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Dr. Joseph Bordogna
Deputy Director
Chief Operating Officer
National Science Foundation
"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
25th Anniversary Celebration
University of Pennsylvania Management & Technology Program
November 5, 2004
Thank you, Bill [William Hamilton], and good morning to all. I am honored and extremely pleased to participate in today's celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Penn's Management & Technology Program. And I am grateful to the M&T graduates who made this day possible. You have achieved so much, and we are immensely proud of you.
I was one of those privileged to be "present at the creation," together with Bill Hamilton, Matt Stephens (Vice Dean of Wharton), Arthur Humphrey (Dean of Engineering), and Don Carroll (Dean of Wharton). Those were early days, when thoughts about a fresh approach to preparing students to be leaders in the management of technological innovation first began to coalesce and take root.
I have watched, with great satisfaction, the subsequent growth and development of the crop that was planted. I join Bill in a special tribute to Dr. Ralph Landau and Jerome Fisher for their catalytic roles in this venture. And I extend greetings to Laurie Landau, Ralph's daughter, who is with us today.
Many others have provided forward-looking leadership -- not only in the early days of the program, but also in the years of constant evolution that have followed. And every student has brought something of significant value, through their experimentation, adaptation and transformation of the program to suit new needs and explore new horizons.
The program is a magnificent example of foresight and collaboration between the faculties of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and The Wharton School. You could say it was collaboration when collaboration wasn't as obviously "cool" as it is today." And the program has benefited enormously from its place within a larger university environment that blends the liberal arts and the professions, what Benjamin Franklin would call the "ornamental" and the "useful."
A good idea never fails to find friends. And sure enough, the conceptual innovations that characterize the Management and Technology Program spawned similar efforts in other areas of study at Penn and elsewhere.
An anniversary is a splendid time to take stock of where we are now, and how far we have come. As we pause to celebrate, we can feel pride in our accomplishments. Warmed by a genuine sense of satisfaction, we are also in a position to look toward the future and ask, "What next?"
My assignment today is to reflect on the next twenty-five years -- what challenges we will confront in managing the technology of the future.
Let me explain from the onset that I do not intend to read the technological tealeaves. The development of those future technologies will be an outgrowth of the framework of thinking, understanding, and imagining that I will explore with you today.
Following the sage advice of Shakespeare that "What is past is prologue,"1 I have titled my remarks "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." I will touch briefly on the past and the present to set the stage for the future. I want to emphasize that even if we cannot forecast the future, how adept we are in anticipating it and in shaping it to our ends will determine how well we are able to meet the novel, and as yet unknown challenges of the next 25 years and beyond.
Let's begin with a glance backward. Despite the fact that there is much to learn from the past, I will limit my attention to just two lessons.
The first is particularly relevant in the context of today's gathering. In 1886, Henry Robinson Towne, son of the benefactor of Penn's Towne Scientific School, and then acting president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, presented a paper entitled, "The Engineer as an Economist."
Towne proposed that "the organization of productive labor must be directed...by persons having not only good executive ability and...the practical familiarity of...an engineer with the goods produced and the processes employed," but having also a "practical knowledge" of all those aspects of business that today's managers take for granted.2 This may well be the first paper linking technology and management.
Towne's article appeared just a decade short of a century before the founding of Penn's Management and Technology Program. Was this an instance of Towne's anticipating the future? My own answer would be, yes, probably. So, the past often teaches us to be humble about the absolute originality of an idea -- even if it is the Penn Management and Technology Program.
Just a few years before the publication of Towne's paper, the ironmonger Joseph Wharton had founded, in 1881, the first university-level business school in the world here at Penn. Wharton was not only an entrepreneur and businessman. He was a metallurgist and technological innovator. His factory in Camden, New Jersey, for example, produced the first malleable nickel in the world.3
As you all know, in the decades that followed the founding of Wharton and Towne's observations, there was increasing specialization and division of labor, complemented by hierarchical organization in firms, in academe and in other institutions -- quite in contrast to Towne's more holistic perspective and Wharton's personal example. Today, we see the pendulum swinging in the opposite direction toward greater integration and the blurring of such boundaries.
So the second lesson to be learned from "yesterday" is that good ideas can go entirely unnoticed. Or, perhaps more to the point, good ideas can be crowded out by other good ideas. After all, the assembly line, the modern corporation, and the University system have been useful and highly successful. But once an idea or an institution has taken hold, it takes powerful forces to shake loose the shackles of convention to allow for the truly new and innovative.
One of the characteristics of the future will surely be a greater tolerance for diversity and experimentation in institutional arrangements, rather than a rigid, one-size-fits-all perspective. We can learn to embrace this diversity instead of resisting change.
But I have strayed into the future. Let's focus for a moment on "today."
The present is the realm of action par excellence. Actions include learning, discovering, designing, choosing, deciding, planning, forecasting, implementing -- and managing -- among many others. You might say that the "present" plays the executive or CEO function on our time line.
If relentless, high-velocity change is the pervasive contextual feature of the present, then the mantra for action today -- the one most often recommended to CEOs -- is "innovate, innovate, innovate."
Several years ago, in a review article on innovation, the Economist said, "Innovators break all the rules. Trust them."4 But do those who talk the talk of innovation, really walk the walk?
In a recent interview in Fortune Magazine, management consultant Gary Hamel talks about "Innovation Do's and Don'ts." "Most large companies," he says, "have a change model that is essentially borrowed from poorly governed Third World dictatorships. The only way you can change them is with a coup."5
The clash between the ideal of continuous innovation -- with its focus on creative transformation -- and current practice is by no means found only in the private sector.
Here is what management consultant Peter Senge has to say about education. "Schools," he says, "may be the starkest example in modern society of an entire institution modeled after the assembly line."6 It goes without saying that government often suffers from the same discontinuity between established procedures and innovative practices.
Like any tribe, engineers, educators and managers can be bound by orthodoxies and view new ideas as unwelcome heresies.
The White Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass is a shrewd propagator of just such tactics. To regulate the distribution and consumption of jam on tarts, she devises a very clever rule.
"Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday," she proclaims, "but never jam today."7
This command-and-control logic could not be more precise. Unfortunately, it robs us of any jam at all.
A variety of the White Queen's trickery is at work when we adhere to yesterday's strategies in the face of monstrous change. Conventions and rules mechanically replicated and inappropriately enshrined are like blinkers and hobbles. They narrow our vision and hamper our progress.
Devotion to lockstep educational practices is one example. Naïve or mechanical reliance on "best practices" is another. "Best" may be superlative, but it is also relative. There is no panacea. If we are not adept at redesigning or recombining, there is a real danger that we will be stuck with a "best" that is not good enough.
Consider some examples. Today, there are demands for more scientists, engineers and technologists, but these may not be accompanied by any rethinking about how students are educated and the attractiveness of the career opportunities open to them. Even when special programs that cross boundaries and integrate education and research have been established, the larger university environment may not support the organizational changes necessary for the programs to flourish and expand. One huge reason for the success of the M&T program has been openness to such experimentation at Penn.
In business and industry, innovation may be encouraged at the same time that traditional hierarchies and antiquated reward-structures persist. And in government, statutes and procedures that conflict or are no longer relevant may stifle avenues for considered risk taking.
Make no mistake. These are conundrums that have not yet been resolved. These tensions persist because breaking the chains of conventional wisdom and practice is very, very difficult.
But there are some robust and valuable trends. In the future, we will need to view academic and corporate structures and institutional combinations as we now view new technology, products and processes. They are creative arrangements, not formulas to be automatically replicated but rather new patterns to be ingeniously enhanced each time we design the next combination. Products, processes, organizations and institutions will permute, reshape, and regenerate to stay fresh and responsive to the opportunities new knowledge throws up and the demands of innovation.
This is what creative transformation is all about, and there is simply no stopping it. But we do have a choice. We can be swept along by radical change, or take a hand in shaping it to our own ends.
I have strayed into the future for the second time. Let's stick with the present a bit longer.
Many of you will recognize the architect Eero Saarinen as the designer of Dulles Airport, the TWA terminal at Kennedy Airport -- and the Hill College House on the Penn campus. He was fond of quoting the advice of his father Eliel, also an architect of great distinction: "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."8
Good design requires this holistic view. Integrating across scales gives us a window onto function that we simply can't achieve by focusing in greater depth on a single issue. We miss both a "good fit" with the details of current realities and the "big picture" that takes us to new insights and flights of imagination. This counsel holds for good management and stewardship of technology, which today cannot be easily separated from good design.
This exploration of "context" can be extended to the temporal dimension. We can imagine hindsight and foresight as stretching our innovation horizons, while also providing some common guideposts from the past.
The significance of context is also apparent in the societal dimension -- from individuals, to groups, to organizations, to institutions, to nations, to the globe. Information and computer-communication technologies played a huge role in the rapid integration of the global economy over the past several decades.
In the future, the capability to integrate across spatial and temporal scales and levels of organization will be a common feature of our intellectual toolkit and will guide our management practice.
That's the third time I have strayed into the future. Now let's consider it in earnest.
But first, let me share a story of levity and learning about a very strict Zen monastery. Following a vow of silence, no one was allowed to speak at all, with one exception. Every ten years, the abbot permitted each monk to speak just two words. After his first ten years, a young monk was invited by the abbot to speak.
"Bed.....hard..." said the monk.
"Ahhhh, I see," replied the head monk.
Ten years later, the monk once again came before the abbot to speak his two words. "What do you have to say, my son?" asked the abbot.
"Food.....stinks..." said the monk.
"Ahhhh, I see," replied the abbot.
Another ten years passed and the monk once again sat before the abbot, who, asked, "What do you have to say, my son?"
"I.....quit!" said the monk.
"Well, that's no surprise," replied the abbot, "All you ever do is complain!"
Like any good tale, this one has multiple interpretations. All of us in this room can immediately think of quite a few -- including human difficulties with communication, and how much at odds different peoples perceptions of ends and the strategies to achieve them can be. But I want to focus on another: lack of imagination.
Einstein is often quoted as saying, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." I would be more generous about discovery, but one thing is certain. Without imagination, there is no innovation. And at today's pace of transformation, we can't afford to wait thirty years.
I've already mentioned Gary Hamel's comment about the difficulty of change. He also offers a prescription for effective innovation. "I think the real returns [to innovation] come from harnessing the imagination of every single employee every single day."9
If action is characteristic of the present, imagination is a defining feature of the future. Innovation depends intimately on our ability to discern patterns and sequences within turbulence.
A few years ago I began to compile a list of capabilities that engineers need to develop in order to meet contemporary and future challenges. Extending it to managers of technology more generally is an easy leap.
Today's engineers and managers must be holistic designers, astute makers, trusted innovators, harm avoiders, change agents, master integrators, enterprise enablers, knowledge handlers, and technology stewards. Take a minute to think about it, and I'm certain you can add to the list.
These are capabilities for all times, no matter how rapid the pace of change or how surprising the technological transformations may be. In today's churning world, these are imperatives.
Those in the private sector may find some familiar items missing from this selection. Two that come to mind are the ability to lead and an entrepreneurial bent. This was a prime focus of Ralph Landau and members of both the Engineering and Wharton Boards of Overseers at M&T's genesis.
In the future, it will be harder and harder for leaders and entrepreneurs to be visionaries and agents of change without most of these capabilities in their portfolios. The Penn Management and Technology Program is meant to develop all of them. Every one of these capabilities is forward looking, and so is about shaping the future.
I would be remiss if I left you with no concrete sense of what technologies are already on the horizon. Living at NSF and enjoying daily the chaos along the entire frontier of science and engineering, I could give you a long list of potentially transformational happenings across all boundaries. But let me try to cover the essence of them all with two examples.
The first is the confluence of nanoscale science and engineering with the growing tera and petascale potential of computer-communication and information advances. This marriage of the very, very small and the very, very quick and far-reaching -- orders of magnitude smaller, and faster, and broader -- will almost surely be the engine driving technological innovation in the years ahead.
Understanding and manipulating the very small will give us extraordinary power to cross entirely new frontiers. So when you hear the now-common word "nanotech," don't think of it as a new technology alone. Think of it as nature's template for all future technologies.
We are all heirs of previous revolutionary change -- electricity and its close companions, information and computer-communication technologies -- both of which had seminal beginnings here at this site. These have been the driving agents of change for nearly two hundred years. And we have had some time to adjust to the transformations. With nano, change is about to go ballistic.
These changes may well be unlike any that have come before. Nano already provides new knowledge that gives us the capability to design and build materials one atom or molecule at a time.
Nano is also the dimension where living and non-living worlds meet -- where molecules that form the basis of life interact with the physical environment to spin the complex threads linking life at all levels with the planet. The possibilities at this interface are staggering -- new ways to deliver drugs or repair DNA, and the development of artificial tissue, to name only a few. Understanding life and its interaction with the physical and cyber world at the nano level is likely to open vistas that we cannot even imagine today. Everyone who aspires to manage technological innovation must prepare for these transformations.
At first blush, my second example -- human and social dynamics -- may seem far removed from technology. Don't be tempted to think of this as the "soft" side of science, engineering and innovation. The potential for creative transformation is every bit as powerful here as with nano. Contemporary developments in cognitive and neurosciences, computer science, linguistics, mathematics, engineering, psychology, to name only a few -- are converging to open promising new vistas not only in the social sciences but within the physical and natural sciences and engineering as well.
Like nano, this newly found potential derives from the confluence of human and social dynamics with advances in information and computer-communication, but with a difference.
The long chain of pervasive transformations triggered by the Industrial Revolution has given us greater muscle power -- making and moving. Unleashing the human dimension will give us greater mind power -- learning, thinking, imagining, designing and creating.
How we learn, make decisions, assess risk and adapt to change; how institutions are shaped by us, and how we, in turn, are shaped by our decisions and institutions -- these are central questions that humans have been asking with unfailing persistence since we first began to ask questions. More than ever before, we have the opportunity for meaningful progress in answering them. Improved learning environments are only one example of where this research might take us.
Management guru Peter Drucker has a stark perspective on our need for more knowledge about human and social dynamics. "In a few hundred years," he says, "when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it."10
We should not let this warning dismay us. Rather, it should inspire us. Certainly, change is neither easy nor straightforward. But we can learn to be agile and adept in shaping and directing it.
In the future, a complex and deeper understanding of human and social dynamics will help us manage technological innovation and direct creative transformation. Perhaps most importantly, it will help us improve learning environments for everyone. We can't forget that it is people who create new knowledge and generate technological innovation; people who use new technologies to improve their lives; and people who create diverse and vital teams, organizations and societies. But that's only a beginning. I'll leave it to you to imagine what might come next.
We need to embrace yesterday, today and tomorrow -- recognizing what is useful from the past, embracing what is promising in the present, and actively pursuing what is possible and desirable in the future. I have not mentioned global competition and the pursuit of leadership in technology development, but we all know how high the stakes are.
There are other reasons to move forward. Concerns about the unintended consequences of human actions and the deployment of new technologies have been with us for centuries. But technological change is now occurring so rapidly, is so complex -- and for many is so daunting -- that we have an intellectual responsibility to explore the human dimensions of our science, engineering and technology. At the same time, we have a responsibility to exploit the potential of new technology, while avoiding the pitfalls.
We know that the technology created 25 years ago still has not reached everyone around the globe. So, for many, our "yesterday" has not yet arrived, making "today" very bleak indeed.
Tomorrow can bring a brighter day. Taking decisive actions to anticipate change and steer it in a positive direction -- taking the reins and guiding the beast -- is what Penn's Management and Technology Program is all about. All the more reason to do it. It's a challenge and an opportunity.
I'll conclude with an accolade to yesterday -- to our University of Pennsylvania progenitors. We can look back into the past, beyond the contemporary and extremely valuable contributions of Ralph Landau and Jerome Fisher, to celebrate five seminal individuals with great vision.
Entrepreneurs all, they are: William Penn, political activist and founder of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Benjamin Franklin, engineer, statesman and founder of the University of Pennsylvania; John Henry Towne, railway magnate and engineer, who endowed The Towne Scientific School; Alfred Fitler Moore, industrial innovator, who endowed The Moore School; and Joseph Wharton, scientist, innovator and founder of The Wharton School. The bold and rational acts of these distinguished individuals set the stage for all that has followed.
Now I will give you a genuine forecast for the future. The women and men in the Penn Management and Technology Program -- both graduates and present students -- will continue to be at the forefront, leading and shaping a better future. They will lift this twenty-five-year-old program to the next dimension.
1 William Shakespeare, The Tempest; Antonio, Act 2, scene 1.
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2 Quoted in Fritz Hirschfeld, "Henry R. Towne, a Talent for Management,", Mechanical Engineering, vol. 102, April 1980, pp. 32-34.
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3 Joseph Wharton Family Papers, 1691-1955; online at http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/friends/ead/5162jowh.htm (last accessed November 3, 2004.)
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4 Economist Magazine, "Leaps of Faith," February 18, 1999.
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5 Gary Hamel, as quoted by David Kirkpatrick in "Innovation Do's and Don'ts," Forbes Magazine, September 6, 2004; p.240.
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6 Peter Senge, Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Parents, Educators, and Everyone Who Cares About Education (p.30); Peter Senge, Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith, Janis Dutton, and Art Kleiner, Doubleday/Currency 2000.
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7 Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, "Wool and Water," 1872.
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8 Eliel Saarinen, as quoted by his son, Eero in Time Magazine, July 2, 1956
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9 Gary Hamel, as quoted by David Kirkpatrick in "Innovation Do's and Don'ts," Forbes Magazine, September 6, 2004; p.240.
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10 Peter F. Drucker, Managing Knowledge Means Managing Oneself. Leader to Leader, Vol. No 16, Spring 2000
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TOURISM players yesterday gave mixed reactions on the Ebola threat in West Africa .
Some wanted Kenya Airways to suspend flights to West African countries while others said that would casue panic.
Africana Savana Tours and Travel managing director Aaron Cheruiyot yesterday said Kenya Airways should not pull out of West Africa.
"West Africa accounts for the largest volume of passenger traffic in Africa. Medical experts have in no way said Ebola can be carried as cargo such that it can be sneaked into a plane and let loose as the plane does its final approach," he said.
He was reacting to the Human Rights Parliamentary Caucus' plea that KQ suspends its flights to West Africa.
Cheruiyot said Emirates and Ethiopian airlines, which are KQ's main rivals on the routes, are still flying and working hard to gain more frequencies.
"The cautious Americans are bringing in Delta daily, Air France is still on. All they do is proper screening. Kenya needs to do the same," he said.
Tourman Africa Safari Services managing director Andrew Mungatana remained said whether KQ suspends its flights to West Africa or not, the tourism industry will not be affected.
"West Africa is more of a business hub than a tourism hub. We don't have much from them as far as tourism is concerned," said Mungatana.
He however urged the Health ministry and the Kenya Airports Authority to put in place more measures that will ensure the Ebola virus does not get into Kenya.
African Quest Safaris managing director Tasneem Adamji yesterday said they are hoping for a positive response from KQ, which was set to make an announcement on whether they will suspend or not their flights to West Africa.
"I am not the right person to speak about this but our industry had also requested that they temporarily suspend their flights there," he said.


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By examining the professional lives of flavorists, this discussion will shed light on changing social and cultural understandings of natural and artificial, synthetic and organic, and of flavor itself—as well as the role of scientific knowledge in defining "good taste."
Nadia Berenstein is a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, where she calls the Department of History and Sociology of Science home. In the past she has written about the disappearance of the passenger pigeon, the electrocution of Topsy the elephant, and the phenomenon of birds fatally colliding with buildings. Her most recent work documents the history of flavor chemists and flavor additives in the United States.
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Angelo Provenzano is participating in Sicilian "excursions for American tourists" through Boston-based Overseas Adventure Travel in which he talks about life with his father Bernardo Provenzano who was the one-time "boss of bosses" over Cosa Nostra as reported by Rosie Scammell for The Guardian:
Speaking to Italian media, Provenzano described the matter as a "personal affair" and asked: "Do I have the right to a normal life or not?"
Bernardo Provenzano was apprehended in 2006, and now is serving a life term in solitary confinement as the convicted mastermind of Cosa Nostra's terror campaign against the state which included the assassinations of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in separate bomb attacks in 1992.
So happy to hear that Angelo is able to financially capitalize on his daddy's evil. Sure, that's a "normal life." And maybe when Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's child grows up she can give Back Bay tours to Chechen tourists.


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Today, April 4th, is National Walking Day.
Created by the American Heart Association, National Walking Day is always the 1st Wednesday of April. National Walking Day is an initiative to encourage people to walk at least 30 minutes a day. According to the Heart Association, walking just 30 minutes a day can reduce your risk of heart disease.
Many of you will say that you do not have the time to spare. But if you think about it - 30 minutes is less that 2% of your day. Take a walk at lunch; the next time you are at a store park further away from the door; or grab your family and take a stroll after dinner.
Just 30 minutes a day can make a difference, and I encourage you today, and every day, to make the time for a walk.


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All branches of Marin County Free Library will be closed on Monday, July 4 for Independence Day.
> View the full list of poets in the Marin Poets Archive
Marin Poets Live! is a public access television show presented by Marin County Free Library and features host Neshama Franklin, who works at the Fairfax Library. The show introduces local Marin poets and delves into their reasons for writing and the influence that living in Marin County has had on their poetry. The monthly show appears the second Thursday of each month at 7:30pm PST. Check the Community Media Center of Marin for schedules.
The interview with Janet Jennings aired on Marin Poets Live! on Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 7:30pm.
Janet Jennings is the author of Traces in Water. The poem "Room With Girl", from that collection, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in Agni, Nimrod, Spillway, Shenandoah, and TriQuarterly, among others.
A Marin resident since 1986, Janet has lived on a houseboat in Sausalito, in the hills of Mill Valley, by the beach in Bolinas, and now resides in San Anselmo, where she lives with her husband and twin daughters. For twenty years she owned and ran Sunspire Natural Foods. She sold her business in order to slow down and spend more time reading and writing poetry.
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@BCUsoftball Gets First Win Of 2014
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DELAND, Fla. – Bailey Connor drove in two runs and got the win in relief while Shamaria Engram's home run in the sixth to lifted Bethune-Cookman to its first win of the 2014 season, a 3-2 decision over Campbell in the opening game of the Hatter Invitational Friday.
The Wildcats (1-6) dropped a 5-0 decision to Elon later in the day.
Connor got the Wildcats out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam with no damage in the top of the sixth.
In the bottom half of the inning, Connor launched a solo homer to right center to tie Campbell (2-3) at 2-2. Ingram followed two batters later with a shot that bounced off the left field foul pole for the go-ahead run.
Connor worked a perfect seventh inning for her first collegiate victory.
Connor drove in Bethune-Cookman's first run in the third after Calesha Shelley bunt singled, stole second and advanced to third on an infield grounder.
In the second game, Elon (4-0-1) loaded the bases with no outs in the first. Connor got two outs, but Johanna Spencer cleared the bases with a double and scored on Aly Quintana's single to give the Phoenix a 4-0 lead.
B-CU threatened in the fifth when Breanna Chavez walked, Wanda Darby singled and Shelley singled to load the bases, but an infield double play and a grounder kept the Wildcats scoreless.
Shelley had three hits for B-CU in the second game.The Wildcats face Elon again at 1:30 Saturday, then take on host Stetson at 6:30 p.m.


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The WCC cannot think of a better way to celebrate Women's History Month than by having the trailblazer of NYC politics herself–Elizabeth Holtzman–come and speak with WCC members and guests. Holtzman is the first and, to date, only woman ever elected as NYC Comptroller as well as the only woman ever to serve as NYC District Attorney. In addition, she served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1981. At that time, she was the youngest woman ever to serve in this branch of government. Among her many accomplishments as congresswoman, was the extension of the deadline for state legislatures to ratify the proposed Equal Rights Amendment and the passage of legislation in 1978 to expel more Nazi war criminals who had immigrated to the United States. And, of course, we all remember her historic role on the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate Hearings.
At this event, Holtzman will come and speak with members and guests specifically about her experiences as comptroller and how she thinks the Office needs to function best to serve the City. She will also discuss her new book about Bush and Cheney called Cheating Justice and then participate in a book-signing after our program. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask Holtzman questions after her presentation.
Date & Time:
March 29th at 12:30 pm
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Fifth Floor
Free and open to the public. Due to limited seating, please reserve your seat here.


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The Fifth Annual Pebble Beach Food & Wine kicks off the morning of Thursday, April 12 with the annual Celebrity Chef & Winemaker Golf Tournament on esteemed Pebble Beach Golf Links. That evening, guests are welcome to Lexus Opening Night Reception: Featuring the Lexus Culinary Masters and Friends, which transforms The Inn at Spanish Bay at Pebble Beach Resorts into one of the most lavish tasting events of the weekend featuring 20 celeb chefs and 125 world class wineries. Over the next three days, guests can choose from 15 exclusive dining experiences, two grand tastings, countless celebrity chef cooking demonstrations, wine tastings with the world's most illustrious wineries, cocktail seminars and after-hours parties, all throughout one of the most picturesque coastline properties in the world, Pebble Beach Resorts. For a full line-up of events, please visit www.pebblebeachfoodandwine.com.
Pebble Beach Food & Wine 2012 Event Highlights include:
The Fifth Annual Pebble Beach Food & Wine takes place April 12-15, 2012. The signature West Coast culinary event brings together more than 75 prominent chefs and 250 acclaimed wineries and distinguished winemakers from around the world at the iconic Pebble Beach Resorts in Pebble Beach, Calif. for a four-day, first-class display of epicurean splendor and unrivaled access. In addition to cooking demonstrations led by the most talented chefs from around the globe and vertical tastings from the world's top wine producers, unique experiences added each year make this a must-see annual event for culinary enthusiasts and wine aficionados the world over. Ticket prices per person range from $100 for a single event pass to $4,750 for a VIP four-day pass, with access to all events and exclusive after-hours parties with the chefs and winemakers. To purchase tickets to Pebble Beach Food & Wine, or for more information on ticket packages and a full line-up of events, visit www.pebblebeachfoodandwine.com or call 866-907-FOOD (3663).
Pebble Beach Company, headquartered in Pebble Beach, Calif., owns and operates the world-famous Pebble Beach Resorts, including The Lodge at Pebble Beach, The Inn at Spanish Bay and Casa Palmero. The company also operates four world-renowned golf courses: Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course, The Links at Spanish Bay and Del Monte Golf Course. Its other famed properties include scenic 17-Mile Drive and The Spa at Pebble Beach, and it annually hosts premier events such as the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Callaway Pebble Beach Invitational, Pebble Beach Food & Wine and Nature Valley First Tee Open at Pebble Beach. Site of the 2019 U.S. Open, Pebble Beach Golf Links has hosted five U.S. Opens, four U.S. Amateurs, one PGA Championship and numerous other tournaments.
Coastal Luxury Management, based in Carmel, California, is an event and hospitality management firm specializing in the luxury and lifestyle sector. Coastal Luxury Management's partners, Robert Weakley and David Bernahl, founded Pebble Beach Food & Wine in the early months of 2007. In its first year, Pebble Beach Food & Wine became the largest luxury food and wine event on the West Coast. In October of 2011, the company launched a sister event to Pebble Beach Food & Wine called Los Angeles Food & Wine, which encompasses over 70 events over four-days throughout the greater span of Los Angeles area. The company also operates Harvest: Farm-to-Table, a two-day agriculture lifestyle event in Carmel Valley that attracts 4,000 guests, 100 wineries, and 60 regional chefs. Coastal Luxury Management launched its restaurant division in 2010 with its first two projects, 1833 and Cannery Row Brewing Company.
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A true Scottish-style links course and one of the most ecologically sensitive courses in the world.
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The oldest golf course in continuous operation west of the Mississippi.
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The only 9-hole par-3 golf course open to the public on the Monterey Peninsula.
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FY13 Partner Kickoff Kick's off Summer Right
By Kristin Rose on Jun 08, 2012
This year we are welcoming several partners from around the globe in person to Oracle's Headquarters, as well as another 22,000 partners tuning in to help us kickoff FY13. Hosted by Judson Althoff, SVP of WWA&C, the Oracle PartnerNetwork FY13 Kickoff is being held live — five times throughout the day — and will include a special message for each region. Have a look at the schedule of shows below:
- EMEA Kickoff – Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00 pm BST (London)
- LAD Kickoff – Tuesday, June 26 @ 4:00 pm UTC (San Paulo)
- North America Kickoff – Tuesday, June 26 @ 8:30 am PT (San Francisco)
- Japan Kickoff – Wednesday, June 27 @ 10:00 am JST (Tokyo)
- Asia Pacific Kickoff – Wednesday, June 27 @ 8:30 am IST (Bangalore) / 11:00 am SGT (Singapore) / 1:00 pm AEST (Sydney)
Partners near and far will be able to get a first row seat to some exciting Oracle announcements, keynotes, round-tables and a live after-show event hosted by Nick Kritikos, VP of Partner Enablement. Did we mention there is an exciting online component which will allow partners to send in questions or comments and get them answered in real time? Now that deserves two thumbs up!
So whether you're partial to Milk Duds or Junior Mints, grab a box of your favorite candy and sign-up for this strategy driven, partner focused blockbuster event. To get a sneak-peek at what's in store, watch this short PKO "trailer" below, starring our very own GVP of WWA&C, Lydia Smyers to find out more.
To the Depths and Back,
The OPN Communications Team


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California billionaire Tom Steyer built his fortune operating a hedge fund founded in 1986 but is now focused full time on liberal-progressive politics and environmentalism. He sold his Farallon Capital hedge fund in late 2012. Last February he gathered partisan progressive election donors and declared that Steyer plans to spend upwards of $100 million to elect Democrats in this year's off-year elections. He spent $11 million to support the election of Clinton-era Terry McAuliffe as governor of Virginia in 2013, and has been involved with several environmental measures on the California ballot over the past few years. Steyer has become one of the most vocal opponents of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline. Tom Steyer wants to go from hedge fund success to "political action committee" (PAC) wedge-issue fund success.
Steyer is all in to help progressive Democrats in the war against climate carbon. Steyer was the biggest super PAC spender last year, dropping $11.1m into his two groups. This year he will invest at least $50m in the NextGen Climate Action Committee. The money will be spent to help elect politicians who share Mr Steyer's environmental views, or kick out those who do not. Steyer ranks number 1,146 in Forbes list of billionaires, while his arch Republican political enemies, Koch Brothers Charles and David, rank as Forbes number 6 billionaires. (Forbes, January 2014)
Consistent with progressive activism, Tom Steyer is a greenie-come-lately climate campaigner, and ultimate system gamer who depends on government subsidies and renewables mandates that make his "green" energy investments profitable. However, he was a major investor in fossil-fuel energy producer Kinder Morgan, which is building a competitor to the Keystone XL pipeline. But Steyer's green hypocrisy is even bolder. He has been a staunch opponent of fossil fuels, especially coal. And, this fits with his current economic interests – idling coal-fired power plants will boost the value of his renewable energy project investments.
Tom Steyer owes much of his fortune to having been one of the world's largest financers of coal projects. Typical of progressives' intellectual dishonesty, Steyer was for coal before he was against it. Reliable Asian and Australian sources have reported on how Steyer got rich on coal, with a report titled "Hypocrisy & Hedge Funds: Climate Change Warrior Tom Steyer's Secret Life as Coal Investment Kingpin." (Powerline.com, April 2014)
It has also been reported that Tom Steyer's ultimate political goal is to run for the California Governor's office. But, his riding an aging green wave to political power is doubtful due to: 1) the public's exhaustion and skepticism with climate crusaders, and 2) the growing costs of renewable energy mandates and their inherent performance deficiencies. Funding a PAC to buy Democrat politicians' adherence to the climate orthodoxy will likely fail, especially in a time of chronic dishonesty and policy failures of the Democrat Party.
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text: Description Suggest an Edit The Wildwood Trail follows a former railroad right-of-way once owned by the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company. The trail runs between Woodville and Spring Valley and is open to snowmobilers in winter. Through Woodville the trail is broken into two segments: one runs between E. Boundary Road and River Street; the other picks up again at Main Street near Solum Drive. The gap is easily bridged along Stene Drive and County Road BB.South of Woodville the trail passes among a mostly rural setting through a nicely wooded corridor. Click to read more Parking and Trail Access For information on parking and access, contact St. Croix County at 715.386.4600. Click to read more Reviews closed to horses! July, 2014 by triciaaspen I love this trail. I was raised on this trail and recently we took our horse and wagons on this trail. This is an awesome trail! However, between Woodville and Spring Valley the trail is CLOSED to horses. What a huge loss. I would be very interested ...read more


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One random Sunday, I woke up early and joined the Techos (my boyfriend's family) in visiting St. Claire Monastery for some prayer requests. The place is known for its praying nuns and offertory eggs. It is believed that St. Claire is a miraculous saint and answers prayer requests (in written form) of its devotees.
The monastery has a receiving area with tables set up in one corner for visitors to write their prayer requests. The letters are then dropped in drop boxes and the egg donations are remitted to the monastery personnel manning the post.
some people writing down their prayer requests
this way for submission of written prayer requests and egg donations
After that, visitors may opt to go inside the building to stand before a big St. Claire image to say some prayers or go to the candle lighting station outside to light some candles.
photography is prohibited in this part, took this one ninja style
When we visited at past 7:00 a.m., there were already a lot of people in the monastery. The mass had just finished. We just wrote our prayer requests, gave our egg donations, lighted some candles and said a short prayer inside the chapel. It was a quiet, spiritual experience.
Here are more photos we took during our visit:
the stairs going up to the church
people praying by the St. Claire image outside
We reached St. Claire Monastery by commute. We've been there several times already and each time we do, we ride LRT 2 through Legarda Station and alight at Katipunan Station. St. Claire is just walking distance from it.
the church inside the monastery complex
vendors selling eggs and other food stuff in front of the monastery
The Feast Day of St. Claire falls every 11th of August. During this time, thousands of St. Claire devotees flock to the monastery in Katipunan to pray and celebrate.
Have you been to St. Claire Monastery on a Sunday?
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It is no secret that alcohol and drugs are intertwined in the hip-hop world, and Eminem's battle with a prescription drug addiction had been public for some time. In an interview with Access Hollywood's Billy Bush, the rapper said, "I guess I really had to reach down, reach deep down and look at myself and realize this is my fault, like, take responsibility for the way I'm living and stop blaming other people."
As far as celebrities who have gone to inpatient rehabs, or anyone for that matter, this is one of the most powerful statements that can be made, because blaming the addiction on someone else or some made-up disease only take the responsibility away from the person. Many non-12 step rehabs are responsibility-based instead of disease-based, which is just one reason why they are typically more successful.
Eminem's latest single "I'm Not Afraid" went straight to number 1 off his new album, appropriately titled "Recovery", which was just released. If you're looking for a drug recovery center, we can help. Call our hotline now to find an inpatient rehab that works by dialing 1-800-670-9372.


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Your relationship with your boss can make or break your experience at a job. When you're starting with a new company or undergoing a management change, you hope that you'll get along with your new supervisor. But sometimes, you'll get a boss who just doesn't have his or her employees' best interests at heart, which makes the workplace dynamic strained at best and downright miserable at worst.
The good news is, you'll be able to tell almost right away if your new boss is going to be difficult to work with. Here are a few telltale signs of a bad manager, and how to confront his or her behavior in a respectful, professional manner.
They don't make you a priority. Does your boss take phone calls or allow others to interrupt when you're in the middle of a conversation? Business consultant Dianne Sikel said bosses who regularly put their own employees on hold for other people or tasks don't value their staff's time.
"This says a lot about how the communication level is going to be later, especially when facing workplace issues and challenges that need his or her assistance," Sikel told Business News Daily. [Why You Should Confront Your Abusive Boss]
They take all the credit. In an ideal workplace, every employee on a team is recognized for his or her efforts and contributions. A bad boss will consistently try to take credit for what others have done, especially in front of his or her own boss.
Shannon Barnes, the people business partner at people development company Insights Learning & Development, said this person will often use "I" instead of "we" when talking about team accomplishments. These bosses are also more likely to interrupt you when they are talking in a meeting, to "show off" or look smarter than their team members, Barnes said.
They don't listen to you. A good boss will take others' ideas into account when trying to complete a project or solve a problem. A bad one, on the other hand, will continually shut down input from team members and insist on doing things his or her own way.
"When ... you provide your boss with a great recommendation but it falls on deaf ears, you might start wondering what you're there for," said Jason Hahn, client services manager for recruitment and talent management company Alexander Mann Solutions. "It can be difficult to keep delivering when what you deliver is ignored."
They micromanage. Many employees find micromanagers to be frustrating and overbearing. You can try to discern whether your new boss will be breathing down your neck by asking questions about the type of communication he or she expects when handing out tasks, said Vincent O'Connell, the Asia regional director for consulting firm Globecon Institute.
"If the boss states that he or she expects frequent updates and is always wanting to know the exact details of what you are doing, then he or she is demonstrating a penchant for micromanagement," O'Connell said.
They're not respectful of your work-life balance. Personal situations and obligations are bound to conflict with work, at least once in a while. How does your boss handle it when you ask to adjust your schedule or take some time off to deal with something outside of work? And does he or she regularly expect you to drop everything for work?
Bad bosses are less likely to show compassion for any personal issues going on in their employees' lives, and are quick to request that an employee work overtime with little advance notice, Barnes said.
They make you feel stuck in your job. A boss decides when and how an employee's career will progress within the company. It doesn't bode well for you if you're trying your hardest but your boss doesn't seem to take notice or want to help you get ahead.
"You're taking on more responsibility, you're taking courses and challenging yourself, but you seem to be stuck in the same spot," Hahn said. "That's a sign that your boss doesn't have your best interests at heart. Developing your career is ultimately your responsibility, but a manager also has a duty to help you progress when you deserve it."
Confronting a bad boss
If you've experienced any or all of the above situations, you might think it's time to start looking for a new gig. However, Hahn advised trying to overcome the situation first.
"There will be times when a bad boss can ruin your time at a company and result in you leaving, because [managers] do play a huge role in your day-to-day life and career," Hahn said. "But if you truly love the organization and what they do and stand for, you should make every attempt to find a way to make it work and not let one person ruin it for you."
Barnes said the first step should be to speak with your boss about the problematic behavior, rather than going straight to human resources to complain. Of course, you can't just barge in and scream at your boss — you'll have to be calm, rational and professional about it.
It's a good idea to write out your strategy and talking points ahead of time so you are prepared for the conversation, Barnes said. This will increase your confidence and ensure you don't get distracted if your boss tries to make excuses or becomes defensive. You should also try to speak with your boss as soon as possible after an incident occurs.
"Provide the boss with feedback as close to an event as it happens," Barnes said. "Share the specific details of what happened, let them know how it made you feel, give a clear suggestion of what you would like him or her to do differently in the future and, finally, ask for their commitment. Any boss who is a good leader will definitely take the feedback to heart."
If speaking to your boss doesn't result in any positive changes, let him or her know that you would like to schedule a meeting with HR to help share your perspective in a neutral manner, Barnes said.
Hahn noted that it's best to try to see things from your boss's perspective and encourage an open dialogue about the situation. But if you're not seeing any difference in behavior, you may need to take action.
"You need to decide if the situation is workable and if there are others in the organization who can support you without you going over your boss's head," Hahn said. "If you do see the signs of a bad boss and it is time to leave, you need to take your career into your own hands. We're living in a market that favors job seekers again, and ... you have the power to go out and get a role you deserve with a good boss."
Updated May 29, 2015. Additional reporting by Business News Daily senior writer Chad Brooks.


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Each year, Baxter College contests for the prestigious male and female inter-college sports shield. This competition involves male and female Baxter teams competing against the other UNSW colleges in a wide range of sports. Sports that are played include:
- Cross Country
- Rugby League
- Squash
- Volleyball
- Basketball
- Hockey
- Rugby Union
- Tennis
- Water Polo
- Cricket
- Netball
- Soccer
- Touch Football
The inter-college sports ball at the end of the year is the night when the trophies for each sport and overall winning college are awarded. At the Baxter Valedictory Dinner, awards are presented to residents for their contribution to specific sports. The Baxter male and female sports person of year are also named and awarded for their excellence in a range of sports.


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Ridgefield — A loosened guard rail has prompted the Washington State Department of Transportation to reduce the speed limit on a section of state Highway 501 outside Ridgefield. The change took effect Friday.
The speed limit between North Reiman Road and North Smythe Road (mileposts 18.0 to 18.2) has been reduced from 40 mph to 25 mph in both directions. The move is intended to protect driver safety in a section of road where saturated soils have loosened the guard rail along the eastbound lane, according to WSDOT.
The speed reduction will remain in effect until crews complete permanent repairs early this year, according to WSDOT.


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IODP Scientific Mantle Drilling Preliminary Resources
Study Reports
High Impact Sytems (Rock Bits, Coring & More) Technical Review & Risk Reduction Study (PDF) -- Produced by Blade Energy Partners, 7 February 2013
IODP Mantle Drilling Project Initial Feasibility Study (PDF) -- Produced by Blade Energy Partners, 30 June 2011
OTC 2012 presentation slides (summary) (PDF) -- Presented by IODP-MI and Blade Energy Partners
Workshop Reports
Mantle Frontier Workshop Presentations and Report-- Reaching the Mantle Frontier: Moho and Beyond - A Three-Day Workshop, 9-11 September 2010, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Mission Moho Workshop Reports -- Understanding the Formation and Evolution of the Oceanic Lithosphere September 7-9, 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA, IODP-MI/JOI/Ridge 2000/InterRidge
MMFL_wkshp_rpt_2009_final (2.5 MB)
Journal Articles
Initial Feasibility Study to Drill and Core the Ocean Mantle, Scientific Drilling Journal, No.12, September 2011
The MoHole: A Crustal Journey and Mantle Quest (PDF), Scientific Drilling Journal -- Workshop in Kanazawa, Japan, 3-5 June 2010
Mission Moho Workshop: Drilling Through the Oceanic Crust to the Mantle, Scientific Drilling Journal, No.4, March 2007
D/V Chikyu: Riser Operations and the Future of Scientific Ocean Drilling, Oceanography, Vol. 19, No. 4, December 2006
The German Continental Deep Drilling Program KTB: Overview and Major Results, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 102, No. B8, August 1997
Informational Materials
Mantle Drilling Special Symposium -- Professor. Walter H. Munk, Research Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 7 November, 2012 , Tokyo, Japan
Recently in the News
CNN lab -- The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle (October 1, 2012)
New Scientist -- Mission to the mantle: Drilling through Earth's crust (July 03, 2012)
Science News -- By land or by sea in the earth sciences' 'space race' (August 13, 2011)
National Geographic -- Scientists to Drill Earth's Mantle, Retrieve First Sample? (March 23, 2011)


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Rhythm Heaven features original music in dozens of rhythm-based minigames. The music, created by legendary Japanese pop-star producer TSUNKU, is addictive and catchy. Even though the controls are simple to grasp, each minigame challenges the player
Due to the numbers being changed around in the English version, I think it'd be appropriate to say the numbers. In the same order; Business Card toy 5553282338 - Tunnel Endless game 5557325937 - Samurai Slice Endless game 5557268724 - Battle of the Bands 5557625688.
Hidden throughout the game are secret telephone codes. By entering them into the telephone in Rhythm Toys (requires 4 medals) you will hear secret songs/random sounds from the original GBA Rhythm Tengoku. Listed below are the telephone codes and where they are located: 831*831*831* - Business Card under Rhythm Toys (requires 1 medal) 2*21*98 - Tunnel Endless Game (requires 12 medals) 246936*1 - Samurai Endless Game (requires 17 medals) 44*82831* - Live Contest (must beat all 50 stages) Note:'*' denotes a musical note.
|Beat Bag
|Get 19 Medals
|Beat Machine
|Get 14 Medals
|Business Card
|Get 1 Medal
|Kappa DJ
|Get 24 Medals
|Octopus Machine
|Get 11 Medals
|Get 5 Medals
|Slot Monster
|Get 8 Medals
|Coin Toss
|Get 2 Medals
|Glass Tappers
|Get 22 Medals
|Rhythmove Dungeon
|Get 27 Medals
|Samrai Slice
|Get 17 Medals
|Get 7 Medals
|Get 12 Medals
|Unlock All Songs
|Perfect all 50 stages.
|Basic Guitar Lessons
|Beat Rocker (Stage 6-3) and have at least 15 medals.
|Technical Guitar Lessons
|Beat Rocker 2 (Stage 10-4) and have at least 35 medals
Obtain a Medal on all 50 songs and there will no longer be any wait between Perfect challenges.
|Battle of the bands
|Beat Remix 10
|Airboard Minigame
|Beat remixes 1 through 6


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JWC TO THOMAS CARLYLE ; 30 July 1845; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18450730-JWC-TC-01; CL 19: 119-120
Wednesday [30 July 1845]
The last two days, "being an only child" I have not wished to write; today I wish, but cannot, to any purpose, no indeed—today, I must give up the idea of "carrying SUCH a blessing into your house"! I have risen with "no head," or rather with a more than usual certainty that I have one—from the pain of it. "My allowance" here is beginning to take effect on me; by Friday I shall have had quite enough of this sort of thing, and be ready to have even Geraldine-speculations "thrown into the system"— Mrs Paulet called again on Monday, and missed me again—she left word that she would fetch me away at eleven on Friday morning— If I could but "make my care the welfare of others" I should have room to feel "a good joy" over the pleasure which my coming seems to have given to several people— My Uncle has "enjoyed" my visit very much—we have had no flare ups on politics this time—neither he nor Alick have spoken one word of "Sir Robert" or "Sir James"1 or any other public person or thing since I came!! So much for the few words of objurgation I wrote to my Uncle beforehand on the subject of his "detestable politics"! The only flareup I have witnessed was last night at cards— He and Alick were playing at ecarté—on a little table in a corner—very silently, and amicably to all appearance; the rest of us were sewing or reading—suddenly the little table flew into the air on the point of my Uncle's foot! and a shower of cards fell all over the floor!— "Damn these eternal cards" said he fiercely, as we all stared up at him in astonishment— "Hang them! Curse them! Blast them!— Blast them to Hell!" They all looked frightened—for me, the suddenness of the thing threw me into a fit of laughter in which my Uncle himself was the first to join.
This morning at breakfast something was saying about cards to be taken to Scotland—"but," said I—"I thought they had been all sent last night to Hell?"— "Pooh," said my Uncle quite gravely, "that was only one pack!" Jeanie seems to be settling down more and more into placid inanity— SO far as I can make out she has some sort of lukewarm love affair and tacit engagement going on with Andrew Crystal2—a good out-and-out love would be the very best thing in the world for her—even if in the long run it should go all to immortal smash.3 but your lukewarm loves—where people doubt "first the worthiness of the passion—and then their own worthiness, and finally—good Heaviness—the worthiness of the object! "The Devil fly away with" that sort of loves for me! Better to throw a gallon or two of good honest lukewarm water into the system and take the consequences!— But certainly I am not wise in writing on with "my brains" (as Rio would say) "tormenting me" in this way.
But, what to do?— One's Good if not "feeling so "lonely" as might be wished, yet in point of fact lonely enough—and on'eself without an own red bed to retire into— Cannot I stay in my Boot and be quiet?— No, I get beside myself pent up there—latterly I have been bolting out of it, thro the men's room—whether they were there and clothed or no—like a bottle of ginger beer bur[s]ting4 the cork! "Uncle I beg you pardon but I must "get out"—" "Weel Weel! (hiding himself behind the curtain) there's no help for it"!
Had not you better go to Fryston?— You did pretty well there before— for me, I think I shall have had enough of 'distraction' by the time I have accomplished my original programme It is a great bore that I can no longer read the proofs— Will you tell me if the leech be still alive?— Give my kind regards to Helen and say I will write a letter "all to herself" one of these days— The whitewashing will be one good job over when I come— God bless you dear—I am in the Devils own humour today if you care to know it—but ever yours "not without" affection
Jane W Carlyle
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The Society notes that sites in Alaska and Hawaii are already threatened by eroding coastlines. It is inevitable that the coastlines of the lower 48 will suffer the same fate. Rising sea levels are not the only threat. Severe droughts and wildfires put inland sites in peril. The Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, which protects artifacts and cliff dwellings of the Pueblo people, has suffered back-to-back wildfires as temperatures have increased at accelerating rates over the past 50 years.
Hurricane Sandy gave the nation a preview of what's to come. The Statue of Liberty National Monument Park and Ellis Island suffered severe infrastructure damage from the winds and flooding brought by the October 2012 storm. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in the wake of Sandy, stressed that extreme weather is now the norm and rebuilding efforts must take into account the new danger. In 2013, Cuomo launched the 2100 Commission. The Commission is tasked with finding ways to improve the state's infrastructure so that it will withstand severe weather events.
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LEWISTON, Idaho – The Idaho women's tennis team extended its win streak to seven matches with a 7-0 win over Kansas City Saturday.
The Vandals (7-1) cruised through the doubles point with 8-1 and 8-0 wins at Nos. 1 and 3, then picked up straight-set wins in five of the six singles matches.
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Pick: Texans by 7
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Let $L = \Bbb{Q}(\zeta_m)$ where we write $m = p^k n$ with $(p,n) = 1$. Let $p$ be a prime of $\Bbb{Z}$ and $P$ any prime of $\mathcal{O}_L$ lying over $p$.
Notation: We write $I = I(P|p)$ to denote the inertia group and $D = D(P|p)$ the decomposition group.
Now we have a tower of fields
$$\begin{array}{c} L \\ |\\ L^E \\| \\ L^D \\| \\ \Bbb{Q}\end{array}$$
and it is clear that $L^E = \Bbb{Q}(\zeta_n)$ so that $E \cong \Bbb{Z}/p^k\Bbb{Z}^\times$.
My question is: I want to identify the decomposition group $D$. So this got me thinking: Do we have a decomposition into direct products $$D \cong E \times D/E?$$ This would be very convenient because $D/E$ is already known to be finite cyclic of order $f$ while $E$ I have already stated above. Note it is not necessarily given that $(e,f) = 1$ so we can't invoke Schur - Zassenhaus or anything like that.


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College Hockey:2003-04 Bowling Green Season Preview
Scott Paluch has a daunting task. The second-year Falcon head coach has to rebuild a program that once defined a league.
"This is an important year for Bowling Green hockey. We're celebrating a 20-year anniversary of our first national championship for the CCHA. We know we have to bring that flavor back to the ice. We want to get ourselves back to being a factor in the CCHA, both in the league and on a national level."
It would be easy to dismiss such comments as oversimplified, grand, or just plain unlikely in the immediate future — if you didn't know Scott Paluch. Paluch played for BGSU from 1984-1987, in the afterglow of that national championship. As Jerry York's associate head coach, Paluch helped Boston College to four consecutive Frozen Four appearances and tasted the thrill of a national championship himself when the Eagles captured the title in 2001.
In his first year at BGSU, Paluch wrote rules, cleaned house, and watched his Falcons come this close in 17 contests decided by one goal or less, including a 4-3 defeat in their last game of the year, a first-round playoff loss against Michigan.
If anyone can resurrect BGSU's winning ways, it's the enthusiastic Paluch. "We've had a great off-season. The players are excited. Last year our wins and losses weren't where we wanted to be or the tradition of our school puts us, but we have a lot of differences this year, starting with the type of work ethic we bring to the game every practice, every game."
On the offensive side, the Falcons will be led by returning captain D'Arcy McConvey, a player who has weathered the coaching transition well. McConvey was BGSU's leading scorer last year, a playmaker with a cool head and an eye for a passing lane.
Another player on whom Paluch pins high hopes is senior defenseman Kevin Bieksa. "Kevin Bieksa had a great year offensively and with the same type of production this year he could become recognized as one of the top all-around defensemen in this league."
Jordan Sigalet will be the mainstay in goal, and he's solid, but last year the defense — including the overall team defense — too often made Sigalet look as though he was the only Falcon alive.
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There's no question that Paluch can coach, and you'd have to be either cynical or stupid not to take an interest in the rebuilding of a once-great hockey team.
Or a Michigan or Michigan State fan. Ten bucks says this coach threatens that status quo within five years.
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Ryan Minnabarriet. Put someone with this kid, please. He's due.
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Defense. Holy moly. They're all back, but is that a good thing? The Falcons allowed over four goals per game last season, nearly four per league contest, putting them dead last defensively. Incoming youngster Jonathan Sigalet, Jordan's younger brother, is expected to have an immediate and positive impact on the Falcon defense, but how much difference can one player make on a team that was outscored 143-94 overall last year?
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