiate athletics. OSU's Boone Pickens, Louisville's Sam Rechter and Arizona's Jim Click.
"If you take from a community, you've got to give back," Click has said repeatedly.
One of Click's involvements is UofA athletics, not just with finances, but with relationships. Arizona football coach Mike Stoops has raved about Click's moral support; when then-athletic director Jim Livengood flew to Norman in 2003 to interview Stoops, Click made the trip, too.
So the 2010 Alamo Bowl — OSU vs. Arizona — was a torn-between-two-lovers plot for Click.
It's not like he hasn't donated to OSU, too. Click has endowed a scholarship for the center position and the defensive tackle position, for his old pal Hugh McCrabb. In the OSU football complex is a testament from Click on what the university and football program meant to him.
"Obviously, I'm grateful to Oklahoma State for the education I received," Click said. "I love Mike Holder. I like our coach, too. I come back every two, three years."
But all those years in Tucson means "we" is Arizona.
Click wore a red shirt to the Alamo Bowl, given to him by Holder, and jokingly told Holder he had no one to blame but himself. Click said he was "embarrassed" by 'Zona's 36-10 loss. Hopes the Wildcats can perform better on Sept. 8, when Arizona plays at OSU, and next season, when the Cowboys make the return trip.
But Click can't complain that this series is pulling at his heartstrings. The series exists because of Click.
"Absolutely," Holder said. "Would not have happened without him. We couldn't get anyone at Arizona interested in playing us. I called Jim, he called the athletic director and voila, we have a home-and-home with Arizona."
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Click's devotion to OSU can be seen in his office. On the wall is a picture of his 1962 football recruiting class. On his desk is a game ball from the Cowboys' 17-16 victory over OU in 1965, which ended OSU's 19-game Bedlam losing streak.
"Great group of guys," Click said. "Even the ones that quit were a great group of guys."
Cliff Speegle was OSU's coach in 1962, Click's freshman year. "First day of practice was a scary experience," Speegle said. "Probably had 100-plus players on scholarship" in that freshman class.
But Speegle was fired, replaced in 1963 by Cutchin, a Bear Bryant assistant at Kentucky, Texas A&M and Alabama. Cutchin was on the A&M staff in 1954, when Bryant took his team to the legendary August training camp in Junction, Texas.
A decade later, Cutchin didn't take his new OSU team away from Stillwater, but he ran an hellacious camp.
"When Phil Cutchin came in, I'll bet we had 150-175 players in the spring," Click said. "The following fall, we almost couldn't field two teams. Everybody quit."
The numbers were so scarce, Cutchin moved the entire team into one wing of the dorm.
"I got to play because of default," Click said. "There were a hell of a lot better centers than me, I tell you. Spring of '63 was brutal. The guys that were left, we've got a bond that will never be broke."
During the season, Cutchin issued a proclamation. Anyone not playing could challenge the man in front of them to a physical contest in practice. The winner got playing time.
Click was playing and was challenged. "Somehow, I won that challenge," Click said. His challenger quit that night.
Don Brewington, an OSU teammate of Click, called him a "great guy. Very tough football player; 180 pounds at linebacker and center. About as tough as one can be."
Said Holder of Click, "It's a great story. He's one of those survivors. He's prospered because of that experience."
Click plans to bring all his former teammates out to Tucson in 2012 for OSU-Arizona III and put them up for a couple of days.
But first comes OSU-Arizona II, when Click returns to his alma mater, for the matchup he put together, a matchup that either way, he cannot lose.
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In a motion filed last week, the attorney requested that Astin, who is under house arrest, be allowed to leave his home during working hours.
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Here's quick advice for anyone who's looking for a no-tolls gubernatorial candidate: Don't hold your breath. In fact, don't even get your hopes up.Both of the presumptive finalists in the 2012 race for governor have expressed at least tolerant views about tolls as part of the overall strategy to pay for Washington's growing, long-neglected multibillion-dollar transportation needs.
Maybe you can find some no-tolls advocacy among the seven other gubernatorial candidates (sorry, perennial candidate Mike the Mover is running for senator this year). But there's scant indication that any dark-horse candidate can keep Republican Rob McKenna and Democrat Jay Inslee from advancing past the Aug. 17 primary to the Nov. 6 election. And here's what they had to say last week about tolls:
McKenna, according to an Associated Press story, pointed out that tolls helped build many existing transportation facilities and will be necessary to rebuild those same sites, such as the state Highway 520 Bridge in Seattle. "User fees, in the form of tolls, will be in the mix for certain projects, no question about it," he noted. Many of McKenna's fellow Republicans will shriek in horror as he acknowledges tolls as necessary. But the current attorney general is a smart man. He knows that gas-tax revenue (which provides about two-thirds of the state's commitment to transportation funding) is projected to fall by $5 billion annually by 2023.
Inslee expressed no official stance on tolls, but the Democratic former congressman said, "I don't think any of those methods of financing can be taken off the table." He, too, is a smart man. Inslee understands what the Connecting Washington Task Force explained in December. The number of vehicle miles traveled in our state is projected to reach 60 billion by 2020, annual freight volumes will triple by 2035 and transit ridership in the Puget Sound area alone is expected to grow 90 percent by 2040.
Here in Clark County, tolling is a central issue, to say the least. It even affects mayoral races. In 2009, Tim Leavitt used a no-tolls platform to unseat longtime Mayor Royce Pollard by a whopping nine percentage points, only to stun many of his supporters later by reluctantly accepting tolls as a necessary evil.
The anti-tolls crowd might be shrinking, but don't expect the opposition to vanish. This debate is most productively advanced when it is based on science, statistics and informed projections. We all can begin with the Square-One agreement that highways, bridges and transit projects cost money. Lots of it. Then we should advance to a broad examination of all transportation funding options, "a combination of a number of sources," as McKenna puts it. "I just don't know what the mix is going to be at this point."
Nor does any other informed person. But the level of desperation brings us to this point: The Republican candidate for governor, no less, says that "in the next couple of years" voters will need to consider taxes to pay for transportation. McKenna also said that "when it comes to transportation, we've always relied on voter-approved revenues to preserve, maintain and improve transportation infrastructure." Not exactly a traditional conservative mantra.
The task force warned that, without funding solutions, Washingtonians "cannot preserve the state's highways and bridges and maintain ferry service at current levels." Remember, too, that transportation investments "hold the key to job creation and economic growth."
Putting transportation needs in that context, it's unwise to just say no to any possible solution.


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ATLANTA (AP) -- Logan Thomas accounted for five touchdowns, David Wilson rushed for a career-best 175 yards and No. 10 Virginia Tech took a huge step toward the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game, beating No. 20 Georgia Tech 37-26 Thursday night.
Thomas threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more scores. Wilson had his seventh straight 100-yard game, already the longest streak of Frank Beamer's quarter-century as coach.
The teams went back and forth through the second and third quarters, scoring on eight of nine possessions in one stretch. But Virginia Tech (9-1, 5-1 ACC) took advantage of a huge personal foul on Jeremiah Attaochu and a fourth-down gamble by Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson that didn't pay off.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans are united as ever in their election-year opposition to "Obamacare," but they're increasingly divided over their promise to vote this year on an alternative to it.

 The disagreement comes amid a shifting political calculus around President Barack Obama's health care law. Millions are enrolled for medical insurance through the law's exchanges, and an all-out repeal has become less practical and popular. Some Democrats have begun promoting the measure in campaign commercials, and some Republicans are treading more carefully in belittling the program.

 At a recent closed-door House Republican caucus meeting, several conservatives pressed GOP leaders over the pledge Majority Leader Eric Cantor made in January that House Republicans would rally around an alternative to "Obamacare" and pass it this year.

 "We said at the retreat in January we were going to do this. Well it's June and we still haven't done it," Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., said he told Cantor during the meeting last week. "It's moving at a snail's pace. ... We want to be for something."

 Roe said he got little reply beyond polite attention. Cantor's spokesman, Doug Heye, said, "Majority Leader Cantor continues to work towards bold legislative solutions to replace `Obamacare.'"

 Behind the scenes, lawmakers and aides say, powerful committee chairmen with jurisdiction over the issue have been unable to agree over how to proceed. Some have even begun to suggest publicly that this year is not the time to vote on an alternative that likely would die in the Democratic-controlled Senate or face a veto threat from Obama.

 That argument looks especially compelling in light of Republican hopes of taking over the Senate in November.

 "We know that we have a Senate that's not going to do much," Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., said. He also pointed to the dwindling number of legislative days this year.

 "There's not a lot of time but we're exploring a lot of different options," Upton said. "We haven't come to a conclusion yet."

 Lawmakers are home in their districts this week listening to what voters are saying about the health care law, which as a political issue is getting increased competition from the post-mortem on the attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, the Taliban prisoner exchange and treatment delays and reports of falsified records at VA medical facilities.

 The House already has voted more than 50 times to repeal or excise all or part of the health care law. But it has been two months since the last vote attacking a fundamental provision of the law, and no further votes on the law have been scheduled.

 Even ardent opponents now question the need to repeal the law in full. Repeal remains the official GOP position but is widely acknowledged to be impractical now that the initial problems with the enrollment website have subsided, people have signed up and popular provisions such as a ban on denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions have taken hold.

 "I don't think anybody's talking about repealing the entire bill," said Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., who is a physician. "There are clearly sections of the bill ... that people are saying, `OK, these are actually good things.'"

 GOP pollster David Winston, who advises House Republicans, said "Obamacare" has remained unpopular, and he doesn't expect that to change before the November midterm elections. He said the challenge, and opportunity, for Republicans is to come up with solutions to new issues voters are experiencing, such as unexpectedly high deductibles.

 "This plan has created a whole new raft of problems, and what they want to see is those problems resolved," Winston said. "And so the idea of shifting back to the previous set of problems versus the existing set of problems is not necessarily where they're focused."

 The changing dynamic is evident on the campaign trail, where some Democrats have run ads publicizing their support for the law or attacking their opponents for resisting it. Some Republicans, meanwhile, are beginning to focus on fixes they would make to the law, rather than repeal. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has come under criticism from Democrats in his re-election campaign after vowing to repeal "Obamacare" while suggesting that Kentucky's state health insurance marketplace, which was created under the law, could remain.

 On Capitol Hill scant consensus has emerged. Roe and other conservatives have rallied around a bill to repeal "Obamacare" and replace it with a series of traditionally Republican initiatives, including expanding access to health savings accounts and allowing insurance to be sold across state lines. Other lawmakers favor their own approaches. Some want a single bill, others a series of them.

 Even if GOP leaders did put a bill on the floor, there's no guarantee their fractious caucus would hold together to pass it. Last year, a revolt by conservatives forced GOP leaders to abandon efforts to pass a bill expanding insurance access for people with pre-existing conditions.

 "There's a number of aspects we've been meeting on in the health care team, talking about those elements that will be in there," Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., said. "Do I think we have enough to have a vote on it before October? I don't know if it will be on the schedule."
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Academic journal article The Middle East Journal
EDUCATION AND MEDIA: Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World
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EDUCATION AND MEDIA Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World, by Lina Khatib. London, UK and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2006. viii + 209 pages. Bibl. to p. 227. Filmography to p. 231. Indexes to p. 242. $74.95 cloth; $26.95 paper.
Reviewed by Rasha Allam
In Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World, Lina Khatib explains the powerful impact of the cinema in the formation of different cultures. She then examines in depth how politics informs the cinematic representations of the modern Middle East by Hollywood and its Arab counterparts.
In chapter one, Khatib explores the various meanings of the term "space." According to Khatib and other scholars, space refers to the physical place. However, space can also be defined, more profoundly, as the production of knowledge that enables the imposition of power over physical space and over others. Whereas in the US cinema space is always dealt with as masculine, in the Arab cinema it is regarded as feminine (e.g., calling Egypt "the mother of the world"). This goes back to the genre and the kinds of movies produced in the two cinemas, as most US films are action movies that often glorify Americans, while Arab movies tend to be melodramas. These differences are enhanced by cinematic technical means. In the US cinema, wide and mid-air shots are prevalent, reflecting mastery over the Other's space; Arab films rely more on mid-shots and close-ups to capture an intimate, circumscribed view.
In chapter two, "Gendered Tools of Nationalism," Khatib gives an insightful account of the ways that women's roles are delineated in the US and the Arab cinemas. In particular, she sheds light on the usage of masculinity or femininity in political situations. For instance, US films use men who fight Arab Others in order to maintain their American identity. In contrast, Arab films use women as the tool that enables cultural construction of the Arab nation and as a tool that discriminates between the Self and the Other. In Egyptian movies, bodies of women are used as national boundaries. Veiled women reflect the suppressive quality of Islamic fundamentalism, while the modern look for females reflects the modernization of Egypt. …


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- Actually, I Am Him: The plot of this episode.
- Armor-Piercing Question: "If you did everything you could, then why are you still torturing yourself?"
- Flashback: Four brief ones interspersed throughout Leo's final fight. They're set during "Exodus Part 2" when the Shredder is locked outside the core room.
- Foreshadowing: The Ancient One offers to tell Leonardo a story about Master Yoshi.
- Gass Hole: Leonardo's traveling companion, in this episode at least
- Heel Realization: The entire point of this episode is for Leonardo to see what he's become and to heal. The final fight (where he realizes he's fighting his own rage and guilt) is the moment where it finally dawns on him.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Leonardo has an example of this when he loses control and injures Master Splinter. Although he doesn't actually say the line, the look on his face after it happens and his subsequent remorse show he was clearly shocked, and deeply regretted his actions.
- The Only One: Played for Drama. Flashbacks show the others (reeling from fighting with Shredder) barraging Leo with pleas for help and to come up with a plan.Donatello: Help me. I'm hurt.
Michelangelo: We're not gonna make it. Leo, help me!
Raphael: Leo, the Shredder's comin' for us! You gotta do somethin'!
Splinter: Save us, Leonardo! We are all counting on you, my son.
- Scenery Porn: The Hidden Land, whose background features an art shift, to boot.
- Sheathe Your Sword
- Trickster Mentor: The Ancient One, initially.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Raph calls Leo out for injuring Master Splinter when Leo loses control in a fit of rage.Raphael: Leo, what the shell is your problem?!
- You Did Everything You Could: The key realization that shakes Leo from his season long funk.


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Mommy Is Coming
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Claudia (Papi Coxxx) and Dylan (Lil Harlow) chafe in their relationship as Dylan craves wilder sex. Helen (Maggie Tapert), Dylan's mother, arrives in the city on the prowl for a man and mistakes Claudia for a man.
Cast: Lil Harlow, Papi Coxxx, Maggie Tapert, Wieland Speck, Stefan Kuschner, Cheryl Dunye, Jiz Lee, Judy Minx
Director: Cheryl Dunye


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Pangaea Adventures hires to the highest standards and focuses on guides with a great balance of experience, safety, friendly personality, and education. Our guides care about the overall experience of every guest and strive to balance recreation and education. Each guide practices "leave no trace" ethics and creates a comfortable atmosphere for all levels of kayakers. Each head guide is trained in advanced wilderness medicine and rescue. Their backgrounds are all in guiding and teaching. We hire adults who are personable, friendly, knowledgeable, helpful, patient, responsible, and safe.
Tim Duffy aka "Duff" has several years of experience guiding paddling, backpacking and ski-mountaineering trips throughout Alaska. Originally a Maine-ah, Duff ski guides winters in Nevada, explores the world on vacation, and is currently our backup boat captain. You can sit back and enjoy the cruise with Duff while he throws fun facts at you and sometimes even raps them. He acquired the company in 2008 and says the Valdez vistas still have him in awe.
Sam Benoit: Hailing from land of the second best cheddar in the world, Sam got his start as an outdoor professional by logging many hours in the woods and on the mountains and waters of Vermont. This season marks Sam's 5th season with Pangaea. In his tenure, Sam has lead clients on all of the tours Pangaea has to offer, has served as the resident handy man, and now can be found captaining Pangaea's water taxis. Sam is neither bashful nor unlearned in the flora and fauna of the region so even though he looks like he just crawled out from the bowels of the M/V Mayflower Star, don't be shy about asking him a question!
Pete Cueno (pronounced Swain-yo) emerged from the caves of Maquoketa, Iowa where he spent 18 years wrestling corn bears and breaking hearts before earning his B.S. at the "Harvard of the Midwest," as well as the title of "Third Most Successful Cueno Child." After reaching his full potential in the heartland, Pete set off to become Pangaea's most triple rectified guide, whose wilderness experience ranges from alpine climbing expeditions in Patagonia to backcountry snowboard trips throughout the Western United States. Pete will literally destroy his body to ensure you have the best possible experience and he proudly reports zero broken bones among his clients to date. This guy's legit.
Jack Bynum If we were to measure our guides based on age, we would all quickly underestimate the talent and experience that Jack brings to Pangaea. Haling from New York, Jack started to hone his skills as a young man traveling around like Pac-Man gobbling up trips like golden orbs. Whether in the mountains or on the sea, Jack will captivate you with his vast knowledge and experiences. Did I mention his cooking ladies? What a catch for being only 20. We look forward to sharing him with you all as one of our sea kayaking and glacier guides here at Pangaea.
|Hannah McGowan: Hailing from Memphis, TN, Hannah came to Valdez for the first time as an intern with Pangaea in the summer of 2007. Mystified by the grandeur of Prince William Sound and fascinated by its rich biodiversity, she returned to Pangaea for the next few summers to share this unique place with others as a lead guide. Meanwhile she pursued studies in marine ecology and wilderness leadership at Prescott College, so she is psyched and well equipped to nerd out about sea life, especially whales and intertidal invertebrates. Since graduating in 2011 she has fallen in love with rock climbing, turning her attention to desert splitters and granite masses between ski seasons, which she spends skiing up and down mountains in Alta, Utah. Now feeling the pull of the great north and it's rugged coastline, she emerges from the landlocked mountains and deserts to return enthusiastically for a fifth season at Pangaea.
Thomas Mooney-Myers: Voted most likely to be napping, Thomas made the obvious choice, and returned for his second year guiding in the Alaskan wilderness from the far away state of Washington. As comfortable in the raging rapids as he is in the serene beauty of Columbia Bay, you will feel confident in knowing Thomas is your lead guide. Hard at work on his trick-rolls, he will make sure you're impressed with his every move. Revered for his insatiable appetite for knowledge, Thomas cannot wait to fill your ear with all of the interesting factoids he has bottled up inside. Feel free to snuggle up close, and ask why the baby seal is his spirit animal.
Kate Klibansky: The guide whose presence is always preceded by an all encompassing giggle that brings to mind the constant presence of the antagonist in a horror film, Kate is a seamless hybrid of a graceful sea creature and rainbow expelling unicorn. Let this outward appearance fool you not though, for Kate is a badass rafter hailing from back east, and emerging from the remote (ish) mountains of Utah to continue shredding and Baldy slammin' in the great white north.
Ian Colegrove: Originally hailing from a small birdwatching village in Ohio, Ian ventured to Valdez to guide for Pangaea in May. After studying the theory of ecotourism and adventure travel at Hocking College, he decided he would put it to use here in Alaska. This enthusiastic guide can lift a kayak with one hand while leading mocking jays in song with his Johnny Cash baritone. In his time off he enjoys backpacking in the mountains, competitive ping pong, and exploring the deep. As your guide, this sensitive Sagittarius will lead you through the beautiful 'bergs of Columbia Bay while filling your head with fun facts. So really, ask him about the birds in Alaska; if you weren't stoked about them before, you will be after your trip!
Elyse Rylander: Elyse comes to us from Poynette, Wisconsin, where she was raised on cheese curds and carefully brewed IPA's. Like any self respecting Wisconsinite she attended the University of Wisconsin where she majored in Women Studies. After graduation she moved out to Seattle where she ran a drop-in center for homeless youth before embarking on her Pangaea saga. A cool and collected leader with a vast knowledge of the area, she returns for her fourth season here at Pangaea. Lesbi-honest, she's pretty much the flyest cat in Valdez. Last year, together with her girlfriend, she started Outthere Adventures, a non-profit geared towards building courage and confidence in queer youth through wildness experience. You can check them out at www.outthereadventures.org
Kira McGieson: Born at home in the Pacific Northwest and shortly thereafter plopped in a baby carrier and hiked in to the Olympics, Kira has spent ample time in the mountains and on the sea. Her bread and butter for the last 9 years has been lead sea kayaking trips throughout the San Juan Islands and backpacking trips for women up to 50 years her senior throughout the Cascades. For a great time on the water and unwavering optimism, Kira is your gal.
|Tyler Campbell: TC is not the heir to a multi-billion dollar soup company. He is a full-time mid-westerner, ski- bum and pursuer of gnar. Split-boarding the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado and canoeing the Boundary Waters of northern Minnesota weren't cool enough so Campbell finds himself in Alaska this summer in the pursuit of.... yup. MORE GNAR!! He can make a mean grouse and dumpling dish and will talk your ear off about the Lewis and Clarke Expedition.
Heidi Sarazen: Hailing from the beautiful garden state, Heidi headed south to the University of Georgia where she perfected the southern drawl. Post UGA her passion for the outdoors led her to become WWOOFer in Vermont, and raft guide in South Carolina. More recently she has spent multiple seasons slaying pow in Telluride. If you are lucky enough to have her as your guide be sure to ask her about her watercolors.
Stanton Mayer: after graduating from UVM and retiring from his position as master caddy at a prestigious country club back home, Stan decided to leave New Jersey and explore new places. His adventurous soul led him to spend 7 months backpacking, cycling, and exploring all around Asia. After that, Stan realized his culinary potential while working at a ski resort restaurant in Utah. This guys' backcountry cooking skills are legit. While his heart will always lie in the Adirondacks, Stan joins us at Pangaea this year to broaden his experience as a sea kayak guide and to explore all that Valdez has to offer.
Marie Crane: Marie comes to us from the University of Montana as our lovely intern, specializing in wilderness studies, outdoor tourism, and fish processing. But don't let her sparkly eyes fool you, for Marie is a classic outdoors(wo)man. She enjoys mountaineering, climbing, skiing, hunting, fishing, and boating. This summer she can be found in the office wielding guests and reservations, in the kitchen cookin' up some mean fish tacos, or out on the slopes looking for leftover snow to make some turns on. She awaits the day her very own Unique Duck Flats tour materializes for her life to be complete.
Andrew Morreale: In tribute to the great success of past academics such as Jane Goodall, Andrew has journeyed from beyond his ivory tower to study among the ape-like guide community in order to better understand their primitive habits and even more primitive hygiene. Between extensive journal taking, photography, fantasizing about scrums, and sticking sick dynos, Andrew manages to find time for himself in his daily runs, where he struggles to balance the overwhelming beauty of Valdez with his continued frustration with the unerring accuracy with which the raft guides can fling their own feces. Besides all these things, the "Professor" is a friendly, humorous, and overall wonderful addition to the Pangaea crew.
Kristina Rodriguez: A native to the Chicago area, Kristina joins us for her third season as the office manager for Pangaea. She graduated with a double BA in Environmental Studies and Spanish from Lake Forest College outside of the great city, and has since spent her time roaming the U.S. and Latin America. Ask her about exploring Machu Picchu, starting an organic farm at LFC, or learning first hand about immigration issues at the U.S./Mexico border. She's done all these things! You can also ask her all about Pangaea Adventures, or about how she's enjoyed her transition to the Land of the Midnight Sun.


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A weekend of ChatRoulette (Or: I play ChatRoulette so you don't have to)
ChatRoulette has been getting lots of attention lately, notably with articles written in New York Magazine and in the New York Times. But so far, the articles have been written by men. According to the Wall Street Journal, 87% of the site's users are male after all (and 5-8% of users are naked). The video chatting game is a completely different world for women. Female chatters get "nexted" far less often, so it's not such a blow to the ego. It's more fun and less desperate.
I developed an addiction to the game last weekend. If you haven't explored the site yet, or if you want to see it through the eyes, or lens rather, of a woman, here you go.
I lost my ChatRoulette virginity on Friday night. After drinks at Burp Castle in the East Village and a big bowl of ginger-scallion noodles and fatty pork buns at Momofuku's noodle bar, I came home full and not yet ready for bed. So I decided to give the site — that I had already written about — a try.
I donned red over-sized, goofy sunglasses with stars on them. Both because the site of first impressions rewards gimmicks to start conversations, and because I wanted to browse incognito. Even knowing I would be paired with anonymous strangers, I felt slightly uneasy and the glasses provided protection.
ChatRoulette has a very basic homepage. You click "Play" to get started, and you're immediately connected with a stranger. When you want to find a new stranger, you click the "Next" button. There's video, audio, and a chat box. Some people choose to disable video and audio.
I did not stumble across a single penis on this first night, though I've heard they are there in abundance. There were many men, though, in dark rooms, usually smoking. I tended to next them quickly.
Next: A group of people getting ready to go out in a dorm room with loud music at a college somewhere.
Next: A short but substantive conversation with a father and son in Chevy Chase outside of Washington, D.C. The son almost nexted me when I said I went to Duke. He's a UVA frosh, typed the dad, who wears hipster glasses and a smoking jacket and looks like he would fit into a Wes Anderson movie. They ask me where I am, what I do. I tell them I used to live in D.C. and moved away because I was tired of it, and tell them why. We say goodbye.
Next: A rare woman: long blonde hair with a green shirt. Over the course of the weekend, I came across women 1 out of 20 times. She nexts me.
Next: A teenage boy who makes inappropriate gestures simulating oral sex. I next him.
Next: A pair of 20-somethings see me and say "pretty girl." I next them.
Next: A teenage boy in a computer-generated jungle motif. I laugh, and am done.
The next day, I return with my friend Sophia. I don the glasses again as does she. Paired with another person, I'm more immature, less serious about the endeavor. It reminded me of roaming AOL chat rooms with my best friend Lauren as a middle schooler. Lauren and I would pretend to be people we were not. We got into quite a few raunchy conversations, and would end them by telling our chat partner that he had in fact been talking to a 65-year-old man, which would disgust them and leave them disturbed, we imagined. My mom once found a transcript of one of our conversations, and she was very disturbed.
Sophia and I talked to a man in Paris, another one in a dark room smoking. We told him he should give it up, and that smoking is not allowed in America. Then we nexted him.
We took the New York Times T magazine with a photo of Julianne Moore and held that up to the camera. At one point we were confronted with a young beautiful girl, which surprised us. She seemed distracted and did not respond to us. "That's not a real person," we said. And then the camera zoomed out to reveal that it is actually a YouTube video. It disturbed us for some reason. We hit next.
We surfed into a room with a lofted bed, and a boy brushing his teeth. He sneers at us. We nexted him.
It's less fun to play in the afternoon, even if it's night for some of our European partners. I opted to go to the gym instead.
We're drawn back again Sunday; we sit on my couch, surfing separately on our Macs.
Sophia comes across a boy who looks a lot like Justin Bieber, and we joke with him about the resemblance.
Then I surf into a room with a boy who bears enough of a resemblance to Taylor Lautner for me to claim it. Then we face our computers toward each other to bring the worlds together. Justin gets out a cigarette – we admonish him for smoking given his teen idol status – but he can't find a lighter.
Taylor says wait a minute and disappears and we think he will soon next us. But instead he returns with a lighter and holds that close to the camera. And this seems brilliant to us. And we realize it can't really get any better than that so we say goodbye to them and we sign off.
But then hours later, we are back again. Two teenage boys tell us that we look old enough to be their mothers and that I look like the mother from Weeds — maybe I look a little like Mary Louise-Parker when I wear sunglasses. We next them.
Sophia stumbles into a penis being licked by a dog. She screams, and closes her computer.
Sophia has worse ChatRoulette luck than me. She later connects to a young boy, who writes a note saying, "Show boobies." And we tell him he'll never get a girlfriend if he treats women like that. Next.
We finally have a decent conversation with two 19-year-old boys in England, who are drinking pints of beer. They are in Cambridge. It is midnight there. One of them has just gotten home from working at a nightclub. We joke and say we are also in Cambridge (Massachusetts). And they're like, no way. And we admit that we're actually in New York. We say they look younger than 19 and one shows us his driver's license. It's impossible to read, but it disturbs me that someone would be displaying their license on ChatRoulette.
We joke about accents. We joke about British vs. American culture. They are playing a ChatRoulette drinking game that has already developed on Facebook. They want to play the "age game" with us, in which they will guess our age, and for every year they are away from our actual age, they have to drink a finger's worth of beer. They underguessed our age by a good five years, and wind up finishing their pints.
One of them — Christian — was very quiet. The other — Bradley — was very talkative. I told them Christian seemed like the quiet drummer of their twosome. "He is a drummer," says Bradley, surprised. They are in a band and send us to their MySpace page, and we talk about their music. Their band is named for a dead fox they came across on the side of the road.
The conversation is actually fun and seemingly normal, and lasted probably 20 minutes. But then Bradley disappeared and when he came back, he pulled down his pants and spread his buttcheeks for the camera. It was bizarre and unexpected, in part because they had already told us so much about themselves. We nexted them for that.
We came across a young boy in Connecticut. He had just turned 17. So we sang happy birthday to him, and then we signed off.
Overall, I'm a big fan of the site. I understand now why it's gotten so popular so quickly. It's reminiscent of AOL chat rooms, but far more intimate in a way, as you're actually invited into someone's home. You see where they live and what they look like, which makes the obfuscation of who you are much more difficult.
News organizations are already starting to write about how it's a dangerous place for children. Fox called it a "predator's paradise." Indeed, kids surfing the site aren't going to be able to avoid seeing a penis or two… or ten. And it's easy to reveal more about yourself than you realize.
Sophia easily found Bradley on Facebook and, to my surprise, given the buttcheek incident, she friended him. He accepted her Friendship request, and to my greater surprise, expressed shock that she'd been able to find him.
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|BOOMERANG WIND BLADES AND THE DEVICE THEREOF - A boomerang wind blade includes a blade body having a protruding front edge and a recess rear edge. Both sides of the center of the blade body are two wing parts bent at an angle. The wing shape of one wing part is round at the front edge and tapering towards the rear edge. The wing shape of the other wing part is round at the rear edge and tapering towards the front edge. The device with a boomerang wind blade has a shaft fixed to the center of the two wing parts of the blade body to rotate as the blade body is driven by wind. The device also has at least one generator coupled with the shaft to generate electrical power.
|Simplified Multilevel DC Converter Circuit StructureAANM Liao; Yi-HungAACI Erlun TownshipAACO TWAAGP Liao; Yi-Hung Erlun Township TWAANM Lai; Ching-MingAACI Taichung CityAACO TWAAGP Lai; Ching-Ming Taichung City TW - A simplified multilevel DC converter circuit structure comprises a dual input DC power supply, a power control module and an AC side low-pass filter, wherein each of the dual input DC power supply supplies half of the rated DC voltage to the power control module, and the power control module is composed of six power switches, and different switching combinations of each power switch are controlled to convert a DC voltage to an output of an AC voltage, and two of the power switches of the power control module perform a low-frequency switching twice every cycle of the output voltage, and the withstand voltage is equal to the input voltage, and the remaining power switches perform the switching by a high frequency, and the withstand voltage is only half of the input voltage, such that a multilevel voltage can be outputted, and a low harmonic AC waveform can be outputted from the AC side low-pass filter.


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Norwich — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy elicited a standing ovation at the start of Thursday's forum at City Hall when he honored Norwich Police Officer Jonathan Ley, who was wounded by an armed gunman during a standoff Jan. 7 on Cedar Street.
After that introduction, the audience reserved its applause for comments objecting to Malloy's proposed gun control measures in the wake of the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. Objections to gun- and ammunition-control measures dominated the forum, with some questions on health care funding and substance abuse programs posed by officials in those fields and a few others on taxes and jobs from members of the public.
Paul Nelson of Oakdale led off by asking Malloy why he would seek to punish lawful gun owners and sportsmen for the acts of a few murderers. Others echoed his fear that stringent gun control could lead to the government taking guns away from law-abiding citizens.
In response, Malloy showed mild frustration, saying it was difficult to respond to comments that the state plans to confiscate people's guns, and repeatedly said that was not true.
"Not yet," someone in the audience muttered.
Jeremy Newman, a member of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, said he bought AR-15 rifles before the Newtown tragedy and plans to teach his three young children how to shoot and "use weapons responsibly." He asked Malloy why the framers of the Constitution put the protection for gun ownership in the Bill of Rights and said banning high-powered guns would "give the government a monopoly of force over the citizens."
Malloy repeatedly said he supported the right to bear arms but said some gun regulation was necessary.
He cited existing and past laws that restricted certain types of weapons. Some, such as the decades-old ban on machine guns, never have been successfully challenged in court, he said. Malloy said the nation had a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines until 2004.
The state has a ban on some assault-style weapons, Malloy said, but there's a loophole "you can drive a truck through." Nancy Lanza, mother of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza, was able to purchase the AR-15 rifle her son used because it was a different brand and with different features than the banned weapons.
Malloy said he favors universal background checks for gun purchasers as well as limits on the size of ammunition magazines.
"I just want the same level of scrutiny, at least the level of scrutiny I have to go through when I get on a plane," he said.
Waterford High School senior Emily Stuchell told the governor that she has been skeet shooting since she was 11 years old and hopes to pursue the sport in college. Her two younger siblings also enjoy the sport, and a proposed tax on ammunition would affect her family directly, she said.
Malloy responded that he opposes any plan to tax ammunition.
Stuchell asked the governor to concentrate on mental health problems as the prime issue rather than gun control. She received loud applause in response to her comments.
Malloy said it's a myth that Connecticut does not focus on mental health issues, saying state medical insurance plans offer mental health coverage unmatched in any other state. He assured the audience that the issue would not be ignored.
Mayor Peter Nystrom introduced the governor at the start of the session with a dozen or more Norwich police officers standing across the front of Council Chambers awaiting the presentation to Ley. Nystrom asked the packed house — the chamber accommodated 140 people, with overflow attendance in a nearby room equipped with a TV — to be respectful of the governor.
A few audience members carried small signs, such as "NRA Stand and Fight," but the forum remained orderly.
Outside City Hall, protesters stood around the building and rang bells loudly throughout the hour-long public forum. Passing motorists occasionally honked in response.
Earlier in the evening, people started lining up 90 minutes before the meeting start time. Some carried larger signs and criticized Malloy for attacking both their First Amendment and Second Amendment rights.
"Stop attacking lawful citizens and our guns," one side of a sign held by Jen Ezzell said. "No gun regulation. Secure our schools."
Ezzell, of Lisbon, said Malloy owes an apology to everyone who demonstrated last week against Malloy's proposed gun control measures. Last week in New London, Malloy referred to the Hartford demonstrators as "the fringe of the fringe."
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Three weeks ago the Run on Sun team took San Francisco by storm for the annual Intersolar events and exhibition. In the solar industry products are changing incredibly fast. Intersolar and Solar Power International (September 14-17th) are the two most important events for industry experts to come together and be able to put our hands on the latest and greatest products while establishing relationships with potential partners around the world.
As we mentioned in our Intersolar 2015 Preview blog, we were really on the prowl in the exhibition hall. Number one on our list was to find viable storage options as our client-base is quickly shifting to time-of-use rates and smart storage will be a huge asset to enable more local consumption of energy at the right time, as well as to reduce those high demand spikes for commercial clients.
Enphase Energy, of microinverter fame, actually had their own booth at IS this year, a first for them, and their emphasis was on their modular storage solution - which they call the AC Battery - made possible by their next generation, S-Series microinverter - which is bi-directional. Since the system sits on the AC side of a solar installation, it is compatible with any solar system whether it uses Enphase microinverters or not.
Enphase readily acknowledges that the economic proposition for local consumption is not really present in the U.S. yet, which is why they are first rolling the product out in Australia. However, as the present discussions before the CPUC demonstrate, net metering is changing and soon. When it does, the economic case for systems like the AC Battery will become compelling.
Second task on our list was to find out what panels LG would be offering and when we could start getting them on rooftops. Since LG didn't have a booth at IS, hints toward panels with higher efficiency and higher output were verified by a meeting with our distributor, Baywa r.e. (formerly known as Focused Energy).We are now looking at 310 and 315 Watt panels available in September. This is up from the 305's currently available and 260's which were available this time just one year ago!
Our last mission as we weaved through the multitude of flashy products on display was to find better options for racking. While we have no intention of finding an alternative for our pitched roof racking company, Everest, our ballasted flat roof racking experience has left something to be desired by our installers. And the growing interest in solar carport systems means we need a good partner we can rely on to develop beautiful high-quality structures. We looked at several new products and talked to some great people on this front. We will be vetting these companies and discussing the applicability of their options with our clients over the next few months.
Any good industry gathering has GREAT parties, and the solar community definitely delivers in this department. The Run on Sun team enjoyed rubbing elbows with solar celebrities, new and old friends at various social events throughout the week. Laurel ate breakfast and discussed gender-specific solar challenges with WISE (Women in Solar Energy). The lunch hour Tweetup hosted by @SolarFred and put on by our friends at @Enphase, @RECSolar and @Grid was a blast. Of course the Solar Summerfest put on by CALSEIA and the Solar Battle of the Bands were not to be missed either. Who knew solar companies had such amazing musical talent?! The battle of the bands was more packed than we've ever seen, the only painful side to an ever expanding industry. Laurel's favorite, the awesome funk band from Sungevity rocked the house and took home the winning title. If you attended either event you probably spotted Run on Sun's Jim, Laurel and Josh making full use of the dance floor! No one on the RoS team will deny…we DO like to have fun.
The Run on Sun team cutting a rug at Solar Summerfest!
Thanks Kendra Hubbard for the pics!
Its hard to believe that in just over a month we will be boarding a local train to Anaheim for Solar Power International, "North America's largest solar trade show". Beyond what we saw at Intersolar, our distributor Baywa r.e will have a presence as well as our favorite solar panel manufacturer: Life's Good Electronics. We're looking forward to more exciting product announcements and connecting with friends once again! Hope to see you there!
Solar Power World, which recently quoted Run on Sun Founder & CEO Jim Jenal at length in a news article, has just announced their annual listing of the Top 250 Solar Contractors in the United States and Run on Sun made the list, coming in at number 234.
From Solar Power World's editorial announcing the list:
These companies have the vision to succeed in an industry dismissed by so many around the world. These companies — these visionaries — are poised to take full advantage of the near-term solar boom that none other than researcher Shayle Kann has predicted for the U.S. industry.
It is these businesses that have fueled the three-year growth of this industry of 227%. The Solar Power World's Top 250 employ 73,068 people and installed 3 GW in 2012 alone. They have installed 7.8 GW overall. They represent the best across all three segments — utility, commercial and residential — that make this industry so vibrant. In an industry now valued at $11.5 billion, these are the companies that have built it.
For a small, regional company like Run on Sun, it is a great honor to be listed among the biggest and best known solar companies in the country. We are proud of our role in building this industry, and proud to be a voice for making the industry live up to its vision. After all, you cannot claim to be part of building a sustainable future if you engage in shoddy business practices or stoop to unsavory marketing tricks.
So congrats to all our colleagues who made the list - here's to continuing to grow an industry we all love!
We have written at some length about Enphase micro-inverters in the past, but today Enphase returned the favor. Here was the lead story in their Summer 2012 Newsletter that just went out this morning:
That is Run on Sun Founder & CEO, Jim Jenal, posing amidst our solar installation at the Westridge School for Girls here in Pasadena. The article quoted Jim and provided a link back to our video highlighting the Westridge installation. Pretty cool.
Even cooler, however, was the meeting that we had this week with Mark Abrams, the Director of Product Management for Enphase. We met with Mark to provide him with feedback about their existing products and to offer our insights about their next generation product that is still in prototype. This was a great exchange - we told Mark what we loved about their products - but also important ways in which the product could be improved, at least in the eyes of an installer! Mark listened intently, took notes, and promised to see what he could do to incorporate our feedback.
It is hard to over estimate the value of such interactions between manufacturers and installers, yet it doesn't seem to happen as often as it should. So here's a note to the rest of the manufacturers out there - if you really want to improve your products, start spending (more) time with installers, and I don't mean your sales people. (Trust me, we already get more than enough contact from your sales reps.) You might not like everything that you hear, but learning first hand what our problems are is the best way to build a long-lasting relationship with the folks who are the most important to your long-term success.
After all, that might be Jim's face that you see in that photo, but it's Enphase's products that made that project a reality.
UPDATE AS OF 3:20 p.m.: We Made IT!!! Thanks to your overwhelming support, we garnered 250 votes in just 7 days! Thanks to everyone who voted and especially those who urged others to vote - you folks really rocked the house for us and we really appreciate it!
UPDATE: Here we are one week later and we have made great progress! As of 6:30 a.m. on June 14, we are up to 235 votes! So who will put us over the top? Maybe YOU!!! Please follow the directions below and Vote! Thanks so much!
As a general rule, we try to avoid blatant self-promotion in this blog - preferring instead to help educate folks about the solar industry. But this post is different - this post is a naked appeal to you, our dear reader, to help us grow our business in a most dramatic way!
Run on Sun is participating in a competition sponsored by Chase Bank and LivingSocial and your vote is key! Here's the deal - the sponsors are kicking in up to $3 million to award grants of $250,000 each to as many as twelve small businesses. Each competing small business submits an application that explains who they are, why they are awesome, and how they will make use of the grant should they be lucky enough to be chosen. But to even be considered, each small business must demonstrate their community support by getting 250 people to vote for them.
And that's where YOU come in!
If you click on the enormous blue button above, you will be taken to the program website. Once there, please click on the "Log in & Support" link on the bottom right. That will log you in via your Facebook account and take you to the search page.
In the search box you can either enter "Run on Sun" or select Pasadena, California to see all of the companies from Pasadena that are competing (there's a lot!). Either way, when you get to the Run on Sun entry, please vote for us. That's all there is to it!
To even be considered for the grant, we need to garner at least 250 votes and we need to do this before July 1. So please, click right NOW!
And as always, thanks so much for your support!
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YO I remember when I was like 6 and playing Gold, I used my Master Ball on a Zubat because I didn't realize the significance! I totally got yelled at by my older friend.
But these days, I NEVER use a master ball. I know it's a freebie, but since I consider myself a pretty good Pokemon collector, it just feels like a bailout. For whatever reason, using a master ball feels shameful, and I feel like I would look at the Pokemon that I used it on with a kind of disappointment.
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text: Posted March 6, 2012 Now this is very interesting, especially with all the interest in virtualisation and driving up utilisation of IT kit.... "VMworld Europe VMware rules the x86 server virtualization racket, giving physical servers multiple personalities. And now cell phone operators are lining up to support its Mobile Virtual Platform (MVP) hypervisor on smartphones. At the VMworld Europe conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, VMware announced that US cellphone operator Verizon and European operator Telefonica are the first service providers to ink strategic partnerships with VMware to support the MVP hypervisor on ARM-based phones running the Android operating system. Dubbed Persona Android devices, phones running MVP will be able to run a host Android instance on the phone and then load a second and distinct guest copy of Android, with different settings and isolated from the host Android, on the same physical device. The idea is to give business users the ability to run a whole phone personality and enterprise apps inside the guest Android instance, thus keeping it under control of the enterprise without messing up a personal smartphone's settings. The MVP hypervisor will work equally well on ARM-based fondleslabs, and Hoofar Razavi, director of product management for global solutions at VMware, says that LG, which inked an OEM agreement for MVP for its smartphones and tablets in December 2010, and Samsung, which did the same in July of this year, will eventually support MVP on their tablets. And while VMware is not previewing any partnerships with Apple, VMware does offer hypervisors for Mac OS-based computers and it is logical to assume that eventually it will offer a hypervisor for iOS-based iPhones and iPads." Would you be happy with more than one phone in one phone, driven by virtualisation? Read the full article over at The Register More information at VMWare Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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What's the buzz from the world of sports? Here are some items that will have people talking:
Seattle Times sports columnist Steve Kelley wrote Monday how Seattle Mariners outfielder Greg Halman "was an inextinguishable smile. Good day or 0-fer, he acted the same."
"It's all good," Halman liked to say.
Halman was stabbed to death on Monday in The Netherlands. His brother was being questioned in the death. (See story on Page B2.)
Kelley wrote about what made Halman so likable in Seattle:
"Even though he struggled to make it to the big leagues, Halman said he always dreamed big."
"This is what I want to do," he said that day. "This is what I dreamed about growing up at home. A lot of us did. I want to play this game as long as I can."
"In a Mariners clubhouse that needed a shot of personality, Halman, in his too-short time there, provided it. Every player loves being a big-leaguer, but Greg Halman loooooved it. He was a let's-play-two guy."
(Click here to read entire Steve Kelley column)
It's gray, wet and gloomy outside, so why not tune in ESPN for the Maui Invitational basketball tournament.
November college hoops you say?
Meaningless you say? Well wait just a minute … this is a quality event.
• Two of the last three Maui champions won the NCAA Tournament (Connecticut last year, North Carolina in 2009).
• 2006 Maui champ UCLA made the Final Four in March 2007.
• Anytime you have Duke and Kansas in a tournament together, it can't be all bad.
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Masanori Sasaki, MD, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Neurology; Visiting Assistant Professor of Neurology
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Stem Cell Center, Yale: Tissue Specific Stem Cells
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My research interest is in the area of cellular transplantation to repair spinal cord injury. My work has primarily utilized neural cells derived from adult tissues and processed for transplantation into injured spinal cord. I developed cells from the olfactory system called olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) that display unique properties that assist normal axon growth of olfactory sensory neurons into the brain. I have also engineered adult stem cells derived from bone marrow to hypersecrete a neurotrophic factor and has found that these cells are neuroprotective. Collectively, my research has important clinical implications and could lead to a clinical study in spinal cord injury patients.
Selected Publications
- Matsushita T, Lankford KL, Arroyo EJ, Sasaki M, Neyazi M, Radtke C, Kocsis JD. (2015) Diffuse and persistent blood-spinal cord barrier disruption after contusive spinal cord injury rapidly recovers following intravenous infusion of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells. Exp Neurol, 267:152-164
- Suzuki S, Kawamata J, Iwahara N, Matsumura A, Hisahara S, Matsushita T, Sasaki M, Honmou O, Shimohama S. (2015) Intravenous mesenchymal stem cell administration exhibits therapeutic effects against 6-hydroxydopamine-induced dopaminergic neurodegeneration and glial activation in rats. Neurosci Lett. 584:276-81.
- Lankford KL, Brown RJ, Sasaki M, Kocsis JD. (2013) Olfactory ensheathing cells, but not schwann cells, proliferate and migrate extensively within moderately X-Irradiated juvenile rat brain. GLIA, 62: 52-63
- Suzuki J, Sasaki M, Harada K, Bando M, Kataoka Y, Onodera R, Mikami T, Wanibuchi M, Mikuni N, Kocsis JD, Honmou O. (2013) Bilateral cortical hyperactivity detected by fMRI associates with improved motor function following intravenous infusion of mesenchymal stem cells in a rat stroke model, Brain Res, 1497:15-22.
- Honmou O, Onodera R, Sasaki M, Waxman SG, Kocsis JD. (2012) Mesenchymal stem cells: therapeutic outlook for stroke., Trends Mol Med, 18(5):292-7.
- Sasaki M, Honmou O, Radtke C, Kocsis JD (2011) Development of a Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Model in the Nonhuman Primate and a Safety Study of I.V.Infusion of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells, PLoS ONE, 6(10):e26577.
- Radtke C, Sasaki M, Lankford KL, Gallo V, Kocsis JD (2011) CNPase Expression in Olfactory Ensheathing Cells, J Biomed Biotechnol, 608496.
- Sasaki M, Lankford KL, Radtke C, Honmou O, KocsisJD Remyelination after olfactory ensheathing cell transplantation into diverse demyelinating environments, Exp Neurol, 229 (1): 88-98
- Sasaki M, Lankford KL, Brown RJ, Ruddle NH, Kocsis JD (2010) Focal experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in the Lewis rat induced by immunization with MOG and Intraspinal injection of VEGF, GLIA, 58(13):1523-31.
- Sasaki M, Radtke C, Tan AM, Zhao P, Hamada H, Houkin K, Honmou O, Kocsis JD (2009) BDNF- hypersecreting human mesenchymal stem cells promote functional recovery, axonal sprouting and protection of corticospinal neurons after spinal cord injury, J Neurosci, 29(47):14932-41.
- Sasaki M, Honmou O, Kocsis JD (2009) A rat middle cerebral artery occlusion model and intravenous cellular delivery, Methods Mol Biol, 549:187-95.
- Kocsis JD, Lankford KL, Sasaki M, Radtke C (2009) Unique in vivo properties of olfactory ensheathing cells that may contribute to neural repair and protection following spinal cord injury, Neurosci Lett, 456(3):137-42.
- Markakis EA, Sasaki M, Lankford KL, Kocsis JD (2009) Convergence of cells from the progenitor fraction of adult olfactory bulb tissue to remyelinating glia in demyelinating spinal cord lesions, PLoS One, 4(9):e7260.
- Lankford KL*, Sasaki M*, Radtke C, Kocsis JD (* Equal Contribution) (2008) Olfactory Ensheathing Cells Exhibit Unique Migratory, Phagocytic, and Myelinating Properties in the X-irradiated Spinal Cord not Shared by Schwann Cells, GLIA, 56(15)1664-78
- Radtke C, Sasaki M, Lankford KL, Vogt PM, Kocsis JD (2008) Potential of olfactory ensheathing cells for cell-based therapy in spinal cord, J Rehabil Res Dev, 45(1)141-152
- Kocsis JD, Sasaki M, Lankford KL, Radtke C (2007) CNS Regeneration: Basic Science and Clinical Advances, , Multiple Sclerosis: Remyelination, Elsevier Inc, 413-435, Published, ISBN=0123739942
- Sasaki M, Li B, Lankford KL, Radtke C, Kocsis JD (2007) Remyelination of the injured spinal cord, Prog Brain Res, 161:419-33.
- Radtke C, Spies M, Sasaki M, Vogt PM, Kocsis JD (2007) Demyelinating diseases and potential repair strategies, Int. J. Devl Neuroscience, 25, 149-153
- Sasaki M, Black JA, Lankford KL, Tokuno HA, Waxman SG, Kocsis JD (2006) Molecular reconstruction of nodes of Ranvier after remyelination by transplanted olfactory ensheathing cells in the demyelinated spinal cord, J Neurosci, 26(6):1803-12.
- Dombrowski MA, Sasaki M, Lankford KL, Kocsis JD, Radtke C (2006) Myelination and nodal formation of regenerated peripheral nerve fibers following transplantation of acutely prepared olfactory ensheathing cells, Brain Res, 1125(1):1-8.
- Sasaki M*, Hains BC*, Lankford KL, Waxman SG, Kocsis JD, (* Equal Contribution) (2006) Protection of corticospinal tract neurons after dorsal spinal cord transection and engraftment of olfactory ensheathing cells., GLIA, 53(4)352-9
- Sasaki M, Lankford KL, Zemedkun M, Kocsis JD (2004) Identified olfactory ensheathing cells transplanted into the transected dorsal funiculus bridge the lesion and form myelin, J Neurosci, 24(39):8485-93.
- Oka S, Honmou O, Akiyama Y, Sasaki M, Houkin K, Hashi K, Kocsis JD (2004) Autologous transplantation of expanded neural precursor cells into the demyelinated monkey spinal cord, Brain Res, 1030(1):94-102.
- Sasaki M, Honmou O, Akiyama Y, Uede T, Hashi K, Kocsis JD (2001) Transplantation of an acutely isolated bone marrow fraction repairs demyelinated adult rat spinal cord axons, Glia, 35(1):26-34.


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Ships can already moor at Greenwich, and the smallest vessels can fit upstream at Tower Bridge, in the heart of the City, but there's no terminal or berth at either.
The cruise terminal will be part of a refurbishment of the whole area around Enderby House, a protected historic building. The overall development will include 770 homes, a 251-room hotel, a new street and a public square with gardens and is expected to take four or five years to build, but the cruise terminal is earmarked as the first phase. Work will start at the end of this year and the terminal is expected to be ready, a spokesman for developer West Properties told Cruise Critic, for the Olympic Games next summer, accommodating ships up to 240m long (as an example, a ship about the length of Oceania's new 66,000-ton Marina).
The terminal will without doubt boost cruise tourism to London, but whether there will be demand for moorings for ships for the Olympics is another matter. Only one cruise ship, Peter Deilmann's Deutschland, has so far been confirmed as a floating hotel and will be berthed in West India Docks, closer to the Olympic stadium. And luxury line SeaDream Yacht Club last week cancelled its summer 2012 Baltic and northern Europe programme, blaming the situation partly on failing to secure a charter for the Games, according to www.travelweekly.co.uk.
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The Partisan Aspects of Congressional
Congress scholars call the late 1960s through the middle 1970s a time of "reform," and identify the time from the late 1970s to the middle 1990s as the "post-reform era." The wave of changes with the Republican takeover has not yet gained a label. The reform era saw greater rank-and-file access to power, while the post-reform era brought a steady trend toward centralization of power within the majority-party leadership, rather than committees.
A traditional organizing principle of research on Congress has been its norms. 1 In the post-reform era Republicans came to see norms as partisan tools to aid, cover, and justify expanded Democratic power. The four traditional norms in the House of Representatives are seniority, specialization, reciprocity, and institutional loyalty. 2 The seniority norm is apparent when committee chairs and party leadership positions go to senior members. This norm would be violated when, for example, younger members conspicuously supported a leadership candidate not blessed by the sitting leaders, as occurred in the 1989 GOP Whip race. The specialization norm requires members to focus on their committees' jurisdictions and stay out of other areas. Violations occur when members join ideological caucuses, or organize intraparty groups that address a broad range of issues. Clearly, Gingrich's Conservative Opportunity Society violated this norm. The reciprocity norm involves matters of personal conduct—horse-trading, log-rolling, and mutual comity should govern personal relationships. Gingrich probably was most noted for violating this norm. The institutional loyalty norm contends that no issue is important enough to destroy the chamber. House Democratic Whip Tony Coelho often said


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Apr 8 20082008 Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest is held every year at Purdue and requires contestants to complete a simple task with a complex machine in 20 or more ridiculous steps. Last year's objective was to juice an orange into a pitcher and pour the juice into a cup. This year's was to build a hamburger with patty, two vegetables, and two condiments. For the third time in four years the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers took top honors. Coincidence? I think not. I have the feeling there's something fishy going on here. Let's review the evidence: The contest is held at Purdue. Purdue wins a lot. *puts feet on desk, lights pipe* I think my work here is done.
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Perdue? Might want to fix that.
wow, I was so focused on "juice an orange into a picture", I didn't even notice that it was held at a Cluck U.
last time i checked i poured liquids into a pitcher
not only that, pour it into a "picture?" and if I'm not mistaken, quite a few different "Perdue" societies and associations participate in the contest. cool all the same.
Man, I wish I could see that live. I love Rube Goldberg-like contraptions. Anybody ever see the Switzerland exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry? It's awesome. I have a question, though: Since when did engineering students start looking like frat boys? Or is that only at Purdue?
I love the oven stuffer roaster.....Huh? What? Oh, nevermind.....
Who knew Andy Richter was an engineer on the side and like to judge contests. Good for you Andy!
Completely non-racist observation:
Anyone else notice that the purdue engineering team builds an awesome precise complicated machine that works perfectly, but the "black engineers team" build a simple piece of crap that doesn't even work right?
Man this makes me hope my house wasn't designed by a black engineer, or my car, or my computer, or my coffee cup.
I go to Ferris State our national championship wining Rube goldberg machine is insane in person


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As Brick Tamland from Anchorman said, "I love Lamp." When asked again if he was saying this just because he saw it, or if he really did love Lamp, Brick replied, "I love Lamp. I love Lamp." This state of mind is one that is tied deeply into all of our consciousness'. Brick is merely a fictional character in a Hollywood movie regardless. We as humans have a natural pattern called the Circadian Rhythm. I am here to give my opinion on why you might love Lamp, what Lamps can do for you, and a few other interesting tidbits about how a simple Lamp can be the difference between a good day and a great day.
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