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Six-time All-American...Seventh on the Arizona school record list in the 200 back, eighth in the 200 I.M....Has qualified for the NCAA all three seasons...Transferred to Arizona after her freshman season following the University of Washington dropping its swimming program.
2010-11: Earned Honorable Mention All-American honors at the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas in both the 200 individual medley and the 200 backstroke...Finished 11th overall in the 200 back with a finals time of 1:54.00...Was 16th overall in the 200 individual medley in 1:58.95...Ross' preliminary 200 I.M. of 1:58.18 ranked in as UA's fastest in the event during '10-'11.
2009-10: In her first year training at Arizona, was an Honorable Mention All-American at the NCAA Championships in West Lafayette, Ind. in the 200 backstroke with a 14th place finish time of 1:54.90...Also competed in the 200 I.M. and 100 backstroke...Recorded Arizona's four fastest 100 back time and fifth fastest 200 back time on the season.
2008-09: Standout freshman season while swimming at Washington under coach Whitney Hite...Garnered Honorable Mention All-American status at NCAA Championships in College Station, Texas in the 200 back, 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay for the Huskies...Recorded a personal best in the 200 back preliminaries with a 1:53.89.
What stood out to you about the University of Arizona? The tremendous coaching staff we have here and the overall team culture.
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A new update for Skype on the Xbox One improves the communication experience. Skype has been a service included with Microsoft's next gen console since November. However, it's had some bugs.
This new update should alleviate some of those issues. The update brings new features and improvements to the service as well as bug fixes. March 14th Karen Tong posted information on the update via the Skype Blog writing, "Since we launched Skype for Xbox One* in November, we've been hard at work improving the living room experience for Skype users. Today we are excited to announce the first update to Skype for Xbox One, which brings several new features . . ."
Using Skype on your Xbox One will now see improved chat, streamlining messaging between devices. There's also the new ability to filter your contacts and a new tutorial that will instruct first timers how to use Skype for the Xbox One. Plus there's new emoticons from "Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier", cool beans.!
Skype is available for Xbox Live Gold members only. If it's a service you enjoy having on your Xbox One than keep giving Skype feedback and we'll see more improvements.

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Thank you to all those who supported the principles for which I stand. What a great turn out in Carroll. We made such a difference state wide; contested elections build voter turnout! I can't express my gratitude enough to hundreds and hundreds of enthusiastic workers and supporters. Team Frazier had a great time at the polls. We saw God's favor in everything we did throughout the campaign.
God is good! In politics perception is often reality. But in reality, the truth remains:
Thank you to everyone who took a moment to lift us up in prayer; our campaign was evidence of prayers answered. He has clearly used me in many ways over the last four years and I am excited about following His will in my life as I prayerfully move forward.
Congratulations to all those who were elected to serve the people! May God give you the wisdom and strength needed to stand against ever increasing Government power as we meet the challenges ahead. Obama is still President and we have not seen the last of Martin O'Malley. Please continue to pray for our country, our state and our county. God bless you and God bless America!
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Traveling by train is one of the greatest forms of transportation in the United States. For over forty years, Amtrak has been carrying millions of passengers from point A to point B, coast to coast, on a daily basis. To keep the passengers returning, Amtrak has to "reward" its avid passengers for their continued patronage. Since being introduced in 2001, Amtrak Guest Rewards has been a successful frequent travelers' program. Passengers truly enjoy this program for the great advantages it provides. Over it's thirteen-year history, Amtrak Guest Rewards has evolved into one of the most well-recognized frequent travel programs in the travel industry. What makes this program so profitable, passenger-friendly, and "rewarding" is straight forward. Here are the top five reasons why Amtrak Guest Rewards is a must-belong-to program for avid passengers nationwide.
5) Member and user-friendly: Amtrak Guest Rewards members can easily set up their membership profile via the internet at www.AmtrakGuestRewards.com. By logging in with a username and password, members can monitor their point balance and peruse all the ongoing deals and breaking news about what's going on in the program. Members can also easily transfer, buy, and share points with other Amtrak Guest Rewards members. Unlike the airlines, Amtrak Guest Rewards is the most simple program to access via the internet. Even a person with a "one-track mind" can navigate the web site.
4) Financial Service Partners: Amtrak Guest Rewards is in partnership with Chase Bank. Passengers who do their banking with Chase and who have a Chase Ultimate Rewards account can consider themselves tremendously fortunate. They can transfer their Ultimate Rewards points to their Amtrak Guest Rewards account at a full 1:1 value. This means that 1,000 Ultimate Rewards points transfers to 1,000 Guest Rewards points.
One of the other great financial partners in the Amtrak Guest Rewards program is the Amtrak Guest Rewards MasterCard from Chase. The perks of the credit card are straight forward. The credit card allows avid Amtrak travelers to spend and earn every time, all the time. To start, cardholders earn one point for each dollar spent on everyday purchases. Secondly, cardholders earn two points per dollar on Amtrak travel. Thirdly, cardholders earn a 5% rebate when traveling on redeemed Amtrak Guest Rewards points. The forth reason is that there is no annual fee. There are even more advantages. Amtrak Guest Rewards points will not expire as long as members are cardholders. Last, but not least, Amtrak Guest Rewards offers a huge incentive. Amtrak Guest Rewards members instantly earn 12,000 points when applying for the credit card.
3) Exclusive deals: Amtrak Guest Rewards members and Amtrak Guest Rewards MasterCard credit card members are even more fortunate. There are great deals on other travel necessities, as well as with various Amtrak Guest Rewards merchant partners. Amtrak Guest Rewards is in partnership with United Airlines. Members can earn points on qualifying United Airlines flights when traveling on Amtrak to connect to Newark International Airport. Newark International Airport (EWR) is a major United Airlines hub.
There is a whole lot more to the Amtrak Guest Rewards point-earning craze. Members can also earn points when booking cruises through Amtrak Guest Rewards's partnership with Travel Store. Travel Store features the Amtrak Cruise Concierge, which members can earn at least four points per dollar when booking any cruise with any cruise line. Additional information is available at www.AmtrakGuestRewards.com/earn/air.
When it comes to shopping, Amtrak Guest Rewards credit card members are in greater luck. There are a handful of Amtrak Guest Rewards merchant partners who offer the highest points per dollar rates. Cardholders can earn five points per dollar when shopping at Macy's and Nordstrom. Moving up the list, cardholders can earn six points per dollar when shopping at Walgreens or at any Sephora location. Further up the list, cardholders earn seven points per dollar when shopping online with Fandango.com. Fandango.com is the country's largest movie ticket-selling service, servicing 15,000 screens and 1,300 movie theaters. Second to most, Amtrak Guest Rewards credit cardholders earn eight points per dollar when shopping online at Shoebuy.com. The top most recommended Amtrak Guest Rewards merchant partner is Magazines.com. Cardholders earn fourteen points per dollar when purchasing subscriptions. When it comes to the expression, "shop til you drop", Amtrak Guest Rewards credit card members truly earn a well-deserved shortcut. It is a shortcut to a free round-trip ticket or two, depending on how far Amtrak Guest Rewards members' train travel dreams take them.
2) Referral Benefits: No matter how many points Amtrak Guest Rewards members accumulate, there are never enough ways to earn points. Amtrak Guest Rewards features an incomparable referral program. Members earn 500 points for each person referred to joining the program. More importantly, those points will be earned as long as the person referred travels on Amtrak within 90 days of joining the program. To sweeten the deal, referrals are rewarded a bonus of 500 points for enrolling. Traveling by train is fun, but referring friends or family members to become a part of Amtrak's passenger loyalty culture holds a far greater value.
1) Easy to earn, easy to redeem: Unlike the airlines and their many restrictions on when to redeem miles and where passengers can fly with miles, Amtrak Guest Rewards is nearly a no-strings-attached program. Amtrak Guest Rewards members earn two points per dollar on every Amtrak ticket purchase. There is a 100-point minimum on each trip, regardless of fare. Terms and conditions apply. Amtrak Guest Rewards members earn a greater amount of points when they book a trip aboard Amtrak's Acela Express. Members earn 500 points when they book a ticket in Acela Business Class and 750 points when traveling in First Class. Members can also earn points when staying at any of Amtrak Guest Rewards hotel partners, such as Hilton, Wyndam, La Quinta Inn & Suites, and Hyatt.
Amtrak Guest Rewards is a great frequent passenger loyalty program, designed around a simple concept. The concept is to allow its members to earn free Amtrak travel fast. Traveling free from earning hundreds to thousands of points for being an avid Amtrak traveler is not the only reward. There are many others. There are also points earned from applying for and using the Amtrak Guest Rewards MasterCard from Chase. A membership gives avid Amtrak travelers the chance to earn points and participate with a variety of commercial partners. There are a vast range of exclusive deals and members-only promotions. Wherever Amtrak takes its loyal passengers, Amtrak Guest Rewards follows them in their "tracks". Whatever the routes, the hotel, or department store, Amtrak Guest Rewards makes sure that there is a free train ticket waiting down the road. More importantly, if there are friends or relatives looking to travel by train more often and want to take that train ride of their desires, referrals are well-rewarded. Amtrak Guest Rewards is a program that serves not only the train-traveler-at-heart, but also the avoid cruiser and avid spender-at-heart, too.


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News is just coming out this morning about a very unfortunate event that happened over the weekend. This happened in an area I am very familiar with and spent a lot of time as a kid. In American Fork Canyon, about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah, an 11-year old was pull from his tent and killed by a black bear. Apparently the boy, his mother, stepfather and a 6-year-old brother were sleeping in a large tent with several sections and the 11-year-old was in a section of the tent by himself.
The stepfather heard a scream about 11 pm. The boy and the sleeping bag were pulled from the tent. They found the boy's remains about 400 yards from the tent. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and the U.S. Forest Service are currently tracking the bear with dogs.
Update: Authorities have now found and killed the black bear. With 26 dogs assisting them in the search, authorities were confident that the bear that was shot was the same one that ripped through the tent shortly before midnight Sunday.
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Late Summer Blooms In Tennessee
The flowers were in full bloom and looking beautiful after weekly pruning. We've since moved to a farm and I can't wait to get gardening at the new place and planting more mums and roses. These knock out roses just love being pruned!
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Crytek wants to use existing open street map data for video game environments
Will save development and rendering time
GERMAN VIDEO GAME DEVELOPER Crytek has challenged developers to build software that can integrate open source street map data into video games in order to save development time and ease rendering of open world environments.
Though just a concept, the idea has been put forward as part of the IC Tomorrow's Digital Innovation games contest, a programme launched by the UK Technology Strategy Board, which is offering five businesses up to £25,000 each to develop innovative digital applications and meet the objectived of five prolific technology companies, including Crytek, Sony and Google.
Crytek's technical director of research and development Jake Turner spoke at the programme's launch event on Thursday, challenging developers to help integrate the free map data with existing games engines such as Crytek's Cryengine 3 Sandbox.
Turner said, "We had probably spent a year making a city in America of our games and it's taken a year to before we could actually start to play the game and experience it, involving how big that city should be, how detailed that city should be, so one of the challenges here is 'how can we do this instantly?'"
"Why do we have to use people to make a city when there's consistent open source street data out there which is very detailed, it's got buildings, lights, it's got streets - material data. Why can't we just press a button and instantly see that?"
The challenge Crytek is putting forward is for developers to built an app so that we can "instantly drop into any part of the world" and see, in 3D, data being streamed in from the open source street map data.
"One of the ultimate goals, we would like to start an office in the UK and be able to fly at the press of a button all the way to the office in Frankfurt, and drive around Frankfurt, or any place in the world," Turner added.
"Aimed primarily to purpose-make these virtual worlds based on real world environments, opened instantaneously without processing , we'd be able to see it instantly streamed over the cloud."
Turner revealed that if successful, the project could be made part of future games, where users themselves can decide which city in the world they would like to play in, simply jumping from one to another with the scenery being generated instantly for the player.
However, he did add that this is still "a very long way away". µ
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Earlier this week, we wrote about embodied energy of buildings, and the concerns it poses when we think about legislating building efficiency measures. Today we take a broader view, examining economic limitations of any technology replacement effort, from rebuilding houses to replacing lightbulbs.
Suppose that high-efficiency washing machines are a necessary part of a low-carbon economy (as we believe they must be). Government tax write-offs are an effective way to encourage consumers to spend the extra money on these energy-saving machines. If the U.S. started an incentive program so effective that every consumer chose a high-efficiency machine over a conventional one, however, it would still take quite some time to replace all the energy-hogging washers in the country. Because they are such a large purchase, the vast majority of consumers replace their washing machine only when forced to do so by problems with the old machine's operation. If you assume the average washing machine has a lifetime of around 10 years, it will take roughly that long (10 years) until every consumer has had an opportunity to buy a high-efficiency machine.
In the graph below, we show the diffusion curves for technologies of varying lifetimes. If we assume the government incentive is so strong that every consumer chooses the efficient version when they buy a replacement — We say the adoption rate is 100%. We can see the curve for washing machines (and other goods with a 10 year lifetime) above the tan strip. Starting from 0% of the technology stock, high-efficiency machines take roughly 10 years to replace conventional ones. So even with the ideal incentive program, there is still a considerable lag time during which inefficient washers are wasting energy and water.
In this simple model, there are two technologies with the same given lifespan, and each consumer has a chance to upgrade from the inefficient version to efficient only when their existing unit stops working. Once a consumer buys the efficient version, he or she never goes back (For those interested, the math is a simple Monte Carlo model). As we can see below, no matter at what percentage we start when the incentive is implemented, the time until every old unit has been replaced is bounded by the lifespan of the good. Think about the consumer who bought an inefficient machine the day before the incentive started: They won't have a chance to take advantage of it for another 10 years!
In reality, no incentive will bring the adoption rate to 100%. In the graphs below, we show the 100% adoption rate scenario alongside three others which assume 50%, 25%, and 12.5% adoption rates, respectively. A 50% adoption rate means that 50% of consumers make the `efficient' choice at their next opportunity, and 50% buy something similar to what they currently have. We can see that replacement actually happens more slowly than the upper bound dictated by technology lifespan. With washing machines, for example, a 50% adoption rate means that the stock of high-efficiency machines only reaches 90% of the total after roughly 30 years.
Let's explore what these graphs say about power consumption of washing machines. Assuming a 10 year lifetime, we can do a very rough calculation of the average power consumed by washing machines in the U.S. A conventional washing machine uses roughly .35 kWh per day if we assume one load every three days. There are roughly 100,000,000 households in the U.S., so let's assume there is one washing machine per household. Thus, if every washing machine in the U.S were conventional, the power consumed by them would be roughly:
$$\frac{ .35 \text{ kWh per day per machine} \times 100,000,000 \text{ households in U.S.} }{ 24 \text{ hours per day} \times 1,000 \text{ kW per MW}}= 1458 \text{ MW}. $$
This is on the order of the total electricity consumption of a major city! Energy Star washing machines are advertised to cut energy costs by roughly one third. Using these estimates, we can make a simple estimation of power consumed by washing machines in the U.S. for various constant adoption rates, shown in the graph below:
While these models are extremely simple, almost any technology, not just washing machines, will follow this rough characterization. In any case, consumers, utilities, governments, and other players in the climate game are likely to require extreme motivation before they would discard their appliances, facilities, and infrastructure while they could still extract earnings from their up-front investment. For technologies with longer lifespans like power-plants and houses, this restriction seriously slows the effectiveness of a policy to cut energy use. This is why in-the-know climate leaders like James Hanson of NASA say we should build zero new coal-fired power plants. Today's decisions will likely dictate the electricity grid makeup for the next 50 or 60 years!
The take-away message from this entry is that no matter how aggressively we push policy incentives to replace infrastructure, the effect will likely be delayed by the constraints of economics. The policies with greatest effect are those that take this into account in one of two ways. First, our graphs show that targeting technologies with short lifetimes is inherently a better way to quickly replace technology stock. For two technologies with similar energy use profiles, the better incentive is the one supporting that with the shorter lifetime. Unfortunately, the majority of our energy use is accounted for by long-term infrastructure: our houses, cars, electricity grid, transportation needs, etc. For these items, however, we can try to sidestep the bounds on diffusion curves through targeting parts of the infrastructure that can be replaced without significant loss of investment. Very few people will rebuild their entire house while it still functions, but many could be convinced to invest in additional insulation for it.
Second, since the barrier to these diffusion curves is economic, the most effective policies will target the technologies where significant monetary gains are possible by replacing old infrastructure. If the payback periods for new technologies are favorable and publicized, policies might just motivate consumers to make purchasing decisions which exceed the diffusion curves. We should approach this with caution, however, as there are energy trade-offs that come with replacing useful infrastructure. If you read our entry on Embodied Energy of Buildings, you know that construction and manufacturing takes energy which for some technologies is comparable to the savings from high-efficiency replacements. Just another reason why vigilant accounting is essential to making good decisions!


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The last defensive player to win the NFL's MVP award was New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor in 1986, and J.J. Watt is looking to break the long trend of offensive MVPs this season.
"Oh yeah, of course I hear it. Being a defensive player, I want a defensive player to win it, and I think I have as good a chance as any," Watt told USA TODAY Sports."
Watt is wrapping up a great year Sunday vs. the Indianapolis Colts, where he needs 2.5 sacks to surpass Michael Strahan's single-season record. He currently has 20.5 sacks, 15 passes defended and 4 forced fumbles. Yes. The guy has a point.
Yet, when it comes down to the MVP, more visible positional players like QB Peyton Manning and RB Adrian Peterson seem to get more attention, and he thinks it's not fair. "And if I'm not even in the discussion, I think it's going to be tough for anybody to ever get into the discussion again. I would love to be a representative for defensive players."
"There's obviously a strong lean toward the offensive players, which is understandable. I mean, quarterbacks and running backs touch the ball a lot more," Watt said. "But when you look at a dominant year from a defensive player, I think they can affect the game just as much as an offensive player."


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JWC TO THOMAS CARLYLE; 7 July 1849; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18490707-JWC-TC-01; CL 24: 104-106
Saturday [7 July 1849]
Now, I tell you what, Dear; you shall not write me such long letters, while you are touring. I dont say you shall not write so often, I am not so absurdly generous as that comes to—besides, with such a perfect writing-apparatus, and such a talent!—"to drive the Genii to despair"— You may manage to send me plenty of letters without much trouble to yourself; provided you make them brief—but I will not have you hurrying and worrying, to get me told all your doings, while you have so much to do— After all, the most important for me is: that you are well, and thinking of me kindly, and assured of that much I can patiently await your "reasonably good leisure"1 for the rest. I am a horrid little egoist as you know; but even in that may lie a certain advantage for the man who knows how to use it—
Perhaps I enter into your situation more feelingly from being allowed myself so little leisure to write—not one evening have I had to myself since you left! nor shall have while here! The day before yesterday I had returned—from—Sloan Street, and was just going to have my "simple repast," (the wing of a chicken), at four oclock; when Aubrey de Vere came and staid till half after five— He asked your address to send you his paper on Ireland,2 and I gave it to him as I then had it viz: post office—so you must call at the post office in case— I said to him, as one says all sorts of polite things, "farewell then, I suppose I shall hear no more of you till I find you again in London—" to which he answered with "the down" still "on the cheek of that beautiful enthu-si-asm";3 "Nay, Mrs C, that depends on you; if you will only be kind enough to send me your address in Scotland I shall be too happy to write"!—another letter of twenty four pages I can well believe! At last he went, and I sat down to my chicken—but the knocker was at it again before I had eaten two mouthfuls!— I rushed wildly into the passage to bid Elizabeth deny me—but: "It is only Mr Forster,4 not going to stay"— —"Pardon me my dear Mrs Carlyle!—I am going out to dinner—ought in fact to be sitting down to dinner at this moment!— My dear Mrs Carlyle! God bless you!—I am only come to ask if you will let me come to morrow evening? You will? God bless you! I have a thousand things to say—but God bless you—till tomorrow! &c &c &c and "eventually" exit— After this, I had a good moment on the sofa reading your second letter which was quite a surprise—two in one day! very "creditable to your head and hort"!5—then I put some of my clothes in the portmanteau—then sat down to tea, and whilst drinking my first cup John Fergus walked in!—"very dull!—it must have taken a great deal to make a man so dull as that"! yesterday my whole forenoon was cut up by Laurence—from there, I went to another Artist but of that transaction I am not going to tell you just yet—"Lord! what fun"!6 At six came—Fairie!7 and after eight Forster—actually—who staid till eleven! and that he did not kiss me when he went seemed more a mercy of Providence than anything else!— Tonight I am to have Miss Wynn and tomorrow night poor Bolte—as usual—
On Monday at three I start—having announced myself to Neuberg—but mercy! Mr Neuberg is so delighted, that as Phoebe Baillie felt with Macleay8 I hardly like to venture to him "without an escort of dragoons!" Did I send the letter he wrote for you— I have no recollection of putting it up, and if not; it is "swept into the general flood of things"! that one was kind but perfectly composed and without any poetry of expression—this to me, is—"what shall I say?"—"passionate!—upon my honour"— Poor Rome forced to "capitulate" after all!— Oh dear me twelve oclock already! and I meaning to take a fly (!!) today and leave the plate at Bath House and ask for Mrs Chorley and take a book written for by Croucher9 and do a thousand things—
God keep you—with good sleep—and good appetite and good everything
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Government Tyranny! Woman unjustly deprived of her land
Christopher Cook | August 27 2013
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Imagine . . .
- Government intentionally causes your property to flood, even though there were ways that the flooding could have been prevented.
- Government tells you you cannot build on what remains of your property or make changes to your home because your property now has "wetlands" on it (wetlands caused by their intentional flooding).
- Government continues to take property taxes from you.
If you are Cheryl Eberting, you don't have to imagine.


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SALT LAKE CITY — Local health officials confirmed Tuesday that the nationwide salmonella outbreak linked to ground turkey has reached Utah.
A Salt Lake County resident is the first reported case of salmonella related to the outbreak that began nearly five months ago.
Salt Lake Valley Health Department officials said the single case did not result in the person being hospitalized, and the person since has made a full recovery. Officials declined to provide any more information about the case, citing patient privacy laws.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture asked Minnesota-based Cargill to recall 36 million pounds of ground turkey, saying the meat was linked to the death of a 65-year-old California woman and at least 77 illnesses in 26 states.
Julia Hall, food-borne epidemiologist for the Utah Department of Heath, said the Salt Lake County case comes from a secondary DNA strain that also had ground turkey product exposure.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has yet to release the number of illnesses from that secondary strain.
Hall said recalled ground turkey products were distributed in Utah, though they since have been pulled from retailers' shelves. Potentially contaminated products include the Honeysuckle White, Shady Brook Farms, Riverside, Aldi's Fit and Active, Giant Eagle, HEB, Kroger and Safeway brands.
A complete list of recalled products is available on the CDC's website, www.cdc.gov.
"If you've purchased ground turkey, I would definitely go to the CDC website and look up the product and see if it's part of the recall," Hall said. "If you have any contaminated product in your home, throw it away."
Salt Lake Valley Health department spokeswoman Pamela Davenport said Utahns can significantly reduce the risk of illness by following simple guidelines, such as thoroughly washing hands during and after preparing food, cooking foods to the proper temperature and avoiding cross-contamination by keeping raw meat and poultry separate from cooked foods.
Salt Lake County residents are encouraged to report any suspected food-borne illness to the health department by calling 801-468-3468 or filing a report online at www.slvhealth.org.
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1. Always wash hands and work areas before, during and after preparing food.
• Proper hand washing is the most important means to prevent the spread of infection.
2. Cook foods to the proper temperature.
• Thoroughly cook meat according to recommended guidelines.
• Always check the internal temperature with a food thermometer.
3. Don't cross-contaminate.
• Keep raw meat and poultry separate from cooked foods.
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APLaw-school graduate and President Barack Obama suggested that law schools in the U.S. cut back to two-year programs instead of three to cut costs for students.
" This is probably controversial to say, but what the heck? I'm in my second term, so I can say it," Obama said during a town-hall event at SUNY Binghamton in Binghamton, N.Y. It was an offhanded comment that came in
" I believe ... law schools would probably be wise to think about being two years instead of three years." Obama said that law students' third year would be better allocated while, for example, clerking for a judge or working in a law firm.
The town-hall event was a stop in the four-city tour of New York and Pennsylvania over the past two days, as part of his promotion of a broad plan to lower the cost of college.
Obama attributed his thoughts, partly, to his own experience at Harvard Law School. Coming out of the school, he said he was about $60,000 in debt.
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The Hornets traded for Gray in January in exchange for guard Devin Brown. He played in 24 games with New Orleans, averaging 3.6 points and 3.8 rebounds while usually coming off the bench.
The 7-foot, 270-pound center was drafted by the Bulls in the second round of the 2007 NBA draft. He's averaged 3.8 points and 3.3 rebounds in his career.
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Survey Finds Gym Goers Waste Around 30 Percent of their Time on Non-Exercise Activities
In order to get a good and effective workout, people must stay focused on their goals at the gym. For people who enjoy a nice sweat, going to the gym might be easy and fun. For others, the gym can be a dreaded place. Regardless, people still manage to push themselves off their couches and head out for that one-hour-long or more of working out. However, according to a new survey, even though people might stay at the gym for an hour, around 39 percent of that time is spent on doing non-exercise activities.
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In this survey conducted by Harpers Fitness, which is a health and fitness facility based in the United Kingdom, researchers questioned 1,000 gym members about how they spent their time at the gym. The researchers discovered that a lot of the gym members spent time on activities that did not involve breaking a sweat or lifting a dumbbell.
The researchers reported that members spent around 21 minutes to every hour doing things that did not burn calories at the gym. The members are spending their time checking text messages, phone calls, e-mails, untangling headphones, looking through music and chatting with other gym members. Other statistics revealed more specific distractions that members had at the gym.
The researchers found that 55 percent of the participants survey wasted time to play with their iPod or MP3 devices in order to find songs that they would like to exercise to. 30 percent of gym members took as long as 10 minutes to effectively untangle their headphones. 32 percent of the members stated that they did take breaks from their exercise routines in order to chat with other members. These findings suggest that people are not exercising as much as they are letting on.
"We wanted to get an idea of what our members are spending time on at the gym - apart from exercise - and this survey has revealed some time-consuming habits," Kevin Yates, the head of fitness for Harpers Fitness said according to Daily Mail. "Your time at the gym shouldn't be spent untangling headphones, choosing music or checking your phone and we hope this makes gym-goers more aware of the time they spend exercising and the time they spend not exercising."
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Vital Signs: Economic Optimism Fades, Again
For many economists, a stronger recovery has always been just around the corner. Their problem: The corner keeps moving.
The latest Wall Street Journal survey of economists found forecasters, as the year winds down, acknowledging again that their growth expectations were likely to prove too bullish.
The October survey found 85% of economists saying the risk to their growth forecasts was to the downside, meaning growth would prove weaker than they anticipated. For most of the year, the majority of economists saw upside risks to their forecasts — the possibility of stronger growth than they expected. As recently as June, two-thirds said stronger growth than they had forecast was more likely than weaker growth.
It's part of a slow awakening this year, as it has been in prior years. To be fair to economists, surprises keep getting in the way. Forecasting a Japanese natural disaster, euro-zone debt crisis or U.S. political dysfunction is hard to do. One driver of the big swing this month: The economists were surveyed after the government shut down and as the risk of a U.S. default approached. Most forecasters cited that uncertainty as a key risk to the economy.
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"The thing that's been hard to time — and makes people in my line of work look silly — is the psychological turn that leads businesses to start hiring, leads consumers to feel comfortable to spend a bit more freely, or gotten investors more confident to make slightly more aggressive investments," said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist at Northern Trust, said in Monday's Outlook column.
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USADA is coming to Colorado Racing
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It was announced at the Local Associations of USAC meeting last weekend that USADA is developing a testing program that will provide education and testing resources of athletes at the amateur level of cycling and that program will be coming to Colorado in 2013. The program was piloted in the Florida area already where apparent drug usage was high and so high that some could say that Florida is leading the effort to clean up amateur racing by creating their own Florida Clean Ride Fund. But even so, tempers are still high as earlier in September a race director in Florida refused WADA access to riders
When WADA drug testers showed up unannounced at the 2012-13 Florida State Championship Series last weekend, race promoter Dave Bergen refused to allow the technicians to collect samples because "he had no prior warning or notification" and he had "never seen dope testing conducted" for a local amateur event.
USADA will be showing up to at least one high profile race in 2013 according to Chris McGee. While Colorado may not be apparently as bad as Florida it has had it share of suspensions and one high profile suspension of Chuck Coyle ends this month.
Here is more information on the matter from the ACA webpage on the matter
We had the opportunity to meet with USADA's Andrew Morrison, Sport Testing and Resources Director, last weekend at the USA Cycling Local Association Summit in Colorado Springs. Our conversation focused on how to both educate our athletes, and how to best provide testing and deterrents to ensure that our athletes are competing on a clean, fair playing field. It is important to note that ALL athletes at USAC events are subject to both in- and out- of competition testing by USADA.
USAC is building a Local Association Anti-Doping Program, which will coordinate efforts, help target testing by USADA, and provide funding for LAs to bring USADA presence to local events. At this time, cycling is the only Olympic sport in the USA that is working on this sort of program.
It is important to point out that this is made possible by the ACA and their new relationship with USAC
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Did anyone notice that USADA
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Did anyone notice that USADA was at Boulder Cup? I think the local program is more likely to test the SM Open, SW Open, or SM 35+ than it is SM 4/5 or SW 4.
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Glad to see it!
Submitted by Mahting Putelis (not verified) on
I am really glad to see this coming to races near us. I hope the dopers will shy away from using drugs to win races. There will certainly be challenges for the lower categories, and hopefully USAC and our local association will be able to help with those challenges. I believe the pro level is so infested with doping that I chose not to invest my energy in hoping for change there. However I want to participate in a clean sport at the level that I race at. So I will help with the challenges that may come so we can race on a level playing field.
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Seems kind of rediculous and
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Seems kind of rediculous and a waste of $$$$.
Evan Travis says that testing is worthless.
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Agree, cheaper to let the dopers continue
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
[Borat's voice] It be a much cheaper to let the dopers continue.... NOT
USADA has Joe's list and Florida and Colorado are at the top so they are going to crack down and the ACA is helping them clean up
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They are going to crack
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They are going to crack down?
Haven't we heard this for 3,4, 6, 8 years? Seems like forever. Its just like when they investigated the Rock racing guy, 2-3 questions about him and then they start asking about Lance. Oh wait, they have Lance now (BUT NOT DUE TO DRUG TESTING) so they can finally turn their attention to others?
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And what about Amendment 64?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
What a mess.
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Who is going to pay for testing?
Submitted by Knower (not verified) on
$4000 a race to get USADA to come test. 7 or 8 riders.
Do the racers pay? promoter? +10 a racer at most races
USAC? - good use of the $60 license fee.
BRAC? - They still made $35K after going back to USAC this year and now have $300,000 in the bank. What else are they going to do with the money?
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Let's get a list going.
Submitted by You know who yo... (not verified) on
Come on guys. Now that the election is over lets start a witch hunt here...
We all know at least 1 or 2 guys you have to wonder about.
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I'm all for testing for the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
I'm all for testing for the real PEDs (ie EPO). But the testing for all the other crap that doesn't do squat but could get you either in trouble at work or ostracized by the local cycling community is somewhat of a concern.
Also I know it's possible to podium (and occasionally win) in master's 1/2 races completely clean (and sometimes slightly hungover) so if there is widespread doping going on in the masters races, you guys need to get better stuff.
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Chain of events
Submitted by Tom Fiorillo (not verified) on
Ok, so now I need to train harder so I can race faster so I can win a few races so I will become a suspected cheat so I will get tested so that I can pass said tests and prove that I am not one of those "at least 1 or 2 guys you have to wonder about".
Whew! Look at the bright side, if we ALL did this, the level of racing in the amatuer ranks where we are subject to testing should go up, right? I figure the day I'm asked to take a drug test is the day I have finally made it no matter how level the playing field is. BRING IT!
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Who would win in a fight? Fans have been talking about this concept forever. It doesn't matter if it's a comic book hero, celebrity, game hero, or even someone's dad. And the Final Fantasy franchise is no different. It took Square Enix a long time, but in 2009 nerd prayers were answered in the form of Dissidia: Final Fantasy for the PSP.
Now Square, prior to the merger, was no stranger to fighting games. Tobal No. 1 was an original game that launched close to the launch of the first PlayStation in 1995. The other, Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring, came several years later and featured several Final Fantasy VII characters like Tifa and Cloud. Both of these games weren't very good, which may have been the reason Square put fighting games on hold. Fast forward about ten years later and Square Enix tried again.
To those unaware, the game is about a Goddess who has summoned the heroes from Final Fantasy in order to combat the evil entity Chaos and the villains from the series. Players chose a character and battled through various clones of heroes and villains until facing up against their nemesis at the end. For example, Terra fought Kefka and Zidane battled against Kuja. Characters leveled up, learned new moves, and could equip gear. And every hero was different. Terra was great at long range while Zidane was great at close combat. It was a little hard to get used to and it may be a bit complex for its own good, but it's still fun given the time.
More so than a fighting game, Dissidia was a celebration of the Final Fantasy series. It was packed full of treasures from the series, featuring new and remixed beloved tracks from Final Fantasy, art, facts, and more. While it may lie dormant for now, hopefully this 5th anniversary will nudge Square Enix to reboot this franchise for the PS Vita, or perhaps even better the PS4. For now, bust out that old PSP and give these heroes another fight to remember.
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With Storms Nearing, Where Are the Buses?
Jeff Opdyke in Baton Rouge, La. reports:
Govs. Jindal, Perry plan to skip Republican National Convention:
With evacuations getting underway along the Gulf Coast, Louisiana has already faced its first logistical snafu: a contractor that promised to deliver 700 busses has so far only provided 289 and has failed to meet certain timelines, Gov. Bobby Jindal said at a press conference Friday afternoon. Mr. Jindal said the state quickly found another contractor to provide 200 busses and found 100 additional school busses. "We will have enough capacity to meet demand," he said.
The original contractor, Mr. Jindal said at a press conference Friday afternoon, "is still saying it will get adequate busses, but we're not content to wait. We don't want to rely on that."
Meanwhile, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said voluntary evacuations from the city by bus would begin Saturday morning at 8 a.m.
Mr. Jindal, once considered a potential running mate for Sen. John McCain, said he would not attend the Republican National Convention. About two million South Louisianans are at risk from this storm, he said. "My job is to be here to lead evacuation and preparation efforts — and hopefully not recovery efforts," he said. Texas Gov. Rick Perry also said Friday that he plans to stay home from the convention.
As of Friday afternoon, 19 Louisiana parishes had declared states of emergency, Mr. Jindal said. Many coastal parishes have already activated evacuation plans today in hopes of getting as many residents as possible out of low-lying, flood-prone areas before officials turn state highway traffic in one direction on Sunday morning to speed up evacuations. Depending on the speed of the storm, the so-called highway contra-flow could begin as early as Saturday afternoon.
Louisiana has tow contra-flow models–one for the southeast corner of the state, and one for the southwest. Because of Gustav's currently projected path, the state has activated both plans simultaneously, a first for the state.
Mr. Jindal said National Hurricane Center officials told him in a call Friday afternoon that Gustav could blow up into a Category 3 or 4 storm. Tropical storm-force winds could begin buffeting Louisiana's coastal parishes as early as 4 a.m. Monday, and 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. in New Orleans.


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Saudi Women Finally Allowed to Compete in the Olympics
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Saudi Arabia has finally approved the participation of its lady athletes in international competitions, like the upcoming London Olympics.
This shocking decision came just a few months after the insistent denial statement of the Saudi Olympic Committee chairman that Saudi women will NOT be participating in the Olympics.
It's said that the decision to allow Saudi women to compete is backed by King Abdullah. The decision is final, and is a huge welcome and a boost of respect to Saudi women.
Only problem now is to find Olympic level female Saudi athletes, there might not be any of Olympic calibre. The time to the London Olympics is very short, which makes it hard to train Saudi women athletes to compete at an Olympic standard in such a short time span. But we're sure to see them competing in future Olympics and competitions.
However, there might be one single Saudi female athlete who probably would be able to participate in the London Olympics after all. Dalma Malhas is an international Equestrian star, who has competed in the Youth Olympics in Singapore at the beginning of this year. She's a US born Saudi of Palestinian origin, with a long history of Equestrian training. She has already been personally invited by the IOC to participate in London (even before Saudi Arabia approved), so she's very well familiar with the IOC rules and horse-guidelines.
We wish Dalma & Saudi Arabia the best of luck in the London Olympics, but can't stop ourselves from feeling broken-hearted over Kuwait not participating in them.
Update: Al-Qabas reported that Dalma will not be able to participate at the london Olympics due to an injury to her riding horse, and the deadline to register any changes\horses has already passed. Al-Qabas also reported that other Female athletes will represent Saudi in London, though it didn't name the athletes yet.


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The Carolina Master Chorale will be holding auditions for new singers on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:00 to 8:00pm during the month of August. Afternoon appointments can be made if needed. The Chorale is especially recruiting tenors and basses, but all are encouraged to audition. It is not necessary to bring a prepared piece of music, but you may if you desire.
The location is First United Methodist Church, 901 North Kings Highway in Myrtle Beach. The auditions are held in the building on 9th Avenue North at the rear corner of the church building. Please call (843) 444-5774 to schedule your private audition.


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Aimee Mann and Ted Leo are The Both. For the last couple years the two that comprise The Both have been involved in a cross-country collaboration which finally brought about the self-titled album which dropped on tax day of 2014. They are now on tour in support of that album and will be bringing their roadshow to City Winery Napa on Wednesday, June 11, 2014.
Mann, once the singer of the 'Til Tuesday, has released seven solo albums since the dissolution of that band in the early 90s. Over the course of her career she has been nominated for both an Oscar and a Grammy for her soundtrack work on the Paul Thomas Anderson film, Magnolia and she has appeared in the wildly popular Portlandia as a cleaning woman version of herself. Her somewhat off-kilter skills as a songstress have kept Mann in the spotlight long after most of us have forgotten the words to Voices Carry.
Leo, a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, has been in a long string of punk and indie rock bands throughout the 90s, most notably Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and started collaborating with Mann while on a joint concert tour back in 2012. The nexus that ultimately formed The Both took place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin when he was the opening act for Mann. Since then, the two have built a highly-anticipated full length album and are about to embark on a U.S. and Canada tour.
Tickets to see The Both are on sale now and range from $35 to $45 and can be purchased through the City Winery Napa website by clicking here. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 8. City Winery Napa at the Historic Napa Valley Opera House is located at 1030 Main Street, right in the middle of downtown Napa.


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THE MAXWELL DAILY READER365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You
By JOHN C. MAXWELL
Thomas NelsonCopyright © 2007 John C. Maxwell
All right reserved.
Chapter OneJANUARY
1. Take Care of the Little Things
2. The Instrument of Leadership
3. Discernment
4. You Are Your Lens
5. Put People in Their (Right) Place
6. Character Is Everything
7. The Law of Influence
8. Point Out People's Strengths
9. The Power of Focusing
10. Charting the Course
11. The Law of Priorities
12. People Need to Know They Helped
13. Control What's In You
14. Leaders See Within the Larger Context
15. Be Impressed, Not Impressive
16. Manage Your Attitude Daily
17. The Law of Connection
18. Take Time to Understand People
19. The 30-Second Rule
20. Develop Relationships Before Starting Out
21. The Value of Time
22. Enlarging Others
23. Overcoming Barriers to Empowerment
24. Leaders Cannot Rise above the Limitations of Their Character
25. Vision
26. Everyone Influences Someone
27. The Heart of Leadership
28. Act Yourself into Changing
29. Let People Know You Need Them
30. Steer a Course
31. Growing to Your Potential
When I teach at a conference or go to a book signing, people sometimes confide in me that they desire to write books too. "How do I get started?" they ask.
"How much writing do you do now?" I ask in return.
Some tell me about articles and other pieces they are writing, and I simply encourage them; but most of the time they sheepishly respond, "Well, I haven't really written anything yet."
"Then you need to start writing," I explain. "You've got to start small and work up to it."
Leadership is the same. You've got to start small and work up to it. A person who has never led before needs to try to influence one other person. Someone who has some influence should try to build a team. Just start with what's necessary.
St. Francis of Assisi said, "Start doing what is necessary; then do what is possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." All good leadership begins where you are. It was Napoleon who said, "The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves." The small responsibilities you have before you now comprise the first great leadership conquest you must make. Don't try to conquer the world until you've taken care of things in your own backyard.
—The 360° Leader
What one small, specific leadership step can you take today?
John W. Gardner observed, "If I had to name a single all-purpose instrument of leadership, it would be communication." Perhaps you are familiar with my books on leadership; then you know that I believe everything rises and falls on leadership. What I haven't mentioned before is that leadership rises and falls on communication.
If you lead your team, give yourself these standards to live by as you communicate to your people:
1. Be consistent. Nothing frustrates team members more than leaders who can't make up their minds. One of the things that won the team over to Gordon Bethune when he was at Continental was the consistency of his communication. His employees always knew they could depend on him and what he said.
2. Be clear. Your team cannot execute if the members don't know what you want. Don't try to dazzle anyone with your intelligence; impress people with your straightforwardness.
3. Be courteous. Everyone deserves to be shown respect, no matter what the position or what kind of history you might have with him. By being courteous to your people, you set the tone for the entire organization.
Never forget that because you are the leader, your communication sets the tone for the interaction among your people. Teams always reflect their leaders. And never forget that good communication is never one-way. It should not be top-down or dictatorial. The best leaders listen, invite, and then encourage participation.
—The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork
Be aware today that your communication is setting the tone with the people you lead.
Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought. Discernment is an indispensable quality for any leader who desires to maximize effectiveness. It helps to do several important things:
1. Discover the Root Issues. Leaders of large organizations must cope with tremendous chaos and complexity every day. They are never able to gather enough information to get a complete picture. As a result, they have to rely on discernment to see a partial picture, fill in the missing pieces intuitively, and find the real heart of a matter.
2. Enhance Your Problem Solving. If you can see the root issue of a problem, you can solve it. The closer a leader is to his area of gifting, the stronger his intuition and ability to see root causes. If you want to tap into your discernment potential, work in your areas of strength.
3. Evaluate Your Options for Maximum Impact. Management consultant Robert Heller has this advice: "Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough." Discernment isn't relying on intuition alone, nor is it relying only on intellect. Discernment enables you to use both your gut and your head to find the best option.
4. Multiply Your Opportunities. People who lack discernment are seldom in the right place at the right time. Although great leaders often appear to be lucky to some observers, I believe leaders create their own "luck" as the result of discernment, that willingness to use their experience and follow their instincts.
—The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader
Use discernment today to position yourself and your team so that they can succeed.
Who you are determines the way you see everything. You cannot separate your identity from your perspective. All that you are and every experience you've had color how you see things. It is your lens. Here's what I mean:
A traveler nearing a great city asked an old man seated by the road, "What are the people like in this city?"
"What were they like where you came from?" the man asked.
"Horrible," the traveler reported. "Mean, untrustworthy, detestable in all respects."
"Ah," said the old man, "you will find them the same in the city ahead."
Scarcely had the first traveler gone on his way when another stopped to inquire about the people in the city before him. Again the old man asked about the people in the place the traveler has just left.
"They were fine people: honest, industrious, and generous to a fault," declared the second traveler. "I was sorry to leave."
The old man responded, "That's exactly how you'll find the people here."
The way people see others is a reflection of themselves: If I am a trusting person, I will see others as trustworthy. If I am a critical person, I will see others as critical. If I am a caring person, I will see others as compassionate.
If you change yourself and become the kind of person you desire to be, you will begin to view others in a whole new light. And that will change the way you interact in all of your relationships.
—Winning with People
Be aware of your "lens" today as you interact with others.
Moving someone from a job they hate to the right job can be life changing. One executive I interviewed said he moved a person on his staff to four different places in the organization, trying to find the right fit. Because he'd placed her wrong so many times, he was almost ready to give up on her. But he knew she had great potential, and she was right for the organization. Finally, after he found the right job for her, she was a star!
Because this executive knows how important it is to have every person working in the right job, he asks his staff once a year, "If you could be doing anything, what would it be?" From their answers, he gets clues about any people who may have been miscast in their roles.
Trying to get the right person in the right job can take a lot of time and energy. Let's face it. Isn't it easier for a leader to just put people where it is most convenient and get on with the work? Once again, this is an area where leaders' desire for action works against them. Fight against your natural tendency to make a decision and move on. Don't be afraid to move people around if they're not shining the way you think they could.
—The 360° Leader
Look for clues that someone on your team could be better placed.
What makes people want to follow a leader? Why do people reluctantly comply with one leader while passionately following another to the ends of the earth? What separates leadership theorists from successful leaders who lead effectively in the real world? The answer lies in the character qualities of the individual person.
My friend, do you know whether you have what it takes to become a great leader, the kind who attracts people and makes things happen? I mean, if you took the time to really look at yourself deep down, would you find the qualities needed to live out your boldest dreams, the ones so big that you've never shared them with anybody? That's a question each of us must have the courage to honestly ask—and answer—if we want to achieve our real potential.
—The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader
Cultivate the character qualities necessary to be a successful, passionate leader.
The true measure of leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.
The proof of leadership is found in the followers. So why do some people emerge as leaders while others can't influence no matter how hard they try? I believe that several factors come into play:
1. Character—who they are
2. Relationships—who they know
3. Knowledge—what they know
4. Intuition—what they feel
5. Experience—where they've been
6. Past Success—what they've done
7. Ability—what they can do
I love the leadership proverb that says, "He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk." If you can't influence people, then they will not follow you. And if people won't follow, you are not a leader.
—The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Are people following you, or are you only taking a walk?
People often make a mistake in their personal development when they focus too much on their weaknesses. As a result, they spend all their time trying to shore up those weaknesses instead of maximizing the strengths they possess. Similarly, it's a mistake to focus on the weaknesses of others. The self-proclaimed "experts" who spend their time telling others what's wrong with them never win with people. Most people simply avoid them.
Instead, we need to focus on finding people's strengths and pointing them out. Most people have strengths that they rarely get to use. Those strengths may be job skills, knowledge, general abilities, personality characteristics, or other attributes. I once read an interesting fact based on research, saying that every person can do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people. Think about that! You possess an ability that can't be matched by anyone in your town or neighborhood ... or in your college or university ... or in your company or maybe even in your industry.
Have you discovered that ability? If so, you are probably well on your way to pursuing your life's purpose. If you haven't, wouldn't you love it if someone came alongside you and pointed it out? How would you feel about that person? I bet you'd be pretty grateful.
Why not try to become that kind of person in someone else's life? When you do, you just might be helping others to discover the thing God created them to do.
—25 Ways to Win with People
Point out a great strength of someone in your life today.
What does it take to have the focus required to be a truly effective leader? The keys are priorities and concentration. A leader who knows his priorities but lacks concentration knows what to do but never gets it done. If he has concentration but no priorities, he has excellence without progress. But when he harnesses both, he has the potential to achieve great things.
I frequently meet people in leadership positions who seem to major in minor things. So the important question is, How should you focus your time and energy?
Effective leaders who reach their potential spend more time focusing on what they do well than on what they do wrong. To be successful, focus on your strengths and develop them. That's where you should pour your time, energy, and resources.
Growth equals change. If you want to get better, you have to keep changing and improving. That means stepping out into new areas. If you dedicate time to new things related to areas of strength, then you'll grow as a leader. Don't forget: in leadership, if you're through growing, you're through.
Nobody can entirely avoid working in areas of weakness. The key is to minimize it as much as possible, and leaders can do it by delegating. For example, I delegate detail work to others. A team of people handles all the logistics of my conferences. That way when I'm there, I stick to the things I do best, such as the actual speaking.
—The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader
Set your priorities and focus on your strengths today.
Nearly anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Before leaders take their people on a journey, they become navigators and go through a process in order to give the trip the best chance of being a success:
Navigators Draw on Past Experience: Most natural leaders are activists. They tend to look forward—not backward—make decisions, and move on. But for leaders to become good navigators, they need to take time to reflect and learn from their experiences.
Navigators Examine the Conditions Before Making Commitments: Good navigators count the cost before making commitments for themselves and others. They examine not only measurable factors such as finances, resources, and talent, but also intangibles such as timing, morale, momentum, culture, and so on.
Navigators Listen to What Others Have to Say: No matter how good a leader you are, you yourself will not have all the answers. That's why top-notch navigators gather information from many sources.
Excerpted from THE MAXWELL DAILY READER by JOHN C. MAXWELL Copyright © 2007 by John C. Maxwell. Excerpted by permission of Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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The hangar doors have closed on Oshkosh EAA AirVenture for another year with over 500,000 visitors having passed through the gates. Gizmag's airshow highlights coverage earlier this week hardly scratched the surface of the 1000's of gorgeous flying machines on site, so here's a closer look at the sights on offer at one of the world's biggest aviation gatherings.Read More
At the recent grand opening for Disney World's new theme park expansion, New Fantasyland, spectators were greeted with a visit from a surprise guest: a giant, fire-breathing dragon. From the ground, onlookers watched as the mechanical beast soared through the sky, flapping its wings, roaring as it moved its head, and shooting fireworks out of its mouth.Read More
Imagine that you are flying along in your own aircraft when, suddenly, the engine stops. Now what? In a logical extension of the technologies now available, Laminar Research's Austin Meyer and avionics outfit Vertical Power have come up with a system designed to comprehensively answer that question by locating your best emergency runway option and getting you safely there - the VP-400.Read More
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With most of New Orleans pumped dry and businesses beginning to clean up after Hurricane Katrina, one of the city's musical gems has decided to come back home … for one day, anyway.
Last month, organizers announced that they would move the seventh-annual Voodoo Music Experience to Memphis' Tom Lee Park (see "Voodoo Music Experience Relocates From New Orleans To Memphis" ). Now organizers say that they will split the festival into two parts, with the first night's show (October 29) taking place in New Orleans, and the second (October 30) in Memphis. The concert will be the first full-scale, large entertainment event within city limits since the disastrous hurricane and subsequent flood hit the city on August 29.
According to a message posted on the show's official Web site, the shows will be focused on "Two cities united with a common goal: to celebrate and renew the city of New Orleans. As a sign of support and rebirth as New Orleans begins to rebuild, this observance of music will bring together the diversity of culture that serves as the foundation for both cities."
The invitation-only New Orleans show at Riverview Park will celebrate the efforts of those who've worked on the cleanup and recovery efforts in the city for the past six weeks. Previous ticket holders will be welcomed to the New Orleans show, along with police, firefighters, National Guard, military and others who've worked on restoring the city.
"In the course of the past few weeks, the outpouring of support from not only the music industry, but from people from all walks of life, who want to come together to celebrate New Orleans has been tremendous," festival producer Stephen Rehage said in a statement. "The ability to move forward in two cities — with so much music history — is overwhelming to everyone involved with this year's event. We want to thank all the artists who have shown their support by honoring their commitment to this historic event. We all look forward to making this weekend one to remember."
The festival was originally scheduled to take place over Halloween weekend in New Orleans' City Park. When Katrina hit, organizers moved the entire show to Memphis, but they had a change of heart when community leaders in New Orleans approached them about moving the show back for a day as a tribute to the relief workers. Proceeds from the festival will benefit the New Orleans Restoration Fund as well as Mercy Corps, Habitat for Humanity and other local organizations working to restore the city's famed cultural heritage.
The New Orleans bill will feature Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Digable Planets, the Bravery, New York Dolls, LCD Soundsystem, the Secret Machines, H.I.M., Sevendust, VHS or Beta, the Rebirth Brass Band and more than 20 other acts.
The Memphis show will take place at AutoZone Park and feature Cake, the North Mississippi Allstars, the Decemberists, New York Dolls, Better Than Ezra, VHS or Beta, Sevendust, Cowboy Mouth, H.I.M., World Leader Pretend and the Giraffes.
Memphis will also host a series of free downtown concerts beginning on October 27 and continuing through the weekend; lineups for those shows have not yet been announced. In addition, such New Orleans legends as Dr. John and the Neville Brothers will play special New Orleans-themed concerts on the city's Beale Street.
To find out what you can do to help provide relief to victims of Katrina, head to think MTV's hurricane relief page.


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BOULDER – The University of Colorado women's tennis team dropped its second match in as many days, falling to No. 4 Stanford, 7-0, Monday afternoon at the Rocky Mountain Tennis Center (Millennium Hotel Harvest House).
The match originally scheduled to play outdoors was rescheduled Sunday night to be played indoors due to the inclement weather in Boulder.
CU drops to 7-10 overall and 0-6 in the Pac-12 Conference, while the Cardinal, the defending NCAA Champion, remain unbeaten at 11-0 and 3-0 in the conference. Dating back to last season, Stanford has now won 18-straight matches, including all six from last year's NCAA Tournament, where they were the No. 12 seed.
"Stanford showed us today, why they are Stanford," said CU head coach Nicole Kenneally. "I think we did a good job of competing from the first point to the last point, which we have not necessarily done from the top to the bottom of the lineup, I think today we did that.
"Against a team like that (Stanford), that may win it all again, it's only an opportunity to learn. As coaches we can talk, but I look for there to be some internal wisdom taken from each player in a match like this, that's going to move them forward, whether it's their last season or first semester."
Stanford is now 6-0 all-time against the Buffaloes with three of them coming in conference play. The Cardinal is well-represented in the national rankings, all six singles players are ranked from No. 2 thru No. 40, all won in straight sets.
The Buffaloes ranked No. 64 nationally have now lost six straight matches, all in conference play. Today for the second straight match played without sophomore Alex Aiello (19 singles wins) and freshman Nuria Ormeño Ruiz (18 wins) due to injuries.
Playing in the most competitive conference in the country where 10 of the 11 schools that sponsor women's tennis are nationally ranked, the Buffaloes have endured the toughest four-match stretch over the last two weeks. Top-ranked UCLA, No. 4 Stanford, No. 10 USC, and No. 16 California have all visited Boulder. Monday's match against the Cardinal was the fourth straight match were CU failed to secure a team point, the longest stretch without a point in school history.
Colorado closes the non-conference portion of the schedule with its home finale against Tulane this Friday at the South Campus Courts at 11 a.m. The Buffaloes are 7-4 in non-conference play this season and will attempt to even their record all-time against the Green Wave at 1-1. CU/Tulane have not played one another since 1983.
No. 4 Stanford 7 No. 64 Colorado 0
Stanford (11-0, 3-0 Pac-12), CU (7-10, 0-6 Pac-12)
Rocky Mountain Tennis Center
March 23, Boulder
1d) (17) Ahn/Zhao (Stanford) vs. Steur/Tiefel (CU) 7-3 (did not finish)
2d) (27) Davidson/Tsay (Stanford) def. Janssens/Manzi Tenorio (CU) 8-1
3d) Doyle/Hardebeck (Stanford) def. Quevedo/Alkhovik (CU) 8-2
Order of Finish: 3, 2
1s) (2) Kristie Ahn (Stanford) def. Julyette Steur (CU) 6-2, 6-1
2s) (39) Krista Hardebeck (Stanford) def. Winde Janssens (CU) 7-6(5), 6-0
3s) (29) Carol Zhao (Stanford) def. Carla Manzi Tenorio (CU) 6-1, 6-1
4s) (27) Taylor Davidson (Stanford) def. Ashley Tiefel (CU) 6-1, 6-4
5s) (40) Ellen Tsay (Stanford) def. Dhany Quevedo (CU) 6-2, 6-2
6s) (34) Caroline Doyle (Stanford) def. Vitaliya Alkhovik (CU) 6-4, 6-2
Order of Finish: 3, 1, *2, 4, 5, 6


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Sun ClusterTools 8.1 released
By Vtatkar-Oracle on Nov 18, 2008
Sun ClusterTools 8.1 is Sun's high-performance MPI library and parallel job launcher based on Open MPI 1.3 . It is fully supported by Sun and includes all features introduced in CT 8.0 earlier this year (the first release to support Linux as well as Solaris), plus with 8.1 we have introduced additional MPI application profiling and Dtrace provider support, as well as key bugfixes.
Some of the significant features are:
- Support for Linux (RHEL 4&5, SLES 9&10), Solaris 10, OpenSolaris
- Support for Sun Studio compilers on Solaris and Linux, plus the GNU/gcc toolchain on Linux
- MPI profiling support with Sun Studio Analyzer (see SSX 11.2008), plus support for VampirTrace and MPI PERUSE
- Infiniband multi-rail support
- Mellanox ConnectX Infiniband support
- DTrace provider support on Solaris
- Enhanced performance and scalability, including processor affinity support
- Support for InfiniBand, GbE, 10GbE, and Myrinet interconnects
- Plug-ins for Sun Grid Engine (SGE) and Portable Batch System (PBS)
- Full MPI-2 standard compliance, including MPI I/O and one sided communication