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POSITION: Defenseman
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Madison, WI, USA
DRAFTED: NSH: 2003-7 overall
* Established career highs in points (45) and assists (38).
* His assist total ranked second on the team and among the Top 15 defensemen in the League.
* Led the team in average ice time with a franchise-record 24:15. Played more than 20 minutes in all but one game.
* Second among Nashville blueliners and third on the team in power-play points with a career-high (18).
* Also established career highs in power-play goals (3) and game-winning goals (3).
* One of five Nashville skaters to play in all 82 games this season, the second time in three seasons he has done so.
* Fourth on the team in penalty minutes with a career-high (73).
* Tied for the team lead in overtime points with three (1g-2a).
* Tied for second among NHL blueliners in points during the month of March with 12 (3g-9a) in 14 games.
* Posted a career-high eight-game point streak from March 3-18 (2g-8a), the longest such streak by a Predator this season.
* Twice had career-high assist streaks of four games - March 10-16 (6a) and Oct. 23-30 (5a).
* Notched his first career three-assist/point game on March 18 at Anaheim.
* Collected his second career fighting major, and first since March 1, 2008, in a bout with Marian Hossa on Feb. 18 in Detroit.
Career Notes
OT Points: 1g-3a-4pts, Shootouts: none, Penalty Shots: none.
|2009-10: Ranked second on the team, and tied for 20th among NHL defensemen, in assists (33)… Played in all 82 games for the second consecutive season, and for the third time in four campaigns. He enters 2010-11 having played 203 consecutive contests… Finished 11th in voting for the Norris Trophy… Led the team in average ice time for the second straight season, posting the third-highest average in franchise history (23:58). Played the 13th-most minutes in the NHL (1,966:02), logging at least 20 minutes in 81-of-82 games… Ranked second on the team with a career-high 112 blocked shots… Ranked first on the team in power-play assists (15), tying a career high, and third in man-advantage points (17)… Tied for the team lead in overtime points (1g-1a)… Collected his 100th career assist on Nov. 17 vs. San Jose… Name to The Hockey News' preseason All-Central Division Team, in addition to being ranked the 20th-best defenseman in the NHL by the publication… Earned a silver medal with Team USA at the 2010 Olympics while serving as an alternate captain... Led the U.S. in average ice time for the tournament (22:50), highlighted by a game-high 31:31 played in the Gold Medal Game… Tied for the Olympic tournament lead in plus/minus rating (+9)… Also tied for first on Team USA, and first among tournament defensemen, in assists (4). PLAYOFFS: Played in all six of the club's postseason contests… Ranked second on the team in average time on ice (24:08), and tied for second in shots on goal (16).
2008-09: Established career highs in assists (38) and points (45), ranking second on the club in helpers, and second among team defensemen in points… Also ranked 12th among NHL blueliners in assists and tied for 16th in points… Ranked second among team d-men in goals (7)… Set a franchise record for average ice time with a career high (24:15)… Ranked second on the club in power-play assists with a career-high (15) and third in power-play points with a personal best (18)… Posted career highs in power-play goals (3) and game-winning goals (3)… Tied for the team lead in overtime points (1g-2a)… One of five players to appear in all 82 games… Set career highs in shots (143), penalty minutes (73) and hits (87)… Played in his 300th NHL game on March 18, 2009 at Anaheim… Posted his 100th career point (assist) on Feb. 12, 2009 vs. St. Louis… Represented the United States at the 2009 World Championships in Switzerland… Ranked third on Team USA in average ice time (20:20) and named the club's best player in the bronze-medal game against Sweden.
2007-08: Led all team defensemen in goals (7) and ranked second in points (31)… Ranked third on the club in average time on ice (20:34)… Collected his first career game-winning goal on Dec. 8 vs. Anaheim. PLAYOFFS: Ranked second in average time on ice (21:12) while appearing in all six postseason games… Scored the game-tying goal in Game Three of the club's WCQ series with Detroit. Nine seconds later, Jason Arnott netted the game winner, marking the first time in NHL history that a team has gone from trailing a playoff game to leading it in less than 10 seconds… Also collected an assist in Game Three, his first career playoff assist.
2006-07: Established career-highs in games played (82), goals (8) and plus/minus rating (+10)… One of three Predators to play in all 82 games… Ranked fourth on the club in average ice time (20:09)… Scored his first career power-play goal vs. Vancouver on Oct. 31… Registered three points (1g-2a) in seven games with Team USA at the 2007 World Championships in Russia. PLAYOFFS: Played in all five of Nashville's WCQ games vs. San Jose. Game One was his first career playoff game and he scored his first career playoff goal in Game Three… Ranked second on the club in average ice time (23:18).
2005-06: Led Nashville rookies in assists (15), points (1g-15a-16pts), shots (84), penalty minutes (66), average ice time (17:21) and games played (71)… Tied for 12th among NHL rookies with a +7 rating… Tied for 13th among NHL rookie d-men in assists and tied for 15th in points… Scored his first career NHL goal, added an assist and posted a +4 rating at Chicago on Dec. 21… Posted his first NHL multi-point game with two assists at St. Louis on Oct. 15… Notched an assist in his NHL debut vs. San Jose on Oct. 5.
CAREER NOTES: Played his first pro season with Milwaukee (AHL) and tied for third on the team with a +10 rating in 2004-05… Also led Milwaukee in 2005 playoff assists (5) and ranked third in playoff scoring (1g-5a-6pts)… Served as captain for Team USA at the 2005 World Junior Championships, and became 16th American to compete in three World Junior tournaments… Named to the All-Tournament Team after leading 2005 WJC tournament defensemen in scoring (1g-7a-8pts), tying for second on Team USA in points and tying for third in the entire tournament in assists… Also appeared in one contest with Team USA at the 2005 World Championships in Austria.
AMATEUR: Helped the United States capture its first-ever gold medal at the World Junior Championships in 2004… Finished his freshman season at the University of Wisconsin (WCHA) in 2003-04 and was named to the All-WCHA Third Team, the All-WCHA Rookie Team and USCHO.com's All-Rookie Team… Ranked second on Wisconsin with a +19 rating and third with 93 penalty minutes and led team defensemen with 16 assists… The first American player selected (No. 7 overall) at the 2003 NHL Entry Draft… Won USA Hockey's 2002-03 Bob Johnson Award, given annually to the U.S. player who excels in international competition… Played for the U.S. at the 2003 World Junior Championships… Helped the U.S. advance to the bronze-medal game at the 2003 World U-18 Championships in Russia, finishing fourth in team scoring and seventh among the tournament's top-scoring defensemen… The only member of the NTDP to win two gold medals in one season in 2002, when he won gold at the U-18 and U-17 World Championships… Earned best defenseman honors at the 2002 U-18 World Championships in Slovakia, capturing a gold medal with the U.S. team while tying as the tournament's top-scoring defenseman… Played for the U.S. Select U-18 team at the 2001 Four Nations Tournament in the Czech Republic… Selected to play in the 2001 USA Hockey Select-16 Tournament.
BACKGROUND: Enjoys golf and fishing… Spends his summers in Pine Island, Florida… Favorites include Old School (movie), SportsCenter (TV show), Tim McGraw and the Dance Hall Doctors (band/musician), Will Ferrell (actor), Alaska (vacation spot) and Stoney River Grille (Nashville restaurant)… Enjoys Nashville for the country music… His father, Bob Suter - a member of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" U.S. Olympic Team - played for the Nashville South Stars and played at the University of Wisconsin… His uncles, Gary Suter (who enjoyed a distinguished 17-year career in the NHL) and John Suter, also played at Wisconsin… Wife – Becky.
TRANSACTIONS: June 22, 2003 – Nashville's first choice, seventh overall (first round), in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.


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Police in New Orleans were investigating multiple shootings Friday that happened within just a few hours.
Authorities said the most recent shooting happened about 8 p.m. along Wilton Street in Gentilly. They said two men suffered gunshot wounds, and one of them died later.
About 20 minutes earlier, police said a 16-year-old boy suffered a gunshot wound in the hip along Merrill Street.
About 7:30 p.m., investigators said they were called to a shooting at Newton and Thayer streets in Algiers. The victim suffered injuries on the face, arm and leg.
Earlier in the afternoon, a 22-year-old man was shot in the midsection along Dreaux Avenue. Officials said the injuries were not life-threatening.

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Topic: Thanks
I felt the need to post under the category of "Thought for the day".
My thought is this:
Thank you to all the moderators who willingly give their time - and more important - their knowledge to those of us who are caught in this difficult situation,
From the very first day I found this site, and the amazing people who work tirelessly to help us (i.e. moderators, caregivers, etc.), I knew this was a special group and a special place.
You touch the lives of so many people and you do it with grace and knowledge and compassion and experience and love and care and concern and.....
My wife and I are currently in a state of "unknown" right now but I know I can come to you with any questions or concerns and you will be there to help to the best of your ability. What a special group.
I hope you all find joy in this day.


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LETTER: States must retain control of education
Published: Friday, March 29, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 10:36 p.m.
Dear Editor: If you care about your children's education, it's important that you know about Common Core and ask your legislators to repeal it before it's too late.
Local control of your children's education is eroding quickly. Standards are dumbed down; various types of sensitive, non-academic data will soon be collected about your child, and shared with the federal government and special interests without parental knowledge or permission; and if the Alabama legislature doesn't repeal Common Core in the next two weeks before the legislative session is over, it will be almost impossible to extricate ourselves from this catastrophe. Parents, teachers, local boards of education and legislators will lose control over education policy in Alabama to outside entities.
Common Core is the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's transformational education reform. In President Obama's Blueprint for Education Reform, he states this is a plan for a re-envisioned federal role in education. Well, the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution puts the states in control of education. Are we willing to lose that? The Blueprint also states that priority will be given to states that adopt Common Core and use technology to address student learning that include principles of a universal design for learning.
I would implore you to call your legislators and ask them to vote to rescind these common standards. Call the House (334-242-7600) and Senate (334-242-7800) main numbers; the operator will record your vote.
There is a site, www.auee.org, that can provide additional information and videos.
Reader comments posted to this article may be published in our print edition. All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.


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Friday, 08/17/2012
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
Set 1: BagAC/DC Bag > MomaThe Moma Dance > Possum, Corinna, Sand, Halley'sHalley's Comet > Funky Bitch, SampleSample in a Jar, RosesRoses Are Free -> My FriendMy Friend, My Friend, SlaveSlave to the Traffic Light
Set 2: DwDDown with Disease[1] > BOAFBirds of a Feather, Tweezer > Twist > Velvet SeaWading in the Velvet Sea > CDTChalk Dust Torture, Joy > AntelopeRun Like an Antelope, Shine a Light
Encore: First Tube
[1] Unfinished.
· Wading in the Velvet Sea tease in Shine a Light
Noteworthy Jams: Down with Disease
Average Song Gap: 4.76
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: This show was webcast via LivePhish. DwD was unfinished. Shine a Light contained a brief Wading in the Velvet Sea tease from Trey.
Official Photos
Audience Recording
LivePhish Download
"Tweezer" > "Twist" > "Wading in the Velvet Sea" Official Video
Phish.Net Blog Recap
Song Distribution:
3 Farmhouse
3 The Story of the Ghost
3 The White Tape
2 Stash
2 Hoist
2 A Picture of Nectar
2 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
1 Joy
1 Rift
1 Lawn Boy
Songs by Debut Year:
This show was part of the "2012 Late Summer Tour."
Take a good look at it. Or if you're a braver man than I, relisten to it. This is a segment that will go down in history. That's right boys and girls, the second half of this second set just reached up with authority and grabbed the end of the first night of Superball's "Least Cohesive Setlist Imaginable By Man" crown and placed it on it's own head, and then walked around swinging it's stick with a mean look on it's face.
I'm not sure if I'm in the kind of headspace where I can pretend this impossible to latch onto 7 song segment was supposed to be a joke poking holes in Phish's psychedelic sky-pilot mystique, like something from 93 where a jam starts sounding a little bit too much like Zeppelin on their best day and they immediately scrap it in favor of atonal plodding and interpretive dance.
Or the ->|.. ->|? |||! segues of earlier 3.0 days that got so comically awful following brief glimpses of such spectacularly brilliant improvisation that it became easier to accept if you'd only admit that they were fucking with you.
Or the one that other people besides myself apparently believe: That on the day they finally decide to nail the Ghost breakdown, they're going to do so, then stop and apologize for fucking that part up and say they're going to try it again, and then go back and trainwreck that shit so hard that you're looking over your shoulder hoping that Denzel has some words of wisdom that can prevent the destruction of a burnt out Rust Belt husk of a city.
Hard to argue with a DWD & Tweezer totaling over half an hour of interesting improvisation. I GUESS we could focus on that. Not quite as historic as the hilarity that ensues afterwards though.
Being at the BGCA, with the band's volume dial turned up to 20, the energy in this place was absolutely EXPLOSIVE. When they dropped in and out of jams (the Antelope intro, specifically) the place would explode to the point of a deafening roar of grooves, funk, and full on euphoric non sensical sound explosions. Unlike anything I have ever heard at a Phish show. The sound was a bit muddled, but it brought a sound and energy to the building like anything I have seen at indoor and outdoor venues.
As someone who was on the floor of BGCA 100 feet from the stage, I can absolutely say they TORE THE ROOF off of that venue. The only down point in the first set as far as I'm concerned was Sample, only because it's not one of my favorites. Corinna always puts me in a good mood, Sand ebbed and flowed really well, Halley's Comet could have been longer and spacier but was solid, and then Funky Bitch just absolutely RAGED. They may have botched a number of jams and transitions, but Halley's > Funky Bitch caught me and everyone I was with by complete surprise. And even when they botched transitions and jams, it still sounded like a noise orgy in your ears.
Then the second set, yes, they played 2 "pace" songs, and could have done without Joy, but I have a soft spot for Velvet Sea. The rest of it, DWD > BOTF, Tweezer > Twist > Velvet Sea > Chalk Dust was something special in person and clearly the venue's energy didn't translate to the webcast.
I hated on this venue all the way up until the lights went down, and my tune completely changed once they hit the drop into Moma. Even after Starlake this year which is widely considered one of their best shows of first leg, this one was just flat out more FUN to be at. Jaded fans will be jaded, but most fan knows a webcast is NOT the same as actually being there, especially at this ghetto old high school gym auditorium that absolutely explodes with energy.
Can't wait for tonight! See you out there!
If you were unable to enjoy this show then it's time for you to find another band. I normally only start laughing during sick jams like DWD and Tweezer when at the show and feel the vibe and am in on the joke. I actually got that feeling last night at around 2am in the comfort of my home. These guys are unreal. I was disappointed with a lot of the 1st part of summer tour, but the jamming at both Long Beach and San Francisco are at another level of conscienceness that most of you are not even aware exists. Instead of waiting for the next great thing to happen during the show, just allow yourself to live in the now and enjoy the vibe that these 5 guys (Chris is part of the band) provide. It's such a great ride.
Disagree with HighNote- the show was definitely above average, high energy, some great moments (DWD>BOAF, Tweezer, and Chalk all had great jams). Shine a Light was like a cherry on top of a well-put together, solid show (nothing primal or super focused/deep jams), but you could tell they were having a great time. I was very pleased with the little delicious moments, and on many occasions I was blown away by a few little things trey was doing (since you can watch his hands up close). If you are wondering, I would recommend downloading this show. Highs from Set 1: Corinna, Roses, My Friend, Slave. Highs from Set 2: The Jams mentioned above and shine a light. It's an excellent first night show if you look at it from that perspective.
After how great that 2nd set started and after how lovingly well put together the previous night's show was, I thought some people would appreciate the humor.
First set had a good selection of songs in pretty odd places but it was enjoyable and a very solid set.
Thought that the second set was above average. DWD and Tweezer were tremendous jams but the Tweezer did get a ripcord as well as the Roses and the DWD (in the sense that it failed to transition cleanly into BOAF).
The show didn't have much flow but the jams were above average.
I arrived on Thursday the night before the shows and explored the local bar scene and downtown. My brother took me along highway one along the coast and into the lush rolling hills of Marin county. The city was already starting to come alive for me but this really was the lull before the fierce Phish monsoon would crash into the bay.
The pre-game festivities would start a couple of hours before tip-off and I had a good sense this would be a psychedelic undertaking. The streets were packed with Phish phans from all over. Shakedown street found its self perfectly placed right across the venue in the civic center park. We got into the venue with just about 30 minutes to kill. Before we knew it...lights.
Out of the gates the AC/DC->Moma->Possum combo would provide a early warmup period with a funk undertone. My first reaction was how powerful and the quality of the sound in such a small venue. Corinna was a nice early bustout only being played twice all tour. A quality version I must say. Then Mike launched his weapon into Sand where we got the first improvisational attack. The typical second setter found away in set one to bring just enough ammo to get the party going. A darker take on the song, Trey kept a slower darker tone while we heard Fishman take more of a quicker tempo lead to finish out the jam. Rolling into Halley's seemed like an odd choice coming out Sand and it didn't provide any additional improve but always a fan favorite. Funky Bitch and Sample in a Jar gave the the band a chance to flex their jazz and blues moxie. Roses->My Friend let everyone cool off after the previously played high tempo tandem. Slave would close out the set and it definitely delivered. At this point all four members fell right into synch. A splendid sweet sounding calm early segment would take us to the highest plateau of the set. Any awareness of time had been lost. Abruptly Trey's heart wrenching guitar licks would soon grab my attention and aviate me back to sensibility.
The second set began with Mike's typical early bass rift to lead us into DWD. Only minutes in did we begin the excursion into the land of enchantment. Some of the most inventive and prominent improve would be sprinkled on to everyone in attendance. The somber onset of the song would be propelled by Mike's dark and meticulously played longer held notes. Fishman would soon take the lead and we went for a ride with what sounded like a horse galloping. Fishman's ride would soon segue into Trey's magical wand of tranquility. A peacefulness and great awareness of the depth this jam was taking began to reverberate throughout the audience. Page held soft penetrating notes that also took on the the more tranquil theme of this version. Soon the transition into Birds would bring everyone back to reality for a brief few minutes. When Tweezer started the place erupted. It would be a healthy 15 minutes later that we were treated to the best Tweezer I've heard live. Hard straight funk from Mike and Fish took the early lead. Trey really began heating up and would blast us off to a spellbinding array of monster licks. Page would soon chime in with a more electronic constant beat while Mike began to absolutely dazzle and toy with our mental focus. Some of the more imaginative and inspired playing I've heard of cactus this year. Twist perfectly navigated me on my voyage further into psychedelic paradise. It capped off 45 minutes of some of the most dominant and unified improve of the summer tour. Velvet Sea showed its typical softer side to once again cool things down. A ferocious Chalk Dust would follow along with an ill timed Joy. Antelope took on more of the theme of the early part of the set which saw the crowd noticeably lifted by quality improve and risk taking. Stones tune Shine A Light closed out the set with much of the crowd singing along in high spirits. First Tube a huge personal favorite sent us home for the night.
If this second set was any indication on how the weekend would continue we were in for a treat.
It's pretty clear that we got Diseezered on this night. Such a incredible segment of mind blowing musical prowess during the DWD->Birds->Tweezer that I will never forget my first Phish show in the bay.
Second set Disease and Tweezer are surely the highlights of this night. I'll go ahead and agree with what most people have already said; the second set seemed to lack a real good flow and energy level. The Wading>CDT>Joy segment kinda deflated the energy levels, and I'm not totally sold on a Shine A Light set closer. Even though the set really slowed down with those songs, I really enjoyed Wading, it was performed well and was very pretty. Joy is an emotional song and has a lot of meaning for a lot of people, including the band. I can never be upset about hearing them play it, although like I said it kind of deflated the energy. All in all, this is probably the weakest of the 3 night run in SF. First Tube encore was fun fun fun!


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The Japan Times newspaper, where Richie was a longtime contributor, said he died Tuesday in Tokyo. It gave no other details. Richie reviewed Japanese films and the arts for the newspaper for more than 50 years.
Richie wrote books on two of Japan's best known filmmakers, Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa, as well as general guides to Japanese cinema. He also wrote about his travels in Japan.
Richie, from Lima, Ohio, came to Japan in 1947 during the American occupation. He also served for several years as a film curator at the New York Museum of Modern Art.


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Read what state investigators found at a North Texas charter school — and school's response
Updated at 12:10 p.m. on Dec. 21: I've uploaded the full TEA and Winfree reports. See links below.
Original post: As we reported today, a Texas Education Agency investigation found financial mismanagement, preferential hiring of the superintendent's relatives and other violations at Winfree Academy Charter School, which serves struggling high school students. Winfree officials said the final state report, released this month, contains errors and doesn't fully reflect the school's position and explanations.
The state's final investigative report on the Irving-based charter school runs 315 pages. The school's response to early findings from the agency runs 230 pages.
The TEA report is uploaded in sections here:
Summary and Part I - Education programs
Part II – Fiscal Investigation
Parts III to V and Exhibits
And here's the full Winfree report, which responded to TEA's preliminary findings from 2011.
You can read excerpts from the TEA and Winfree reports below.
Fiscal investigation of Winfree Academy Charter School


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@Talguy: nope, just ripping. It has the capability to remove UOPs (the things that disable fast-forward and whatnot during copyright warnings and ads and whatnot), but other than that it's just a ripper.
Does MTR compress the dvd so that i can fit on a 4.7gb dvd-r like dvd shrink for windows does
Nice and fast with lots of fiddly bits and options.
I found this especially great because I didn't have time to wait for the Handbrake rip/encode process that can sometimes take hours and won't give you your DVD back until it's done. Sometimes that's no problem, but with MacTheRipper you can just dump the data off the disc and encode it later, or just play the VIDEO_TS folder with VLC or something.
I don't like handbrake because it changes the format! (backup copy will not play on a standard dvd player)
Does anybody know if there are any plans for an Universal Bianry version of MacTheRipper?
Here you go:
MacTheRipper is a free DVD ripper (extractor) for Mac OS X. It can extract commercial DVD movies to your hard drive, minus all the copy protections and region controls put in place by DVD publishers. You can then use various tools to burn the movie back to DVD-R for use in DVD players, or convert the movie to different formats for playback with a variety of devices. and it works great to backup my DVDs BECAUSE KIDS HAPPEN.
I use it. I love it. It has NEVER failed for me. And I like being able to encode DVDs off my HD instead of directly from the disk.
All it does is rip (and usually remove UOPs), and it does it very well. Great little app, it gets a lot of use from me.
@djheron :
MTR 3.0 will be universal. It's currently in (closed) beta test. Hopefully it won't take too long for the final version to be released.
Occasionally handy. I use HandBrake most of the time.
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The Dartmouth men's tennis team saw three players earn spots on the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team. In addition to the individual honors, the Big Green squad received team recognition.
Throughout the summer, DartmouthSports.com will be focusing on members of the Class of 2018 who are currently in their "Sophomore Summers." This week features Aman Agarwal of the men's tennis team.
Head coach Chris Drake has announced the Dartmouth men's tennis schedule for the upcoming 2016-17 season. The Big Green will take part in seven tournaments and 19 dual matches.
Two players have been added to the men's tennis roster as members of the Class of 2020, as announced by head coach Chris Drake.


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I flew to Cali from the Toronto area for these 'final' shows. It was a pretty bittersweet time really. It was cool to see
Bobby Weir come out for the encore the first night at Shoreline.
[Running joke amongst me and my friends is how much I love Bobby's cowboy tunes (I actually DO), so to get a surprise sit in with him on "El Paso" on top of the Chalkdust > West LA Fadeaway, well, I still haven't lived that down. Especially since I was at VA Beach in 98 for the Terrapin Station. They all hate me in the loving kind of way]
Anyways, a little about that 'last' Phish show on 10.7.00.
We had great seats, about 10th row, Page side. It was an excellent show ... nothing groundbreaking per se, but start to finish, they just nailed it. It's important enough in phistory that if anyone hasn't heard it, you should check it out, IMHO. [The previous night 10.6.00 had a little more exploration.] I'm not gonna review the show song by song, they didn't 'waste' any tunes if you know what I mean. When they came out for the encore, we all knew what was coming, and that YEM was special.
You gotta remember, we thought these were at the time,
the 'last Phish shows'. A story I felt was worth sharing today was about what you can't hear on the live phish sbd recording. Download an audience copy and try and picture this:
The band stayed out a bit longer than normal and took an emotional bow. Then Paul played The Beatles' "Let it Be" played over the PA. Most didn't leave. We stuck around in appreciation of what we thought could be/was the end of a remarkable career. We stood and cheered. And maybe shed the odd tear. There were lots of hugs in the crowd I can tell you that. There was this moment where the crew who had started tear down realized that nobody was leaving and alot of them turned around and faced the crowd that they too deserved (for probably a dozen or so I'm guessing on this number) had been with the band for 10 yrs or maybe more. And Kuroda had these little quotes all lit up on the inside/underneath of the distinctive shaped white pavilion of shoreline, "All You Need is Love".
Having been at Big Cypress less than a year earlier, with The Beatles, 'Here Comes the Sun' playing at the conclusion of that life changing experience, well, that was even extra emotional for me when 'Let it Be' came on. On another personal note, the first show I saw after the hiatus was Woosta, where they opened with YEM. So I saw two YEMs in a row, two and a half yrs apart. I was pretty excited
Anyways, hard to believe it has been 10 yrs. If you're looking to spin a show today, try that one today.
A very thankful fan that the boys are back,
Jeremy Brennan
aka trentphisher, Thunder or Guy Forget,
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- Jul 9:
- Roadshow: Bay Bridge delay gets mixed reviews
- Jul 8:
- Bay Bridge's steel bolt failures reveal inadequate metallurgy expertise, experts say
- Bay Bridge: Opening of new span to be delayed for weeks or months
- Jun 12:
- Bay Bridge: Open new span with or without bolt repairs, experts say
- Jun 2:
- Daniel Borenstein: Bay Bridge officials don't walk the transparency talk
- May 29:
- Will the new Bay Bridge open on time?
- Bay Bridge bike path bolt repairs completed months ago
- May 28:
- Bay Bridge suspense continues
- Contra Costa Times editorial: Bay Bridge executives failing to produce basic written reports
- May 24:
- Roadshow: I-580's extra lanes leave no median for BART to Livermore
- May 23:
- Bay Bridge bolt maker says report 'exonerates' it from blame
- May 22:
- Details emerge on who picked steel for Bay Bridge that later broke
- May 21:
- Gov. Jerry Brown: Bay Bridge 'not going to open unless it's ready'
- May 8:
- Live coverage: Bay Bridge bolt fix to cost $ 5 million to $10 million
- May 7:
- California Gov. Jerry Brown breaks silence on cracked Bay Bridge bolts
- Bay Bridge technicians 'listen' for cracking in the steel anchor rods
WEST SACRAMENTO -- Just three months ago, Gov. Jerry Brown stood on the Bay Bridge and pushed a glowing button that started a countdown for the Labor Day opening of the gleaming new eastern span.
"We're going to have a bicycle race, running, walking -- tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people," Brown said. "This has taken a lot of blood, sweat and tears, a lot of billions of dollars, but ... it's worth it because we're building for the future."
On Tuesday, however, Brown had a saltier way of describing the $6.4 billion bridge project after three dozen hefty high-strength steel bolts snapped like pretzels in early March and left everyone asking about the bridge's seismic safety.
"Don't know if it's a setback," the governor said. "I mean, look, s--- happens."
After seven weeks of scrambling to respond to the crisis, Caltrans is finally ready to go public with how it will fix the embarrassing problem.
On Wednesday morning, Caltrans and the California Transportation Commission will brief the Bay Area Toll Authority, co-managers of the replacement span. Along with getting cost estimates for the Big Fix, the authority will learn whether Caltrans will open the new bridge as scheduled on Sept. 3.
Caltrans and the bridge contractor, American Bridge-Fluor Joint Venture, may also release their internal probe into why the hefty anchor rods -- 3 inches in diameter and 17- to 24-feet long -- broke in the first place.
Caltrans' troubles started in early March just days after contractors tightened down 96 anchor rods on the pier east of the main span tower that tie the bridge deck and the columns to shear keys, which would help control swaying during an earthquake. A third of the bolts broke.
Engineers immediately blamed a well-known phenomenon that affects high-strength steel under heavy loads. It's caused by hydrogen atoms squeezing into the spaces between steel's crystalline molecules, thus weakening its strength.
But Caltrans hasn't yet said whether hydrogen embrittlement occurred during fabrication in Ohio or while the rods sat in their casings in water for five years on the bridge before contractors tightened them down.
Either way, engineers can't just replace the defective bolts. That's because the shear keys are sandwiched between the bridge deck and the tops of the reinforced concrete columns that support the bridge. The bolts are inaccessible from the bottom, and there is only 5 feet of room on the top.
Caltrans is expected to propose placing an exterior steel sheath or "saddle" around the shear keys that would take the loads the rods were supposed to bear. In anticipation of the fix, American Bridge-Fluor has already ordered the steel from a Mare Island fabricator.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday after attending a memorial service at the California Highway Patrol Academy, Brown said it was premature to "pull our hair out yet" and that he was "optimistic until proven otherwise" that the new addition to the nation's busiest bridge will work out.
"There are very professional engineers that are looking at this thing, and when they're ready to give us their report I think the public will be satisfied," he said.
Since the cracked bolts were discovered, Brown had refrained from commenting on a project that he had embraced as far back as when he was running for Oakland mayor in 1998 and had pushed for a spectacular design that could serve as a "civic symbol" for Oakland, a triumph of design and function.
At the time, Gov. Pete Wilson sought a more utilitarian replacement span, which was panned by Elihu Harris, Oakland's outgoing mayor, as "a freeway on stilts." Harris, Brown and other leaders saw the new Bay Bridge as a gateway, a chance to show off Oakland's port and hills.
Much of Brown's legacy as governor is tied to his aggressive pursuit of major infrastructure projects: high-speed rail, twin water tunnels in the Central Valley and a new Bay Bridge.
"People come and go, but the bridges and roads and the tracks, they stay for a long time," Brown said at the countdown event in February.
Still, some political analysts say a setback on the Bay Bridge wouldn't necessarily hurt Brown's big-project image.
"It would be better for the governor if things go smoothly, but he doesn't own the Bay Bridge like he owns high-speed rail and the peripheral tunnels," said Ethan Rarick, director of the Matsui Center at the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley. "This is less his baby."
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Beijing has bike parking lots near the massive malls. That's the attendant having lunch.
In this clip near the Olympic Park, I blurt out "Beijing" while Bryan rides on past …
Clarence from StreetFilms wrote to tell us that David Byrne just had his bicycle stolen! See Byrne on StreetFilms and Jason's post on a chance encounter with him at SXSW.
Every few blocks in Beijing, there are curbside mechanics that fix bikes as cyclists ride up. The mechanics have tubes, pumps, wrenches and more. At some of the stops, cyclists socialize and hang out. I stopped and filled up my rear tire on the folding bike and said hello. The mechanic and his buddies didn't speak english, but nodded and smiled just the same and gave us happy thumbs up.
Bikes as transportation in a city of millions. We rode from the hotel to the Forbidden City and just got into the "flow" of bike traffic and followed it through perilous intersections, traffic circles, and more. I was the only one in all of China wearing a helmet. The safety zone between bikes and other vehicles of all types doesn't exist, everyone is close to everyone and everything else and it's best to just roll with it, finding your way.
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Correspondence of the Charlestong (S.C.) News.
TRENTON, S.C., Dec. 31. - There is no dis-
guising the fact that a most alarming condition of
things exists in Edgefield County in consequence of
the exodus of negroes to Arkansas, which be-
gan more than a week since and has continued
almost without intermission up to the present
time. It is estimated that already about one-fifth
of the entire negro population of the county, or
more than 5,000 persons, has gone and the fever
is still spreading. There has been nothing like
it since the days of Pharaoh, and the situa-
tion may well occasion the deepest anxiety for
the future. In the Ridge section of the county,
extending from the Lexington boundary to this
place along the line of the harlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad, and east of this road to the
Aiken County line, embracing a stretch of territory
24 miles long and 4 to 5 miles wide, it is estimated
that at least fourth-fifths of the negroes have joined
the exodus. The townships most affected by the
movement are Shaw, Ward, Norris, and portions of
Mobley and Pickens. Some of the most extensive
plantations in this section, on which large numbers
of negroes were formerly employed, are now with-
out one colored laborer, and the outlook is gloomy
enough to cause wide-spread dismay. The reports
heretofore published in the newspapers have not
exaggerated a single feature of this unparalleled
movement; entire settlements have been depopu-
lated, and the public roads leading to Augusta have
resounded day and night for the past week with
the shuffling tread of a picturesque and motley
To add to the complications of the situation a
number of white people talk of leaving the county
on account of the passage of the Stock law and the
lack of labor. There is also a heavy movement of
colored people to Beaufort, Colleton, Charleston,
and Hampton Counties. Tow or three wagon-
trains, carrying several hundred people, have
passed through this section during the past
few weeks seaward bound. It is a significant
fact that the preachers have been urging this
movement on the ground that in the counties
named the colored people would be able to enjoy
their political rights and assist in carrying the next
election. Agents are also at work inducing labor-
ers to go to South-west Georgia to engage in farm-
ing and in the lumber business at large wages; and
along the line of the Columbia and the Greenville Road
emigrants are being secured for Kansas.
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SAN JOSE -- San Jose is still struggling to find enough technicians to keep the city's massive, aging wastewater treatment plant running despite efforts to hire outside contractors and retain staff.
In a report to be heard at the City Council's Transportation and Environment Committee on Monday, city officials say a fourth of its technician positions at the plant are now vacant as a rash of resignations and retirements continues amid competition statewide for such technically trained workers.
"The steps we've taken to date have not been sufficient to attract and retain staff," said Environmental Services director Kerrie Romanow. "We do have a very high vacancy rate, and that's very challenging. We're running a lot of overtime. Our staff is tired. We're working hard to find creative solutions, but nothing so far has been effective."
The Water Pollution Control Plant, known at City Hall as the WPCP or "Weepy Seepy, " dates to 1956 and provides wastewater treatment for 1.4 million residents and 17,000 businesses in San Jose, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Campbell, Saratoga, Los Gatos and Monte Sereno. Last year, the San Jose City Council approved a $2.1 billion long-term plan to modernize the aging plant.
A city audit in August raised alarms over staffing shortages at the plant, where it noted that a major failure would "imperil public health and safety" with raw sewage flowing directly into the bay or backing up and overflowing through the sewer network into streets and streams.
A city department report at the time said the plant had lost 90 workers -- 43 percent of its workforce -- in the past three years. Adding to an expected wave of Baby Boomer retirements was an exodus of fed-up technicians as city leaders imposed pay and benefit cuts to deal with rising pension bills. Staffing vacancies had grown from 5 percent in four years ago to 20 percent, with overtime soaring for those remaining.
City officials in August approved several steps to deal with the problem, boosting pay for certain plant positions to retain staff and approving up to $3 million a year for a contract to hire outside temporary instrument control technicians and industrial electricians for the plant, at rates 15 to 30 percent higher than the city's own workers.
But the exodus has continued, with vacancy rates rising to 25 percent, forcing city officials to scramble for new solutions.
"We're in discussions with the city about ways to address the issue, and we're still trying to figure out the best way," said Bill Pope, business agent for the city's operating engineers union. "I know it's a major concern to the city. It's a major concern to my members. They're having to pick up all that extra work."
City officials plan to suggest a "mutual aid" type of agreement for sharing staff, similar to the backup procedures that firefighters and police use to draw extra hands from neighboring jurisdictions when dealing with major incidents, with other public wastewater plant operators in nearby Sunnyvale and Palo Alto.
"It fits in the category of problems that are both foreseeable and intractable," said Councilman Sam Liccardo, who chairs the Transportation and Environment Committee. "With or without pay cuts, we were going to lose a lot of quality staff through attrition. Obviously, the pay cuts accelerated the process. We've made many attempts to supplement incomes to retain as many qualified staff as possible. But we have to continue to be creative and that requires looking to outside companies and agencies. If you know any electricians, send them our way."
Contact John Woolfolk at 408-975-9346. Follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/johnwoolfolk1.
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Book Discussion: The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes - Final Meeting
Oct. 1, Oct, 8, Oct. 15 - Room 101
Book Discussion meets prior to the Focus on Mexico Lecture series in Room 228 at 6:30pm.
The discussion will be led by UW-WC English Professor, Dr. Anne Widmayer. Originally published in 1962, The Death of Artemio Cruz captures a very turbulent 70 years of Mexican history, from 1889 to 1959. Author Carlos Fuentes, widely regarded as one of Mexico's greatest 20th century novelists, commentators and intellectuals, tells the story of Artemio Cruz's life against the background of the story of Mexico itself. The cleverly constructed novel uses a series of flashbacks with its twists and turns of events, to share a view of a corrupt Mexico, its culture, traditions and ultimately history. There is no cost to participate in the book discussion. To register or for more information, phone 262-335-5214 or email: email@example.com
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I am a Houma mother of a 2-year-old son born with a congenital heart defect.
Coming up in the month of February, families of the congenital heart defect community will be celebrating Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week.
Congenital heart defects are the No. 1 birth defect in the United States. About 1 in every 100 babies born in the U.S. (40,000 per year) are born with some kind of CHD.
Nearly twice as many children die from congenital heart defects in the United States each year as from all forms of childhood cancers combined.
Many of these children need interventional surgery like open heart at a very young age.
There are countless families touched by this disease. It is my mission to bring more awareness to CHD and how many children it affects not just in the U.S., but in our state and our community.
I recently asked Gov. Bobby Jindal to proclaim Feb. 7-14 as Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week in the state of Louisiana.
This week is designated to bring the harshness of the disease to light and make others aware of its existence before they experience it with their child.
There have also been several stories in the media about newborn pulse ox screenings.
Many CHD advocates are trying to get this screening mandated for all newborns in the U.S. This simple, painless and very inexpensive test can detect many CHDs before the child goes home.
I feel this is a topic that more awareness needs to be raised.
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Television images of Gareth Edwards' famous try for the Barbarians against New Zealand in 1973 have made the 38 light year journey to the various planets, moons and satellite mega-cities of the Arcturus system prompting a surprise first contact message from a high-ranking official who looks a bit like a luminous krill.
"Congratulations", began the video message, "your planet has attained a level of cultural sophistication that merits some sort of relationship with us, maybe like a Christmas card or something for starters, then maybe move on to eating each others parents like truly civilised people. We like this 'try' of yours and much desire to make offerings of glandular secretions at the temple which you will doubtless have built on the site of this glorious act. Take us to this Gareth Edwards so that we may suckle. What a score!"
Sadly, our first extra-terrestrial visitors (if you don't count John Redwood) revised Earth's new found level one cultural attainment status after it emerged that the world had not installed Edwards as leader and the Phil Bennett dance was not a universally recognised social greeting.
UN General Secretary Ban-Ki Moon said that he was sorry that our new friends had not found us to their liking, but was convinced they'd be back in 2037 when the Gibbs Wembley try arrives; probably with a massive stash of beer and ginger wigs and in a really good mood.


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A burglary at LePier's West in Fosston that was reported early Monday, Aug. 6 netted a "large amount of cash," according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.
The PCSO responded to the report at 5:30 a.m. The preliminary investigation determined that the suspect or suspects gained entrance through a rear door and left with the money.
If anyone has any information on the burglary, they're asked to call the PCSO at 281-0431.
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|The Anglo Irish Bank office sign being taken down from its main Stephen's Green location in Dublin in 2011.
Public anger here at the Anglo Irish Bank tapes revelations is beginning to shift in the right direction at last.
As we hear more and more of the leaked tapes, it's becoming more and more obvious that the main villains of the banking collapse which led to the bankrupting of the country are not the frazzled, foul-mouthed executives at the top of Anglo Irish Bank.
As we pointed out here last week, the Anglo Irish boss David Drumm and his top two executives who feature on the tapes were simply trying to save their imploding bank. They were so desperate they were bending the rules and misleading the financial authorities -- and discussing it all in frat boy language that showed their contempt for the politicians, the civil servants, the Central Bank and the Financial Regulator who were all completely out of their depth.
The new tapes published last weekend showed just how clueless these public servants were, particularly in the Department of Finance and the Central Bank.
The Anglo boys were able to wrap them around their fingers, to the point where the authorities who should have been looking out for the country's interests were commiserating with the bankers about how awful the situation was, and how much pressure they were all under.
There was an air of "we're all in this together." Instead of probing and threatening, the public servants were pleading and cajoling. None of them appeared to understand the scale and speed of the crisis that was engulfing Ireland or what to do about it.
The whole posture of the authorities was polite to the point of subservience to the bankers, even as the country headed towards the cliff.
So yes, the attitude, the behavior, and of course the language of the Anglo executives was appalling. But the incompetence of those they were dealing with was far worse. It was that failure at official level that eventually brought the country to its knees.
At least the Anglo boys knew what was happening, and that is clear from the tapes. In fact you could argue that if Anglo CEO David Drumm and his top execs had been running the Central Bank they would have tackled the crisis much more effectively.
Even more shocking than the language of the Anglo boys and their cavalier talk of forcing billions out of the Central Bank which they would never be able to pay back, was the "muddle through" attitude of the authorities.
The people at the top who were supposed to be looking out for us taxpayers were either asleep at the wheel or overwhelmed by a situation they were not qualified to handle or not smart enough to understand.
So public anger here which so far has been directed at the Anglo boys and their cowboy banking culture is now shifting as the wider picture of what was happening at the time starts to emerge.
The realization that the Anglo boys were not the main villains is starting to dawn on people. And those in the firing line are the top public servants who were supposed to be dealing with the situation at the time.
We already know that the Financial Regulator at the time, Patrick Neary, now in retirement on a huge pension, was a joke who was still telling the government and the Irish people that the Irish banks were robustly capitalized even when we were already up to our necks in the crisis.
Just as bad were the people at the top of the Central Bank who the Anglo boys refer to as "clowns" on the latest tapes published last weekend in the Sunday Independent.
In particular, the performance of the former governor of the Central Bank, John Hurley, also now in retirement on a huge pension, was hopeless (he and Neary both "retired" in 2009, a few months after the state had to give the blanket guarantee to the banks).
Probably worst of all, however, were the top civil servants in the Department of Finance, the people who were advising the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowen and his Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan on what to do.


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The Labour Party, the main opposition political party in New Zealand, made headlines last week when it announced its proposed policy for trying people accused of rape. According to the party's justice spokesman, Andrew Little, the party is proposing that the burden of proof be reversed in rape trials. In other words, people accused of rape must prove their innocence.


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OAKLAND -- It may not matter whether the quarterback is Terrelle Pryor or Matt Flynn.
Given the history of Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan, quarterback is a secondary story for the Raiders if they can't keep Alfred Morris under control Sunday at O.co Coliseum. Chances are that if the Redskins break out of an 0-3 start with their first win, it will include a lot of cutback runs by Morris.
Shanahan has 167 NFL wins as a head coach and is 21-7 against the Raiders, the most victories he has against any NFL team. The formula has been consistent since he was fired by Al Davis four games into the 1989 season -- run his former team into the ground.
All of Shanahan's games against the Raiders came with the Denver Broncos, but the plan of attack is the same with Washington -- lots of stretch plays in a zone scheme with a non-descript running back.
"You look wherever Coach Shanahan has been, his teams have always been able to run the ball with that zone scheme," Raiders coach Dennis Allen said. "The thing they try to do is get guys to run sideways and stretch the defense, then hit the cut-back. It will be critical for our guys to attack the line of scrimmage."
The zone scheme is not always easy to execute -- witness the difficulties the Raiders had running it last year. It requires mobile offensive linemen and a patient runner who knows how to read his blocking and make an up-field cut against the flow of the defense.
The Broncos made a living doing it against the Raiders, out-rushing Oakland 2,857 yards to 1,641 in their 21 wins and being out-rushed 914 yards to 747 in the seven losses.
In the 28 games Shanahan has coached against the Raiders, Denver has a 30-14 advantage in rushing touchdowns.
While the spotlight went to quarterback Peyton Manning in a 37-21 win over the Raiders on Monday night, more troubling for Oakland was giving up 164 rushing yards on 35 carries to Denver and the sight of running backs Ronnie Hillman, Montee Ball and Knowshon Moreno doing "rock-paper-scissors" on the sideline to determine which back would get a crack at scoring a late touchdown.
Morris, who gained 1,613 yards last season as a sixth-round draft pick out of Florida Atlantic, has 225 yards rushing and is averaging 5.6 yards per carry through three games even though Washington fell far behind early in its first two losses.
Morris is the classic Shanahan back -- not flashy but adept at executing zone reads. Of the 12 1,000-plus-yards seasons by Shanahan running backs, none of the eight rushers -- including Ricky Watters when Shanahan was the 49ers offensive coordinator -- was a first-round draft pick.
"He does a nice job of picking players that can fit his system -- running backs that can make one cut and get vertical," Raiders defensive coordinator Jason Tarver said. "Look at what he's done. It doesn't matter who he's put back there, they've produced."
The Redskins will run their base plays out of different sets.
"All the blocking schemes are the same," Tarver said. "So they change the formations weekly and use the same scheme."
Raiders linebacker Kevin Burnett said the Raiders must be constantly advancing rather than moving side-to-side.
"Everybody has to go straight ahead," Burnett said. "You can't go sideways against this team because they'll run you out of the park if you do that. You have to get penetration, go vertical instead of sideways."
For more on the Raiders, visit the Inside the Oakland Raiders blog at ibabuzz.com/oaklandraiders. Follow Jerry McDonald on Twitter at twitter.com/Jerrymcd.


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Organizational Behavior/Leadership Concentration
Organizational Behavior (OB) seminars focus on both micro and macro perspectives on
industrial and organizational effectiveness. Individual, dyadic/interpersonal, group/team,
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in and of organizations. A typical course sequence, some past specializations (or
related minors), and the core faculty are listed below.
OB seminars have been taken by students from OB, human resources management, accounting, marketing, systems science, psychology, sociology, and political science. The core faculty are also research fellows in the Center for Leadership Studies, an interdisciplinary research center. As such, OB seminars and faculty research often include direct and indirect linkages with leadership studies. Students are educated about theory, research, practice, and teaching of OB and leadership.
Typical Schedule for OB Ph.D. Students
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First semester: Research Methods I, Statistics I, Advanced Organizational Behavior, Pedagogy
Second semester: Research Methods II, Statistics II, Special Topics in OB
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Second semester: Theory Testing in Leadership, Specialization III, Pedagogy Seminar
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FRANCIS YAMMARINO, Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo, Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Leadership Studies
Research interests: Multiple-level approaches to leadership, superior-subordinate relationships, self-other agreement processes, and research methodologies.
SHELLEY DIONNE, Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton, Associate Professor;
Research interests: Leadership and creativity, multi-level approaches to leadership and team development.
KIMBERLY JAUSSI, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Associate Professor;
Research interests: Creativity and leadership, inconventional behavior, identity issues in teams, organizational commitment.
SETH SPAIN, Ph.D., University of Illinois, Assistant Professor;
Research interests: Organizational behavior, human resource management, dynamic criteria, personality and affect, research methods.
W. DONALD SPANGLER, Ph.D., The University of Michigan, Associate Professor;
Research interests: Leadership and personality, methods.
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Tyran Flowers netted 21 points for Sacred Heart, including a trey with three seconds to play in the fourth quarter that put Sacred Heart up by three, as it defeated host Torrington, 86-81, Friday in an NVL battle.
The Red Raiders trailed 81-72 with 2:20 to go, but fought back to tie the game at 81 before Flowers gave Sacred Heart the three point lead.
Malik Petteway scored a game-high 26 points for the Hearts (1-4), while Isiah Rascoe added 11.
Zack Goldberg also chipped in with 10 points.
David Canny led Torrington (1-4) with 23 points, and Austin Kelson and John McCarthy had 13 and 12, respectively.
Wolcott 62, Watertown 49: Nicholas Japs knocked in a game-high 29 points as the Eagles turned back the host Indians in NVL action.
Mike Bozzuto scored 18 points for Wolcott (4-1).
Jonathan Mitchell had 19 points and Anthony Chacho finished with 11 for Watertown (1-4).
St. Paul 64, Seymour 60: Kyle Dube scored 17 points as the Falcons topped the Wildcats in NVL play at Seymour.
Tyler Jones and Brendan Carroll both had 11 points while Nick Villani chipped in with 10 points for St. Paul (3-2).
Tyler Stevens had a game-high 26 points while Mike Conlan contributed 11 for Seymour (0-5).
Wamogo 80, Wilcox Tech 48: Nick Nemergut scored 14 of his game-high 30 points in the third quarter in Litchfield.
Nemergut converted 14 of 16 free throws for the night for Wamogo (2-2), which scored 33 points in the third quarter. Wamogo's Eric Davis scored 19 of his 22 points in the first half, including all five of his 3-pointers. Mark Davis added eight points.
Terryville 85, Wolcott Tech 34: Arthur Trent scored a career-high 24 points and pulled down 11 rebounds in Torrington.
Tyler Trillo added 21 points for Terryville (5-0), and Jacob Johnson added 16. Shea Tracy also had five points and eight assists.
Luke Pergola led Wolcott Tech with 14 points and Danneil Diaz added 10.
Abbott Tech 61, Shepaug 54: Brandon Henry scord 23 points, hitting nine of nine at the foul line for the game and six of six in the fourth period, for Abbott Tech in Washington, Conn.
Lucas Guliano had a team-high 21 points and Kellen Rikhoff added 17 for Shepaug (2-3). Mike Anson chipped in with 10.
Amity 71, Woodland 60: Zachary Campbell netted a game-high 23 points as Amity topped Woodland in the Candy Cane Classic Tournament championship in Beacon Falls.
Gardner Broderick scored 14 points while Matthew Lettick added 10 points for Amity (4-2).
Dave Uhl knocked in 22 points while Tanner Kingsley contributed 15 points for Woodland (5-1).
Ansonia 63, Oxford 52: Vinny Constantino and Claude Perry both hit for 14 points and Tom Majchrzak added 13 as the Chargers won the consolation game of the Candy Cane Classic Tournament at Woodland High in Beacon Falls.
Jason Mraz had 17 points and 12 rebounds for Oxford (0-4) and Kyle Chudoba had 13 points and five assists. Ansonia is 3-3.
O'Brien Tech 71, Litchfield 62: Shaquan Jackson netted a team-high 21 points as O'Brien Tech topped host Litchfield in nonleague action.
Nasire Hargett scored 20 points while Don Morgan finished with 10 points for O'Brien Tech (4-0).
Matthew McCarthy scored 22 points while Spencer Persechino contributed 16 points. Darrin Newbury had 12 points for Litchfield (0-5).
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In November of 1982, John Devitt, a U.S. Army veteran who spent two tours in Vietnam as crew chief and door gunner with the First Calvary Division, was present for the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and participated in the National Salute to Vietnam Veterans in Washington, D.C.
While he was simply expecting a patriotic ceremony and a nice memorial service, the visit changed his life.
"It was powerful to say the least," Devitt told the Daily News.
So much so, that he and a few friends were inspired to put together the "Moving Wall" — a half-size replica of the memorial wall in Washington D.C. that has traveled across the nation for close to 30 years now.
"It is important that everyone who may not be able to travel to D.C. experience the power of seeing the names of those we lost," Devitt explained.
He added that the first display of the Moving Wall was in October 1984 in Tyler, Texas.
The memorial wall, which has touched the lives of millions, will be set up in Licking from Friday, July 4, through Sunday, July 6, as part of the town's Fourth of July celebration. The wall will be coming from Branson.
"It is our way of saying thank you for those local Vietnam vets who returned home without any recognition," said Suzie Blackburn, the chairperson of the event.
The opening ceremony for the event will take place at 11 a.m. Friday, July 4, at the old Licking city park on Maple Avenue.
According to Blackburn, the ceremony will include a color guard ceremony, as well as a salute to soldiers missing in action (MIAs). Col. Brian Bisacre of the 18th Military Police Brigade will be speaking as well.
Saturday, July 5, will begin with a "warrior walk" at 9 a.m. with funds going to a soldier rehabilitation program at Fort Leonard Wood. At 11 a.m. a service honoring Gold Star families, those who have lost a service member, will be offered as well.
Blackburn added that each night will end with a closing ceremony which will include the playing of taps and a 21-gun salute.
The closing ceremony will be at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 6.
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A man who walked away from Jackson County's work-release center last month has been found and is heading back to prison to serve out the rest of his sentence.
Scott Bradley Wold, 37, was found at his mother's house on Poplar Drive Thursday night and arrested by Medford police, Oregon Department of Corrections officials said.
He is currently held in the Jackson County Jail and will be transported back to the Columbia River Correctional Institution. His projected release date is still being determined, state officials said.
Wold checked out of the Talent work-release center at 9:15 a.m. Nov. 20 and did not report back for his 10 p.m. curfew. Police then deemed him a walkaway and issued a warrant for his arrest. Wold had been sentenced in March 2011 for delivering ecstasy near St. Mary's and Orchard Hill Elementary schools, manufacturing marijuana and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Wold was part of a 90-day transitional leave program, mandated by the state, after completing a six-month alternative incarceration program in prison. Inmates who complete required classes, work and group therapy in the alternative program then are sent back to the county where they were convicted for an additional transitional stage. Those who violate the transitional leave guidelines are sent back to prison to serve out the duration of their sentence, officials explained.
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The other thing I ended up doing was help take pictures of a wedding party. I guess the bride and her entourage made this their bachelorette party! =) One of them remarked that trapeze was the perfect training for a wedding: dealing with butterflies in one's stomach and all that...
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Texas A&M - Corpus Christi head softball coach Stephanie Hughes will be speaking at the USSSA Corpus Christi Pride six-and-under t-ball Pony World Series celebration on Thursday, Aug. 1, from 6-7 p.m. at the Moody High School Softball Field.
"I'm honored to be apart of a celebration for the six-and-under USSSA World Series champions," Hughes said. "This is a tremendous feat for these talented young softball players from the Coastal Bend. I know that Coach Sarah Pauly and her Pride teammates would be so proud of how they have represented the USSSA Pride organization."
Coach Pauly is in her ninth year in the National Pro Pastpitch (NPF) and is currently in the middle of her fifth season with the Pride. She leads the league all-time in wins and innings pitched and is currently ranked third in wins and strikeouts this season.
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As Stocks Decline, Optimists Hold Line
U.S. stocks have started the year with a thud, but it has been a reluctant rout. Wednesday's 189.77-point decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average left it down 5.1% for the year.
What's interesting, though, isn't that stocks are down but that the declines are coming so grudgingly.
After the Dow industrials surged 26% last year, finishing at a record on Dec. 31, just about every analyst from Wall Street to Main Street has been predicting a 10% pullback at some point in 2014. And they thought it would happen for the very reasons that are causing the recent declines: cuts in Federal Reserve stimulus, uncertain corporate earnings and worries about growth and stability in big developing countries such as China.
After Wednesday's drop, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes are down 4% and 3%, respectively. But already some money managers said clients are looking for a chance to jump in at discounted prices.
"I know a heck of a lot of people who still want to get money into the market and feel they missed out last year. They are looking for an entry point," said Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Wealth Management, which oversees more than $125 billion in Philadelphia.
Mr. Stone is among those who see a 10% decline coming; he is just beginning to wonder if it is going to happen now.
This reflects two things about investor psychology today. First, a wide range of people think the U.S. economy is getting stronger. They see few signs of a financial meltdown and think corporate earnings will probably start pushing stocks higher again before the year is out.
Second, the angst that weighed on stocks after the financial crisis is finally starting to dissipate. Investors are relearning the opposite reflex: Stocks can rise faster than you think. If you don't jump on the train, you could miss out.
Eventually, that kind of bandwagon thinking leads to irrational exuberance of the 1990s variety, which sets stocks up for trouble. But the signs of that kind of fundamental excess are really only starting to emerge, many investors believe. That is why they are reluctant to do much selling yet.
Henry Herrmann, chief executive at Waddell & Reed Financial Inc., which oversees $127 billion in Overland Park, Kan., figures stocks still haven't finished declining. He worries that the U.S. economy may not expand at the 3.5% clip in 2014 that some expect, although he thinks it will probably grow 2.5% to 3%.
He is particularly concerned that China, the world's second-largest economy behind the U.S., is having trouble in its financial system that the outside world doesn't really understand. Many investors fear a slowdown in China could hurt other developing countries by reducing Chinese demand for their commodities and other products such as components.
Mr. Herrmann notes that investors still were fleeing to the perceived safety of Treasury bonds on Wednesday, a sign that plenty of fear is still out there.
So how worried is he? At some point this year, stocks could be down 10% he said, but he wonders whether this will happen during this pullback. In the next few days, stocks could fall another 2% or 3%, he figures, maybe less. "I think it is going to stay bumpy for a while," he said.
Some of Mr. Herrmann's funds have hedged by increasing their cash positions or by buying options that permit them to sell at predetermined values, helping avoid any big declines. But "we didn't do a great deal," he said, because he isn't that worried.
"There's no financial squeeze, the economy's overall credit situation is good. I just don't feel there is a lot of downside risk," Mr. Herrmann said.
He figures stocks will finish the year with modest gains, perhaps 7% to 8%, and he doesn't want to miss them.
Plenty could still go wrong and send stocks down more than investors expect.
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CHAMBERBSURG — Letterkenny Army Depot announced Friday that approximately 244 contracted positions will be cut in a phased approach through March as the result of completion of contractor programs. The first dozen workers were let go Friday.
The job cuts will not affect the civilian workforce, a representative for the depot assured Friday.
"Contractor layoffs are a standard part of depot operations upon program completion," according to a statement released by Letterkenny officials.
Contract workforces for Letterkenny Army Depot are used when the Department of Army missions require "temporary workload surges," a representative said. "When the project is completed, the depot workforce needs to be resized."
AECOM, a technology, engineering and management company that contracts with the government, announced Friday that 130 of the 244 layoffs will occur because of completed contracts.
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When Tieghan Gerard started her own food blog in October of last year, she wasn't sure where it would go or how successful it would be. Now, just several months later, she has a much better idea - it's doing well. Very well. Just over the past weekend, for example, her blog received more than 20,000 visits.
That number is made all the more impressive by the fact that Gerard is only 19 years old and has never taken a cooking class. She researched and taught herself what she needed to know about the technicalities of setting up the blog and taking good photos. All the rest came from her and her passion for cooking.
"I basically started it because I love cooking," she said, and also to help out her family, which includes herself, her parents and six siblings. "I just like to help them out and I love experimenting; it's fun. Then I started reading food blogs and I was like, I should do this, maybe, and I'll give it a shot and see how it goes."
After graduating early from high school and getting an associates degree in communications from Colorado Mountain College, Gerard decided to take a break from school for a little while. She spent the summer in Los Angeles, where she considered studying fashion design, but eventually decided the big city wasn't for her and returned to Summit County.
"I spent the summer in L.A. and I was like, ugh, L.A.'s just too big, too crowded, the traffic, it's awful," she said. "I'm very simple. I just like simple things."
Starting up the blog wasn't so simple, actually.
"Writing the blog and doing it is so confusing, there's all these codes and things, it takes forever. It's a full-time job. It's so much work," she said. "People think it's like, you just make food and you take a picture, but it's really hard."
Her main challenge, she said, and one that she hadn't expected to face, was perfecting her photography skills.
"The pictures are everything," Gerard explained. "If your food looks dull or boring, it's not going to go over well."
So she bought her brother's DSLR camera and threw herself into research mode, reading books and websites about how to achieve the perfect shot, specifically with food. It took a while, but now she feels she has a good handle on it.
"Right now, you're going to think this is crazy, but I've got it down to like, 150 pictures per food," she said. "I know, it is crazy, but you can just take so many pictures and only one picture will turn out. I like to have a lot to choose from."
Many of the comments on Gerard's blog praise her photos. Each post includes an artful array of the ingredients used, some of the cooking process and then a final product shot.
"I love seeing people's reactions. That's my favorite part about cooking, is people's reactions to the food," she said.
The recipes featured on the blog usually come from her own imagination, occasionally based off of other recipes or results of sudden inspiration.
"Most of them I've adapted from some other recipe or I've just completely come up with it on my own," she said. "And if I do use someone else's recipe I credit them, but most of them are just crazy ideas that I come up with."
Gerard doesn't stick to just one meal or even one style of food, but does it all - breakfast, dinners, desserts, Asian, American, etc. Recipes she's posted include from-scratch Oreos, sweet potato parmesan tater tots, buffalo chicken quinoa salad and creamy avocado and gouda cheese pasta.
Every once in a while, a recipe won't come out just right. Gerard doesn't post these but uses them as learning experiences, tweaking and trying until she gets it the way she wants it.
"Everything's been tested," she said of her posted recipes, "and I've got a whole lot of testers."
One of her most reliable testers is her four-year-old sister, Asher.
"She's my partner in crime," Gerard said with a smile. "She loves using the mixer, rolling out dough. She's my taste-tester; she tries everything."
Unlike some cooks, Gerard said she doesn't get too fancy when it comes to the tools she uses in the kitchen. Simple is better.
"Honestly, I just have my pasta maker and my big KitchenAid standing mixer and I use it everyday," she said. "But other than that, a knife and a cutting board is really all. Pretty simple, it's really all you need."
There's more to her blog than recipes and photos of food, however.
"It's definitely not just about the food," she said. "I write about my family, about where I came up with the recipe, really anything that's going on. I feel like people don't just read your blog just for the food. I mean, sure, it's definitely about the food, but they definitely read it to get, what's the word, they like the drama, they like knowing what's going on in other people's lives. So I definitely talk about that."
Gerard said she keeps a casual, friendly tone for each of her posts. She doesn't aim for humor, necessarily, but for a conversational style, like one might have with a good friend.
"It's really more personal, like you can relate to it," she said. "It's definitely personal, which is weird because I'm not, I'm a very shy person, and it's definitely helped me grow as a person, so it's fun for sure."
Gerard's blog, titled Half Baked Harvest, can be found online at www.halfbakedharvest.com.