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"That's Simply Not True."
Cheers to Anderson Cooper for breaking out of the "objectivity" mold that usually lets guys like Jerry Falwell present theology as fact.
God / Spy
Retired FBI Special Agent Jim Olhson reviews two new books about espionage: "From early in my involvement as a Christian working with national security, I have marveled at the striking analogy between intelligence work and missionary work…"
The God That Sucked
Ukraine: The bright colors, the all-night parties in the streets… it's a revolution, baby! Which means you can forget tough questions. Since our Ukrainian is rusty, we're in no position to ask them ourselves. But all we need is English to understand that the American media sees the Ukrainian dispute as a one-sided issue, with the people in the street 100% in the right. Well, it does seem that their guy won the election, but that doesn't mean there isn't the other half of the country to consider. Which, we suppose, is what The NYT's C.J. Chivers is trying to do in this piece on Yanukovich-supporting miners. "Miners, you say? Why, they live under the ground! What do they know?" Not much, according to Chivers. Ukraine is "tugged between the past and the future, between its internal east-west divisions, between historic connections to Russia and aspirations to be European…." That's right — miners are the "past." And those folks wearing bright ski parkas in Kiev? So very European, they must be the future. Shagadelic. The split continues along religious lines. Chivers characterizes the divide as between Russian Orthodox and an "enduring" (read: fuzzy and quaint) Catholicism. But as the bulk of the coverage makes clear, the protestors in Kiev have a different god on their side — the very same deity adored by the editorial page of The NYT and nearly every right-thinking modern media elite pulling down a six-figure salary. Back in the '90s, Dinesh D'Souza called him the "god of the market." Tom Frank calls him "The God that Sucked." Here at The Revealer, we believe in freedom of religion, so we're not going to vote either way on the All-Mighty Market. But we do hate to see the press blindly practice the state religion without question.
Ahmadis in Pakistan
Two news items from Pakistan point to growing tensions surrounding the Ahmadis, a religious minority that considers itself the purest form of Islam, but which has been persecuted as a non-Muslim group by Pakistan's Islamic government, which declared the sect beyond the faith by a constitutional amendment 30 years ago. One: A Pakistani political party, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), has filed a motion demanding a debate on the government's deletion of religious information from electronic passports, claiming that the removal was an Ahmadi conspiracy to circumvent a ban on non-Muslims entering Mecca. Two: A Pakistani man, and recent convert to the Ahmedi sect, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for "being disrespectful to the Prophet Muhammad" under the country's draconian blasphemy laws which Amnesty International has described as "'so vaguely formulated that they encourage, and in fact invite, the persecution of religious minorities or non-conforming members of [the] Muslim majority.'"
The God-Gap, Baghdad-Style
According to the leaders of two Iraqi political parties, the January elections will be based on the struggle between religion and secularism, rather than the sectarian battle between Muslims that analysts have predicted. Hamid al-Kifaey, leader of the new secular party, Movement for Democratic Society, believes that voters will be drawn to the new parties because the alternatives are parties based on religious or tribal affiliation. "'Politics is about serving the people, not showing them the way to heaven,'" said al-Kifaey. Saad Saleh Jabr, head of the Nation Party, agreed with al-Kifaey, and looked to the U.S. as a model for avoiding religious and ethnic division…
The Defense of Boy Scouts Act
Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has introduced legislation to protect Boys Scounts from "attacks by liberal groups," by preventing any federal law or ruling from limiting federal support of the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, including meetings held on federal property. A spokesperson for House Majority Leader Tom Delay said that "'the Boy Scouts have protected more freedoms than the ACLU ever has and [Delay] is committed to taking whatever action is necessary to make the relationship between our scouts and our soldiers as strong as ever.'"
Christian Sleepers
"'Evolution — is that the Darwin theory? I don't know just what he was thinking!'" So said a sophmore at Dover Area High School, the Pennsylvania school district that has become the first in the country to mandate the teaching of "Intelligent Design" in public schools after a 6-3 school board vote last month (which prompted two board members to resign). Patricia Nason, of the Institute for Creation Research, told The San Francisco Chronicle's Anna Badkhen that her organization — the world leader in "creation science" — was active in encouraging conservative Christians to occupy local school boards. "'We Christians have as much right to be involved in politics as evolutionists,'" said Nason. "'We've been asleep for two generations, and it's time for us to come back.'"
Reasons to Believe
Hey Blue-Staters! Don't listen to David Brooks. The reasons to "get religion" don't all have to be about political calculation…
Happy Birthday, Ceausescu
Cult of personality: Angela Boteza asks God to forgive the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu his evil deeds, clears frayed Bibles from his grave, and thinks fondly of the brute's glory days, when he presided over the murder of 60,000 and stole $1 billion from his countrymen. And she's not alone…
Panting, Drooling, Revealing, Killing: A Memoir of Faith
Evangelical memoirist Patton Dodd has panted and drooled about Francis Schaeffer,revealed his true feelings about DC Talk, and now he goes and kills Richard Roberts' Buddha: "I believe that God slays people in the Spirit (it happened to King Saul and Saul/Paul in the Bible, after all) and I have friends who have had important spiritual experiences while being slain, but since my only slaying experience ended in my coming to grips with the fact that I only tried to be slain and did not really experience anything unusual, I am wary of it. I don't want to trick myself into it again, and I surely don't want to be tricked into it by a gung ho minister. I pray through all this as Roberts comes closer. If I experience You today, God, I want it to be real. Genuine. I don't want to make anything up." Read more.
Grand Inquisitor Brooks
NYT conservative columnist David Brooks says Jerry Falwell is not an "authentic" evangelical. Brooks, a Jewish writer who last we knew had never bothered to crack a Bible, also sees fit to excommunicate Al Sharpton from the faith. So who's a "real" Christian? John Stott. Now, that isinteresting…


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Woo comic is gonna be late againBy Rick Griffin on December 11th, 2011
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For a different reason! I started a little late, but it's a double strip and I'm attempting doing the inking in a physical medium, we'll see how it works!
For a different reason! I started a little late, but it's a double strip and I'm attempting doing the inking in a physical medium, we'll see how it works!
Okay this time for real, I had a decision to go in a completely different direction quite late, so I dunno when the comic will be ready
Comic is coming along nice, but my computer keeps teleporting randomly around the house. I'll try a dimensional anchor and get it out as soon as I can, maybe have an hour extra to go
Okay guys I am still not quite sure how I am going to handle this
From what I could estimate, there were about 25 or so sales of Book 2 before I corrected the misprint. Here is what I am going to do.
If you have a misprinted copy, please mail it to me. Contact me at my email address (given on the header bar under contact) and I will give you my mailing address. I will not ask you to sink any more of a cost than this; in addition, it does not matter what condition it arrives in when it gets to me.
I will then mail you a fixed copy of Book 2, along with a full set of the Housepets bookmarks that I made for MFF, and also sign your copy if you like. Please note that this is only for the misprinted copies of Book 2; if I receive a fixed copy in the mail, you'll have to pay postage to get it back.
It's missing this comic: http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/12/04/try-to-understand/
This was fixed by condensing art of King walking through the snow into the space of one comic height instead of two a few pages later.
In addition, the misprinted copy is 65/66 pages long, while the fixed copy is 60 pages long, as I took the opportunity to condense the story's font size.
Yup, the whole comic is currently on fire. I'll throw sand on it or something and it'll be up when it's up, maybe 1-1/2 hours


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by Herman Melville
Moby-Dick Chapter 30: The Pipe Summary
- After Stubb goes below, Captain Ahab orders a sailor to get him a stool and a pipe and sits smoking on the deck.
- The narrator (probably not Ishmael at this point) thinks Ahab looks like a Norse king.
- Ahab discovers that smoking the pipe doesn't soothe him, throws it overboard, and goes back to pacing on the deck. (See, we told you that smoking wasn't a good mood stabilizer back in Chapter 27, and we were right.)
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June 28, 2012 06:14
by Marc E. Williams
This morning the Supreme Court issued its long–awaited decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Court upheld the most important feature of the act, the individual mandate, which requires that individuals not covered by health insurance buy coverage or face a "shared responsibility payment." This mandate was critical to the success of the Act, since the availability of affordable coverage for the millions of uninsured Americans required a large pool of customers. In reviewing the authority of Congress to require this mandate, the Court found that it falls within the taxing power of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. The Court also noted that the individual mandate was not an appropriate exercise of Congressional power under the Commerce Clause or the Necessary and Proper Clause. Writing for a plurality of justices, Chief Justice Roberts noted that the questions of the soundness of the policy is not an issue for the court to consider, but only to decide whether it is an appropriate exercise of Congressional authority. Ultimately the Court found that the mandate's imposition of a penalty for failing to purchase insurance was not commerce that could be regulated by Congress, but would fall within its taxing power. In finding that the mandate was a tax, the Court adopted the position of the Solicitor General, and guaranteed that the issue will continue to resonate in political debates through the November election.
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by Marc E. Williams
DRI Immediate Past President, Marc E. Williams recently provided commentary on PointofLaw.com regarding tax breaks for trial lawyers. Read the full text below:
Marc Williams of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP, the immediate past president of DRI, writes us:
When the American Association for Justice looked over their agenda for the Obama administration, they not only saw the opportunities to overturn the Bush successes at tort reform, but also to deliver a direct financial benefit for their members. While the AAJ has historically focused their political muscle on enlarging the opportunities for plaintiffs in personal injury litigation to succeed, the leadership decided that the time was ripe to bring something home that would benefit all of its members, regardless of the size or type of case they handled: a tax break.
What they proposed was a seemingly simple amendment to the tax code to allow lawyers to deduct the expenses incurred in litigation in the year in which they were incurred. What could be so controversial about that? After all, the tax code allows most small businesses to deduct business expenses in the year where they are incurred, so why not apply that simple rule to lawyers? As AAJ Senior VP of Public Affairs Linda Lipsen stated:
The tax legislation will treat the trial attorney profession like every other small business in this country, allowing them to deduct their expenses in the year incurred. Currently, trial attorneys pay all case costs from their own pocket when representing Americans that cannot afford exorbitant hourly fees. These attorneys must wait to deduct their expenses until the case concludes. This legislation will allow the IRS to treat this profession as every other small business.AAJ Press Release, August 8, 2009.
Like a lot of things that come from PR specialists in this age of spin, what is most significant from the AAJ's position is what is missing. But to understand the ramifications of the tax proposal, we first need to understand how litigation in America is financed. Unlike most of the Western world, the United States allows litigants and lawyers to enter into agreements for contingency fees, whereby the lawyer takes a percentage of the recovery as a fee, rather than being paid for the work being done, as it is being done. These contingency fees are intended to provide access to justice for those who cannot afford to pay a lawyer to represent them. Since the client is not capable of paying for the lawyers' time, the lawyer must also arrange for some way to cover the expenses of litigation. In today's high stakes world of class actions, mass torts, and highly technical litigation, the expenses associated with bringing a case to trial can be staggering. It is not uncommon for the costs of document handling, trial exhibits, court reporters and expert witnesses to run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even the simple cases can result in huge expenses. In a single plaintiff case that I tried a few years back, the plaintiffs' lawyer ran up expenses approaching a million dollars.
How are these expenses handled in modern litigation? In most states, the lawyer is permitted to front these expenses and then deduct them from the settlement or verdict at the conclusion of the case. The savvy plaintiff's lawyer will take his percentage of the recovery (set out in the contract with the client) before the expenses are deducted. Thus, in a $100,000 settlement of a case with $10,000 in expenses and a 33% contingency fee, the plaintiff's lawyer will first deduct a fee of $33,000, followed by the expenses of $10,000. The plaintiff collects the remaining $57,000.
So getting back to the AAJ and their "trial lawyers are just like the barber shop down the street" analogy - it should be obvious by now that unlike Floyd the Barber, the expenses that the trial lawyer seeks to deduct are usually reimbursed out of settlement proceeds at the end of the case. When Floyd deducts expenses for scissors, razors and the like, he is not going to get reimbursed for them down the road. So it is a bit disingenuous to compare the local trial lawyer to a typical small businessman. In fact, the only time under the current system that the trial lawyer is going to be able to deduct the expenses associated with litigation is if the case is not successful and the client recovers nothing. Under current law, the IRS treats the expenses paid by the trial lawyer as loans subject to reimbursement. If the case is unsuccessful, the loans are treated like bad debts that can be deducted.
Under the AAJ proposal, trial lawyer could deduct the expenses as they are incurred, regardless of when the case is resolved. Presumably, when the case is resolved and the expenses are reimbursed, the lawyer would then be required to claim that as income, which would be taxed, but the principal advantage to the trial lawyer of the proposed change would be to spread the risk associated with the expense of the litigation over time. The effect of this advantage may not be obvious, as some may argue that the proposal is just delaying the payment of the tax for a short time and that the value in that delay is not significant. But if that is the case, why has the AAJ made this such an important part of their legislative agenda? The answer requires an understanding of the interplay of a trial lawyer's capital and the risk of litigation.
The modern American contingency fee lawyers are very entrepreneurial in their approach to litigation. They recognize that the money spent on a single case may reap benefits many years down the road. Especially in the areas of mass torts and class actions, the plaintiffs' bar may toil in courtrooms for years before finally turning the tide in favor of their clients. For instance, while plaintiffs' verdicts in tobacco cases are common these days, it was not too long ago that the tobacco industry could boast of never having lost a jury trial in a smoking and health case. But trial lawyers kept pushing the claims, hoping that societal opinions about tobacco companies would change as more documents became public about what the defendants knew about the risks of smoking. Eventually, the tide turned and those lawyers who had fronted the cost of pursuing the tobacco industry reaped huge profits for taking on that risk. Some of that money was plowed back into future litigation as capital to front expenses for new cases against other industries.
Today, these entrepreneurial lawyers will pool their capital resources in syndicate-like fashion to finance litigation. After identifying the target for their litigation, they will divide responsibility for the preparation of the cases, realizing that it may take time to successfully recover money from the defendants. For instance, this money is committed to the compilation of documentary evidence, preparation of expert witnesses and retention of public relations consultants to drive public opinion against the defendant. They are taking an inherently scarce commodity, capital, and committing it to a scenario that carries with it a certain amount of risk. As with any investment, they evaluate that risk to determine whether they want to commit that capital. Part of the risk for that capital is that it may be years before that capital is recovered. But if the AAJ legislation is passed, those expenditures would be deducted in the year incurred, which would allow the syndicate to recoup some of that capital each year. The benefit is two-fold. Not only could that money then be used to finance other risky litigation, but the tax break would reduce the risk to the lawyer on the underlying case. Thus, the tax change would relieve the lawyer of some of the risk of commitment of that capital, freeing the lawyer to invest in more litigation, as part of the risk is now being borne by the government. This makes the government a partner with the lawyer in the litigation, a prospect that most taxpayers are likely to oppose.
This tax break would also be of value to the small case practitioner. Most AAJ members are solo practitioners or practice in small firms. Handling litigation can be very lucrative, but capital must be kept on hand to finance the litigation that might not get to trial or to resolution for several years. Any assistance in providing relief from having to commit capital for such a long time for the multitude of cases in the lawyer's office would be a welcome change.
The Joint Tax Committee of the 110th Congress values the AAJ proposal at $1.57 billion over ten years. For that reason, many members of Congress have questioned the value of this tax break. When it appeared that the legislation was not likely to be passed in this Congress, AAJ decided to take a different approach. John Bowman, the Director of Federal Regulations for AAJ stated that a regulatory change from the Treasury Department could be forthcoming that would allow plaintiffs' lawyers to deduct expenses in the year in which they were incurred. It is assumed that this regulatory change would be issued as a revenue ruling, which is a statement from the IRS as to how certain facts are to be interpreted in light of the tax code. Revenue rulings do not require Congressional approval, but are intended to reflect the IRS interpretation of existing law. It should be noted, however, that the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco has interpreted existing laws to allow the deduction of litigation expenses in the year when they are incurred. Boccardo v. Commissioner, 56 F.3d 1016 (9th Cir. 1995). None of the other ten circuit courts of appeals have followed this decision. The AAJ proposal would make the Boccardorule the law of the land.
It is no surprise that the AAJ has made this proposal a priority. Current AAJ Vice President Mary Alice McLarty has openly acknowledged that the organization has seen a serious drop in membership. As a past-President of DRI, the organization representing the other side of litigation, I can attest to the need to provide tangible benefits to the membership. And while DRI has not suffered from the same membership losses as AAJ, it is evident that righting their ship requires a plan that would provide benefits to as many members as possible. But for those of us who believe that the expansion of litigation is not necessarily a good thing, we do not believe that the government should be involved in fixing the trial lawyers' problems with their membership. Letting the risk associated with litigation stay with the lawyer who is bringing the case seems to have worked to their benefit so far; no change seems necessary to this observer.
Categories: Civil Justice System | Law Practice Economics
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November 3, 2008 05:36
by Marc E. Williams
My sincerest thanks to all the members, vendors, speakers, and staff who made the 2008 Annual Meeting of DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar such an extraordinary success.
Networking is always one of the most important benefits of our annual meetings – and New Orleans is the best networking city in America. Just by being there, DRI members were able to seize opportunity after opportunity to share professional experiences. We have already supported New Orleans in the wake of two hurricanes by holding other DRI meetings here and it was appropriate that we bring our flagship meeting back to the city we love. We will certainly continue to do so in the future.
Happily, the 2008 Annual Meeting was attended by more than 1,200 of our attorneys. In addition to networking, the Annual Meeting of DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar created opportunities to help members plan for 2009. To be sure, the coming year presents unprecedented challenges for our country and for the legal profession. Life will be different for us all.
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Freelancer Astrid Riecken Wins "Eyes of History" Photographer of the Year Honors
Astrid Riecken has won Photographer of the Year honors at the 2014 Eyes of History competition, the White House News Photographers Association announced yesterday. The Washington, DC-based freelancer also won first-place prizes in the Feature and Portfolio categories.
Win McNamee of Getty Images won Political Photo of the Year for an image of President Barack Obama speaking at a White House briefing room about the Trayvon Martin case. McNamee also won first place in the Presidential category.
In other still photo categories, Melina Mara won first place prizes for both Picture Story Politics and Political Portfolio. Bonnie Jo Mount won first place for Picture Story Feature. Mara and Mount are both Washington Post staff photographers.
Jabin Botsford of Western Kentucky University won Student Photographer of the Year honors.
Best of Show for multimedia entries went to Ken Geiger of National Geographic for the iPad version of his story called The Last Chase, about Tim Samaras, a well-known storm chaser who was killed during a tornado in May 2013. Geiger also swept first, second, and third prizes in the Non-Linear Storytelling category.
In the Linear Storytelling category, Jim Lo Scalzo won first place for a multimedia story about Iowa's county fairs that he produced for European Press Photo Agency.
A complete list of categories and winners is available at the White House News Photographers Association web site.
Winners of the competition in all categories will be honored at the WHNPA's annual black tie gala, scheduled for May 10, 2014, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington.


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Pomegranate Punch
Ingredients:1 quart pomegranate juice
2 quarts of carbonated or sparkling water
1 pint vodka (an aged blended whiskey may be substituted)
Juice of 1 lemon
orange slices for garnish
Superfine Sugar, if desired
Combine all ingredients in a punch bowl and stir. Add an ice ring to keep cool -- may also be served warm. Garnish with orange rounds.
Serves: 20
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PEORIA, Ill. - The 2010-11 Bradley women's tennis team will welcome three freshmen to the team, after Carly Miles (Greentown, Ind./Eastern), Elizabeth Przystawski (Prospect, Ky./Assumption) and Cassia Wojtalik (Indianapolis, Ind./Cathedral) each signed National Letters of Intent to attend Bradley during the fall signing period.
Przystawski won a state doubles title as a junior, going 24-1 in doubles action and was named team MVP after helping Assumption to a second-place finish in the state tournament last year. During her sophomore year she earned the team's coaches' award after helping the Rockets finish third in the state.
Miles enters her senior year with a 56-4 career singles records, playing all three years at #1 singles for Eastern High School. A three-time first-team all-conference selection, she has earned all-state honorable mention recognition each of her three years and is a three-time team MVP. Miles has also claimed individual state sectional titles each of her three prep seasons and helped lead the Comets to the first team sectional title in school history as a sophomore.
Wojtalik went undefeated at #2 singles last year for the Lady Irish and helped Cathedral to its third consecutive sectional championship. She was named the team's most improved player as a junior and earned second-team all-state honors in singles in 2009-10. As a sophomore she was a first-team all-state selection in doubles.
The Bradley women's tennis team is slated to open its spring schedule with five consecutive road matches beginning Feb. 4 at Saint Louis.


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Arrowhead Park
Site of the former Arrowhead Hotel, this lakefront park in downtown Inlet is situated at the head Fourth Lake and bordered by the Inlet Channel. Arrowhead Park offers a sandy beach with swimming and lifeguards, picnic facilities, a playground, tennis courts, ball field, public restrooms, boardwalk and hourly boat parking. Arts in the Park, the Summer Concert Series, the Syracuse Symphony, Young at Heart Seniors and Inlet Youth Commission recreation are just a few of the numerous events and activities to be found at Arrowhead Park.
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Inlet, NY 13360
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simple living: the urban homestead
August 12, 2012
I've been thinking a bit lately about how to live a more self-sufficient life, particularly while living in the city. I suppose I always assumed that to be self-sufficient you needed a lot of land - to grow food on, keep animals, have a rainwater tank etc. But this 4 person family in the States has proven me wrong - their urban farm is just 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles and exists on a mere 1/10 acre of land. From that they successfully grow approximately 3 tonnes of organic produce per year, accounting for 90% of their vegetarian diet. They even have excess which is supplied to local restaurants and businesses.
But the farm is not just about growing delicious organic produce. It is a model for environmentally sustainable living. The Dervaes family lives consciously - they make a lot of their own food from scratch (bread, cheese, honey), they eat dinner together around the kitchen table, they reduce their waste through composting and recycling, and they have many facilities in place to conserve energy. They have also taught themselves a range of traditional skills such as forging, carpentry, sewing, and preserving. The girls in the family also have a love of aprons and they have a few pet rabbits, I think I could be quite at home here!
The Urban Homestead as it is known is an inspiration for simple living and has reminded me that it is possible to achieve a lot with very little.
Happy Sunday x
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Love these pictures! So inspiring. I think the greatest obstacle to living a simple self sustained life is not space but time. We live on a regular suburban block in Melbourne, have a big veggie patch and chickens but every now and then, when life and work get in the way, it becomes difficult to keep all the balls in the air.ReplyDelete
WOW! I mean that amazing! I love nature and here everything is done naturally. Great job!ReplyDelete
Reading this post makes me feel guilty about my choices. I've always thought that an environmentally-sustainable lifestyle was impossible to achieve especially if you're living in the city. But the Dervaes family has proven me wrong. Maybe it's time to finally make some changes.ReplyDelete
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Each week GoStanford.com will feature a Q-and-A with members of the softball team. This week, get to know sophomore Jessica Plaza and freshman Bessie Noll.
Why did you decide to come to Stanford?
Bessie: Do you really have to ask? It's Stanford!
Jessica: It's the happiest place on earth!
When you were a kid and even now, who would be your role models in the sport?
Bessie: Joe Mauer, Miguel Cabrera, Serena Williams and the Ogwumike Sisters ... though the last two may not be in my sport.
Jessica: Jen Schroeder, who caught at UCLA and was my catching coach growing up. I owe it all to her.
What is one tip you would give to a student-athlete to be successful in school and their sport?
Bessie: Don't forget who the real enemy is.
Jessica: If you work hard and do well in school you will have more opportunities in your sport and in life.
What is your favorite memory of your softball career thus far?
Bessie: Hitting a lead-off home run against the Korean National team for Musashi-Fuchu, my little league team.
Jessica: The first time a young player asked me for my autograph after a game and I realized I had become someone else's role model.
What are your favorite and least favorite training drills?
Bessie: Favorite: Beep Test; Least Favorite: Spiderman Walks
Jessica: I love softball.
What is your major at Stanford, and what are your career aspirations?
Bessie: I'm currently undecided but I plan to major in mechanical or civil engineering. Possibly law school to follow. May the odds be ever in my favor!
Jessica: Human biology with a concentration in sports performance. I would like to be a physical therapist one day!
What is one personal goal for the 2014 season?
Bessie: Be the victor of the 33rd Women's College World Series.
Jessica: When I'm struggling, being able to remember that I play because I love the game and everything it has given me.
What is the best advice you have ever gotten, and from whom?
Bessie: "Suck it up." - Steven Welckle.
Jessica: Remember to sleep…
What are three things on your bucket list?
1. Deep Sea Diving
2. Try out for American Idol singing "Inch by Inch"
3. Become the American ambassador to Japan
1. Travel the world.
Rapid Fire Section
One word to describe yourself?
Bessie: Foreign.
Jessica: Humorous.
Go to warm-up song?
Bessie: "PYT" - Michael Jackson
Jessica: "Latch" - Disclosure
Favorite thing to do for fun?
Bessie: Read dystopian novels with Kylie Sorenson and Corey Hanewich.
Jessica: Watching Beyonce's album.
Guiltiest indulgence?
Bessie: Running the beep test.
Jessica: Tillamook Mudslide Ice Cream.
Go-to pre-game meal?
Bessie: Pho noodles from Wilbur dining hall.
Jessica: Stacks.
Most quotable movie?
Bessie: The Sandlot.
Jessica: Bridesmaids … "You are more beautiful than Cinderella! You smell like pine needles and you have a face like sunshine!"
What is your spirit animal?
Bessie: Unicorn.
Jessica: Dolphin.
Who would play you in a movie?
Bessie: Maya Rudolph.
Jessica: Melissa McCarthy and Rebel Wilson are my idols!
People might be surprised to know that…
Bessie: I don't have a single pair of pants that fit me.
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Here in Examiner-land, the subject of menswear is pretty broad. Basically, if you wear it or regularly carry it, whatever it happens to be, it is menswear. With many of us modern men also being rather marsupial-like, thanks to backpacks, messenger bags, and cargo pants (or shorts), we can potentially carry a lot of stuff. One thing many of us regularly carry is a set of earbuds, and those are usually the ones that came with your phone or MP3. If, however, you are interested in a better listening experience, an upgrade is essential, that's why you need to know about the Enhanced Active Noise Cancelling Earphones (#10799) from Monoprice.
According to Monoprice, the 10799s are the triple threat. They claim that they are capable of "superb musical reproduction and noise cancellation" as well as an inline control module with a built-in microphone for making and taking phone calls. The active noise reduction (ANR) module is powered by a single AAA battery (included) which Monoprice claims will provide up to 50 hours or active noise reduction. It should be noted that the ANR module does not need to be turned on or have the battery installed in order for the earbuds to play music or be used as a telephony accessory.
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Scrabble word: MOORING
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Definitions of MOORING in dictionaries:
- noun - a place where a craft can be made fast
- noun - (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place
- verb - secure in or as if in a berth or dock
- verb - come into or dock at a wharf
- verb - secure with cables or ropes
- A place or structure to which a vessel or aircraft can be moored.
- Equipment, such as anchors or chains, for holding fast a vessel or an aircraft.
- Often moorings.
- noun - a place where a vessel may be moored
There are 7 letters in MOORING: G I M N O O R
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Vt woman sentenced in others' drug overdoses
BURLINGTON A woman accused of giving drugs to a woman who overdosed and died and a man who overdosed and survived has been sentenced to 60 days on a work crew.
Anna Clark, 26, of Burlington, was given credit for time served Wednesday. Shell spend about a month on the work crew, said Judge Linda Levitt.
If you hadnt been doing so well in your treatment and counseling, I think it would be a sentence to serve (in prison), because of the horrible, horrible outcomes, Levitt said.
Clark admitted to contributing to two overdoses in a deal with prosecutors in March.
She gave cocaine to Cindy Goulet, 54, of Burlington, who died of the combination of cocaine and Dilaudid in June 2012. Four months later, while she was on court-ordered conditions of release, she gave heroin to Andrew Snow, 44, who overdosed and was revived at the hospital. Two other people were also charged in each overdose.
Now that Im sober and have a clear head, I know what I did was wrong, she said Wednesday in court. I cannot take it back.
Clark pleaded guilty in March to delivery of heroin, dispensing a regulated drug and identity theft in a plea deal in which prosecutors dropped 11 other charges, according to The Burlington Free Press.
Prosecutors had sought a prison sentence of two to five years. The defense asked for home confinement.
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I'm working my way through two different Yoga books, trying to consolidate the different poses into a unified reference for personal use. Excel is very uncomfortable this, so I went with plain text in YAML format. But this seems error-prone and I was wondering what the alternatives may be?
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Staples Delivers Convenience
By Rose Spicer-Oracle on Jul 02, 2014
To understand exactly what's top of mind when it comes to digital retailing, go no further the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition (IRCE) held last month in Chicago. Our team was there to host customer events and attend sessions by industry leaders, including Oracle customers Shop Direct, Sephora, Office Depot, NetShoes, Sur La Table and Dress Barn.
Throughout the week, retailers shared just how extensively mobile influences sales. Among them, Sephora expects that by 2017 consumers will use a mobile device in half of all purchases, decal retailer Fathead said the same and Shop Direct predicts 100 percent of its sales will involve mobile within a year.
As consumers use mobile devices to shop anytime and anywhere they want, a few retailers are already greeting them with the right experience, the right selection of products and nearby service and support.
Case in point is Staples, second only to Amazon in North American online sales. Staples is well into a major transformation in which the retailer has expanded to more than a million SKUs and made it convenient for customers to buy online and have items delivered or waiting for pickup in a nearby store. 84 percent of customers are businesses, and Staples provides them easy access to tech repairs, 3D printing, Apple products and, soon, a Steelcase store within a store.
Speaking at IRCE, Staples EVP of Global E-Commerce, Faisal Masud, described design, performance and search improvements that helped to increase sales conversions by 10 percent and moved revenue per online visitor up 9 percent.
Staples personalizes the e-commerce session with your local store info to facilitate cross-channel buys. The company saw an "exponential improvement in sales" after revamping mobile to display just the products customers care about, and earlier this summer a new tablet app immediately increased conversions.
Underpinning the commerce anywhere strategy are inventory systems that recognize both store and online orders, including any order placed via a mobile app. "Without a seamless unified inventory model, the Omni-channel experience would not be possible," said Masud.
For a closer look at Staples' transformation, read more by Internet Retailer managing editor Zak Stambor.
Watch here for IRCE insights from Shop Direct head of e-commerce Paul Hornby, who details the company's journey as it went from catalog retailer to top ten on the Internet Retailer Europe 500.
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Kings rout Devils 4-0, lead Final 3-0
Wednesday, 08.06.2014 / 4:50 AM
LOS ANGELES -- At one point, after another incredible save by
Jonathan Quick
Los Angeles Kings
Dustin Brown
skated by his goaltender, shook his head and unsuccessfully tried to hold back a mischievous smile.
Quick had just robbed
Travis Zajac
on a point-blank chance, but it has been that kind of postseason for the Kings. Whenever it seems like it can't get any better for a team that needed 81 games to qualify for the postseason, it does -- and is now one victory away from capping quite possibly the most remarkable run to a championship in NHL history.
Buoyed at first by strong goaltending from Quick and a dominant group of penalty-killers in front of him, the Kings held off an early surge by the
New Jersey Devils
before blitzing them with four unanswered goals in a 4-0 victory in Game 3 of the 2012 Stanley Cup Final.
"I don't know what 45 years of pent-up energy sounds like, but if we play our game [Wednesday], maybe we will find out," Brown said. "I'm sure I'll think about it tomorrow and tonight, but when you get to the rink ... it is kind of hard to explain the emotions, but you've got to come focused and ready to go. You don't really think too much about it. I think there will be added pressure because we are at home and the possibility of winning it at home is pretty enticing."
The Kings now lead the series 3-0, just as they did in each of the first three rounds -- the first time that's ever happened in the 25 years since the NHL went to a best-of-seven format throughout the playoffs. Los Angeles will have its first of four tries to claim the Cup for the first time in franchise history here at Staples Center on Wednesday night(8 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, RDS).
Not that the Kings are taking anything for granted.
"Coach [Darryl Sutter] says it best, 'You get nothing for three [wins].' That's why the fourth is the toughest one," defenseman
Willie Mitchell
said. "We're going to enjoy it, and we're going to prepare just like we have the rest of this postseason for the next one. ...We're not naive to the situation. We're definitely not. You try and fuel that energy to motivate you for the next one."
To avoid becoming the first team to be swept in the Final since the Washington Capitals in 1998, the Devils need to find some offense -- quickly. They've scored just two goals in the three losses. The way the Kings are playing -- they are 15-2 this spring and have allowed just 24 goals in the 17 games -- that won't be easy.
"You've got to find a way to score goals," said forward
David Clarkson
, who was denied by Quick on a second-period breakaway when the game was still scoreless. "We haven't been putting the puck in the net. We've been working hard. We've got a great group of guys in here and we're going to continue to push. We're not done yet."
Quick finished with 22 saves for his team-record third shutout of the postseason. One year after Tim Thomas authored one of the best postseason runs by a goaltender in League history, Quick has been even more dominant. Among goaltenders who have played at least 13 games in a postseason, Quick currently has the highest save percentage (.947) and the lowest goals against average (1.44).
"He was just outstanding,"
Dustin Penner
said of Quick. "He's making his mark. He's been our best player all year and in the playoffs."
If Quick has been a constant for the Kings during this incredible run, the team's ability to kill penalties has been the second-most consistent strength. The Devils had three chances in each of the first two periods with the man advantage, and for 60 seconds in the first they had a 5-on-3.
Not only did the Devils not score, they didn't record a shot on net during their three chances in the second period. The Kings have now killed off 64 of the 69 power plays they have faced in this postseason, and their 92.8 percent efficiency is tops among the 16 playoff participants this spring.
"We've got a good group. We've been doing it all year," Mitchell said. "It is kind of a staple on our team. You don't think a PK that good without good goaltending. [Assistant coach] John Stevens has been terrific with it as far as details, and it has been a group that takes a lot of pride in it. We feel it makes a difference, and tonight it did."
Devils coach Peter DeBoer also pointed to the Kings' penalty kill as a key.
"We need to get that first goal out, absolutely," he said "We had some power-play opportunities there. We need to score one ... Their goalie made some big saves early. We couldn't get one."
The Devils had their best spurt of the game early in the second, but Quick made a trip of quality saves to keep the score even. One, Clarkson's breakaway, came just seconds before the Kings grabbed the lead.
Alec Martinez
put the Kings in front 1-0 at 5:40.
Dwight King
emerged from a scrum along the right wall with the puck, but Devils goalie
Martin Brodeur
stopped his original attempt. However, King kept swiping at the puck and Martinez finally tucked it inside the near post for his first of the series.
Brodeur argued after the play that he had the puck covered, but referee Dan O'Halloran didn't blow the whistle.
"I had the puck, I covered it with my stick and the guy just pushed me," Brodeur said. "The ref was in a tough spot to make the call. I think he was in the wrong position, so it's tough for him to make the call. I think they maybe should've asked the other referee to see what they saw before making the call -- but it is what it is, what are you going to do?"
The Devils had two of those power plays shortly after Martinez's goal, but the Kings took control of this contest during that time.
Anze Kopitar
scored the prettiest goal to date of the Final at 15:07 for a 2-0 lead.
Justin Williams
left a drop pass off the boards near the right wall to Brown, and the Kings captain found Kopitar on the far side of the ice cutting to the net. Kopitar lifted the puck over Brodeur for his second goal of this series and his eighth of the postseason, which ties him for the most in the League along with Philadelphia's Claude Giroux and Danny Briere.
"[Williams] made the little bank behind and taking the hit, their D kind of overplayed that and I had a little time," Brown said. "I didn't really see [Kopitar] beyond the guy, I just knew he was coming and I just put it there. As good as the pass was, the shot was probably better."
The one part of the Los Angeles machine that wasn't working at optimal capacity was the power play, but the Kings even fixed that problem to cap a virtuoso performance.
Jeff Carter
and Williams put the game away with power-play goals 2:32 apart early in the third period.
Los Angeles had only three 5-on-4 goals in 71 opportunities this postseason, but the Kings scored back-to-back goals in that scenario to set off a prolonged celebration by a Staples Center-record crowd for a hockey game. The 18.764 fans chanted "We Want The Cup," on several occasions, and "M-V-P" -- normally reserved for Kobe Bryant in this building -- was serenaded when Quick made a couple of saves to preserve the shutout.
Those fans will be back in this building Wednesday night, and the Stanley Cup will be here as well.
"L.A. is one of those towns where if you want to get noticed, you have to win," Brown said. "We're starting to see people get pretty excited about the Kings right now, and that's nice from a player's standpoint, but probably more important for those die-hard fans that have been here through the 45 years. That goes a long way, and having an opportunity to win a championship now is [the release] of a lot of frustration for a lot of people in this city.
"To be quite honest, I can't really explain [the emotions] to you. It is just something that kinds across the world ... I don't know, the Stanley Cup is a special trophy, and you kind of dream about having this chance your whole life if you're a hockey player."
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I guess we could all have felt a little guilty—hundreds of people literally pigging out for the sake of those who do not have enough to eat—but Rico's annual Day of the Dead party benefiting Utah Food Bank is a hell of a way to do some good.
Fifteen dollars or fifteen cans of food bought you admission to the party in the warehouse behind Frida Bistro.
Experienced party-goers (this was the 10th year of the event) got there early and stood in line in spite of the cold front whipping into the valley. Lines for food and drink can get long as the evening progresses, and you want to get your share of the tamales (pork, turkey mole, vegetarian, etc., etc.,), rice and soup being ladled out at one food station
before bellying up to the taco bar which featured whole roast pig—the most beautiful, pink, quivering tender hunk of flesh ever folded inside a tortilla.
Margaritas and beer
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The giant ofrenda, or altar took up one whole wall and guests were invited to write the names of their own dearly departed to add to the display.
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Banner reorganizes area leadership team
Rick Sutton to serve as Northern Colorado CEO
GREELEY, Colo. (Sept. 25, 2013) – Banner Health announced today a change in its leadership structure for northern Colorado, naming North Colorado Medical Center Chief Executive Officer Rick Sutton to chief executive officer of Banner's northern Colorado operations. In his new role, Sutton will lead an executive team that will be responsible for operations and strategic planning for North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, McKee Medical Center in Loveland and the new Fort Collins Banner Health hospital.
Sutton has worked for Banner Health since 2001 and has been the chief executive officer for NCMC since 2008. He previously served as the chief executive officer for McKee Medical Center and Ogallala Community Hospital in Ogallala, Neb.
"With the growth we have experienced in the northern Colorado area in recent years, including the upcoming construction of a new hospital in Fort Collins, it was important that we create a leadership structure that thinks and manages from a broader perspective," said Jim Ferando, president of Banner Health's Western Region. "This team will ensure we operate as effectively and efficiently as possible in providing excellent patient care across all of our operations."
Marilyn Schock, chief executive officer of McKee since 2009, has left her post there and is considering a number of options within Banner.
The other members of the Northern Colorado Market executive team and their roles within the new structure include:
- Northern Colorado Chief Medical Officer: Sheldon Stadnyk, MD
- Area Associate Chief Medical Officer: Bert Honea, MD
- NCMC Associate Chief Medical Officer: Steven Loecke, MD
- Northern Colorado Chief Financial Officer: Mary McCabe
- Associate Chief Financial Officer: Lori Sehrt
- Finance Director: Patricia Gibson
- Northern Colorado Chief Human Resources Officer: Jeanie Gallagher
- NCMC and Market Human Resource Consultants: Bev Walton and Jennifer Johnston
- McKee and Market Human Resource Consultant: Heather Huntley
- Northern Colorado CNO: (To be named in the future)
- NCMC Associate Chief Nursing Officer (Interim): Tiffany Hettinger, RN
- McKee Associate Chief Nursing Officer: Deb Fox, RN
- NCMC Chief Operating Officer: Wendy Sparks
- McKee Medical Center Chief Operating Officer: Michelle Joy
The changes take effect Sept. 29.
Banner Health operates North Colorado Medical Center under a lease agreement with the NCMC, Inc. board of directors. Banner owns McKee Medical Center in Loveland and is building the new Fort Collins hospital at the corner of Harmony Road and Lady Moon Drive.
Headquartered in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the largest, nonprofit health care systems in the country. The system manages 24 acute-care hospitals, the Banner Health Network and Banner Medical Group, long-term care centers, outpatient surgery centers and an array of other services including family clinics, home care and hospice services, and a nursing registry. Banner Health is in seven states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming. For more information, visit www.BannerHealth.com.


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Rest and recovery. One of the most import aspects of any workout program. Rest and recovery is also one of the most underused and overlooked parts of physical conditioning. All to often, people over look their day of rest and try to schedule in a workout, thinking this will get them closer to their goals.Big mistake.
Today is Day 6 of Body Beast Round III. It is a rest and recovery day, and I thought…what better opportunity to talk about the importance of rest and recovery.
I can't tell you the number of times people ask me, "What workout can I do on my rest day?" My answer is and will always be, "None!"
The body needs time to heal. This is the premise behind rest and recovery days. This downtimes is critical to any workout regime that puts a lot of physical stress on the body. The concept is not hard to understand. The body needs time to repair, rebuild and strengthen. When you put a lot of stress on your muscles and "tear down" the muscles fibers, it takes time to repair and rebuild them. In many cases, several days. In addition, when optimum muscle growth is the goal, it takes even more time to recruit and start the growth of new muscle fibers. Workout the muscles out too soon can prevent new muscle recruitment. As a result, the overall increase in muscle size, density and quality is limited.
Another reason to take advantage of rest and recovery days is that the body needs this time to replace its energy stores. Limiting replenishment results in a lethargic energy level, increased muscle soreness, poor performance and an increased potential for injury.
The bottom line is, while many of us get a little jittery and sometimes feel a sense of "guilt" for taking a result day, it is an important component of our fitness goals. Skipping rest days is counterproductive in every sense of the word. Unless you want to jeopardize your success, take advantage of your rest days. Do something relaxing, spend the time with family and friends, or just take an extra nap.
You have earned it and your body will thank you for it.
Chet Nichols is a Team Beachbody Coach, 3 time Beachbody Challenge winner and Body Beast Success story. He operates the website TeamGetFit.com and offers FREE Health and Fitness Coaching. Nichols is 42 years old, a United States Veteran and lives in Timnath, Colorado with his wife and kids. You can find him on his Facebook Profile, Facebook Page, Twitter, LinkedIn and Youtube. For questions, you can contact Chet at mailto: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Cell chip is housed in a separate box that also serves as a DVR with 3TB of total storage. It also enables the Regza 55X1 to show up to eight channels on-screen at once, time-shift these channels simultaneously for 26 hours, and boot up a web browser based on Opera.
As far as technical specs go, the 55-inch set itself has a LED block array divided into 512 local dimming zones that contribute to a 5,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and 1,250cd/m2 brightness. It refreshes at up to 240Hz and has a seven-speaker sound bar at the bottom.
Toshiba will start selling the Regza 55X1 this December in Japan for no less than a million Yen -- or about $11,200 when it arrives in the U.S. early next year. Ultimately, the company wants to produce less pricey Cell-based models for the mainstream, and is reportedly considering selling the platform to other TV makers.


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Public Understanding of Science, Technology & Economics
Ensemble Studio Theatre
With Foundation support, the Ensemble Studio Theater (EST) has established a major program focused on science and technology plays including a national competition for new dramatic works exploring the worlds of science and technology. The annual EST/Sloan First Light Festival, a month-long festival focused on new science and technology plays, features a mainstage production and a series of staged readings, workshops, cabarets and satellite events in New York. Plays originally commissioned by the EST/Sloan project have been produced at major venues around the country, including the Black Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, The Empty Space Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Since 1998, over 100 writers, composers, choreographers, and theater companies have received EST/Sloan commissions with the resulting work presented in developmental readings and workshops engaging over a thousand artists.
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With a solid background in teaching and a passion to keep the Bruins on the cutting edge, Kim Jagd enters her 17th year as a member of the UCLA women's volleyball coaching staff in 2009 and her third season as the Bruins' assistant head coach, a promotion received in June 2007.
The Bruins have posted a 372-146 (.718) record over her previous 16 seasons and made the NCAA Tournament 15 times, including the NCAA Championship Final match in 1994 and the National Semifinals in 2006.
UCLA has recorded 10 straight 20-win seasons and has reached the NCAA Regional Final in four of the last six years.
Last July, Jagd helped coach the U.S. Women's Junior National Team to a gold medal at the NORCECA Women's Junior Continental Championship. It was the most recent of coaching stints for Jagd with USA Volleyball, as she was selected to direct the 2003 USA Volleyball Girls High Performance A2 Camp in Colorado Springs. The camp is USA Volleyball's introductory level of instruction to young players aspiring to achieve Olympic status. In addition to her duties as the head coach of the High Performance A2 program, Jagd was chosen to be the Head Coach of the High Performance National Team in 2004 and `05. The National Team competed in USA Volleyball's Regional Championships in Austin, Texas in the summer of 2005 and won a gold medal in the YNT 17-and-under Division. A CAP II Certified coach, Jagd spoke at USA Volleyball coaches clinics and camps in January and July of 2005, as well as the MVB AVCA coaches convention in 2008.
Jagd has coached four Olympians during her career, including two-time Olympian and 2004 beach volleyball bronze medalist Elaine Youngs. She has also coached 2000 beach volleyball Olympians Jenny (Johnson) Jordan and Annett (Buckner) Davis and 2004 Olympian Wiz Bachman (indoor). All four were coached by Jagd during their UCLA careers, while Youngs was also coached by Jagd during her high school career at El Toro High School.
In Westwood, Jagd's "big picture" focus with UCLA team members revolves around the process of creating balanced young adults, as well as competitive, fundamentally sound, winning volleyball players. The Arcadia, Calif, native knows firsthand the importance of balance in life. Formerly Kim Poppa, she has two children, Nikki (22), a two-year letterwinner on the Bruin women's volleyball team (2006-07), a 2009 UCLA graduate and a volunteer assistant coach at George Washington, and Ryal (20), a former member of the Bruin football squad and current redshirt sophomore on the men's volleyball team.
A resident of Manhattan Beach, Jagd balances the demands of mother, coach and active individual on a daily basis in addition to her coaching duties. Jagd is a fitness enthusiast who finds the time to enjoy as many activities as possible especially golf, yoga and racquetball.
A member of the Women's Professional Beach Volleyball Tour for three years (1990-92), Jagd recorded several Top 10 finishes in the sand. Since returning to six-player indoor play, she has earned USVBA All-American honors five times (1995, `96, `98, `01 and `03) and helped lead her team to the division title in 1996, `98 and `01.
As a collegiate athlete, Jagd competed for the Bruin volleyball team in 1985 and `86 after lettering for two years at UC Irvine. She graduated from UCLA in 1987 with a degree in history then received elementary and secondary level teaching credentials from UCI in 1989-90.
Preceding her return to UCLA, Jagd spent one year as an assistant volleyball coach at Colorado, working with recruiting and coaching the passers and swing hitters. In 1992, Colorado won the Big Eight Tournament, advanced to the NCAA Tournament and finished with a 22-8 record.
Before joining the college ranks, she served as co-head coach at El Toro High School from 1987-91. During her tenure, Jagd helped lead the school to the 1991 Division I state championship and coached eventual Bruins Youngs and Michelle Mauney.


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A viral video, seen over 10 million times, answers the question: What does our skin look like in ultraviolet? In other words, what does the sun see after it has converted 120 million tons of matter – per minute – into energy and radiated the earth with dangerous ultraviolet A (long-wave) and ultraviolet B (short-wave) emissions?
Writes SkinCancer.org: "Our understanding of exactly what kinds of damage each causes to the skin, and how best to protect ourselves, seems to shift every year as new research comes out… Both UVA and UVB, however, penetrate the atmosphere and play an important role in conditions such as premature skin aging, eye damage (including cataracts), and skin cancers. They also suppress the immune system, reducing your ability to fight off these and other maladies."
Award-winning, London-based artist and videographer Thomas Leveritt's new video is taking over the Internet by graphically addressing those concerns. Using an ultraviolet camera, he showed individuals on video, and us, what exactly is happening under our skin's epidermis. The freckle-busting, pock-marked surprises ranged from odd to almost grotesque, and gives new meaning to the benefits of sunscreen.
Writes Leveritt on his YouTube video's "About" page:
We showed people what they looked like in ultraviolet, and wondered aloud if they wanted to put on some damn sunscreen already.
Leveritt's video shows us what our skin may look like in the future, after corruption from the sun has made sunspots and other aging marks a permanent part of our face. Many were shocked; some instantly covered over their faces in shame.
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, one out of every five of us will develop skin cancer in our lifetime. Those who spend a lot of time in the sun or use tanning beds are more likely to develop cancer, and certain risk factors – smoking, previous sunburns, 50 or more moles on our body, light complexion– all increase those odds.
Leveritt's video also made something else quite clear – the moment we add sunblock, our skin turns black as night to UV rays, illustrating the importance of slathering on the sunscreen or sunblock.
So unless you want your face to look like a dried out catcher's mitt, take the matter to heart, and save face – literally.
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|Snelling, Warren
|Chiu, Readman - GENOME SCIENCES CENTRE
|Schein, Jacqueline - GENOME SCIENCES CENTRE
|Hobbs, Matthew - UNIV SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
|Mcewan, John - AGRESEARCH, NEW ZEALAND
Submitted to: Annual International Plant & Animal Genome Conference
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: October 5, 2007
Publication Date: January 2, 2008
Citation: Snelling, W.M., Chiu, R., Schein, J.E., Hobbs, M., McEwan, J.C. 2008. Integrated and composite genome maps: the bovine example. Annual International Plant & Animal Genome Conference. Workshop Abstract W21, pg 9. Technical Abstract: Combinations of genome maps representing different types of information are needed to link economically important phenotypic variation with underlying genomic variation in farmed animals. For the cow, data from two linkage populations and three radiation hybrid (RH) panels were combined to construct a composite marker map, exploiting the complimentary resolution of linkage and RH data. Fingerprints of clones from three bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries were analyzed to build a BAC physical map. BAC clone end sequences enabled integration of the composite and BAC maps with draft bovine and human sequence assemblies. Locations of published quantitative trait loci (QTL) were projected according to flanking marker positions on the composite map. The QTL indicate regions associated with specific traits, annotated human sequence provides information about genes which may influence each trait, and the bovine sequence provides a reference to known SNP as well as for detecting additional polymorphisms underlying the QTL. The combined resources may facilitate development of genomic tools to accelerate genetic improvement of cattle. The strategies used for the bovine maps may be useful to other livestock and aquatic species.


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I think I'm missing something... training ring? What's that all about? is this a common thing? I have never heard of a training ring before.
I think I'm missing something... training ring? What's that all about? is this a common thing? I have never heard of a training ring before.
[QUOTE=jenn26point2;1153081]I think I'm missing something... training ring? What's that all about? [/QUOTE]
NW put a ring thru Hulky's nose, the way they put a ring through a bull's nose. Easier to lead him around.
Just wait until he gets his monogrammed testicle jar on the day of the blessed union...
No, that's just what I'm calling it. Hulky needs to be "trained" to wear a ring :D. He's not used to wearing jewelry so the training ring is essentially his engagement ring, but for the purpose of him getting used to wearing it.
Sleep: Poor. Seems like my body will only let me get about 7 hrs of sleep now, which doesn't feel right, especially with my increased activity. I want to chalk it up to weather, but maybe I am doing something wrong.
Toes: Right middle toe has been the most inflamed throughout this whole infection or whatever. My toes don't itch or hurt, at least. They get a little itchy towards the end of a shower (I always take hot showers), and feel irritated with the sheets over them at night (but I can't sleep with my feet uncovered). I'm just hoping that regular soaking and dousing with tea tree oil will heal it, now that it's warm enough to wear sandals. I'm supposed to make an appointment with a dermatologist, but it always takes a few weeks to see them and I feel fed up with doctors right now.
Body: 12.29 miles yesterday, which is the distance to the next town center and back, without stopping for a drink in town. I cut my time down by about 10 minutes, I think. It takes me about 15 minutes to feel warmed up on the way out and then I can push myself in bursts. The way back was much harder this time. It's mostly a decline, so I think it was lack of motivation, or maybe my body was still tired from Friday. I knew I had to get home on my bike, so I just kept pushing myself to keep going. I should get out at least one more time this week, but it looks like it's going to cool off and be rainy :(. I feel like with the way I pushed myself yesterday, I should be really sore today, but I'm not sore at all. I think, for now, I'm just going to keep doing this route a few times a week or as often as I can. As I get more used to it, I'll start pushing for speed. On weekends, I'll practice the route to work, which is only 3.5 miles one way. I want to have a lot of extra possible energy per trip so I'm not wiped from my commute. I feel like my bum is firming up already :D.
Mood/brain: A little anxiety again last night. Wondering if I should increase 5-HTP to 200mg again. That might account for the poor sleep and anxiety that's been creeping in during the evenings recently. I don't think I'm going to be able to reduce the dose until my gut is healed...
Gut (TMI): Yesterday, my gut felt fine, but I hadn't had a BM by the evening, so I had 2g of Vitamin C. I had a BM a couple hours after that, so I had 2g of Vitamin C before breakfast this morning and I'll have more mid-day and after work. It's weird that my gut will feel okay until I have a BM, then it hurts and I get bloated.
Supplements: I didn't prep my water last night (pre-boil) so I didn't use the neti pot this morning. Loooots of post nasal drip. Current supplements are
-Morning: colostrum in water, vitamin C and L-Glutamine in water, with drops of Iodine and Vitamin D (also my antibiotic, two doses left). Also Vitex and Zyrtec (prevents itchy eyes and reduces sneezing).
-Mid-day: Vitamin C in water before lunch
-Evening: Colostrum in water, vitamin C and L-Glutamine in water, all of that when I get home, before I eat anything. 100mg 5-HTP around dinner time, 50mg 5-HTP within an hour before bed.
I'm thinking of adding something like grapefruit seed extract to see if that helps my toes heal faster. It's all linked to my gut problems, I'm sure (being able to heal this infection).
So far, no noticeable benefit from the colostrum, but it's only been a few days. It smells like whey powder and tastes kind of like plain whey too. A little sweet, but smells like milk. I think it would be a nice addition to a smoothie. I wouldn't mind having smoothies in the morning, but most of the fruit that one uses is too sugary for me (would provoke a hypoglycemic episode). I guess there's always banana, almond butter, and chocolate? :p
Took a walk around the parking lots, lovely out. I want to walk to the strip mall tonight, to look at shoes, after I get the laundry going, but I don't know how well my feet would stand up to walking in flip-flops and those are the only really reasonable open-toe sandals I have. Need to keep the toes breathing! I also really need to soak my toes, they are a little prickly with an itchy feeling, so I should probably just stay in and keep my feet elevated (my feet are a little purple and swollen). Damn my poor circulation!
An hour and a half to go, or an hour if I cut it short today. Bored.
Left my phone at work. Increased anxiety and irritability as a result.
Laundry is started. Soaking my toes now. Will start dinner prep soon, but no walking this evening. I have to go get my phone when traffic dies down =\.
Are you sure you're not diabetic? Have you been tested lately? How is it that your toes are not healed? What anitbiotic are you taking anyway?
I'm a little pissed at your doctor.
[QUOTE=Cryptocode;1154552]Are you sure you're not diabetic? Have you been tested lately? How is it that your toes are not healed? What anitbiotic are you taking anyway?
I'm a little pissed at your doctor.[/QUOTE]
I don't know the last time my fasting blood sugar was tested, definitely sometime last year, but it's been around 90 for the past few years whenever it's been checked. I don't have any reason to suspect diabetes. My feet always swell when it gets warmer out. I had hoped that changing my diet would change that, and maybe it still will someday, but I think the swelling yesterday was just the seasonal transition. The antibiotic is TERBINAFINE HCL 250 MG TABLET (Generic Equivalent for LAMISIL 250 MG TABLET ) - copied from CVS. I don't think it's done anything at this point.
I just discovered that this is the second antibiotic I've been on for the toe infection. The first was CEPHALEXIN 250 MG CAPSULE (Generic Equivalent for KEFLEX 250 MG CAPSULE ), which I took at the end of January. Thanks, CVS.com, for having a record of my prescriptions! I had totally forgotten. I should really find a dermatologist. Someone needs to take a culture or something and figure out what this is!
Toes are slightly improved since yesterday AM. Using coconut oil or scentless lotion with the tea tree oil seems to help. I am frustrated that treating my toes is just as difficult for me as staying on track with my dietary restrictions. I seem to reach a giving-up point all too frequently. For my toes, that means this infection or whatever continues. For my gut, that might mean never healing (because I still eat wheat and refined sugar sometimes). And, of course, my toes are affected by my diet as well. They feel worse (usually itchy and more noticeable redness) after I eat wheat and/or refined sugar.
Sleep: Woke up early, but didn't feel as early as it has for the past several nights. Probably around 6 instead of 5:30. I think I woke up at one point during the night feeling significantly overheated. I stuck my toes out from under the blankets and tossed back a blanket and fell back asleep. Took me a little while though, with a sweaty Hulky creeping up on my side of the bed. I can't sleep snuggled up with someone else very often, and he is a furnace! Looking forward to being able to lose some blankets overnight soon. We're still using two comforters and a fleece-like blanket.
Supplements: I took 200mg of 5-HTP last night. I am kind of tired today. I took an extra scoop of colostrum last night because I was hungry before dinner and had some running around to do (laundry and rescuing my cellphone from the office), it helped to tide me over, but it might have just been from the water I mixed it into. The container says 1/3 scoop for regular maintenance, twice daily, or a whole scoop for times of stress, twice daily, or 7g (7 scoops) daily for athletes. I'm tempted to try increasing it to see what happens, but I think I should just stick it out at the stress dose for a full month first. 7 scoops daily would be expensive.
Mood/brain: Feeling completely unmotivated this morning.
Body: Been struggling with some light acne for the past few days. I think it might be from the colostrum, but since I'm still taking the antibiotic and have been having a little chocolate every night (sometimes just a nibble, but it's still
Gut (TMI): It was not until after the evening dose of Vitamin C that I had a BM yesterday. It seems like it doesn't matter how much I have during the day, just that evening dose.
I want to go back to the doctor and ask about a stool test, but I think I need to wait until my hospital bills are paid off first. I might be able to tackle that later this month, but won't be certain until after I get paid on Friday. It's not that I don't know how much I'm going to earn, I just don't feel certain about anything until the money is actually in my account. The stool test is likely not going to be covered by my insurance (will go towards deductible, which is good anyway), so I need to have some money to cover those costs out of pocket. I think I'll pay half of the hospital bills this month, that way I can have a little savings.
My sister asked if she could ride up to Maine with us on Saturday. She said she'd pitch in for gas. Hulky said no immediately, he gets annoyed with her quickly. I really feel like it would not be a big deal, we probably would just listen to music the whole way (2.5-3 hrs). I don't know how to tell her "no" nicely. It's his birthday weekend so I don't want to push it. Any suggestions?
[edit] I went with "I wouldn't mind, but it's Hulky's birthday wknd. He wants me all to himself for the car portions. Are m&p going to be able to pick you up on the way?"
She said that's fine. Phew. I worry a lot about interactions with her because she can go on the defensive very quickly.