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In September 2013, Caltech, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Stanford University founded a new consortium—the California Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)—to support underrepresented minority graduate students in the STEM fields of mathematics, the physical sciences, computer science, and engineering. The Alliance, launched through a grant from the National Science Foundation, was created to address the fact that minority students enter STEM fields in disproportionately low numbers and that, as a group, their progress slows at each step in their academic careers.
This April, Caltech was host to "The Next Generation of Researchers," the Alliance's second annual retreat. The retreats are designed to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research scientists, and faculty from the four institutions and national labs in California for mentoring and network-building opportunities.
We recently spoke with Joseph E. Shepherd (PhD '81), dean of graduate studies and the C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and professor of mechanical engineering, about AGEP, the recent retreat, and Caltech's diversity initiatives.
What was Caltech's motivation for entering into the California Alliance, and what has the program accomplished so far?
Caltech joined the Alliance to encourage underrepresented minorities to pursue academic careers in mathematics, physical science, computer science, and engineering fields. We seek to not only diversify our own campuses (Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford, and UCLA) but also contribute to diversity throughout the nation.
During the first year, the Alliance members identified participants at the four campuses. We have conducted two retreats—the first at Stanford University in 2014 and the second at Caltech. Graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty gathered at these retreats and learned about opportunities and challenges for underrepresented minority students transitioning from graduate studies to a career as a faculty member.
In 2014, the Alliance established a postdoctoral scholar fellowship program, accepted applications in the fall, and is in the process of finalizing awards for this coming academic year (2015–16). The Alliance has also accepted applications for the mentor-matching program through which graduate students can visit faculty at Alliance institutions to learn about opportunities and faculty careers in specific research areas.
AGEP programs are funded by the NSF. What are they hoping to achieve through these programs?
The AGEP programs were originated at NSF as a response to the recognition of the obstacles that underrepresented minority students faced in graduate education and advancing to faculty careers. These issues are highlighted in "Losing Ground," a 1998 report of a study led by Dr. Shirley Malcom, director of Education and Human Resources Programs of the American Association for the Advancement Science. Dr. Malcolm is a Caltech trustee and was a featured speaker at our 2015 retreat.
What are we doing at Caltech to support underrepresented minority students in the graduate sciences, and has anything at Caltech changed as a result of our involvement in this consortium?
The Caltech Center for Diversity has a number of programs that support various segments of our student population, and we are increasing the number of underrepresented minority postdoctoral scholars at Caltech.
In collaboration with several offices across the campus, we are developing and maintaining a strong network focused on outreach, recruitment, matriculation, and the eventual awarding of degrees to underrepresented minorities in the campus' graduate programs.
Specifically, the Office of Graduate Studies, the Center for Diversity, and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Outreach focus on programming that creates access to resources, builds community, and leverages relationships to help to address the challenges highlighted in the AGEP program, including facilitated discussion groups that address issues of inclusion and equality, various graduate student clubs that promote cultural awareness and community education, and an annual "Celebration of Excellence" reception to recognize student successes and the efforts of staff, faculty, and students who promote equity and inclusion on campus.
In addition, the graduate recruitment initiative coordinated by the Office of Graduate Studies works to ensure that the campus is able to recruit at underrepresented minority STEM-focused conferences and research meetings around the United States, and encourages graduate student ambassadorship and provides opportunities for underrepresented minority graduate students to network across national professional communities with similar research and academic interests.
What can we do better?
Encourage greater diversity in graduate admissions by identifying and recruiting underrepresented minority graduate students and ensuring that every student thrives at Caltech. Encourage more of the current underrepresented minority students and postdoctoral scholars at Caltech to take advantage of the professional development opportunities in the Alliance and facilitate their transition to the next stage of their academic careers. Provide more professional development opportunities for all Caltech students and postdoctoral scholars to learn about academic careers.
What was the goal of this year's annual retreat?
One goal was to promote introductions and discussion among students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty at the Alliance schools. In addition to informal meetings between participants, we held a number of roundtables and panel discussions on topics such as knowing what to expect of grad school, the postdoctoral experience, and, in general, life as a researcher and faculty member. Our retreat highlighted the research between done by faculty, students, and postdoctoral scholars in the Alliance by holding a poster session that enabled the participants to learn about each other's research activity. The retreat participants learned about some of the exciting research being done in protein design at Caltech from the other featured speaker, Steve Mayo (PhD '88), Caltech's William K. Bowes Jr. Leadership Chair of the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering and Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry.
Who were participants in this year's retreat, and what do you think they gained from the program?
There were a total of 111 attendees: 40 percent were faculty, 42 percent were graduate students, 8 percent postdoctoral scholars, and the remainder were staff members, including some from JPL and Sandia National Laboratory.
The participants were recruited by the Alliance leadership at each university. The student participants gained the opportunity to network with scientists and faculty at other Alliance institutions, learned about academic careers and postdoctoral scholar opportunities, and were able engage in wide-ranging discussions about careers in science. The faculty and staff participants were able to provide information and advice to students as well as learn about prospective postdoctoral scholars and faculty members.
In addition, a total of 18 faculty from Caltech participated out of a total of 43 faculty members who attended from all four Alliance universities. The faculty at Caltech are very positive about this program, and we are encouraged by the high level of participation.
Were the sessions specifically focused on the particular needs of underrepresented groups?
The focus of the Alliance is on helping young people from diverse backgrounds to consider and succeed in academic careers in science. Many of the issues that contribute to success or failure in academic science careers do not depend on the particular perspective or background of a prospective postdoctoral scholar or professor. The pathway to the professoriate and the mechanics of succeeding in an academic career are far from obvious, particularly for students with disadvantaged backgrounds as well as those who are the first in their family to obtain a college degree or consider a career in science. One of the important roles of the Alliance retreat is in providing information about the many career aspects to which our student participants are exposed early enough in their careers so that it may make a difference.
Living with type 1 diabetes today is typically manageable thanks to advancements in medical technology. However, some patients still confront severe complications, from extreme hypoglycemia that can lead to diabetic coma to long-term effects, such as blindness, nerve damage, and kidney failure. In some cases, type 1 diabetes can be life-threatening, and in all cases, it is currently incurable.
But there is hope, fostered by a collaboration between Caltech and its neighbor in Duarte, City of Hope. Established in 2008 with a $6 million gift from an anonymous donor, the Caltech-City of Hope Biomedical Research Initiative provides seed grants to accelerate the development of basic scientific research and its translation into applications ranging from new pharmaceuticals to medical devices to treatment methods. The partnership was formalized—and further strengthened—in 2014, when the two institutions signed a memorandum of understanding, encouraging researchers to collaborate and share resources.
Leadership from Caltech and City of Hope and members of the public celebrated the partnership at a special event on May 13. More than 70 attendees gathered in Caltech's Beckman Institute Auditorium to learn about progress in fighting diabetes.
"The benefits of the deepening relationship between our two institutions emerged clearly in the evening's events," says Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum, holder of the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and professor of physics. "Our increasing set of research interactions is making great strides in translating fundamental science to advance human health."
To date, the initiative has funded 28 endeavors led by teams of Caltech and City of Hope investigators—early-stage research projects that might not have moved forward if they had had to rely on traditional funding sources.
"The more we work together, the more we enable discovery," says City of Hope president and CEO Robert Stone. "Saving lives today and tomorrow—that's what this collaboration is about."
One encouraging development for people facing uncontrolled type 1 diabetes comes in the form of a simple surgery. The procedure takes healthy, functioning pancreatic islets—clusters of cells that contain insulin-producing beta cells—from an organ donor and transplants them into a patient's liver. Doctors at City of Hope have already performed the surgery on a limited number of patients and have seen promising results.
While islet transplantation eventually may lead to a cure for diabetes, challenges remain in making it practical. Once islets have been donated, for example, how can they be isolated and kept functional? How do researchers distinguish good islets from bad without wasting the good ones during testing?
Through the Caltech-City of Hope Biomedical Research Initiative, researchers and clinicians are working hand-in-hand to answer these important questions.
At the event, researchers told the story and explained the science behind their project. Fouad Kandeel, chair and professor in the Department of Clinical Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism at City of Hope, and his colleague, Kevin Ferreri, associate research professor in the Division of Developmental and Translational Diabetes and Endocrine Research, have been working on islet cell transplantation as a treatment for their patients with type 1 diabetes. Yet existing methods of selecting islets took too much time, involved too much labor, and used up too many islets.
That is where the Caltech partners came in. Yu-Chong Tai, the Anna L. Rosen Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, and Hyuck Choo, assistant professor of electrical engineering and medical engineering, invented a novel device that can screen individual islets. The microfluidic platform accurately determines the health of an islet sample by applying glucose and measuring the sample's reaction. In less than a year, the team has designed a proof-of-concept platform.
Once the device is perfected, Choo believes the team will be able to easily scale it up and even use its technology to help overcome other clinical challenges.
"This is the perfect opportunity for medical engineering at Caltech," says Choo. "We want to create technology-based solutions to large-scale societal health issues, like diabetes."
It is no secret that Caltech's graduate students have unparalleled research opportunities. Working closely with faculty advisers and colleagues in diverse fields across campus, their contributions are essential to the Institute's advances in science, engineering, and technology. For nearly two decades, the Everhart Lecture Series has provided a venue to highlight graduate student research at Caltech.
The annual series, named after Caltech president emeritus Tom Everhart, provides three carefully selected graduate students with an opportunity to present their work to an Institute-wide audience. The series was established with the goal of "encouraging interdisciplinary interaction and helping faculty and graduate students across campus to share ideas about recent research developments, problems and controversies, and to recognize the exemplary presentation and research abilities of Caltech's graduate students."
"Having the ability to demonstrate your work to the broader community—those outside of your own scientific area—is extremely important, and too often graduate students have very little experience with this," says graduate student Constantine Sideris, the 2014–15 chair of the Everhart Lecture Series committee, an interdisciplinary committee of graduate students that selects the three graduate student lecturers from a pool of more than a dozen applicants each fall.
"This series allows them to hone their presentation and dynamic speaking skills, and also their ability to explain difficult, technical concepts to a diverse audience," Sideris says.
This year's lecturers—Carissa Eisler (chemistry and chemical engineering), Roarke Horstmeyer (electrical engineering), and Peter Rapp (chemistry and chemical engineering)—gave talks on campus earlier this spring, and all three were invited to share their work with members of the Caltech community during the Institute's annual Seminar Day event in May. This year's lectures span a range of topics, from enhancing solar-cell efficiency, to improving microscope imaging, to understanding polymers. (Complete lecture descriptions from the students as well as links to podcasts of the recorded talks on iTunes U can be found below.)
"Research is only getting more interdisciplinary, so effectively communicating your work is an essential skill," says Eisler. "The lecture was really challenging, and I was very nervous, but it was incredibly rewarding, and I'm so glad that I did it."
Eisler and her colleagues noted that participating in the lectures provided valuable learning opportunities—by forcing them to synthesize and explain their work to individuals outside of their respective fields—and helped to build campus awareness for the breadth of research that's being done by graduate students.
"I work with a team of remarkable people, and I hope the lecture communicated that my project is just one among many exciting projects in our lab," Rapp says.
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Building a Brighter Future: Spectrum-Splitting as a Pathway for 50% Efficiency Solar CellsBy Carissa EislerLab: Harry Atwater, Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science and director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute
Although possible, ultra-high solar-cell efficiencies (>50 percent) have not been achieved because of limitations by current fabrication methods. Spectrum-splitting modules, or architectures that employ optical elements to divide the incident spectrum into different color bands, are promising because they can convert each photon more efficiently than traditional methods. This talk discusses our design and prototyping efforts to create such a spectrum-splitting module. We explore the spectrum-splitting optics and geometric optimizations in the context of high-efficiency designs. We show a design that achieves 50 percent efficiency with realistic device losses and geometric constraints.
Listen to the lecture on iTunesU: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/building-brighter-future-spectrum/id986954281?i=341029550&mt=2
Computational Microscopy: Turning Megapixels into GigapixelsBy Roarke HorstmeyerLab: Changhuei Yang, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Medical Engineering
Optical aberrations limit the size of current microscope images to tens of megapixels. This talk will present a method to boost a microscope's resolving power to one gigapixel using a technique termed Fourier ptychography. No moving parts or precision controls are needed for this resolution enhancement. The only required hardware is a standard microscope, which we outfit with a digital detector and an array of LEDs. An optimization algorithm does the rest of the work. Example applications of our new microscope include full-slide digital pathology imaging, wide-scale surface profile mapping of human blood, and achieving sub-wavelength resolution without needing oil immersion.
Listen to the lecture on iTunesU: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/computational-microscopy-turning/id986954281?i=341030229&mt=2
Shaking Hands in a Crowded Room: How Sticky Polymers Travel through Viscoelastic GelsBy Peter RappLab: David Tirrell, Ross McCollum-William H. Corcoran Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Director, Beckman Institute
What if you could give a polymer hands and feet and watch it move? We have developed biological approaches to synthesizing functional materials made from proteins, nature's flagship polymers. These approaches provide a set of tools for answering fundamental questions in polymer physics and for synthesizing dynamic materials that find applications in soft-tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. This talk will explore the dynamics of a model "sticky" polymer: an artificial protein engineered with associative endblocks that self-assembles into viscoelastic hydrogels. Fluorescence relaxation studies have demonstrated that polymer diffusion in these gels is controlled by endblock exchange, a process akin to a molecular handshake. Genetic approaches to modifying the endblock architecture enable tuning of polymer mobility over a wide range.
Listen to the lecture on iTunesU: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/shaking-hands-in-crowded-room/id986954281?i=343195468&mt=2
Caltech and Amgen have joined forces in the pursuit of foundational discoveries in the biological sciences through a multifaceted new partnership spanning research, graduate student training, and shared resources.
"The work we do is built upon the foundation of basic discoveries in biology," says Alexander Kamb (PhD '88), Amgen's senior vice president of Discovery Research. "We look forward to strengthening and extending this foundation through our connection with Caltech."
Caltech received its first gift from Amgen in 1981, just one year after the company was formed. Over the past three decades, Amgen has provided support for a variety of educational programs and investigations at Caltech. Today, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, and it has now entered into a collaborative research agreement for joint investigations with Caltech that will leverage the two institutions' strengths in discovery, and translational and clinical science.
Under the terms of the new agreement, Amgen will fund up to five research projects per year for three years. Bridging the divisions of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Biology and Biological Engineering, and Engineering and Applied Science, the projects will focus on large- and small-molecule drug discovery, drug-delivery devices, and diagnostic technologies. Amgen will also provide support for Amgen Graduate Student Fellows in Caltech's interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics.
In addition to fellowship and research support, Amgen has chosen Caltech as its first partner to access the Amgen Biology-Enabling Resource, a searchable database comprising more than 1,000 items, including molecules, peptides, antibodies, and engineered cell lines acquired through years of discovery efforts. Amgen will have no claim to ownership of intellectual property to discoveries that may ensue. Over time, Amgen will extend access to other research institutions and, as specific materials are depleted, add others to the catalog.
This comprehensive agreement with Amgen exemplifies Caltech's commitment to building strategic partnerships to optimize the Institute's capabilities and help solve pressing problems for the benefit of the public. This and other such relationships with corporations, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and other institutions, focus on transferring technology from Caltech's campus to industry.
"Each industry collaboration has a unique scope and focus, but all share a goal of transforming new research findings into applications that will benefit society," explains Caltech Vice Provost, Mory Gharib, the Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering. "The hope is that the Caltech–Amgen partnership will enable our teams to swiftly convert laboratory discoveries into therapeutics or devices that will improve patients' lives."
Caltech seniors Jonathan Liu, Charles Tschirhart, and Caroline Werlang will be engaging in research abroad as Fulbright Scholars this fall. Sponsored by the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright Program was established in 1946 to honor the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas for his contributions to fostering international understanding.
Jonathan Liu is an applied physics major from Pleasanton, California, who will be doing research at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich in Germany. He plans to work with a biophysicist studying how DNA moves in a liquid with a thermal gradient, which could shed light on the molecular origins of life. Long strands of DNA should break apart well before they have time to organize themselves into the complicated arrangements needed to be self-reproducing, but previous work in the lab Liu is joining has hinted that deep-sea hydrothermal vents may have allowed long strands to form stable clusters. Liu plans to enroll at UC Berkeley for graduate study in physics at the PhD level on his return; he was awarded one of UC Berkley's Graduate Student Instructorships to support his work.
Charles Tschirhart of Naperville, Illinois, is a double major in applied physics and chemistry. He will be studying condensed matter physics at the University of Nottingham, England, where he plans to develop new ways to "photograph" nanometer-sized (billionth-of-a-meter-sized) objects using atomic force microscopy. He will then proceed to UC Santa Barbara to earn a PhD in experimental condensed matter physics. Charles has won both a Hertz fellowship and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; both will support his PhD work at UC Santa Barbara.
Caroline Werlang, a chemical engineering student from Houston, Texas, will go to the Institute of Bioengineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland to work on kinases, which are proteins that act as molecular "on/off" switches. She will join a lab that is trying to determine how kinases select and bind to their targets in order to initiate or block other biological processes—an important step toward designing a synthetic kinase that could activate a tumor-suppressor protein, for example. After her Fulbright, she will pursue a doctorate in biological engineering at MIT. Caroline's PhD studies will be supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government. Seniors and graduate students who compete in the U.S. Fulbright Student Program can apply to one of the more than 160 countries whose universities are willing to host Fulbright Scholars. For the academic program, which sponsors one academic year of study or research abroad after the bachelor's degree, each applicant must submit a plan of research or study, a personal essay, three academic references, and a transcript that demonstrates a record of outstanding academic work.
Today we celebrate Ditch Day, one of Caltech's oldest traditions. During this annual spring rite—the timing of which is kept secret until the last minute—seniors ditch their classes and vanish from campus. Before they go, however, they leave behind complex, carefully planned out puzzles and challenges—known as "stacks"—designed to occupy the underclassmen and prevent them from wreaking havoc on the seniors' unoccupied rooms.
Follow the action on Caltech's Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages as the undergraduates tackle the puzzles left for them to solve around campus. Join the conversation by sharing your favorite Ditch Day memories and using #CaltechDitchDay in your tweets and postings.
Two Caltech students, Saaket Agrawal and Paul Dieterle, have been awarded Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for the 2015–16 academic year.
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by Congress in 1986 to award scholarships to college students who intend to pursue research careers in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Saaket Agrawal is a sophomore from El Dorado Hills, California, majoring in chemistry. Under Greg Fu, the Altair Professor of Chemistry, Agrawal works on nickel-catalyzed cross coupling, a powerful method for making carbon-carbon bonds. Specifically, Agrawal conducts mechanistic studies on these reactions, which involves elucidating the pathway through which they occur. After Caltech, he plans to pursue a PhD research program in organometallic chemistry—the combination of organic (carbon-based) and inorganic chemistry—and ultimately hopes teach at the university level.
"Caltech is one of the best places in the world to study chemistry. The faculty were so willing to take me on, even as an undergrad, and treat me like a capable scientist," Agrawal says. "That respect, and the ability to do meaningful work, has motivated me."
Paul Dieterle is a junior from Madison, Wisconsin, majoring in applied physics. He works with Oskar Painter, the John G. Braun Professor of Applied Physics, studying quantum information science.
"The quantum behavior of atoms has been studied for decades. We are researching the way macroscopic objects behave in a quantum mechanical way in order to manipulate them into specific quantum states," Dieterle says. Painter's group is studying how to use macroscopic mechanical objects to transform quantized electrical signals into quantized optical signals as part of the larger field of quantum computing, a potential next generation development in the field.
"The power of quantum computing would be immense," says Dieterle, who would like to attend graduate school to study quantum information science. "We could simulate incredibly complex things, like particles at the edge of a black hole. Participating in this physics revolution is so exciting."
Agrawal and Dieterle bring the number of Caltech Goldwater Scholars to 22 in the last decade.
The Gold Medal of the American Institute of Chemists (AIC) has been awarded to Jacqueline Barton, the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. The award is the AIC's highest honor and recognizes "service to the science of chemistry and to the profession of chemist or chemical engineer in the United States."
Barton's research centers on the chemical and physical properties of DNA and their biological implications. Her group examines the chemistry of how electrons are conducted throughout a DNA molecule and how DNA-repairing enzymes can use this electron flow to locate mutations and mistakes in the DNA that could potentially cause cancers and diseases.
Barton received her PhD from Columbia University in 1978. She has been at Caltech as a professor since 1989. The recipient of numerous honors—including the 2010 National Medal of Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation's Waterman Award—Barton also was awarded the 2015 Priestley Medal, the highest honor of the American Chemical Society, for her work on the chemistry of DNA.


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A New York City lawyer has sued Delta Air Lines
Inc. for nearly $1 million. He claims the company's incompetent and
rude employees made his 80-year-old mother's birthday trip to South
America a stressful, costly horror.
Attorney Richard Roth says he and his family arrived in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, almost three days late. He said he also had to
spend unplanned thousands of dollars on food, hotels and
transportation, and buy tickets for another airline.
And because Delta misplaced his luggage, Roth's lawsuit says, he
had to buy new clothes for himself and family members after
arriving in Buenos Aires.
Though he was promised Delta would bring his luggage, Roth says
he had to drive to the airport in Buenos Aires to look for and
retrieve his bags himself.
He said Delta employees were rude and disrespectful when he
asked for help and the ones who were friendly were ineffective.
A Delta spokeswoman, Betsy Talton, said today that she could not
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Lawyer Sues Delta Over Bad Trip
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text: ~Chomper is back with all your favorite land before time friends in this dazzling adventure. See these dino-sized characters escape danger on mysterious island. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/06/2004 Run time: 74 minutes Rating: G Director: Charles Grosvenor|Amazon.com~This fourth sequel in the series finds "leaf gobblers" eating all the vegetation in Great Valley, driving Littlefoot, the young brontosaurus, and the other dinosaur inhabitants out. Arguments break out among the adults during migration, and Littlefoot and his friends decide to take matters in their own hands by crossing the "big water" to an unknown island. There they meet an old friend from The Land Before Time II--Chomper, the T-rex, who has to protect the gang from his own, carnivorous parents. Plenty of drama in this one, and as the series has been wont to do from the beginning, it shows adults as sometimes being less than perfect. --Tom Keogh|


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Swede volleyball team splits triangular
Gothenburg defeats Axtell.
It looked like Gothenburg might give Minden a run for its money last week in a volleyball triangular on the Swede home court.
With daunting net play and a stingy defense, the Swedes had Minden on the ropes in the first set of their game on Sept. 22.
Tied at 9-9, the Swede matched the Whippets play for play.
"Then suddenly it was like the lights shut off," said Gothenburg coach Mary Clark. "We stopped playing aggressively and things fell apart."
Minden took the match 25-16, 25-8.
When the Whippet began getting big blocks against the Swede hitters, everyone backed off, Clark said.
"I think it kind of took the wind out of our sales," the coach said, "and we never recovered."
Even senior hitter Emily Max, who has dominated the net for the Swedes all season, struggled getting the ball to fall.
She finished hitting 15-of-16 with three kills and two blocks.
"I have to give the girls the credit," Clark said. "They pulled it back together for the next game and stayed aggressive the whole match."
The Swedes took their second game of the triangular against Axtell 25-22, 25-23.
"Axtell has a good team," Clark said. "We had to fight for just about every point."
The difference, she said, was a strong focus during every play.
"We played our game," Clark said. "We attacked the ball and did the things we were supposed to do."
Max finished with 18 kills in the second game with seven blocks and 10 digs.
Setter Kira Peterson offered 14 set assists while libero Ali Clark dug up 13 balls.
Minden won the triangular by defeating Axtell 25-22, 25-16.
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Bigg Boss: Sudeep gives credit to the content for success
Kiccha Sudeep has done it again. The actor seems to be unstoppable with his recent movies turning out to be money spinners, and now his television show Bigg Boss leading the TRP charts and becoming a most-watched Kannada television reality shows in the present year.
Talking about the success of Bigg Boss Kannada, Sudeep has refused to take credit for the success rather he has given it to the team, who worked hard to keep the audience glued through the content. The underlining point of the story is that the Kiccha-hosted show has surpassed the popularity of Puneet Rajkumar's Kannada Kotyadhipathi, which had highest TRPs last season.
"Without much content I don't think we can keep pulling the audience," says Sudeep. According to him, popularity can draw attention, but not for long. "It is doing well. It might be marginal, but I don't want to take the credit. The audience always has an option to swap between the channels. But the TRP is steady and that means content rolls out," he added.
He also does not believe in taking feed back from family or other close members on the show. "I don't take any feedback. I make it a compulsion that I don't. The first one who knows when you make a mistake will be yourself," said the actor.


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J. Lee Thompson, (born Aug. 1, 1914, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Aug. 30, 2002, Sooke, B.C.) (born Aug. 1, 1914, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Aug. 30, 2002, Sooke, B.C.) British-born film director who , achieved international fame with The Guns of Navarone (1961), which exemplified his acute visual style and use of suspenseful narrative. Thompson, who was sometimes billed as J. Lee-Thompson, began his film career as an actor and screenwriter, and the first movie he directed, Murder Without Crime (1950), was based on his own play. He made a succession of films in Britain, including the thriller Tiger Bay (1959). The Guns of Navarone brought him to the attention of Hollywood, and he was nominated for an Academy Award. His first Hollywood production, Cape Fear (1962), was considered by many to be his last great work. Thompson went on to direct many other less-successful films in a variety of genres, including The Greek Tycoon (1978), two sequels to Planet of the Apes, and nine Charles Bronson features.
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Naysayers and analysts wonder if she is "committing far too much time and money to healthy products that real world consumers don't want to buy". Fortune magazine says that "there is a constant battle to get everyone under her purview to practice patience before panic and stay as focused on the journey as they are on the destination".
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But the fact remains that until "the numbers prove it", the street and the industry watchers will severely punish loss of market share in the core business — a sort of "earn the right to transform" price that must be paid in full.


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Sharon: Im sooo excited for you! The journey is amazing and fun ... and you will see your abilities grow in leaps and bounds if you are consistant and just get out there. I came in last a couple of times when I started .... and I thought that had passed. Recently I ran a 10K in rain and hail ... and I think alot of people switched out to the 5K ... but anyways I came in DEAD LAST!
I was shocked ..... and a bit disappointed in myself... until I saw my time was 14:45/mile ... for a longer run I havent done that ever! And then I realized that my first 10K was 1h47min and I sure did better than that ... so you know what its all relative!
I cheered for people as I passed them in the half marathon... and after I finished I went back out on the course to find this nice man who tried so hard to help him finish!
Started: July 2010 at 273#
Fox Cities 5K on 9/17: 45:19 (264#)
Shake a Tail Feather 5K on 10/16: 45:09 (254#)
Hope Run for Africa 5K on 10/23: 42:45 (248#)
Jingle Bell Run 5K on 11/6/10: 44:20 (248#)
Turkey Trot 5 mile on 11/25/10: (246#)
Miami ING Half Marathon 3:23:56
Oshkosh Half Marathon 3:16:38 (PR)
Cellcom Half Marathon in GB (horridly windy race) 3:21:56 (244#)
Congrats on your first race - AND Yes that time is more than respectable - it is describing your hard work/training runs and the decision to mentally step up to take the challenge of running. For me any time I post anymore in a race is victory -I finished. I would love to run a pace of 10-11 minutes, but not going to happen ever....but I will stick with it and push miles behind me at whatever my pace is that day. Great 1st Race and here's to the next finish line you conqueor!
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10/29/11 5k Chocolate Beano 42.52
I am NO competitor, but I like the camaraderie of being out there. I guess I don't stress much ahead of time because I really only care that I DO finish, not where I finish. And I like wearing the shirts. If the race day jitters get the best of you, run your own 10K. Heck, make up your own shirt!
Tex, I think most of us would like to come with our pups or borrow a pound hound for the day! Maybe we could all run with our dogs that day and donate to our local shelters? Kind of a virtual Run for the Mutts. It's not the same as being there but we'll be thinking about you!
Pear Blossom 5K 4/9/11 39:24
Lake of the Woods 5K 6/4/11 36:41
Blue Lake All Women's Sprint Tri 2:10:13
Portland Half Marathon 10/9/11
DFL > DNS (Dead last is better than did not start!)
What a fanstastic idea - a virtual run from where we are --- supporting Tex, and supporting our local pup rescue mission!
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Wow! I don't even know where to start. Congratulations to everyone who ran this weekend, event or not! What an inspiring bunch!
Soulsong - You ROCKED your first 5K! 15/30 in your age group is great. Careful or they'll throw you out of the Penguins group
Indigo - Congrats on a 5th in your age group, especially in "challenging" conditions! It sounds perfectly awful. I, too, am waiting to be able to run in fewer layers.
DaveinDen - Now I know how to get religion. I just have to have a near death experience while running. That's not so hard!
Thanks to all of you for making my day brighter!
Pear Blossom 5K 4/9/11 39:24
Lake of the Woods 5K 6/4/11 36:41
Blue Lake All Women's Sprint Tri 2:10:13
Portland Half Marathon 10/9/11
DFL > DNS (Dead last is better than did not start!)
Lamb - Make sure you practice with what you will use in a race. I have made the mistake of trying one of the "gimme's" at a race and lived to regret it. It had a rather uncomfortable effect on my lower GI about 20 minutes later. From here on out my race fuel comes with me unless it's bananas or water.
Pear Blossom 5K 4/9/11 39:24
Lake of the Woods 5K 6/4/11 36:41
Blue Lake All Women's Sprint Tri 2:10:13
Portland Half Marathon 10/9/11
DFL > DNS (Dead last is better than did not start!)
Completed my first 10K today in 1:22:41. Was fun. My nephews, aged 14 and 15, did it too. They are so tough. They have hardly been running and the oldest did it in less than and hour and the youngest in just over an hour. They ran every step of the way. Then when they finished the youngest walked back and ran the last part of mine with me. I did walk up a few short inclines on my second, three mile lap. It was pretty hard to pass up the finish line at the half way mark of the 10K when all those folks were finishing their 5K. Once I got past there it was all good though.
Got every possible kind of MT spring weather today - snow, hail, rain, sunshine - most more than once. It just kept changing every few minutes. Lots of little squalls moving in and out.
The race had over 1,100 people. Over 90% of the participants did the 5K. Ran through neighborhoods around the Summit health club. Couple of small, short hills but nothing to serious.
First time I've ever used a computer chip to record time. That is a pretty cool little device.
I'm feeling pretty contented right now. So glad I started this little adventure in December.
Started running/walking program December 1, 2010
2/26/2011 Snow Joke HM 3:30:14
3/26/2011 Missoula Make A Wish Foundation 5k 38:00
4/17/2011 Rocky Mountain Bank Summit Classic 10K 1:22:41
5/21/11 - West Valley School 5K 46:00??? (I know I can do better)
5/22/11 - Weight Watchers 5K Walk (Completed with some jogging, untimed)
8/6/11 - Roodell Run 10K 1:18:49
10/2/11 - Fernie, BC HM 3:25:06
"Whether you think can or think you can't...you are correct." Henry Ford
"If you limit what you are willing to do, you limit what you can do." Anonymous
"I'll have to sign up for some more and test out your theories."
I hope you have a great time! Well, I guess I should say great experience.
Let us know what you think on your next "race" experience. With any luck, you'll meet one of the penguins at the event. That is one thing I hope I get to experience.
Spa5k, 11/04/10, 30:58 2nd place senior
Peace and Love 5k 3/16/11 29:05 1st place senior
Toad Suck Daze 5k 30 April 11, 28:29 1st place age group
2011 Spa 5k 11/19/11 25:55 1st place senior Personal Best, 2nd career
Looking for a 10 k to run and if that goes well, a HM next spring
Congrats on your race Mamabear! I also just completed my first 10K on Saturday. I was so excited and had fun doing this. To my surprise, I did a lot better than what I had expected because of all the hills. I do love the support and camaraderie with running and this thread is an example of it. You all keep me motivated and inspired.
Good for you Mightymite110. I think most runners are pretty positive and upbeat, at least the ones here and at the races I've been too. Fun group to hang out with
Started running/walking program December 1, 2010
2/26/2011 Snow Joke HM 3:30:14
3/26/2011 Missoula Make A Wish Foundation 5k 38:00
4/17/2011 Rocky Mountain Bank Summit Classic 10K 1:22:41
5/21/11 - West Valley School 5K 46:00??? (I know I can do better)
5/22/11 - Weight Watchers 5K Walk (Completed with some jogging, untimed)
8/6/11 - Roodell Run 10K 1:18:49
10/2/11 - Fernie, BC HM 3:25:06
"Whether you think can or think you can't...you are correct." Henry Ford
"If you limit what you are willing to do, you limit what you can do." Anonymous
Congrats MamaBear and Mightymght on your first 10K's. I did my first one Sunday in 1:20:02. Still can't believe that I'm out there running that far after starting (was it Emmaleigh who wrote about this?) by running 30 seconds and walking 4 minutes and thinking I would die!
The course was a scenic reservoir area with a small dam that we got to run over twice. The race folks did a great job with handling traffic on the few road sections and overall I really enjoyed myself - except when I thought I was going to die. There was a beautiful, winding downhill stretch through the woods followed by - you guessed it - a long, slow uphill section. Yes, I think I met Jesus out there!
I used GU for the first time in a race. I'd used some the day before to just try it out and see how my stomach did with it. As somebody said before, it tastes like frosting. It sits on my stomach much better than the Shotblocks which left me feeling queasy. I wish it came in even smaller packets though. It was hard to get the whole thing down and its so sticky that I didn't want to put a half-empty packet in my pocket. I was grateful for the water stop so that I could dunk my sticky fingers in clear water!
To EarthMom, I think its great that you don't need a race to motivate you. I'm sure my race fever will burn out. I tend to burn bright and burn out fast. After that, I'll see how it goes without that external motivator. For now, I'm having a great time and I'm enjoying the camaraderie of strangers cheering each other on. It's a high like I've never known.
Congrats to everyone on your runs or races this weekend.
~ Nita
Congrats to everyone who ran on their fantastic races this weekend.
I did my second ever 5K yesterday. The weather was much better this time than on my first one- unfortunately I ran on a bum ankle and today it's a bit swollen and stiff.
I ran way too fast in the middle of the race and ended up running out of gas and walking up a huge hill at the end, lol. The good news is that my time was 32:30. That's four minutes faster than my first 5K time!
I won't be running for a while though, trying to let my ankle heal.
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Sorry about your bum ankle, Laumau. Good for you for being willing to let it heal. Hope you come back stronger than ever!
~ Nita
What a great idea, and if you do not have a shelter (which they are not hard to find) ours also accepts donation online via paypal at petsolution.org
Everyone had good runs this weekend. Now starts a new week. So far no wind here today, but it is west texas, so I am sure something will change in 15 minutes LOL
Have a great Monday all!!
9/11/2010 Habitat for Humanity 5K 41.18
10/30/2010 Fit For Life 5K 37.07.50
11/06/2010 Kick for Kenya 10K 1:17:12
01/01/2011 New Years Day 5K 34.22
01/08/2011 Monohans Sandhills 5K 34:38
02/06/2011 Surf City USA 1/2 Marathon 3:00:39
02/12/2011 Cupids Run 5K 34:13
3/26/2011 Bloodgusher 5K 37.11
4/9/2011 Run From The Cops 10K 1:18:21.80
4/30/2011 South Padre Island Sand Crab 10K 1:20:24 Night run on the beach!!
5/21/2011 Running Feet For Helping Hands 5 Mile (63.35)
7/22/2011 San Antonio Chupacabra 10K (night run, trail run)
7/30/2011 Tall City Triathlon 2:00:23.7 (swim 15:13.4) (bike 56.09)(5K 45:00.9)
9/10/2011 Comanche Warrior Triathlon
10/01/2011 Crossroads HM, Odessa, Texas (gonna shoot for a 2:35:00)
02/05/2012 - Surf City HM 2:53:02
Jack, Fantastic post. We should all bookmark it.
Emmaliegh....or is it AnnMarie.....really enjoyed your blog Running from obiesity ....and congrats on your pr for HM and for your taking control of your weight.I admire and heartly applaude you!!
I have a question for you and others in the health care field. (My son is a CRNA and daughter an RN). Why, when those in the health care field see the toll that excess weight and lack of exercise takes on one's body, do they continue to take the path to early demise rather than doing what they know is best for their health and body? My son is a bit overweight he's 6'4 and could stand to lose 50 lbs, I keep telling him he better protect his knees and joints. My daugter is fine and runs w/ me, but I just see so many health care workers at the hospitals and dr offices that are poor examples of what health should be.
Soul.....I think Jesus wore Hurache Sandals.
Wow, this thread has been busy. I've enjoyed reading all of the posts. Welcome to the new members and congrats to all who ran races this weekend.
I've not scheduled any races, just running for the hell-th of it, and for the fun. I'll do some races this summer, just seems my schedule hasn't worked out for it.
Did a 3.1yesterday w/ my daughter and a 4.1 this morning by my self. Both were easy runs as I'm just getting to putting that 4th day of running per week in my schedule (2 back to back).
Marie from Tennessee
Training for Disney 2013 Goofy Challenge.....Yes, I'm certifiably CRAZY!
61 year olds must be out of their minds to run a half marathon followed by a full the next day!
Disney Half Marathon 1/7/2012 2:37:59
Bear Hunt 5K 9/24/11 28:28 pb
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Expo 10K 5/28/11 1:01:28,
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Eastman 10K 9/8/2012 1:01:11 pb
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A delegation from the Pacific Calling Partnership (PCP) attended the UNFCCC COP21 international climate conference in Paris in December 2015.
The delegation consisted of Maina Talia and Pulafagu Toafa from Tuvalu, Tinaai Teaua and Rae Bainteiti from Kiribati, Maria Tiimon Chi-Fang formerly from Kiribati – now from Australia, and Phil Glendenning and Jill Finnane from Australia.
The delegation's main role was to find opportunities for the five Pacific islanders to speak out and be heard by the international community while at the same time developing their experience and expertise as international climate justice ambassadors.
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For the two weeks of the Copenhagen 2009 UN Climate Change Conference, the Pacific Calling Partnership's delegation put the human face of climate change onto the international stage in the hope that the overwhelming international attention there will contribute to build up a groundswell of concern for the effects climate change is having on low lying Pacific Islands.
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Delegation of Pacific Islanders, with Indigenous & non-Indigenous Australians depart Sydney for Copenhagen UN Climate Change Summit - COP15
Representatives from the Pacific Island communities most threatened by rising sea levels, will depart Sydney this week to attend the Copenhagen UN summit, together with Australian human rights advocates, to ensure that the human face of climate change is not forgotten.
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Representatives from the Pacific Island communities most threatened by rising sea levels, will travel to the Copenhagen UN summit this week, together with Australian human rights advocates, to ensure that the human face of climate change is not forgotten.
"For too long the climate change discussion has been an elitist debate between scientists, politicians, economists and environmentalists," explained Phil Glendenning, director of the Edmund Rice Centre, and a member of the Pacific Calling Partnership (PCP) delegation. "Our humanity is at stake and this elitism cannot be allowed to continue."
Climate change advocates from within church groups in Australia are heading for the Pacific island nation of Kiribati to strategise with colleagues there, on how they will communicate the plight of the people of Kiribati at the UN Climate Change Summit when the two groups travel to Copenhagen together in December.
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Your party doesn't even have to be related: Hinterland in the Third Ward has begun serving family dinners on Wednesdays for tables of four or more.
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Austen's first published novel, "Sense" revolves around sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who enact the drama central to all of Austen's fiction: In a world where being female is never easy, how can a woman be true to herself by expressing all that she feels (sensibility) - while also managing sufficient reserve to keep her autonomy (sense)? »Read Full Article(1)


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North Carolina's bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers is getting ready to embark on a nationwide tour with actor, comedian and musician Steve Martin this spring, but will be playing a one-night only show by itself at 8 p.m. Saturday at Stowe's Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center.
A 2011 collaboration with Martin and 2012 solo project, "Nobody Knows You," earned the band two Grammy nominations and it has recently appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and The View.
The quintet's members include fiddle player Nicky Sanders, who began training as a classical violinist at age 5, and upright bass player Charles R. Humphrey III, who studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where the band formed.
Mike Guggino began playing mandolins and mandolas in college where he was introduced to bluegrass through childhood friend and fellow member Woody Platt. And Graham Sharp, who plays the banjo, writes most of the songs for the group, with Humphrey.
"I grew up with Woody, our guitar player," Guggino said. "He said (they) needed a mandolin player, so I joined up. We had a different fiddler to begin with, who was also going to college with those guys, and she left the band in 2001 and Nicky, our current fiddle player, has been with us ever since. So we were just a college band, just having fun," he said.
"It was kind of a slow process," Guggino said of the band's beginning. "We took it more seriously as it went along, started playing a lot of bluegrass festivals and started to gain some popularity. We did a band competition at the Rocky Grass Festival and won that, and that sort of helped us getting gigs out west."
Touring with Steve Martin is something Steep Canyon Rangers have been doing for years, and in May they will leave on another U.S. tour along with Edie Brickell.
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Alex Ovechkin didn't need a calendar Tuesday to prove the 2014 Olympics in Sochi were just around the corner. He showed up with his usual flare while abusing the Sabres for two goals in the first five minutes, setting up the overtime winner and cranking up his game as he prepares for the Winter Games in Russia.
Ovechkin fired a bazooka into the top corner and moments later scored on a deflection, giving the Capitals an early 2-0 advantage and adding to his lead in the NHL goal-scoring race. He handed Washington a 5-4 victory with a perfect feed to Mike Green for the easy winner a minute into overtime.
"Boring game," he said, "but a fun game."
If that was boring, what passes for exciting?
Ovechkin is 28 years old and in his ninth NHL season, no longer just a fun-loving kid with a gap-toothed smile. He has 38 goals and 55 points in 49 games and is still the most dangerous player on the planet if not the best one. But he also has assumed another responsibility as his country's biggest star.
He has become Russia's unofficial chief ambassador to the United States and Canada, a reassuring voice with suspicions rising and tensions mounting over terrorism threats in his homeland. He found himself suppressing fears over safety for part of the morning Tuesday before striking fear into the Sabres for much of the evening.
"Security-wise, every event can be dangerous," Ovechkin said. "It doesn't matter if it's Russia or the U.S. or Brazil. Anything can happen out there. That's why we have security. It's why we have trust in our people. I trust my people who are going to be responsible for security.
"I'm going there not afraid," he said. "Security is going to be very good. I don't think the government or the president wants to risk the reputation of Russia to be damaged by some idiots who want to do that. I'm sure it's going to be fine."
The latest hint of worry came earlier this week from NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly, who told The Associated Press via email that the league would re-evaluate sending players to Sochi if "something significant" (translation: terrorist attack) transpired between now and opening ceremonies Feb. 9.
In other words, the NHL would consider staying home. That's fine, but Ovechkin was intent on going home. He was far more concerned about getting his game in order and leading Russia back to respectability than anything else. President Vladimir Putin made it clear he wants Russia to be more competitive.
Hockey will be the main attraction in Russia. Ovechkin will be the main attraction for Russia. The nation is counting on him. "It's not about my president," he said. "It's not about what we're going to do out there. We just have to make people happy. If you want to make people happy, you have to win the games. You have to win medals. Everybody knows we're going to have some problems with the pressure, but it's good pressure. It's going to be fine."
Ovechkin is a frightening player when he's right, and he was the most dangerous player on the ice against Buffalo. He finished with two goals and two assists, giving him five goals and seven points in his last three games. If his last three performances were any indication, everybody else might as well stay home. In fact, it was never a bad idea.
Long before safety was an issue, top NHL officials were conflicted about sending their players overseas for the Olympics. Several valid arguments against participating, other than security, emerged in North America about the headaches that came with Russia. The travel across eight time zones will take a toll on players when they arrive, again when they return. The game is certain to be compromised.
The 2010 Winter Games were ideal for selling the game, but that doesn't apply everywhere. Vancouver felt like another road game. The games were played on smaller, NHL-sized rinks. And with the United States playing Canada for the gold medal, it drew the massive audience the NHL desired. Four years earlier, it was the opposite. Jet-lagged players were exhausted when they arrived in Italy, the games were terrible and not enough fans paid attention. People who did watch saw a lousy product. It wasn't worth the aggravation, and the NHL failed to send the message it intended.
There's a good chance for another mess to evolve in Russia. You can't help but wonder if the NHL agreed to participate in Russia partly because it buckled to Ovechkin, who announced four years ago that he would play in Sochi with or without the NHL's blessing. He wasn't going to miss an opportunity to play on a world stage for Russia, in Russia. It was a power play, and he had an advantage as one of the NHL's biggest stars. Other Europeans quietly cheered him from afar. Many were prepared to join him if the league decided to sit out. The NHL took its time before announcing it would participate, but it was a formality in the end. The league had little choice.
And now, with concerns over security and no means of controlling the situation, you can't help but wonder if the NHL is having second thoughts. Daly should know that even if "something significant" happens between now and Feb. 9, the league isn't going to prevent Ovechkin from playing.
Apparently, nobody can stop him.
"I said what I said, and I'm not going to take my words back," he said. "If something happens, I'm still going."
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A few days later on 10/16/12 I saw a charge on my bank statement which I check online for the $1.03 and for an additional charge of $3.87. I also had an email confirmation on 10/16/12. It stated that I had 8 days to cancel and 15 days to return the product. It also outlined the terms which indicated that the trial also came with a months supply of the product that I was automatically enrolled in unless I opted out. I was unaware of this prior to signing up for the "free trial".
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I went to the store specifically because of the enthusiastic recommendations of the port shopping consultant from the cruise ship. The shopping consultant was present at the time I made my purchase.
I purchased loose diamonds to upgrade the stones I had in an existing three stone diamond ring. Upon returning home, I discovered through the independent appraisal process that the primary stone I purchased had been laser drilled to enhance the clarity of the stone.
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She took my case on with DI after a $10,000 "Crown of Light" diamond just fell out of its setting as it was poorly set.
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