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The team at STUDIiYO23 loves living on top of the world when it comes to what's fresh, what's hot and what inspires. Music is part of our lives, and as such we'd like to bring our S23 family along with us on our journey to discover musical talents wherever they are. So lend us your ear and peep these STUDIiYO23 Fresh Faces.
Jay Electronica
Although Jay Electronica isn't "new", he deserves to be on this list as he is one of the freshest emcees out right now. Jay has been at this thing for a while but still has yet to release a studio LP, yet in some circles he is the most buzzed about artist of the past five years.
Jay Electronica has some of the most thought-provoking rhymes while still providing a hip hop sound that has lead to people like Diddy and Q-tip wanting to work with him and has ultimately got him signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation in November of 2010. Jay is currently overseas working on his mixtape Act II: Patents Of Nobility (The Turn). There is plenty of material available on the net that Jay has released throughout the years, including his Just Blaze produced single "Exhibit C", which is the cut that has made him a household name in the Hip Hop community. You can also find Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), which was made available on a Myspace page back in 2007 and is a 9 minutes and 17 second continuous track set to Jon Brion's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" soundtrack. There is also Jay Electronica's Style Wars EP which he also dropped in 2007 as well as countless singles and features.
To get the full Jay Electronica experience whether you have yet to hear his music or if you just want everything he has been involved with, we suggest you cop Jay Electronica: Pre-Act II [The Essentials] right here for free. This is a double mix of everything Jay as well as some stuff even we had not heard yet and some bonus cuts. Pre-Act II is the perfect introduction to Jay Electronica as well as the perfect addition to any Jay Electronica fans library.
Danny Brown
Detroit has always been a hot bed for dope music and there are no shortages of ill emcees killing it out of the D right now. Danny Brown is one of them that should be on your radar. Danny Brown offers a style of Hip Hop that is one-of-a-kind. One part great story-teller, one part comedic emcee and one part as eccentric as Andy Warhol; Danny Brown is one of the most entertaining emcees doing it right now.
There really isn't any single one emcee that you can compare Danny to. My first introduction to Danny Brown was his Detroit State Of Mind Part 1 project he released in 2007, since then Danny has put out parts 2-4, with Detroit State Of Mind Part 4 being one of the best free projects I have ever listened to. Danny Brown also released The Hybrid, which is now being re-released and can be pre-ordered. The Hybrid boasts a few stand-out tracks like "Guitar Solo" in which you get to hear Danny's incredible story telling ability. Other tracks like "Exotic" and "White Stripes" show off his comedic values.
To get to know Danny Brown we would suggest copping Detroit State Of Mind Part 4 for free right here. You can also stream Danny's latest project, The Hybrid, on the Rappers I Know Bandcamp . Peep the visuals for Danny Brown's single "Guitar Solo" right here. I believe that Danny Brown will have a huge impact on Hip Hop in the next couple years and look forward to hearing much more from this incredibly unique emcee.
Blu is one of those artists that is going to be relevant for a very long time. I imagine his album Below The Heavens with producer Exile will still be talked about a decade from now. Blu not only offers thought provoking rhymes but he also has an undeniably distinct and fresh way of delivering his raps. Blu is one of the few emcees that have made the XXL Freshman List (2009) that I completely agreed with.
Starting out as a hype man for acts like Slum Village, Platinum Pied Pipers and Emanon, Blu was quickly recognized for his songwriting ability that was well beyond his years. At the age of 21 in 2004 Blu turned down Interscope and Death Row Records to sign with Los Angeles independent label Sound In Color. After releasing his 2005 EP, Lifted, and his 2007 project , The Narrow Path, Blu and Exile teamed up for the Below The Heavens LP. In a day when artists have several producers working on one album it was refreshing to hear an LP crafted by one emcee and one producer, especially a duo that compliments each other as well as Blu and Exile do.
Blu currently re-released his 2009 mixtape, Her Favorite Colo(u)r, after having it mastered and is now set to release his No York! LP which is slated to drop sometime in 2011. To get an idea of what Blu brings to hip hop we suggest you cop Below The Heavens via iTunes, or wherever you cop your music, and Her Favorite Colo(u)r. Check out the visuals for "Blu Collar Workers" off of Below The Heavens right here and/or check out his latest offering from No York!, "Doin' Something", a posse cut with Pac Div, U-N-I, J*Davey, TiRon and Ayomari!
Janelle Monae
Funky. Psychedelic. Soulful. EPIC. Janelle Monae is the kind of artist that you can't just describe with one word. It takes either a combination of many, or something completely made up like "Soulfunkyepadelic." Once your mind is open to the gift that she has to share, making up words may come naturally. The combination of creativity that rests in her sound, her attire, and her words easily holds her in the category of Prince, which would explain why he has been found as a fan in the crowd at a few of her shows. Real will recognize real.
With that being said, there's no question as to why Outkast would be one of the first groups to want to take her under their wing. Meeting in Atlanta while Janelle was blowing minds around local colleges in the area, Big Boi was quick to embrace her and decided to introduce her to his fellow chum, Sean "Diddy" Combs. Sean was immediately inspired, and teamed up with Big Boi for the production and release of Janelle's 2007 Grammy nominated EP, Metropolis: Suite I.
Today, Janelle Monae brings light to the dark with her current 2010 full -length album, The ArchAndroid. Quoted as a prominent believer in time travel, she exudes just that, bringing cinematic influences from the past and combining them with futuristic "Android-like" sounds from the year 2100. Featuring prominent figures such as Saul Williams and Big Boi, this album will leave your brain and soul feeling like it's been put through a reflective revolution, and released into another world to party with the rest of them. Check out one of her most recent creations off of her new album. "Tightrope" featuring Big Boi. Dance on!
Theophilus London
This butterfly MC from the Bronx is the definition of fresh. Visually and melodically, he is a time machine back into the days when hip-hop was an escape into immediate heart jumps, head swings and shoulder bounces. With influences ranging from Prince to Whitney Houston to Michael Jackson, Theophilus London extends the boundary of generations, bridging gaps with nostalgic flows and beats that knock.
Since 2007, he's been spreading his wings within the industry, gaining networks and flourishing the mixtape game with Jam! (2008), This Charming Mixtape (2009), and I Want You (2010). Evolving and exploring with each step, his stamina led him to four nationwide tours, including one ambient adventure over seas. Catching the eye of Warner Bros. Records, they geared him up for the release of his 2011 EP Lovers Holiday, featuring the fly singles "Flying Overseas" and "Why Even Try".
Today, his music and his videos are the bubble in the hip-hop brain leaving discoverers in a constant state of wondering, "Who's that guy that dresses like he's from the 80's?" You now know. He's Theophilus London: a fun, fly, inventive, free spirit that leaves smiles and rhythm for the soul. He is currently fresh off a round of hot stops, including SXSW, where the Studiiyo23 family had the pleasure of catching his live show and meeting him backstage! Here's some footage of him performing for you. Be sure to watch until the end. Big up to Theophilus for the Studiiyo23 shout-out!
At STUDIiYO23 we believe that quality music is just as essential to life as air and water. Be sure to check back on the first of every month for each installment of STUDIiYO23's Fresh Faces. As a collective we all agree that good music can be found around the world and as such we will continue to highlight new and upcoming artists throughout most genres of music from every corner of the globe with a focus on quality, just like everything else we do at STUDIiYO23.
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-S23 Music (@meenafresh, @lxalford, @studiiyo23)

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MongoMapper provides support for Dynamic Querying in its finders, familiar to many Rails developers. Similar to dynamic finders in ActiveRecord , MongoMapper provides a finder for every key defined in your document.
Let's start with a simple User model:
class User
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key :first_name, String
key :last_name, String
key :age, Integer
scope :smiths, where(:last_name => "Smith")
scope :johns, where(:first_name => "John")
Let's create some users that we can query dynamically later:
User.create(:first_name => "Ann", :last_name => "Smith", :age => 24)
User.create(:first_name => "John", :last_name => "Smith", :age => 42)
User.create(:first_name => "John", :last_name => "Zoidberg", :age => 46)
We can now dynamically query for a user by one or multiple keys like so:
In order to query for all possible users simply add the all keyword to the query which will return an array of results
User.find_all_by_last_name("Smith").length # => 2
Remember the scopes that we defined in our User class earlier? Well MongoMapper allows you to dynamically query those scopes too:
Another convenient feature that MongoMapper provides (similar to ActiveRecord) is the ability to find or initialize a record by one or more keys:
In the above queries, if a user is not found, the user is then initialized with the attributes given to the dynamic query. If you want to save and actually create those records using dynamic finders, you can write the above queries like so:
Dynamic Querying also has support for the ! operator. So if a document is not found in a dynamic query using the ! operator, an exception will be raised likewise:
User.find_by_first_name_and_last_name!("Why", "The Lucky Stiff") # => MongoMapper::DocumentNotFound: Couldn't find Document with {"first_name"=>"Why", "last_name"=>"The Lucky Stiff"} in collection named users


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Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids." What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea - except that everything seems very wrong. Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he's in terrible danger. Now her boyfriend doesn't recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. What is going on? Leo has a way with tools. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. What's troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all - including Leo - related to a god. Rick Riordan, the best-selling author of the Percy Jackson series, pumps up the action and suspense in The Lost Hero, the first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Fans of demi-gods, prophesies, and quests will be left breathless--and panting for Book Two.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The sold-out crowd at Ingalls Rink was surprisingly quiet as the final minutes of the ECAC contest between Yale and Brown ticked away. It wasn't that the fans weren't excited — they were simply taken aback by what they saw: a blowout victory for the home team.
Indeed, Yale pounded Brown 6-1, marking the first time all season that the Bulldogs (7-8, 5-6 ECAC) have won a game by more than a single goal. A four-goal, 21-shot outburst in the third period sent the partisan crowd home, blissfully bored.
Ben Stafford led the assault with two goals and an assist while Jason Noe had the best game of his career, notching a goal and two assists. Jeff Hamilton and Nick Deschenes also chipped in with a goal and an assist each. Adam Saunders tallied the lone goal for Brown (2-10-2, 1-8-2).
The Bulldogs had lost six of their previous seven games and were shut out twice at No. 1 Michigan State last weekend. But Friday, back on home ice, they managed to put together both their best offensive and defensive efforts of the season.
"I was very happy to see us get some goals," head coach Tim Taylor said. "But the part I'm most pleased about is the defensive effort."
Taylor's team had allowed at least three goals in each game all season, but the defense stymied the Bears throughout much of the game as goaltender Dan Lombard made 23 saves. Brian Eklund stopped 36 shots for Brown.
The prime culprit in Yale's defensive struggles had been its penalty kill, which was 11th in ECAC play heading into the evening. Last weekend alone, the Bulldogs gave up five power-play goals to Michigan State. But the unit found its stride against Brown, killing off all five shorthanded situations.
"We wanted to be more aggressive on the penalty kill and try to pressure the puck more," Stafford said. "We worked on it all week since special teams was a focal point of practice."
Brown came into the game with renewed confidence after its 6-2 win over Union last Saturday night. It was the Bears' first ECAC win, and head coach Roger Grillo hoped that confidence would lead to consecutive wins for the first time all season, but his team ran into a frustrated group of Bulldogs.
Stafford got the Elis on the board at the 10:31 mark of the first period. After Eklund had trouble with a Stacey Bauman shot from the left circle, Hamilton corralled the rebound at the right circle. Sensing the goaltender's uneasiness, Hamilton wristed the puck towards a mass of bodies in front of the net. Stafford found the loose puck and pounded it past Eklund from five feet out to notch his eighth goal of the season.
Saunders answered just 2:10 later, taking a pass from Pascal Denis up the left wing. Though he had a teammate streaking through the slot, Saunders surprised Lombard with a low knuckling shot that snuck through the goaltender's legs. It was the freshman's first career goal and evened the score at 1-1.
The second period proved to be a test for both penalty kills, particularly Yale's. After the Bears — who have the worst penalty kill in the ECAC — successfully fended off the Eli power play early in the period, they went on the man-advantage themselves at the 4:55 mark. Yale's Spencer Rodgers skated off for interference, only to be followed into the penalty box by Bauman 1:15 later, giving Brown a five-on-three. But the Eli power play held the Bears without a shot, protecting the 1-1 tie.
At the 9:54 mark of the second, Hamilton's eighth goal of the season gave the Bulldogs a lead they would not relinquish. He took a feed from Evan Wax at the bottom the left circle and fired a shot that deflected off Eklund's stick before finding the net. It turned out to be the senior's 15th career game-winner, adding to his school record.
Heading into the third period with a scanty 2-1 lead, the Bulldogs made sure not to put Lombard in his customary high-pressure situation late in the game.
"That was a rallying cry for us early in the third period," Stafford said. "We wanted to do it for Dan. He's been playing well for us all year, and we wanted to take some of the pressure of him."
The Yale power play — which had gone scoreless for nearly 30 consecutive minutes — added to the lead early in the third. After Evan Wax drew a hooking call on Jon Zielinski at the one-minute mark, Noe ended the drought, putting his team ahead 3-1. Bryan Freeman's shot from the top of the left circle went wide to the far side, deflecting off the end boards to Noe at the right circle. His low wrister found its way through Eklund's legs for the score.
"We had tremendous end-zone time on the power play tonight," Taylor said. "We tried a new look on the power play and got a lot of good looks. We executed well, but not with enough crispness."
Just 1:13 later, Luke Earl picked up his first goal since November 11th, and the rout was on. Stafford and Deschenes both added their team-leading ninth goals later in the third to seal the victory.
Such a lopsided win was a rare occasion, not only for the 2000-01 Bulldogs, but for Yale teams in recent years. Last season's team scored six times against Brown in a one-goal win in Providence. But the last time the Bulldogs lit the Ingalls Rink lamp that many times was November 21, 1998, when they beat Harvard 7-1.
Ingalls Rink fans also hadn't seen a five-goal victory since Alex Westlund and Trevor Hanger combined on a 5-0 shutout of Union on March 5, 1999. New Haven fans are accustomed to recent Yale dominance over Brown, however, with the Bulldogs now 5-0-1 in their last six meetings. Brown's last win in New Haven was November 16, 1996.
This weekend marked Taylor's return to the Yale bench after spending most of the last month as an assistant coach for the United States team at the World Junior Championships.
On Saturday, the Bears travel to Princeton while the Bulldogs renew their heated rivalry with Harvard at Ingalls Rink. After this weekend, both teams take a break from ECAC competition until February 2 while the rest of the league catches up in games played.
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Q4 2010 Earnings Call
January 19, 2011 9:30 am ET
John Stumpf - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
Jim Rowe - Director of Investor Relations
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Good morning. My name is Celeste, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Wells Fargo Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn today's call over to Jim Rowe. Please go ahead, sir.
Jim Rowe
Good morning. Thank you for joining our call today during which our Chairman and CEO, John Stumpf, and CFO, Howard Atkins, will review the fourth quarter 2010 results and answer your questions.
Before we get started, I would like to remind you that our fourth quarter earnings release and quarterly supplement are available on our website. I'd also like to caution you that we may make forward-looking statements during today's call and that those forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from expectations are detailed in our SEC filings, including the Form 8-K filed today and the earnings release and quarterly supplement included as exhibits. In addition, some of the discussion today about the company's performance will include reference to non-GAAP financial measures. Information about those measures, including a reconciliation of those measures to GAAP measures, can be found in our SEC filings and in the earnings release and quarterly supplement available on our website at wellsfargo.com. I will now turn the call over to our Chairman and CEO, John Stumpf.
John Stumpf
Thank you, Jim. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining this call. And again, thanks for your interest in Wells Fargo. I'm very pleased with our record results for the year and the fourth quarter, which again demonstrate the power and momentum of our franchise. We continue to focus on meeting the financial needs of our customers, and as a result, we grew revenue, loans, deposits and cross-sell, as well as increased market share across our businesses. We also experienced significant improvement in credit quality in the quarter, continuing the steady improvement we experienced throughout 2010. The Wachovia merger continues to exceed all of our expectations and we are particularly pleased with the positive customer response we have received as we begin integrating the Wachovia stores in our Eastern states. In fact, for the second consecutive year, Wells Fargo ranked number one among large banks in the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Our internal metrics indicate greater customer retention and deepening customer relationships even as we completed increasingly complex merger activities.
For example, we've already replaced more than 5,000 Wachovia ATMs, with all of our over 12,000 ATMs now on one operating platform. Simply by offering our customers in the East the same web-enabled, Envelope-Free ATMs we have in the West, ATM deposit transactions in our Eastern markets increased 55%. This is just one example of how we continue to execute our business model while serving our customers when, where and how they want to be served.
Deposit growth remained strong through our company with net checking account growth of 7.5%, including California up 8.2% and Florida, up 10%. Since the merger, we have grown core deposits by $53 billion while favorably changing the composition from higher-cost CDs to lower-cost checking and savings accounts. In fact, listen to this, at the time of the merger, 23% of our core deposits were in CDs compared with less than 10% today. Just this past weekend, we successfully completed the systems integration of our Retail Brokerage business. As a consequence, we now have over 15,000 financial advisors in all 50 states on one common platform, state-of-the-art and very robust trading, planning, and investment platform activities and capabilities.
This further enables cross-seller, cross banking, wealth management and brokerage customers nationwide. Even as we celebrate the outstanding success of the Wachovia merger to date, we continue to focus intently on the remaining work ahead, converting the rest of the East Coast Wachovia banking stores to Wells Fargo throughout 2011.
Turning to the issue of regulatory reform. We have always been supportive of changes designed to better protect and serve consumers, businesses and the financial system. In some cases, however, such as the currently proposed control of debit interchange fees, suggested changes may have unintended consequences for the U.S. consumer, which causes our industry some concern. We believe that lawmakers should engage all constituents, merchants, consumers and banks, and take the necessary time to reach a reasonable and equitable solution. In that way, we can all help make our regulatory and operating framework a positive one for customers, the banking industry and the overall health of the U.S. economy.
As a company with more than 280,000 team members, our focus in this period of a new normal will be, as always, on how we best serve our customers by providing more value. So we are focusing on reducing expenses, be more efficient and nimble, and increasing revenue by winning more customers and deepening existing relationships and thereby limiting the impact of regulatory reform cost on our customers.
Granted, there will be some costs that will be passed along to customers. We've begun to implement some changes and there are more to come. But these decisions will always be made with the customer at the center. As we work through these changes, we will focus on three things: Providing our customers with choices and education about their options; rewarding customers for doing more business with us; and finally, offering meaningful value at fair prices.
With the evolving environment, we are more convinced than ever that our commitment to helping our customers succeed financially will create the best long term value for shareholders. Now let me turn this over to Howard
Howard Atkins
Thank you, John, and good morning, everyone. My remarks will follow the slide presentation, included in the quarterly supplement that's available on the Wells Fargo Investor Relations website. I've got a lot of ground to cover this morning. As shown on the Slide labeled Fourth Quarter Overview, I'd like to organize my remarks around five key areas.
First, our earnings were once again very strong, a record $3.4 billion in the fourth quarter. Perhaps more important was the high quality of our results with broad-based revenue growth across a large number of our 80-plus businesses, and acceleration of checking and savings account deposit growth. Now loan growth in total and in loan portfolios other than the non-strategic portfolio, which we've been running off.
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Calgary police have arrested Amanda Kathleen McGee, 31, for allegedly extorting her 18-year old roommate into working in the sex trade after being asked by the victim's family to check up on her. According to law enforcement officials, McGee is said to have offered the girl a place to stay shortly after her arrival in town last October, then "allegedly took inappropriate photos of the 18-year-old without her knowledge and later threatened to show them to the girl's friends and family if she did not perform sex acts for money." The teen alleges she was told the photos would be shared with family and friends if she didn't comply.
Although their landlord Sharon Lawton reported that McGee had stated that she was actually the one being victimized, Calgary police acting Staff Sgt. Mike Saunders stated that a second woman has come forward claiming that McGee had also "photographed her on a sex date with the teen," and that she was also a "victim of voyeurism and extortion." McGee is due to appear in court on Tuesday to face nine charges including: Trafficking in persons; Administering a noxious substance to aggrieve or annoy; Living on the avails of prostitution; Keeping a "common bawdy house;" Sexual assault with a weapon; Forcible confinement; Procure a person to become a prostitute; Extortion; and Voyeurism.
"Although most sex-trafficking situations involve a man who forces women into prostitution, we have been seeing a rise in female traffickers, and have engaged in investigations where females have procured females as sex trade workers," added Saunders. "This case should serve as a warning to be very careful when seeking a roommate. Listen to your gut and be aware that bad things can happen to good people.


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Christian is 14 months. He is the love of my life, but sometimes (who am I kidding, more times than not) I feel like I am sucking at this motherhood thing.
He gets into everything. I try correcting him by redirecting him. Redirect, redirect, redirect. I don't believe in spanking at such a young age, but my redirection doesn't redirect anything. I feel like I put so many restrictions in his ever growing world. I buy him toys that he isn't interested in. He just wants to destroy everything in the house. The things I say "No!" to are the things that he is attracted to the most.
Eating is a struggle. I try to feed him wholesome food, but he often refuses it.
He won't sit still at all. For anything. I have to pin him down to even brush his teeth.
Naps forget it! We still cosleep and I nurse him at night still. But during the day, he is not taking a nap with me.
But! When I take him to my parents house, he is good. He eats well, he sleeps well. I feel like I fail at being a mother and it makes me so sad. I can't do anything right. Frustration is at an all time high because I work irregular hours and I thrive on routine, but I feel like I can never get into a routine.
I guess this is more of a vent, but if anyone wants to offer some BTDT advice I would really appreciate it.
I can't even get him to sit still for me to do his hair in braids. They end up looking weeks old by the time I am finished.


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It's time to reveal the Gunners' Greatest 50 Goals - as voted for by Arsenal's fans.
We continue our countdown with a special strike from French midfielder Mathieu Flamini which lit up our 3-0 Premier League victory over Newcastle on January 29, 2008.
Arsenal led 1-0 at the time thanks to Emmanuel Adebayor's first-half header and they were good value for their lead. With 18 minutes left, Flamini secured all three points.
The move for his goal started with a long kick from Manuel Almunia. Nicklas Bendtner won a flick-on but Emmanuel Adebayor's cross from the right was cleared.
Abou Diaby retrieved possession tight on the left-hand touchline and found Cesc Fabregas, who picked out Flamini 30 yards from goal, left of centre and, crucially, with space ahead of him.
The Frenchman's first touch took him into that space and, as a defender closed him down, Flamini fired in a sweetly-struck drive which faded away from goalkeeper Shay Given and found the top corner. The scorer was hardly a regular on the scoresheet but this one was definitely worth the wait.
It would be Flamini's final goal for the Gunners. On reflection, it was a wonderful way to say goodbye.


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Another good movie that should have done even better than what it did at the box office. If this movie doesn't win at least one Oscar award, then the voters don't know good acting. The cast was excellent and the movie gives us a very good sense about how ending slavery wasn't that easy of an issue.
A very tremendous success of a film. a very saucy achievement. I watched this movie 6 times and it gets worse every time. a quint movie.
oh so boring - do not waste your time. my gf fell asleep and actually started snoring. there is no suspense or drama, although I did enjoy watching the way he spoiled his kid.
A squeaky voiced Lewis portrays a Lincoln that just doesn't square with history. All of these big, might pronouncements make him seem like he was the second coming. In truth, Lincoln could've cared less with freeing the slaves as he was with preserving the Union.
The reason it was made was to change history. How does one do that in today's dumbed down society without any historical context? make a stupid movie and act like it was real.
None of the actors were worth a diddle, and the overall movie was nothing but an overly wrought, clumsy movie that should be allowed to sink into the abyss due to its own isues mind-deadening inertia.
This is a drama directed by Steven Spielberg that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final months in office. This was an absolutely amazing film and I highly recommend seeing it in the theaters. It is a film about politics and Spielberg was able to portray in great detail what needs to be done in order to implement change, it was really impressive and exciting to watch. The film is beautiful visually and is rich with historical facts. Daniel Day-Lewis is the best actor of our generation hands down and I was in awe of his talent. The supporting cast was wonderful as well and really i could not find one bad thing about this film.
"Lincoln" is a beautiful movie, just as you would expect it to be. I learned a lot about the nation's greatest president, like how he loved to tell funny and dirty stories which is something you never hear about him. We always hear that Abraham Lincoln was distant and aloof and failed a million times before he was elected president and was also probably gay but this movie really gives another dimension to his personality. He also had a darker side, one that let him be more than just a figurehead even to those who hated him while he lived. I also loved Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field in their roles, though I don't get what was the point of having Joseph Gordon Levitt play Lincoln's son in just one scene. All things considered, this is a stellar movie even though it's traditional Oscar bait. I hope it gets its due when the season dawns in jan/feb of next year. A definite shoo-in for Best Actor, Director, and Picture.
This movie has Oscar written all over it. I think a lot of people think they know a lot about Abraham Lincoln (I certainly spent the better part of last year in US History class learning about the man we often call "America's Greatest President") but this movie shows another side to him that I didn't know existed. He was a really funny, crass, and average guy in a lot of ways, and was exceptional in other ways. He needs to be taken off his pedestal, which a lot of people will think is sacrilege, but the movie does nudge them to think differently. I also think that Daniel Day Lewis is the greatest living actor and should win every award on the planet. In fact, apart from Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, I think that his performance as Lincoln is the best performance on film I've seen. He really needs to be recognized for the amazing talent that he is. He is legendary and should be celebrated as a master thespian.
Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis? Does it get any better than that? It does! If you have Sally Field in the mix as Mary Todd Lincoln. Daniel Day Lewis is jaw droppingly amazing as Lincoln, but I thought that the next performance of the whole film was Sally Field. She really nails the part of one of America's most notable first ladies. It's kind of shocking when you think that she's playing the first lady during the Civil War era which was about Lincoln wanting to abolish slavery and now we have an African American First Lady in Michelle Obama. It gives me a real sense of history and how the country has changed, which is the same thing my kids said when they saw the movie. They did think it was kind of slow but I told them it was important for them to see it and they ultimately agreed and enjoyed the film. This is a must see movie and I think it will win tons and tons of awards early next year.
Steven Spielberg's new film Lincoln is about what you'd expect from a Spielberg historical epic/biopic/war film. He has, after films like Schindler's List, Munich, War Horse, and Saving Private Ryan established himself as an auteur with his own visual and emotional style that is gritty and elegant and always (always) pacifist in theme as it laments the violence humanity enacts upon both itself and the world it belongs to. It is much too easy to feel simultaneous cinematic pride and personal shame when watching anything Spielberg has done since the mid 90s. Lincoln is no different.
The movie handily takes us into the lead up to the Civil War: yes, the President is torn and challenged, just as the nation is, but the truly surprising element in this story is how political the entire enterprise is. There is actually very little of Lincoln staring dreamily into the distance, wondering if the union will survive the coming war. Instead, we have a movie about backroom dealings and outright political bribery, much of which makes today's post Citizens United political world look shockingly tamed. If you want to talk character assassination, check out what is said about Lincoln in this movie by his Confederate foes. There's an art to an insult, and his enemies are masters of slinging mud.
Because the film deals less with the rise of Lincoln to the presidency and more with his historic challenges in maintaining the American union, Spielberg's direction is also less sentimental and more objective than we are used to of late. To some that will be a disappointment; to others (like yours truly), it makes the film work in unexpected and daring ways. In the end, however, all of this may be for naught because Lincoln will not be remembered for its plot or as Spielberg's finest directorial achievement.
Let me just be frank: Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln is the film, so much so that when everything else about the movie may be forgotten, it is his image that persists in the memory. The diligence with which he has crafted the character and the performance – from not only the voice and facial visuals but the very way in which he lifts his head and lays his wrist on his lap – is so perfect that you wonder whether it's fair to even call this 'acting'. I'll let others settle this argument; one thing no one will be arguing over is Daniel Day-Lewis's transcendence as Lincoln. It feels trivial to even bother to mention it, but it must go without saying that this year's Oscar race for Best Actor is officially over. Just give him the award. NOW.
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The Western Regional Crime Lab currently provides criminal justice agencies with forensic analysis in the following disciplines: latent evidence and drug chemistry. We recently expanded the Western Lab to add a toxicology unit to provide blood alcohol and blood drug analysis.
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The Drug Chemistry Section is a modern forensic drug analysis laboratory. Submissions follow national trends monitored by the DEA, with marijuana and cocaine making up the majority of drugs analyzed. A great number of tablets, pharmaceutical and illicit, are submitted each year. Clandestine laboratory sites remain an issue in western North Carolina, with methamphetamine as the predominate substance manufactured.
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Normalising profits to bury the bottom line shouldn't be the norm.
New Zealand has a serious accounting crisis - and it is getting worse.
It has arisen because most of our largest listed companies have rejected the country's IFRS accounting standards.
Their audited accounts are consistent with the standards, but directors are amending audited numbers and reporting "normalised" or "underlying" profits. Twelve of the 19 NZX50 Index companies with June balance dates have adjusted their earnings from audited to normalised.
The combined June year normalised earnings of these nineteen companies was $1806.6 million, or 28.8 per cent higher than the audited figures of $1402.6 million.
Company directors are beginning to look like golfers who go around in 85 but put a 76 on their card because that is what they normally shoot.
Adherence to rules and regulations is non-negotiable in sport, but the majority of our companies believe they can report adjusted or normalised profits if they don't like the audited numbers.
The disregard for our IFRS accounting standards has serious implications for investors, as was clearly evident after the 1980s sharemarket boom and bust and recent finance company debacles.
These show that individuals will invest their money in the wrong companies when accounting practices give an overly optimistic impression of performance.
There can also be serious conflicts of interests if senior executives are paid on the basis of normalised, rather than audited profits. There is clearly a strong incentive for executives to focus on the higher normalised profits if their bonuses are based on these figures.
Nine of the 19 companies had normalised earnings higher than their audited figures.
Telecom reported normalised profits of $388 million, 133.7 per cent higher than the audited figures of $166 million.
Three big items account for the differences between the audited and normalised figures - the exclusion of natural disaster costs, the omission of ultra-fast broadband and de-merger costs and asset value write-downs.
Different companies have treated natural disasters, particularly the Christchurch earthquakes, differently.
Skellerup includes Christchurch quake costs of $2.7 million in its net profit of $20.2 million, yet Telecom excludes natural disaster costs of $42 million from its normalised earnings.
Why does Telecom exclude disaster costs? Why does it also exclude expenses associated with ultra-fast broadband when benefits from this are expected to accrue?
The largest item in Telecom's adjustment from audited to normalised profits is the exclusion of asset write-downs of $257 million. The exclusion of these raises the normalised profits but also gives a boost to future earnings if these assets were subject to depreciation, because this depreciation will not have to be deducted in the years ahead.
Telstra also has a large number of write-downs and impairments in its June 2011 year audited result but the Australian group produced no normalised earnings.
The difference between Telecom and Telstra is ironic because one of the main reasons for the introduction of IFRS was to enable investors to compare the performance of companies in different countries.
Fletcher Building reported normalised earnings of $359 million against an audited $283 million.
The normalised figure includes a one-off gain of $16 million from the sale and leaseback of an Auckland factory, but excludes asset and inventory write-downs.
Abnormal inventory write-downs were a problem in the 1980s. For example, if a company wrote down an item of stock from $100 to $50, this unusual loss of $50 was excluded from normalised earnings. But if the item was then sold for $70 the following year the company booked a $20 profit to both its audited and normalised earnings.
There is no suggestion that Fletcher Building is planning to do this, but less scrupulous companies will copy the larger groups and adopt inventory revaluations that deceptively inflate future earnings.
The huge difference between NZ Oil & Gas' audited loss of $75.9 million and its normalised profit of $30.6 million is due to the exclusion of the huge write-down of its Pike River Coal investments and foreign exchange losses.
The boost in Auckland International Airport's normalised earnings is mainly due to the exclusion of a write-down in the value of property, plant and equipment, and Sky City's higher normalised profit was primarily due to the exclusion of the Christchurch casino impairment.
As well, SkyCity includes earnings from its international or high roller business at a normalised or theoretical rate rather than the actual figure.
Only seven companies - Ebos, Heartland, Michael Hill International, Nuplex, PGG Wrightson, Skellerup and SkyTV - made no adjustments from audited to normalised profits.
Ebos included $8.2 million of profits from discontinued operations in its net earnings of $31.6 million whereas other companies exclude discontinued operations, particularly if they are a negative figure.
PGG Wrightson, which has reported a loss of $30.7 million for the June 2011 year, is probably the most interesting of the 19 companies.
Twelve months ago, the company announced normalised June 2010 year earnings of $25.3 million, compared with audited earnings of $23.3 million.
The difference was because of the exclusion of a one-off tax provision due to the removal of depreciation on property from normalised earnings.
PGG Wrightson's June 2011 result contains no adjustments for normalised items so the net profit is now $23.3 million instead of the $25.3 million highlighted 12 months ago.
The June 2011 year loss of $30.7 million contains non-operating losses of $22.0 million and negative fair value adjustments of $25.8 million.
The rural company is now adopting the correct approach, but why the sudden change in emphasis from normalised to audited earnings?
Is it because the Chinese recently acquired a 50.01 per cent controlling interest in the company and want to adhere to our IFRS accounting standards, or is it because the new controlling group wants the profit figures to look as bad as possible so that they can make a full takeover offer at a low price?
Only three of the 19 companies - Cavalier, Port of Tauranga and Vector - had lower normalised earnings when compared with the audited figure.
Vector's audited profit has been adjusted down from $201.4 million to $171.3 million because of the exclusion of a one-off profit of $30.1 million from a share services deal with Transpower.
Accounting issues are extremely important, particularly in light of the Crown's proposed sale of shares in Mighty River Power, Meridian Energy, Genesis Energy and Solid Energy.
How are individual investors going to know whether share offerings are fair value if privatised entities emphasise highly normalised earnings instead of the lower audited numbers?
Professional investors and investment analysts will be able assess the difference between normalised and audited earnings, but individual investors will not.
Yet again, we will be sending individual investors into an accounting minefield with few detectors to help them navigate a safe course.
Surely it would be far better to clear up our accounting mess before embarking on another round of privatisations that will be aimed at investors with little understanding of our complex accounting standards and practices.
* Disclosure of interest: Brian Gaynor is an Executive Director of Milford Asset Management.


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Ubud will host an international jazz music event. The event entitled the Ubud Village Festival will be held in the upcoming August 2013. Dozens of jazz musicians from around the world are ascertained to participate, including the national and local jazz musicians. "This event is expected to become an attraction to tourists and jazz music lovers in Ubud tourist resort, Gianyar," said the Advisor to the Ubud Village Jazz Festival, Amir Rabik, when making audience with Regent of Gianyar Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardhana Sukawati, Friday (Jan 18).
The jazz musicians participating in the festival would be Uwee Plath Combo featuring Dian Pratiwi (Germany), Yokohama Association of Artist (Japan), Peter Beets (the Netherlands) and David Ades (Australia). Meanwhile, the national musician would consist of Indra Lesmana, Dwiki Darmawan, The Jonges, Tomorrow People Ensemble, Yuri Mahatma, Balawan and Batuan Ethnic Fusion, Rio Sidik, Dira Sugandi, Koko Harsoe, Simak Dialog and Under Ground Jazz Movement. "Besides, the festival will also present local musicians of Bali," he added.
Founder of the Ubud Village Jazz Festival, Yuri Mahatma and Anom Sudarsana, revealed the jazz event would be deliberately held in August to coincide with holiday season of foreign and domestic tourists. "Aside from becoming an international tourist destination, Ubud has also a potential that can be presented in the jazz festival," he said.
Yuri explained that other than presenting jazz music, the event taking place for two days would also be filled with some activities such as jazz workshop, food festival, green festival, tenant promotion, photography, dances, games and other entertainment activities. Meanwhile, the Regent of Gianyar appreciated the selection of Ubud as the venue to organize the jazz festival. Although it had international flavor, Cok Ace had confidence it would be able to present jazz music in collaboration with Balinese traditional arts. "It will become an event being capable of exploring the local potential," said the regent. (BTN/015)
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TeliaSonera has become the world's first mobile carrier to commercially launch a 4G/LTE network, as it just rolled out LTE services in Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden.
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MA (University of Delhi, India), PhD (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
I was on the course production team for Changing cities: urban transitions and decision making (D837) and for Environment: sharing a dynamic planet (DST206).
My research interests focus on the ways in which the mobility of individuals, goods and ideas is reshaping the world. Most of the work I have done so far has focused on how people experience and negotiate globalisation, especially as they move as gendered workers in sectors where the 'knowledge' of global knowledge societies is embodied and embedded: sectors such as medicine, education and the IT sector. The mobility and meanings of goods is an area I have explored in my work on Asian women and fashion. In the future I would like to examine how these mobilities are underlain by ideas such as developmentalism in order to explore how they reproduce, alter and challenge gendered subjectivities of migrants. My key concern here is to understand the implications of these ways of thinking for class and race politics and the ways in which postcolonial theory can provide a route into such thinking. Alongside these issues I have also kept up an interest in methodological and epistemological issues.
I'm the Director of the OpenSpace Research Centre.
A selection of my research publications can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.
Kofman, E. and Raghuram, P. (2015) Gendered migration and global social reproduction. Palgrave.
Raghuram, P. et al. (2008) (eds) Tracing Indian Diasporas: Contexts, Memories, Representations, Sage: New Delhi.
Johnson, R., Chambers, D., Raghuram, P. and Tincknell, E. (2004) The Practice of Cultural Studies, London: Sage.
Puwar, N. and Raghuram, P. (2003) (eds) South Asian Women in the Diaspora, Oxford: Berg.
Kofman, E., Phizacklea, A., Raghuram, P. and Sales, R. (2000) Gender and International Migration in Europe: employment, welfare and politics, London: Routledge.
Bornat, J., Raghuram, P., and Henry, L.i (2014). Oral history voicing differences: South Asian doctors and migration narratives. Economic and Political Weekly, 49(30): 60–66.
Raghuram, P., Noxolo, P. and Madge, C. (2014). Rising Asia and postcolonial geography. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 35(1): 119–135.
Raghuram, P. (2013) Theorising the spaces of student migration. Population Space and Place 19(2): 138–154.
King, R. and Raghuram, P. (2013) International Student Migration: Mapping the Field and New Research Agendas. Population Space and Place 19(2): 127–137.
Raghuram, P. (2012) Global care, local configurations: challenges to conceptualizations of care. Global Networks 12(2): 155–174.
Kofman, E. and Raghuram, P. (2012) Women, Migration and Care: explorations of diversity and dynamism in the South. Social Politics 19(3): 408–432.
Noxolo, P. Raghuram, P., and Madge C. (2012) Unsettling responsibility: postcolonial interventions. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 37(3): 418–429.
Bornat, J. Raghuram, P. and Henry, L. (2012) Revisiting The Archives – Opportunities And Challenges: A Case Study From The History Of Geriatric Medicine. Socresonline 17(2).
Bornat, J., Henry, L. and Raghuram, P. (2011) Geriatric medicine and the management of transitions into old age: the hospital bed as a site of spatial practice? Area 43(4): 430–437.
Bornat, J., Henry, L. and Raghuram, P. (2011) The making of careers, the making of a discipline: Luck and chance in migrant careers in geriatric medicine. Journal of Vocational Behavior 78(3): 342–350.
Raghuram, P. Bornat, J. and Henry, L. (2011) The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant workers' contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK. Sociology of Health and Illness 33(2): 321–335.
Raghuram, P. Bornat, J. and Henry, L. (2010) Difference and distinction? Non-migrant and migrant networks Sociology 44(4): 623–641.
Asis, M., Piper, N. and Raghuram, P. (2010) International migration and development in Asia – exploring knowledge frameworks. International Migration 48(3): 76–106.
Bornat, J. Henry, L. and Raghuram, P. (2009) 'Don't Mix Race With The Specialty': Interviewing South Asian Overseas-trained Geriatricians. Oral History Journal 37(1&2): 74–84.
Raghuram, P. (2009) Which migration, what development? unsettling the edifice of migration and development, Population, Space and Place 15(2): 103–117.
Raghuram, P. Madge, C. and Noxolo, P. (2009) Rethinking responsibility and care for a postcolonial world. Geoforum 40(1): 5–13.
Raghuram, P. (2009) Caring about the brain drain in a postcolonial world. Geoforum 40(1): 25–33.
Madge, C. Raghuram, P. and Noxolo, P. (2009) Engaged pedagogy and responsibility: a postcolonial analysis of international students. Geoforum 40(1): 34–45.
Noxolo, P. Raghuram, P. and Madge, C. (2008). 'Geography is pregnant' and 'Geography's milk is flowing': metaphors for a postcolonial discipline? Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26(1): 146–168.
Raghuram, P. (2008) Migrant women in male-dominated sectors of the labour market: a research agenda, Population, Space and Place, 14, 43–57.
Raghuram, P. (2007) Interrogating the language of integration: the case of Internationally Recruited Nurses, Journal of Clinical Nursing, 16, 12, 2246–2251.
Mackintosh, M. Raghuram, P. and Henry, L. (2006) A perverse subsidy: African trained nurses and doctors in the NHS, Soundings 34 : 103–113
Raghuram, P. and Madge, C. (2006) Towards a method for postcolonial development geographies: possibilities and challenges, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 27, 3, 270–288
Kofman, E. and Raghuram, P. (2006) Women and global labour migrations: incorporating skilled workers, Antipode, 38, 2, 282–303.
Kofman, E. and Raghuram, P. (2005) (eds) Gender and Skilled Migrants: Into and Beyond the Workplace, Special issue of Geoforum, 36, 2, 149–154.
Raghuram, P. and Kofman, E. (2004) (eds) Out of Asia: skilling, re-skilling and deskilling, Special issue of Women's Studies International Forum, 27, 2, 95–100.
Raghuram, P. (2004) Migration, gender and the IT sector: intersecting debates, Women's Studies International Forum, 27, 2, 163–176.
Kofman, E. and Raghuram, P. (2004) (eds) Global Labour Migration, An introduction to Special issue of Feminist Review, 77, 1, 4–6.
Raghuram, P. (2004) The difference that skills make: gender, family migration strategies and regulated labour markets, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 30, 2, 303–323.
Raghuram. P. and Kofman, E. (2002) The State, labour markets and immigration: the case of skilled emigrants in UK's medical labour market, Environment and Planning A, 34, 11, 2071–2089.
Tincknell, E. and Raghuram, P. (2002) Big Brother - reconfiguring the 'active' audience in cultural research? European Journal of Cultural Studies, 5, 2, 199–216. An updated version is reprinted in Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn (eds) 'Understanding Reality Television' (2003), London: Routledge.
Kofman, E. And Raghuram, P. (2012) Genere, migrazione e lavoro di cura nel Sud globale, in Flavia Piperno and Mara Tognetti Bordogna (eds) Welfare transnazionale: La frontiera esterna delle politiche sociali.
Raghuram, P. and Piper, N. (2011) 'Women and Migration in Asia – eroding borders, new fixities' in Doris Wastl-Walter (ed.) Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies, Aldershot: Ashgate, 529–548.
Raghuram, P. (2009) 'Situating women in the brain drain discourse: discursive challenges and opportunities' in H. Stalford, S. Velluti, and S. Currie (eds.) Gender and migration in 21st century Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate, 85–106.
Raghuram, P. (2008) 'Governing the mobility of skills', in Christina Gabrielle and Helene Pellerin (eds) Governing International Labour Migration: Current Issues, Challenges and Dilemmas, Routledge: New York.
Raghuram, P. (2008) Conceptualising Indian emigration: the development story, in Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan and Annelies Zoomers (eds) Global Migration and Development, Routledge.
Raghuram, P. (2008) Thinking UK's medical labour market transnationally, in John Connell (ed.) A Global Health System: The International Migration of Health Workers, Routledge
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Fight Club
November 2, 2012 | by Richard Rothschild
At home they didn't have a dedicated place to practice. Away, they weren't provided with a per diem for food. Or lodging. They weren't given sweatshirts, much less uniforms, and what they did wear couldn't sport a Block M—that was for the men. As Title IX celebrates its 40-year anniversary, we look back at the battles fought by U-M's game-changing female athletes, who helped alter the course of sports both on campus and off.
One wonders what Dr. Margaret Bell would have thought.
Bell, the longtime (1923–1957) director of the Department of Physical Education for Women at U-M, strongly believed competitive athletics, other than intramurals, was no place for a female.
"I think a girl should be a girl," Bell said. "The social position of women does not stand this exploitation [in varsity sports] and competition. Participation in varsity athletics could disrupt the functioning of the female reproductive system."
Bell's observations represent a bygone age as female athletes from Michigan have triumphed in both the collegiate and Olympic arenas.
"Women's sports were a sleeping giant, and the sleeping giant woke up," says U-M softball coach Carol Hutchins, who took over the team in 1985 and has led the Wolverines to 15 Big Ten regular season titles and the 2005 national championship. "Michigan is now a great place to be a female student-athlete."
After an embarrassingly slow start, the University has reached a level of compliance with landmark Title IX legislation that impressed 1972 Olympic springboard diving champion Micki King ('66) enough to say, "I couldn't be more proud to be a graduate of Michigan."
King may be the most accomplished female Michigan student-athlete never to have competed for the University during her years at Ann Arbor. There were no varsity sports for Michigan women in the 1960s, nor could they join the marching band or become cheerleaders. King perfected her craft at the Ann Arbor Swim Club and by training with Wolverines men's diving coach Dick Kimball.
Kimball recognized King's talent when he saw her working out at Michigan's women's pool, where the springboard was only one meter high instead of the regulation three meters.
"Coach said, 'This is for the birds; I want you training in the men's pool,''' King recalls. "I was told there was only one rule: I would not date any male swimmers—ever. But I was the social contact for setting people up, and some of them are still married."
King became a national Amateur Athletic Union champion, qualified for the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and barely missed a medal when she broke her arm on her next-to-last dive and fell to fourth place.
Kimball, however, encouraged King to take another shot at the '72 Games in Munich. The combination of his coaching and the start of her 26-year career in the Air Force provided the background for a gold-medal run for King, who eventually attained the rank of colonel.
"I should split my gold medal in half, half to Dick Kimball and half to the Air Force," King says. "Kimball was asked what it was like 'to coach a girl,' and he said, 'I don't coach girls, I don't coach boys. I coach people.'''
When Away Games Were Better
Although King never represented U-M in collegiate competition, Sheryl Szady ('74, M.A. '75) did, in field hockey, volleyball, and basketball between 1970 and 1974. Those were years of change and challenge, particularly when most other Michigan colleges and universities had formed varsities for women and U-M was still in the club stage.
"We were on our own," says Szady, who would later become manager of marketing and research data for U-M's Office of Development. "We were putting signs up around campus for field hockey meetings. Someone had to take the reins to be the manager and call other schools. After freshman year I took over that. I was a student talking to varsity coaches at other schools."
A part-time volunteer coach and limited practice hours came with the territory. So did providing food and beverages for the matches. Szady remembers having six cases of soft drinks stacked in her dorm room.
There was minimal coverage of women's sports in the Michigan Daily and none in the Detroit-area media. The teams often preferred away games where locker rooms actually provided towels.
"[At Michigan] there was a very small locker room with two toilets, one that never worked," Szady says. "There were showers that you would never set foot in.
"There was always the question of who could get access to a car [for away games]. Those cars could carry six, maybe eight people. You were expected to give the driver a dollar or two for gas. But we had a lot of fun. Women students left to their own means probably did some things that wouldn't be sanctioned by a coach."
But a crisis was developing. The other state schools had decided that their varsities would no longer play Michigan women's club teams. U-M needed to form its own varsities.
Szady, after talking with Michigan athletic officials and administrators, made a simple plea to a meeting of University regents in April 1973: "Could you help us?"
"We told our story, how no one would play us and we needed to move to a different model," Szady says.
Courtesy of Sheryl Szady
Despite resistance, particularly from athletic director Don Canham ('41, M.A. '48), who feared women's sports would sap resources from the already financially strapped men's programs, female varsity athletics came to Michigan. Six sports were formed for 1973–1974: tennis, basketball, swimming, field hockey, volleyball, and synchronized swimming (since discontinued). Softball and track joined the roster later in the '70s.
"We were very appreciative," Szady says. "It was a step up but not a big step up. Nobody on our team came to Michigan to play field hockey. You fit the sport into your academic schedule. We only practiced an hour or 90 minutes a few times a week. The coach had the equipment in her car. There were no shoes, no socks, no Gatorade or water. When it came to scheduling facilities and practice times, we were at the bottom of the totem pole.
"There was no help with admissions, no help with academic schedules, no tutoring, no scholarships."
Inching Toward One Block M for All
The year Micki King struck gold in Munich was the same year Title IX became federal law, outlawing racial and gender discrimination in "any education program or activity that receives federal financial assistance." This included athletics.
But change came slowly in Ann Arbor, be it with facilities, practice fields, or recognition in the media.
Hutchins, a former Michigan State basketball and softball player, said U-M was practically the last school in Michigan "to come aboard" with Title IX.
"When I came here many of the other [college] programs were way ahead of us," Hutchins said. "A receptionist said 'We don't have softball.' She didn't know we'd started a team.
"When I became coach it was 50 percent athletics, 50 percent clerical. Men who coached were 100 percent athletics, but I was answering phones from 8:00 A.M. to noon for one of the professors. I was a secretary and a damn bad one. I know the baseball coach didn't do that. The football coach certainly didn't do that."
There also was the matter of the Block M letter that was awarded to all varsity athletes. Legendary football coach Bo Schembechler and basketball coach Johnny Orr signed a letter stating that "softball players and synchronized swimmers should not receive the same Block M that [football and basketball athletes] have sweated and bled for."
The irony was Michigan had no softball team in the early '70s and the synchronized swim team was among the best in the nation. Michigan women were told they could have a blue M, a script M, "anything but the men's Block M," Szady says.
The night before a final decision on awards, U-M women received a huge assist from an unexpected source: WDIV-TV sports anchor Al Ackerman, who later created the phrase "Bless you, boys" for the 1984 world champion Detroit Tigers.
"Ackerman went on TV and said if Michigan doesn't give women the same Block M as the men, 'I will never mention another Michigan score on this broadcast,'" Szady says. "This tipped the fans that something was going on."
Canham tried once more to persuade Szady to accept a different award, but, in the end, all but one member of the athletic council voted to give U-M women the Block M. Szady's photo appeared on the front page of the Ann Arbor News—alongside a shot of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
"Al Ackerman certainly helped us," Szady says. "But when we got our letter jackets our M's were smaller and more orange. We were told the manufacturer couldn't fit the regular Block M on our jackets because our sizes were smaller."
Equal Opportunity to Win
Hutchins, who was part of the Michigan State women's basketball team that filed a class action lawsuit against that university over unequal treatment for female athletes, said attitudes at Michigan began to change when Schembechler took over as athletic director in 1988.
Despite his earlier resistance to women wearing the Block M, "Bo wanted Michigan to win in all sports," she says. "He watched one of our softball practices and wondered why we had only one jersey and one sweatshirt. We had new practice uniforms within a week."
When Michigan became the first team east of the Mississippi to win an NCAA softball title in 2005, Schembechler placed a congratulatory phone call to Hutchins.
"Bo wasn't about men or women," Hutchins says. "He was about Michigan."
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Szady says that under Schembechler, there was more "standardization" for men's and women's athletics. If the men were being bused to Columbus or Indiana, so were the women. If the men were being flown to Minneapolis, so were the women.
She praised Schembechler's successor, Jack Weidenbach, for being an even bigger supporter of women's sports. Even the retired Canham began bringing his granddaughter to women's gymnastics events at U-M.
Michigan women went on to win an NCAA field hockey championship (2001) and placed second in swimming (1995), gymnastics (1999), and crew (2001). Swimmer Samantha Arsenault (U-M 2001–2002) and softballer Jennifer Brundage (M.A. '05) have won Olympic gold medals, following in the footsteps of King and swimmers Joan Spillane (U-M 1960–1962) and Ginny Duenkel ('69), who won Olympic crowns in the pre-Title IX era, in 1960 and 1964, respectively.
"[Michigan] women now have the resources with facilities, totally funded scholarships, and academic support," Hutchins says. "Men and women are treated the same; we're all given the opportunity to win. I can't say that was true when I got here."
No, Margaret Bell never envisioned Michigan fielding 14 varsity sports for women or U-M female athletes appearing on national television or playing before packed houses in state-of-the-art athletic facilities. But neither did Carol Hutchins.
"I could never have envisioned playing on ESPN or in filled stadiums," Hutchins says. "It's hard to imagine universities would ever treat us like boys. I have older women telling me, 'I never had this opportunity when we were young.'
"But it is an opportunity that should not be taken for granted. There are still battles to be fought with equal pay and equal opportunities. But today's female student-athletes are the winners."
Photo (top): Gene Boyers / Michigan Photography


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Witch hunts in New Guinea linked to jealousy
CANBERRA, Australia — On a tropical island in Papua New Guinea where most people live in huts, a mob armed with guns, machetes and axes stormed a wooden house by night. They seized Helen Rumbali and three female relatives, set the building on fire and took the women away to be tortured. Their alleged crime: Witchcraft.


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Sherlock Holmes
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - "The Case of the Texas Cowgirl" - Originally aired November 8, 1954. Minnie O'Malley, a cowgirl in a travelling rodeo, seeks help from Sherlock Holmes--to remove a dead body from her hotel room! Strangely, Holmes seems to be more than happy to comply. Suspects range from a Blackfoot Indian, the owner of the rodeo Bison Jack, and a meek salesman across the hall. Easily the most ridiculous episode of the entire series.
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I am a Romanian citizen married to a Dominican citizen. We would like to travel to Romania but there is no embassy in the Dominican Republic. The embassy of Venezuela informed me that they don't deal with visas for Dominicans married to Romanians… and the embassy of Colombia never seem to answer the phone or any of the emails I sent. This is very frustrating as we are trying to find out something for two months now.
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Former Badger girls basketball players are still going strong. Here is an update:
Katie Menton had a fantastic regular-season for the Pepperdine University Waves. As of this writing, the Waves of the West Coast Conference were 13-14 and 8-8 in the WCC. The conference tournament begins March 1 in Las Vegas. Hopefully, the Waves can pull the upset and get an invite into the NCAA Tournament.
Menton is a big reason for the team's success. She is averaging 11.6 points per game and 4.6 rebounds, (No. 3 and No. 2 on the team,respectively). Menton led the Waves in scoring in five games with a game high 27 against Cal Poly in January. This is Katie's final year. It has been a great run in Malibu.
Sydnee Fipps and the UC Davis Aggies also begin post-season play. The freshman guard has been a contributor for the Aggies all year averaging five points per game and 2.6 rebounds. Fipps was the team leader in rebounds in two games this season.
She has played in all 26 games for UC Davis. The Aggies of the Big West Conference are 16-10 overall and 8-8 in conference play. The conference tournament begins in Anaheim on March 6. Again, a bid to the NCAA's goes to the winner. Good luck Aggies.
Sienna Gonzales and Jenay Herring each contributed mightily on senior night for Fresno Pacific University against Hope College. Gonzales was four-for-four from three-point land scoring 12 points.
Herring added 11 in a 97-83 victory. The Sunbirds (14-16, 6-12 GSAC) begin conference play as the No. 7 seed in the Golden State Athletic Conference Tournament.
It is hard to believe but it is already baseball season. Former Badger star Jackson Glines plays at Fresno City. Glines, a freshman outfielder is wasting no time making an impact for the Rams. Against the college of Sequoia last Saturday, Glines went 2-4. To date, FCC is 6-5 for the year.
Glines is part of a long tradition of Badgers playing for FCC. Ted Lilly '96, Dayton Buller '01, Daniel Buller '07 and Derek O'Reilly '07. Playing for the Rams is an honor. FCC would defeat many NCAA D-II or D-III teams, maybe even some D-I programs. Overall, since Coach Ron Scott arrived 21 years ago, over 100 players received scholarships to four-year colleges.
That is 97% of players. Scott has five players who made it to the "show."


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If we have $u_t + c(x,t) u_x = 0 \; \; $ describes uni-directional wave propagation in a medium with variable wave speed.
a) Explain how to solve it by the method of charichtaristics for general $c(x,t)$ and Cauchy data $u(x,0)=f(x)$.
b) If $c=1+\epsilon \sin x$ with small parameter $\epsilon$ goes to $0$, find the explicit form of the solution including terms up to $O(\epsilon)$.