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March 30 commemorates a very important day in television history! On this day back in 1964, one of America's favorite game shows debuted and Americans were hooked! This is Jeopardy Day!
What is Jeopardy?
With a little help from his wife, writer/singer/actor/producer Mervyn "Merv" Griffin came up with the idea on a trip. According to an interview with the Associated Press, Griffin said his wife said "5280" which he knew meant how many feet were in a mile. He pitched the idea to the NBC execs and the rest, as they say, is game show history! Jeopardy! was a great big hit!
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And just in case you've never seen it, Jeopardy! is a game show, with a bit of a twist. Instead of having to come up with an answer, the host provides the answer from six different categories while three contestants try to be the first one to come up with the correct response, in the form of a question. The winner wins cash and gets to come back as champion on the next show for a chance to win more money.
It's hard to believe the popular game show premiered 50 years ago. But instead of celebrating its five decades on the air, the show is showcasing former champions from the past 30 years in the Battle of the Decades in honor of its 30 year anniversary in 1984.
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- Who wrote the theme to Jeopardy!? (Originally titled, A Time for Tony, Griffin originally wrote the lullaby for his son, Tony. )
- Who was the original host? (Art Fleming)
When did Trebek start hosting the show? (1984)
Who is the announcer for the show? (Johnny Gilbert)
- What celebs have appeared on the celebrity version of the show? (Jodie Foster, Martin Short, Stephen King, Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, to name a few)
- Who has the longest winning streak? (Ken Jennings appeared in 74 consecutive shows and earned millions.)
- Who had the highest one day total? ( Roger Craig - $77,000)
- What happened on the show on March 16, 2007? (There was a three-way tie between Jamey Kirby, Anders Martinson and Scott Weiss.)
- When Lt. Col. Daryl Scott won in 1993, how much money did he win? ($1 )
- What happened on April 1, 1997? (Pat Sajak hosted Jeopardy! while Trebek hosted Wheel of Fortune! April Fools!)
- During a Tournament of Champions show, why did Trebek turn around and leave the stage? (He was not wearing trousers. Watch it for yourself!)
The answer is Pencil Day and The Grass is Always Browner on the Other Side of the Fence Day? What are the other holidays that occur on March 30?
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The OOI cabled observatory (Cabled Array) provides high power (10 kV, 8kW) and bandwidth to >>100 instruments on the seafloor and throughout the water column at key study sites: Southern Hydrate Ridge, Axial Seamount, and the Endurance Array Newport Line. Power and bandwidth are distributed from the cables through a total of seven Primary Nodes: two each at Hydrate Ridge, Axial Seamount, and on the Newport Line. The Mid-Plate node in the middle of the Juan de Fuca plate is a placeholder node with minimal internal electronics yet available for future network expansion.
Hydrate Ridge: methane seeps
Southern Hydrate Ridge is an important observatory site to
- define the temporal evolution of methane hydrate systems in response to seismic events,
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The real-time interactive capabilities of the cabled observatory are critical to studying gas hydrate systems because many of the key processes may occur over short time scales and will require adaptive response and sampling capabilities.
Axial Seamount: an active volcano
Axial Seamount on the Juan de Fuca Ridge is the most magmatically robust volcano on the spreading center having erupted in 1998, 2011, and most recently in April 2015. It hosts numerous active hydrothermal vent fields and is one of the best-studied volcanoes along the global mid-ocean ridge. As part of the OOI cabled observatory, high power and bandwith are utlized at the summit of Axial Seamount to communicate and power a diverse array of sensors to monitor the inflation and deflation of the volcano during the injection of magma, hydrothermal activity, and the rich biological communities at the site. Real-time high definition video provide spectacular views of tubeworms, crabs, and other animals that thrive at the hyrothermal vents. Other sensors include in situ mass spectrometers, seismometers to monitor earthquake activity, temperature and chemical probes, fluid and DNA samplers, and pressure-tilt meters.
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Date: December 18 2012
Some grandmothers pass down cameo necklaces. Katharine Cook Briggs passed down the world's most widely used personality test.
Chances are you've taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or will. Roughly 2 million people a year do. It has become the gold standard of psychological assessments, used in businesses, government agencies and educational institutions. Along the way, it has spawned a multimillion-dollar business around its simple concept that everyone fits one of 16 personality types.
Now, 50 years after the first time anyone paid money for the test, the Myers-Briggs legacy is reaching the end of the family line. The youngest heirs don't want it. And it's not clear whether organisations should, either.
That's not to say it hasn't had a major influence.
More than 10,000 companies, 2500 colleges and universities and 200 government agencies in the United States use the test. From the State Department to management consultants McKinsey & Co, it's a rite of passage. It's estimated that 50 million people have taken the Myers-Briggs personality test since the nonprofit Educational Testing Service first added the research to its portfolio in 1962.
The test, whose first research guinea pigs were George Washington University students, has seen financial success commensurate to this cultlike devotion among its practitioners. CPP, the private company that publishes Myers-Briggs, brings in roughly $US20 million ($19 million) a year from it and the 800 other products, such as coaching guides, that it has spawned.
Yet despite its widespread use and vast financial success, and although it was derived from the work of Carl Jung, one of the most famous psychologists of the 20th century, the test is highly questioned by the scientific community.
To begin even before its arrival in Washington: Myers-Briggs traces its history to 1921, when Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, published his theory of personality types in the book Psychologische Typen. Jung had become well known for his pioneering work in psychoanalysis and close collaboration with Sigmund Freud, though by the 1920s the two had severed ties.
Psychoanalysis was a young field and one many regarded sceptically. Still, it had made its way across the Atlantic not only to the university offices of scientists but also to the home of a mother in Washington.
Katharine Cook Briggs was a voracious reader of the new psychology books coming out in Europe, and she shared her fascination with Jung's latest work – in which he developed the concepts of introversion and extroversion – with her daughter, Isabel Myers. They would later use Jung's work as a basis for their own theory, which would become the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. MBTI is their framework for classifying personality types along four distinct axes: introversion v extroversion, sensing v intuition, thinking v feeling and judging v perceiving. A person, according to their hypothesis, has one dominant preference in each of the four pairs. For example, he might be introverted, a sensor, a thinker and a perceiver. Or, in Myers-Briggs shorthand, an "ISTP".
Everyone, they posited, fits one of the 16 possible combinations.
Today, organisations administer the personality test to employees, then use the results as a basis for training programs. The basic idea is that knowing your personality type, and those of others, will help you interact more effectively with colleagues and better identify your own strengths. In educational institutions, the test is often used to help identify potential career fields.
The testing process seems simple enough: a multiple-choice questionnaire, with a discussion afterwards about what your personality type says about you. And yet behind it lies the elaborate business model and enormous marketing push that have enthroned MBTI in the pantheon of human resources programs.
Corporate America has its own religions, and one of them is Myers-Briggs.
It was World War II, and Isabel Myers was thinking about peace.
War and peace, in fact, are what the family would come to describe as the true cause and effect of developing the Myers-Briggs indicator. World War II created a need for women to fill professional jobs on the home front. Having read Jung's theories on type, Isabel Myers saw an opportunity to use personality testing as a way to identify women's job proclivities on the basis of innate character traits rather than prior professional experience, which many women did not have at the time.
"What Isabel decided was, if she could give people access to knowing their psychological type, it would be a contribution to world peace," says Katharine Myers, the daughter-in-law of Isabel Myers.
So Isabel had her mission. Soon her home filled with index cards mapping out her theory. Lots of index cards.
Isabel by that time was married, a mother herself and tending a home in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She found a helper for her project in Katharine Downing, now Myers, whom she paid to help her hand-copy personality types onto 12-by-20 centimetre cards. The young girl went to school with Isabel's son Peter, an Eagle Scout.
"In eighth grade, I got a valentine in Morse code," Katharine recalls. It's one of her earliest memories of Peter, and the Myers family she would one day marry into. "And that was really the beginning of the rest of our lives."
At 86 years old, Katharine and Peter are the last living copyright holders of his mother's and grandmother's legacy. CPP, however, is the exclusive publisher of the test.
"The folklore is that when it started it made about a thousand dollars," says Jeffrey Hayes, chief executive of CPP. He won't say precisely how much it makes today. Just "millions", as he put it.
The number is more like $US20 million in revenue a year.
The framework itself has barely changed since Katharine Cook Myers and Isabel Briggs created it decades ago, but in the meantime CPP has developed nearly 800 products related to the assessment – guides to interpreting your results, guides for coaching others on interpreting their results, guides for enhancing team-building based on everyone's results – and translations of the material into 24 languages.
In addition to its Mountain View, California, headquarters, CPP has offices in Singapore and Australia and distribution arrangements around the globe. "I like to refer to it as the CPP federation," Hayes says.
Myers-Briggs, one of five major assessments that CPP publishes, is the company's "flagship product – and should be," according to Hayes.
Hayes began at CPP in 1987 as an assistant manager for customer service and worked his way up to co-president in 2004 and president and chief executive in 2007. Even on the phone, you can tell he's extroverted – the E in his ENTP type. "I attribute much of my success to my better understanding of myself through my Myers-Briggs," he says.
MBTI is the most widely used personality assessment on the planet, but as Hayes says, "There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes to make that happen."
In the past 20 years, CPP has created a cadre of regional sales teams to pitch to organisations on how they could use Myers-Briggs. The company also, says Katharine Downing Myers, "has a lawyer in practically every country in the world looking for plagiarism – and there's lots of it."
Here's how the business model works: It costs $US15 to $US40 for an individual to take a Myers-Briggs assessment, depending on the depth of the test and how fast a customer wants the results interpreted. Supplemental guides and tool kits quickly make the cost grow. Moreover, the only way to take the test is through a certified administrator. And the only way to become a certified administrator is to pay $US1700 for a four-day training class.
In short, CPP makes money off the test taker and the test giver.
Organisations administer the MBTI assessment to employees in one of two ways. They either pay for someone in their human-resources department to become certified, then pay the materials costs each time employees take the test. Or, they contract with certified, independent training consultants or leadership coaches.
Last year 2500 Americans became certified to administer the Myers-Briggs.
They are part of a corporate-training industry that nets more than $US50 billion a year. And for independent consultants in this field, paying to get your MBTI certification has become almost a base-line cost, a badge that companies all but require before contracting you – even for work outside of Myers-Briggs testing. Tens of thousands of coaches and consultants hold that badge.
"They just want to see that you have it," says Rebecca Dallek, a Washington resident who attended a spring MBTI certification course at the American Management Association's offices in Arlington, Virginia. After having two kids, Dallek made a career change from the educational technology industry to her own career coaching practice. She works with professionals, from federal employees to nonprofit workers to lobbyists. The $2500 fee to CPP, she says, was quickly recouped.
To help new recruits, CPP provides a suite of informational guides and Power Point slides on its website that show how to pitch your services as a certified Myers-Briggs administrator. Coaches can increase the charge for the products at their discretion, but many provide them at face value and then turn a profit from fees for time spent working with the test takers and walking them through the results. There is no real industry standard for coaching rates, and hourly fees can run from $US75 to $US1000.
As a result, CPP has combined the power of its own marketing efforts and its roughly 200 employees with the sales efforts of the thousands of professional-development coaches who pay CPP for certification and then essentially sell the test on the publishing company's behalf.
"We get a percentage of the sales," Katharine Downing Myers says of the copyright. "I have more money than I expected to have in life."
Isabel Myers would turn out, by her own rubric, to be an INFP – an introvert, an intuitor, a feeler and a perceiver. She would also turn out to be highly possessive and obsessive about the indicator.
It would take roughly two decades for her work to make it from the stacks of index cards to the research holdings of the Educational Testing Service in the early 1960s. In the interim, she had looked for more and more opportunities to legitimise her homegrown project. "That was her mission in life," Katharine Downing Myers recalls, "and she worked on it early in the morning until she went to bed at night."
Peter remembers the sound of her typewriter downstairs as he would lie in bed as a child. He also recalls taking cards to school in his back pocket so he could help his mother by asking personality questions of classmates and recording their responses.
Isabel was born in Washington just before the turn of the century and was home-schooled by her mother. Her father, Lyman Briggs, was a career federal worker who served for more than a decade as the director of the US Bureau of Standards, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He also led President Franklin Roosevelt's Uranium Committee, which explored the feasibility of an atomic bomb.
In addition to chiming in with his scientific acumen, father Briggs did another favour to help his wife's and daughter's project grow in its early days: he used his clout in the capital to persuade the George Washington University Medical School to let its students serve as guinea pigs for the new psychological assessment. That was 1945, and it marked the first major study conducted with the MBTI. Over several years, Isabel administered tests to more than 5000 students, charted their personalities and then looked for correlations between their psychological type and the medical specialisations they chose.
She would go on to conduct more of her own studies, mostly in medical and educational settings, through the time the Educational Testing Service acquired Myers-Briggs for research use. "Our vacations were often trips collecting data, or collecting agreements to provide data," Peter recalls. They must have visited 50 or 60 colleges.
Yet ETS did not want to promote the indicator or administer it as part of its testing portfolio, so by 1975 Isabel struck a deal with Stanford professor John Black allowing his young publishing company, Consulting Psychologists Press (now CPP), to take over the exclusive publishing rights.
Says Katharine Myers: "Isabel was very protective – fiercely protective – of the indicator, and she didn't want anyone messing it up."
Says Hayes: "Isabel didn't feel like ETS was doing enough to bring MBTI to the commercial world."
Sure enough, shortly after transferring the rights to CPP, Isabel saw the test gain momentum in the marketplace. Its use in organisations benefited from CPP's aggressive marketing push. And yet, its living-room origins would cast a shadow over its scientific validity that remains today.
"What concerns me is the cultlike devotion of many consultants and practitioners to it without the examination of the evidence," says Adam Grant, a professor of industrial psychology at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Despite the far-reaching use of the assessment in organisations, the academic psychological community has been slow to embrace it. No major journal has published research on the MBTI, which academics consider a strong repudiation of the test's authority. What makes this even more striking is that CPP has three prominent psychologists on its corporate board – Carl Thoresen, Wayne Cascio and Christina Maslach – who presumably could have used their stature in the field to help.
Thoresen, the CPP board's chairman, is a long-time and highly regarded professor of psychology at Stanford. His role at the helm of CPP gives the image of strong institutional support for the test. And yet of the roughly 150 papers he has published in his career, there isn't one mention of Myers-Briggs.
"I used it practically, but I didn't use it in any of my research," Thoresen says. "In part because it would be questioned by my academic colleagues. That was always a barrier."
It is a classic chicken-and-egg problem: no major journal has published on it, therefore no elite academic will support it, therefore no major journal will publish on it.
But there are concrete reasons it was not welcomed in the first place.
"Carl Jung was a pioneer in terms of really creative and novel theory and ideas, but a lot of his work was done before psychology was an empirical science," says Grant, the Wharton psychology professor. And the 16 Myers-Briggs personality types, remember, are even a step removed from that – they are an interpretation and recasting of Jung's theory. Even more compromising, according to Grant, is the fact that Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Myers created the framework in their living room before doing any robust scientific research, rather than the other way around.
The research that most psychologists today hold up as the best attempt to derive personality types from empirical data is called the Five Factor theory, which emerged from several large-scale independent projects that, conducted over decades, pointed to the same broad set of conclusions. The studies found five core axes that underpin personality, versus the MBTI's four. They are represented by the acronym OCEAN: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Of the five, only extroversion closely maps with Myers-Briggs.
Yet the Five Factor theory has a small commercial problem.
"There's no individual or group who owns it," Grant says. "It's something that's collectively owned by the academic community." That means it's harder to copyright and package.
There's another problem: not all the personality traits delineated by the Five Factor theory are positive. One of the traits in this framework is neuroticism, for example, which has undeniably negative associations.
One of the major selling points of Myers-Briggs is that it is unequivocally positive. No personality type in its framework is better or worse than any other; each is billed as having unique and constructive strengths.
This rubric has massive marketing appeal for organisations, especially given that much of the literature and language around talent development in the past few decades has taken a decidedly soft approach. Words like passion, motivation and collaboration have rooted themselves in the corporate lexicon, and they have been part of a larger wave of management theory that has turned its focus to motivating and eliciting best behaviour.
"There's been a huge wave in positive psychology. It's been remarkably refreshing," Thoresen says. "But it's controversial, and it makes many psychologists nervous because it's not in their bailiwick."
Use of psychological assessments in organisations really picked up in the late 20th century, alongside a growing trend in seeing talent management as a core component of a company's competitive advantage. Myers-Briggs became one of its first and shiniest symbols. An organisation that used the test showed that it recognised people, and their diversity of background and thought, as one of its biggest assets.
"To raise questions about [Myers-Briggs's] reliability and validity is like commenting on the tastiness of communion wine. Or how good a yarmulke is at protecting your head," says Brian Little, a former psychology professor at Harvard University who is now at the University of Cambridge. "It's simply the wrong question, from their perspective."
That is, from the perspective of MBTI adherents who find the test both enlightening and empowering.
Brian Twillman of the Environmental Protection Agency is one of them.
The EPA estimates that it has given the MBTI to at least a quarter of its 17,000 federal employees, from senior political leaders to frontline staff.
Twillman, a training co-ordinator at the agency, has been there since 1989. "There hasn't been a year that resources haven't gone to MBTI," he says. "If we had not had the MBTI introduced into the agency as it's been, there would be a lot of blind spots within the agency with managers."
Twillman is an INFP in an INTJ organisation. Which, he says, can be hard.
He first found out about Myers-Briggs as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University in 1977. Since then, he's been, as he describes it, "an active player in psychological type". He has served on the Association of Psychological Type board and has helped make the EPA one of the most active agencies in promoting the Myers-Briggs.
"I gave the test to someone I met on the first date," Twillman says. "Now we have two children and are happily married."
Like many other enthusiasts, he describes himself as a "type watcher" – someone who takes pleasure in guessing strangers' MBTI personality types. A common line from supporters is that the test starts an important dialogue around who we are and how we interact with others.
"Insight from the Myers-Briggs can start that conversation, but unfortunately it often ends the conversation. You've got your type stamped on your forehead," says Little, the professor. "It really is scripting down the complexity and the delight of human interaction."
Still, it's a mainstay in professional-development portfolios. Brian McCann, a sales consultant for CPP in the DC area, says about 200 federal agencies pay for Myers-Briggs as part of their training programs. The military, he adds, has been one of the test's longest and most avid users. "There's a story that goes around that says if you've risen to the rank of major in the army, you've taken the MBTI at least once," he says.
It's widely used within the State Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the CIA and nearly every federal department you could name.
Yet of all those who use the test, only a few have set out to quantify the gains from such an investment.
Take St Luke's Hospital and Health Network in Pennsylvania, where more than half of the 8200-person staff has taken the test and 15 per cent of training funds go to Myers-Briggs.
"Back in 2002, there was no measure of the effectiveness of using MBTI in an organisation," says Robert Weigland, director of management training. "We embarked on creating the model."
Weigland has since co-authored a report, published by CPP, showing how organisations can determine the return on their investment. It involves estimating how behavioural improvements in employees translate into higher revenue. It's an inexact science, but it's an attempt to address a problem that plagues HR professionals across the public and private sectors: how do you assess whether a program is effective and worth the price?
Because of the complexity of measuring such an investment, many organisations hardly bother trying to do the math. "There is almost a 'rite de passage' to taking the Myers-Briggs, and it's becoming a very symbolic thing," Little says.
Or as Barry Edwards, a self-described "big fan" of MBTI and a training senior manager at the large government contractor CACI, put it: "It's like religion. Believe what you want. Get out of it what you want."
Academics would contend that is precisely Myers-Briggs' biggest flaw: it's about belief much more than scientific evidence. And it's administered by leadership coaches who, by and large, have no formal education in the science of psychology.
"People like it because it reveals something they didn't know about themselves or others," says Wharton's Grant. "That could be true of a horoscope, too."
Even Katharine Downing Myers concedes that "psychologists had no use for the indicator; they felt that Jung was a crazy mystic".
And yet the psychological community has been reticent to speak up too vocally against it. The fact is, many psychology professors do lucrative side work as organisational consultants. And as taboo as it is to praise Myers-Briggs in US academia, it's equally taboo to disparage it in corporate America.
It is sacred because CPP has done such a thorough job of ingraining it in organisational culture, because company norms are hard to break, because institutions are attracted to the safety of its all-personalities-are-created-equal message, and because – despite what Myers-Briggs advocates would call the complexity and depth of the tool – it is, in the end, elegantly simple.
Add all those together, and you have an organisational Goliath. "You begin to figure out," Grant says, "is this a battle that you want to fight?"
While not many individual academics are fighting the fight, plenty of publishing companies are. The Hogan Personality Inventory and DISC are two personality assessments that map more closely to the Five Factor research espoused by the majority of academics in psychology. DISC is the Myers-Briggs indicator's biggest competitor, and it is owned by Inscape Publishing, which was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February for $US85 million.
"It is a crowded market," CPP's Hayes says.
In addition to more competition, CPP is facing another trend: belt-tightening in the budgets for leadership training programs. "We had several organisations where the departments we were working with were reduced from 15 to two," Hayes says. He adds that "some of the big organisations that went under [in the recession] were customers of ours".
These factors, while not leaving CPP anything less than ultra profitable, are making it seem increasingly important that Myers-Briggs finds a way to get the blessing of the academic community before other tests emerge that have both mass-market appeal and a scientific seal of approval.
"Being an academic myself, I've always been pushing CPP to get some publications in major psychological journals," Thoresen says. "Particularly in the business field, in large corporations especially, they like to know that there is some evidence that this is a valid test."
To that end, CPP has plans to make a large research push over the next three or four years, which would amass millions of its cases and pull them into research that Thoresen thinks should be publishable by the top-tier psychological journals.
There would still be a problem, though, according to Little: "It's a little bit like taking a Dodge Caravan and trying to turn it into a Rolls Royce." Theoretically, Little says, it could be possible to do substantive research that would improve MBTI's validity, but CPP – and the Myers-Briggs family – would have to raze any parts of its theory that prove unsound. And that is highly unlikely.
"It became a case of copyright over designing an assessment technique that could be adaptive," Little says. "From a business perspective, [adaptation] is a pain in the neck. From a scientific perspective, it's the only way to go."
When the copyright passed to Katharine and Peter in 1980, after Isabel's death, the pair became the vision keepers of her legacy. "We have been partners in really carrying out her dream," Katharine says. "I think of it as protecting both the instrument and the theory on which it is based."
For decades the couple, who are divorced but still close, attended meetings three times a year with CPP to discuss the indicator and to make sure its use was not wandering too far from Isabel's intentions. "She'd be astounded," Peter says. "Even in her wildest dreams, I'm sure she never imagined the breadth of it, the reach, the number of languages it's been translated into."
Katharine recently retired from the meetings but still gets the notes.
She lives by herself in a two-bedroom cottage in a Quaker retirement community just outside Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. It is 25 miles from where she was born 86 years ago, and 40 kilometres from where she met Peter.
When they die, the copyright will go to the Myers-Briggs Foundation, which funds research and helps maintain the nonprofit Centre for Applications of Psychological Type. They both have children from separate marriages, but "they won't be putting into it what Peter and I do", Katharine says. "For Peter and me, it became our life's work."
When asked if he is sad his children won't carry on the family legacy, Peter replies, "Yes, but that's the luck of the draw."
And so the old pair made the decision to end the line here.
Among the Quaker cottages, where Katharine intends to live out the last of her years, she still feels the presence of Myers-Briggs. She has started a small group of retirees who meet to talk about Carl Jung's theory and the indicator that has been such a force in her life.
"It was a family that didn't think you had to go to a class to learn something," Katharine recalls of her mother and grandmother-in-law. "You could just learn it on your own."
The 2500 people who got their Myers-Briggs certification last year likely agree.
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SDA 103–04: Student-Athlete Advisory Committee
To provide a forum for student-athletes; to enhance lines of communication among student-athletes, coaches, and athletic administrators; and to provide a liaison between student-athletes and the Pacific-12 Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association
NCAA Division I Manual, Constitution, Article 6.1.4
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Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Bylaws
Under the direct supervision of the senior associate athletic director and other athletic faculty advisors and the oversight of the director of Athletics, the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) provides a forum for student-athletes to voice concerns and athlete-related issues concerning the university, the Pacific-12 Conference (Pac-12), and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
SAAC members are responsible for:
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Welcome to the Chorlton Chapters book club.
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Would we have enough to say to each other, coming as we were from such different places in our lives that day?Sharon understands my nervousness. "I made Sam be in the town play," she confides. "I said, 'You've got to get out of the house. I need you to come home with stories.' I need him to have experiences." We women can't bear all the burden of having a life.In the end, my dinner with Doug was okay. He even told me a story about hitting a tree with his bus.There's an old joke about how many musicians marry nurses — because nurses can always find work. Doug was always straight with me about his goals in life. "I have tons of friends with fine degrees who are housewives," Jill says. "They dated guys who said they wanted women to be strong and independent, but once they got married, it became all about him — his career, his needs." On the other hand, our husbands' willingness to defy stereotypes freed us to defy them as well. Why aren't we more grateful to them?Maybe it's because we worry what messages we're sending our children. How will growing up in such matriarchal households affect their marital expectations? Doug's willingness to take on this role helped expand my kids' definition of what it means to be a man, but they still poke embarrassed fun at his vacuuming obsession. Sharon's children are bewildered by the way she's always in charge — of vacations, household purchases, even restaurant choices. "They say, 'We always do what you want to do,'" she says. "But I'm not making the decisions because I'm a bitch. I'm doing it because someone has to."Or maybe it's because we're looking forward, all of us, to a time when we won't have to be in charge. We're pondering midlife dreams of reinvention and eyeing the oasis of retirement in the distance. And we're finding that the men we married don't really have any plans for the future, except to keep on keeping on. Ann, the law-school professor, longs to spend summers writing and doing research in a house she and Jim still own in Boulder, Colorado, where they lived during the early years of their marriage and she was happiest. "We could rent it out just for the academic year," she says wistfully. "Of course, Jim's job isn't on an academic-year calendar. But this may be where I'm thinking… 'You know, you don't make that much money anyway.'"Sharon finds herself wishing Sam would start pulling his weight: "I ask him, 'Why don't you go to law school?' He says, 'I'm not interested.' And I want to say, 'You're not fucking interested? Why don't you sit down and figure out how you could actually make some money?'"It's not just about the money, though. It's about the fact that we operate on all cylinders, all the time. That despite the vacuuming our men do ("See how evolved I am?"), we're the ones buying the Christmas presents, looking after our aged parents, doing the college tours. And we're tired. Eternally tired. We long for our men to step up and rescue us, do the Prince Charming thing. Sure, we wanted them to support our dreams, but not at the cost of abandoning their own. So our resentment slowly builds. "I feel," Sharon says, quietly, "like Sam's not bringing enough to the table."Bending the Gender RolesI've never stopped loving Doug. I still work hard to evoke his laughter, save up stories to tell him, lie in bed longing for his touch. I feel, though, that I have been emasculating. That I usurped his natural position in our family. And I don't always remember to ask how his day has been. This is why I treasure my best friends. When I tell them that Doug has taken up trout fishing, they chime in: Jim has become a beekeeper; Sam is taking voice lessons; Boris has started gardening.But mostly, you know, when we get together, my girlfriends and I don't talk about the guys. We catch up with one another, reel off accomplishments, spout triumphs, boast without blushing, free in one another's company to be ourselves — an opportunity that, for all our worldly success, we don't often get, even at home. Doug was so threatened by the subject of this article that he asked me point-blank: "Are you going to leave me?" "Never," I told him, and I meant it.
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STARKVILLE, Miss. - Giving back has always been important to Mississippi State sophomore goalkeeper CJ Winship, and that generous spirit has earned her a place on the SEC Community Service team that was announced by the league office this week.
Winship has been actively involved in community service projects and speaking engagements since transferring to MSU last spring.
"It's an honor to be named to the SEC Community Service Team. To get any award from the best conference in the nation is special, but it's even more special to receive an award for giving back to the people who support you as a Mississippi State student-athlete," Winship said.
She serves as a Fellowship of Christian Athletes huddle leader at Starkville High School, and she frequently speaks to students at Starkville Academy, including giving the school-wide address in September.
The Ridgeland, Miss., native is a regular participant in the M-Club's monthly Breakfast of Champions, and she spent the summer teaching soccer as a coach in the Bulldogs' summer camps.
Winship's community outreach extends outside the Starkville community as well.
She presented a devotional at the Jones County Correctional Facility in the southern part of the state, and she also spoke to the soccer teams at Warren Central High School and West Jones High School.
"Being from Mississippi, I am thankful for the opportunities I have received from this state, so giving back when I can is a great way to express my gratitude," Winship said.
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In 2009, Nick Pecoraro was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Under the medical care of pediatric rheumatology specialist Karen Onel, MD, Nick's condition improved significantly. With treatment and occupational therapy, he began participating -- and excelling -- in athletic activities. In 2012, Nick became the first athlete in his school to qualify for the state cross-country meet.
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When Skylar Houseman's family learned that juvenile idiopathic arthritis and uveitis placed her at risk for blindness, they sought treatment from pediatric rheumatology specialist Karen Onel, MD. Grateful for Dr. Onel's skilled and compassionate care, Skylar's mom believes this was one of the best decisions she ever made for her daughter.


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One of the most exciting things about Boston Fashion Week is change. Since its inception in 1995 the week has added something new to the mix every year, in order to keep things interesting and relevant to the world of fashion as well as the Boston community. This year is no exception.
Boston Fashion Week and the Fashion Group International of Boston initially partnered three years ago on a project called The Launch. In the spring they reached out to schools in the area with fashion programs and asked the heads of those departments to recommend three recent graduates that were worthy of being singled out as a new face to watch. Those designers were then invited to an interview and portfolio review. The goal of the initiative has been to find five promising talents that can take to the catwalk during Boston Fashion Week, with the intent of helping them launch their careers.
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The designers selected for The Launch 2011 will also benefit from the latest addition to the week, The Tent at Boston Fashion Week, a new venue that will serve as the centerpiece of Boston's weeklong celebration of style. The Tent is a joint endeavor between Boston Fashion Week, Boston magazine, Mandarin Oriental, Boston, PBD Events and The Shops at Prudential Center. It represents the first major collaboration of this scale in Boston, and it has been designed to provide a bigger platform for fashion in the city. Attendees will enjoy exciting fashion experiences with high caliber production values, and so will The Launch designers.
The bar continues to be raised with new venues, innovative design, and a community committed to nurturing the next generation of fashion professionals. Beyond the runway, the public will have the opportunity to see a special selection from the collections of The Launch designers during Boston Fashion Week. A special exhibit will be installed on Monday, September 26, 2011 in the Center Court of Copley Place.
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The inactives for the New Orleans Saints against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday afternoon are running back Darren Sproles, tackle Zach Strief, defensive end Junior Galette, wide receiver Courtney Roby, linebacker Scott Shanle, cornerback Elbert Mack and defensive tackle Tyrunn Walker.
Sproles (hand), Strief (groin), Galette (ankle) and Roby (shoulder) were deemed out on Friday's injury report. Linebacker David Hawthorne started in place of Shanle.
Cornerback Corey White was the Saints' most significant injury as he left the game midway through the third quarter. Interim coach Joe Vitt said the Falcons' win he wasn't sure if it was a knee or a thigh injury. White played one of best games before the injury with a diving interception on a deep ball from Matt Ryan early in the third quarter. White injured himself on the next Falcons offensive series as Johnny Patrick replaced him.
Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones sustained a lower leg injury late in the first quarter. He didn't return until about midway in the third quarter. He responded with 52-yard reception in the fourth quarter.
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- 4 eggs
- 1 cup canola oil
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup baking cocoa
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, optional
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons 2% milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon shortening
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
- Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, beat eggs, oil, sugar and vanilla until well blended. Combine flour, cocoa and salt; gradually beat into egg mixture. Stir in walnuts if desired.
- Pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake 30 minutes or until a toothpick insert in center comes out with moist crumbs. Cool completely.
- For filling, in a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in milk and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour. Spread over brownies; chill until firm.
- For glaze, in a microwave, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Spread over filling. Immediately sprinkle with nuts, pressing down slightly. Let stand until set. Yield: 3 dozen.
Reviews for Cookie Dough Brownies
"You need to double the cookie dough portion. Otherwise there isn't enough.Great brownies. Cookie dough is amazing. They are much richer than I expected."
"These were AMAZING! I will definitely make these again! Loved the taste of the brown sugar combined with the chocolate and brownie!"
"Really, really rich! Great to take to a bake sale or potluck because they cut into squares easily."
"I made 2 pans last week, 1 for a function and another for myself. The whole pan was gone quickly at the function. I also have very strict dietary restrictions due to allergies and I was able to make this without dairy, eggs and soy which was a definite plus for me. We just subbed apple sauce for eggs, and used soy free dairy free butter, almond milk and dairy free chocolate chips. I was a bit skeptical of how they would turn out but boy was I surprised how great they were. Wonderful dessert and we will be making these again soon!"
"I baked the brownies only 20 minutes so would not be dry. Still the brownie was nothing special. I doubled the filling like many other posters had stated and divided the filling adding mini chocolate chips to half and mint chips to the other half before spreading it over the brownies. It was too much filling for the amount of brownie, my fault. I did like the filling that had the mint chips in it. The glaze was too hard, thus making it hard to cut. Glaze broke up in chunks, I do not plan on making them again."


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Here are some tips on cleaning Swarovski crystal jewelry.
- Wipe jewelry gently with a damp cloth.
- If it needs more cleaning, use a Q-tip and diluted window cleaner and gently dab at problem spots.
- Lay your crystal on a clean, cotton cloth to dry.
- It is best if it can dry overnight.
When the crystals are totally dry, wrap in jeweler's tissue and store in an airtight plastic bag. Keep them separate from other jewelry so they don't get scratched.
- Don't immerse crystal jewelry in water or use an ultrasonic or steam cleaner to clean your crystals.
The crystals have a thin coating, which will be scratched and dull the finish.
Stringing material: Don't use wire or non-breakable nylon because the crystals will cut through silk thread.
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New Event
Linda B. of LinorStore.com will be showing her unique jewelry designs on
Sun. July 27 at the Summer Lakes Community Picnic, Warrenville from 12-4 p.m. on Rt. 59 just North of Butterfield Road.
Mention the word "Butterfield" and you may qualify for a discount.
Visit www.lindab142.etsy.com for the latest jewelry items.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Cleaning Jewelry - Swarovski Crystals
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Panama City- The Panama City chapter of the Red Cross remained on standby Sunday as emergency officials in Pensacola continued to deal with some of the worst flooding they've ever seen.
With more than a foot of rain falling in some places there, many streets and some businesses were completely under water. Pensacola Red Cross officials reached out to the Panama City chapter asking for help if needed, but Executive Director Bob Pearce said they were waiting for any severe weather to move through this area first before deploying their services to Pensacola.
"When something really starts developing, you don't know at that time how big it's going to get. A lot of times the same weather that affects Pensacola is also going to affect us," said Pearce.
Pearce said if he does send help, it'll most likely be damage assestment team members and emergency shelter workers.


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With the shorter days of August, we turn our attention toward back to school, back to campus and back to work. Look for sales and discounts on back to school apparel and accessories for students of all ages, career and casual favorites, and seasonal clearance markdowns of 75-80% and more.
Watch this column for fashion finds, sweepstakes and promotions, and special deals throughout the week. Each day of the week offers discounts to a specific group in Columbia, and many plan their shopping around these savings.
Below is a list of many of the sales, specials and consignment dates this week in Columbia. Please click on the links for further information, store hours, locations and coupons. You'll want to mark your calendars and save as you plan your shopping and consignment for the week ahead.
- Sunday, August 3
- BOGO 50% off juniors' and young men's clothing at Kmart
- Save 30% off women's fashions at Stein Mart
- Buy one, get one for $10 jeans at Rue 21
- Get a free getaway bag with any $75 purchase at Victoria's Secret
- Shop the brands you love at Hamrick's unbeatable prices
- Save up to 40% off kids' J Khaki sportswear at Belk
- Save 60-80% off at Kohl's biggest Gold Star clearance
- Save 70% off summer suits and sportcoats at Jos. A. Bank
- Use Macy's coupons for extra savings
- Save 50% off select full-price styles at the LOFT
- Save $25 off $75 or more at Lane Bryant
- Save 30% off Old Navy's regular-priced styles
- Shop Aero denim for back to school at Aeropostale
- BOGO $100 suits and sportcoats at Men's Warehouse
- Enter to be a Rack Room Shoes model family
- Stock up for back to school at Academy Sports and Outdoors
- Take an extra 40% off clearance at Dick's Sporting Goods
- Spend $50 and save $10 on kids' clothes at Target
- Shop JC Penney's Love Your School Sale
- Shop Walmart's Back to School Savings Event
- Save up to 50% off campus essentials at Sears
- Shop Dillard's back to campus catalog
- Save up to 80% off clearance at Burlington Coat Factory
- Monday, August 4
- Military Monday at Good Samaritan Family Thrift Store
- Senior Discount Day at Full Circle Charity Thrift
- Tuesday, August 5
- Senior Discount Day at Ross Dress for Less
- Senior Discount Day at Goodwill Thrift Stores
- Student Discount Day at Good Samaritan Family Thrift Store
- Wednesday, August 6
- Senior Discount Day at Kohl's
- Senior Discount Day at Good Samaritan Family Thrift Store
- Thursday, August 7
- Everyone receives 10% off at Hamrick's
- $1.00 sale racks begin at Goodwill Thrift Stores
- Ladies' Discount Day at Good Samaritan Family Thrift Store
- Hats, purses and jewelry are 50% off at Full Circle Charity Thrift
- Friday, August 8
- Men's Discount Day at Good Samaritan Family Thrift Store
- Weekend sales and specials will be posted here
- Columbia yard, garage and estate sales will be posted here
- Saturday, August 9
- Suits are ½ price at Full Circle Charity Thrift
Notes: Clothing consignments will not be accepted at Roundabouts Consignments during the first two weeks of August.
As always, maximize your style and minimize your spending~


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Just when you thought that Iggy Azalea had officially snatched the title of pop's top female rapper, in comes Nicki Minaj to remind the world who really owns the throne.
Her Minajesty has been sitting pretty at the top of iTunes for the past week with Ariana Grande's "Bang Bang," and now she's gone and dethroned herself with her own single, "Anaconda."
This gives Nicki the top two songs on US iTunes, and a total of three in the top 100 if you include "Pills N Potions," which is currently at No. 58.
Sorry Iggy and Becky G, but it's gonna be a long time before anyone can come for Nicki's crown.


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Museum Hours: Monday-Saturday 9-5, Sunday 12-5
2016: July 4 (Independence Day), September 5 (Labor Day), November 24 (Thanksgiving), December 25, 26, 31.
Location: 1109 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079.
About 30 minutes from Detroit Metro Airport and about 60 minutes from downtown Detroit and downtown Toledo. The Museum is next to the Central Campus Transportation Center (CCTC), served by campus and Ann Arbor buses. MegaBus connects to Ann Arbor from Chicago, Detroit, and Toledo; Greyhound from Detroit, Jackson, Lansing, and other cities; Michigan Flyer from East Lansing and Detroit Metro Airport, and Amtrak from Chicago, Kalamazoo, Jackson, Detroit, and Pontiac.
Phone: (734) 764-0478 Fax: (734) 647-2767
Admission: Free to individuals and groups of 10 or less. Suggested donation is $6 per person.
Group Visits: Call 734.764.0480 to schedule. See Schedule a Group Visit for more details.
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Computer Virus Removal
Virus Detection | Eradication | Prevention
Every network, system and computer needs to have a three part plan implemented to help prevent, stop and recover from virus and spyware infections and potential damage. First, every system should have antivirus software installed and properly maintained. This means regular virus updates as well as being properly configured on the server and workstations. Your antivirus software should scan every file stored on every storage device on a scheduled basis and should scan every bit of information before it is saved to a drive or brought into the network.
Remember that antivirus software is only as good as its last update. Any new or unknown viruses will not be detected and could cause damage. To protect from new viruses, you need to have a detection tool in place. An integrity verification tool can be used to monitor when files change. However, for the integrity tool to be effective, you will need to run it against your system before you are infected to establish a baseline against which to compare all future scans.


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Backcountry Hiking & Riding
Hike, bike, ride a horse or an ATV in the back country of Powell River as well as Texada Island,
Savary Island and Lund. check out the trails or find a club to join. .
See the Business Directory for commercial business services
4610 Claridge Road, Powell River V8A 5N2
Allen & Maureen Parsons 604 485 6882 Email
Promotes access to and appreciation of the alpine regions in our area and environmentally sound forest management. Provides logging road updates. Activities include alpine hiking, rock climbing, mountain climbing, backcountry snowshoeing and skiing. "Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photographs."
All Terrain Vehicle Club (ATV)
c/o 4036 Manitoba, Powell River V8A 2W8
Dave Hodgins 604 485 2880 Email
Local group of ATV enthusiasts exploring the backwoods of Powell River. Trail building, group rides, camp-
RR1 Padgett Road, Powell River V8A 4Z2
Mike Schulkowsky 604 485 4265 Email
Promotes responsible ("leave no trace -
Colin Dionne 604 689 7564 Email
The Access Society represents everyone who supports public access to the cliffs and mountains of B.C., and conservation of them. It was founded in 1995. We encourage anyone who supports our goals, particularly all climbers and mountaineers, to become involved, and support our work.
6919 Hammond Street, Powell River V8A 1R3 Email
Hugo Sloos, President Email
The Powell River Cycling Association was created in 2009 by a group of like-
Website includes trail maps, regular rides, toonie rides, videos, photos and much more.
Parks and Wilderness Society (PAWS)
Box 345, Powell River V8A 5C2
Eagle Walz 604 483 9565 Email
A charitable, non-
Funds are accepted at the Powell River Credit Union and are tax deductible. Receipts will be issued.
John Dove 604 486 7100
Hikes: Saturdays year-
General Store and Van Anda Post Office.
Bev Dunn, President 604 487 9182 Email
For horse enthusiasts with meetings, clinics, seminars, lessons, horse shows, and clubhouse rentals. Co-
Meetings: 1st Monday 7:30 pm at Clubhouse, Paradise Exhibition Park.
Boating & Fishing Destinations & Resources
Knuckleheads Wilderness Hiking
Located at an elevation of between 5500 and 5300 ft with the ridge extending in a westerly direction, the recreation area is approximately 3 miles by 2 miles (unofficial) of gently sloped terrain. The area is part of a provincial working forest, where a portion has been logged and replanted. The clear-
Text by AR Pinch; read more at www.trailpeak.com
Developed and protected through the efforts of the Parks & Wilderness Society (PAWS), the trail stretches 180 km from the Saltery Bay ferry terminal in the south to Sarah Point in the world-
Jay Bresee 604 485 6592 Email
We provide seasonal weekday and weekend hikes, walks, other outdoor activities; such as maintaining trails and organizational meetings. Schedules available at the Complex, Visitor Centre and on the Sunshine Coast Trail website.
Powell River Hiking
Super AND Natural British Columbia
Incredible backcountry photos
Biking at Inland Lake
Photo: Discover Powell River
For a relaxing ride just north of Powell River, check out the 13km/8mi loop in Inland Lake Provincial Park. The wide limestone path is so flat that the entire circuit is wheelchair-
Rieveleys Pond Hut on the Sunshine Coast Trail North of Powell River.
See more videos here.
Powell River Direct
Powell River Direct is owned and maintained by
Business Management & Design.com
Contact owner Norah LeClare
Providing Professional Bookkeeping
and Web Services in Powell River
Service IS My Business
2140 Black Point, Powell River, BC V8A 0J9
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Two former Jayhawks squared off on the diamond July 4th. Frank Duncan started the game on the mound for the Jamestown Jammers while Alex De Leon worked as the designated hitter for the State College Spikes. Duncan, a 13th round draft pick for the Pittsburg Pirates, pitched a strong five innings allowing four hits and only one run to cross, but did not earn the win. De Leon impressed as well, collecting four hits, going four-for-four to start the game and just missed the Spikes' single-game hits record in the eighth inning when he recorded a fly ball out.
Frank Duncan kept the Spikes at bay, only allowing one run in his four innings of work. The Jammers' bats were hot, but would prove to not be enough as the Jammers defense gave up ten runs following Duncan's exit.
Spikes survive Jammers run, provide grand slam fireworks.
A Jake Stone grand slam capped off a six run seventh inning to pull the Spikes out of a four run deficit and give State College their 14th win of the season and sixth at home.
Former Jayhawks continue to improve and impress.
Through 55 games in two seasons, Alex De Leon has earned a respectable .230 batting average and a .316 on base percentage for the St.Louis Cardinals' affiliate State College Spikes. In his first 17 games of the 2014 season De Leon has hit five home runs to help build a .288 batting average this season.
Frank Duncan has pitched in four games during the 2014 season recording a loss, and 3 no decisions. In his 16.2 innings pitched Duncan has given up 20 hits allowing ten earned runs with a 5.4 ERA.
Spikes sweep the series
The Spikes and the Jammers squared off two more times July fourth weekend. The Spikes earned the series sweep and their fifth straight victory. De Leon went hitless in his four at bats in the series finale, Frank Duncan did not play in the final two games.


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Reviews - Wipika VARC AirBlast 11.8
|Wipika VARC AirBlast 11.8 (Jeff Quick)
Overall Impression:
The wind did die for a brief second (towards the end of the day) to NOTHING and the kite fell out of the sky onto the water, landing directly on its leading edge...what a perfect time to try the backwards relaunch!!! I tried, but no luck...I only pulled in about 1 meter of line on one side, and I could see that the kite wanted to lift off backwards, but since my leader lines on my current bar are only about a meter or so, I was having to pull on Q line directly with my fingers... not very comfortable, especially in 58 degree water...then something wierd happened... the kite fell backwards...with the leading edge facing me, kite laying on its back. No way out of that one that I could find. I had to swim to the kite and drag it to the beach.
The wind came back up again and I reset up the kite and went for 2 more tacks, the last being a total downwinder...the wind died to about 8 MPH....but then again, thats what the 16.4 (22.3 total area) Wipika Airblast is for!!! And this new design should allow all that power with maximum upwind/jumping ability, especially after flying the 11.8!
After flying my 11.8 a few more times, I've realized, this kite really is a very high performance kite. But with this high performance, there is a trade off in convenience, atleast in this case.
My first two sessions with this kite were flawless, bringing me to a new level of kiteboarding. However, the next two, were totally frustrating.
As it turns out, this kite still needs wind to really fly effectively. Due to its higher AR, the kite doesn't fly very well in lighter 'puffy' wind, and sometimes wants to stall, or even worse, fly backwards! Personally, I need a steady 14+ MPH of wind to ride solidly, with upwind ability on my 157cm Wake N Style (Steady 12+ for my 15.5 Naish when I sheet it in beyond stock to the sweet spot). This is because the 11.8 flies farther forward into the window, and gets there much faster than any of the older style inflateables. However, the pull has a totally different feel to it, and is definitely TWICE as fun!!! Also, with the kite flying this much more forward in the window, the upwind angles achieved are damn near unbelieveable (esp. on land, maybe 45 degrees!!!)
Also, the battens need to be pumped up very hard, especially the battens closer to the tips. If not, the kite will fly fine at first, but once under load, the tips will cup (similar to a foil while braking) and performance will diminish tremendously...After I pumped them up tighter, they did not do this, and the kite flew TOTALLY different and MUCH better. Keep them inflated tight, but be careful not to blow them out.
Securing the kite on the beach is another pain. Its ineffective to put sand on top to weight it down (and could damage the kite). Instead, you have to pile sand up BEHIND the kite or put your board on the leading edge behind the kite to keep it from sliding down the beach. (My 15.5 Naish can just sit there with NOTHING on it, even in strong winds.) If the 11.8 does get unsecured, it will slide down the beach until it hits something. All of this also makes it hard to self land the kite...as wants to slide down the beach once you land it (unlike the Naish).
Also, the bridles can be a pain too. Most of the time,
they DO get tangled, but its usually not an issue to get them untangled
(maybe 30 seconds). However, I did experience one time where the bridle
Besides these negative points, the kite is 100X worth it! The feel is MUCH more user oriented, and instead of fighting the kite to hold your line, the kite wants to pull you where you want to go. I would say the increase in performace from the older inflateables, is equivalent to the performance increase one feels coming from older soft foils to inflateables...a night and day difference. With this kite, the jumps are loftier, a bit higher, and not as jerky. They do require getting used to the timing though. But once you get used to this, you are riding at the next level...and having twice as much fun!
This kite rocks!


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There is more work to a paranormal investigation than just going to a location, shooting some video and pictures. It is when the investigation is over that the real work begins. Once everything is packed up and you are heading home, it is time to start reflecting on what happened during the investigation and plan when you will be analyzing the data collected.
Analyzing the data collected includes reviewing notes, watching endless hours of video, listening to audio and scanning through hundreds of photographs. During the analysis you will be looking for any unusual images or anomalies. It is best to have someone else going through the data with you. This is because you will get through it faster, but you will also have a second person to look or listen to your data to see if they see or hear what you did.
Here are some tips to help analyze the date collected during a paranormal investigation:
- Wear headphones: When analyzing video and audio, wear headphones. This will help you hear what was captured without interference from outside noises, plus it will prevent you from disturbing others who are analyzing data with you.
- Cross reference: Find other pieces of data to cross reference with when you find a piece of data you believe to be evidence of paranormal activity. Check other recordings, photographs and notes from the exact time and location and the data in question.
- Validation: Once all data has bee sorted through, it is time to take it to the rest of the team. Together you will go through possible evidence and try to validate or debunk it.
Remember, before claiming something is paranormal, all logical explanations must be considered. Never show a client evidence you have not tried to find an explanation for or tried to recreate first.
Hopefully these tips will help you sort through countless amounts of data and find real pieces of paranormal evidence.
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If you're a city planner or a member of the tourism board for you local municipality, I'm about to make you look like a wizard. You have people looking to you to get people and their tourist dollars to come and appreciate your area, and now, with one simple trick, you can make your hometown rock. Please hang on. It's about to get awesome.
This awesomeness is called URL forwarding, and with all these New Domain names it's become exponentially more amazing. Watch the video above or, in three simple steps, I'll demonstrate how to make the website you already have more memorable and profitable.


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New Zealand producers' input and output prices rose in the first three months of the year, driven by higher costs to generate electricity because of low hydro-lake levels and more expensive thermal generation.
Producer output prices, which measure the prices received by New Zealand producers, rose 0.9 percent in the three months ended March 31, turning from a 0.4 percent decline in the December quarter, Statistics New Zealand said. Input prices, representing the prices of goods and services used by local producers, rose 1 percent in the quarter, from a 0.7 percent drop in the prior period. On an annual basis, output prices were up 4 percent, and input prices 3.1 percent. (See graph below)
The increase was led by a 14 percent gain in output prices for electricity and gas supply, and a 20 percent jump in input prices.
"The higher prices for electricity generation contributed to both the higher input and output PPIs in the latest quarter,"' prices manager Chris Pike said in a statement. "This often happens in March quarters, due to spot-market conditions and low lake levels."
Rising producer prices come as the Reserve Bank steps up efforts to curb the threat of future inflation, which has been relatively benign in recent years. Consumer prices rose at an annual pace of 1.5 percent in the March quarter, while labour costs were up 1.6 percent.
Dairy product manufacturers continued to face a margin squeeze, with a 0.7 percent increase in output prices, while input costs rose 3.1 percent. Dairy manufacturers have had input costs jump 39 percent in the 12 months ended March 31, while output prices advanced 31 percent.
Dairy cattle farmers have seen the reverse, with output prices up 4 percent in quarter, faster than the 1.2 percent increase in input costs. Annual output costs for dairy farmers have surged 47 percent, while input prices rose just 0.5 percent.
Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest dairy exporter, is forecasting a record payout to farmers of $8.65 per kilogram of milk solids for the coming season, though falling prices in recent auctions has raised speculation that may be lowered.
Construction output prices rose 0.7 percent in the quarter for an annual increase of 2.8 percent, while input prices were up 0.4 percent in the quarter and 1.2 percent in the year.
In a separate release, the capital goods price index, which measures changes in the price of new fixed assets bought by local producers, rose 0.6 percent in the three months ended March, for an annual rise of 2.1 percent. That was led by a 1.1 percent increase in residential building due to higher costs for building new dwellings. Residential building prices were up 4.6 percent on an annual basis, the biggest yearly increase since March 2008.
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The RAVPower 4-Port Wall Charger. This charger is great when you need to charge multiple devices since as the name suggests, it is a 4-Port charger meaning that you can charge up to 4 devices simultaneously. Also, the charger is compact and portable for traveling.
The charger as I mentioned already, has 4 USB ports that can charge your devices at the same time without having to go through the trouble of switching out your devices constantly in order to charge your devices from time to time. The great thing about this charger is that it has two ports with an output of 1A and the other two ports have an output of 2.1A. What this means is that the 1A ports are made to charge your small devices such as your smartphones and the other two ports with an output of 2.1A are made to charge your bigger devices such as your tablets. The reason is because the 2.1A ports are able to charge your bigger devices more quickly than if they were being charged using the 1A ports. The ports are labeled so there will be no confusion as to what port is what. Plus, the charger lights up when your devices are charging successfully meaning you know when your devices are plugged in correctly and charging.
The charger is compact and lightweight which makes it ideal for when you need to take this charger with you on the go since the dimensions of it are the following: 3.6 x 1.2 x 3.5 inches; 6.1 ounces. Also, another great thing about this device is that it has an input voltage of: AC 110-220V, which makes this device usable during your international traveling.
The charger can be purchased in either black or white depending on your preference. It comes with a 3.84ft / 117cm detachable power cord and a user manual.
The RAVPower 4-Port Wall Charger is a great buy when you have many devices that constantly need charging and when you don't want to go through the hassle of switching out your devices. It is small and compact, so taking it with you on your travels is easy. In the end, the charger performs well; it charges your devices easily and quickly when you need it to.
Disclosure: I received this product for free in exchange for my honest review and opinions.