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The 2016 Agenda will be provided soon. In the meantime, please review the 2015 agenda to get an idea of the speakers and topics you can expect to see this July!
Day One: Tuesday, February 10th
Day One kicks off with a quick introduction by Raquel Vélez and then jumps right into the first NodeTalk. This is followed by panels on Deploying Node.js Applications moderated by Daniel Shaw and several rounds of NodeTalks and presentations. The afternoon includes two panel discussions covering the topics of Deploying Node.js Applications and Securing Node.js Applications as well as a number of talks related to these topics. Day One wraps up with a focus on the Future of Node.js followed by a chance to network with attendees and sponsors with a drink in hand.
Arrive early, grab coffee, food and network with your fellow early risers.
9:00 AM Setting the Stage for Node Summit
Charles Beeler, General Partner, Rally Ventures
Emceed by:
Raquel Velez, Lead Developer, Web Team, npm
Main Stage
9:10 AM Node.js and Yahoo!
Node is used at Yahoo for an increasing number of our products and for building, testing, provisioning, and deploying them. Learn about where Yahoo uses Node, why it continues to use Node, and the practices that help us use Node effectively.
Reid Burke, Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo
Main Stage
9:35 AM Designing Node.js Applications
Designing and crafting effective Node.js applications frequently involves a fundamentally different approach than we've seen in many platforms of the past. Rather than building monolithic functional structures, Node.js applications are composed of discrete components that complement each other and specialize. We'll explore what works, how Node.js applications are different and how teams work together to create a complete application.
Moderated by:
Dan Shaw, Co-Founder, CEO, NodeSource
Jeff Harrell, Director, Engineering, PayPal
Aarthi Jayaram, Senior Engineering Manager, LinkedIn
William Kapke, Director, Engineering, Shyp
Luca Maraschi, Platform Architect, IceMobile
Siddharth Ram, Chief Architect, Small Business Division, Intuit
Main Stage
10:20 AM Integrating Node.js Into Your Ecosystem
Adopting Node.js at your company, but don't want to rebuild everything? Learn some pragmatic techniques for making Node.js play well in your existing infrastructure.
Alex Liu, Senior UI Engineer, Netflix
Main Stage
10:20 AM A Case Study of Node on the JVM Using Avatar.js
This session describes a case study and the steps for running Node.js compatible applications on the JVM against Oracle daytabase using Nashorn, Avatar.js, and JDBC.
Kuassi Mensah, Director Product Management, Oracle
Room 1
10:20 AM Enterprise IoT Systems with Node and MQTT
Node.js is the de-facto standard to implement IoT projects. In this talk we will discuss the MQTT.js library, how to use it in the client and in the browser with Websockets, and the Mosca MQTT broker which will play a central role in your new IoT architecture.
Matteo Collina, Architect, nearForm
Room 2
10:20 AM Debugging Node.js, the Double Edged Sword
When it comes to getting insight into our Node.js application we usually face a minor challenge. Tools to make this easy just haven't evolved as far as they have for technologies that have been around much longer. But if we take some time to investigate what's out there and get creative we can go much further than most of us might think. In this talk I will show practical examples how to use existing tools to do that and how we can improve on those with user land modules.
Thorsten Lorenz, Senior Software Engineer, NodeSource
Room 3
10:45 AM MORNING BREAK Sponsored by: Joyent
- 10:50 AM Joyent Workshop – Main Stage
Architecting Production
Our Node.js applications are more than the sum of their parts – no matter the topography of the company, they demand the same kind of holistic thinking. Hear these technical leaders discuss how they architect applications that meet business requirements, organizational structures, and deployment strategies to maximize the benefits of Node.js in their business.
Moderated by:
Donnie Berkholz, Senior Analyst, RedMonk
Scott Anderson, Director of Software Engineering, MasterCard Worldwide
TJ Fontaine, Node.js Project Lead, Joyent
Wyatt Preul, Software Architect, Walmart
- 10:50 AM Heroku Workshop – Room 1
Production Ready Node Architectures
Heroku is home to thousands of Node applications, and as a result thousands of architectures. In this workshop, we'll explore and demonstrate the characteristics of a production ready Node application.
Hunter Loftis, Node.js Platform Owner, Heroku
- 10:50 AM – Room 2
My Node.js has Superpowers
Find out why node.js out of the box is setting you up for failure, and what to do about it – service resilience, rethinking performance, walking in the dark, putting it all together. Expect to see real world metrics and live coding.
Stephen Commisso, Senior Software Engineer, GoDaddy
- 10:50 AM – Room 3
Managing the Change Introduced by Node.js in the Enterprise
In this session, attendees will learn about the challenges the Intuit TurboTax engineering teams faced in the adoption of Node.js and how they solved the problems of on-boarding Node.js.
Chetan Desai, DevOps Architect, Intuit
Vinay Kumar, Distinguished Architect, Intuit
- 10:50 AM Joyent Workshop – Main Stage
10:50 AM Joyent Workshop: Architecting Production
Our Node.js applications are more than the sum of their parts – no matter the topography of the company, they demand the same kind of holistic thinking. Hear these technical leaders discuss how they architect applications that meet business requirements, organizational structures, and deployment strategies to maximize the benefits of Node.js in their business.
Moderated by:
Donnie Berkholz, Senior Analyst, RedMonk
Scott Anderson, Director of Software Engineering, MasterCard Worldwide
TJ Fontaine, Node.js Project Lead, Joyent
Wyatt Preul, Software Architect, Walmart
Main Stage
10:50 AM Heroku Workshop: Production Ready Node Architectures
Heroku is home to thousands of Node applications, and as a result thousands of architectures. In this workshop, we'll explore and demonstrate the characteristics of a production ready Node application.
Hunter Loftis, Node.js Platform Owner, Heroku
Room 1
11:25 AM Building PayPal's Global Payment Experience – Take 2
Hear how one of PayPal's highly trafficked apps, the Checkout experience, was rewritten just a year after the first node.js version was created and the lessons learned along the way.
Daniel Brain, Senior Software Engineer, PayPal
Poornima Venkatakrishnan, Member of Techical Staff, PayPal
Main Stage
11:55 AM Node.js and Containers: Dispatches from the Frontier
The past year has seen an explosion of developer interest in containers. Like Node.js, containers are a particularly good match for efficiently developing and deploying microservices architectures. In this talk, we will describe our experiences using Node.js containers to build distributed systems, including difficulties that we've faced, improvements we have made, wins we have achieved and challenges that remain.
Bryan Cantrill, CTO, Joyent
Main Stage
12:30 PM LUNCH BREAK Sponsored by: IBM Cloudant
- 12:45 PM GoDaddy Workshop – Main Stage
The Node Dream, How Moving to Node.js Changed Our Team and Got Us 10x Better Scalability
In January 2014 GoDaddy started to prototype a new project using Node.js to replace the current Website Builder hosting infrastructure. The prototype did so well that today it hosts hundreds of thousands of websites and it can easily scale to tens of millions. Antonio will share the technological and cultural challenges, learnings and stats of this major tech stack transition towards Node.JS and JavaScript at GoDaddy.
Antonio Silveria, VP, Engineering, GoDaddy
- 12:45 PM – Room 1
Using Node to Put the Rapid Back into Rapid Prototyping
Find out how CA Technologies is using Node to rapidly innovate new solutions and cultivate field, engineering & customer collaboration.
Niamh Cahill, Advisor, Solution Strategy, CA Technology
- 12:45 PM – Room 2
Why Would We Ever Build a Distributed Computing Platform in Node?
bitHound developed a large scale distributed computing platform to analyze source code in nodeJS. This talk we will go over the good and the bad in bitHound learned architecting its back end services.
Gord Tanner, Co-Founder, CTO, bitHound
- 12:45 PM – Room 3
A Path Towards Securing Every Module
By increasing the surface area of both code dependencies and the authors who write that code applications need a new set of tools for identifying potential vulnerabilities. This talk will examine several techniques including static analysis to answer this problem.
Charlie Robbins, Founder, CEO, Nodejitsu
- 12:45 PM GoDaddy Workshop – Main Stage
1:30 PM Deploying Node.js Applications
Join end users and providers as they discuss techniques and tools for identifying and working through critical Node.js production deployments and how they applied these in real world application deployments.
Moderated by:
Theo Schlossnagle, CEO, Circonus
Hunter Loftis, Node.js Platform Owner, Heroku
Scott Rahner, Engineering Productivity Lead, Dow Jones
Antonio Silveira, VP Engineering, GoDaddy
Sri Viswanath, CTO, Engineering, Groupon
Main Stage
2:10 PM Security – from Server to Ecosystem
Security concerns are often the insurmountable obstacles towards meaningful adoption of new technologies. This panel will examine security related challenges including: bringing open source technologies into Enterprise environments, working with JavaScript on the server at its lowest levels, and managing a rapidly expanding community of modules. Learn how we do this without sacrificing productivity, existing workflows, or trust.
Moderated by:
Eric Braun, VP, Global Enterprise and Strategic Partnerships, Joyent
Scott Anderson, Director of Software Engineering, MasterCard Worldwide
Adam Baldwin, Chief Security Officer, &yet
Eran Hammer, Director of Node Services, Walmart
Main Stage
2:50 PM Node on the Road
This talk covers the challenges IT departments face and how Node.js has helped CAA transform its IT organization into a go-to partner for business stakeholders.
Glenn Scott, Product Development, Creative Artists Agency
Main Stage
2:50 PM Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Replicate
This talk will cover how we can make replication simpler by building specialized databases that do fewer things.
Mathias Buus, Open Source Developer, dat
Room 1
2:50 PM Node is the Integration Fabric of the Future
Al Tsang, CTO, StrongLoop
Room 2
2:50 PM Isomorphic and Reactive Applications
There is no such thing as separated client and server app in the isomorphic era, there are only environments (browser, server, IoT device etc.). One app is running on both client and server side: this the end of the SEO pain and code duplications.
Péter Márton, Co-Founder, RisingStack
Room 3
- 3:20 PM Bugcrowd Workshop – Main Stage
How DevOps Becomes DevOpsSec
All code has security bugs, but how do you ensure your development process is locked down? With a focus on Node, we'll share how to tie security into every aspect of your current DevOps process, and the keys to helping your development team produce safer, more secure code.
Coen Hyde, CTO and Co-Founder, Popbasic
Chris Raethke, CTO and Co-Founder, Bugcrowd
- 3:20 PM StrongLoop Workshop – Room 1
Getting Started with Node Process Management
Join us for a quick hands on lab to learn the best practices for managing processes in your Node apps by comparing and contrasting various npm modules suited for the task.
Krishna Raman, Software Engineer, StrongLoop
- 3:20 PM Room 2
Measuring Node.js Micro-Services
Embrace and build micro-services without fear of creating a monster!
Peter Elger, Director of Engineering, nearForm
- 3:20 PM IBM Workshop – Room 3
Mobile Web Apps with PouchDB, AngularJS, Node.js and IBM Cloudant
Learn how to build mobile web apps using PouchDB, AngularJS, Node.js and IBM Cloudant, a globally distributed data layer for web and mobile apps. Quickly integrate with Cloudant using the Cloudant Node.js client library and ease the management and deployment of your application with IBM Bluemix.
Bradley Holt, Developer Advocate, IBM Cloudant
Jeff Sloyer, Developer Advocate, IBM
- 3:20 PM Bugcrowd Workshop – Main Stage
4:00 PM Node.js at Scale
In 2013, the npm registry was the paradigm example of an overloaded and unreliable system. After 4 years of side-project volunteer support and massive growth, it was showing signs of strain. By the end of 2014, this critical component of the Node.js experience has become about as reliable as the air we breathe, with several months of 100% uptime. CJ Silverio, head of DevOps at npm, Inc., will discuss how we got from there to here, and the challenges involved in refactoring critical production infrastructure without downtime.
CJ Silverio, Director, Engineering, npm
Main Stage
4:25 PM The Future of Node.js
Moderated by:
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation
Ross Gardler, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Open Technologies
Scott Hammond, CEO, Joyent
Todd Moore, Director Open Technology and Partnerships, IBM
Travell Perkins, CTO, Fidelity
Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director of Open Source Communities, Microsoft Open Technologies
Bill Scott, VP Business Engineering, Product Development, PayPal
Main Stage
Emceed by:
Charles Beeler, General Partner, Rally Ventures
Raquel Velez, Lead Developer, Web Team, npm
Main Stage
Day Two: Wednesday, February 11th
Day Two starts with another NodeTalk followed by a panel on the Evolution of Javascript and the implications for Node.js developers followed by a series of talks covering this same theme. The morning of Day Two wraps up with a panel discussing tricks and tips for Scaling Node.js Applications. The afternoon includes several talks on the main stage as well as two panels covering the Internet of Things (yes, NodeBots will be discussed) and "Using Node without Using Node" with companies including Apigee, Red Hat and Thinking Machines (more NodeBots!). Day Two continues with a panel of CEO's from companies that have bet on Node.js as a core part of their business and solutions and finishes with one final talk before Raquel Vélez and Charles Beeler put a final wrap on Node Summit 2015.
Arrive early, grab coffee, food and network with your fellow early risers.
Emceed by:
Raquel Velez, Lead Developer, Web Team, npm
9:05 AM Node at Dow Jones
Case study on how Node.js became the de facto standard at Dow Jones
Scott Rahner, Engineering Productivity Lead, Dow Jones
Main Stage
9:30 AM Evolution of Javascript III
Advancements in Javascript are having a significant impact on Node.js development. Hear from some of the people driving these advances and learn more about how to take advantage of these changes in your development environment.
Moderated by:
Chris Saint-Amant, Manager, UI Engineering, Netflix
Brendan Eich, JavaScript Creator
Ariya Hidayat, VP, Engineering, Shape Security
Jafar Husain, Cross Team UI Tech Lead, Netflix
Yehuda Katz, Co-Founder, Tilde
Main Stage
10:20 AM Performance Profiling the Unexpected
Fred will share the surprising and unexpected things Box learned about Node.js performance, and how the Company reduced server response times by over 80% along the way
Fred Schott, Software Engineer, Box
Main Stage
10:20 AM Choosing a Node.js Framework or a Design Pattern
Investigate the use cases and criteria for choosing a suitable framework by comparing some of the popular frameworks and the design philosophy behind them.
Shubhra Kar, Director, Products and Education, StrongLoop
Room 1
10:20 AM The Business Case for Node 2015
The Business Case for Node covers five key tenets of why adopting Node is great for your business – faster innovation, improved productivity, increased developer joy, attracting talent and cost savings.
Joe McCann, CEO, NodeSource
Room 2
10:20 AM Data Science in Node
Most Data Scientists use a combination of Python, R and SQL for their machine learning modeling and analysis. This talk discusses how to use Node to analyze data, build models and ultimately solve difficult problems using the power of Javascript.
Sean Byrnes, Founder, Flurry
Room 3
10:45 AM MORNING BREAK Sponsored by: Bugcrowd
- 10:50 AM IBM Workshop – Main Stage
Debugging Node Applications in the Bluemix Environment PaaS
In the IBM Bluemix PaaS environment the default runtime is the IBM SDK for Node.js. This runtime is 100% compatible and shares the community source but adds support for additional problem determination tools. This session introduces these tools and demonstrates using them to debug Out of Memory and Crash scenarios.
Chris Bailey, Runtime Monitoring and Diagnostics Architect, IBM
Michael Dawson, Software Developer, IBM
- 10:50 AM npm Workshop – Room 1
Getting Started with JavaScript's Booming Developer Community
npm is an essential feature of Node.js (and of the broader JavaScript ecosystem), with the npm registry hosting 120,000+ packages for client and server side development. In this workshop, get a hands-on lesson in how to use npm from its creator, Isaac Schlueter, and members of the npm team.
Lin Clark, Dev Star, npm
Isaac Schlueter, CEO, npm
- 10:50 AM – Room 2
Road Trip! From .NET to Node.js
Learn about the journey a team of .NET developers took in moving from the Microsoft ecosystem (.NET, Windows Server, IIS, SQL Server, AppFabric Cache) to Node.js, Linux, Redis and Cassandra.
Stephen Commisso, Senior Software Engineer, GoDaddy
- 10:50 AM – Room 3
Going Evented with Node – How We Retrofitted Real-Time into Our Enterprise App
Learn how we used Node to turn a traditional polling-based architecture into a event-driven one by combining Node with a Python stack. See how Node can be mixed into a standard-stack application to get all the benefits of its evented architecture without rewriting your application.
Scott Persinger, Senior Engineering Director, Heroku
- 10:50 AM IBM Workshop – Main Stage
11:25 AM Scaling Business Critical Node.js Applications
Design for production from the start. This panel will share experiences from multiple viewpoints around critical decision factors, milestones, requirements and recommendations for scaling Node.js applications both technically and organizationally.
Moderated by:
Theo Schlossnagle, CEO, Circonus
Bert Belder, Node.js Core Developer, StrongLoop
Reid Burke, Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo!
Manish Vachharajani, Senior Architect, Founder LineRate, F5 Networks
Main Stage
12:05 PM Early Learnings from ES6 at PayPal
ES6 is coming and it's chock-full of really amazing features. PayPal recently started adopting certain ES6 features and Jamund will show what parts of the language they are using, how they are able to use it today and the performance impact.
Jamund Ferguson, UI Engineer, PayPal
Main Stage
12:05 PM npm for Teams: Pain-Proofing Your Team's Development Workflow
Learn how to use npm to reduce the time spent coordinating between developers on a team and prevent time-wasting bugs from being introduced in the first place.
Lin Clark, Dev Star, npm
Room 1
12:05 PM Introducing Mako: A Secure Enterprise Grade Private PaaS Implemented in Node.js
This session discusses how Fidelity Investments uses Mako, a PaaS platform implemented in Node.js, to run mission critical workloads securely.
Travell Perkins, CTO, Fidelity
Room 2
12:05 PM Intl as in Internationalization: Tools for Global Node.js Applications
Supporting a global user-base is not optional in today's connected world. One of the upcoming features in node.js 0.12 is the ready availability of the ECMA-402 "Intl" global, which will begin to bring JavaScript in line with the best practices of other development environments. This talk will discuss the Intl and related APIs, how they came to be in v8 and node, best ways to use them in your node.js applications, as well as a look ahead at the future of JavaScript internationalization.
Steven Loomis, Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Room 3
12:30 PM LUNCH BREAK Sponsored by: Heroku
- 12:45 PM F5 Workshop – Main Stage
Signed Scripts for Node.js
Node.js users want the ability to sign scripts so that only vetted code runs in production, but Node.js and JavaScript can make this challenging. We will discuss these challenges and how they are addressed in the signed script implementation for F5's LineRate products which use Node.js to extend their datapaths.
Matthew Yacobucci, Senior Software Engineer, F5
- 12:45 PM – Room 1
Universal Distribution via Node Archives
Bradley Meck, Senior Software Developer, NodeSource
- 12:45 PM – Room 2
How PayPal Built an Experience Platform Leveraging Javascript and Node.js
Hear how Node.js and an all Javascript development stack helped PayPal bring efficiencies in engineering and helped rethink and reboot product, design and operational thinking.
Sameera Rao, Sr. Manager, Business Products Engineering, PayPal
- 12:45 PM Joyent Workshop – Room 3
Industrial-Grade Node.js
Node.js is being increasingly used in business-critical production environments – perhaps more so than any other dynamically interpreted language. While this role for JavaScript might have seemed shocking as recently as a few years ago, the techniques and tooling are now established and proven. This talk will focus on how to make Node.js-based systems robust and resilient from a design, implementation and debugging perspective. We will discuss our own experiences building, deploying and debugging Node.js-based systems — and how those experiences have influenced the direction for Node.js.
David Pacheco, Software Engineer, Joyent
- 12:45 PM F5 Workshop – Main Stage
1:30 PM Evolution of Javascript (ES7)
What if you could write entire application servers without a single call back? What If writing non-blocking code was as easy as writing code that blocked? Learn how new features proposed for JavaScript 7 could make blocking and nonblocking code look nearly identical.
Jafar Husain, Cross Team UI Tech Lead, Netflix
Main Stage
1:55 PM Internet of Things
The regular internet is powered by Javascript, why not the Internet of Things? Find out how Node.js powers some of the biggest changes in how we interact with the world around us, and what we can expect from this continually developing field.
Moderated by:
Ben Acker, Senior Software Engineer, Walmart
Matteo Collina, Architect, nearForm
Jon McKay, Co-Founder, Technical Machine
Emily Rose, Senior Software Engineer, Spark Labs
Main Stage
2:30 PM Using Node without Using Node
All Node.js apps run on the standard "Node.js" implementation on top of V8, right? Not exactly. In fact, several organizations have chosen to build implementations of the core Node.js APIs that run on Java, Lua, and other technologies. In this session, several of us will explain our own implementations, how they differ from Node, why we built them, and what challenges we faced.
Moderated By:
Jacob Groundwater, Senior Software Engineer, New Relic
Akhil Arora, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Oracle
Lance Ball, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Greg Brail, Chief Architect, Apigee
Tim Ryan, Co-Founder, Technical Machine
Manish Vachharajani, Senior Architect, Founder LineRate, F5 Networks
Main Stage
- 3:15 PM Modulus Workshop – Main Stage
Deploy Your Application to Production Today
See how simple it is to take your Node.js web app and provide it to all the world to enjoy. In this workshop you'll learn how to deploy your application to Modulus, scale it globally, and catch performance issues in real-time.
Brandon Cannaday, Director of Technology, Modulus
Taron Foxworth, Software Engineer, Modulus
- 3:15 PM Feed Henry by Red Hat Workshop – Room 1
Open and Node.js: The New Language of Enterprise Mobility
For enterprise app development new open technologies and frameworks are replacing proprietary and ridged architectures. Mobile app development platforms based on Node.js provide app development toolkits, secure backend integration through mobile backend as a service and API management and the ability to work collaboratively across app projects.
Mícheál Ó Foghlú, CTO, FeedHenry by Red Hat
- 3:15 PM Heroku Workshop – Room 2
Production Ready Node Architectures
Heroku is home to thousands of Node applications, and as a result thousands of architectures. In this workshop, we'll explore and demonstrate the characteristics of a production ready Node application.
Hunter Loftis, Node.js Platform Owner, Heroku
- 3:15 PM – Room 3
Setting Node Free: Building Autonomous Applications on Codius
Codius is an open hosting protocol that makes it easy to build applications that are self-sustaining, distributed and secure. This talk will cover what developers can build and share the technical details of the platform.
Steven Zeiler, Software Engineer, Ripple Labs
- 3:15 PM Modulus Workshop – Main Stage
4:00 PM Betting Big on Node.js (Entreprenuers)
Meet some of the companies that are betting on Node.js and learn about what they are developing that will impact your organizations success working with Node.js.
Moderated by:
Jordan Novet, Staff Writer, VentureBeat
Charlie Key, Senior Director, Modulus
Joe McCann, CEO, NodeSource
Mícheál Ó Foghlú, CTO, FeedHenry by Red Hat
Issac Roth, Co-Founder, Products Officer, StrongLoop
Isaac Schlueter, CEO, npm
Main Stage
4:40 PM v0.12 and Beyond
TJ Fontaine and Reid Burke discuss the recent release of v0.12 and what the roadmap holds for the future of Node.js.
Moderated by:
Jacob Groundwater, Senior Software Engineer, New Relic
Reid Burke, Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo!
TJ Fontaine, Node.js Project Lead, Joyent
Main Stage
5:00 PM Closing Remarks
Charles Beeler, General Partner, Rally Ventures
Raquel Velez, Lead Developer, Web Team, npm
Main Stage
5:05 PM COCKTAILS Sponsored by: Rally Ventures
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Gregory Introduced as Seventh Head Coach in School History
June 6, 2014
Gregory, who arrives at Texas Tech following a four-year stint as an assistant coach at Sam Houston State, quickly outlined her plans and expectations for a Red Raider program that is coming off its fifth straight 30-win season.
"You always want to come in somewhere where you don't have to bring in talent because it's already there," Gregory said. "I played Texas Tech every year in my career, and they are filled with talented kids in every facet of the game. We have pop potential, we have speed, we have pitching, and we can play a little bit of defense. I'm grateful for what I come into talent wise and I want to just continue from there."
The Livingston, Texas native heads into her first head coaching opportunity in a familiar setting as well, with her grandmother being a Lubbock resident along with several extended family members.
Gregory was born in nearby Post, Texas, and resided in Lubbock until she was seven-years-old. It is that familiarity with West Texas and its people that was an instant draw to the position.
"I'm extremely grateful for this opportunity," Gregory said. "It may have taken me a little bit longer than they may have wanted to get me here, but finally I'm here. I'm eternally grateful to Kirby (Hocutt) and Judi (Henry) and everyone who made this opportunity for us to move forward."
Gregory emphasized one phrase throughout the press conference - aggressiveness.
"The fans here bleed red. You want to be at a place where you can put the fans in the stands. You want to create that culture that's hard to play in so when a team comes in, we can say we have vivid fans that can't wait to be part of this.
She stated her desire was to be aggressive in every part of the game - base running, hitting and pitching - as well in the daily runnings of the program. It's that type of culture she hopes to establish at Texas Tech where winning will continue for a rabid fan base.
"I will bring energy to the field. I've already done anything that I'll ask our players to do," Gregory said. "The fans here bleed red. You want to be at a place where you can put the fans in the stands. You want to create that culture that's hard to play in so when a team comes in, we can say we have vivid fans that can't wait to be part of this. You get to come in and build on what's already here with that fan support and have them continue to buy into our program."
That fan support, Gregory said, is proven with the sold out crowds that will be present this weekend at the NCAA Lubbock Super Regional held at Rip Griffin Park at Dan Law Field.
With a roster composed of student-athletes who narrowly missed out on an NCAA Regional appearance this past season, Gregory says her goal will be to upgrade the Red Raiders enough where the path to Oklahoma City and the Women's College World Series runs through Lubbock.
"With the fan support that has come out for baseball, why wouldn't you want to be a Red Raider?" Gregory said. "You sell out in less than an hour, how cool is that? We hope to piggy-back off that and be there in a couple years."

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- Spend five days in Hong Kong and Macau with this independent tour
- Experience the beauty of Hong Kong's natural wonders as you make your way to Victoria Peak on board the Peak Tram
- Explore Hong Kong's popular attractions on a sightseeing coach tour to the Aberdeen Floating Village and Stanley Market
- Discover the Portuguese influences of Macau and see heritage sites like A-Ma Temple and the Ruins of St Paul on a second guided coach tour
- Travel between Hong Kong and Macau by high-speed ferry and enjoy scenic views from the water
- An expert guide will accompany you on both scheduled sightseeing tours, providing informative commentary and fun stories about all the sites you see
- Enjoy the flexibility of deciding what to do and see during your free time from an expertly designed list of recommendations
- 4 nights of accommodation in 4-star hotels with daily breakfasts are included
What You Can Expect
Customer Reviews
Dmitry Evteev Germany
May 2014
The tour is worth doing, anyway. The organization was very good, it worked always with every guide / hotel / activity. Also there was enough leisure time to enjoy the cities by ourselves. Many thanks for smooth process of the journey!
The only thing I would maybe optimize for all travellers who arrive in Far East from Europe is the sequence/duration of the activities. Since all the flights arrive in the morning, it would be better to organize a early check-in on the first day in Hongkong, notwithstanding a potential higher price. It would give the traveller an opportunity to systemize himself/herself after a long flight and to plan the first leisure day better.
The second day - great thanks to our best ever guide Ross - is very rich on experiences, we learned much and it was optimally organisied.
The third day we experienced the same as on our first: due to the impossibility to check-in earlier in Macau we were constrained to walk around in the city with all the "cabin luggage" till 15:00. As Macau is very small and all points of interest one can see within 5 Hrs (as prooved on our 4th day there), it might be better to involve the travellers in the sightseeing tour immediately upon the arrival with the ferry: so the early-checkin in the hotel can be avoided (economized) and the day can be put actively at the disposal. In this case the day 4 can be used for leisure and the ferry back to Hongkong can be taken already in the evening of the day 4.
I strongly believe, that the described 4-day-version would be completely sufficient. An option to prolong might be offered separately.
All in all I am glad to have gained this experience with you and with Hongkong and would anytime reccomend your services to my friends. Thank you very much!
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October 2013
Hotel in Macau was excellent I can definitely recommend this trip.
May 2015
This tour was amazing!


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I have a K&D Dakota Defender on order. I see one's that have different clips.
Are the clips on the current ones short and wide or longer and thin like the MTAC's? Any practical difference between the two?
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I have a K&D Dakota Defender on order. I see one's that have different clips.
Are the clips on the current ones short and wide or longer and thin like the MTAC's? Any practical difference between the two?
I ordered mine w/velcro clips. They're great for total concealment. When I asked Kevin what size the other standard clips were, he said that they are the newer, thinner ones (ala the new MTAC clips). As for which are better, others who have used both the thinner and thicker clips have told me the thinner ones are better. I actually have the standard thin ones on my MTAC and they work well. I have never tried the older style myself though.
I really like the velcro route. You should think about going that way. Also, the standard clips turn up FS often on this board and others so you can buy an extra set usually cheap to try out or use instead of velcro at times.
Thanks. I don't need the "total concealment" tucked in thing so I didn't want velcro. Just forgot to ask Kevin about the standard clips.
I just received my Thunderbird from Kevin and it came with Garrett clips. They are thicker and wider than the CompTac... I like them but they are a bit short for longer holsters, so to speak.
Just for "giggles": I really dig the holster! Kevin did a great job and the leather is flawless! I have always admired his work and thought the Thunderbird would make a great carry for my P7... and it does!
Thanks Kevin!!!
The standard clips that Kevin provides are not the CompTac clips. He uses a different supplier for those. They are the "whaletail" style that clip over the belt. The "C" clips he provides are the CompTac brand clips. I have the "C" clips as shown in the pic below.
This is the whaletail clip that Kevin provided as his "standard" clip with my Defender.
I stand corrected on the clips I guess. I thought the newer Dakota Defenders came with the newer style comp-tac clips. Again, I ordered Velcro with mine. If the comp-tac c-clips work then I'm sure the standard ones would work. I never tried swapping my slim MTAC clips and DD velcro clips. Give Kevin a call if you need to confirm your preference.
Within the last couple of months, I ordered clips from Kevin and got the longer, thinner ones.
The way it sounds, I'll just wait and be surprised!
I think it is just supply and demand for the leather guys.. If one Kydex clip maker is out or has a long lead time they go to the next....
Now if they had the time to make their own they may always have the same clips...
I know of one leather guy that has solicited a Kydex hobbyist to make his clips. It seems to have worked out well for the two :yup: Hopefully when ordering from him you will always get the same clip...


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The National Weather Service in Amarillo has issued a wind advisory from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. today for parts of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles.
The wind advisory covers Ochiltree, Lipscomb, Hemphill and Hansford counties in the Texas Panhandle and Texas and Beaver counties in Oklahoma.
Sustained north winds of 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph are expected in the advisory area. The winds are expected to die down by sunset, the weather service said.
In Amarillo, residents can expect north winds of 25 mph to 30 mph with gusts of 40 mph to 50 mph, weather service meteorologist Kurt Buffalo said.
Trash cans, lawn furniture and other loose or lightweight objects may be blown around by the strong winds, the weather service said. In addition, patches of blowing dust may reduce visibility in some areas. Motorists in high-profile vehicles should drive with caution, the weather service said.
Temperatures will stay cool today with highs in the mid-40s, the weather service said. Temperatures will rebound tomorrow with highs in the mid- to upper 50s.


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Asus Transformer Prime now in stock in Canada
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime has supposedly been available in Canada for a while now. But we say 'supposedly' because it's been very, very hard to find one in stock at a retailer for more than a few minutes or hours. That's how much demand there is for the first quad-core tablet on the market (or how few units Asus has shipped to retailers, depending on how you want to look at it).
Regardless of the cause for the stocking issues, they've certainly been real. Today though, you get a(nother) chance at grabbing a Transformer Prime if you're in Canada. The tablet is now in stock at Future Shop.
The price is what you'd expect – $499.99 for the 32 GB grey version. You can get it online here, or in a number of Future Shop physical stores, yet if you choose the latter path, it's always a good idea to check if the nearest store has it in stock before you leave.
We're hoping that this time the Transformer Prime will stay in stock longer than usual, but there's no telling. So act fast if you absolutely must have one of these.
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To learn more about BRM, the new features added to this component of SAP NetWeaver 7.2 Composition Environment, don't miss the lecture session - Overview of Business Rules Management in SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment, by Michael Hill - http://www.sapteched.com/usa/edu_sessions/session.htm?id=209; and the hands-on session - Accelerating SAP NetWeaver BPM with BRM - http://www.sapteched.com/usa/edu_sessions/session.htm?id=240, by Jolene Jonas; Claudia Pacheco; Suresh Ranganathan; Abdul Razack
Also, available is a BPM pod. Do visit it and get to know the new features introduced in BPM/BRM components here.
To help in introducing you to BRM, we have also uploaded some articles which will be of use at the beginner's level -
· A Sneak Preview into BRM 7.2 [link]
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Most individuals feel the cremated remains of a pet they love should be afforded a resting place that can be identified by the name and dates. This is memorialization. Families find that pet urns and memorials serve a basic human need to remember their beloved pets.
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Communal Cremation
It is the process where multiple animals are cremated together. As a result, the identity of the animals cannot be maintained when the cremation has been completed. Some owners prefer this choice for their own personal reasons. If you do not want your pet's remains returned, please request this service. None of our communal remains go to the local landfills, they are lovingly spread on the shelter grounds.
• Up to 100 lbs. – $50.00
• Over 101 lbs. – $70.00
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This type of service enables an owner to have their pet cremated as an individual. It is not uncommon for owners to place some of their pet's personal items like a bed, blanket or special toy to accompany their companion on their peaceful journey. You can be assured that you will receive only your pet's remains back after the cremation.
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♦ Cremation includes a basic wooden box or ceramic urn, and your pets remains will be returned to you within 1 to 2 weeks.
♦ Express Cremation Service is offered for an additional fee of $30.00 & will be returned within (5) business days.
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BOULDER- The University of Colorado women's tennis team began their inaugural season in the Pac-12 Conference, suffering a 7-0 loss to No. 5 California, Friday afternoon at the South Campus Tennis Courts.
This was the second consecutive match the Buffaloes have played against a ranked opponent after facing No. 34 Nebraska last week in Lincoln, in which they also fell 7-0. Colorado is now 6-5 on the season and 0-1 in Pac-12 play.
California (8-4, 0-1) ranked No. 5 nationally, began the day by winning at all three doubles positions to take a 1-0 lead. Then the Buffaloes had to face five nationally ranked players in the singles competition.
Cal's Annie Goransson ranked No. 93 nationally defeated sophomore Erin Sanders 6-0, 6-0 to gain the first singles point for the visiting team. Then, No. 15 Zsofi Susanyi followed by defeating sophomore Kristina Schleich 6-2, 6-3. The match was clinched once No. 44 Tayler Davis defeated CU sophomore Winde Janssens 6-3, 6-4.
"Although it was a 7-0 defeat, I think we really made this Cal team work hard for the victory by fighting at several positions," said CU head coach Nicole Kenneally. "Our girls worked their tails off today and ultimately if we keep working hard and doing what we need to do, we will continue to put ourselves in a position to win the match."
Freshman Julyette Steur and sophomore Carla Manzi Tenorio are tied on the team with seven dual wins on the spring season, and both fought hard trying to win their eighth, but were unable to do so. Steur won her first set, but then fell 3-6, 6-2, 1-0(7) to No. 101 Anett Schutting. Manzi Tenorio forced a tie-breaker in the second set, but could not quite force a third set losing 6-1, 7-6 (1) to No. 109 Cecilia Estlander.
It was Cal's first-ever visit to Boulder and first-ever matchup against the Buffaloes.
CU continues conference play on Sunday, when they take on yet another ranked foe in the No. 10 Stanford Cardinal. The match will be played at the South Campus Courts beginning at 11:30 a.m., weather permitting.
No. 5 California 7, Colorado 0
March 9, South Campus Courts
Boulder, Colo.
1d) No. 27 Goransson/Schutting (CAL) def. Schleich/Steur (CU) 8-4
2d) Davis/Susanyi (CAL) def. Janssens/Manzi Tenorio (CU) 8-3
3d) Duranteau/Estlander (CAL) def. Anuszkiewicz/Tiefel (CU) 8-5
Order of Finish: 2, 3*, 1
1s) No. 15 Zsofi Susanyi (CAL) def. Kristina Schleich (CU) 6-2, 6-3
2s) No. 44 Tayler Davis (CAL) def. Winde Janssens (CU) 6-3, 6-4
3s) No. 101 Anett Schutting (CAL) def. Julyette Steur (CU) 3-6, 6-2, 1-0(7)
4s) No. 93 Annie Goransson (CAL) def. Erin Sanders (CU) 6-0, 6-0
5s) No. 109 Cecilia Estlander (CAL) def. Carla Manzi Tenorio (CU) 6-1, 7-6(1)
6s) Alice Duranteau (CAL) def. Ashley Tiefel (CU) 6-4, 6-3
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Ever since the vaccine for cervical cancer was approved in 2006, I've been fantasizing about what I would say to anyone who asked me about it. Yes, actual fantasizing, to the point of having pretend talk show interviews in the shower. ("Ellen, I'm glad you asked me here today.") My opinion? You don't want to have cervical cancer. You don't want your daughter to have it. If your daughter were to get cervical cancer, it probably wouldn't kill her, though it might. But it could make it hard, or even impossible, for her to have children.
I understand fears about new drugs. My life was altered by my mother's decision to take a seemingly benign medication, DES. That's why I think it makes sense that the FDA decided to recommend the HPV vaccine for girls and young women but not require it. I'm sharing my story in the hope it will help women make the vaccine decision for themselves and for their daughters.
More than 30 years ago, when I was 26, I had an emergency hysterectomy as a result of early-stage cervical cancer. I'd known since I was a teenager that it was important for me to get regular Pap smears. My mother's obstetrician had put her on DES, a synthetic hormone, to help get her through her high-risk pregnancy with me. Eighteen years later, he called to tell her that my DES exposure put me at risk for a particularly aggressive kind of cervical cancer called clear-cell adenocarcinoma.
Almost from my first Pap smear, I had abnormal results, specifically, dysplasia. Doctors have wildly differing opinions about dysplasia. My layperson's understanding is that it's a kind of mild confusion among cells that can mean nothing more than that the body is trying to fight off infection. If you get a Pap smear and the doctor tells you it shows mild dysplasia, it's probably no big deal. But because of my medical history, my doctors always assumed the worst, attempting at different times to freeze, burn, and cut out the abnormal cells.
What none of us realized was that the culprit was not DES but HPV, the virus that causes cervical cancer. Looking back, I must have been exposed to HPV in the early 1970s, while I was a student at the University of Texas in Austin. The sexual revolution was in full tilt and seemed to have the same weight and importance as protests against the Vietnam War. I wasn't aware of HPV back then, and neither was anyone I knew.
Who Should Get the HPV Vaccine?
Because HPV is sexually transmitted, one of the things that makes it difficult to talk about is the assumption that "only sluts get it." I am overstating this, but perhaps only slightly. A friend's pediatrician just told her that her daughter wouldn't need the vaccine because she "wasn't that kind of girl."
Was I that kind of girl? I did spend a couple of years behaving as if it were possible to separate sex and love, so I guess some people would say I was. Others would say that because I was a virgin until I was 18 and had pretty limited experience after that, I've got full "good-girl" credentials. Either way, it makes no difference. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the U.S. Women who are virgins when they marry and live monogamously can get the virus if their husband has had even one sexual partner before or outside the marriage.
There are many strains of HPV, and most don't create problems. Some cause genital warts, which aren't exactly a fashion accessory but aren't the worst thing in the world. Some, like strains 16 and 18, which I have, can cause cervical cancer. It takes only one moment of intimate contact to get infected, and a condom won't necessarily protect you (the virus can be found on areas condoms don't cover). I shudder when I think of all the beautiful young girls out there giving oral sex and thinking they're safe because they won't get pregnant.
By the time I was 23, I had married, moved to Washington, D.C., and started working to put my husband through law school. My Pap smear results got a little worse. My new doctor told me that if I wanted to have children, I should go ahead and get pregnant. I remember hearing it as a casual comment: Of course I would have children some day. I was young and didn't understand that my life could include absolute loss.


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Nuclear India and its nuke neighbour Pakistan have been very strategically using two parts of Jammu Kashmir that are under their joint occupation - viz Jammu & Kashmir occupied by India and Pakistan controlled Azad Kashmir.
Today there is no Kashmir nation. Kashmiris are parts of India, Pakistan and China- all the three monster occupiers who have divided and shared Jammu Kashmir as per a deep rooted conspiracy.
Kashmiris in Pakistani Azad Kashmir are coerced to work for Pakistan, forgetting about Kashmir, while Kashmiris in India occupied JK are now bonded leaders of New Delhi.
So much so, Kashmiris in both sides of the divide get offended when some criticism is made about India or Pakistan. Kashmiris in JK are more committed to New Delhi than to Sri Nagar, similarly Kashmiris in Azad Kashmir are committed more to Pakistan that their own own nation, Kashmir
One may call this a tragedy or big joke of Kashmiris.
Neither Pakistan is eager to allow Azad Kashmir to pursue an independent policy to be a part of future independent Jammu Kashmir nor India lets Jammu & Kashmir to regain independence.
Since Kashmiri Muslims in J & K fight for freedom Indian military keeps killing them while Azad Kashmiris seem to have resigned to their ill fate
Kashmiri Muslims in J & K are expected to work for Azad Kashmir while AK itself would work for Pakistan. Azad Kashmir is trying to use J&K leaders to gain freedom from Indian yoke so that both could join a destabilized Pakistan in due course.
India, maybe therefore, doe snot even think it necessary even to consider any advantage for JK in terms of independence.
Kashmiris who fight and sacrifice their valuable lives for independence stand deceived by Azad Kashmir and Pakistan by hiding the hidden future agenda for Jammu Kashmir.
While over 100,00 Kashmir Muslims have been killed by Indian military on various pretexts, including fake encounters, they do not know or say that their sacrifices are for Pakistan and not Kashmir.
One can easily get a article publisher in both Azad Kashmir and Jammu & Kashmir focusing against Kashmir but however no article can see its day in these part of Indian subcontinent is it criticizes either India or Pakistan, respectively.
This happens because of lack of faith in Allah but they are interested only in wealth and benefits both form Islamabad and New Delhi.
Obviously, leaders of India, Pakistan and Jammu & Kashmir and Azad Kashmir should be brought to justice for the crimes committed against true Kashmiris, causing their death and perpetual suffering.
Kashmiris , the Muslims, need to shed their double-speak about freedom only from India. while they do no ask for freedom from Pakistan and China.
Kashmiris, directly or otherwise, work for India, Pakistan and China and as such they lost the capacity to question them on freedom.
The Kashmiri false stance suits all three occupiers, viz Pakistan, India and China- all nuke powers trying to obtain more and more terror goods to showcase their military prowess. .
As it stands, Kashmiris have lost their nation, Kashmir, almost forever. And, unless all Kashmiris join hands to seek freedom and independence from all immoral owners of Kashmir now, there is no chance that the present statusquo would change, now or anytime in future.


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We can't catch Him with a camera or an iPhone. Although it would be a comforting photo to have as wallpaper. His deep, loving eyes, the smile with joy the fulness of which we've yet to know here beneath the stars, the meaningful expressions on each picture of His common, welcoming face. Just because we can't snap a picture of Him doesn't mean He isn't here.
His facial expressions we long for are not the only way He loves us. He died for our freedom from sin and guilt and when He did our names were carved on His hands. He dwells within us to make us smile, to talk with us, and to help us with this confusing and complex life. Irresistible He is.
Someone we are unable see or touch could be difficult to believe in. But He gave us a heart and like a babe in the womb hears mom we hear our Savior's voice and it's a comfort to us. We learn to love Him and know Him before we ever have the privilege of seeing Him with our eyes.
Without having seen Him, you love Him; though you do not [even] now see Him, you believe in Him ... (1 Peter 1:8 AMP)


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Scarlett Johansson is the newest victim of a cell phone hacker ring, joining at least 50 other celebrities whose personal photos and videos have been exposed, as stated by abcnews.com.
TMZ reported that Johansson asked the FBI to inquire how private, nude photographs, which she took herself, could have been leaked to the public.
"The FBI is aware of the alleged hacking incident and is looking into it," an FBI official told FoxNews.com after they requested for a comment about the sultry actresses x-rated photos.
One of the photographs reveals Johansson's bare backside while the second photograph is a topless self-portrait.
Other celebrities who have also been exposed like the 26-year-old Lost In Translation actress consist of: Jessica Alba, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Christina Aguilera, Vanessa Hudgens, Ali Larter, and Miley Cyrus.
It had been reported earlier this year by TMZ that the FBI was getting close to discovering the tech-savvy thieves who are thought to have broken into the personal accounts of stars' cell phones and other computerized devices where their compromising photos and videos were hidden.
If it turns out that these photos of Johansson are actually legitimate, one question remains unanswered: why would she take nude photographs of herself on her cell phone?
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Total time in space: 30.60 days.
Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. Four pilots and 15 mission specialists, nine civilians and ten military. Chosen from 2054 applicants, 87 of which screened in December 1991/January 1992. Five additional international astronauts.
The STS-96 payload bay manifest:
On May 30 at 02:56 GMT Tammy Jernigan and Dan Barry entered the payload bay of Discovery from the tunnel adapter hatch, and made a 7 hr 55 min space walk, transferring equipment to the exterior of the station.
On May 31 at 01:15 GMT the hatch to Unity was opened and the crew began several days of cargo transfers to the station. Battery units and communications equipment were replaced and sound insulation was added to Zarya. Discovery undocked from ISS at 22:39 GMT on June 3 into a 385 x 399 km x 51.6 degree orbit, leaving the station without a crew aboard. On June 5 the Starshine satellite was ejected from the payload bay. The payload bay doors were closed at around 02:15 GMT on June 6 and the deorbit burn was at 04:54 GMT. Discovery landed on runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center at 06:02 GMT.
The 15,107 kg payload consisted of:
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Discovery undocked at 1452 GMT on August 20 with the Expedition 2 crew aboard, leaving Expedition 3 at the Station.
At 1830 GMT on August 20 the Simplesat test satellite was ejected from a GAS canister in the cargo bay. Discovery landed at Kennedy Space Center at 1822:58 GMT on August 22 on runway 15, after a deorbit burn at 1715 GMT. The Expedition Two crew of Usachyov, Voss and Helms had been in space for 167 days. Discovery was taken out of service after the flight for structural inspections. Its last maintenance down period was in 1995-1996.


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NEW ORLEANS - Alexander and Ian Van Cott, twins from Unadilla, N.Y., both signed a National Letter of Intent to join the Green Wave as freshman in the Fall of 2012, it was announced by Tulane head men's tennis coach Mark Booras on Wednesday, the first day of the early signing period.
Alexander is currently ranked second in New York State and is listed 35th in the nation by the Tennis Recruiting Network. Ian is listed eighth in the state and 51st in the nation. Each twin also advanced in numerous UTSA tournaments this Fall, including Ian reaching the round of 64 in the National Championships. Alexander reached the semifinals of the UTSA Regional Tournament in Flushing Meadows, NY.
"I am very excited about Signing Alex and Ian," Booras said. "They will bring in a lot of experience and ability combined with a desire to part of our unique rebuilding opportunity here at Tulane. I look forward to helping them develop on and off the court and I know they will thoroughly enjoy their student-athlete experience here at Tulane."
The twins are both five-star recruits and played high school tennis at Unatego High School.
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BioName: Travis CarterAge: 52Hometown: Ellerbe, NCResides: Denver, NCMarital status: Married, wife Linda; son Matthew, daughter KimRacing Involvement: Co-owner, with Carl Haas, of Haas-Carter Motorsports in NASCAR Winston Cup Series; crew chief for Benny Parsons' 1973 Winston Cup championship; worked as crew chief for legendary car owner Junior Johnson; helped Hal Needham form Skoal Bandit team in 1980s before becoming a team owner in 1989.
Travis Carter entered 2002 prepared to field the No. 26 and No. 66 Fords for drivers Joe Nemechek and Todd Bodine. But Haas-Carter Motorsports was sent into a tailspin when sponsor Kmart filed for bankruptcy in January and discontinued sponsorship of the two cars. Here Carter talks about the new sponsor that brought new life to his racing career.
SCR: How tough has this year been on you personally, with everything that has gone on?Carter: Given the last few years when we've been in pretty good shape and been able to move forward, then all of a sudden to have the rug pulled out from under us before the first race, that turns everything upside down. We had a new driver on board and had brought in new people to try and improve the quality of the team and the quality of the people here. It was a big setback. It's not the first time I've faced that situation, and for me it's just created the desire to rise to the challenge and overcome it and beat it. That's the biggest thing for me personally-to try and survive and overcome that adversity.
SCR: Were you totally blindsided by the situation with Kmart?Carter: Pretty much. I think, realistically, there were some indicators by the end of last year that raised concern for us. Obviously our questions were answered that there was no reason for concern, no reason to change; but still you're skeptical. You can't ignore what you hear on the national news.
SCR: In midsummer you landed a deal with Discover, but how does that program look for next season?Carter: Obviously, we would like to continue with Discover, but we don't know that we'll be able to. I think there's realistically some opportunity to do that. They've set forth a test plan and what we do is a big part of that plan, and what they can do with the associated programs is a big piece of the puzzle. I think they're in a perfect position to keep this thing moving forward, and certainly we want to help them enhance that opportunity.
SCR: Considering the many components that go into a team, how tough is it to make it in Winston Cup?Carter: Well, running a racing business is not really a widely profitable situation. I mean, you can have good sponsors and you can keep the thing in the black. From my observation, the people who make the most money are the people who do additional marketing, the bigger merchandise sellers, and things like that. Those are the ways where a lot more of the revenue is made. Those teams that aren't big merchandisers aren't going to make a lot of money. But with the whole thing you're vulnerable to the point that you're depending on that commercial sponsorship dollar, and you're only as good as your existing contract.
SCR: You've worked with some of the biggest names in the sport. Who has had the most influence on you, personally and professionally?Carter: That's a hard question. A lot of people have influenced me. Roger Penske had a real strong influence. Junior Johnson did also, and I think as highly of Hal Needham as anyone I've ever been associated with, for a lot of reasons. He was a competitor, and he's really a good person. Driver-wise, I was young enough at the time that I learned a lot from Benny Parsons, but I also learned a lot from Bobby Allison just in a short period of time. People like that are big influences.
SCR: You've been racing for 31 years. During that time, what has been the biggest development in the sport, discounting RJR coming into NASCAR?Carter: Obviously, R.J. Reynolds' involvement is the biggest thing. Discounting that, the biggest development has been commercial sponsors in general coming in, with the change that has brought in the sport. What you see happen a lot is typical with any growth, in that it's like fighting wars, with the grunts coming in and doing the work. You look through the history of this thing and see people who invested everything they had into it, and a lot of them didn't leave with very much. But the business has grown, and as the business grows you see stronger, more affluent people want to step in and take advantage of what the other people have built. That's not in a negative way, but I see it that way a little bit. Those people weren't there to help build it. They didn't invest in it to get it going, but now they can come in and take advantage of it because it's bigger, it's popular, and revenues are up. It makes for a great opportunity.
SCR: In that same vein, are team owners like yourself, Richard Childress, and Andy Petree-guys who worked their way up in the sport-a vanishing breed?Carter: I hope not. I think it's important for the sport to maintain that. There's no loyalty in this industry, in my opinion. But I think the people who run the organization-the France family-still like to see some of their worker bees strive for the top and maintain strong roots for the thing.
SCR: That's good for the health of the sport, isn't it?Carter: I think it probably is, because there's a relationship and camaraderie there that they've developed over the years. People just coming in fresh from the outside and starting at the top have a different view of things. It's harder to be a part of the family, so to speak. There are some great people coming in. I'm not knocking them, because some have been a strong asset to the sport. Take Joe Gibbs-I mean, this guy has been tremendous for this sport, and you like to see people like that.
SCR: The bottom line is, if you have good character, you're going to be an asset anywhere. Would you agree?Carter: If you're good people, in my opinion you're welcome here.
SCR: Compare winning the Winston Cup title in 1973 with Benny Parsons to what it means to a team to win it today.Carter: That's a hard comparison for me. From a personal level, I've got to think that it was probably worth a lot more in 1973 for our group than it would be for a group that wins it today. It's probably harder to win it today than it was then. Sometimes I think you're just lucky; there's a lot of luck in this thing. But luck comes from hard work and being prepared and not making mistakes. I tell you, when the green flag flies to start the Daytona 500 until the checkered flag falls on that last event, that is a strained and stressful situation, every day and every week, and not only at the track. When you go to the shop you have to be preparing for, and your thoughts and focus have to be on, that championship. Everybody in that place has got to have that focus and say, 'Hey, we've got to do this.' Your mindset is 'we've got to have that perfect weekend,' and you have to expect that every week.
SCR: You had your first full season as an owner in 1990. How has the sport changed in those 12 years?Carter: Well, it takes probably six to seven times as much money as it did. Things have changed. The competition level has driven that up some. Some teams are capable of raising the technology to a CART level or beyond, but not at a Formula 1 level. I think controlling that end of it is something NASCAR has done. I think it's a wise thing, that they've kept their business affordable. Yeah, we can talk about how expensive it is and make it sound like it's not affordable, but it's still affordable compared to other forms of motorsports. They've managed the growth, they've managed the competition, and they've managed the construction and the development and the running of the cars, all to control costs.
SCR: What does it take to run a full season today?Carter: These things range anywhere from $8 million to $12 million.
SCR: What would you change about the sport if given the power to change something?Carter: It's easy to sit here and think maybe I would want to change something, but when you get down to it and analyze it thoroughly, I'm not sure that I could recommend changing anything. I would only say that (I would make changes) if it was something personal, and I've always tried not to look at this thing from a personal view. I try to look at it from a business view and how it affects everybody across the board. Yeah, it's easy to be selfish, but I don't think it's wise to be selfish in that regard.
SCR: Are the cars significantly safer than they were 10-15 years ago?Carter: I think some things about them are safer. There are several factors. The cars are a little bit smaller inside and smaller overall. That might contribute some, although there are those who don't believe it does. Some things concern me a little. To me, as a racer, the biggest difference is they're going a lot faster. The faster you go, the harder you hit. The turn speeds, if you measured them, are so much greater than they've ever been, and I think that's really the issue of safety, from my view. These cars are going so fast through the turns.
SCR: That's a function of what improvements?Carter: That's a function of grip, aerodynamics, downforce, better tires-better everything that makes the car grip better where they can drive it faster through the turns.
SCR: Is NASCAR doing a good job managing the growth or does it appear to you to be a runaway train sometimes?Carter: I don't think it is [a runaway train]. I think they've done a pretty good job, given all the circumstances. We have to realize they're there as decision makers but, if we stop and take into account all the people who are trying to influence them, that's a tough situation they face every day. They have to filter through all the advice they're getting from every direction, from car owners, manufacturers, and drivers-and oftentimes each one has their own little hidden agenda. That's a tough job, to look at that whole scope and make the best decision for all concerned. And I've got to tell you, even though it's easy to be critical from time to time, overall I think they've done a tremendous job.
SCR: Recently there have been complaints about the way the younger drivers are being marketed, that they are being built up at the expense of older drivers. Are those legitimate complaints?Carter: I don't think so. I think these guys are earning it. Anything new tends to get more attention. It gets more attention from the press corps, gets more attention from the fans. The fans like to see new, upstart, competitive people. Yeah, they've got their long-time favorites that they've been with if the guy's been here 20 years. He started out as their favorite and they grew with him, but I think they welcome the new ones. People like to see competition. I think the hard-core fans like to see competition and they like the young guys. They like to see these young guys upset these old guys once in a while. And I've got to tell you, I think it's healthy. I think it's healthy for this industry.
SCR: So, obviously, you think the young guys are paying their dues?Carter: Let me tell you something: When they get out there and drive one of those things around 500 miles at the level of competition and the speeds they're running, with the physical demands and mental stress, yeah, they're paying their dues.
SCR: What drivers out there today could have held their own against Petty, Pearson, Yarborough and Allison in the '70s?Carter: I'm not sure you're comparing apples to apples, but from what I see that really marks today's racing, separates it from those days, is those guys had about 5-10 competitive cars and now you've got 30. You take a race from those old days, a filmed race, and watch the competition, how close and tight they raced all day, and then look at today's races and see how tight they race all day. These guys are busy. I mean, they're busy every lap. They don't just ride around; they race somebody every lap. That's the tough part to me. Now, those guys drove hard. It's not that either one is not driving hard. They're going a lot faster today, but the car is capable of that. Those guys drove hard too, but they just didn't have that door-to-door, wheel-to-wheel-racing somebody every darn corner and every straightaway like they're doing today.
SCR: Is the game, so to speak, getting away from older drivers?Carter: I don't think so. You've got older guys who are intelligent and they've got good cars and they get up on that thing and race with these guys. They do it week after week.


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SAN DIEGO - A Jeep collided into parked cars and caused a fuel leak late Monday night in Spring Valley.
The collision occurred at about 11 p.m. at Apple Street and San Miguel Avenue. According to officials with California Highway Patrol and Cal Fire, the driver crashed a Jeep Cherokee into a car and an SUV, splitting a fuel tank on one of the damaged vehicles. A hazmat crew was called to the scene to try and prevent gas from getting into the storm drain.
The driver and her passenger were taken to nearby hospitals with undisclosed injuries. The driver was expected to face drunken driving charges.
The intersection was closed for about two hours while emergency responders cleared the scene.


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Apple's chief executive faced down criticism Tuesday on Capitol Hill that his company sidestepped billions of dollars in taxes. Apple had supporters and detractors among the witnesses and members of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Timothy D. Cook — Apple CEO
"The tax system handicaps American corporations in relation to our foreign competitors who don't have such constraints on the free movement of capital."
J. Richard Harvey Jr. — Villanova Law School professor
"In addition to demonstrating excellence in designing, building, and selling consumer products, Apple has been very successful at minimizing its global income tax burden."
Rand Paul — Kentucky Republican
"I'm offended by the spectacle of dragging in Apple executives. What we need to do is apologize to Apple and compliment them for the job creation they're doing."
Carl Levin — Michigan Democrat
"Apple is a great company. But they don't have a right to decide in my book how much in taxes they are going to pay and to whom they are going to pay them."


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Consider the smallest ordered field that contains R and does not satisfy the Archimedean property. I assume this is a much simpler construction than ultrafilters and other big caliber artillery used in non-standard analysis. Why does this approach fail?
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To perform nontrivial analysis in a nonstandard extension of $\:\mathbb R\:$ requires much more than simply the existence of infinitesimals. One needs some efficient general way to transfer (first-order) properties from $\:\mathbb R\:$ to the nonstandard extension. This is achieved by a powerful transfer principle in NSA. Lacking such, and other essential properties such as saturation, one faces huge obstacles.
One need only examine earlier approaches to see examples of such problems. For example, see the discussion of the pitfalls of Schmieden and Laugwitz's calculus of infinitesimals in Dauben's biography of Abe Robinson (lookup "Laugwitz" in the index) and, for much further detail, see D. Spalt: Curt Schmieden's Non-standard Analysis, 2001. In short, viewed in terms of ultrapowers $\mathbb R^\mathbb N,\:$ the S&L approach mods out only by a Frechet filter on $\mathbb N\:$ instead of a free ultrafilter. Thus one loses full transfer of first-order properties, e.g. one obtains only a partially ordered ring, with zero-divisors to boot. Without all of the essential properties of $\mathbb R,\:$ and without a general transfer principle, one obtains a much weaker and much more cumbersome theory as compared to Robinson's NSA.
Another point which deserves emphasis is the role played by logic, in particular the concept of formal languages. One of the major problems with early approaches to infinitesimals is that they lacked rigorous model theoretic techniques. For example, without the notion of a (first-order) formal language. it is impossible to rigorously state what properties of reals transfer to hyperreals. This logical inadequacy is one of the primary sources of contradictions in the earlier approaches.
Abraham Robinson wrote much on these topics. It is said that he knew more about Leibniz than anyone. His lofty goal was to vindicate Leibniz' intuition, and to reverse the historical injustices done to him by many Whiggish historians. See Abby's collected papers for much more, and see also Daublen's superb biography of Robinson.
For a brief introduction to the ultraproduct approach to NSA see Wm. Hatcher: Calculus is Algebra, AMM 1982, and Van Osdol: Truth with Respect to an Ultrafilter or How to make Intuition Rigorous. For a much more comprehensive introduction to ultraproducts see Paul Eklof. Ultraproducts for Algebraists, 1977.
The construction you link to will work as far as it goes, if your only goal is to produce some non-Archimedian ordered field. However, the model-theoretic construction is much stronger; it will guarantee that every formal statement that is true about the standard reals is also true for the non-standard reals, as long as you replace all constants in the statement with their non-standard counterparts. Without this, it could be difficult to transfer results between the standard and the non-standard worlds.
For example, if one takes your simpler construction and adjoins a square root of $-1$, will the resulting field satisfy the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra? You would have to repeat the entire proof from the real case, if it goes through at all. With the heavy-caliber nonstandard analysis, you can just says that every nonconstant degree-$n$ polynomial over $\mathbb C$ has a root in $\mathbb C$, thus every nonconstant degree-$n$ polynomial over $\mathbb C^*$ has a root in $\mathbb C^*$. Case closed.
The heavy artillery of the model-theoretic approach to non-standard analysis is doing much more than just producing any one non-Archimedean ordered field or even a non-Archimedean ordered field which is elementarily equivalent to $\mathbb{R}$ (an ordered field is elementarily equivalent to $\mathbb{R}$ iff it is real-closed, so starting with any non-Archimedean ordered field, e.g. $\mathbb{R}(t)$, and taking the real-closure produces such a field). There is an elaborate machinery of transfer, standard parts, etc. to overcome the fact that calculus does not work as we want it to in any non-Archimedean ordered field.
Note that the unique (up to unique isomorphism!) Dedekind-complete ordered field is $\mathbb{R}$, so any other ordered field is not Dedekind-complete. More directly, if $K$ is a non-Archimedean ordered field, then the set of positive integers is bounded above (by any infinite element of $K$) but has no least upper bound, so $K$ is not Dedekind complete. This spells doom for many of the basic results of real analysis.
For instance, for an ordered field $(K,\leq)$, the following are equivalent:
So working in a non-Archimedean field -- and not using model-theoretic cleverness to carefully restrict to certain kinds of statements -- calculus as we know it fails dramatically.