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Boulder Racing: New Look, New Owners, Same Great Events!
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In March of 2011 the Colorado cycling community couldn't help but miss the new website and branding Boulder Racing rolled out. With the new logos and sponsors came the same great events the Colorado community has grown to love over the years. What most people don't know is that after 12 seasons Boulder Racing underwent a major behind the scenes transition in the way of new owners. So who are the new faces of Boulder Racing and what are their plans for the near and long term future?
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For those new to competitive bike racing Boulder Racing was founded in 1999 by Brian Hludzinski and over the next decade built the company into Colorado's leader in cycling event production. Over the years Boulder Racing become known for organized operations, professionally designed courses, stellar venues, and fun atmospheres for the whole family. At the end of 2010 Brian met the Panigutti brothers of Without Limits Productions. Without Limits, with its roots in triathlon production, dabbled in the cyclocross scene back in 2009 when it rolled out CYCLO X Boulder. Most missed the frigid event, but those who braved the 12 fresh inches of powder experienced one of the first chip timed cyclocross races, complete with lap times. The weather didn't weaken their resolve and passion for cyclocross production, which quickly caught the attention of Brian a few months later. The younger brother Lance commented after, "sure we lost money, but we got to play in the dirt with a bobcat for a week! Our goal was to show the possibilities of chip timing, which we achieved. Combine that with any chance you get to play with excavators and it's a win in our book!"
Lance and Tony Panigutti
Once Brian sat down with the Panigutti's he quickly realized that Without Limits possessed a very similar attitude that "racing is for all", along with a commitment to continually raise the bar season to season. It was a natural fit, and Lance and Tony Panigutti were proud to take over Boulder Racing's staple of events heading into the 2011 road season. At first the transition was kept relatively quiet compared to some of Without Limit's other acquisitions over the past 2 years. "Our backgrounds stem from triathlon production (road and off road). I won't say cycling is easier as they both possess unique challenges, but this first season was all about getting our feet wet." – Tony Panigutti.
So what does the near and long-term future hold? Sure Boulder Racing has plans for new events, but the main focus remains on elevating the participation and status of its core; Louisville Crit, Koppenberg, Mike Horgan, and the Boulder Cyclocross Series. With 40 races in 4 different states it doesn't leave too many free weekends for new block buster events, but they did comment something big was on the horizon! "I'd love to see 1,000+ people at a Boulder Cyclocross Series Event in the next two years, which is very feasible. The goal back in 2008 was always to cross brand our cycling, cyclocross, triathlon, XTERRA, and running divisions. The real growth for Boulder Racing, specifically cyclocross, is going to flow from sports like triathlon or even running." – Lance Panigutti
If you're curious what Brian is up to these days just cruise out to an event. Now that he's free from race directing duties you'll find Brian on the start line of the 35+ (Road Season) or SM Open (Cyclocross) Categories. For more information on Boulder Racing check out www.boulderracing.com and stay tuned late Nov for exciting announcements regarding the 2012 road season.
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2012 Meet Notes - Pac-12 Championships
TEMPE -- The Arizona State University cross country teams open the championship season on Saturday as the team heads west to take part in the Pac-12 Cross Country Championships on Oct. 27 in Santa Clarita, Calif. The women will open the competition with a 6,000-meter run beginning at 9:40 a.m. PT at the Robinson Ranch Golf Course while the men will follow with the 8,000-meter race at 10:40 p.m. This is the second year the championship will be held under the new Pac-12 Conference with the additions of Colorado and Utah, with Colorado sweeping both the men's and women's races in the inagural championship in Litchfield Park, Ariz., last year.
The men will be competing in the Pac-12 Championships for the 29th time this year while the women will run for the 27th time since the Sun Devils joined the Conference in 1979. The squads began competing in cross country in 1984 and 1986, respectively. While neither team has won the Conference crown, both have come close as the men have finished as the meet runner-up twice (the last coming in 2004) and the women have done so seven times (the last coming in 2006). Overall, the men have finished the Top 3 four times while the women have done so 10 times. On an individual basis, only one Sun Devil has ever been crowned the Pac-12 Champion and that was Amy Hastings, who won the race at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 2004.
Last year, Shelby Houlihan solidified her spot as the Pac-12 Newcomer of the Year with an eighth-place finish overall to lead the women to a sixth-place finish and help pave the way for an NCAA Championship berth. The men struggled at the Wigwam Golf Course, finishing ninth overall.
As usual, both the men's and women's races are stacked at the 2012 Championships. Four men's teams are ranked in the latest USTFCCCA Coaches poll, with both Colorado and Stanford ranked Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. Oregon enters at No. 8 in the country while UCLA is No. 15. On the women's side, half the Pac-12 teams are ranked in the most recent national ranking, including four teams in the top six. Oregon, Stanford, Arizona and Washington currently sit in positions 3-6, respectively, in the latest poll with Colorado in 21st and UCLA in 24th. Both of last year's individual champions will be back to defend their conference crowns this year in Washington's Katie Flood and Arizona's Lawi Lalang.
The ASU men just missed cracking the rankings for the first time this season, collecting votes for the first time in 2012 and sitting as the first team outside of the top 30. The women's team did not receive any votes in the most recent USTFCCCA Coaches Poll. In the regional rankings, the ASU men remained in fifth while the women dropped three spots to 10th in the West Region Rankings.
For the first time ever, the Pac-12 Men's and Women's Cross Country Championships will be on television, with tape-delayed coverage of the championships airing on the Pac-12 Networks. Dwight Stones will serve as the analyst, while Jim Watson will provide play-by-play. The broadcast will be aired on the Pac-12 Networks on Nov. 5 (6 p.m.), Nov. 6 (7 p.m.), Nov. 7 (11 p.m.), Nov. 8 (6 a.m.) and Nov. 8 (11 a.m.)
Exclusive content on every Pac-12 men's and women's cross country team will be available on the Pac-12's official website at www.pac-12.com. Hover over the 'Events' tab on the navigation bar and click on 'Cross Country' or click on the link: /ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=30300&ATCLID=208254335. Previews, as well as real-time coverage on the day of the championships, will be posted, including live stats, Twitter updates and Facebook updates. In addition, fans can download facebook cover photos now. At the conclusion of the race, official results and recaps will be posted on the championships page.
Arizona State will be providing live updates via Twitter and Facebook, which can be viewed by following us at www.facebook.com/sundeviltfxc and @SunDevilTFXC.
Shelby Houlihan clocked the fastest 6,000-meter cross country race in school history and the Arizona State University men took 21st overall to earn valuable at-large points as the team finished up competition on Friday at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational in Madison, Wis. In her first 6k of the season, Houlihan clocked a time of 19:58 for a 13th-place overall finish in a field of 327 to establish herself as having the fastest time ahead of ASU Olympian Amy Hastings at the top of the school's all-time performance list. The men took their first step towards earning an NCAA Championship qualification on Friday, finishing 21st of 45 teams despite entering the competition in the somewhere around 30th on paper entering the meet. ASU defeated ranked teams in No. 13 Notre Dame, No. 16 Minnesota, No. 29 Virginia and No. 30 Missouri as well as several other teams that might be on the bubble when the championship field is decided next month.
There was no more dynamic freshman in the conference last year that Shelby Houlihan, and the sophomore was honored in 2011 as the Pac-12 Cross Country Newcomer of the Year before following that up with the 2012 Track and Field Newcomer Award as Well - becoming the first student-athlete in conference history to complete the sweep Houlihan was the top freshman finisher at the Pac-12 Championships (8th) and the NCAA West Regional (12th) and led the women to their 13th NCAA Championships appearance in the last 14 years. Houlihan kickstarted the 2012 campaign by winning the George Kyte Invitational in Flagstaff for her first career collegiate victory as she nearly set the course record with a time of 16:52.4. Houlihan would go on to pace the team at the Notre Dame Invitational a couple weekends ago with a 13th-place overall finish in 16:58. Houlihan has been the ASU's top finisher in every race of her collegiate career thus far.
It took senior Darius Terry one race to pick up where he left off last cross country season before injury limited him towards the end of the season. Terry was third at the Pac-12 Preview hosted by UCLA in a time of 24:35 and was just five seconds shy of No. 18 Northern Arizona's Brian Shrader - regarded as one of the top runners in the country - who finished in 24:30 for the eventually team champion Lumberjacks. Terry was the Sun Devils top runner early last year, winning the George Kyte Classic and posting a strong run at the Roy Griak Invitational and looked prime for a potential All-American season before sturggling at the Pac-12 Championships and sitting out the NCAA West Regionals for precuationary measures. Terry will be pivotal to the team's success this season and a healthy Terry is a good thing for all parties involved.
Arizona State's biggest offseason pickup may prove to be University of Kansas graduate transfer Zach Zarda. An NCAA West Preliminary round 5,000m competitor for the Jayhawks in 2012, Zarda showed what he could bring to the Sun Devils with a strong sixth-place run at the Pac-12 Preview hosted by UCLA in a time of 24:43. The finish prompted head coach Louie Quintana to say Zarda earned the "game ball" for the race. Zarda followed that up with a championship-caliber run at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational, finishing as the team's top finisher with a 37th-place finish in sub-24 fashion.
Last season, Shelby Houlihan made history by being the first person in conference history to sweep the Pac-12 Newcomer of the Year Award for both the cross country and track and field seasons. So who are ASU's candidates to challenge for that honor this season? CJ Albertson is a young man that men's coach Louie Quintana is very excited about. A freshman out of Buchanan High School in Clovis, Calif. (the same school as former ASU great and Olympian Kyle Alcorn and current teammate Macy Bricks) was among the top high school cross country runners in the season last year, qualifying for the Footlocker Nationals despite battling injury through the season. Adriana Olivas is a freshman out of Corona, Calif. (Centennial HS) who is the gritty, hard-working sort of runner that women's coach Ryan Cole says represents what the program is all about and could make a splash early as well. Other notable newcomers include Zach Zarda, a 2012 NCAA West Preliminary Qualifier on the track, and Garrett Seawell, the 2012 California State Junior College Cross Country champion.
After advancing to 12 consecutive NCAA Championship appearances from 1998-2009, the Sun Devil women's cross country team had one of the longest active streaks in the nation before missing out in 2010. Some might have thought it was an end to the dynasty, but the women regrouped last season to advanced to their 13th championship meet in 14 years and will look to restart the streak with another appearance in 2012.
Nick Happe was a pleasant surprise for the Sun Devils in 2011 and the senior will be looked upon as a leader this season. Happe was the team's top runner through most of last season and saw that come to fruition with an All-West Region finish at the NCAA West Region Championships. That momentum carried to the track for Happe as he set personal records indoors in the mile, 3000m and 5000m and moved up the ASU all-time top-10 list in all three events. He was a second-team All-American in the mile and looks primed for a solid senior campaign.
Coming into his ninth season as a head coach for Arizona State cross country, Louie Quintana has put together quite the program since taking over in August 2004. During his seven years leading the distance group, Quintana has worked with seven individuals that earned 10 total All-America honors in cross country, including the program's only three-time honoree Amy Hastings and Brandon Bethke who placed seventh nationally at the 2009 NCAA Championships. On the track, his athletes have been instrumental in helping the Sun Devils capture four national titles and three Pac-10 crowns. He has worked with four individuals that have collected five NCAA titles, including Kyle Alcorn, who won the indoor 3,000-meter run and the outdoor 3,000-meter steeplechase in 2008 and more recently, Mason McHenry, who was the 2012 NCAA Indoor 800m champion.
Ryan Cole has built up a reputation as one of the most promising and exciting up-and-coming young coaches in the nation and was named as the head coach for the women's cross country team for the 2011 campaign as a testament to that. Now in his second year as head women's cross country coach, Cole began working with the Arizona State program during the 2007-08 campaign and had served as an assistant ever since. In that time, Cole worked with the ASU women's distance teams serving under Coach Louie Quintana while also handling many of the daily administrative aspects of the Arizona State program and working with the management of home meets. Cole led the ASU women back to the NCAA Championships in 2011 for the 13th time in the last 14 years.
The Arizona State cross country rosters feature a total of 33 student-athletes (16 men, 17 women). Of that total, there will be 12 brand new faces gracing the Sun Devil uniform. The women's squad features five true freshmen in Marcelle Cartledge (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Tory Haberman (Gilbert, Ariz.), Kaitlin Kaluzny (Yakima, Wash.), Adiana Olivas (Corona, Calif.) and Alexia Velarde (Rancho Mirage, Calif.). Dalanne Bartlette will join the Sun Devils with three years of eligibility after transferring from Shata Community College while Christen Collins will come on as a transfer out of the University of San Diego. On the men's side, CJ Albertson and Connor Vigil represent the line true freshmen while transfers Jeff Bickert (RS-Fr./Pleasant Hill, Calif/Cal Poly SLO), Garrett Seawell (Jr./Sacremento, Calif./American River JC) and Zach Zarda (Sr./Shawnee, Kan./Kansas) will debut for ASU this year. In addition to the new faces, redshirt freshmen Ryan Herson, Daniel Wong and Heyden Wooff could all contribute for the men this year in their first action with the Sun Devils.
Both the men's and women's rosters are loaded with underclassmen but both squads will look to the seniors to help lead the way. Coming into the year, Darius Terry and Nick Happe are far and away the top returning runners on the roster and among the top returners in the conference with Doug Smith expected to make contributions as well. For the women, two local products in Hailey Hanna and Natasa Vulic are the lone seniors, both walk-on's who have been praised by Cole for doing everything necessary to get to this point and providing the model work ethic for the younger women to follow.
One of the keys to building one of the top running programs in nation is the ability to recruit well from the areas around you. The Sun Devil teams have taken that task seriously and will field eight Arizona natives on the 2012 roster, several of whom will be expected to play a large role on this year's team. Mention as already been made of Hailey Hanna (Mesa, Ariz.) and Natasa Vulic (Phoenix, Ariz.) for the women. But the team also welcomes freshmen Marcella Cartledge (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Tory Haberman (Gilbert, Ariz.) this season in addition to junior transfer Christen Collins (Phoenix, Ariz.). Redshirt freshman Daniel Wong (Tucson, Ariz.), redshirt sophomore Garrett Baker-Slama (Tempe, Ariz.) and redshirt senior Josh Walker (Chandler, Ariz.) are some others that could play a pivotal part as the season progresses for the men.
Not only is the ASU cross country team looking to get things accomplished on the athletic side of things in 2012, but they have also started to put in work in the classroom as well. Four members of the Sun Devil women's squad and three men will take classes as part of Barrett, The Honors College, during the 2012-13 academic calendar. Barrett, which has been named among the top honors colleges in the nation, enrolls nearly 40 Sun Devil student-athletes in its highly selective program with almost a quarter coming from the cross country programs. The members representing the cross country team in the honors college consist of Natasa Vulic (Sr.), Marcella Cartledge (Fr.), Karlee Owens (Jr.) and Kayla Springford (So.) on the women's team and Garrett Baker-Slama (So.), Daniel Wong (Rs-Fr.) and Nick Happe (Sr.) for the men.
Nick Happe earned USTFCCCA All-West Honors as the ASU men came painstakingly shy of an NCAA Championship qualification last season. The team took eighth at the NCAA West Regional Championships after a disappointing last-place finish at the Pac-12 Championship just weeks earlier. The team opened strong on the heels of Darisu Terry's individual victory at the George Kyte Classic in the season opener. The team rode that momentum to a fourth-place finish at the Roy Griak Invitational. Terry was fifth at that event to lead the team before injuries slowed him down over the rest of the season, eventually knocking him out of competition at the regional meet.
A young Arizona State women's squad advanced to the 13th NCAA Championship appearance in 14 years for the program on the heels of freshman phenom Shelby Houlihan. Houlihan was named the Pac-12 Cross Country Newcomer of the year follow All-Conference and All-Region finishes on the year. The women took sixth at the Pac-12 Conference championships and followed that with a seventh place finish at the NCAA West Regional Championships to earn an at-large bid the the NCAA Championships.


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Come enjoy the peak of fall colors in the beautiful Arkansas Valley and some hard
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This is my first broken bone. What can I expect?
Gregory Sirounian, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon at Banner Estrella Medical Center.
Question: This is my first broken bone. What can I expect?
Answer: Broken bones, or fractures, are becoming more common as people live longer. A fracture can result from a major accident or simple fall. Certain medical conditions, such as osteoporosis, medications and poor nutrition, can lead to weakening of bones and increase a person's risk of fracture.
Some fractures need urgent attention, and this can only be determined by a qualified health care provider. Evaluation at a local emergency room, urgent care center or doctor's office is important. Diagnosis requires proper x-rays or other non-invasive tests. Initial management involves immobilization, elevation, and icing, to reduce pain and swelling. Anti-inflammatory and pain medications are often helpful. More severe injuries may require immediate surgery if there are associated open wounds or damage to major nerves or blood vessels.
Most broken bones heal naturally, within two or three months of injury, but protection is usually needed. Treatment options depend on many factors—namely, the nature of the injury and age, activity level, health, and concerns of the patient. Most fractures can be managed without surgery, using splints, casts, bracing, or sling immobilization, until sufficient healing occurs.
Some fractures may shift out of alignment or be slow to heal, necessitating surgery, in order to optimize outcome. Methods of surgical fixation include placement of metal pins, plates, screws, or rods, to hold bones in proper alignment while they heal. More severely-injured and slow-healing bones sometimes benefit from implantation of internal, biological materials or application of small, external, electromagnetic or ultrasonic devices (bone stimulators.)
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June 2016
In life as in song, Joe Henry says "we're really called not to dispel mystery but to abide it, to engage it." He brings an inward wisdom to the art and craft of making music. Cherished by fans and fellow musicians alike, he's produced a dozen albums of his own and for an array of artists, including Ani DiFranco, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Allen Toussaint, and Billy Bragg. And he's written songs together with Rosanne Cash and Madonna. With Joe Henry, we probe the mystery and adventure of discovering life through music.
There is no such thing as closure. Family therapist Pauline Boss says that the idea of closure in fact leads us astray — it's a myth we need to put aside, like the idea we've accepted that grief has five linear stages and we come out the other side done with it. She coined the term "ambiguous loss," creating a new field in family therapy and psychology. And she has wisdom for the complicated griefs and losses in all of our lives and in how we best approach the losses of others — including those very much in our public midst right now.
Sixteen Muslims, in their own words, speak about the delights and gravity of Islam's holiest month. Through vivid memories and light-hearted musings, they reveal the richness of Ramadan — as a period of intimacy, and of parties; of getting up when the world is quiet for breakfast and prayers with one's family; of breaking the fast every day after nightfall in celebration and prayers with friends and strangers.
The emerging science of implicit bias is one of the most promising fields for animating the human change that makes social change possible. The social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji is one of its primary architects. She understands the mind as a "difference-seeking machine" that helps us order and navigate the overwhelming complexity of reality. But this gift also creates blind spots and biases, as we fill in what we don't know with the limits of what we do know. This is science that takes our grappling with difference out of the realm of guilt, and into the realm of transformative good.
It was supposed to be a discussion about "culture and conscience" with two social scientists, as part of a public gathering of the Center for Humans and Nature at the American Museum of Natural History. But Jonathan Haidt is studying the relationship between capitalism and moral evolution, and our conversation took off from there in surprising directions. The liberal view of capitalism as essentially exploitative may remain alive and well, Haidt says. But the ironic truth of history is that capitalism actually generates liberal values as it takes root in societies. Our conversation preceded this American cultural-political season but offers provocative perspective on it.
May 2016
A singular writer and thinker, Rebecca Solnit celebrates the unpredictable and incalculable events that so often redeem our lives both solitary and public. She searches for the hidden, transformative histories inside events we chronicle merely as disasters, in places like post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. She writes that, so often, "when all the ordinary divides and patterns are shattered, people step up to become their brothers' keepers. And that purposefulness and connectedness bring joy even amidst death, chaos, fear, and loss."
Kevin Kling is part funny guy, part poet and playwright, part wise man. A treasured figure on the national storytelling circuit, his voice inhabits an unusual space — where a homegrown Minnesota wit meets Dante and Shakespeare. Born with a disabled left arm, he lost the use of his right one after a motorcycle accident nearly killed him. He shares his special angle on life's humor and its ruptures — and why we turn loss into story.
"The soul is contained in the human voice," says David Isay, founder of StoryCorps. He sees the StoryCorps booth — a setting where two people ask the questions they've always wanted to ask each other — as a sacred space. He shares his wisdom about listening as an act of love, and how eliciting and capturing our stories is a way of insisting that every life matters.
This episode, a "theft of the dial." Writer and traveler Pico Iyer turns the tables on our host Krista Tippett by asking her the questions. Her latest book, Becoming Wise, chronicles what she's learned through her conversations with the most extraordinary voices across time and generations, across disciplines and denominations. An illuminating conversation on the mystery and art of living.
April 2016
Nobel physicist Frank Wilczek sees beauty as a compass for truth, discovery, and meaning. His book, A Beautiful Question, is a long meditation on the question: "Does the world embody beautiful ideas?" He's the unusual scientist willing to analogize his discoveries about the deep structure of reality with deep meaning in the human everyday.
The civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander is one of the people who is waking us up to history we don't remember, and structures most of us can't fathom intending to create. She calls the punitive culture that has emerged the "new Jim Crow," and is making it visible in the name of a fierce hope and belief in our collective capacity to engender the transformation to which this moment is calling.
The band Cloud Cult is hard to categorize — both musically and lyrically — though it's been called an "orchestral indie rock collective." Less in question is the profound and life-giving force of its music. Cloud Cult's trajectory was altered the day its co-founder and singer-songwriter, Craig Minowa, and his wife woke up to find that their two-year-old son had mysteriously died in his sleep. Live from our studios on Loring Park, we explore the art that has emerged ever since — spanning the human experience from the rawest grief to the fiercest hope.
"Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet / confinement of your aloneness / to learn / anything or anyone / that does not bring you alive / is too small for you."
David Whyte is a poet and philosopher who believes in the power of a "beautiful question" amidst the drama of work as well as the drama of life — amidst the ways the two overlap, whether we want them to or not. He shared a deep friendship with the late Irish philosopher John O'Donohue. They were, David Whyte says, like "two bookends." More recently, he's written about the consolation, nourishment, and underlying meaning of everyday words.
March 2016
When Tiffany Shlain thinks of her favorite quote from naturalist John Muir, she thinks of the internet: "When you tug at a single thing in the universe, you find it's attached to everything else." As a filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards — the "Oscars of the internet" — she is committed to reframing technology as an expression of the best of what humanity is capable, with all the complexity that entails. With her young family, she has helped popularize the practice of the "tech shabbat" — 24 unplugged hours each week. Her perspective on our technology-enhanced lives is ultimately a purposeful and enriching one: the internet is our global brain, towards which we can apply all the wisdom we are gaining about the brains in our heads and the character in our lives.
There's a kind of brilliance that flashes up in early adulthood: an ability to see the world whole. Nathan Schneider has been able to articulate and sustain that far-seeing eye of young adulthood. He's also a gifted writer, chronicling the world he and his compatriots are helping to make — spiritual, technological, and communal. At the Chautauqua Institution, we explore the wisdom of a millennial generation public intellectual on the emerging fabric of human identity.
In the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni was a revolutionary poet of the Black Arts Movement that nourished civil rights. She had a famous dialogue with James Baldwin in Paris in 1971. Now a professor at Virginia Tech, she brought beauty and courage by way of poetry after the shooting there. Today, she is a self-proclaimed space freak and a delighted elder — an adored voice to hip-hop artists and the new forms of social change this generation is creating.
The Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah is a rich, magnetic world of thought and teaching. It has resonance with modern understandings of reality — and describes a cosmic significance to the practical moral call to tikkun olam, "repair the world." Rabbi Lawrence Kushner is a long-time student and articulator of the mysteries and messages of Kabbalah. We speak with him in honor of the 20th-century historian Gershom Scholem, who resurrected this tradition from obscurity and made it accessible to modern people.
The great cellist Yo-Yo Ma is a citizen artist and a forensic musicologist, decoding the work of musical creators across time and space. In his art, Yo-Yo Ma resists fixed boundaries, and would like to rename classical music just "music" — born in improvisation, and traversing territory as vast and fluid as the world we inhabit. In this generous and intimate conversation, he shares his philosophy of curiosity about life, and of performance as hospitality.
February 2016
"Why is the world so beautiful?" This is a question Robin Wall Kimmerer pursues as a botanist and also as a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She writes, "Science polishes the gift of seeing, indigenous traditions work with gifts of listening and language." An expert in moss — a bryologist — she describes mosses as the "coral reefs of the forest." Her work opens a sense of wonder and humility for the intelligence in all kinds of life we are used to naming and imagining as "inanimate." She says that as our knowledge about plant life unfolds, human vocabulary and imaginations must adapt.
We've heard a lot about Black Lives Matter, but you may never have heard one of its founders reflect outside a moment of crisis. Black Lives Matter co-founder and artist Patrisse Cullors presents a luminous vision of the resilient world we're making now. She joins Dr. Robert Ross, a physician and a leader who is helping redefine public health in terms of human wholeness, in a cross-generational conversation. They give voice to the generative potential in this moment we inhabit — its courage and creativity, its seeds in trauma and resilience, and its possibility for all of our growth as individuals and community.
Brain surgeon James Doty is on the cutting edge of our knowledge of the brain and the heart: how they talk to each other; what compassion means in the body and in action; and how we can reshape our lives and perhaps our species through the scientific and human understanding we are now gaining. The backstory of James Doty's passions is told in his memoir, Into the Magic Shop. In the summer of 1968, in the throes of a hardscrabble, perilous childhood, he wandered into a magic shop and met a woman named Ruth who taught him what she called "another kind of magic" that freed him from being a victim of the circumstances of his life, and that he now investigates through science.
Jean Berko Gleason is a living legend in the field of psycholinguistics — how language emerges, and what it tells us about how we think and who we are. She has helped to illustrate the remarkable ordinary human capacity to begin to speak, and she's continued to break new ground in exploring what this may teach us about adults as about the children we're raising. We keep learning about the human gift, as she puts it, to be conscious of ourselves and to comment on that. For her, the exploration of language is a frontier every bit as important and thrilling as exploring outer space or the deep sea.
January 2016
"Let death be what takes us," Dr. BJ Miller has written, "not a lack of imagination." As a palliative care physician, he brings a design sensibility to the matter of living until we die. And he's largely redesigned his sense of own physical presence after an accident at college left him without both of his legs and part of one arm. He offers a transformative reframing on our imperfect bodies, the ways we move through the world, and all that we don't control.
Now nearing 90, Brother David Steindl-Rast has lived through a world war, the end of an empire, and the fascist takeover of his country. He's given a TED talk, viewed over five million times, on the subject of gratitude — a practice increasingly interrogated by scientists and physicians as a key to human well-being. He was also an early pioneer, together with Thomas Merton, of dialogue between Christian and Buddhist monastics. In this conversation from our visit to the Gut Aich Priory monastery in St. Gilgen, Austria, he speaks of mysticism as the birthright of every human being, and of the anatomy and practice of gratitude as full-blooded, reality-based, and redeeming.
Stephen Batchelor's "secular Buddhism" speaks to the mystery and vitality of spiritual life in every form. For him, secularism opens to doubt and questioning as a radical basis for spiritual life. Above all, he understands Buddhism without transcendent beliefs like "karma" or "reincarnation" to become something urgent to do, not to believe in.
One of the most extraordinary minds of American and global history, W.E.B. Du Bois penned the famous line that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." He is a formative voice for many of the people who gave us the Civil Rights Movement. But his passionate, poetic words and intelligence continue to enliven 21st-century life on the color line and beyond it. We bring Du Bois' life and ideas into relief — featuring one of the last interviews the great Maya Angelou gave before her death.


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NAVIGON questions and answers
If you drive using NAVIGON, you'll want the exact details. How to download updates, for example, or install additional maps or services, or how NAVIGON FreshMaps works. You'll find manuals, downloads and answers to your questions here.
Select a topic, or enter a keyword to restrict your selection.
- How can I calibrate the touchscreen?
Most devices have the possibility to calibrate the touchscreen. The displayed software option bars and buttons can be matched exactly and precisely to your touch. Generally during the first start of your navigation system you will be asked automatically to calibrate the touchscreen. You can also do a calibration manually. In this case, please follow instructions:
"Options" - "Settings" - "Options" - "Touchscreen Calibration".
In both cases a white screen with black text and a black cross will appear. Just follow the instructions on the screen. During the calibration process you have to touch some crosses on the screen. Just use your finger or a stylus pen (with older devices)This entry was last updated on: Thursday, May 21, 2015 4:55 PM
If you have to calibrate over and over again or if after turning on the device you are ask to recalibrate it again, this can have the following reasons:
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Hospice offers holiday ornaments along with luminary display
Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 11:14 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 11:14 a.m.
Hospice of Davidson County invites residents to honor the memory of those who have passed away with a holiday ornament and luminary this year.
Hospice has partnered with Sakonnet Pottery in Rhode Island to produce a hand-made, porcelain dove ornament for 2012. The 4.5x2.5-inch ornament is stamped with the Hospice of Davidson County heart inside.
In addition to the ornament, Hospice of Davidson County will also offer a luminary display on its campus this December as another way to honor a loved one. Family members and friends can reserve a luminary labeled with the name of the loved one to be remembered. Luminaries will be on display beginning Dec. 10 through Christmas at Hospice of Davidson County, 200 Hospice Way.
Hospice is offering a package of one ornament and the reservation of one remembrance luminary for $20. Additional individual ornaments can be purchased for $12 each. Advance orders can be placed by calling 475-5444.
From 5-8 p.m. Dec. 11, Hospice of Davidson County invites families and the community to come to the campus, off of U.S. Highway 64 East, to pick up pre-ordered ornaments and walk around to view the luminary display. Additional ornaments will be for sale at this event, and light refreshments will be available as well.
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ZF-6208: Currency symbol not correctly parsed from locale files
At least two currencies (RON and INR) don't have the correct symbol when calling toCurrency on a Zend_Currency object. The specific issue is that the symbol value in the XML isn't parsed at all, so unparsed text is added to the currency string. As a result, one ends up with "formatted" currency values which look like this:
0≤Rs.|1≤Re.|1 1,446.64
For the en_IN locale, for a INR ISO currency code value. In addition to breaking for the Indian Rupee, this breaks in similar ways for other locales and for the Romania Leu.
The issue is that the value is encoded per this specification: http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Choice_Patterns
Since this effects a small number a currencies at the moment, it would seem the simplest thing to do is to special case them rather than build a general purpose parser because the XML format in this case is clearly sub-par.
For the locale en_IN, the currency INR is defined with the currency sign "Rp" and RON has no defined currency sign. This value is returned from the parsed CLDR data.
Please give reproducable code, otherwise related to the not reproducable description this issue will be closed as non-issue.
Feature added even if the given description does not use this feature. Actually there is only one currency within several locales which makes use of this feature.


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Hey, I've made a Pinball Machine and have programmed it with LeJOS. The program is quite simple (250 lines, few listeners) but it's all I needed.
Pinball Machine uses one NXT Brick, 4 touch sensors (3 of them are attached to one port) and 2 light sensors. After pressing orange button the ball is given and a new game is started. Every game has three balls total. If the ball is lost within 10 seconds after start, the ball is returned without losing one.
Scoring points:
- losing ball after 10 seconds - 50 points
- hitting both Red and Green Bumpers - 100 points
- hitting one of the Yellow Bumpers - 200 points
- getting ball to the Black Hole - 300 points
Black Hole opens up every 500 points, then player has 20 second to get the ball into it. If 5 seconds is left Black Hole's light starts flashing.
If you like this pinball machine you can check my other projects on youtube or in the gallery.


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Ellen Barkin has a lot to be happy about. She won a Tony this year for her Broadway debut as Dr. Emma Brookner in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart and her passion project, the dark comedy Another Happy Day, hits theatres on November 18. The film marks two firsts: it's the directorial debut of 26-year-old writer Sam Levinson (Barkin's rumored beau) as well as Barkin's first time producing. She plays Lynn, a woman who has a lot to be unhappy about: her teenage son Elliot (Ezra Miller) has a drug problem, her daughter (Kate Bosworth) cuts herself, and her mother (Ellen Burstyn) sides with Lynn's abusive ex-husband (Thomas Haden Church) and his unbearable new wife (Demi Moore). When the whole family reunites at Lynn's eldest son's wedding, her long bottled-up frustrations finally explode.
Though the film has laughs (see: the bathroom catfight between Barkin and Moore), Barkin spends much of it in tears as Lynn unravels. Here, she tells More about the challenges of playing an imperfect mother:
More: Let's talk about your character, Lynn. She seems to have good intentions ...
Ellen Barkin: Seems to? I hope she does have good intentions, flat out.
More: Yes, but she goes about things the wrong way.
EB: That's certainly what drew me to the character. I was given the opportunity to give a voice to an unheard group of women. I think that one of the last taboos in Hollywood—in the face of all the extreme violence and all of the bullshit propaganda we watch—is the idea of motherhood and what I know to be 98 percent of mothers, mothers that have only good intentions, want the best for their kids, and make mistakes big and small. I don't see that a lot onscreen. We see performances that are transcendent like what Monique did in Precious where she managed to take a tremendously abusive mother and just crack my heart open. Then we see caricatures of mothers who are crazy. We don't see mothers like Lynn.
More: Did you identify with Lynn?
EB: I'm Lynn and every woman I know is Lynn. I don't know anyone who doesn't want the best for their kids and I don't anyone who hasn't made mistakes in trying to pursue that. The way the movie is structured, you don't realize until about a third of the way in that Lynn is right. She's right, but how she goes about trying to save herself and her children, she piles up a shitload of mistakes. It was just an enormous job, an enormous character to tackle and an endless well of self-discovery and of me saying, 'Ok, I gotta expose some very hard secrets.' I am a 57-year-old woman with a 22-year-old son and a 19-year-old daughter [by her former marriage to actor Gabriel Byrne] and I have to get up there in every scene and make a mistake, which forced me to get in touch with my own mistakes.
More: That must have been difficult.
EB: It's gut wrenching. It ripped me apart but it was, for me, incredibly cathartic. It called upon everything I had to offer after being an actor for 30 years, after being a mother for 22 years, and after being a woman for 57 years. I knew it would be very challenging and I knew there was the possibility of failure on my part, which always excites me. I thought, "I could really fuck this up." But I felt ready to do it.
More: How did you prepare? I've read that you depended on costumes especially.
EB: Yes, a lot. I think one of the fundamental building blocks of the character was something that was very far from who I am. I'm not a "girl" and I don't think I've ever been a "girl." When I started to work on the role, there were things I noticed: Her constant need for approval, her fear of judgment and her constantly looking at her mother for affirmation. Well, who does that? A baby does that. There's a lack of emotional growth there. So we made her look like a baby. You'll never seen me in a ruffle and a smock dress.


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Donald Vincent Majkowski (Magic Man)
Position: QB
Height: 6-2 Weight: 197 lbs.
Throws: Right
Born: February 25, 1964 in Buffalo, NY
High School: Depew, Fork Union Military Academy
College: Virginia (school history) (Majkowski college stats)
Drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 10th round (255th overall) of the 1987 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 39 (2371st overall since 1950)
1-time Pro Bowler (fine print)
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ZF-6665: Metadata for tables from a different catalog in MSSQL
MSSQL servers can handle queries against multiple databases. Also, MSSQL works with schemas, so the tables could be organized in the following manner:
-Database Foo -----Schema Bar ---------Table Baz -Database Sample -----Schema Zend ---------Table Framework
Using any database, presuming you have the appropriate permissions, you can do the following query:
SELECT baz.column FROM foo.bar.baz INNER JOIN sample.zend.framework ON baz.some_key = framework.some_key
Note that it is not possible to do the following:
sp_columns 'foo.bar.baz' sp_columns 'sample.zend.framework'
In order to obtain a list of columns from a table, you have to be on that table original database, like this:
USE foo; sp_columns 'baz', 'bar'; USE sample; sp_columns 'framework', 'zend';
I'm currently using workarounds in my applications to circumvent this limitation:
$db->exec('USE foo;'); //Changes current database $barBazTable->fetchAll(); //Can normally fetch metadata under the right context $db->exec('USE sample;'); $zendFrameworkTable->fetchAll();
My current approach doesn't work with tables with the same name in different schemas (sales.people, employees.people).
My Zend_Db_Table objects also had they "$_schema" properties with the whole schema identifier, including database name ('foo.bar', 'sample.zend', etc..). These works fine.
I think the "USE" statements should be called while describing the table (sp_columns, sp_pkeys, etc...) inside Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mssql, and then restored to the original database (specified on connection).
Changes in the sp_columns syntax
I think it would be bad practice to execute a USE during the lifetime of an application. This would effectively be changing the context of the primary adapter. When other sections of code attempt to execute with the primary adapter, they might be assuming they are still in fact using the schema/database that was outlined in the connection information. That said, I think its important that whatever schema/database was originally attached to be the adapter's primary context with regard to queries.
So, is it right to assume that you are talking about Zend_Db_Adapter_Pdo_Mssql::describeTable()? If so, what benefit do we see when using USE prior to calling our describeTable query? Is there really no way to get the data about a table in another schema without using USE, for example by crafting a different query?
I did some research, and seems to be pretty simple:
Instead of:
sp_columns @table_name = 'the_table_name', @table_owner = 'the_table_owner'
sp_pkeys @table_name = 'the_table_name', @table_owner = 'the_table_owner'
Just prefix it with the catalog name and two dots:
catalog_name..sp_columns @table_name = 'the_table_name', @table_owner = 'the_table_owner' catalog_name..sp_pkeys @table_name = 'the_table_name', @table_owner = 'the_table_owner'
I tested theses statements in SQL Server 2005. I'm Working on a patch right now...
Updating the versions affected
excellent, please post patch when you got one, thanks!
Patch attached to the issue. Thanks to Jayson Reis for the help creating it.
Another good patch which is left a some time is this http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-6666 I will solve problems between linux and windows drivers.
Consider just the second one because the first was missing a "." at line 25.
Strange, files attachment is not incremental, so, the working patch is the first one.


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ETS has rigorously pursued ongoing research to ensure test quality for more than 50 years. Using a high-quality test means more accurate decisions about international applicants for your institution.
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Hermans Wins Third Straight, Baseball Splits Day One at Penn
Box Score: Game One
Box Score: Game Two
Zak Hermans tossed a season-high 12 strikeouts and the offense commanded the scoreboard, as the Princeton baseball team opened its four-game series at Penn with a 7-2 victory. The second game of Saturday's doubleheader saw multiple lead changes and a Tiger ninth inning rally, but it was not enough and the Quakers managed to squeak past Princeton 8-7 to split the day.
Turning Point of the Game: The Princeton offense immediately produced runs, taking a 3-0 lead in the top of the first. With the first two runners on, Mike Ford sent a three-run bomb over the right center fence to set the tone for the remainder of the game. As the offense produced insurance runs down the stretch, Hermans and the defense protected the lead and gave up only two runs.
A three-run frame would also be the turning point of game two, this time in favor of Penn. The Tigers managed to take a short lived 2-1 lead in the top of the second, but the Quakers responded with two in the bottom half of the frame. Princeton again tied things up in the third, before Penn capitalized on three hits to take the lead for good. A pair of RBI doubles and an RBI single propped the home side to a 6-3 lead.
Pitcher of the Game: Hermans picked up his third consecutive complete game victory in game one. He tossed a season-high 12 strikeouts in 27 batters faced over seven frames. He scattered five hits, two runs and a walk during that span.
In Ivy play, the senior righty boasts a 1.29 ERA over 21.0 innings pitched. He's struck out 21, given up 13 hits, three runs and batters are hitting .173 against.
Batter of the Day: Junior Alec Keller headlined the offense over both games, tallying five hits, four runs, an RBI and a walk. Keller was perfect at the plate in game one, going 4-for-4, including a double, with three runs, an RBI and a stolen base.
As the leadoff batter throughout Ivy play for the Tigers, Keller is hitting .429 (18-for-42) with 12 runs, five RBI, three walks, two homers, two doubles and a triple. He's also 2-for-3 in stolen base attempts, has a .667 slugging percentage and a .478 on base percentage.
Honorable Mention of the Day: First baseman Ford went a perfect 2-for-2 with three RBI, two runs and two walks in game one. He ignited the offense in the first with his three-run homer, bringing him to a team-best four long balls this year.
On the day he had three runs and a walk, while combining for 10 putouts.
Gehrig Division Race: By splitting today's series, the Tigers remain tied in second place in the Gehrig Division with Penn. First-place Columbia holds a two-game lead behind a sweep of Cornell to improve to 8-2.
On Deck: Princeton (9-21, 6-4 Ivy) and Penn (20-12, 6-4 Ivy) will conclude the weekend series with a doubleheader on Sunday. First pitch is set for 12 noon in Philadelphia.


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text: Born in 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, William Wegman received his BFA in painting in 1965 from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. A 1967 recipient of an MFA from the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, Wegman began teaching at colleges in the University of Wisconsin system. While teaching at Cal State Long Beach in 1970, he was introduced to his dog and long-time artistic collaborator, Man Ray. The rest is, as they say, history: Wegmans work is pervasive in American culture, from glamour magazines to Sesame Street and the Late Show with David Letterman. His photographs, videotapes, paintings and drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. A recent retrospective of his career, originating at the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, traveled to venues in Europe and the United States, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and New Yorks Whitney Museum of American Art. Wegman presently splits his time between New York City and Maine.


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I have a daughter. She's 18 now, but even at 5 she had the ironic style of a waitress at the truckstop café with an indignant hand on hip and a smoky voice that shouldn't have come from her tiny throat. Other times, shiny blond hair flying like yellow streamers on a parade float, wearing purple capris and the Converses she coveted until she had more pairs than she remembered, she'd run onto the playground and far away from me until she was just a bright little stick figure and not my daughter at all.
She tucked her comfort animal Holly under her arm as we rode the shuttle into Manhattan for the first time, and her mouth turned into a perfect "O" when we made that wide right turn onto the Brooklyn Bridge and up popped the skyline. Moments like that make you want to quit everything you do in your life and just watch her, every minute, for the rest of it.
I have a daughter who cooked her dying grandpa a breakfast he had no urge to eat but of course did, because she is a testament to his having lived, and because she tore the kitchen apart stirring up Bisquik batter and coring berries just for him.
And when she took the stage, the leading roles, and lit up like a lantern, and perfect strangers came over and told her she belonged there, she just smiled calmly, like "I know."
After dance concerts, she would ask me how so-and-so did, and I could not remember there being another person on the whole stage, just my daughter, doing a tango or a leap or moving her graceful arms — and my heart went up and down with them, following as though there was a lead wire between us.
And then she wanted to leave, and I wanted her to go because that is the inexorable destiny of mothers and daughters, to part and still live inside each other's heads, sometimes messily but sometimes as effortlessly as if we were plants potted in the same rich bed.
I have a daughter whose life gives lie to the story that the parent does the teaching, the learning, the raising. After a million moments, committed to muscle memory now, there is no question at all. I have a daughter. And I am so thankful for her.


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To phrase a played out television series, the "Tim Tebow" show has officially jumped the shark.
Texas Gov. and Presidential hopeful Rick Perry pulled the Tim Tebow card during a Republican debate in Sioux City, Iowa Thursday night sparking a round of animated applause from the audience. Perry was asked if he'd be able to handle debating President Barack Obama especially given his standing in the polls and the Texas Gov. responded, "I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses."
"There are a lot of folks that said Tim Tebow wasn't going to be a very good NFL quarterback. There are people that stood up and said well, he doesn't have the right throwing mechanisms, or he doesn't — you know, he is not playing the game right. You know, he won two national championships, and that looked pretty good.
We're the national champions in job creation back in Texas. But am i ready for the next level? Let me tell you — I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses."
I can't decide if Perry's Tebow reference was funny or just lame. What do you think?


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Ants by Joanie Mackowski
It's starting to feel like summer now–Minnesota springs are a short and unpredictable affair–and one of the sure signs that things are warming up beneath ground is the sudden activity of ants.
At the bus stop this morning, I noticed a swarm of them running along the seam in the sidewalk. When the kids joined me down on my hands and knees over the ants' busy errands, we noticed that they were traveling a two-lane highway between twin hills on either side of the sidewalk. Surely there's some huge subterranean metropolis underneath the sidewalk itself, where the queen is busy producing more citizens to go about their constant work. These are tiny ants, smaller than a fingernail clipping, and the queen's flight must have gone unnoticed a week or two ago.
We all know Aesop's story of the "Ants and the Grasshopper," in which the diligent ants are shown to be better adapted to winter survival than the profligate grasshopper, who spends a lazy summer playing and singing when he should be storing food away for lean times. In the Disney version, the ant is invited into the queen's court where he earns his food by fiddling for the colony; in the original version, though, the grasshopper (or cricket or dung beetle; versions vary) is cast back into the cold when he comes begging, we assume to die in a snowbank. In any case, it's one of those stories that we've interpreted as having a message that is not only practical but moral.
Less well known is Aesop's fable of Ants and the Pigs. Like the grasshopper's ants, this is another colony that spends all summer hard at work, collecting grain for the winter. But in the fall, a herd of pigs descends on the colony and gobbles up their stores. The moral, it would seem, is that the miserly gathering of material wealth is vanity: all our efforts will be for naught against the rapaciousness of thieves.
Taking moral lessons from insects is probably unwise. In more recent times, E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology, which grew in part out of his work with ants, was given a simplistic just-so-story interpretation and attacked as neo-Social Darwinism. (Wilson's approach wasn't so different from the anarchist Petr Kropotkin's in Mutual Aid, though Wilson was armed with better scientific methods and skills of observation.) Ants are intrinsically interesting, have yielded a lot of useful information about chemical communication, and are a good distraction for kids waiting at the bus stop, but not a very useful metaphor for human behavior.
After the bus came, the dog and I continued on our morning walk, no doubt hurrying past many more Formicidaen cities. We didn't notice, and I suspect that the ants didn't notice, either.


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Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas.
The Trips Festival, a multimedia event featuring performances by the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company, is held at Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco.
Big Brother and the Holding Company and the Jefferson Airplane headline the First Annual Tribal Stomp at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom.
Janis Joplin debuts with Big Brother and the Holding Company at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom, where they become the house band.
Big Brother and the Holding Company perform a show-stopping set on the second day of the Monterey International Pop Festival. Vocalist Janis Joplin becomes an overnight sensation.
The self-titled debut album by Big Brother and the Holding Company is released on Mainstream Records. It reaches #60.
'Cheap Thrills,' by Big Brother and the Holding Company, is released on Columbia Records. It tops the chart for seven weeks.
"Piece of My Heart," the lone Top Forty hit by Big Brother and the Holding Company, enters the charts. It reaches #12.
Janis Joplin performs for the last time as a member of Big Brother and the Holding Company. Two weeks later, she debuts her new group, the Kozmic Blues Band.
Janis Joplin performs at Woodstock
Janis Joplin's first solo album, 'I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again (Mama),' is released.
Janis Joplin debuts a new band, Full-Tilt Boogie, at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky.
Janis Joplin provides a headstone for the grave of Bessie Smith, her primary influence, who is buried in Philadelphia's Mount Lawn cemetery.
Janis Joplin is found dead in her room at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood, California. The official cause is accidental heroin overdose.
'Pearl,' the album that Janis Joplin was making at the time of her death, hits #1 on the album charts, where it will stay for nine weeks.
"Me and Bobby McGee," Janis Joplin's only Top Forty hit, reaches #1. It tops Billboard's pop singles chart for two weeks.
'Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits' enters the album charts. It will peak at #22 and sell more than 2 million copies.
'The Rose,' a hit film loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin, premieres in Los Angeles. Bette Midler stars in the lead role.
Janis Joplin is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the tenth annual induction dinner. Melissa Etheridge is her presenter.
'Love, Janis,' a musical play based on actual letters sent to family members by Janis Joplin, opens off-Broadway at New York's Village Theater.


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This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan. It is the story of the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as a defender of the little guy and the New York wheeler-dealers who made him a major media force. It is the story Ku Klux Klan's development from a club to a huge money-making machine powered by fear and hate and of the folklorist whoalong with many other activiststook on the Klan by wielding the power of words. Above all, it tells the story of Superman himselfa modern mythical hero and an embodiment of the cultural reality of his timesfrom the Great Depression to the present.
Rick Bowers worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for more than 15 years, reporting for the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Massachusetts, the Miami Herald, and USA Today. His articles have been published in many of the most prestigious publications in the country, including the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Time. Over the past decade Bowers has envisioned and directed innovative multimedia projects, telling powerful, socially relevant stories through print, the web, TV, radio, music, and drama. Working with AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and the Library of Congress, he directed Voices of Civil Rights, a multimedia project that gathered thousands of first-hand accounts of the Civil Rights Movement to form the world's largest archive of testimonials from the era. The initiative included a History Channel documentary that won both Emmy and Peabody Awards. The website won the prestigious Webby Award. Bowers is the Director of Creative Initiatives at AARP, where he continues to develop far-reaching multimedia programs. He lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., with his wife and two daughters.
JERRY SIEGEL WAS DIFFERENT from most of the other kids in Glenville. While they were playing ball in the street, shooting hoops at the community center, or shopping on 105th Street, Jerry was holed up in the attic with his precious zines. He also loved to take in the movies at the Crown Theater, just a couple blocks from his house, or at the red- carpeted and balconied Uptown Theatre farther up 105th. Scrunched in his seat with a sack of popcorn in his lap and his eyes fixed on the screen, he marveled as the dashing actor Douglas Fairbanks donned a black cape and mask to become the leaping, lunging, sword-wielding Zorro. Jerry admired Fairbanks and all the other leading men—those strong, fearless, valiant he-man characters who took care of the bad guys and took care of the gorgeous women too. Jerry worshipped Clark Gable and Kent Taylor, whose names he would later combine to form Clark Kent.
Jerry usually sat in darkened theaters alone as he absorbed stories, tracked dialogue, and marveled at the characters. After the movies he would walk to the newsstands on St. Claire Avenue to pick up a pulp-fiction novel or a zine. Soaking in every line of narrative and dialogue, he would read the books and magazines cover to cover—then read them again. Turning to his secondhand typewriter, he would dash off letters to the editors, critiquing the stories and suggesting themes for future editions. He would scour the classified sections for the names and addresses of other science fiction fans and send them letters in which he shared his ideas for stories, plots, and characters. For kids like Jerry, science fiction provided a community—a network of fans bound together by a common passion.
One of Jerry's favorite books was Philip Wylie's Gladiator. Initially published in 1930, it was the first science fiction novel to introduce a character with superhuman powers. Jerry moved through the swollen river of words like an Olympian swimmer, devouring the description of the protagonist, Hugo Danner, whose bones and skin were so dense that he was more like steel than flesh, with the strength to hurl giant boulders, the speed to outrun trains, and the leaping ability of a grasshopper. Danner's life is a tortured pursuit of the question of whether to use his powers for good or evil. That made Jerry think about how hard it was to choose right over wrong.
Then there was that unforgettable image of the flying man—the one he had seen on the cover of Amazing Stories. Jerry would hang on to that image for the rest of his life. The flying man, clad in a tight red outfit and wearing a leather pilot's helmet, soared through the sunny sky and smiled down on a futuristic village filled with technological marvels. From the ground, a pretty, smiling girl waved a handkerchief at the airborne man and marveled at his fantastic abilities. In this edition of Amazing Stories Jerry saw a thrilling new world of scientific advances and social harmony—a perfect green and sunny utopia to be ushered in by creative geniuses with more brains than brawn, more natural imagination than school-injected facts, more good ideas than good looks. Jerry wanted to help create that utopia. Luckily, he had a partner in his quest.
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Best Read in a LONG time!
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from Silver Spring, MD
Comments about Superman Versus The Ku Klux Klan:
Bower's masterful writing and snappy style makes Superman Vs. the Ku Klux Klan a perfect book for adults and children alike! The tone is not so oppressed with guilt, disgust or anger at the anti-civil rights movement that the book is dreary or preachy. It's a great juxtaposition of condemning hatred and unveiling a hero. Nor does the book place grandeur on underserving historical figures. The book doesn't degrade anyone, but Bowers does expose that various accounts made by certain Klan infiltrators are not 100% accurate, but the services they gave to society are, nevertheless, commendable. Great read!!!
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The Wildcats hosted the Tucson Elite Classic on Thursday evening at Roy P. Drachman Stadium.
Gomez, Cats Shut Out Abilene Christian, 9-0
Arizona gymnastics head coach Tabitha Yim announced Wednesday that seventeen year assistant coach John Court will remain part of the coaching staff.
No. 27 Briar Preston/Shaye Austin lose to sixth-ranked Austin/Keegan of Florida in the first round of the NCAA Championships
The Elite 89 is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA's 89 championships.
On May 28-30, the Arizona track and field program will head to Austin, Texas for the NCAA West Preliminaries.
Men's Basketball Non-Conference Schedule Complete
Busy Final Weekend Begins Thursday vs. Abilene Christian
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With the program's 23rd Women's College Series trip and ninth national title in its sights, 12th-seeded Arizona (41-18, 13-11 Pac-12) will head to the state of Louisiana for super regionals for the second straight season, in hopes of leaving with a different result.
TUCSON, Ariz. � Former Arizona swimmer Kevin Cordes will train in Singapore with Sergio Lopez Miro in order to prepare for the World Championships and everything to come in 2016.
One current and two former University of Arizona men's golfers advanced to U.S. Open sectional qualifying on Wednesday. George Cunningham, Alex McMahon and Brian Prouty each finished in the top five at regional qualifying, which was held at Sewailo Golf Club, in order to advance.


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The Greater Milford Chamber of Commerce donated 200 holiday stockings stuffed with goodies to students in need in the Milford School District last month.
Chamber members and volunteers at The Heritage at Milford assisted living facility filled the stockings with candy, toys, crayons, tooth brushes, pencils and other non-perishable items.
The school district distributed 30 of the stockings to parents who participate in the First State Manufacturing Parent Resource Center.
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