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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Mar. 6, 2009 – Wildlife artist Dennis Minor of Lacey's Spring, Ala., is the Ducks Unlimited 2010 International Artist of the Year. His painting, "Beam's Creek" earned him the top honor.
"It's absolutely outstanding to be chosen," said Minor, who has been an avid DU supporter for many years. "I began with DU many years ago as a volunteer and I remember getting the art packages for our events and seeing the regular names of guys like Jim Killen and Terry Redlin. I never thought I'd be among them. It's a real honor."
Minor got the inspiration for "Beam's Creek" after hunting with this particular lab, who like all labs, managed to leave a lasting impression. "It's a typical tireless lab and the setting is someplace that hunters can relate to, no matter where they are hunting throughout the country."
The flooded timber, marshy landscape with a hint of early morning fog is a setting waterfowl hunters know very well and are drawn to these places every fall.
"Dennis has been able to capture a stunning moment in the waterfowl hunting world with 'Beam's Creek,'" said Don Young, executive vice president, DU. "Ducks Unlimited is fortunate to work with many of the world's premier wildlife artists through its international art program. These talented men and women are responsible for helping raise more than $250 million for DU's conservation mission. I congratulate him and look forward to continuing to raise money for habitat work through art programs."
This is the fourth year the public voted for the winner through an online vote. More than 16,000 votes were tallied, an increase from last year's 13,000, and the final three candidates were all within 200 votes. The voting numbers continue to grow as the wildlife artists and their paintings become more popular with outdoor and art enthusiasts.
With more than a million supporters, Ducks Unlimited is the world's largest and most effective wetland and waterfowl conservation organization with almost 12 million acres conserved. The United States alone has lost more than half of its original wetlands - nature's most productive ecosystem - and continues to lose more than 80,000 wetland acres each year.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act into law.
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In Super Immunity, world-renowned health expert and New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live Dr. Joel Fuhrman offers a nutritional guide to help you live longer, stronger, and disease free.
Dr. Fuhrman doesn't believe the secret to staying healthy lies in medical care—rather, the solution is to change the way we eat. With more than 85 plant-based recipes, a two-week menu plan, and lists of super foods that boost immunity, Dr. Fuhrman's proven strategies combine the latest data from clinical tests, nutritional research, and results from thousands of patients .
Fans of Alejandro Junger's Clean, Mark Hyman's Ultraprevention, and T. Colin Campbell's The China Study will appreciate Dr. Fuhrman's practical plan to prevent and reverse disease—no shots, drugs or sick days required.
The Science of Staying Healthy
The evidence is overwhelming: we can supercharge our immune system to protect our bodies against disease—everything from the common cold to cancer. Nutritional science has made phenomenal strides in recent years, and Dr. Fuhrman explains these discoveries while providing you with everything you need to turn this knowledge into action in your kitchen and in your life.
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Wiz Khalifa is one of hip-hop's hottest stars right now, thanks to a convergence of successful endeavors that have millions talking and tweeting about the Pittsburgh rapper. He boasts one of the year's definitive party anthems ("We Dem Boys"), five other recent Top 40 R&B/hip-hop singles and a high-profile tune written for the current hit film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
Most notably, Khalifa released his highly anticipated fifth studio album on Tuesday. The offering, "Blacc Hollywood," looks like a lock to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, which would mark the first time the hip-hop hero has topped the pop charts.
All of this activity has definitely had an impact on ticket demand for Khalifa's current tour, which drew a capacity crowd of some 22,000 fans to Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View on Friday night. Tragically, the night ended with a 38-year-old man being shot to death shortly after the performance (see related news story).
Khalifa, of course, has long been a sizable attraction on the concert circuit. I saw him perform sold-out shows at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco in 2011 and the San Jose State Event Center in 2012. Yet, he's definitely graduated from playing those kinds of 6,000-8,000 capacity venues.
The numbers he's posting these days put him in very elite company -- right up there with Jay Z, Kanye West, Drake and a small handful of other hip-hop titans who can fill major amphitheaters and arenas.
Khalifa certainly had help in selling tickets at Shoreline, in the form of an overall solid bill that also included (Young) Jeezy, but it's doubtful that the headliner really needed it. It's just Khalifa's moment right now -- and tens of thousands of fans want to share in it with him.
The 26-year-old rapper, who is married to model Amber Rose, did his best to seize the moment during his mostly enjoyable set at Shoreline. Opening the show with the anthem "Work Hard, Play Hard," from 2012's "O.N.I.F.C.," Khalifa sounded as strong as I have ever heard him on the microphone. He rapped with precision and power, spinning tales like tops while tightening his grasp on the audience. He also sounded decent in the few moments when he switched from rapping to singing, although I'm not suggesting that Khalifa quite his day job just yet.
The biggest difference between this Khalifa gig and the ones I've seen in the past had to do with the production. The rapper is embracing the fact that he's a major leaguer and is working a set designed to compete with the other big boys. He's using pyrotechnics, video elements and other special effects, all of which are marginally interesting.
The truth of the matter is that Khalifa is the rare entertainer who doesn't need all the bells and whistles. He's at his best when he's simply rocking the microphone under a mere spotlight, in front of his DJ and backing musicians, and letting the words fly like sparks.
The set list was pretty solid. The highlights came in the expected moments, as the rapper unleashed such hit singles and fan favorites as "Young, Wild and Free" and "Black and Yellow." The sound was too heavy on the bass, even by hip-hop standards, but the crowd certainly didn't seem to mind. And the subject matter was quite limited, as Khalifa rhymed on and on about his favorite leafy green plant, but, again, the crowd didn't seem to mind.
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We love finding new articles that bring math into real world situations!
Here is one on the NBA! Since the starting of the NCAA basketball tournament, WIRED has this feature about how Kirk Goldsberry's obsession with basketball with statistics is changing pro hoops.
Phys.org posted this interesting article, we think you will enjoy.
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Another day, another reason to get better at math.
It's no secret that quantitative skills are in high demand on the job market—one analytics recruiter recently told The Journal that workers who can't crunch numbers may ultimately face a "permanent pink slip."
Now, a new ranking from the job-search website CareerCast.com names mathematician as the best occupation of 2014. "Math skills unlock a world of career opportunities," publisher Tony Lee said. (Cue the Square One theme, and tune inMathnet.)
Data whizzes of all stripes fared well in the annual list: Statisticians (No. 3), actuaries (No. 4) and computer systems analysts (No. 8) all landed near the top.
Mathematicians pull in a midlevel income of $101,360, according to CareerCast.com, and the field is expected to grow 23% in the next eight years. Other high earners include actuaries and software engineers, who can expect to earn about a midlevel income of $93,000 per year.
Speaking of math, the list is tallied by scoring 200 types of jobs according to four categories: environment, which rates things like competitiveness; income at low, middle, and high career positions; the outlook for income and employment growth; and stress factors such as travel and deadlines.
Jockeying for last place on the list are–again–ink-stained wretches and wielders of axes, as journalists and lumberjacks get squeezed out by new technologies, the report notes. Lumberjacks fare worse in dollar terms, registering just $24,340 in midlevel income.
The outlook for some jobs are so bleak that they weren't included on this year's list. Among the occupations consigned to the dustbin are bricklayer, typist/word processor, and stationary engineer automobile assembler.
Below are the best and worst jobs of 2014, according to CareerCast.com. Click here for the full rankings and here for details on the methodology.
Best Jobs of 2014 / Midlevel Income
1. Mathematician / $101,360
2. Tenured University Professor / $68,970
3. Statistician /$75,560
4. Actuary / $93,680
5. Audiologist / $69,720
6. Dental Hygienist / $70,210
7. Software Engineer / $93,350
8. Computer Systems Analyst / $79,680
9. Occupational Therapist /$75,400
10.Speech Pathologist / $69,870
Worst Jobs of 2014 / Midlevel Income
200. Lumberjack/ $24,340
199. Newspaper Reporter / $37,090
198. Enlisted Military Personnel / $28,840
197. Taxi Driver / $22,820
196. Broadcaster / $55,380
195. Head Cook / $42,480
194. Flight Attendant $37,240
193. Garbage Collector / $22,970
192. Firefighter / $45,250
191. Corrections Officer / $38,970
This article is from http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/how-math-solved-mystery-missing-malaysian-jets-path-n62026
Analysts at the Inmarsat satellite venture executed a computational tour de force to determine where a missing Malaysia Airlines jet probably went, but mathematician John Zweck says the feat is simple enough to explain with a basketball, a hoop … and an ant.
"The math involved is really just a little bit more than the trigonometry you'd have in high school," Zweck, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, told NBC News.
Don't worry: Zweck isn't popping a trig quiz on us. Instead, he's retracing the steps that the investigators at Inmarsat, Britain's Air Accidents Investigations Branch and the Boeing Co. took to narrow down the search area for the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 jet, which disappeared from radar screens on March 8.
All the investigators had to go on were signals from a transmitter on the Boeing 777 jet that sent hourly pings to an Inmarsat telecom satellite, hovering high over the Indian Ocean. They were able to glean two key sets of clues from those signals: the angular distance of the jet when each of the pings was sent, and the frequency of each ping.
The angular distance allowed Inmarsat to draw a series of arcs, to the north and to the south, indicating the range of possible locations when each ping was sent. "We know the times at which the airplane crossed those arcs," Zweck said. But the arcs stretch so far it'd be impossible to search the entire swath of ocean.
Image: Jet's course JOHN ZWECK / UT-DALLAS
An analysis of satellite pings from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 allowed Inmarsat to sketch out broad arcs that the jet crossed hour by hour. Further analysis produced projected flight paths for the missing jet. The black dashed lines indicate the paths plotted by Inmarsat, and the yellow line indicates mathematician John Zweck's computed flight path. The black dot with a white dot in the center indicates the precise point over which the satellite was flying.
To narrow down the search area, Zweck took the plane's last known position, as of 2:11 a.m. local time, and then looked for straight-line routes that traced a great circle around the globe. That would be consistent with a scenario in which the crew — and perhaps the passengers as well — were incapacitated, leaving the plane to fly on autopilot until the fuel ran out.
North-south lines of longitude are examples of great circles. "However, in our case, instead of the great circles being lines of longitude through the North Pole, they are going through where the plane was thought to be at 2:11 a.m.," Zweck said.
Put the ball in the hoop
If you're looking for a straight-line, great-circle route, it's possible to figure out the jet's path using only the satellite data. This is where the basketball comes in handy.
"You could take a basketball, and draw the arcs with a red pen on the basketball," Zweck said. "Then put the basketball in a hoop that fits snugly around the ball. Pin that basketball onto the rim at the place where the plane was at 2:11 a.m., and put another pin on the exact opposite point on the ball."
The rim of the hoop can now define any of the great circles that pass through the starting point.
"Let's say the rim has a ruler marked on it," Zweck said. "Rotate the rim around the sphere and look to see where it crosses the arcs. Measure the distance between the first arc and the second arc, the second arc and the third arc, the third and the fourth. You want all those measurements to be the same."
That would produce a route that intersected all the pings at the right time to reflect a constant speed for the plane.
How Investigators Narrowed Down the Missing Plane's LocationNIGHTLY NEWS
Inmarsat's analysts had an advantage over Zweck, in that they could estimate the speed of the plane by analyzing Doppler shifts in the frequency of the pings. "They knew how to calibrate their ruler," Zweck said. "I didn't, but I was able to infer it."
Zweck ended up with a speed estimate that was the same as Inmarsat's: 450 knots, or 518 mph.
"What I was able to do was reproduce Inmarsat's results," Zweck said. "But I didn't use a basketball and a rim. I used a computer and trigonometry."
North vs. south
There was one other problem to solve: The arcs could point to a northward flight just as easily as a southward flight. So which path did Flight 370 take? The key clue came from the pings' Doppler shift.
You can hear a Doppler shift in the whistle of a passing train: The pitch rises when the train is approaching you, and falls when it's chugging away from you. Similarly, the frequency of the jet's ping would be slightly higher if the plane is moving toward the satellite, and slightly lower if it's moving away.
To explain how this relates to the north vs. south question, Zweck metaphorically passes you the basketball once more. Imagine you're holding the ball in front of you at arm's length. The point in the very center of your vision is analogous to the point on Earth directly below the satellite.
"It makes all of us math majors around the world swell with pride."
"We know the plane started north of the satellite," Zweck said. "If you imagine that the plane was an ant on the basketball, the ant starts a little bit above the level of your eye. Now imagine that the ant is walking south, across the surface of the basketball. When the ant walks south along that straight line, it's getting just a little closer at first."
But when it crosses the plane of your vision, the ant starts receding. The jet would go through a similar, ever-so-slight advance and retreat as it crossed the equator and headed south.
That rate of movement, forward and back, was reflected in the pings' Doppler shift: first a slight rise in frequency, and then a fall. "They were able to tell by looking at the frequency of the signal that it was getting closer to the satellite, but then after a certain point, it's moving away," Zweck said.
That suggested that the plane took the southern route. If it had gone north, the Doppler data would have shown that the plane was consistently farther away from the satellite.
The forward-and-back Doppler shift was so subtle that Inmarsat's analysts had to double-check it by comparing data from other 777 jets that traveled similar routes. They also checked the data that the Malaysian jet sent back before it disappeared. "It all agreed," Zweck said.
For more of the technical nitty-gritty, check out this statement from Malaysia's acting transport minister, or Zweck's UT-Dallas website.
Producing the proof
"It's an amazing bit of analysis, because the beginning of the path is so darn close to the equator," observed James Oberg, NBC News' space analyst. "It makes all of us math majors around the world swell with pride."
However, the only way to verify the analysis is to identify wreckage in the search area, an Alaska-sized stretch of the Indian Ocean about 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) southwest of Perth, Australia.
There have been some intriguing sightings of debris, gleaned from satellite imagery and aerial observations. Ships and aircraft from six countries — Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the United States — are combing the area. NASA says it's taking pictures of the southern search zone with its Terra and EO-1 satellites. But so far, Inmarsat's masterful theorem has yet to be proven.
Breaking Down Bracket Math
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article from http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/recruit-better-data-analysts/
In the big data talent wars, most companies feel they're losing. Marketing leaders are finding it difficult to acquire the right analytical talent. In the latest CMO Survey, only 3.4% senior marketers believe they have the right talent. Business-to-business companies have a bigger gap than business-to-consumer companies, as do companies with a lower percentage of their sales coming from the internet. And yet analytic skill is a must for effective marketing.
Results indicate that companies with above-average marketing analytics talent experienced significantly greater rates of marketing return on investment (MROI) than companies with below average analytics talent (+4.18% vs. +2.51%). When it comes to profits, the same pattern emerged—companies that are above average on analytics talent experienced profitability increases of +4.69% compared to companies below average on analytics talent +2.71%. In short, while using any analytical skill truly is better than none, strong analytical skills are measurably better.
So how do you find those people? Given how tight the market for analytical talent is – and how critical it is to a business growth – companies have to adopt different strategies for hiring and keeping people. Some large companies have taken to acquiring start-ups or developing "research labs" jointly with academic institutions or organizations. But there are a range of tactics companies of any size can use to improve their analyst recruiting.
The first is simply using more specific language. At one top retailer, the analytics team was looking to fill a direct marketing measurement position but was not satisfied with the direct marketing experience in the CVs the recruiting team was sharing with them. So the analytics and recruiting teams came together to redefine the characteristics of the ideal candidate. This collaboration led to searching CVs for a more targeted set of keywords (not generic "measurement" skills but advanced "segmentation" and "predictive analytics" capabilities). The new approach led to the discovery of dozens of qualified candidates. Similarly, at General Mills, recruiters looking for senior marketing analytics managers found that using more precise and discerning language cut search times in half.
A second strategy is to use an "always on" approach to recruiting. As John Walthour, Director, Growth Insights & Analytics at General Mills, noted, "We know these positions will continue to be in demand at General Mills and so we no longer wait for a specific position to arise." Still other employers search constantly in stealth mode for the best talent. For example, Beth Axelrod, SVP of Human Resources for eBay, works with companies such as Gild, which identifies prospective employees on the hard-science side of marketing analytics by examining the quality of their open code.
A third component is beefing up management's analytical skill. We find that senior executives often don't have a clear sense of what's needed from the analysis and, therefore, don't ask questions that lead to helpful answers. Senior managers need to be educated to understand the basics and be able to ask good questions, such as probing the quality of the statistics being used or asking about how to incorporate new types of data types.
Finally, in order to hire the best analysts, hiring managers may need to recognize that some softer business skills won't come in the same person. Instead of holding out for the perfect total package, one banking company solved this issue by creating a mixed team of hard-core statisticians and marketers who together mined the data, analyzed the results, and developed marketing campaigns based on those results. After three months, the team was delivering better analytical insights, and both customer activity and revenues were nearly 10 times higher.
Whatever the strategy, however, acquiring the right array of marketing analytics talent is critical to turning big data into a powerful capability for companies.


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Right now, my narcotic is work. The more you do, the higher you get. The more you feel fulfilled, the more you want to do. You just get such satisfaction cause you have a business as its evolved for me, there was no blueprint.--Martin Cohen
During the early 1960s Latin music was still thriving in the clubs of New York City. As passionately as it was enjoyed by Latinos, African-Americans and white ethnics, it barely registered on the meter of the music business world. In 1964, a Jewish Latin music addict from the Pelham Park area of the Bronx first challenged this putative fact of business life. From his first modest deliveries of bongos to the Palladium Ballroom in brown paper bags, Martin Cohen developed Latin Percussion Music Group, an operation that changed the manufacturing of Latin percussion instruments from a cottage industry to a global business phenomenon. If success can be defined as fulfillment of personal goals, LP chairman Martin Cohen is a uniquely successful individual. His company represents the actualization of his love of Latin percussion and his attraction to the culture that produced it. A recent visit to Cohens New Jersey home found him enjoying the fruits of his success, but not easily accepting the above pat definition. The intensity, drive and curiosity that launched LP thirty-odd years ago continue to dominate his personality.
David Carp: Youve spoken often with great fondness about what must have been your first Latin jazz experienceI think it was at Birdland in 1956 and included Jose Mangual on bongos. What do you remember about this session?
Martin Cohen: Mangual had a lookit was just his body language when he leaned over. Not only did he have an incredible sound the only one who has a sound like that is Armando Peraza but he was beautiful to see. This black man with his black bongos and his body language bespoke a certain elegance, and to this day hes elegant. Hes been somebody I have adored and I owe a great spiritual debt to him for the inspiration he gave me with that look that communicated a mastery of an instrument. You know, in everything that preceded this in my evolution nobody spoke of greatness. You know, my teachers in school, they were OK but there was no role model... nobody that would make me say, Thats a baad motherfucker!. There was just nobody that exemplified fuckin greatness. Somebody who didnt look over their shoulder, somebody who had self-confidence. Thats what I saw in Mangual in that body language and then went on to see in Patato in just his insanity and his self-confidence and his self-assuredness. And thats what I wanted to be, somebody who had that mastery of something.
DC: You studied engineering at whats now known as Lehman College. What was your first job?
MC: It was at the Bendix Corporation. I think they were gearing up for the Vietnam War. I had no idea what Vietnam was. I worked in the instrument department and Bendix at the time had five different buildings. Part of where they park airplanes at Teterboro airport was employee parking, they had so many employees. I didnt have much to do and, somehow, in my off time, I had gone to Johnny Pachecos house to look at a pair of Cuban bongos. I took pictures of them and made drawings and I pretended that they were something else and I sent em into the model shop to be produced for meand it took forever. So at the Bendix Corporation, which was working on Vietnam, I made the hardware out of stainless steel for the first pair of bongos that I made. I was fired.
Bruce Polin: Did they fire you because they found out that you were doing this on company time?
MC: I dont know why. I knew that I was not fulfilling a real need there, and I never really did fulfill a need at any job until I started my own company. I think its [because of] my personality and I think it must have started with Mangual and looking at badness and looking around myself. I mean nobody ever made a statement. If you make a statement in industry to this day and I have to prevent that attitude form creeping into my company you know, dont make no fuckin statements, the boss makes the statement. In a jazz group it generally happens that in each tune, at one moment, you have a chance to shine. In a corporate setting you dont shine, the boss shines. Youre showing your support, and it pissed me off. At least Mangual, in each tune and not just the solo point if you listen to the Machito recordings is wailing throughout the whole thing.
DC: Can you comment on the willingness or lack of willingness of individual players to share information or even to just show you their equipment? Who was open and who wasnt?
MC: I frankly feel that at that point in time they all recognized that I had nothing. They all dressed better than I did. I didnt have enough money to put together one fuckin suit! It was an era when everybody dressed in suits and ties and looked sharp...I couldnt look sharp. So it wasnt like I was somebody from the corporate suite coming into the nightclub and stealing their shit. I was a poor guy. Like Mongo, who as my company evolved grew to hate me and despise me. I think there was a radio program on which he said, I liked him when he was nobody, but now hes got this big company. I mean there was like some justification for it in his mind, that I stole. And Eddie Palmieri has said that Ive stolen from Latin music and I dont give back. You know, that I took what they do and I made this big company. And to some minds, thats what I do. Other people think I provide opportunity and employment. But there was a growing resentment as my business took off in some people. But it was always behind my back that I would hear these things, it was never directly. And I think when you become obsessed and you have a mission you dont want to hear, and dont hear, the negative stuff thats going on. I think people who eventually succeed develop a filter for filtering out negatives. Youre only thinking about the positive stuff, planning your contingencies, but you can be in an environment where theres hostility. To this day, I just walk into crowds and people that others might find hostile. Ive gone in and just talked shit and so far I have survived.
DC: We know that your first product was bongos, admittedly not the greatest seller during the pachanga craze of the early 60s since theyre not part of a typical Cuban charanga.
MC: Yeah, the instrument that I started with was no longer used. I had no market for it. From the negative you can go so often to positive, and I had to go outside the traditional market. Bob Rosengarden was making stereo percussion oriented recordings and was busy in the studio. I went to Bob and he kind of pointed me in the right direction. He was one of the first people I made a bongo for. And Specs Powell, from the Ed Sullivan Show, was doing a lot of studio work. Specs was probably the person most responsible for my success. He was always envious, as were so many black people, of the rhythmic ability of Cubans. It was very sophisticated compared to this other side of music. He said, Get out of those Latin dance halls and get into the studio and put the bongos on a stand! I said, No, Specs, you cant, its gotta be between your legs. Specs said, No, you put it on a stand cause I have to play mallets and then I have to play the bongos. And I made my first bongo stand because of Specs Powell. He told me, If you want to do something with your life, you go see Bob Rosengarden, not these Latin guys. Bob Rosengarden had put all these recordings together with the bongos. Bob was so enthusiastic about my bongos, and I said, But what more can I do to make a living? He told me, Well, you just make a jawbone that doesnt break. I think what he wanted was out already, cause I know I heard it on one recording. I had never seen a jawbone. He said it was a jaw, you hold it by the chin and teeth rattle. Thats how my Vibraslap was born. I never saw the jawbone until after it was developed.
BP: Were you the first person to use fiberglass in the (conga) body construction?
MC: No, Im the first one to really have an orientation toward mass producing it. The first one was produced by Frank Mesa, who was a bass player, I think, and quite a clever guy, who had a unique style of making the drums and tuning the drums but not an orientation toward mass producing and marketing them. So he deserves credit for having been the originator, but Im the one who had to survive off of it.
DC: When you began using mass production, were there a lot of players who said, Oh, this is mass produced, it cant be as good as a hand-crafted item?
MC: I think that I filled a need that precluded anybody saying that. Our fiberglass conga has essentially become the standard of percussion in the dance world. You know, its fiberglass, its not like organic and its not like Cuba. Well, these guys have to go out and kick ass in the bands and these bands are thirteen piece bands with full brass sections; that conga drum has to be heard. The fiberglass conga with its overtones is the only drum that will cut through. As the bands have gotten louder the fiberglass conga has become the standard.
DC: LP has always been a pioneer of clinics. Have they paid off or is it hard to say?
MC: I think of them as very long term investments and, of course, it is very critical to be able to have a sizable quality audience. Thats sometimes been our companys failing, that well do a clinic...Ive paid over a thousand dollars for Alex Acuña to appear in Paris and for reasons that were beyond my control they just cancelled the clinic and Ive had to pay Alex to go in and shake hands with the store owner and a couple of clerks. It really has to be a well-orchestrated effort on the part of sales and marketing and artist relations so that when the event comes together we have a quality audience. What I have tried to teach people to doand its a skill you have to learn and its very subtleis to be able to listen carefully to people who arent accustomed to expressing themselves verbally and to pick out of that what theyre trying to say and not put words in their mouth. And one of the problems you have in dealing with Latinos is that they dont want to say anything negative. You know, they are very charming people. Marc Quiñones says it like it is and he doesnt give a fuck about whether hes charming or not. Most people will just say its OK and that OK could mean its great or its shit and you dont want to down the wrong path and make something. So its been quite a challenge to ask the same question fifteen different ways to see if the results show that they really said what you thought they said.
BP: Do you think musicians are using your instruments to their fullest potential today?
MC: You know, to be very honest, the answer is no because I dont think theres a lot of work. Theres not a lot of recording studio work, theres not a lot of tour work. Theres a need for a rebirth in live music and I dont know what its going to take to be reborn. But when you think about it, with the absence of venues to play in, why the hell should anybody become a musician? The years that I was forming my business were some of the busiest in terms of dance clubs. There were probably fifteen different dance clubs of significance in the New York metropolitan area. Now there are maybe three. I do hope that there will be a rebirth in the kind of music that I find so exciting even if its in a different incarnation. But our business is solid, not because of professional use but because of the lifestyle uses of the products we make. People that may have a day gig and come home and they just want to play bongos for the hell of it. And I think music therapy is also an acknowledged growth area. Its not as much fun as hangin in the Bronx with Patato and those late night jam sessions. It always amazed me that as loud as they played none of the neighbors ever complained. Thats all I can say about the subject of Martin Cohen and life in the percussion lane.


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Didn't like how ISU campus acted like biggest win ever.
Worst post I have ever read on here. 1st win in 59 tries against top 6 opponents. Yeah, I think that was probably our biggest win ever... WAAAAAY better than when we beat you guys several months ago.


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2010: The leadoff hitter for the Islanders, Schwarz exceeded expectations by leading the Southland Conference in batting average at .410 and coming in second in on-base percentage at .470 during the year…scored a team-high 36 runs during the year to go along with four doubles and one triple…led the league in hits with 73 during the year while finishing with 21 stolen bases…named Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I First Team All-Region and was under consideration for All-America honors…had a career-high five RBI against Centenary (2/18)…totaled 23 multi-hit games during the year.
Prior To Texas A&M – Corpus Christi: Played at Blinn Junior College...helped her team to a 56-11 record in her one year on the team...hit for a .538 average and was named first team All-America, first team all-region and First Team NFCA as well as an Academic All-American...holds the record for most hits in a season at Blinn...team won conference championship and finished No. 4 at the NJCAA tournament.
High School: Played at Tivy High School under head coach Shelby Balser...recorded a .560 batting average during her senior season...named First Team All-State in 2006, 2007 and 2008...led her team to the state playoffs following the 2006, 2007 and 2008 seasons...lettered in volleyball three times at Tivy HS.Personal: Hannah Mary Schwarz was born on Jan. 9, 1990, in Kerrville, Texas...parents are Steve and Therese Schwarz...has three younger brothers...majoring in business.


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Edneyville students sample careers during fair
Published: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 8:08 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 at 8:08 p.m.
EDNEYVILLE — Edneyville Elementary student Justin Talley listened intently as firefighters explained their jobs to him and his classmates Wednesday morning during a career fair, then shot his hand up to ask a question.
"Why did you want to become a firefighter?" he asked.
"I started doing this job because three years ago, I was in a bad wreck and these guys came and cut me out," said Eugene Orr, pointing to his fellow Edneyvile firefighters standing next to him. "I wanted to help people the way they helped me."
The presentation made an obvious impression on Talley.
"Yeah, maybe," he said when asked if he would like to be a firefighter one day.
"Because I want to go through like fire and stuff," he added, jumping up and down. "That'd be cool."
About 50 agencies and companies representing a variety of careers attended the elementary school's career fair. The event is designed to expose students to different career choices, said school counselor Maggie Donahue.
"It's about trying to make that connection between school and work, such as what do you need reading for, what do you need computer skills for to do what kind of job," she said. "It's about trying to get them ready for the future."
To be a firefighter, it's important to be in good physical shape, firefighter Blake Curd told Talley and his third-grade classmates. The children's teacher, Amy Stertzbach, said she appreciated the way many of the career fair presenters made sure they wove practical applications of subjects the students were learning into their presentations.
A booth featuring a stockbroker's assistant was an especially big hit with her students, Stertzbach added.
"The kids got all excited about learning about New York and the stock exchange, and the lady gave them an artifact that showed what a stock would look like and they equated that with money," she laughed. "I think it's great to show them the possibilities and what they can look forward to becoming."
Other career representatives featured at the fair included a veterinarian, cardiologist, attorney, police officer, cable installer, the U.S. Army and an entrepreneur. North Henderson High Career and Technical Education students were also on hand to answer the elementary students' questions about classes they would need for careers in fields such as auto mechanics, marketing and agriculture, Donahue said.
A chef from Waffle House, who whipped up waffles for students, was one of the highlights of the career fair for Naomi Stepp.
"I want to be a cook when I grow up," she said.
Former elementary school teacher Cate Alexander said she thought the career fair was a great idea. She owns ASAP Promotionals, a Hendersonville business that produces promotional items for schools and businesses.
"They've been really fun to talk to and they asked some great questions," she said. "They're never too young to dream."
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A program of old time music will be brought to the next Monday's Wood County, TX. Genealogical Society April meeting by Eugene "Pat" Allen of Mineola. The meeting is at 7 p.m. at the Shamburger Room of the Quitman Public Library. The public is invited.
Free help is available with getting started on a family tree and for genealogy brick walls for members and the general public starting at 6 p.m. at the Shamburger Room and will also be available after the program if time permits.
Members and guests are also welcome to the pre-meeting gathering for dinner and conversation at Peralta's Mexican Restaurant in Quitman.


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Many people know about Harriet Tubman's adult life — how she helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom along the Underground Railroad. But how many know about Harriet Tubman's life as a child on the Brodas plantation in the late 1820s?
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To adapt to the needs of 21st-century learners, the Brentwood Union School District may invest further in its pilot project that would put iPads into the hands of teachers and students in the next academic year.
District officials are researching the possibility of expanding the project, which is already at Krey, Garin, Pioneer and Brentwood elementary schools and Edna Hill and Adams middle schools, where about 100 mobile learning devices are being used in classrooms.
"Everything is moving so quickly to help get ready for the 21st-century learner," Brentwood school board member Emil Geddes said.
Recently, Brentwood Superintendent Merrill Grant met with fourth-grade lead teachers, who are gauging the interest level on their campuses for branching the program out to all of the district's 911 fourth-graders.
"I'm excited about their excitement," said Grant at a recent school board meeting. "We want to keep that excitement going."
According to Grant, fourth grade was selected because of the larger class sizes, being outside of the critical kindergarten-through-third-grade transition time frame and more independent learning at that grade level. Grant will further determine the interest level in the proposed program expansion at a Jan. 23 meeting at Edna Hill Middle School with the program committee, board members and grade level teachers.
"Funding is the elephant in the room," Grant said. "We understand that we have limited resources in the district at this time."
Grant estimated it will cost at least $750,000 to pay for the iPads, educational applications, professional development to train the teachers and technical support staff for classes. He added that there are options for local businesses to help out financially.
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To launch the program this year, the district contributed $50,000 and the Brentwood Education Foundation also donated $50,000.
School board member Heather Partida was skeptical about getting a project of this magnitude ready by the start of school in late July.
"It is a short amount of time to make such a big decision and get curriculum in place," she said. "It is a great program. It is quite an endeavor."
Grant noted that the vision would have to be set and the funding identified by the March break. Geddes said that many parents would likely be supportive, due to the fact that many students already own smart phones, tablets and iPads.
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How can my doctor tell if I have CKD?
There are three simple tests that your doctor might do if he or she suspects you might have chronic kidney disease:
- Blood pressure test
- Urine albumin (a test to see how much protein is in the urine)
- Serum creatinine (a test to see how much creatinine, a waste product, is in the blood)
Screening for chronic kidney disease in all adults is not currently recommended. If you have a condition that puts you at very high risk for chronic kidney disease, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, talk to your doctor about whether you should be tested.
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Chronic Kidney Disease by CS Snively, M.D. and C Gutierrez, M.D. (American Family Physician November 15, 2004, http://www.aafp.org/afp/20041115/1921.html)
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Why Cash Is King for This Small-Cap Investor
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 17000 and the market setting new highs on an almost daily basis, one investor is sticking to cash.
Eric Cinnamond of Aston/River Road Independent Value is among a small group of mutual-fund managers who are comfortable letting cash pile up in their portfolios. Some 70% of his fund's assets are in cash, earning almost nothing. Yet he is confident that the ultra-conservative position will prove beneficial in the long run.
The small-cap stocks that he follows are as "expensive as I have ever seen them," he said Monday morning on the MoneyBeat show. "We're just unwilling to overpay with other people's money in high quality, small-cap stocks."
He is taking a long-term approach that he says will be beneficial in a market downturn.
As WSJ reported, the Intrepid Small Cap fund that Mr. Cinnamond previously managed was No. 1 midway through 2009 among U.S.-stock mutual funds in this newspaper's Winners' Circle ranking of one-year performance. It returned 14.5% in a period when the average fund was down 27%.
He has had much less success of late.
For one- and three-year returns, his current fund ranks in the bottom 2% in performance of all small-cap value funds tracked by Morningstar Inc.
"There's always a lot of pressure, especially at peaks, to get fully invested," he said. "That's what I think is the problem with our industry. We're so short-sighted at times. When prices are high, the pressure to buy is the greatest. It really should be the opposite."
Mr. Cinnamond isn't predicting an imminent pullback. He said he doesn't have a current market outlook and stocks "could easily keep going higher and higher."
"The pressure to get invested is constant, but we're very disciplined in our valuation process," he said. "It's just impossible for us to justify these prices."
To MoneyBeat readers, do you agree or disagree with Mr. Cinnamond? Is a high cash position justified with the market at current levels? Drop your thoughts in the comment section below!


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I run the PS3 Media Server with a variety of devices, from the PS3 itself, to various bluray players, and tablets. Under IOS on the iPad, I use GoodPlayer to access the PMS. And it works well, except that when I start GoodPlayer and search for servers, it takes quite a long time for the server to be found. It does eventually, but it takes more than a few minutes each time. The bluray players, on the other hand, find PMS instantly! The PS3 itself, is spotty, sometimes very quick, other times it is frustratingly a long wait.
I am not really sure why this difference exists, between the bluray players and the PS3 and IOS tablet. Any ideas?
The funny thing is that GoodPlayer finds the Windows Media Servers in the house very quickly (the same for the PS3)... so I am not sure it is all the fault of GoodPlayer.


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If you ever needed a reminder of how much good there is in the world -- and these days, who doesn't? -- just cook a Dungeness crab. It is so easy to prepare. The meat is so sweet and tender, and so nearly perfect just as it comes in its original wrapper.
Surely, some greater power must love us mightily to give us anything that delivers such pleasure and demands so little. There is nothing like sharing freshly cooked cracked crab and a great bottle of white wine with your family to remind you of just how fortunate you really are.
But basic, boiled crab is not the only way to enjoy Dungeness. Last year I had dinner at Russell Moore's terrific Camino restaurant in Oakland. Moore specializes in live-fire cooking, and he was offering grilled Dungeness crab that night. To tell the truth, I'd always turned up my snobby little purist's nose at crab grills before, but I tried it anyway -- I can be broad-minded that way when it comes to eating Dungeness crab.
Honestly, at first bite, I wasn't totally loving it; I wasn't used to the sweet flavor of the crab competing with other tastes. But by the time I'd finished half a crab, I was hooked. So I called Moore to find out how he did it. Again, it's almost embarrassingly easy -- you start with cooked cracked crab and marinate it in an herbal mash. Then you grill it, scraping and turning with a big spatula, until the herb mixture and the edges of the shell start to char.
Eating crab grilled this way is a lot like eating Chinese black bean crab: It's messy, and you probably get almost as much flavor from licking your fingers as you do from the crabmeat. But it's irresistibly delicious.
You can vary the flavors according to your whim. For me, the mixture that worked best the last time I tried it was mostly chopped parsley and green onion with a heavy dose of coarsely ground fennel seed.
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18 DWI arrests in four days
Published: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 10:56 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 10:56 a.m.
Lafourche deputies and Thibodaux Police said they made 18 DWI arrests over four days ending Sunday.
One of those arrested, Kevin Brunet, 43, 286 Smoky Court, Bourg, tried to run from deputies. He was charged with fourth-offense DWI and was driving under suspension from his third offense at the time, the Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies pulled Brunet over about 4 a.m. Saturday on La. 316 in Bayou Blue, the Sheriff's Office said. He got out of his car, ran across La. 182 and tried unsuccessfully to scale a fence.
The arrests are part of an effort to ramp up DWI arrests for State Police's Zero For December campaign.
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VC in 2013: Index Ventures' Neil Rimer on Europe's Crisis Being a 'Churchillian Moment'
As the new year begins, we asked several venture capital investors to reflect on the past year and give us their outlook for 2013. Continuing our series is Neil Rimer, co-founder and partner at Index Ventures.
Rimer speaks about the "perfect storm" of infrastructure and mobile devices, the need for a better path to market for European IPOs, and how Europe's financial crisis is a leadership opportunity.
Looking back, how would you characterize 2012?
Volatile, although this may be the new normal… For us, it has been a very exciting time to be an investor; the combination of a very rich array of infrastructure and services and the ubiquity of affordable, powerful mobile devices is the perfect storm for many entrepreneurs.
What is the most important issue that the venture capital industry faces in 2013?
It's hard for me to think of venture capital as an "industry" as in my view, it doesn't have the scalable characteristics of an industry. That being said, one of the central issues for entrepreneurs in Europe is the lack of a well-oiled path to market for IPOs on European exchanges. Encouraging progress was made on this front in 2012 and we look forward to seeing the fruits in 2013.
What do you see as the biggest investment opportunity for venture capital in 2013?
A newspaper that would tell the world what venture capitalists thought was their biggest investment opportunity.
What is your New Year's wish for the industry in 2013?
We invest principally in the US and Europe but let me give you a wish that concerns our European investments. Although this has not affected the ability of entrepreneurs to identify and pursue big opportunities to create value with innovative products and business models, I would love to see European leaders reaffirm their commitment to the EU and make changes that would bring member states closer together rather than letting them drift apart–or even worse kicking some of them out. I think of the current crisis in Europe as a real opportunity for leadership–maybe even a Churchillian moment.
–Interview by Lora Kolodny. Write to Lora Kolodny at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter at @lorakolodny


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BIRTHPLACE: New Westminster, BC, CAN
DRAFTED: PHX: 2007-3 overall
- Recorded a season-high four points (2-2-4) vs. SJ, Mar. 17
- Scored the SDG in 1-0 SO win vs. DAL, Jan. 10
- Scored both Coyotes goals in a 2-1 win over NSH, Dec. 18
- Scored his first NHL goal and added an assist for his first career multi-point games at ANA, Oct. 12
2007-08 Season highs:
Goals: 2 - 2 times
Assists: 2 - 2 times
Points: 4 - Mar. 17 vs. SJ
Shots: 5 - Dec. 18 vs. NSH
Plus/minus: +1 - 7 times
TOI: 17:55 - Dec. 7 at CHI
Appeared in the Coyotes' final three games of the season after completing his freshman year at University of Wisconsin…Recorded his first NHL point with an assist in the season finale at ANA, Apr. 6…Made his NHL debut and recorded a team-high five shots vs. DAL, Apr. 3…Signed a contract with Phoenix on Mar. 31…Appeared in 36 games for Wisconsin, recording 11-24-35 and 38 PIM…Led the Badgers in points (35) and assists (24) and ranked 2nd in shots (114), T-2nd in plus/minus (+11) and 3rd in goals (11)…Became just the fourth freshman in Wisconsin history to lead the team in scoring…Was named to the All-WCHA Third Team and All-WCHA Rookie Team…Registered eight multi-point games…Helped lead Wisconsin to a berth in the NCAA tournament and advance to the Midwest Regional Final…He finished the season on a three-game point streak (0-4-4)…Scored two goals in a win at Denver, Jan. 12…Began the season by recording 12 points (5-7-12) in the first four games…Collected back-to-back four-point games vs. Robert Morris, Oct. 19-20.
2006-07: Appeared in 53 games for Burnaby of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL), recording 66-55-121 and 83 PIM…Named RBC Financial Group Canadian Junior A Player of the Year for 2006-07…Led the BCHL with 66 goals, 15 goals more than the closest skater… His 121 points in 53 games ranked 2nd in the league during the regular season…Posted a league-high 19-game point streak…Tied for the league lead in playoff scoring with 26 points (12-14-26) despite playing one less postseason round than the rest of the top 10 scorers…Won the Coastal Conference's MVP award…2005-06: Was awarded the Coastal Conference's Rookie of the Year award after recording 36-36-72 in 57 games for Burnaby (BCHL)…Registered three goals and an assist to help his team win the championship game of the 2006 RBC Royal Bank Cup for Canada's Junior A national championship…Claimed MVP honors in the contest.
2008: Participated in Team Canada's training camp prior to the 2008 IIHF World Championship…Won the gold medal with Canada at the 2008 World Junior Championships after leading the team in scoring with 4-4-8 in seven games…Ranked T-4th in scoring in the tournament…2007: Played for Canada in the 2007 Super Series, leading his team to a 7-0-1 record against Russia in the eight-game series…Led all goal-scorers with seven tallies during the Series…2006: Represented Canada at the 2006 Junior World Cup and the 2007 Under-18 World Championships.
Favorite NHL player growing up was Steve Yzerman…His first job was as a hockey referee and began skating at the age of two…Favorites include: pierogies (food); Jack Johnson (musician); "Seinfeld" (TV show); and "The Rookie" (movie)…Most memorable hockey moment was being drafted by the Coyotes…Favorite vacation spot is Osoyoos, British Columbia…Enjoys cooking.


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September 21, 2011
Green Racing Marks Its 25th Competition
The Green Racing program, a motorsports competition geared toward raising awareness of fuel efficiency, alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technologies, hit a major milestone as the state of Wisconsin played host to the 25th race in the Michelin Green X Challenge. It was the latest in a series of American Le Mans Series (ALMS) races in which teams are rewarded not only for the speed in which they complete the race but also for the efficiency and emissions reduction that their vehicles display.
The 25th challenge occurred on August 17 at the Wisconsin Road Race Showcase. The results were tremendous, with vehicles using 48% less petroleum-based fuel than conventional racecars—a new record for Green Racing. The race itself hit near-record television viewership with more than 900,000 households watching, raising awareness of clean alternative fuels across the country.
The celebration continued in Washington, D.C., with a National Press Club event and vehicle display, at which DOE's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency Kathleen Hogan spoke about the Department's role in Green Racing, along with leaders from EPA, ALMS, General Motors, Mazda, and Highcroft Racing. Participants were treated to an impressive vehicle display, including a Dyson Racing Mazda Lola that runs on isobutanol (a liquid alcohol similar to ethanol) and a Chevrolet Corvette Racing C6.R that runs on cellulosic ethanol. The Green Racing Simulator, created by DOE and DOE's Argonne National Laboratory, also allowed attendees to learn about alternative fuels and advanced technologies while playing a high-energy racing game. See the Energy Blog post.


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26 Gifts Every Guy Secretly Wants
Here are two dozen perfect answers to the most pressing question on your mind right now.
Getting a gift for a man is basically one of the most stressful parts of the holidays. What will he actually like? Boxers? Socks? Cologne? OMG, can someone just tell me exactly what to get?
Luckily, there were actual men around for me to interrogate about this very pressing issue, and the following 25 things are what they said they'd love to get right now. It might not all be perfect for your guy, but it's a solid place to start.


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50 Years of Amnesty Posters.
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Recently the Guardian website did a piece on 50 years of Amnesty International posters. Amnesty is one of the charities whose use of strong imagery has made it stand out from many other organisations. One of our student briefs at Shillington is to create a poster based on an issue/s. For some inspiration here's a selection of some the best. For more information on Amnesty International click here.


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Today on Martha, Andy Samberg dropped in to help Martha Stewart make a mean Baked Alaska. The two did it while wearing winter coats, discussing Andy's eating habits, and the amount of body hair he was rocking underneath the parka.
No, your eyes don't deceive you—Martha's entire audience was adorned in white, Snuggie-like blanket-dresses.


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New Orleans battle plate advances
Published: Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 7:17 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 7:17 p.m.
The House unanimously agreed that Louisiana license plates issued for private passenger vehicles from 2014 through 2015 should commemorate the bicentennial of the Battle of New Orleans. The measure (House Concurrent Resolution 67) by Rep. Nick Lorusso, R-New Orleans, heads next to the Senate for debate.
Here is how Houma-Thibodaux area representatives voted:
For: Joe Harrison, R-Napoleonville; Lenar Whitney, R-Houma; and Truck Gisclair, D-Larose; and Dee Richard, a Thibodaux independent.
Absent: Gordy Dove, R-Houma.
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Kelsey Hahn - Class of 2013
Something that all four companies really noted and brought up was how well rounded I was …the interviewers liked that not only could I code and learn new code for the job, but I have design, 3D, video, audio skills etc.
I think being well-rounded was probably my biggest selling point at all of my interviews, alongside with being passionate about the job and wanting to learn more!
Daniel Hoenes – Class of 2012
Most of my time at Lindenwood was spent in the IMWD lab. There I learned from helpful professors, gained new skills through hard work, and made friends with other students while working on exciting projects. I wouldn't have had it any other way.
My favorite experience was being part of a learning community that encouraged me to strive for excellence - whether from my helpful professors or friends made in the lab.
Ben Graham – Class of 2011
Lindenwood for me created a special environment that fostered creativity and provided the means in which to succeed on the professional level. I still remember the moment it all clicked technically and creatively. When specifically working on a degree in Interactive Media, the atmosphere cultivated thinking outside of the box to produce a "wow" factor that is seldom seen amongst most other web designers today. I am thankful for going to Lindenwood because it not only gave me the tools for a real job but the professors are passionate about what they do and it shows in their teaching.
Amanda Blanc - Class of 2010
One of the biggest strengths of the program is the professors. Having dedicated professors who are passionate about what they are teaching and sharing the experiences they had in the field of design and multimedia is very inspiring to me as I look forward to my own career as a designer and hope that someday I can inspire people the same way.
The classes were enjoyable because all of it was hands on stuff as opposed to just sitting at a desk and listening to a lecture. All of the people are creative and fun and even if you didn't know everybody in your class there was a certain respect that everybody has for each other. I remember the long nights in the multimedia lab, or in the print lab trying to finish up last minute details on projects. Those times may have been grueling, but they definitely left me with lots of funny, memorable moments.
Briana David - Class of 2010
I would be nothing without the IMWD program. I have had opportunities to show how valuable Lindenwood made me by creating programs for our clients to use to submit orders by creating an Adobe AIR program that allows them to print a PDF to submit to us. Without an extensive knowledge of all of the Adobe Creative Suite programs, I wouldn't be able to show my full value and potential to my company. They thought they were hiring a graphic designer and they are extremely pleased that they have received much more than that!


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AUSTIN (February 21, 2013)—State Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, the chairman of the Senate Education Committee, says opposing his efforts to dramatically expand charter schools in Texas is tantamount to condemning 100,000 families statewide to endless wait-lists.
During a hearing Thursday on his high-profile bill, state Sen. Dan Patrick said members of the public testifying against it are opposing families "desperate for their children to have choice."
The Houston Republican's bill would lift the current limit of 215 licenses to operate charter schools statewide.
It also would allow charter schools to receive public money for facilities expenses, not just for operations as under present state law.
Charter schools educate about 135,000 of Texas' 5 million-plus public school students, although about 101,000 others are on wait-lists.
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The Meadville High School basketball teams hosted Hardin-Central on Friday night for a pair of CLAA Conference games. The Eagles and Lady Eagles won both games on this night to send the home crowd happy.
Erin Shiflett scored the opening basket of the game off of an assist by Halee Neal after both teams started slowly. Hardin went on a run from there to take the lead, but the Lady Eagles battled back to take an 8-5 lead after one quarter.
Hardin scored first in the second frame, but a three-pointer by Emilie Cowan from Sara VanDyke answered for Meadville. Hardin would fight back, and tie the game at 11-11 after an extended scoring drought by both teams. A pair of free throws by Neal and a three-pointer by Cowan answered for the Lady Eagles to retake the lead. At the half, Meadville led 16-14.
In the nightcap, the Eagles came out with a barrage of aerial shots from downtown. Three-pointers from Derek Smith, TJ Schmitz, and Cade Shiflett gave Meadville a big early lead. After one quarter, the Eagles led 29-8.
Sheldon Guilford started the scoring in the second quarter for Meadville with a three-pointer. The Eagles offense would continue to fire fairly well in the frame, but Hardin's size and physicality would allow them to score as well. Still, the Eagles would extend their lead to 41-21 at the half.
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WILSEYVILLE - Two 18-year-olds were riding a 2008 Eagle scooter without helmets in rural Calaveras County shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday when the driver, Jackie Elrod Jr., claimed the brakes "locked up," causing him to lose control, run off the road and overturn the scooter, the California Highway Patrol reported.
Elrod and his passenger, Katelyn Whitmore Hoey, ended up on the ground with minor injuries and were taken to an area hospital for treatment, according to a report.
The accident occurred on eastbound Blue Mountain Road near Railroad Flat Road.
The scooter was reportedly traveling at 20 to 25 miles per hour at the time of the crash and did not have the proper motorcycle endorsement, the CHP reported.
LATHROP - Deputies spotted a man and woman using white spray paint to paint a vehicle Sunday morning while under the Manthey Road bridge that crosses Paradise Cut.
Further investigation discovered the vehicle had been reported stolen out of San Ramon, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office.
After taking them into custody around 7:45 a.m. Sunday, deputies conducted an inventory search of the vehicle and discovered two glass mason jars and a plastic cylinder containing approximately 74 grams of a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana.
Alyssia Sabra Noble, 24, and Daniel Thomas Hayes, 30, were arrested on suspicion of possessing a stolen vehicle and marijuana possession.
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An ongoing, once-in-a-generation shift in the venture capital industry is consolidating more money into fewer hands but creating new opportunities for some Silicon Valley startups.
As pension funds and university endowments, unhappy with a decade of relatively flat returns, make fewer bets on venture, the number of big firms continues to shrink: From more than 800 nationwide in the wake of the dot-com bubble to roughly half that today.
Yet recently, a small but growing handful of VC veterans have launched their own boutique firms. Some industry experts call it a hopeful sign for better days ahead.
"I absolutely think that a small, focused firm has the ability to make a difference for its entrepreneurs in a way that wasn't true 20 years ago," said Greg Sands. The longtime partner at venerable Sutter Hill Ventures on Wednesday will take the wraps off his new $100 million fund, Costanoa Ventures.
Sands -- an early Netscape employee who coined that company's iconic name -- said that while a growing number of wealthy "angel investors" have made it relatively easy for consumer Internet companies to raise a few million dollars, startups targeting business customers are considered less sexy.
On the other hand, he said, those early stage enterprise startups can't get much traction with big venture firms, who are eager to work with later-stage companies that may be close to going public. "If you need $2 million to $5 million to build an enterprise software or data analytics product, there just aren't that many places that are a good match."
Data compiled by the National Venture Capital Association shows that through the first nine months of 2012, even as the number of U.S. venture firms raising money dropped 13 percent compared with last year, the dollars raised grew 31 percent. In other words, the big firms are getting bigger.
That's made it tough for them to cut the small checks that early stage companies need, Sands and others say.
"Most of the traditional firms, their core business is not seed-stage investing," said Aileen Lee, who stepped away from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers earlier this year to found Cowboy Ventures, which weighs in at $40 million.
As she was mulling a move after 13 years at Kleiner, Lee consulted friends like Steve Anderson, a former Kleiner Perkins colleague who launched seed fund Baseline Ventures in 2006.
"They were like, 'Yes, there are lots of people who can write checks at seed stage, but there's not that many people who can offer hands-on help after the investment,' " Lee recalled. (Kleiner is an investor in her new fund; likewise, Sutter Hill has put money into Costanoa.)
Sands, who joined Sutter Hill in 1998 after Netscape's landmark initial public offering, said he expects other venture capitalists to follow in his and Lee's footsteps. "The Internet is doing to the venture industry what it does to other industries: It allows the fragmentation of markets," he said.
Among the 10 startups in which Costanoa already has invested is Lex Machina, a spinoff from Stanford's law school that aims to help companies manage intellectual property. CEO Josh Becker -- himself a former venture capitalist who helped found Redpoint Ventures during the dot-com era -- said he liked Costanoa's approach because a smaller fund can let a VC give more attention to each startup without the pressure to return billions of dollars to investors. (Another Lex Machina investor is Joe Lonsdale, a former hedge fund manager and entrepreneur who recently launched early stage firm Formation 8 with venture veteran Gideon Yu.)
Mark Heesen, head of the venture capital association, cautioned that few investors have the cachet to start new firms with staying power.
He called Lee and Will Coleman, who recently left Mohr Davidow Ventures to form his own cleantech fund, "in the 'A' class." But others, who may be leaving venture firms involuntarily amid downsizing, are being forced out of the industry -- or going into corporate venture capital, which has seen a renaissance in recent years as big companies look to invest cash from their bulging balance sheets.
Some venture firms, which have put off fundraising in hopes the economy will improve, may go out of business altogether, Heesen said. "I think when it comes to the number of firms and professionals in the industry, we have not yet hit bottom," he said.
At the same time, Heesen believes the new funds are a sign of hope that, after several up-and-down years, demand for tech IPOs and mergers will tick up in the new year.
"I think some of these folks who are out now saying, 'I'm going to start a fund' are trying to ride a wave of new optimism," he said. "If we can get over this fiscal cliff, I think we have a very good year coming."
Contact Peter Delevett at 408-271-3638. Follow him at Twitter.com/mercwiretap.
Small shops turning heads
While the number of venture capital firms in the U.S. has plunged in recent years, a handful of boutique firms have arisen in recent years to shake up the industry. They include:
Union Square Ventures (New York) -- 2003
SoftTech VC (Palo Alto) -- 2004
First Round Capital (Philadelphia) -- 2004
True Ventures (San Francisco) -- 2005
Felicis Ventures (Palo Alto) -- 2006
Foundry Group (Colorado) -- 2007
Andreessen Horowitz (Menlo Park) -- 2009


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Rumba Time Perry GO Watch
The Rumba Time Perry GO Watch turns your wrist into a wallet! The Perry Go is perfect for your next run, so you can leave your bulky wallet and credit card at home. The sporty timepiece keeps you looking stylish, especially with the striped nylon strap and the fact that it's interchangeable. Once you receive the NFC payment chip, simply insert it into the silicone sleeve on the watchband and you're ready to go. The chip is only available in the United States.