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Since its publication by Sierra Club Books more than two decades ago, The River Why has become a classic, standing with Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It as our era's most widely read fiction about fly-fishing. This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irreverent young fly fisherman and one of the most appealing heroes in contemporary American fiction.
Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus decides to strike out on his own, taking refuge in a remote riverbank cabin to pursue his own fly-fishing passion with unrelenting zeal. But instead of finding fishing bliss, Gus becomes increasingly troubled by the degradation of the natural world around him and by the spiritual barrenness of his own life. His desolation drives him on a reluctant quest for self-discovery and meaning -- ultimately fruitful beyond his wildest dreams.
Stylistically adept and ambitious in scope, The River Why is a touching and powerful novel by an important voice in American fiction.
In a new Afterword written for this twentieth-anniversary edition, David James Duncan reflects on the genesis of his book and on the surprising link between fishing and wisdom.
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David James Duncan's first novel has gained an increasingly wide audience over the years--some might even call it a following. This coming-of-age tale of Gus Orviston's search for the Pacific Northwest's elusive steelhead, a metaphor for Gus's internal quest for self-knowledge, appeals to all who cherish a good yarn and memorable characters. Uncle Zeke's colorful rendition of Gus's conception on the banks of the Deschutes River is itself worth the price of purchase.About the Author:
David James Duncan is the author of The Brothers K, an American Library Association Best Books Award winner and a New York Times Notable Book, and River Teeth, a memoir and collection of stories. The River Why and The Brothers K both won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. Duncan's work has appeared in Harper's, Outside, Orion, The Sun, Sierra, Big Sky Journal, Northern Lights, Gray's Sporting Journal, and many other publications. He lives with his family beside a Montana trout stream.
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Ex-porn star Jameson arrested for alleged battery
Published: Monday, April 8, 2013 at 6:17 a.m.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - Police say former adult film star Jenna Jameson has been arrested after a report that she attacked someone at an Orange County home.
Newport Beach police Lt. Evan Sailor says the alleged victim put Jameson under citizen's arrest until police arrived at the home on the upscale Balboa Peninsula on Saturday night.
The 38-year-old Jameson, born Jenna Marie Massoli, was given a court date to face a misdemeanor battery charge and released on her own recognizance.
In May, Jameson was arrested for drunken driving after hitting a light pole in Westminster. She pleaded guilty in August was sentenced to three years' informal probation.
Jameson was among the biggest stars in porn when she left the industry in 2008. An email to her company seeking comment was not immediately returned.
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Tottenham Hotspur Message Board
Ade no to ANC
Here I go talking to myself again!
Apparently it (talking to oneself) is the first sign of madness?! And madness is the first sign of genius?!
I heard a report on the Radio this morning which caught my ear:
If Ade had attended the ANC, I'd be concerned about our prospects, despite Defoes great form he cannot do it alone. With Ade we look a different team and have so many more options in attack, he was pivotal last season and with Defoe in a rich vein of form, our options look good (as soon as Ade returns from his ban).
I don't agree with his reasons for not playing (money owed to him by the Togo FA?) how much more does he need? may be its the principle of the matter not the cash itself? I'll be glad to keep hold of him throughout the darkest of months!
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Benteke has impressed many, but without him Villa are relegation fodder and I think they know it!
Would Lukaku be available? What with the Chavs just signing Ba, they may let him go?! He has been awesome for WBA, I'd be happy if we went in for him.
IMO we need someone! but who?!
SB, no doubt you'll have an opinion on this!
I've never been a fan of Ade, and was disappointed when we signed him full time. His body language so far does not look good to me, and IMO, is classic Ade, " under contract=under performances ". Hopefully it will spur us into getting a striker in now, but as you say, who?. Surprised Chelsea got Ba so easily, without much opposition from us and other club's, but would of been ideal. Wonder if it's worth making a profitable bid to Villa for Benteke?
Fair bit of whinging going on amongst you guys which I find a bit surprising really. For me Spurs are doing exceptionally well and right up there amongst it again.
New manager in there who seems to be surprising a few people, including me. I said at the outset he'd need at least 18 months to get the ship on even keel, he's ahead of that, so looking forward to see what he does or is allowed to do this month.
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Well put H,
AVB has done well in terms of results and league position. A few people have criticised the performance of the team, with some reason, we haven't been as fluid as last season, but we have lost integral players who allowed us to play that way. IMO we are doing exceptionally well 'considering'!
Now.... any chance you can have a word a pull a few NE strings, Surely Huddlestone, Jenas, Bentley and Gomes would improve Newcastle or Sunderland? Ok maybe Middlesborough are more their level! see what you can do!
Make you mind up Ade!
This leaves us with Defoe and Dempsey as our striking options, IMO we need to strengthen up front, but who? people are linking us with Llorente, I just can't see that happen, not with the other clubs who are also being linked and the wages required.
I was surprised to see that we have a better win % this season without Ade!
fair enough. but for the record i didnt even mention sig as a bad sub decision.
it wasnt a paticularly tricky pass from hudd for the goal was it thou!
also, if its the players just going back themselves & ignoring avb, then surely somethings wrong.
there should be a stewards enquiry remmah!
at least 6 times this season we have gone ultra defensive when in the lead & everytime the players are choosing to do this themselves!
whats going on at the lane. the players just doing what they want & ignoring avb.
so he has already lost the players. they just ignore what he says & go ultra defensive despite AVBs instructions.
we are in a bigger mess than i thought remmah.
thanks for opening my eyes!
A-Men Remmah,
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's all doom and misery!
I thought Sig's effort was pretty impressive.
We are without 3 players (BAE, Unit and Parker) who were starting 11 last season. Its time for a bit more faith, understanding and optimism IMO!
I hear what your saying about Hudds, ( if you bring him on as fresh legs, how do you tell ? lol ), but he did lay on the ball for Dempsey to score, and Siggy very nearly got the second when he hit the bar, so again I dont think they can be classed as defensive subs ( if he put Livermore and naughton, then yes ). My main point was it's often player error's costing us. I'm open minded about AVB at the moment, and obviously he has a lot to learn, but yes, I think he probably is getting the most he can out of the player's available at any given time until he get's a full squad to pick from, then I would be more critical if there was no marked improvement in our overall play. As I say, it's just my opinion's and I respect your's and you may well be proved right come the end of the season. I hope you enjoy V-Swans, and you can let us know if you see AVB calling everone back behind the ball, or whether it's the player's.
Do you think it makes that much difference for the EPL games, apart from having a bit more depth on the bench?
From what I've seen AVB, like the rest that follow the trend, seems to favour a 1-1 upfront rather than 2 (or maybe he was forced down that route because he has largely only had 1 striker available). If that is the case (ie AVB favours 1-1), then I can't see him dropping Daffy unless he hits a barren spell.
It's not as though Daffy hasn't been scoring - so it belies the 'Daffy can't play as a lone striker bit'. The team just seem to me to play narrower to get closer to and accommodate him.
So where would Ade then fit, even if he doesn't go? Do you think AVB would drop Dempsey/Sig and play a two up front?
Presumably we'll see in the games against Swansea and Stoke. I can't see AVB playing 2 up front at Everton this weekend.
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Well I completely misjudged AVB. I never expected him to play 2 up front away at Everton.
Anyone see the game? The reports I've read so far seem to echo the other games this season - good for a bit, then not so good for a bit more.
Evening fellow Yids.
Some good pionts JL.
With reference to the 1-1 up front situation,i wonder if he inherited this formation from Harry as he always seemed to play this with either Ade or Daffy with VDV behind and in all fairness it must work to a degree as we finished 4th and should have at least sealed 3rd.
Personally i would much rather have Ade behind Daffy as he has much more to offer all round than Dempsey who IMO is not quite good enough for us and can see him getting plenty of bench time when Ade is available,:-ie next week.
SOOOOOO looking forward to everyone being fit and available,AVB will think it's christmas every week.
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Full disclosure: Chris Stewart and Ty Kube are old friends of mine. Chris dated a different friend a while back, and I met Ty about ten years ago. I'd usually see him in the morning when I was leaving for work, the time of day when he'd be on my couch watching Headbangers Ball with my doped-out roommate. Since then, Ty went on to front the cartoony party punk band Team Robespierre, and when that seemed to be done with, he and Chris started Black Marble, which is a dark, synthy, wavey band. They rule, and I'm not just saying that because they're my buddies. For some proof, you can listen to "Static" below. It's a cut off their debut full-length, A Different Arrangement, out on Hardly Art October 9th. You can pre-order the record here, and listen to "Static" by pressing that little orange button below:
A few weeks ago we all drove out to a shady gay cruising spot near Bergen Beach with a bunch of explosives and some old gear. Even if you live in New York, you might not have heard of Bergen Beach - it's way out south of Carnasie, just on the edge of the Flatlands, and you can sorta see it from the bridge to Fort Tilden. Its the sort of spot I imagine David Wojnarovicz would troll when he needed to clear his head.
I sat on the photos for a few weeks because I'm lazy, but yesterday Chris called me up to chat about coffee robots, the new Black Marble record, and how Grimes is a hack. Scroll to the bottom of this post to see the photographic evidence of our dumbscapade.
Noisey: So what do you want to talk about?
Chris Stewart: What do I want to talk about? I don't know hold on. I'm being rude to people at my job... I didn't realize the kitchen was going to be full of co-workers so I'm going to walk downstairs. I have to run down to the… what's it called? Dining area.
You have a dining area at your job? Cushy. What do you do these days?
I'm an art director in advertising. I do interactive, web-based stuff. Some stuff is really fun, and a lot of it sucks, like making banner ads and shit.
That sounds shitty.
Yeah, that's why i'm in a band.
I haven't seen you in a while… I guess the most recent thing we did together was blow up a bunch of old gear in the woods.
Yeah! I was really psyched - I'd wanted to do that for so long. I was really excited about it photographically. Plus I had gotten arrested a week before when I tried to pick up the fireworks.
Wait, what?
So like a week before we went, I drove to Pennsylvania to get all these fireworks and explosives. Then it was fourth of July weekend so of course I was drunk and shot some off… and immediately got arrested. I was walking down the street with a backpack full of fireworks and these five cops jump out of a giant van and said, "hey kid, come over here" and they pull me to a van and realize I've got an arsenal; they were thrilled. I was the best thing that happened to them all week.
Jesus. Did you go to jail?
Yeah, they took me in and asked what made me think I could carry around explosives. I told them it was for a photo shoot. I was really drunk at this point, and really belligerent. I could tell they wanted to keep me locked up all weekend but I guess they had other stuff to do so they basically just let me go, but they kept the fireworks. So I had to drive back to Pennsylvania the next day to get more fireworks and the people there couldn't believe it; they were like, "how are you back here again, are you addicted to fireworks?"
Ok wow. Didn't know that. So when we were smashing and blowing up those instruments, did you feel any remorse? These things are your stock and trade after all. And you treated them with a lot of hostility.
I feel very attached to my instruments, but I'm not a nerd about it. A lot of bands buy all these wacky modular synthesizers with crazy wires and insane shit so they end up looking like a crazed laboratory. I just play synths I wanted back when I had a Nintendo: Junos and Akais and other stuff that came out between 81 and 84. To me those are more interesting because they remind me of being a kid. I'm super attached to them. And yeah, we smashed the shit out of these crappy synths, but if I even dropped a beer on one of my synthesizers it would be totally traumatizing.
Have any synth nerds ever shit on you for using crappy gear?
Uh, no because I think we're high up enough on the synth chain to not fall prey to that. There is definitely some snobbery though: let's say we played with a MicroKorg; we'd get shit for that. But that only matters to a small group of people as we're in a strange realm where nobody really knows where anything came from, especially people under like, five. Everything is everything, man. Take Grimes for instance. She plays a rip-off of one of my synths she got at Guitar Center--which is a complete piece of shit but she's literally the most popular synth-based person in the world and I'm sure that her millions of fans aren't upset that her synth isn't from 1982. She probably doesn't care either because she grew up on the internet.
What's the biggest cop-out synth to a nerd?
Probably the MicroKorg. And Roland is making a line that's basically their own stuff from the 80s, but they aren't even analog and don't even sound that good, they just sort of look like the Juno and the Jupiter. So it looks like an old synth but it doesn't sound like one. It's made of plastic and looks like shit.
That's stupid.
Yeah, they're just trying to cash in on the look of the old ones. But kids can't tell the difference between these synths, and if they could tell the difference, I doubt they'd care. They're post-caring. They see caring about things like that as being for old boring people.
That's Chris on the left and Ty on the right.
Let's talk about your new LP, A Different Arrangement. Is that a composition book on the cover?
No, but it intentionally does look like one. I looked through images for weeks for the cover and actually came across that one while working. I go through a lot of textures for design and while doing something completely unrelated to music—I came across that and thought, "that's the cover of the record." I don't know why I thought it was and still don't know why it needed to be, but I never really questioned myself about.
Are you a Coldwave band?
No. Coldwave is a style of music that was made a long time ago. Like, in France, in the 70s.
I think so too. But I live in music journalism land where people throw around genres without knowing what they're talking about. I get really upset when people confuse Coldwave, Post-punk, or Dark wave, and generally think they're full of shit.
Well, like I said the kids don't care anymore. When no one knows what they're talking about, everyone knows what they're talking about. Me and you are the last line of defense against idiots.
Well, I'm glad we met then.
I mean, I do use equipment from that era. If you use that sort of equipment, you can't help but sound a bit like those genres and I'm not trying to shy away from that music. It's really good. But I'm also not intentionally listening to records from that era and pretending I'm the only one that's heard them, even though we're being called out for "ripping people off." For Black Marble, I can say with clean conscience that I wanted to make a band, I wanted to make music, I got a bunch of synthesizers, and I made it happen.
So what's the next step?
We're going to make another record soon. Right now I'm going to go down the remix path because I think it's really fun to work with other artists. Eventually we're going to do a tour but we haven't quite figured that out yet. Our new record comes out on October 9th so we're probably going to try to tour at the end of October or November but don't have the dates for that yet. After that I want to get back to making more songs; I already have a few that I've already sort of sketched out. I'm a better songwriter now then when we started the band. I also really know what I can get out of the equipment now. To not be under pressure—that's incredible.
A Different Arrangement comes out October 9th through Hardly Art. You can pre-order the record, and order Black Marble's first EP, right here. And if you live in New York, head to Public Assembly tonight to catch the guys with Plastic Flowers, Indian Flowers, and Total Slacker, plus DJ sets from Pictureplane, The Death Set, and Creep. More info on that here.
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Facing dual probes by state and local authorities, embattled Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr. has established a legal defense fund to offset mounting legal bills stemming from a series of financial improprieties.
Shirakawa is being investigated by both the District Attorney's Office for misusing his county-issued credit card, and the Fair Political Practices Commission for failing to file eight missing campaign contribution reports from his 2008 campaign.
Calls to Shirakawa's office for comment were not immediately returned. But on a committee form he signed Dec. 19, now filed with the county Registrar of Voters office, Shirakawa lists an assistant treasurer in Oakland and a bank account at a Mountain View Wells Fargo branch.
State officials said there's nothing unusual about setting up such a fund, which can be done while an elected official is in office, as long as all rules are followed.
The candidate-controlled committee he's established to raise legal funds is similar to the kind he set up to solicit campaign contributions in both his 2008 and 2012 runs for supervisor, except there is no monetary limit, unless a local ordinance says otherwise. But like campaign contribution reports, all names and donations are public record.
So far, Shirakawa has contracted a top-flight election law attorney, Thomas Willis of Remcho Johansen & Purcell, to represent him in his case before the state's political watchdog agency.
Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone, who has spoken out frequently throughout the very public airing of Shirakawa's financial mishaps, said the supervisor's legal defense fund makes sense.
"I'm not surprised at all," Stone said. "But it is an indication that he finally recognizes the severity of the situation -- up to this time he's been in a total state of denial. I've watched him talk from the dais and thought, 'Boy, a lawyer is going to tell him to be quiet.' Each time he's said something in his own defense he's dug himself a deeper political and legal hole."
Attorney and former Shirakawa political consultant Rich Robinson, who has publicly called on the supervisor to resign from office, said Shirakawa will likely go back to the same campaign contributors he has relied on in the past.
But, he cautioned: "A drowning man -- even for people who are trying to save him -- will usually take them down with him.''


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The Morning Download: Google's Stock Split a Boon to CIOs
The Morning Download cues up the most important news in business technology every weekday morning. Send us your tips, compliments and complaints.
Good morning, and welcome to Friday. The big news this morning is Google's boffo earnings, as WSJ reports. But to CIOs, the announced stock split is more important because it helps preserve the control exercised by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In a letter to shareholders, Page writes the split is intended to protect Google management from "outside pressures and the temptation to sacrifice future opportunities to meet short-term demands" and maintain the company's "pioneering spirit."
This means Page, not Wall Street, will decide whether Google will continue investing in ventures like Google Apps or enterprise search, which don't pay off for Google in the short term, but may — or have — become an important part of the business technology ecosystem. It's hard to find a CIO these days who isn't testing some portion of Apps within their organization, even if it's only for email, because of the tremendous savings — and because it's a cudgel to hold over Microsoft's head.
Nasdaq CIO Anna Ewing sees her personal stock rise. Nasdaq CIO Anna Ewing saw her total compensation jump to $3.2 million in 2011 from about $2.8 million in 2010, according to company filings released Thursday. Her base salary, $500,000, remained the same, but the value of her performance-based stock awards increased to $1,120,005 from $880,001 last year, according to CIO Journal. She has fared better than some other top CIOs, who have suffered cuts in pay, as CIO Journal reported Wednesday.
Burger King's secret CIO. Kelly Maddern has been hired as chief information officer at Burger King, the fast food chain that is working to revive its brand and boost sales as it prepares to go public. Maddern, whose appointment was not publicly announced, started her new position earlier this year. She was lured away from clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, writes CIO Journal's Joel Schectman.
Apple, Windows 8 tablets leave little room for ultrabooks. "Windows 8 tablets are a more interesting device" than than Ultrabooks, says Greg Fell, CIO of global manufacturer Terex. Intel, which designed the specifications, is making a big marketing push, selling the devices as just as sleek and light as MacBook Airs — only cheaper — and more business-friendly than the iPad. But CIOs don't seem to be biting. OEMs have introduced 21 different versions of them already, with more on the way. But Fell, like many CIOs we've asked, doesn't expect Ultrabooks to make a dent as far as corporate deployments go, he tells CIO Journal.
Vendors seeking to establish standards for the cloud. A new open source project funded by major cloud vendors, announced Thursday, is intended to establish standards for web-based infrastructure platforms. That will address a significant concern of CIOs about the cloud, which is their ability to move data and applications from one cloud platform to another, or from a public cloud to a private cloud, CIO Journal reports.
Smartphone patents: never-ending war. As competition in the more than $200 billion global smartphone industry becomes more cutthroat, Apple and others are defending seemingly run-of-the-mill features like "slide to unlock" in order to force their rivals to either find workarounds or pay licensing fees, report WSJ's Ashby Jones and Jessica Vascellaro.
U.S., China tout progress over IP. U.S. and Chinese officials touted recent progress in intellectual-property protection in China and called for continued efforts, even as U.S. and Chinese companies engage in high-profile battles over famous names such as iPad and Michael Jordan, writes WSJ's Loretta Chao.
EMC adds pre-configured data center offering of its own. In the wake of IBM's PureSystems solution-in-a-box announced Wednesday, EMC said Thursday it is selling a private cloud platform that customers can that configure according to their needs, writes Lucas Mearian at Computerworld. But contrary to IBM, EMC includes technology from multiple partners, including Cisco, Citrix, Intel and Brocade. EMC won't sell the VXPEX platform directly, but rather through its partner channel, which includes Arrow Electronics, Avnet, and Ingram Micro.
Microsoft forms subsidiary to engage with open source communities. Microsoft is spinning out a wholly owned subsidiary to bridge the gap between proprietary Microsoft technologies and non-Microsoft technologies in mixed IT environments, reports InfoWorld's Paul Krill. This could lead to improved interoperability between Microsoft products and open source applications like Hadoop, which companies are turning to for real-time analysis of enormous data sets.
SAP's Syclo deal will help SAP adapt to the mobile world. SAP's HANA database, which cuts processing time by running calculations in the same chip as the server's memory, hasn't been particularly well-suited to the mobile world–at least until now, writes CIO Insight. But its acquisition of Syclo, the mobile infrastructure company, will help SAP run its applications on mobile devices.
Customer analytics are key to Netflix's future. "The goal now is to learn individual viewing preferences so well that every recommendation is a hit with that subscriber," writes Michael Liedke of CIO Insight. He takes a look at the machine learning systems — developed by a team of 150 software engineers — that put Netflix at the forefront of data analytics.
Up in the sky, it's H-P, in the cloud. Amazon and Google get lots of attention for their cloud offerings, so the cloud services that Hewlett-Packard has brought to market may have taken rivals by surprise, writes Jennifer LeClaire of CIO Today. H-P has taken a hybrid approach, combining common architecture, traditional IT, and private and managed public clouds.
Infosys profit rises 27%. Infosys beat expectations with a 27% rise in its January-March net profit, but the company said it expects the current year's revenue growth to fall way short of industry estimates because of continued patchiness in the U.S. recovery, and anti-outsourcing rhetoric in the lead-up to the presidential election, reports WSJ.
Why the DOJ is likely to lose its antitrust suit targeting Apple. The feds have "a far better case against the publishers than Apple," says Dominick Armentano, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Hartford. Apple didn't even attend a meeting in London where publishers had a key pricing discussion. Moreover, both Apple and the publishers benefit from a series of U.S. Supreme Court precedents. "In the 1979 BMI vs. CBS case, the court ruled that 'not all arrangements among actual or potential competitors that have an impact on price are per se violations.' And in a 2007 case, the court said that manufacturers can enforce minimum retail prices, which is one aspect of what publishers are accused of doing with e-books," writes CNET's Greg Sandoval.
New warning sign from China. China's economy grew at its slowest pace in nearly three years in Q1 – GDP came in below estimates at 8.1%. Fading real-estate construction and weak demand from Europe were the main culprits, the WSJ's Tom Orlik says in this Heard on the Street. But that gave domestic consumption a chance to shine – contributing 76% of Q1 growth, up from 52% in 2011. "It's early days yet, but that's a sign China could be shifting to a more balanced—and sustainable—growth model."
Revisions hold clues to jobs. Weekly jobless claims revisions show that hiring has been a lot more tepid than the initial results suggest. The Labor Department has revised its first estimate of seasonally adjusted claims the following week in 57 of the past 58 reports, the WSJ reports. "The revisions don't change that new jobless claims have been trending down week-by-week since the middle of last year. But the figures show the improvement hasn't been as strong as the initial numbers suggested."
Best Buy probe deepens. Best Buy is looking into whether CEO Brian Dunn misused company assets during his alleged relationship with a female subordinate, the WSJ reports. Former CEO Bradbury H. Anderson said the probe had wounded morale and that he has "been in conversations with people who have been in tears." The company is also getting heat for not immediately disclosing that the board's audit committee was investigating Dunn's personal conduct.
Dow Chemical appeals R&D ruling. Dow Chemical is facing off with the IRS over which costs are eligible for the research and experimentation tax credit, CFO Magazine reports. The IRS says that if Dow wins the appeal "the limits on what qualifies as R&E costs would be 'eviscerated' and other companies might use the research credit to subsidize operations instead of to support legitimate research spending."
WHAT YOUR CEO IS READING — Every week, CIO Journal offers a glimpse into the mind of the CEO, whose view of technology is shaped by stories in management journals, general interest magazines and, of course, in-flight publications.
- 'Agreeing is easy. Disagreeing takes more guts.' Ousted Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz says if you're going to be a straight talker, you have to believe that it's a virtue. Bartz is part of Businessweek's second-annual how-to issue, featuring heaps of advice from all kinds of business leaders. Ford CEO Alan Mulally says if you want honest feedback you have to show people that it's safe for them to give it. And more importantly, you have to act on it – if you don't the feedback will stop. And legendary lawyer David Boies offers some tips on how to negotiate: Don't give false expectations and above all … be patient.
- Route to success goes through China. Principal Financial CEO Larry Zimpleman grew up on a farm in eastern Iowa and didn't get his first passport until he was 46. But as far as he's concerned, the future is in China. The Middle Kingdom is the next step in Zimpleman's grand strategy to make money off every stage of an adult's life cycle, writes Julie Segal in Institutional Investor. The strategy is humming along mostly because he's figured out that putting time and effort into local relationships pays off. One of his biggest coups was when China Construction Bank chose Principal for a mutual fund joint venture – all because Zimpleman was the only one to ask the bank what it wanted from the deal.
- Who will hold the keys to the Internet? There's a war under way for control of the Internet, writes Michael Joseph Gross in the May issue of Vanity Fair. A year-end meeting to revise a U.N. treaty governing the Internet "could split the virtual world as we know it," Gross says. Authoritarian regimes are sick of the Internet being run by a small group of tech organizations based mostly in the U.S. And the man running the conference seems to agree. Hackers are the big wild card, though. They want to make an impression at the confab by bringing down the Domain Name System itself—halting all Internet traffic completely. Their protest would be aimed at "Wallstreet, our irresponsible leaders, and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun."


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FRESHMAN (2012): Played in 15 games during his first collegiate season … College Sports Madness tabbed Hegardt as its projected 2012 West Coast All-Conference Freshman of the Year … Hegardt appeared in 15 games and made one start – the Broncos' season-opener vs. Cal (Aug. 24) … registered a season-high three shots at home against Portland (Oct. 26) – a game which was televised live nationally on the Fox Soccer Channel … totaled four shots on the year … appeared in nine of the team's 12 WCC contests.
HIGH SCHOOL: Highly accomplished prep player from San Diego's Cathedral Catholic High School where he earned First Team All-CIF honors … captained the Dons and led the team to the CIF Division III finals as a senior in 2011-12 … the Dons were 2012 Western League Champions and Hegardt was named the league's Player of the Year by the North County Times … tabbed as the Sports Magazine Boys' Soccer Player of the Year in 2011-12 ... also an All-Western League selection as a junior and a Second Team All-CIF pick … led the Dons to the Division III title game as both a freshman and sophomore … 2010 US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (US Youth Soccer ODP) 1994 Boys Champion with California South … also tabbed to play with the Region IV ODP teams ... residency with the U.S. U17 National Team, were he played alongside future SCU classmates Kendall McIntosh and Ryan Masch … also played for the BU18 Academy Team at San Diego Surf Soccer … represented the South Coast Strikers at the 2011 Northern Ireland Milk Cup ... began his extensive youth club career with the Fallbrook Fury U8-U10 … also spent six years playing for Nott's Forest.
PERSONAL: Born in Seattle, Wash. … son of Ron and Kim Hegardt – both Santa Clara University graduates … has three younger siblings, Mattie, Audrey and Chris … notes skiing and reading as hobbies … He will be studying in the School of Business.


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An estimated 1,000 people crowded into Marietta College's Dyson-Baudo Recreation Center during the 2013 Bridal Extravaganza -"From the Engagement to the Honeymoon" Sunday afternoon.
The annual event gives brides- and grooms-to-be a chance to pick up some ideas and learn about the host of wedding-related services available locally.
"This is by far our biggest show-we have somewhere between 300 and 350 brides attending today," said Marcia Stewart, event coordinator, wedding planner, and owner of Ash-Hanson Flowers and Wedding Innovations in Marietta.
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Kiah Haynes, left, and Chelsea Gore model dresses for bridesmaids and brides during the 2013 Bridal Extravaganza at Marietta College Sunday afternoon.
SAM SHAWVER The Marietta Times
"We're trying to showcase local vendors," she added. "I tell all of my brides that a wedding can be a lot less expensive by using local businesses."
She said several brides are already planning for 2014 weddings.
Andrea Workman, 30, and Mike Way, 32, both of Parkersburg, are among those early planners. Their wedding date is July, 2014.
Fact Box
Wedding costs
Couples that live in or travel to Washington County on average spend between $16,484 and $27,474 for their weddings.
The average wedding cost is based on the number of guests-estimated between 131 and 151 people.
A single guest can add $140 to $171 to the wedding expense, so controlling the number of guests is the best way to save money on a wedding.
Source: www.costofwedding.com
By the numbers
The number of marriages per year dropped in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010:
In 2000 the U.S. population was 281.4 million and there were 2.3 million marriages.
The population in 2005 was 295.5 million and there were 2.2 million marriages.
By 2010 the U.S. population was 308.7 million and there were 2.09 million marriages.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"We're seeing all kinds of things here that you might not necessarily think about when planning a wedding," Way said.
Workman said she and Way have five children between them, but they hope to have a big wedding.
"Events like this help gain some ideas about what we might want to include for our wedding day," she said. "And we can share ideas with other couples, too."
Andy Fenton with Vogue-Swift Cleaners in Marietta noted dry cleaning and alterations are among the services people may not thing about when planning for weddings.
"We also rent tuxedos and provide preservation services for bridal dresses," he said.
Brother and business partner Adam Fenton said many women want to keep their dresses after the wedding, but the clothing must be properly stored.
"To do it right the dress has to be cleaned and pressed, then stored in an acid-neutral box," Adam said. "We also restore older wedding dresses. We've done some that were more than 100 years old."
Devola residents Cassie Shankland and her mother, Renee, had set up a display of jewelry and beads for their business, dubbed "Creations by Cassie."
"We started this business about three years ago and work out of our home," Cassie said. "But we've developed a very large customer base locally and through the Internet."
Their display of multi-colored beads, necklaces, bracelets and other items seemed to be among the most popular exhibits at the wedding extravaganza.
"Women can put together jewelry and choose beads that match the colors of their wedding," Cassie said. "It's our first year attending this bridal event, but we've had a really good turnout today."
Another first-time business at Sunday's bridal extravaganza was White Knight Limousine Services LLC.
Limousine driver Brian Brightbill said the stretch limo service should be ready to go within the next two weeks.
"We offer an eight-passenger vehicle for all occasions, including weddings," he said. "And the next-closest limo service is in Akron."
White Knight received approval to begin operations from Marietta City Council last month.
Whitney Rich, 22, of Sarahsville, was among the hundreds of brides-to-be who attended Sunday's event.
"I'm getting married in mid-July, so this is kind of a kickoff for planning my wedding," she said. "My fiance just proposed about a month ago, so I'm looking for some decorations and ideas, and just wanted to see what this event is all about."
Her mom, Tacy Rich, said Whitney is thinking ahead.
"She started buying stuff the day after he proposed, and has been shopping every day since," Tacy joked. "But there is a lot to think about, and we wanted to look for some good ideas here today."
Justin Guthrie, 23, of Parkersburg, and Deborah Loughrie, 21, of Rowlesburg, W.Va., said their wedding date is set on Sept. 21 of this year.
"This is our first bridal event-we just wanted to see what options are available," Loughrie explained. "We've been engaged since 2011, but just started our planning."
She expects the wedding will be a moderate event, with about 100 guests.
"Still it seems like this is going to take a some time," Guthrie added. "It's a lot more planning than you'd think."
There were at least 75 local vendors who participated in Sunday's bridal event, which included three live bridal fashion shows throughout the afternoon.
Drawings were also held for more than 64 vendor-donated prizes, including a grand prize of $500 "extravaganza bucks" to be used at any of the event's vendors.


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Local author pens unusual holiday tale
North County college professor Ross Talarico grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and for eight years he was that city's writer-in-residence, hosting events for people with limited exposure to literature and storytelling.
Rochester is also the setting for his new novel, "Sled Run." It's a short coming-of-age tale about family, friends and a hoodlum with a really nice car.
Talarico will be at Warwick's on Dec. 2 at noon. He answered questions by phone.
How much of the book is based on your own life?
It is based on people I knew, mostly composites of people. I did keep, for example, the real names of my two sisters in the book. Basically my family is the family you see in the book, especially the mysterious, atheist, spiritual father.
Atheist, spiritual and really trying to impress on his son finding a life with some kind of meaning?
Yes, that's exactly right, and that's what the book is all about. And I think he does come to grips with that. Of course, that's from my real life, too. But you have to embellish those experiences as a writer and so that's why it's not an autobiography or a memoir even. It's a piece of fiction.
So there was no real Christmas Sled Run (a combination of thievery and charity) in your town?
No, but there is one thing I picked up on, and it's in the book. I remember vaguely one of the young loan sharks talking about somebody who was supposed to steal radios and they wound up with dolls. They gave them away at an orphanage. But it wasn't an annual activity like it is in the book.
What are some of the themes you're exploring here?
A little bit about the American dream itself, the idea that these young mafiosos represented success in neighborhoods because they were the ones with the nice clothes and the nice cars and they also had a certain kindness and a giving nature to them. In the book, though, you see the other side of that as well, and you see how difficult it is to process all that when you're young.
How did your own experience in an Italian-American immigrant family shape you as a writer?
There's a part in the book where the mother shows the main character his father's poems. That didn't happen to me, but my mother did at one point go to the closet and bring out a box of old drawings. They were my father's drawings that he never showed anyone.
Why did she show them to you?
She wanted me to see another side of my father, a secret side of my father.
Did you have a sense when your mom showed them to you that your dad didn't pursue his art because of cultural pressures or financial obligations?
Absolutely. All my uncles watched wrestling and were prejudiced and just really gruff. My father was not like that. He was more reflective, and smart, but he never even got a chance to finish high school. He talked about going back to school and being a lawyer. He never did. He worked in a shoe factory. I think he was very frustrated that his life was working in a shoe factory instead of doing something with his mind.
Why did you want to write about this?
I loved where I grew up, I loved the people I grew up around. There were a lot of difficult experiences, especially growing up among hoodlums and young loan sharks, but on the other side of it were great friends and a wonderful family. You want to capture a time in your life that's important to you.
Did you have to get to a certain point in your own life where you could look back on things and reflect on them?
I think it just came naturally. There was no point where I felt desperate to come to grips with something. It was very much like the father in the book, just being able to accept what's around a person and yet somehow taking the time to look at it carefully.
Why does our culture remain fascinated with mobsters?
It's the individuality, the idea that you try to take control of your own life somehow, your own experiences, and I think that's a very romantic idea and somehow it's connected to the violence of the old mafia. But it's still appealing. I always thought that the best way to go shopping was to go to the store and put a gun on the counter and say, "Give me the best price you can give me."
Gee, I haven't heard of you doing that in San Diego. I think I might have heard about that.
No, no, I didn't say I'd ever done that. I hope it doesn't come to that.
"Sled Run," by Ross Talarico, Bordighera Press, 160 pages, $15


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Fancy a free lunch with Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Randall Rader on St. Patty's Day?
The High Tech Law Institute of the Santa Clara University School of Law is sponsoring a panel discussion with Judge Rader, Colleen Chien, Assistant Professor at SCU Law, Marta Beckwith, Director of IP Litigation at Cisco Systems, and Julie Stephenson, Chief IP Counsel at Synopsys, on Thursday, March 17th, between 12:00-1:00 p.m. in SCU Law's Bannan Hall (Room 127).
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Champion for Disabled Children and Young People
The Disabled Children's Champion makes sure that disabled children and young people across the city are included, involved and take part in activities in the city; that they:
- are listened to and included;
- are confident to express themselves;
- have choice and control over matters that affect their lives;
- have increased social skills - ie: they make and sustain friendships;
- have positive self-identity and esteem.
Organisations are required to show how disabled children and young people are:
- involved in decision-making;
- involved in the review, design and planning of services;
- involved in consultation exercises;
- provided with relevant support to achieve independence with access to advocates and peer support;
- fully informed about the range of services available and have access to mainstream services; eg: leisure and recreation facilities, youth clubs and forums.
The Champion for Disabled Children and Young People is jointly funded by:
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The April Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) covers the extremes of the size scale: quarks and nuclei at the one end, and galaxies and the cosmos as a whole at the other end . . . General Press Release (pdf)
April meeting press events will take place in Tampa, Florida at the Marriott Hotel. The pressroom will be in room 2 while press conferences will be held in room 3 . . Press Conferences (pdf)
APS Public Lecture: "Einstein's Biggest Blunder: A Cosmological Mystery," April 18, 7:30 PM, Marriott Waterside, Grand Salon C. Physicist and best-selling author Lawrence Krauss discusses Einstein's famous 'blunder' and the insight it now provides into dark energy and the expansion of the universe . . . Public Lecture at the April APS Meeting (pdf)
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On today's episode of Ellen, South Korean sensation Park Jae-Sang, AKA Psy of "Gangnam Style" fame, makes a surprise appearance to show host Ellen DeGeneres, guest Britney Spears, and members of the audience how to do his signature dance moves (tip: dress classy, dance cheesy).
A moment of awkwardness when Psy asks Ellen if he can introduce himself is quickly diffused when the K-popster whips out his invisible horse.
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If you're baking for someone with a food intolerance, find a tested recipe with the needed substitutions; don't just wing it.
Use butter. Salted or unsalted, it's up to you, but the recipe is designed for butter. If you need to use margarine or a vegetable oil spread, be sure to test the recipe with your selected brand before you have make it for public consumption.
Start with room-temperature butter: soft but not melting.
Refrigerate the dough before scooping and baking. Dough that's too warm might not spread correctly in the oven. An hour will do the trick.
Don't crowd the baking sheet. Leave enough space between the mounds of dough for the cookies to spread.
If you have any doubts about oven temperature, use an oven thermometer to make sure you're at a true 375 degrees. At 350 degrees, the cookies will spread too much. At 400 degrees, they'll brown too fast.
For more evenly baked cookies, bake only one sheet at a time.
When the cookies are almost done, hover by the oven door, checking on them. A cookie can go from perfectly baked to overbaked in a minute.
After years of baking for teacher luncheons, tailgate parties and cookie exchanges, I can say that chocolate chip cookies are traded enough to merit their own seat on any public stock exchange. They are America's favorite.
I'm not competitive, exactly, but I wanted my cookies to stand out — in a good way. Tweaking the dough recipe was not the answer, because I'm fond of the one printed on the bag of Nestle's Toll House chips. Varying the size of the cookie and the chocolate, however, made all the difference.
My first success came with semisweet chocolate mini chips. Shot through a standard-size cookie, they got a little lost; when I made the cookies smaller, the little chips mixed evenly throughout the dough, guaranteeing that every bite of cookie had plenty of mini chips. I used a teaspoon cookie scoop that actually holds about 1 3/4 teaspoons of dough (3/8 ounce) to make a cookie just shy of 2 inches across.
Then, inspired by my friend Mary Lee Montfort, owner and chief baker at Mary Lee's Desserts in Vienna, Va., I went in the opposite direction. She makes a large chocolate chip cookie for her cookie platters "for the wow factor. It draws people to the cookie," Montfort says. "It's also a cookie that combines textures: crisp and brown on the edges and soft in the middle."
For that, I knew I needed to go bigger on the chocolate. Chocolate chunks were the logical choice. I doubled the amount of cookie dough, settling on a scoop somewhere around a generous 1 1/2 ounces and no more than 1 3/4 ounces. Placing the mounds of dough far apart on the baking sheet, I flattened them just a bit, so they were about 1/2-inch thick. The semisweet chunks spread out more than standard-size chocolate chips do and were like little melting pools of chocolate in the 3 1/2-to-4-inch cookies.
But what could I do to that old standby, the regulation-size chocolate chipper, to change it up? Dark chocolate chips were my answer. They are flatter and wider than the regular chips, giving my cookies a new look, and I love their bittersweet flavor. Like the chunks, they also spread a little while baking, adding visual appeal. Best of all, my family instantly declared them a favorite. The bittersweet chocolate complements the brown-sugar sweetness of the dough.
I wasn't done yet. Left with sugar cookie dough trimmings after making cut-out cookies, I decided to mix in some hand-cut chocolate shavings and chunks. Using a heavy knife, I chopped a bar of bittersweet chocolate, half shaving it, half making very tiny chunks no bigger than 1/4 inch. I mixed the chocolate into the dough and rolled it into a 2 1/2-inch-thick log. Wrapped tightly in plastic, the log went right into the freezer. When I was ready to bake, I sliced the dough into thin rounds, and my last variation, the chocolate-studded sugar cookie, was born.
I'm a particular fan of that last variety. The chocolate shavings and little chunks mix right into the dough. There's hardly a part of the cookie that's not chocolaty.
Why some people prefer big cookies and some small is a mystery. Carla Hall, "Chew" co-host and cookie maven, makes her line of petite cookies much more mini than mine.
"You don't have to commit," she says, meaning that, for some, it's preferable to make their way through a few tiny cookies rather than a single giant cookie. That's one theory. For me, all bite-size foods are attractive, especially on a buffet.
My favorite tack these days is to put some of each style of chocolate chip cookie on a platter: big, little and in between. All together, they become standouts.


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Arsenal projected lineup against Norwich City
Arsenal heads into week eight of the English Premier League campaign at the top of the table and level on points with Liverpool at 16. While Arsene Wenger was criticized mercilessly over the summer by the press, his decision only to buy a few key pieces during the transfer window looks more and more of a classic shrew move by the wise old Frenchman.
While Arsenal were slow movers in the market, their opponents at the weekend in the form of Norwich City were very active as the club had their biggest transfer budget in history and made several of their biggest purchases ever including new club record transfer Ricky Van Wolfswinkel.
However, while the Canaries spent big, they are struggling in the early relegation fight and manager Chris Hughton has a lot to prove. Meanwhile Arsenal will be looking to keep things moving forward at the top of the pile.
Mesut Ozil limped off Tuesday evening during Germany and Sweden's final World Cup Qualification match but he is expected to be ready for Saturday along with Santi Cazorla whom is also expected to return to the first team.
While Bacary Sagna is a doubt, Theo Walcott is also expected to be on the bench and available for selection but Abou Diaby, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Lukas Podolski and Yaya Sanogo all remain sidelined.
Norwich's primary injury concern is with wide midfielder Anthony Pilkington and he is expected to be replaced by young Nathan Redmond by Hughton after not being in the starting eleven against Chelsea


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Metformin reverses PKD
25.03.2013 - Italian researchers have tracked down the signalling pathway causing
polycystic kidney disease and identified a promising target.
Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is one of the most common life-threatening genetic diseases, affecting an estimated 12.5 million people worldwide. Due
to multiple fluid-filled cysts, both kidneys enlarge and can also damage
liver, pancreas and - more rarely - heart and brain. Currently no treatment exists for the autosomally and recessively inherited forms of PKD.
The PKD-1 gene is mutated in 85% of the autosomal dominant form. Italian researchers have now found that the disorder can be targeted by an existing diabetes drug in combination with a glucose analogon. The team headed by Alessandra Boletta from San Raffaele Institute in Milan found that the PKD-1 mutation caused a switch in sugar metabolism towards aerobic glycolysis due to the inactivation of the master regulator AMPK (liver kinase B1-AMP activated protein kinase).
Forced activation of AMPK either by rapamycin, the diabetes medicine metformin or the non-metabolised sugar analogon 2-deoxy-glucose (2-DG) triggered reduction of the number of cysts in a mouse model. AMPK activation revitalized the ERK signalling pathway which re-activated mTORC1 that in turn normalised glycolysis. The researchers believe that a combination therapy of 2-DG and metformin offers a treatment opportunity for the progressive disease.
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Excavated June 2006This specimen represents one of our oldest individuals. If fact, many of the premolars are worn completely flat or even lost. Moreover, severe arthritis is common throughout the skeleton associated with this skull.
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|Length Overall
6.55 m
|Dry Weight
4,285 lbs.
1,943.64 kg
259.1 cm
|Tested Weight
4,849 lbs.
2,199 kg
|Weight Capacity
|Draft Up
|Person Capacity
|Draft Down
|Fuel Capacity
48 gal.
|Air Draft
|Water Capacity
|Length on Trailer
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|Total Package Weight (Trailer,Boat & Engine)
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|Std. Power
|1 x 350-hp Indmar 5.7L Premium M57
|Tested Power
|1 x 355-hp Indmar 5.7 M57
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1 x 555-hp Indmar 6.2L V-8 S62 Supercharged
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Here is the Tigé Z1 in running mode. Something that she only does to get to the area that she can really show her stuff.
The Full Spectrum
First things first… how can Tigé make a boat that performs across the full spectrum, and just what is that spectrum anyway? Well, first understand that if a slalom skier is behind the boat, that will require a smooth, shallow wake. A wakeboarder, on the other hand, wants a fat wake to jump off of and get serious air that carries across to the opposite wake. And a wake surfer wants a tsunami to carry the ride without the need for a towline.
Tigé went with a traditional V-bow for the Z1 rather than the pickle fork seen on some of the other models in the lineup.
So what to do…
To get a shallow wake on a typical boat, go faster so that it planes better. Yet, that can't be done while towing a skier. They need a mid range speed to stay in control. To get a fat wake, just slow a typical boat so that the bow is up high and the stern is dragging. But that does the wakeboarder no good for high jumps. So what to do?
For wakeboarding, the Z1 provides the ability to catch air from one wake right across to the opposite side.
The Basics. Planing isn't a problem as most boats will do it at a moderate speed. So the slalom guy is happy. To get the wake up, keep the speed and sink the boat lower. That means adding ballast by filling tanks or removable bags called "fat sacs". Then drain them later to haul back to the dock without burning more fuel.
Tigé seems to have come up with a boat that can do it all.
For wake surfing, the Z1 can control the size, length and volume of the wake.
Convex V and VX Hull
The Convex V hull runs opposite to conventional wisdom of hooking the stern down to create a fatter wake. That leaves no flexibility, and the wave it creates is the wave you get. But with Convex V, the hull is curved up at the end. Now some flexibility can be created by adding an adjustable plate at the center of the stern. That's called TAPS2, but we'll get to that in a minute.
Convex VX. Now as if that weren't enough, the Z1 also offers an option called the "Convex VX." This is a fiberglass extension that attaches to the underside of the swim platform and is easily removable. This extension channels water from the prop downward, under and into the wake. This adds size, volume, and density to the wave. Now surfers have the room to recover given the amount of power, push, and extended length of the wave. It's one more reason that this is billed as the ultimate surf boat. And it still works in conjunction with the TAPS system.
The Convex VX system adds an extension onto the back of the hull driving the prop wash down and under the wake, pushing it even high, and longer.
Playing T.A.P.S.
T.A.P.S. stands for Tigé Adjustable Performance System, and it's exactly as the name implies. Behind the transom, is a plate that is adjustable at the helm to tweak the characteristics of the hull, and therefore, the wake.
Behind the hull is the TAPS2 plate that adjusts the ride and the wake. It's controlled by a rocker switch on the throttle, the same as trimming an outdrive or outboard.
In normal mode the Z1 is a planing boat with a light wake, and at the touch of a switch to lower and raise the plate, the stern can be made to squat to increase the wake. Its performance is heaven for watersports enthusiasts and it's on every Tigé hull.
Not only is there great wake control, but she is a great performing boat. Thanks to her triple hull tracking fins, the Z1 can turn on a dime. There's very little slide so there's no feel of falling off the turn. Acceleration is crisp, with our tests showing a time to plane of only 2.1 seconds (one of our fastest ever recorded!), and a 0-30 mph time of 7.4 seconds.
We measured a top speed of 43.6 mph and a best cruise of 25.8 mph.
Since this is a V-drive installation, there's more room in the cockpit without having to work around a bulky engine box in the middle of the boat. The Indmar engines not only have four engine mounts, but an additional two under the transmission as well which better distributes the weight and torque. That translates into less vibration and less discomfort for the passengers.
Speed Data. With an Indmar 350-hp M57 5.7L engine as standard, our test boat reached a top speed of 43.6 mph and had a best cruise of 25.8. At that speed, she was burning only 7.45 gallons per hour.
The Indmar M57 engine has dual exhaust and drives through a ZF transmission. Perhaps most important of all, it carries a 5-year Indmar factory warranty.
When turning, the Z1 rolls 12-degrees into the turn.
Notice how when she runs, the spray comes well aft…
… but during turns, she drops her shoulder to help her carve through the turn on her reversed chines.
The Layout
The Z Series offers the latest styling of the whole Tigé lineup, and this Z1 exemplifies that.
At the bow, Tigé went with the traditional V-bow, completely filled in with cushions, and surrounded by upholstery that is diamond stitched with UV resistant Gore Tenera thread. Fully forward a flat backrest allows for aft facing seating for another set of eyes dedicated to keeping an eye on the end of the towline.
Air Dam. Previous versions had an air dam that had to be pulled out from storage, and laid into place. Now the air dam is hinged and under the center bow cushion. Just raise the cushion, swing the lexan dam into place, and close the windshield… done.
There's not much bow room but two people can lounge facing forward or one facing aft. Tige' has maximized space behind the helm because that's where the action is.
Access to storage inside the port and starboard consoles is through the swing-open seatbacks in the bow, and the port storage is also accessed from lifting the observers seat, which also has a mirror and small cargo net storage underneath.
The fit-and-finish is evident throughout the Z1. Here, there are custom made grab rails and diamond quilted upholstery done with UV resistant Gore Tenera thread.
Both seatbacks swing open on hinges to allow access to the console storage behind. The port console is also accessed from the cockpit observer's seat.
Tigé went with a soft touch helm, color matched with soft vinyl with Gore Tenera stitching. Three gauges keep the panel uncluttered. Tach and fuel to the left, speed in the center, and the TAPS2 gauge with a LCD temperature scale embedded in. Any other information can come from the Tigé Touch display, which is standard on the Z1 and now includes Bluetooth streaming audio and a 5-year warranty. The upholstery continues down to the lower panel where the steering wheel is mounted to a tilt base.
Tigé designs and fabricates its panels in-house, and even designs the software for the Tigé Touch panel. The Tigé Touch screen is at right and angled toward the driver.
The Tigé Touch comes with a 5-year warranty and controls everything onboard. Take a look at the lower right button on the touch screen… that's a Bluetooth connectivity button for streaming MP3s from the smart phone.
Under the Tigé Touch is a storage cubby. A padded armrest is mounted to the starboard bulkhead.
The helm seat is extremely comfortable and includes flip-down armrests, diamond quilted stitching, and a flip-up bolster.
In addition to swiveling and sliding, the helm seat reclines and the armrests are self leveling.
Seating wraps around the entire cockpit making full use of all available space. The usual accommodations for storage are underneath, the diamond stitch upholstery continues. The corner seats are curved to allow for a more comfortable position while still facing the crowd.
The cockpit takes full advantage of the useable space onboard the Z1 by wrapping around completely, and going with a dedicated aft facing observer's seat.
Courtesy lights are everywhere. That floor matting is Poseidon mat that allows water to flow right through. A good thing because there's a high likelihood that wet people will be coming aboard.
Seating is generally deeper than in a number of boats in class because of a slightly higher freeboard amidships. This means a dryer ride and an extra margin of safety for small children. There is lockable storage under one of the seats, a trash receptacle under another, and storage under a third.
Sun Pad and Stern
Behind the cockpit seating is the requisite sun pad that is the staple of any dayboat. It is nearly full beam and has storage hatches that open gull-wing style to access the compartments underneath. This is where there is not only storage, but inflatable ballast sacs. Between the two side pads is a center pad flanked by two elevated storage bins. The center pad itself can be unlatched from its position and flipped to create a non-skid walkthrough to the swim platform.
The sun pad is nearly full beam and is made up of various patterns, colors, and textures.
The center pad flips to reveal a center walkthrough to the swim platform. On either side are long tubs for wet bathing suits that will dry quickly because of the engine heat.
At the stern, Tigé calls this the Transom Activity Center. The seats make a staging area. There's a stereo remote and two drink holders. The platform is right at the surface of the water eliminating the need for a reboarding ladder.
The Swim Platform is part of the Transom Activity Center that includes a staging area for putting on boards, self draining wet storage, drink holders and a stereo remote. With the platform itself being nearly at the surface of the water, there's no need for a reboarding ladder. It also has the same effect of a submersible platform when two or more people are sitting on it.
Of course underneath the center of the sun pad is the engine. It's a tight fit but the bulkheads to either side are removable to facilitate any maintenance that needs to be done.
Tige's "Transom Activity Center" has two large, molded-in seats to make it comfortable when putting on boards. After sets it becomes a venue for relaxing.
The two transom seats open up with gas-assist struts to reveal cavernous storage designed to hold today's longest boards and skis. There are also storage compartments for ropes and iced-down beverages.
Our test boat was fitted with the Alpha Z tower that was custom-designed in-house by Tigé. It can accommodate a host of options including up to 4, color matched, Wet Sounds speakers, tri-color LED courtesy lights, Clamp4rce ratcheting and swiveling board racks, LED docking lights and a swivel tow point camera that can display on the Tigé Touch screen.
The tower is a work of art in itself. Notice the cutouts at the top for holding her in position at the dock.
There are mounts for up to 4 color-matched Wet Sounds speakers and these board racks with ratcheting clamps.
There's one more ingredient to the equation of creating the perfect wake. And that's adding weight to the boat to get it down further in the water. This is done by the tried and true method of adding ballast or weight to the boat. And the easiest way to do that is with the closest available source of weight… water. It's readily accessible and weighs 8.35 lb. (3.785 kg) per gallon of fresh water, and saltwater weighs about 8.3 lbs. (3.9 kg) per gallon. But we can't just open up a thru hull fitting and let the water come in now can we?
Fat Sacs
Ballast bags, or sacks are strategically place around the boat to hold water. A flip of a switch at the helm, one for each ballast sack, will start a pump which brings water into the individual ballast sacks. Once they're full, the boat is much heavier, and because it sinks lower in the water, a larger wake is generated. Now the previously mentioned methods can dial-in that wake to perfection.
At the end of the day, reverse the pumps and empty the liquid weight out.
So How Much Weight is Enough?
The standard ballast package is 900 lbs. (408.2 kg) and should suffice for intermediate to advanced riders. This standard base package consists of two 250-lb. (113.4 kg) tanks below the floor of the rear storage compartments, and two more 200-lb. (90.7 kg) ballast sacs in the bow of the boat.
Now, for the intermediate wake boarder to the advanced wake surfer, an optional ballast package is offered that utilizes larger 600-lb. (272 kg) tanks in the rear of the boat bringing the total up to 1,600 lbs. (725.7 kg).
For the Pro Surfer, in the Z1 Tigé goes still further and allows a total of 400-lbs. more to be added the bow for a total off 2,000 lbs. By doing this, and operator can actually increase the total weight of the boat by 47% -- not counting the weight of all the people aboard. Say six people are aboard at 150-lbs each, that is another 900 lbs. Now the boat is 60% heavier than she was in her original dry weight.
Put this prodigious weight together with the Convex VX hull and the Taps2 system and monster wake is created.
Ballast sacs added to the hull allow for adding weight to the Z1. The Surf System provides 700-lbs. more. The ProSystem adds an additional 400-bs. to the bow for a total of 2000-lbs.
Tigé Warranty
The Tigé warranty program falls into three time periods -- Lifetime, 5-years and 3-years. As for the Lifetime warranty, here is what Tige' says on its website: "Tigé offers the only complete hull replacement warranty in the industry. If you ever experience a structural hull failure or delamination, at any time while you own your boat, Tigé will replace it with a new boat at no charge."
Tigé has a 3-year stem to stern warranty on all items and components on the boat, and a 5-year warranty on the Tigé Touch system as well as the 5-year warranty offered by Indmar on the engine.
The Tigé Z1 is an impressive boat with impressive qualities for making the "perfect" wake across a broad spectrum of disciplines. She transitions equally easily into the family fun boat and that makes her even more appealing.
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Hopefully by now you've forgotten how much you hate me and those sick climbs. In the words of Wayne Rancourt, they are "character-building." Thank you all for a wonderful weekend. It was a true honor to watch so many dedicated performances, and just about brought me to tears, at many points. All four of the course records were broken. First honor goes to "The Swede," Johan Steene. He ran gracefully through the finish line with a big smile and loads of salt deposits on his clothes in a record-breaking 9:24:22. Local favorite Lynn VanSchoiack broke the women's course record by over 2 hours with a time of 11:17:00. While Johan was out breaking Mark Austin's record from the previous year, Mark completely crushed Ryan Lund's record in the 50k by over 37 minutes with an overall time of 5:13:21. Julie Tinney squeaked in a new 50K women's record with a time of 7:07:40. My apologies to Justine O'Neil, whom I didn't realize was our AG winner for women 20-29. Her time was 7:55:33. Great work Justine! Results can be viewed here.
Our volunteers: Huge Thanks to my parents, Mike & Judy Blessing for putting in countless hours of work prepping for the race. Much thanks to Emily Berriochoa for doing our website design and updates, as well as Tom Mattus and the Boise County Amateur Radio Operators Club for their 4th year of complete ham radio support! Uncle Clint & Aunt Deb at Wetfoot, The Grinders, Jim Buchanan and Matt Gambill at Skunk Creek Summit, David Reimer at East Mountain, and my father-in-law Norm Peck + my lovely wife + Mark Johnson and Mark Hutchinson at Silver Creek Saddle. Great Work!
Thanks to Scott Sports, The Pulse, USA T&F, Trailrunner Magazine, & UltrAspire for their support as well. Please frequent these awesome businesses for their loyalty to ultrarunning, and especially, the WIFMER.
Best Bib: Mariah Crump! It was original and required a lot of work. She wins a year of Trailrunner magazine!
Curious about next year's biennial slugfest? You can check out http://runwildidaho.com/bluemountain50/ for the basic information. We will have more updates in the next upcoming year.
If you are not completely tired of my races, be sure to check out the IMTUF 100 at the end of this month, Standhope 60K September 21st, and the NNU 100 Mile Run & Relay in November. Best Wishes!
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I would say this show is about a 3.5 in comparison to other shows from this fantastic tour.
Wednesday, 06/29/1994
Walnut Creek Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC
Soundcheck: The Old Home Place, Funky Bitch > Jam > Pendulum > Colour My World > Self
Set 1: CurtainThe Curtain > SampleSample in a Jar, Reba, Mound, Julius, HorseThe Horse > SilentSilent in the Morning, BowieDavid Bowie -> Catapult[1] -> BowieDavid Bowie, IDKI Didn't Know[2], GolgiGolgi Apparatus
Set 2: LandladyThe Landlady, Poor Heart > Tweezer > It's Ice > Lifeboy > DividedDivided Sky, SuzySuzy Greenberg > Cavern
Encore: Ya Mar[3], TweepriseTweezer Reprise
[1] Sung over hi-hat intro to David Bowie.
[2] Fish played his bass drum pedal on his knees, and also used Trey's megaphone.
[3] Simpsons signal.
· Julius tease in The Horse
· Dixie tease in Ya Mar
· Buried Alive tease in Julius
Noteworthy Jams: Reba, David Bowie, Catapult, David Bowie
Average Song Gap: 6.36
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Trey teased Buried Alive in Julius and Julius in the intro to The Horse. Catapult was sung as the Bowie hi-hat intro started. I Didn't Know saw Fish play his bass drum pedal on his knees, and also used Trey's megaphone, instead of taking his usual vacuum or trombone solo. Ya Mar included a brief Dixie tease from Trey and a Simpsons signal.
Song Distribution:
6 A Picture of Nectar
4 Rift
3 Hoist
3 Junta
1 Stash
1 Lawn Boy
1 The White Tape
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This show was part of the "1994 Summer Tour."
I would say this show is about a 3.5 in comparison to other shows from this fantastic tour.


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by Caitlin Noblitt, Social Media Intern Bear
Do you ever feel like the true meaning of Thanksgiving gets lost in the craziness of decorating for the holidays? This pine cone turned turkey craft will help your kids reflect on the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Display these pine cone turkeys in your home throughout the month of November to help remind your family what Thanksgiving really means. These turkeys are easy to make and you'll have them finished in no time at all!
– Pine cones (two for each person)
– Craft Bond: All Purpose Glue
– Wiggly eyes
– Craft pom poms (2 per turkey)
– Cardstock of various colors
– Markers
– Scissors
– Ruler
1. We started by cutting out the strips to write down what we are thankful for. Measure the strips to be 1 inch wide by 3 inches long.
2. Write down what really means the most to you! Our little guy felt most thankful for food, family, and toys.
3. Cut out a small diamond and fold it in half to make the turkey's beak. Then glue this along with two wiggly eyes on a craft pom pom to form the head. Make two of these.
4. Trace your participant's hand and cut it out. This will be one of the turkey's feathers! Write, "I am thankful for…" on this hand.
5. Take your craft glue and put everything together. Glue a head and the cut out hand on one pine cone. Give the other pine cone a head and use the strips of paper to make its feathers. You can even give your two turkeys a tail by gluing a pom pom on the back of the pine cone.
The finished product should look like this! If you want a more colorful turkey, you could choose different colors of cardstock and pom poms. Leave a comment if you made this craft and where you displayed the turkeys in your home. Happy Thanksgiving!
Here are some resources we found that have great Thanksgiving crafts for kids and families:
There are so many unique ideas for all ages of crafters at The Crafty Crow Thanksgiving crafts.
We love these Gobbling Turkey Apples from Make and Takes!
And of course, what list of crafts would be complete without some furbulous ideas from Martha Stewart? We especially thought these Boat Place Cards and Cornhusk Dolls were absolutely delightful!


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Most heart attacks are caused by a blood clot that blocks one of the coronary arteries. The coronary arteries bring blood and oxygen to the heart. If the blood flow is blocked, the heart is starved of oxygen and heart cells die.
The medical term for this is myocardial infarction.
Myocardial infarction; MI; Acute MI; ST-elevation myocardial infarction; Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction
A substance called plaque can build up in the walls of your coronary arteries. This plaque is made up of cholesterol and other cells.
A heart attack may occur when:
The cause of heart attack is not always known.
Heart attack may occur:
Many risk factors may lead to the development of plaque buildup and a heart attack.
A heart attack is a medical emergency. If you have symptoms of a heart attack, call 911 or your local emergency number right away.
Chest pain is the most common symptom of a heart attack.
The pain can be severe or mild. It can feel like:
The pain most often lasts longer than 20 minutes. Rest and a medicine to relax the blood vessels (called nitroglycerin) may not completely relieve the pain of a heart attack. Symptoms may also go away and come back.
Other symptoms of a heart attack can include:
Some people (the elderly, people with diabetes, and women) may have little or no chest pain. Or, they may have unusual symptoms such as shortness of breath, fatigue, and weakness. A "silent heart attack" is a heart attack with no symptoms.
A doctor, nurse or other health care provider will perform a physical exam and listen to your chest using a stethoscope.
You will have an electrocardiogram (ECG) to look for heart damage. A blood test can show if you have heart tissue damage. This test can confirm that you are having a heart attack.
Coronary angiography may be done right away or when you are more stable.
Other tests to look at your heart that may be done while you are in the hospital:
Angioplasty is a procedure to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels that supply blood to the heart.
You may be given drugs to break up the clot. It is best if these drugs are given within 3 hours of when you first felt the chest pain. This is called thrombolytic therapy.
Some patients may also have heart bypass surgery to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels that supply blood to the heart. This procedure is also called open heart surgery.
After several days, you will be discharged from the hospital.
You will likely need to take medicines, some for the rest of your life. Always talk to your health care provider before stopping or changing how you take any medicines. Stopping certain medications can be deadly.
While under the care of your health care team, you will learn:
Strong emotions are common after a heart attack.
All of these feelings are normal. They go away for most people after 2 or 3 weeks.
You may also feel tired when you leave the hospital to go home.
Most people who have had a heart attack take part in a cardiac rehabilitation program.
Many people benefit from taking part in support groups for people with heart disease.
After a heart attack, you have a higher chance of having another heart attack.
How well you do after a heart attack depends on several factors such as:
If your heart can no longer pump blood out to your body as well as it used to, you may develop heart failure. Abnormal heart rhythms can occur, and they can be life-threatening.
Most people can slowly go back to normal activities after a heart attack. This includes sexual activity. Talk to your health care provider about how much activity is good for you.
Anderson JL. ST segment elevation acute myocardial infarction and complications of myocardial infarction. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 73.
Antman EM. ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: pathology, pathophysiology, and clinical features. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsever; 2011:chap 54.
Cannon CP, Braunwald E. Unstable angina and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction. In: Bonow RO, Mann DL, Zipes DP, Libby P, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsever; 2011:chap 56.
Kushner FG, Hand M, Smith SC Jr, King SB 3rd, Anderson JL, Antman EM, et al. 2009 Focused Updates: ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients WithST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (updating the 2004 Guideline and 2007 Focused Update) and ACC/AHA/SCAI Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Intervention(updating the 2005 Guideline and 2007 Focused Update): a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Circulation. 2009 Dec 1;120(22):2271-306. Epub 2009 Nov 18.
Wright RS, Anderson JL, Adams CD, et al. 2011 ACCF/AHA Focused Update of the Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Unstable Angina/Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (Updating the 2007 Guideline). A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines Developed in Collaboration With the American College of Emergency Physicians, Society for Cardiovascular Angiograpy and Interventions, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011;57:1920-1959.
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Beverage Branding Fit for a Dragon
I came across a program while in the U.K. called "Dragons' Den," which is similar to the U.S.'s "Shark Tank" that airs on ABC. The dragons, like the sharks, are big time moneymakers in their respective industries and are looking for their next big investment. On this episode of "Dragons' Den," two men, Padrig and Dewi, present their toffee-flavored vodka, Toffoc, to the panel and ask for a £75,000 investment to help expand their brand.
Though Padrig and Dewi had the backing of Michelin-starred celebrity chef Gary Rhodes, they revealed to the dragons that while the Anglesey-based company made a profit in its first year, the following two were not profitable. Dragon Hilary Devey, an English television star responds, "Well, something is wrong there isn't it."
Another dragon, Peter Jones, founder of the U.K.'s first Enterprise Academy, asks why Rhodes' name isn't on the bottle and how much he's invested in the brand. His advice: "Get your celebrity endorser to do more work for you."
The duo came up with the idea to create a toffee-flavored vodka about eight years ago while skiing in the French Alps. The spirit, apparently, is a popular drink choice among skiers there. This particular brand is available in Wales and retails for about £15 for a 70cl bottle, according to its website. The vodka, along with apparel and other swag items, also is available for purchase online. It is triple-distilled U.K. grain vodka that is infused with toffee that results in a clear, golden-hued liquid.
The dragons got to sample the vodka and most seemed impressed with the flavor and quality, remarking that the smell and taste were good. However, none of the five dragons were interested in investing in the brand. In the drinks industry we've seen scenarios like this before. A new product that is struggling to get the word out, partners with a celebrity or a pop culture entity, and then what? Does celebrity affiliation automatically equal success?
That depends on the celebrity and the brand. I recall going to a Sopranos wine tasting at the Trump World Tower in New York City a few years ago. It was for a range of Italian wines that were branded with "The Sopranos" TV series that aired on HBO. While there was a lot of hype surrounding the brand at the time produced by The Sopranos Wine Co./Vesuvio Import Co. the buzz seemed to fizzle out with the show.
On the other hand, take brands like Ciroc with P Diddy or Jim Beam's Red Stag and its affiliation with Kid Rock. Those are two good examples of celebrity done right. That's because these celebrities do more than just attach their name to a new brand, they embody that brand, they live it and they represent what that brand stands for. In turn, consumers that relate to a particular lifestyle—luxury or rock 'n' roll in this case—directly relate to that brand.
While Padrig and Dewi seemed reluctant to get Rhodes more involved in their brand, saying that it was "their toffee" and not Rhodes, Jones was on target with his advice. A successful celebrity endorsement needs more than just a face or a name printed on a sell sheet; it requires an authenticity that consumers won't compromise on—and neither will the dragons.


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Students Find $100 Textbooks Cost $50, Purchased Overseas
By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: October 21, 2003
Richard Sarkis and David Kinsley were juniors at Williams College, surfing the net for a cheap source for their economics textbook, when they discovered a little known economic fact: the very same college textbooks used in the United States sell for half price -- or less -- in England.
Just like prescription drugs, textbooks cost far less overseas than they do in the United States. The publishing industry defends its pricing policies, saying that foreign sales would be impossible if book prices were not pegged to local market conditions.
But many Americans do not see it that way. The National Association of College Stores has written to all the leading publishers asking them to end a practice they see as an unfair to American students.
''We think it's frightening, and it's wrong, that the same American textbooks our stores buy here for $100 can be shipped in from some other country for $50,'' said Laura Nakoneczny, a spokeswoman for the association. ''It represents price-gouging of the American public generally and college students in particular.''
But thanks to the Internet, more and more individual students and college bookstores are starting to order textbooks from abroad -- and a few entrepreneurs, including Mr. Sarkis and his friends, have begun what are essentially arbitrage businesses to exploit the price differentials.
''We couldn't understand why what costs $120 here should cost $50-something there,'' said Mr. Sarkis, who, with Mr. Kinsley and another classmate, has spent three years building a Web-based company, BookCentral.com, selling textbooks from abroad to students in the United States. ''It seemed so sleazy of the publishers. We were sure that college students would be shocked and outraged if they knew about the foreign prices. But it's been this big secret.''
That is changing, though. To the despair of the textbook publishers who are still trying to block such sales, the reimporting of American texts from overseas has become far easier in recent years, thanks both to Internet sites that offer instant access to foreign book prices, and to a 1998 Supreme Court ruling that federal copyright law does not protect American manufacturers from having the products they arranged to sell overseas at a discount shipped back for sale in the United States.
Before the Supreme Court decision, Americans could not take advantage of the discounts abroad without violating the copyright law.
Now, however, ''gray market'' sales are taking off on campuses.
At one prestigious university, a sophomore imported 30 biology books from England this fall and sold them outside his classroom for less than the campus-bookstore price, netting a $1,200 profit. Next semester, if all goes well, he plans to expand the operation.
''The only difference is that they say 'international edition' in little print on the cover,'' said the student, who added that he was not certain whether his project raised any legal issues, and therefore asked that neither he nor his college be identified.
At other colleges, Asian students have banded together to take advantage of textbook prices in Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, which are even lower than those in Europe.
Many students, individually, have begun to compare the textbook prices posted on American sites like Amazon.com, with the lower prices for the same books on foreign sites like Amazon.co.uk.
The differences are often significant: ''Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry, Third Edition,'' for example, lists for $146.15 on the American Amazon site, but can be had for $63.48, plus $8.05 shipping, from the British one. And ''Linear System Theory and Design, Third Edition'' is $110 in the United States, but $41.76, or $49.81 with shipping, in Britain.
Many college bookstores, meanwhile, have taken matters into their own hands, arranging their own overseas purchases.
''I buy from Amazon.co.uk and from sources in the Far East, and I knew more and more students were doing the same thing, individually,'' said Tom Frey, owner of the University Bookstore at Purdue University, who sells the new books from overseas at the same price as a used American book. ''Then this fall, for the first time, the Fed Ex man told me that the students at the Indian Association here at Purdue had just gotten a delivery of 14 skids of books, about 50 books each, from India. I think I'm losing about 10 percent of my sales to overseas books.''
Relations between textbook publishers and college booksellers have been seriously roiled by the issue.
''This has become a very hot issue since last year, when it just seemed to explode all of a sudden,'' said Ms. Nakoneczny, of the college store association. The association's letter to the publishers warned that the pricing structure might be an antitrust violation. ''The sale of identical books to foreign buyers at prices significantly lower than to domestic buyers, while publicly stating that domestic prices are due to high costs, could constitute an unfair or deceptive act,'' the letter said. While there is no longer protection in the federal copyright law for the pricing differentials, the major publishers are still trying to stop the reimporting of texts priced for foreign markets, mostly through contract language forbidding foreign wholesalers to sell to American distributors. Some have placed stickers on covers, saying ''International Edition RESTRICTED Not for Sale in North America'' or added the cover line ''International Student Edition.''