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GROUND UP is an annual publication of the Department of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. In this issue, we invite you to explore what it means to be Here.
We are soliciting printable media up to 2500 words with accompanying graphics. Shorter entries of 500-1000 words are highly encouraged, as are design proposals, either speculative or built. We welcome video submissions for the journal's online component, and encourage novel forms of written and artistic expression.
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Accolades were plentiful for the team as four players were lauded by the league. Seniors Nikki Husfeldt and Lexi Robinson were each honored on the All-Big Sky First Team while Faith Dooley was dubbed the Freshman of the Year and a second teamer with junior McKenzie Hart grabbing the Libero of the Year.
The incoming class of 2015 freshmen earned praise nationally with high honorable mention status by prepvolleyball.com. His 2012 and 2013 recruiting classes at Baylor, where he spent the previous four years as the associate head coach, were both ranked in the top 20 nationally.
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In his first three seasons with the Big 12 program, Pryor helped the Bears increase their win total from 16 in 2010, to 18 in 2011 and 20 in 2012.Pryor returned to coaching following a brief stint away from the profession in 2008 to lead the NCAA Division II program at Texas A&M-Commerce. As the head coach in Commerce, he led the Lions to back-to-back winning seasons, including a 25-10 mark in his last season. Pryor was named the Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year for his efforts during the 2009 season and tutored the conference's offensive player of the year.
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MFA in Visual Studies Presents Martin Kersels
The MFA in Visual Studies program presents Los-Angeles-based artist Martin Kersels in a free, public lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday October 8, part of PNCA's Graduate Visiting Artists Lecture Series.
Etsy Participates in PNCA–CYAN/PDX Cultural Residency Series
PNCA welcomes Etsy's Matt Stinchcomb for the PNCA–CYAN/PDX Cultural Residency Series, including a public lecture at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7 at CYAN/PDX, 1720 S.W. Fourth Ave.
MFA in Visual Studies Lecture: Ward Shelley
Listen to a podcast of Brooklyn-based artist Ward Shelley, who gave an MFA in Visual Studies program lecture in September 2009.
PNCA Hosts University of Iowa International Writing Program
PNCA hosts five writers through the University of Iowa International Writing Program, Oct. 5–9—kicking off with a reading and reception at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 5 in the Swigert Commons.
MFA in Visual Studies Presents Artist Ward Shelley
Join PNCA's MFA in Visual Studies Program for the kickoff of its lecture series with an intimate lecture by artist Ward Shelley, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, September 24 in the Lab at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 N.W. Davis St.
Craft Conversation: David Eckard and Anne Marie Oliver
Don't miss an opportunity to discuss the work included in the Museum of Contemporary Craft's exhibit Call + Response with PNCA Faculty David Eckard and Anne Marie Oliver, 1 p.m. Sat., Sept. 26 at the Museum, 724 N.W. Davis St.
Printmaker Zha Sai Exhibits New Work
Chinese printmaker Zha Sai exhibits her woodcuts in an exhibition entitled "Rhythm of the Shadows" at PNCA's Print/Photo Gallery from September 21 through October 9.
Memorial for Manuel Izquierdo
A public memorial will be held in honor of former faculty Manuel Izquierdo on Saturday, September 26, from 4-6 p.m. at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Swigert Commons, 1241 N.W. Johnson Street in Portland.
September Shows of Note
Don't miss these exciting art shows featuring work by Pacific Northwest College of Art alumni through September.
Public Art/Public Parks Lecture
Join PNCA and the Regional Arts and Culture Council for a casual conversation on public art at the CYAN/PDX on Wednesday, September 23.
PNCA in The Oregonian
The Oregonian recently featured two PNCA projects: the formal joint operations agreement with Museum of Contemporary Craft and the launch of the new MFA in Applied Craft and Design in The Oregonian.
Deborah Hopkinson Wins Oregon Book Award
Deborah Hopkinson, PNCA's VP for College Advancement, is the winner of the Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature, a part of the prestigious Oregon Book Awards.
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Join PNCA and TriMet in celebrating public art along the Mall segment of the new MAX Green Line, featuring work by PNCA faculty and alumni.
PICA TBA@PNCA Ends Soon
PNCA hosts the last two PICA TBA@PNCA events this weekend. Don't miss the chance to engage with this dynamic festival and the PNCA community.
MFA in Applied Craft and Design Lecture: Steve Badanes
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MFA Studio Open House
Join Oregon College of Art and Craft and PNCA for a public studio open house and a performance by Grammy-nominated alt-country singer Tift Merritt, celebrating the launch of the joint MFA degree program.
MFA in Applied Craft and Design Lecture: Steve Badanes
The joint MFA in Applied Craft and Design, offered by PNCA and the Oregon College of Art and Craft, presents its first lecture, featuring design build specialist Steve Badanes on Wednesday, Sept. 2.
Artist Sandow Birk Talks to The New York Times
Sandow Birk talked to The New York Times about his series "American Qur'an." Birk will be exhibiting a series of prints commenting on the debaucheries of contemporary warfare this November in the Feldman Gallery.
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From the day in 1854 when James Perrott placed a bottle for visitors' cards on a moor in Dartmoor, England, to the feature article in a 1998 issue ofSmithsonianintroducing the sport to a U.S. audience, to the thousands of letterboxes today scattered throughout North America, the quaint Old World pastime of letterboxing has come a long way. And it's not surprising. This fascinating, family-friendly sport--an intriguing mix of hiking, puzzle solving, treasure hunting, and rubber stamp artistry, topped off with the thrill of discovery--offers something for everyone. The basic idea is simple enough: Clues, usually posted on a website, lead to the secret location of a "letterbox." And yet there is much more to know.The Letterboxer's Companionis a complete introduction that covers everything from a history of letterboxing to tips on writing and following clues, from instruction in carving personal stamps to letterboxing etiquette--in short, everything an aspiring letterboxer needs to get started.
Author Biography
Randy Hall is a cofounder of the Letterboxing North America website, letterboxing.org, and is a nationally ranked orienteer. A software engineer by day, he lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
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(1) Introduction to Letterboxing (2) Gearing Up to Find Letterboxes (3) Basics of Finding Letterboxes (4) Basics of Creating Letterboxes (5) Basics of Rubber Stamp Artistry (6) Letterboxing Etiquette and Conventions (7) Advance Techniques (8) Internet Resources (9) Glossary (10) Index
Nothing compares to the thrill of the hunt. You're hiking through a forest of ancient hemlocks on a forgotten road, following a trail of cunning riddles to something cryptically referred to as the "wizard of the wood." You check your compass, then spy a gnarled oak just upstream that looks eerily like an old man. At its feet you find the cubbyhole that you know will be there, and pull out a small box containing some of the most exquisite stamp art you've ever seen.


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PolyU will continue to offer 2-year full-time UGC-funded Higher Diploma (HD) programmes in 2014-15. The aim of our HD programmes is to prepare students to acquire the appropriate attitude, knowledge and skills to support their initial employment at the para-professional level and to provide students with the necessary generic skills for further study and active citizenship.
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Most people will recognize the names of Tombstone, Arizona or Dodge City, Kansas. These were the iconic cities of the lawless Wild West. But one town in eastern Nevada had them all beat for a time period. Pioche, Nevada, almost three hours north of Las Vegas on Route 93, was a booming silver mining town in the 1870s. It was the Paiute Indians that first mined the hills for silver but it wasn't until they showed their yield to Mormon missionaries that the industry took off. Pioche was named after a financier who never stepped foot in the town that held his name, not that that mattered much to the people of Pioche. What mattered was that the silver mined from the surrounding area was hugely profitable. In 1870, just two years after many of the mines opened, over $1.6 million worth of silver ore was uncovered. In the next seven years, over $20 million worth of silver was mined. It's no wonder that Nevada is named the Silver State.
Approaching Pioche from the south, the first thing a visitor comes across as they descend the top of the hill is the old tram system. The tramway would bring ore from around the valley up to Treasure Hill and the mill where the product was refined. Carts still hang off the rusting wires as if production could begin again at any moment. The Main Street is small compared to what it was in its heyday. In the 1870s, Pioche was home to almost 10,000 people and those people had plenty of choices when it came to their leisure time. At one time, there were 144 saloons to choose from as well as four bordellos. It shouldn't be surprising to learn that Pioche earned itself a bit of a reputation as a lawless place. You can still visit the Overland Hotel today and even belly up to the bar that looks as if it came out of an old Western.
The best place to start a visit to Pioche is at the Million Dollar Courthouse, just off of Main Street. The building was begun in 1871 for the cost of $16,000 but interest and self-interest led the total to climb to one million dollars by the time construction was completed. And by that time, another courthouse had replaced it. Inside the courthouse is a treasure trove of artifacts from Pioche's past. Register logs are stacked high on the desks and you can read for yourself the birth registrations, marriage licenses and criminal offenses. Old mining equipment lines the wooden floors of the lower rooms. Water color prints of the town in its heyday hang on the wall. And in the back, the dingy dark jail looks as if it hasn't changed much from the 1870s.
Along the tour of the Courthouse, you hear more about the lawlessness of Pioche. According to the locals, over 70 men were buried as a result of violent deaths before a single person died of natural causes. Boot Hill Cemetery is where the dead from the booming 70s are at rest and it is well worth a visit. A quick turn down a residential road and past the modern cemetery is a simple row of wooden planks. The tramway runs right above this stretch of the cemetery and the carts hang forebodingly. The splintered wood tells the story of Pioche with lines like "Shot by a coward as he worked his claim no one even knew his name" or "Fanny Peterson AKA Panama Jack Spanish courtesan killed by her lover Lymon P. Fuller Damn Shame"
Pioche began a slow decline is the 1880s and though resurrected many times for short mining booms, it was never able to rival the times of the 1870s. Today it is a peaceful and friendly town that proudly shares its history with anyone who happens to stop by. When the lights and sounds of the big city exhaust you, it is well worth the trip to visit Pioche and step back into time.
Special thanks to Jim Kelly, the guide at the Million Dollar Courthouse, who not only shared his extensive knowledge but also his pride and affection for Pioche.


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Grand Challenge Fellow Mentors plan their courses with assessment in mind! (Spring 2011): Faculty gathered to plan ahead for program assessment of the second round of their Grand Challenge courses as well as share tips and tools for supporting their Mentee faculty who are planning their first round of courses this fall 2011. Workshops provided an assessment toolkit designed to help Mentors and Mentees think about shared assignments with their collaborative courses. This information will provide measures of student learning across Grand Challenge courses. Grand Challenge courses are a unique initiative of the General Education program at URI. Workshops were sponsored by the Subcommittee on Assessment of General Education (SAGE) and SLOAA. Take a look at current and future Grand Challenge courses.
More information about assessment of the Grand Challenge program is provided in the University College and General Education (UCGE) SAGE Grand Challenge Initiative Assessment Report for Fall 2010 (4/5/11), and in the Grand Challenge Initiative General Education Task Force Presentation to the Faculty Senate (5/12/11).
General Education Assessment Reporting at URI
Grand Challenge Initiative General Education Task Force Presentation (Faculty Senate Meeting, 5/12/11)
Grand Challenge Initiative Assessment Report for Fall 2010 (UCGE SAGE, 4/5/11)
Update: Revising the Gen Ed Program (3/31/11)
General Education Assessment Report to Faculty Senate (10/22/09)
Program Assessment Report to the Office of Higher Education (2008-2009)
History of General Education at URI (October 2008)
Report to the Learning Outcomes Oversight Committee (LOOC) (10/15/08)
Resources for Assessing General Education
General Education Program Outcomes Rubric
General Education and Assessment: A Sea Change in Student Learning
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This book contains poems Rebecca Rose wrote about trials in her life and the lives of her friends and loved ones.
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If you're the kind of DC resident who likes peace and quiet when you're not partying, Victoria might be the right place to live. Sales have started at this an all-new condominium residence with elevator service, underground parking, outdoor spaces, and some of the best views in the nation's capital. Located at 1443 Chapin Street, NW, just steps from historic Meridian Hill Park, Victoria offers 16 one- and two-bedroom residences including four luxurious duplex penthouses.
Urban Pace, the city's leading condo sales and marketing firm, is handling the condo sales, with prices beginning in the $400,000's. Urban Pace President Lynn Hackney noted that The Victoria provides "the best of all worlds; offering a tranquil environment just steps from beautiful Meridian Hill Park, while providing easy walking access to the restaurants, shops, and nightlife along 14th and U Streets. Just a few blocks north is the newly expanded Giant and DC USA, anchored by Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, Staples, and Best Buy."
Said developer Steve Schwat of Drummond Development: "Victoria offers the ultimate convenient city living, with all the 'bells and whistles' at a reasonable price, along with low condominium fees. An elevator takes residents directly from the secure underground parking garage or first floor to their thoughtfully designed homes, where floor-to-ceiling windows maximize views in all directions and carefully selected amenities enhance the city living experience. The penthouses offer unbelievable views through 18-foot windows, and provide abundant living space on two floors, including private outdoor terraces."
Schwat added: "Because Meridian Hill is nearly 50 feet above 'old' Washington, you can see the Washington Monument, the US Capitol, the National Shrine, the Potomac River, and Rosslyn from Victoria."
Each condominium home at Victoria has Nest "learning" programmable thermostats and Nest smoke detectors, custom kitchens with 56-inch lighted wall cabinets and snow-white quartz countertops, stainless appliances, under-cabinet lighting, full-size washer/dryers, three-quarter-inch maple hardwood flooring, glass subway bath tile, and LED lighting fixtures. Selected homes offer GE Monogram appliances including double wall ovens as well as pot fillers.
Victoria is the second condominium project on Chapin Street completed by Drummond Development, the for-sale division of Urban Investment Partners. Meridian Heights, completed in 2005 at 1421 Chapin Street, is among a number of condominium projects built or renovated by Drummond in the last few years, including The Archbold, Providence Square, Penn Circle, The Drummond, and WY18.


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Rob Kardashian: Rita Ora "Pregnant" Tweet Photoshopped and Fake
Rob Kardashian has had a LOT to say on Twitter about the woman who cheated on him with 20 guys (widely assumed to be Rita Ora), but the reality TV star is blasting reports that he tweeted about getting her pregnant.
On Tuesday, sites including Perez Hilton began referring to a pair of alleged messages attributed to Ora and Kardashian that supposedly revealed a huge new twist in the saga.
According to Perez, a tweet purportedly written by Ora called out Kardashian: "Rob's d*ck was wack! I get (sic) to go get it somewhere else!"
Perez says Kardashian then supposedly replied, "So you let me get you pregnant and you let others hit raw?"
That would be a pretty major allegation to make publicly.
But it NEVER HAPPENED.
Ora and Kardashian never sent those messages, and the reality star let Perez know it.
Kardashian tweeted, ".@PerezHilton Don't see why you'd bring so much negativity to PHOTOSHOPPED tweets considering she is your friend. You should know better."
There are enough salacious details flying around about Kardashian and Ora this week.
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Even though our readers are still enjoying these last few weeks of summer vacation, we're in high gear prepping for Homecoming 2011 (hey, we're Prom Advice--we live for this stuff!). As we scoured through images of Fall 2011 runway shows, we couldn't help but spot several trends that could inspire your look for the big night. --Angel
Champagne Tones w/ Black Accents
Alone these two colors are beautiful but paired together the combo is stunning perfection. We were especially smitten with this look from FIDM Grad Monique Lhuillier because it's so over-the-top girly.
Faux or real, fur was a huge trend on the Fall 2011 runways. It's luxurious and decadent (shamelessly so) and instantly adds a dose of glamour to any look.
One-Shoulder Silhouettes
We're still in love with this trend and fortunately for us, it remains a must-have look this fall. A long sleeve updates the look.
Bright, punchy, and dare we say, summery even, shades of orange were popping up all over the Fall 2011 runways. It's the color that says, "Hey, people. I'm the life of the party!"
Feathery Frocks
Fun and flirty and dramatic--what more could you possibly want in a Homecoming dress? Designers favored feathers for fall either in short, voluminous frocks or full, ballooning ball gowns. Which will you choose?
The Fall 2011 runways were teeming with knockout skirt-and-blouse combos. We love the look of a shiny sequined or jeweled skirt paired with a simpler (but still fantastic) top.
1920s Inspiration
Dropped waists, fringe, pearls...we are huge fans of 1920s fashion so we're always thrilled when we see runway looks inspired by the decade. This modern version is such a sleek interpretation.
Ruffles & Booties
The juxtaposition of girly ruffles with edgy ankle boots was a hit on runways and is still a hit in real life. We love the flirtiness of tons of ruffles, but even just a few will still look sensational.
Equal parts disco era and space age, we consider dazzling, sparkling, light-reflecting silver to be a style staple for your Fall 2011 wardrobe, for Homecoming and otherwise.
Ballerina Inspiration
There's no better time than Homecoming to embrace your feminine side and with fall's ballerina-inspired pieces it's easier than ever to do. Pulling off the look can be tricky (you don't want to look too precious) so keep the skirt at knee or tea length.


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HEAD COACH Mitch GaspardOpening Statement:"For starters, I thought a couple of freshmen were keys to the game. Ray Castillo's outing – to keep the game right there at 3-0, really on the heels of Kenny [Robert's] great play at third after the leadoff triple, and Mikey White had a tremendous night for his debut with us. I thought the biggest thing tonight was just we showed some fight and some grit, that's we had wanted to see. After game one, I am pretty pleased with the effort that we saw. Now it's putting those type games back-to-back and execute and do some of the good things that we did tonight."
Thoughts on falling behind 3-0: "I felt we were still confident, but we were getting at a point where we needed something good to happen to us and I said, 'Roberts' play was really big and then Ray [Castillo] being able to finish that inning off to keep it at 3-0, because they had all of the momentum for the first five innings. Once we got it 3-2 then you could start to feel it come our way – our at-bats got better, and we hit some balls pretty good too right at them. I thought they played a really nice game too for opening night it was a pretty solid game on both sides tonight."
Thoughts on Turnbull's control tonight: "He was up in the strike zone. I thought all of our veteran guys – Spencer [Turnbull], [Taylor] Guilbeau and Justin Kamplain – all were pitching up at the top of the strike zone. Just one of those nights, he knows he has to get the ball down, he's been so good the last three or four weeks that was a little surprising tonight. I thought he would come out and really be good in the bottom of the strike zone."
Thoughts on Mikey White's performance tonight: "Mike's a good player. Obviously a good player had a really good night tonight. What I'm most pleased about out of the young players is the way they played – they didn't show any fear in their eyes and they were in attack mode from the first inning on. Even the error we made, I was pleased with [Kyle] Overstreet that he had enough about him to try to turn the double play even though the throw went high – it shows the confidence."
Alabama Player Quotes#1, Mikey White, SS.
Thoughts on White's emotions before the game: "I was trying to stay loose – make some jokes out in the outfield when we got all the starters out there. Just try to play without any nervousness and just have a good debut."
Thoughts on his debut and the team's performance tonight: "Great job by the team, we battled back from down 3-0 and fought back into it and put some runs on the board to win it. Every at-bat I just tried to go in there and stay loose and stay comfortable and just trust myself."
#23, Ray Castillo, RP.
Thoughts on what he was trying to accomplish coming out of the bullpen in his first game out: "Coming into the game, I had some jitters at first I kind of just zoned out and tried to throw strikes and work ahead."
Thoughts on the freshmen's play in general tonight: "We have a strong class this year and a great group of guys. We just tried to come into this year and try to make a statement. Just because we are young does not mean we aren't talented enough to compete at this level. We were all trying to fight for our spots out here, so everyone's amped up and playing good."
* Tonight's game against VMI marks the first ever meeting between the two schools – Alabama now leads the series 1-0.* Head coach Mitch Gaspard's opening day record now stands at 3-1.* With tonight's win, Alabama now holds a 14-5 all-time mark against the Big South Conference.* The eight runs in tonight's season opener are the most since 2011's season opening 11-0 win over Alcorn State.* The Crimson Tide started four freshmen in tonight's lineup: Georgie Salem, Mikey White, Kyle Overstreet and Ryan Blanchard.* In his first career game with the Crimson Tide, Mikey White recorded his first hit and multi-hit game, going 4-for-5. He also drove-in the go-ahead RBI in the seventh inning, scored a run in the seventh and added a stolen base in the eighth.* Ryan Blanchard added his first career hit in the fifth, a double that scored the Tide's first run of the 2013 season. He added two stolen bases in the eighth. * Kyle Overstreet also registered his first career hit of his Alabama career with a seventh inning single.* Freshman Georgie Salem drove in his first run of his Alabama career with a fifth inning infield groundout.* With Ben Moore's two singles tonight, he now has 18 multi-hit games in his career.* Booth also extended his current streak, dating back to last year, of reaching base safely to seven games. He also scored two runs, tying a career-high and walked twice, also tying a career high.* For the first time in his career, Cary Baxter reached base three times via a single in the third and two walks.* Baxter scored two runs as well – one in fifth and the go-ahead run in the seventh, tying a career-high. * Catcher Brett Booth caught two VMI players stealing.* Freshman pitcher Ray Castillo made his UA debut in relief, going 3.1 innings and striking out five, and retiring seven straight to finish his outing which ended with a win.


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Stressing bi-partisanship and counting on the support of women and Hispanics to get elected, Texas governor hopeful Sen. Wendy Davis (D - Fort Worth) Friday presented her vision to members of the Dallas Friday Group.
" I believe strongly in public-private partnership", Davis said in reference to Toyota Motor Co.'s decision this week to move major parts of its U.S headquarters from California to Plano, Texas, where Toyota, in exchange for an investment of $40 million through the Texas Enterprise Fund, commits to invest more than $300 million and employ nearly 4,000 people.
Davis, that was elected to the Texas Senate in 2008, touted her 9 year experience on the Fort Worth City Council, were she was the chair of the city's economic development committee, as crucial.
" I'm a democrat representing a republican district and I'm proud to have the reputation to walk over the aisle", she said, especially mentioning Sen. Carona (R - Dallas) and giving him high points for his work on transportation planning, one of the three issues she focused her speech on. The other two were education, the center part of her campaign, and water development and conservation.
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But Davis, that gained national fame in 2013 when she filibustered a Texas abortion bill banning abortions after 20-weeks of pregnancy, faces an uphill battle. The last democrat to be elected governor in Texas was Ann Richards in 1990, and since 1994, no democrat have won a statewide election. Something that maybe explains why the Davis campaign in April set a goal of knocking on 48,000 doors in the Rio Grande Valley. Of the Valley's 1,3 million inhabitants, 86 percent of Cameron County, 90 percent of Hidalgo County, and 86 percent of Willacy County are Hispanics.
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Women's Basketball: The Huskies started their year off Monday with a tight 45-42 exhibition win over Indiana Wesleyan, as Amanda Corral led NIU with 12 points and sank to critical free throws late. The squad kicked off their regular season Friday night in Iowa City, Iowa, when they dropped a 63-40 decision to the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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In order to diversify its specialized schools, the Education Department plans more efforts to recruit underrepresented minorities and give them free test preparation.
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If you've heard even one note of [artist id="1191782″]Muse's[/artist] new album, The Resistance — or if you saw their roof-blowing performance at the VMAs — you know that the English trio are far from understated.
Muse are stadium-rocking superstars in Europe. They go for the big idea with a gargantuan sound that melds the theatrical flair of Queen with the symphonic filigrees of 1970s prog rock and a healthy dose of the electronic-rock quirks of the band they're most often compared to, Radiohead.
But Muse, who are contributing a remix of The Resistance song "I Belong to You" to the soundtrack of the upcoming "Twilight" sequel "New Moon," had some new ideas for their fifth album, which they said is their most personal work to date.
"I think it's quite a departure from what we've done in the past," drummer Dominic Howard said. "There's lots of different styles of music that we tried out. There's different styles of music that we feel like we've never come across before. And, well … we've got a big symphony on there. It's a three-part symphony right at the end of the album, which is this very kind of, like, ambitious, very orchestral huge piece of music which is a pretty hard task to take on, but ended up sounding great."
Howard was speaking of "Exogenesis," which is, indeed, a three-part symphony complete with an "Overture," a second act called "Cross-Pollination" and a finale called "Redemption." With swelling, dramatic strings and classical piano runs worthy of Chopin or Rachmaninoff, operatic vocals and searching lyrics about escaping the bounds of earthly gravity, the songs are indeed beyond ambitious, which is nothing new for a group of guys who have been forthright about their desire to conquer the globe with their Cinemascope sound.
"I think the structure of the album has a mild, loose narrative … which is something different to what we've done before," frontman Matthew Bellamy explained. "I wouldn't say it's a pure concept album, but it's definitely got a few themes which go throughout. Themes like revolution, uprising, wanting political change, constitutional reform … as well as a sort-of, kind-of love story developing in the midst of all that."
Bellamy said the album is a kind of musical companion to "1984," the classic George Orwell novel about a lone man's rebellion against a controlling totalitarian government. But, despite those far-reaching, worldly themes, Howard said that at its heart, The Resistance, which was produced by the band, is really a personal statement. "We did a song called 'Undisclosed Desires,' which is very kind of programmed and much more electronic-sounding than anything we've ever done before," he said. "And we produced it all by ourselves as well, so I think for that it sounded very, very personal and also gave us a chance to feel very comfortable to experiment with all these ideas and … you know, somehow we finished it."


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MEDINA — A 22-year-old Wellington man pleaded guilty Monday to receiving stolen checks.
Adam R. Knight was indicted in March on two counts of receiving stolen property, fifth-degree felonies punishable by up to a year in prison each.
Medina County Common Pleas Judge Christopher J. Collier will sentence Knight on Sept. 23.
Knight said the checks belonged to his ex-girlfriend, Brittany Smith.
Collier asked why he had them.
"I was using drugs really heavy at the time, and I needed money," Knight said.
Collier questioned Knight over the last time he used drugs, and Knight maintained he hadn't used since February. Despite that, the judge placed Knight on a drug-monitoring program.
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Jason E. Young pleaded guilty to attempted identity fraud, a first-degree misdemeanor punishable by six months in the county jail. His original charge was a fifth-degree felony.
Young's attorney, Paul Grant, told the judge his client used the personal information with the permission of the ex-girlfriend's sister.
County Assistant Prosecutor Scott Salisbury said Young did not have permission.
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Amanda J. Geiger is charged with misuse of credit cards, a fifth-degree felony.
She was free on a personal recognizance bond. Her first warrant was issued July 24.
Geiger has no previous record in Medina or Cuyahoga common pleas courts. [br]
• A 28-year-old Puerto Rican man was scheduled for an extradition hearing in two weeks.
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Matos is being held at the county jail for violating probation by possessing dangerous drugs.
The judge gave Matos the choice between defending himself at a hearing and admitting he's the right person wanted by Puerto Rican officials.
Matos waived his rights to a hearing.
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Dear Husband of me
I was most thankful to hear an articulate cheep from you once more—for the little notchen did ["]neither ill nor gude."1 But this is a clear and comprehensive view of the matter which may satisfy the female mind—for a time and deserves a most ample threepenny2 in return. I would have sat down instantly on receiving it and made a clean breast of all my thinkings and doings in the first fervour of enthusiasm which such a good letter naturally inspired—but the letter came at one—and at two the carriage was ordered to convey me to pass the day with Mrs Crawfurd;3 so it was plain that you could not get the "first rush o' i' tea"4 without being stinted in quantity. But this morning I have said it, that nothing short of an earthquake shall hinder me from filling this sheet.
First of all then dear Ill,5 I am and have been in perfectly good case—so far [as] the body is concerned— "Association of ideas"6 was like to have played the devil with me at first. The first night after your departure I slept three hours—the second forty minutes and the third none at all. If I had a cow I should have bade it 'consider.'7 having none, it was necessary to consider myself—so I applied to Dr Marshall8 for any sort of sleeping draught which had no opium in it, to break if possible this spell at the outset. He gave me something consisting of red lavender and other stimulants, which 'took effect on me'9—not that I swallowed it! I merely set it by my bed side—and the feeling of lying down under new circumstances—of having a resource in short, put me to sleep! One night indeed the imagination was not enough and I did take the thing into my inside, where it made "all cozy"10 and since then I have slept as well as usual nor did these bad nights do me any visible harm. Helen asks me every morning "if I have no headache yet"? and when I answer none, she declares it to be "quite mysterous"!11 In fact I believe Mrs Elliots cab is of very material service in keeping me well—and I hope you will become a Great Paid and that we shall some time have a bit clatch12 of our own. I have driven out most days since you went—from two till four quite regular—and I continue to sup on Cafe Madeira which seems to be as good for me as porridge after all. For the rest. My chief study is to keep myself tranquil and cheerful convinced that I can do nothing so useful either for myself or others: accordingly I read french novels or any thing that diverts me without compunction; and sew no more at curtains or anything else than I feel to be pleasant. For company I have had enough to satisfy all my social wants—often had more— Two tea-shines13 went off with eclat—the more so that the people came for the most part AT THEIR OWN PERIL. The first consisted of Mr & Mrs Crawfurd—George Rennie and his wife—Mrs Sterling—Il Conte—Darwin14 and Robert Barker15—(who was up from Northampton on leave of absence).— Do you shriek at the idea of all this? You need not— We all talked THRO OTHER 16 (except Barker who by preserving uninterrupted silence passed for some very wise man) and we were all happy in the consciousness of doing each our part to stave off ennui tho' it were by nothing better than nonsense. The next was a more rational piece of work, but more "insipid."17 Mrs Rich, Mrs Scott and her two sisters18—the Marshalls—Mrs Sterling again and the always to be got Darwin.19 We talked about the condition of the poor &c &c ONE AT A TIME—and I am sure the Saints think that all this while my light has been hid under a bushel—that in fact THEY have discovered 'me.' They kissed me all one when they went away and would have me out to Plumstead tomorrow. Then I had Mr Craik20 one night, to whom I prated so cleverly about DOMESTIC SERVICE—and all that, that his eyes twinkled the purest admiration thro his spectacles and two days after he returned with the horrible Mrs Craik,21 to hear me again on the same topics.
But catch me flinging my pearls before swine! But O dear me Dearest how the paper is getting covered over with absolute nothings—and I have really somethings to tell— I have to tell you one very wonderful thing indeed which brought a sort of tears into my eyes. The first money from the F.R.22 is come to hand—in the shape of a bill of exchange for fifty pounds—enclosed in a short business letter from Emerson.23 He says "an exact account has been rendered to me which tho' its present balance in our favour is less than I expected yet as far as I understand it agrees well with all that has been promised: at least the balance in our favour when the edition is sold which the Booksellers assure me will undoubtedly be done within a year from the publication must be $760.00, and whatever more Heaven and the Subscriber may grant"— You are to know dear fifty pounds is exactly 242.22—the rate of exchange being 9 per cent. He says nothing more except that he will send a duplicate of the Bill by next packet—and that "the Miscellanies is published in two volumes a copy of which goes to you immediately—250 copies are already sold" so you see dear here is Fortune actually smiling on you over the seas with her Cap full of dollars. "Pray you dont you be bashful" but smile on her in return.
Another bit of good luck lies in the shape of a little hamper full of Madeira—the Calvert wine24—I have not unpacked it yet—but I guess it holds a dozen— I too am to have some wine given me— John Sterling has desired his wine merchant on receiving a certain bask[et] of Malmsey from Madeira for him to send some fraction of it to me. He himself John Sterling you will be surprised to hear is off this day for good. He spends a week in settling his family at Hastings and then proceeds to Italy!! such is the order of Sir James Clerk [sic]25—and his own whim! He breakfasted with me this morning to take leave— Apparently in perfect health and almost too good Spirits I think—I told him that he seemed to me a man who had a diamond given him to keep which he was in danger of breaking all down into sparks that any body might have a breast-pin of it. He looked as Edward Irving used to do—I do not think that morally he is at all in a good way—too much of virtue "and all that" on the lips. Wae to him if he falls into the net of any beautiful Italian! People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives, are so apt from mere habit to get devoted to other peoples wives as well!—
Except Emerson's there have been no letters for you and of three-pennies only one of apology from Wilson along with that Globe26—and one from your namesake27 wanting letters to "Germany with which he wants to acquaint himself"—or rather in the language of truth, where he is going as a missionary (so Dr Marshall tells me—)28 I answered it politely. I must not conclude without telling you a most surprising purpose I have in my head which if you have h[e]ard of O'Connels late visit to a La Trappean Monastery29 you will not be quite incredulous of: I am actually meditating to spend a week with—Miss Wilson at Ramsgate!!30—to do penance for all the nonsense I speak by dooming myself for one whole week to speak nothing but real sense and no mistake! She wrote me the most cordial invitation and not to me only but to Helen whom she knew I did not like to leave—for three weeks I was to come— I answered in a long letter which you would have liked amazingly if you had had the good luck to hear it, "that when I heard from John—if there was time before his arrival I would absolutely accept—" I have had another letter from her since gracious beyond expression—and am really meaning to lock up and go with Helen for a week if John does not come all the sooner—address to me always here however as Dr Marshall will send on my letters instante. They are touchingly kind to me these good Marshalls—got up a dinnerchen [little dinner]—&c &c every body is kind to me—only I have put the Stimabile31 in a great fuff—purposely—that I might not have him dangling here—the old ass—in your absence—then it is impossible for me to get a frank—but you will not grudge postage even for this worthless letter since it is mine— I have not heard a word from my mother nor written to her yet—so I know not where she is— I have forgot a Thousand things—Madame Marast has not been yet—is to come32—a friend from Paris has deprived her of the pleasure &c Cavaignac was here last Friday—Edgeworth33 has been; wanted me out to Windsor—the blockhead Hume34 came to tea one night! No Americans—no strangers—Darwin is going off to the Wedgewoods [sic] with Mrs Rich. Thank you for the particulars to Helen—yes try and see her Mother—she is very kind to me—get very very well; and come back so good! and—so pooty.
Say all that is kind and grateful from me to the good Ferguses and tell Elizabeth I will write her a long letter one of these days—to be also in no sorrow about Pepoli—he is merely lack-a-daisical— God bless you Dearest— Do not I beseech you soil your mind with a thought of postage but write again quick. Be sure you go to Minto.35
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This autumn, after Lectures, Printing of Sartor &c, I steamered to Kirkcaldy; was in Scotland 5 or 6 weeks,—to Edinr twice or thrice; to 'Minto' manse (Dd Aitken's, now married to "Bess Stoddart," heiress of Old Bradfute, and very rich); thence, after dull short sojourn, thro' Hawick, Langhold [sic] to Scotsbrig (Mother abst in Manchester);—to Chelsea agn early in Octr. Vivid at this hour are all these movets to me; but not worth noting,—only the Kirkcaldy Part, with the good Ferguses, and after 20 years of absence, was melodiously interestg to me, more or less. Ay de mi,—all gone now, all,—and She who was herself all!— [Insert these Notes,—carefully at their places]36


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Out of the Fog, 12-13: Conjunction Junction
Compagnie TcheTche Misses the Overarching
By Aimee Ts'ao
Copyright 2006 Aimee Ts'ao
SAN FRANCISCO -- In a few more minutes, if you keep on reading, you
will probably start thinking "There she goes again,
off on some political tangent." Dance does not exist
in a vacuum and it never reaches the stage without
some form of politics either helping or hindering the
process of reaching an audience. This can come from
patrons, as in the old days with Louis XIV and the
Russian Tsars or in more recent times with Lincoln
Kirstein, Bathsheba de Rothschild, and Lucia Chase; governmental organizations charged with
allocating public funds, such as the U.S. National
Endowment for the Arts; or from non-governmental
organizations and foundations, such as the Ford
Foundation or Philip Morris/Altria. So it is
appropriate to consider broader connections, as I do
from time to time, today in reflecting on a
performance of the African dance ensemble Compagnie
TcheTche, seen December 2 at the Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts Forum.
Globalization is a word that has come to have mostly
negative connotations. Yet it all depends on which
side you are standing. In terms of economics, the
creation of jobs and the resulting improvement in
quality of life for those in developing countries is a
good thing. The loss of jobs and declining economic
health in the already developed ones is not. The
exploitation of people, through multinational
corporate greed on both sides of this seesaw is
appalling. Globalization can also mean the exposure of First World culture to
the Third World and vice versa via radio, television
and the Internet, a mixed blessing as far as I can
tell. The word assimilation is also a double-edged
blade. Immigrants trying to integrate themselves into
a new culture in order to feel accepted and gain some
economic ground also pay a price sometimes, though not
always, by losing their own traditions and social
I like to keep all these ideas in mind when going to
see dance that is a fusion of traditional indigenous forms and Western European ones. Cross-pollination of all the performing arts forms -- music, dance, theater -- has been going on for
millennia, since the earliest humans encountered
cultures different from their own. This process often
came about along trade routes or as the result of military invasions. Until recently when travel became relatively rapid
(thanks to trains and airplanes), this melding of
cultures was quite gradual, taking generations instead
of months or years.
And finally before we get to the show at hand, I feel
obliged to disclose that on the day of
Compagnie TcheTche's concert I woke up with a
horrendous head cold. That alone would have been a
great excuse, but I also sat on an arts festival
selection panel for 6 ¸ hours, viewing more than 50
dance DVDs and videos. No doubt both of these factors
influenced my perception of this company's
The evening-length "Dimi" (in English, 'women's
sorrow'), choreographed by TcheTche artistic director
Beatrice Kombe, succeeds in revealing several layers
of culture in regard to the position of women in
African society. The most notable example isn't in
the piece but in the company itself being composed of
four women. Inserted into the program booklet is an
interview of Kombe, by Ariel Osterweis Scott, in which
the Abidjan, Ivory Coast-based director relates how complicated it
was for her, as a woman, to direct the members,
especially the men, of the company Lakimado. "There
were too many power issues," she explains. In
response, she started Compagnie TcheTche with only
The strong points of TcheTche are its very personal
emotional expression and the sections of traditional
Ivorian dance. In the same interview Kombe relates
that she has only worked with two non-traditional
choreographers, Zab Maboungou and Alphonse Thierou,
and these contacts with a different approach to dance
triggered the desire to find her own technique, her
own language. Given that "Dimi" was her initial work
for her new company it would be unfair to judge her
progress on the road toward realizing her goal. Had
the company performed a recent work I might be able to
better assess Kombe's growth as a choreographer.
In some ways Compagnie TcheTche inevitably makes me
think of Ronald K. Brown's rich choreographic amalgam.
In fact, it's almost the reverse story -- Brown has
developed his own very distinct dance language
starting from modern dance, ballet and hip-hop, then
incorporating traditional African forms, while Kombe
is moving from the traditional forms toward a new
vocabulary without the benefit of greater exposure to
other forms. Brown has the advantage of using highly
trained dancers, both in his own company Evidence and
in the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the only
troupes I have seen perform his choreography. And
the level of technique does matter, as I witnessed
also with Compagnie Salia ni Seydou from Burkina Faso
in 2003, where despite the rambling choreography, I was
completely engaged by the performers' powerful stage
presence and articulated execution.
Not that TcheTche's dancers didn't have their moments,
but they lacked a sustained level of
intensity in both quiet moments and vigorously
physical ones. I did enjoy each performer
individually, observing her various facets. What I
missed was some overarching structure that brought
these four women together consistently, not literally,
but artistically for the entire evening.
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I have been sitting in on meetings for much of 2016 listening to budget discussions, funding issues and economic development needs.
A lot of the factoids I pick up rummage around in the back of my mind, bumping into each other.
Occasionally a few of these issues collide and stick together to provide me with some inspiration.
Go ahead and call me biased if you want, because my column this week touts two organizations in our community I think are top-notch.
First up is Brunswick Housing Opportunities Inc. BHO is a nonprofit designed to connect people to preparation, resources and opportunities that raise the level of economic security, increase financial resiliency and improve the health and well-being of people and communities.
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Sunset Beach Police Chief Lisa Joyner recently announced three new programs available to residents of our town:
Coffee with the Chief: This program provides residents an opportunity to personally meet with their police chief in a friendly and casual setting. Residents are encouraged to attend to discuss matters of interest, learn more about their police department, offer tips and share information directly with Chief Joyner.
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin recently announced the Tri-Beach Fire Department completed its routine inspection and received a rating of 4 for the Holden Beach District. The 4 rating is an improvement from the department's previous 5 rating and will be effective Aug. 1. Ratings of responding fire departments directly impact property insurance calculations.
Sunset Beach Town Attorney Grady Richardson is wrong in claiming a "2006 legal opinion involving Riverside Drive and petitioner Jan Harris, when ownership of the 69-lot property was resolved by submission of deeds."
Regarding the tragic story of Pearl the cat, this was a sickening, barbaric and inexcusable violent crime.
Those who care about animals should be aware there is a direct correlation between animal abuse and domestic violence that has been documented through research across various academic disciplines. If there is animal cruelty occurring within a family, there is a good chance people are being abused also, including intimate partners, children/babies and/or the elderly.
They are sick, if indeed sincere, and are in desperate need of help. I am referring to those who claim they are of the sex opposite to that evident by their physiological constitution. I am not a medical doctor, but I am also not stupid. When a person believes and claims they are really members of the opposite sex, ab utero, or whenever, something serious and very dangerously wrong is going on.
Brunswick Family Assistance would like to say thank you to long-time volunteer Molly Dupree and all her neighbors in the Seascape Community for conducting a food drive that collected more than 1,600 pounds of food for BFA's food pantry.
Donations such as this are critical to our food pantry and the families BFA serves.
Thank you, Seascape!
Stephanie Bowen, BFA program manager
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Suppose I know that, for two random variables $X,Y$, we have $$Cov(X,Y)\neq 0.$$ What happens if we take a monotone transformation of $X$; will the inequality persist? That is, say $f(.)$ is a strictly increasing (not necessarily linear) function, then does it follow that $$Cov(f(X),Y)\neq 0?$$ Since covariance depicts linear relationships, this would only follow if $f$ were linear, right? In that case, under which assumptions on the relation of $X,Y$ can we say that it does follow for nonlinear transformations $f$? (If it helps, I am currently looking at the case where $f$ is the cdf of the standard normal $\Phi$.)
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(I have edited the question changing $f$ to $g$ in order to keep the symbol $f$ for probability density functions). First, indeed, when the transformation is linear(affine actually), the covariance involving the transformation will continue to be non-zero. For non-linear transformations you cannot obtain very specific conditions. My approach is the following:
For compactness, set $Z=g\left(X\right)$. Then you require the conditions under which $$\operatorname{Cov}(Z,Y)\neq 0? \;\Rightarrow\; E\left(ZY\right)\,-\,E\left(Z\right)E\left(Y\right)\, \neq0?\qquad [1]$$
Using Integrals to express the expected values, we require (assuming certain regularity conditions) $$\int_{D_Z} \int_{D_Y} zyf_{Z,Y}\left(z,y\right)\,dy\,dz \;-\;\left(\int_{D_Z}zf_{Z}\left(z\right)dz\right) \left(\int_{D_Y} yf_{Y}\left(y\right)\,dy\right)\neq0?$$
$$\Rightarrow \int_{D_Z} \int_{D_Y} zyf_{Z,Y}\left(z,y\right)\,dy\,dz \;-\;\int_{D_Z} \int_{D_Y} zyf_{Z}\left(z\right)f_{Y}\left(y\right)\,dy\,dz\neq0?$$
$$\Rightarrow \int_{D_Z} \int_{D_Y} zy\left[f_{Z,Y}\left(z,y\right) \;-\;f_{Z}\left(z\right)f_{Y}\left(y\right)\right]\,dy\,dz\neq0?\qquad[2]$$
where the $f()$ functions are joint or marginal probability density functions, and $D$ denotes the support. Now define $\omega \equiv(z,y)$ and note that $zy\;$,$\,z\;$,$\;y\;$, can all be derived as linear transformations of $\omega$, say $zy=\tau_0(\omega)\;$,$\,z=\tau_1(\omega)\;$,$\;y=\tau_2(\omega)\;$. For example $z=\omega[1\; 0]'$, the prime denoting the transpose. Also define $C\equiv D_Z\times D_Y$. Then we can compact even further by writing $$\cdots\Rightarrow \int_C h\left[\omega,\tau_0(\omega),\tau_1(\omega),\tau_2(\omega)\right]d\omega\neq0?\qquad[3]$$
Why all this trouble? Because now it is clear that what you are asking is the requirements under which a double definite integral of a function of its variable does not equal zero when integrated over the whole domain of its variable. Reversely, we want to exclude the conditions under which this integral equals zero. First since $\operatorname{Cov}(X,Y)\neq 0\;$, it implies that the random variables $X$ and $Y$ are not independent. Therefore we have $f_{Z,Y}\left(z,y\right) \;\neq\;f_X \left(x\right)f_Y \left(y\right)$ . But this does not guarantee that the double integral will be non-zero. It may still equal zero if the integrand in eq.[2] is an odd function w.r.t. to at least one of $z$ or $y$, and if the domain w.r.t to this variable is symmetric around the origin (which will hold if for example $D= \Bbb R$ - extended). Assume that indeed $C=\Bbb R\times\Bbb R$ extended. Therefore we must guarantee that the integrand $zy\left[f_{Z,Y}\left(z,y\right) \;-\;f_{Z}\left(z\right)f_{Y}\left(y\right)\right]$ is not an odd function w.r.t. to either $z$ or $y$ separately. Now if you work the integrand, substituting $-z$ for $z$ etc, you will be able to reduce the condition into the following: "The non-linear transformation should not be such as to make both $f_{Z,Y}\left(z,y\right) \;$ and $f_{Z}\left(z\right)$ even functions of $z$." For $Y$ this could be stated as "If the pdf of $Y$ is an even function, then the non-linear transformation should not be such as to make $f_{Z,Y}\left(z,y\right) \;$ an even function of $y$.". Obviously this is distribution-specific (or at least distribution family- specific) and you cannot go more specific than that. If it looks disappointingly general, imagine a true jungle. Then independence is a straight clear path through this jungle, and linear dependence is an elliptical clear path approaching asymptotically the straight path of independence. The rest of the jungle is non-linear dependence. $$ \text{}$$ Afterthought: A less "mathematical" and more "statistical" condition (although not necessarily more useful) would be "The non-linear transformation must be such as to not render the variables $Z$ and $Y$ sub-independent". In a nutshell, sub-independent random variables are dependent but uncorrelated: their dependence is "perfectly non-linear".
Assume that $\mathrm{Cov}(X,Y)\ne0$ and consider some increasing function $g$ (you say that the case of interest is when $g=\Phi$ the standard normal CDF, which is increasing). The question is to find some conditions on $(X,Y)$ implying that $\mathrm{Cov}(g(X),Y)\ne0$, presumably for every such $g$.
Here is a sufficient condition: one knows that $E[Y\mid X]=h(X)$ for some function $h$ depending only on the joint distribution of $(X,Y)$. Then:
To prove this, assume without loss of generality that $h$ is increasing, note that $\mathrm{Cov}(g(X),Y)$ is also $\mathrm{Cov}(g(X),h(X))=E[g(X)h(X)]-E[g(X)]E[h(X)]$, and that for nondecreasing functions $g$ and $h$, $E[g(X)h(X)]\geqslant E[g(X)]E[h(X)]$ with equality if and only if $g$ or $h$ is almost surely constant on $D$ such that $P[X\in D]=1$. Here $g$ and $h$ are increasing everywhere hence $E[g(X)h(X)]\gt E[g(X)]E[h(X)]$ except if $X$ is almost surely constant but then $\mathrm{Cov}(X,Y)=0$ hence this does not happen and the claim is proved.
Of course, the partial result above is only useful when one can compute $E[Y\mid X]=h(X)$ easily. Here are two remarks in this direction. First, when $(X,Y)$ has a density, $$ h(x)=f_X(x)^{-1}\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}yf_{(X,Y)}(x,y)\mathrm dy, $$ hence one should be able to check the monotony of $h$ in some specific situations. Second, when $(X,Y)$ is normal, $h(x)=ax+b$ where $a=\mathrm{Cov}(X,Y)\sqrt{\mathrm{var}(Y)/\mathrm{var}(X)}$ hence $h$ is increasing if and only if $\mathrm{Cov}(X,Y)\gt0$.


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College Hockey:Minnesota-Duluth hopes No. 1 ranking doesn't change anything
Now Jack Connolly knows how the guys on the Minnesota-Duluth football team feel.
The football team has been ranked No. 1 in the AFCA Division II Poll for two weeks, and the Bulldogs hockey team is now the top-ranked team in the USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll.
"It's pretty cool and a lot of the guys are excited," said Connolly, a junior center for UMD. "Obviously a lot of people in Duluth are pretty excited that we're No. 1. We knew we had all the talent in the world, we just needed to piece it together."
There have been three different top-ranked teams in the past three weeks, and the Bulldogs are the fourth team to be ranked No. 1 this season. UMD (9-1-2, 6-1-1 WCHA) has won three straight games and is coming off a sweep of Michigan Tech.
UMD has the fourth-best scoring offense in the nation at four goals per game, with the fifth-best power play (27.4 percent). Mike Connolly (8-10–18) and Jack Connolly (4-14–18) are tied for third in D-I scoring and Justin Fontaine (8-8–16) is also in the top 10 and has scored four power play goals.
No. 15 Wisconsin will be the first team to get a shot at the No. 1 Bulldogs this weekend in Madison, Wis. The Badgers started the season 6-2-2 overall and 3-1-2 in the WCHA but were swept at home by North Dakota last weekend.
The series matches the high-flying UMD offense against Wisconsin's staunch defense and goaltending. Last season, the Bulldogs and Badgers met just once, a mid-season split in Duluth.
The Wisconsin defense held UMD's offense to 19 shots on goal while the Badgers offense assaulted Bulldogs goalie Kenny Reiter with 52 shots in a 5-2 Wisconsin win. The Bulldogs bounced back and blanked the Badgers 4-0 the next night.
But this is a different Wisconsin team in 2010-11. The Badgers lost a ton of scoring (208 points between four players) and rely on their defense and goaltenders more than ever. Scott Gudmandson (2.12 goals-against average, .928 save percentage) has split the goaltending duties with fellow senior Brett Bennett (1.47, .940) this year and both have been solid.
"It's going to be our speed getting to their D-men and getting pucks to the net," Jack Connolly said. "Hopefully we get a couple goals early Friday and take the crowd out of it."
Jack Connolly said he expects special teams to play a vital part in the series, predicting whichever team does a better job capitalizing on power-play chances and killing penalties "will win a couple games this weekend."
Connolly said he and his teammates have tried to put the rankings aside and added the pressure created by the attention is minimal.
"Wisconsin might look at like, 'We got the No. 1 team this weekend and we want to knock them off,' but we feel prepared," Connolly said. "It's nice to be No. 1 but we don't look too much into it. It's not going to affect the way we play and we're going to go out and play every game the way we normally do."
For now, the Bulldogs will enjoy the buzz swirling around Duluth focused on UMD, on the ice and the gridiron.
"We've grinded a couple overtime wins out and some of them haven't been the prettiest wins but we got the job done," Jack Connolly said. "We definitely still have a long way to go but we're proud of our start."
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