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HOLLIDAYSBURG - A utility company is proposing to build a 190-foot communication tower in a wooded area off Summit Drive, south of Chimney Rocks park, on the lower portion of a site previously targeted for a 140-foot tower.
Plans identifying the new site are under review in Blair Township and already have cleared a review by the county's Planning Commission.
Summit Drive resident John E. Young said he was glad the township planning commission tabled action on the plans until September, so they can be further reviewed. But Young, who objected to plans the Hollidaysburg Water Authority made in 2011 to build a 140-foot tower close to his house, said he won't take issue with the latest location.
"I don't want to hinder progress," Young said.
Despite the change in location, Summit Drive resident Neil Port said he is not convinced.
"This is such a beautiful part of Hollidaysburg," Port said. "I'd rather have that kind of tower built in some remote area rather than adjacent to a lovely residential area."
Blair Township supervisors are scheduled to review the proposed plans during their monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
About two years ago, Young and Port criticized the water authority's plans to build a 140-foot tower to accommodate meter reading equipment. The authority owns land near their properties and targeted the tower for a higher portion of the sloping site.
"They were going to put it right outside my window," Young said.
Since then, the water authority and Verizon have put together a plan that will allow Verizon to build the tower on the lower portion of the water authority's land and allow the water authority to put its meter reading equipment on Verizon's tower. The placement would be at no charge to the water authority, water department Director Rick Pope said.
Verizon Wireless spokeswoman Laura Merritt said construction of the tower site could start as early as next year but definitely not this year. The tower is planned as a 4G LTE site or Fourth Generation, Long Term Evolution site, to enhance data transmissions, and starting next year, to enhance video voice transmissions, referred to as VoLTE.
"In building new sites, that's the direction we're heading," Merritt said.
When the county planning commission reviewed the proposed plans, they noted that the water authority's water tank is currently located on the site. Plans show the site measuring 70 feet by 100 feet, to accommodate the tower and its communications building. Access to the site will be restricted by a security fence.
Plans also indicate a 12-foot wide stone access road will be built to access the leased area with enough room for parking and turnaround to accommodate Verizon's vehicles.
The planning commission indicated that site will not accommodate any full-time employees.
"Communication towers have the potential to be controversial when placed in close proximity to residential areas," assistant planner Jamie Klink concluded in a letter being sent to Blair Township supervisors. "However, the area in which this proposed tower will be constructed is not in the immediate vicinity of dense residential use; therefore, concerns over conflicting land use patterns should be at a minimum."
When the township planning commission reviewed the plans, they delayed action until September, pending receipt of a subdivision plan spelling out easements, who has rights to the access road, stormwater detention features and related features.


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Southern's Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) team won the SIFE Regional Competition in Atlanta on April 4, and moved on to compete in the SIFE National Competition in Minneapolis on May 11.
SIFE, an international non-profit organization that encourages students to use their business skills to serve others, hosts annual competitions around the world for its 1,500 chapters. SIFE teams are judged on their presentation skills and projects.
Southern's team lost the national competition in the first round, but SIFE Director Carrie Harlin is proud of the team's performance.
"The team that did move on was a National champion two years ago, so it was a tough league," said Harlin. "I am very pleased with how this year's team presented, and I know they did their very best. We can be proud of the SIFE team that represents Southern Adventist University!"
Southern's team presented four of its 15 current projects:
1. Adventist Health System: On December 2-29, 2010, four graduate students from SIFE traveled to Tanzania, where they analyzed the financial and management operations of four clinics and a hospital. The team met with a professor and healthcare executives and provided the health system with suggestions to improve efficiency.
2. IDEALS International: A team of SIFE members organized a bakery at Uruguay Adventist Academy in Progreso-Canelones, Uruguay, as a way for the school to earn money, reach out to the community, and train students in an important trade skill.
3. Collegedale Recycles: With a $1,000 grant from Sam's Club, Southern's SIFE team is helping the City of Collegedale pay for a new trash compressor for its recycling plant. The team also launched an awareness campaign that utilized two community events, advertising, and social media to promote the recycling plant in the community.
4. Campus Vending Machines: After surveying students and discovering the need for healthier and faster ways to eat, Southern SIFE worked with university administrators to install vending machines on campus that accept student ID cards. This has created nine student jobs. Profits from the machines, which earn about $35,000 a month, benefit SIFE's other service projects.
Chris Brown, junior computer science major, was happy for the opportunity to compete in this year's regional and national competitions.
"It was my first time at the competition, and I thought Southern Adventist University's team did an excellent job," said Brown. " I am excited that we went to nationals."

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Lose your hair to find a cure
Come on: What are you really doing with that hair anyway? It's just sitting there, or getting in the way. Or worse still, it's falling out, a bit at a time as the years go by.
May as well give in to reality and gravity by shaving your dome for the annual St. Baldrick's fundraising drive for pediatric cancer research.
The event began nationally in 2000 and spread to more than 1,300 locations in 2012.
For more information, visit www.stbaldricks.org.
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Mark Goddard
Born Jul 24, 1936
Mark Goddard is an American film actor who has starred in a number of television programs. He portrayed Major Don West, the space adversary of Dr. Zachary Smith in the cult 1960s CBS series, Lost in Space, and Detective Sgt. Chris Ballard on The ABC TV… Read More
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The Elephant Sanctuary is a member of Project DIANE,
a Diversified Information and Assistance NEtwork. The membership is
comprised of educational institutions and service organizations throughout
the state of Tennessee providing distance learning.
Teleconferencing technology is an education tool. Utilizing ISDN telephone lines in their classroom, students can take an electronic "field trip" to the Sanctuary. Images and sound are transported live, allowing students to view an elephant's daily life without causing any intrusion.
Sanctuary staff conduct the "visits," which can originate from anywhere around the world. Students learn about this free-ranging group of endangered elephants living at the nation's only natural habitat for Asian elephants.
We currently schedule teleconference visits one day per week on Thursdays,
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Each program begins with a visit to the Sanctuary's on-site office. For the first time visitor we suggest viewing our introductory video The Asian Elephant. This 7-minute video is a valuable teaching tool for students with limited exposure to this endangered species. The video is transmitted over the teleconference system. If your time is limited, or if you are a repeat visitor, we can omit the video viewing.
Through an additional camera in our elephants' habitat, students
are privy to the private lives of the elephants residing at the Sanctuary.
This non-intrusive observation allows viewers to experience natural
elephant behavior in a wild setting, and enables them to become familiar
with each elephant - her history, habits, and how moving to the sanctuary
has changed her life. These elephants represent a new age of captive-elephant
management; what they are teaching us is invaluable.
The program is flexible and can run as long as 45 minutes. The program
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The Latham Letter is published quarterly by The Latham Foundation which was founded in 1918 to promote respect for all life through education. In the Fall 2001 issue, Humane Education's Radical New Era, The Latham Letter features The Elephant Sanctuary's innovative use of technology to educate the masses, live, interactive, in real time, videoteleconferencing. Read the PDF file.
USN Second Graders "Talk with the Animals" (December 2001)
Second graders from University School in Nashville (USN) went on a "virtual tour" of The Elephant Sanctuary.
A letter (May 29, 2001) from an Arizona
teacher states:
Thank you so much for video conference today. It was even more wonderful than I had anticipated. The kids (7th & 8th graders) will never forget it and they left very committed to helping elephants.
I've been a part of MANY humane education lessons and this was the most powerful I've participated in. I'm spreading the word on humane education listservs and will show your site when I speak next year at the 4th annual humane education conference at the University of Illinois next April. Will write up an article about this too and send you a copy...sometime this summer. Will also plug your site and video conference with the US Dept. of Educ grant again...goes out to about 6000 science teachers right now I think! Thanks again. It was fantastic. The kids were so awed...never saw them so quiet! You did a very nice job telling them about Barbara also. I think it really helped them to hear how the other elephants dealt with her death.
Patty Finch
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The Elephant Sanctuary has developed two units focusing on the study of elephants. One unit is appropriate for grades K–3; the second unit is appropriate for grades 4–8. The K–3 unit consists of 35 pages of background information for the teacher and learning activities for children. The curriculum for grades 4–8 consists of 72 pages of instruction, background information, charts and graphs, activities, etc. Areas of study, such as social studies, literature, math, and science have been integrated into the units.
The units are in a PDF format and it is necessary to have Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view and download the files. Click on the PDF icon to access the free download site.
The Elephant Curriculum units are available for free download:
» Curriculum for grades K–3
» Curriculum for grades 4–8
Please be patientthey might take some time as there are a lot of graphics and pages in each file. However, we think these units of study are terrific, and we encourage interested teachers and parents to make them available for students.


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- Sanford Bishop warns of farm bill changes
- Keep in touch with elected officials
• Included among the groups represented at the 2011 Southeast Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association meeting were blackberry and raspberry growers, peach growers, vegetable growers, watermelon growers, Vidalia onion growers, organic growers, muscadine grape growers, blueberry growers, pecan growers, strawberry growers, sweet corn growers and roadside marketers.
Keep in touch with elected officials
"I cannot over-emphasize how important it is that you as individual growers and as commodity groups constantly and meaningfully stay in contact with your elected officials in the House and the Senate. Keep them aware of what is at stake with agriculture and help them find meaningful ways to help you continue to do what you do better than farmers anywhere in the world," Bishop said.
During the meeting, Georgia Extension Entomologist Alton 'Stormy' Sparks was presented the organizations Donnie Morris Excellence in Extension Award for his work in insect management that benefits fruit and vegetable growers. In accepting the award, Sparks said, "We work for you, grower input is vital to the success of our research and Extension programs — always let us know how we can help you."
Ridge Springs, S.C., peach grower Chalmers Carr was named Mr. Peach for 2011 by the Southeastern Peach Growers Association. Carr, whose family grows 4,000 acres of peaches, urged growers to follow Congressman Bishop's urging to stay involved with the industry and with politicians who make laws that affect the industry.
Stanley Culpepper, University of Georgia Extension weed specialist, was presented with the prestigious 2010 Montreal Protocol Award by the Environmental Protection Agency. "I beat on the EPA more than anybody in this room, but I want you to know they do listen and they do try to help us," Culpepper said in accepting the award.
Robert Dasher, a Georgia fruit and vegetable grower, was recognized for winning the Sunbelt Expo 2010 Farmer of the Year Award. In accepting the award from Sunbelt Expo Executive Director Chip Blaylock, Dasher acknowledged the importance of Congressman Bishop's remarks, touching off another standing ovation.
Wendy Brannen, marketing manager for the Vidalia Onion growers was presented the Packer 25 Award, by The Packer Magazinefor her role in creating a series of add using the popular Shrek character to promote Vidalia onions.
Over 2,000 farmers and agricultural industry leaders attended the 2011 annual meeting. In addition, industry-supporting companies filled to over-flow the Savannah Convention Center, providing information on virtually any business that touches the fruit and vegetable industry in the Southeast.
The growth of the Southeastern Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association has been nothing short of phenomenal.
"When we held our first annual meeting back in the early 1990s, we had about 300 attendees, recalls Association Director Charles Hall. Then we joined with the Georgia and South Carolina peach councils, then the organic growers and roadside and farmers market groups," he notes.
Included among the groups represented at the 2011 annual meeting were blackberry and raspberry growers, peach growers, vegetable growers, watermelon growers, Vidalia onion growers, organic growers, muscadine grape growers, blueberry growers, pecan growers, strawberry growers, sweet corn growers and roadside marketers.


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Protease-activated receptor (PAR)-1 and PAR-2 protect rat astrocytes from apoptotic cell death via differentially regulating JNK isoform-specific release of the chemokine GRO/CINC-1 : two novel protective pathways in brain
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Protease-activated receptors (PARs), a subfamily of G protein-coupled receptors, are abundantly expressed in rat astrocytes. PARs are activated by certain proteases, like thrombin, trypsin and tryptase, through a unique mechanism that involves irreversible cleavage of the receptor and exposure of a new N-terminal domain acting as a tethered ligand. PAR-1, PAR-3 and PAR-4 are thrombin receptors, while PAR-2 is activated by serine proteases trypsin and mast cell tryptase, etc. In addition to the mitogenic role of PAR-1 on astrocytes established by our group previously, here we investigate whether different PARs, especially PAR-1 and PAR-2, play a role in regulating chemokine or cytokine release and whether they can exert a protective role under the ceramide-mimiced cell pathological condition. In the present study, we report that thrombin, thrombin receptor agonist peptide (TRag) and PAR-2 activating peptide (PAR-2AP, SLIGRL) concentration-dependently upregulated the secretion of the chemokine growth-regulated oncogene/cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant-1 (GRO/CINC-1), a functional counterpart of human interleukin-8, from primary rat astrocytes. However, treatment with either PAR-3AP (TFRGAP) or PAR-4AP (GYPGKF) failed to increase GRO/CINC-1 mRNA level. Because activation of PAR-1 and PAR-2 both resulted in the release of the chemokine GRO/CINC-1 from rat astrocytes, we investigate whether the two PAR receptor subtypes can signal separately. By both ELISA and immunoblotting detection, it was found that PAR-1-induced GRO/CINC-1 release was mediated by protein kinase C (PKC), phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K) and mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 1/2 activation, whereas these three kinases were not involved in PAR-2-induced GRO/CINC-1 release. Extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 seemed to be only partially involved in the GRO/CINC-1 secretion induced by PAR-1, but not by PAR-2. Despite such clear differences between PAR-1 and PAR-2 signaling pathways, c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) was identified in both signaling pathways to play a pivotal role. In contrast, p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase was not involved in either PAR-1 or PAR-2 signaling pathway. Although JNK played a pivotal role in both PAR-1 and PAR-2 signaling pathways, PAR-1 and PAR-2 activated different JNK isoforms. PAR-1 induced the phosphorylation of both 46 kDa and 43 kDa JNK isoforms, whereas PAR-2 caused only 43 kDa JNK phosphorylation. Unlike PAR-1-induced JNK activation, which was mediated by PKC and PI3K, PAR-2-induced JNK phosphorylation was apparently independent of PKC. Moreover, only activation of PAR-1, but not PAR-2, led to c-Jun phosphorylation via JNK. All differences between the isoforms of JNK phosphorylation, JNK upstream activators and JNK effects on its downstream transcription factor c-Jun clearly indicate that different JNK isoforms with distinct properties might be involved in the PAR-1 and PAR-2 signaling pathways. By JNK isoform-specific loss-of-function studies using small interfering RNA, we demonstrate that PKC-mediated JNK2 activation and PI3K-mediated JNK3 activation were essential for PAR-1-induced the chemokine GRO/CINC-1 secretion, whereas PAR-1-mediated JNK1 activation was mainly responsible for c-Jun phosphorylation, which was not involved in GRO/CINC-1 release. In contrast, PAR-2-induced JNK1 activation, which failed to phosphorylate c-Jun, uniquely contributed to GRO/CINC-1 release. Therefore, our results for the first time show that JNK-mediated chemokine GRO/CINC-1 release occurs in a JNK isoform-dependent fashion and invokes PAR subtype-specific mechanisms. Further studies demonstrate that activation of PAR-1 and PAR-2 as well as application of the recombinant GRO/CINC-1 protected astrocytes from C2-ceramide-induced cell death. Protection occurred with suppression of cytochrome c release from mitochondria. The inhibition of cytochrome c release was largely reduced by the antagonist of chemokine receptor CXCR2, SB-332235. Importantly, the specific JNK inhibitor SP600125 significantly abolished the protective action of PAR-1. These results for the first time demonstrate that PAR-1 plays an important anti-apoptotic role in brain by regulating the release of the chemokine GRO/CINC-1, which gives a feedback through its receptor CXCR2 to preserve astrocytes from toxic insults. This novel mechanism is likely to explain the protective action of thrombin at low concentrations after brain injury. So far, the protective effect of PAR-2 in brain has not received great attention. Our results here in this context are of high significance showing that PAR-2 signaling pathway could be another additional protective pathway in brain via regulating the release of the chemokine GRO/CINC-1. Our results suggest that PAR-1 and PAR-2 have overlapping functions, but can activate separate pathways under certain pathological conditions, to rescue neural cells from cell death. Different JNK isoforms play pivotal roles in the PAR-induced cell protection via regulating the chemokine GRO/CINC-1 secretion. This provides new functional insights into PAR-JNK signaling and the protective actions of PARs in brain.
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Museum no. IS.617-1872
The Buddha is represented crowned and bejewelled in the style of a royal figure. He wears a tall crown and transparent robe which clings to the body and is adorned with a necklace and earrings. The use of royal imagery to evoke spiritual authority is apparent in this sculpture. He is seated on a double lotus throne beneath which rests a thunderbolt sceptre (vajra), symbol of an enlightened mind. With his right hand he points to the earth as witness of his enlightenment and beneath the vajra the Earth Goddess Prithvi appears, bearing witness to the Buddha's authority, with kneeling devotees on either side. To the Buddha's right stands the Bodhisattva Padmapani (holding a lotus stem) whilst on the left is the Bodhisattva Maitreya. Seated on lotus thrones above the standing figures are the Bodhisattvas Vajrapani and Manjusri with celestial beings carrying scarves flying above them. Makara (sea monsters) and kinnara (bird-legged celestial musicians) appear on the back of the Buddha's throne.


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Illegal dumpers targeted
Jason Ferguson
Published: Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
If you're a county resident who brings their trash into town and puts it in a city or residential trash can, you have been warned. The city is coming for you.
At its regular meeting Monday night, the Custer City Council approved moving forward with a "trash thief" ordinance, which will slap fines on county residents who fill up city trash cans with their garbage when they come to town.
City public works director Bob Morrison and city attorney Chris Beesley worked together to craft the outline of an ordinance — the form the document will have to in before it can be passed by the council and take effect. Morrison said the city receives a great deal of trash from county residents (who aren't required to have trash services), particularly in the city's trash cans in local parks.
"The residents of Custer pay for that," he said, adding that the more trash the city takes to the landfill, the more it is charged.
Morrison said crafting an ordinance will cover a "soft spot" in a "theft of services" law already on the books. The ordinance will not apply to local businesses, because they are under separate contracts. He said the ordinance would prevent county residents from dumping in a city residents' trash can even if the city resident said it is OK to do so. However, any ordinance will not prohibit someone from depositing designated recyclable materials in recycle containers in the city.
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August 24th, 2013 at 10:00am
When the population density in the surrounding area around the City is equal to the population of Custer itself there appears to be a larger issue developing. Too many of the residences surrounding Custer, use its infrastructure to their advantage without paying for it like we city citizens do.
This trash dumping by county residents suggests that its time for these residents pay for City services just like the rest of us do.
Therefore, the City should begin the process of annexing these outlying neighborhoods. The tax question is but one consideration. What about the environment issues of sewage, water and air quality caused by graveled, unpaved roads and subdivision streets. Of course the City of Custer then has an obligation to these "New Residents" to provide services that address the issues that appear to be more critical to health and well-being to all of us.
Annexing these subdivisions with a 3 to 5 distance of city center were there is more that 5 residences per square miles seems to me is an appropriate remedy to this developing issue.
A piece-meal approach to solving this greater problem is very inadequate and doesn't address the larger over-riding problems that have developed over recent history of real estate development. The City of Custer and Custer County should coordinate this process of Annexation.


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I like this T.S. Eliot quote. My problem is in restraining myself. Not a day passes when I don't say something outrageous. A customer asked me the other day if we give discounts to seniors. I immediately blurted out with a straight face, "We don't even allow them in this store!" I don't know where that came from.


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BRANDON AND NICK Arcidiacono go through a slow-motion pantomime of the day's practice some nights after dinner in their living room. On rare occasions, they'll point a funny finger at each other, because one missed something the other thought he should have had. But, hey, they're brothers - they're allowed to get on each other's backs about things occasionally.
Just as Archbishop Wood has climbed on their backs.
When a play needed to be made last night, the Vikings ran behind the Arcidiaconos - Brandon, an all-Catholic League junior center, and Nick, a sophomore guard playing offensive line for the first time. Wood struggled at times, but made the big plays when it had to in beating Strath Haven, 24-14, in the PIAA Class AAA state quarterfinals at Coatesville High School.


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Fox Abandons Pilot Season to Roll Out New TV All Year LongKacy Faulconer
Fox will be abandoning the traditional pilot season and will focus on developing new TV shows all year round.
Keith Reilly, network entertainment chief for Fox, explained that the outdated "pilot season" process just doesn't work for TV anymore.
Networks usually order pilot scripts through fall and winter, decide which ones to shoot, and then announce which ones will be put into regular production in May which THEN gives birth to our much-anticipated fall TV season.
Whew! Netflix, anyone?
This timeline forces TV execs and talent to create (and compete) in a time crunch. With so many cable networks ready to air content, there's just no need to conform to this timeline anymore.
And, hopefully, Fox's advertisers will benefit from this too. Instead of the most-watched (and most lucrative) shows coming out in the fall with reruns airing the rest of the year, Fox can roll out must-see TV all year. In fact, they'll be airing one of their biggest shows, 24: Live Another Day, in May.
Sleepy Hollow received the go-ahead on a second season shortly after its first episode aired. The show, an unlikely mash-up of X-Files and American Treasure which takes place on kind of a hell mouth, is a big hit. Having time to develop and shoot the second season will make the show better — Fox is banking on it.
This makes sense to me. As much as I like to think that stress and procrastination bring out the best in my work, time for revisions and careful plotting is essential for turning out quality content. I'm thrilled to see Fox embracing changes in the way we watch TV. Plus, I just get really bored waiting for the next fall season to start.
Here's to more good television all year long!
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Donald Voted PGA Tour Player of the Year by Peers; Bradley Rookie of the Year
Luke Donald has capped his incredible 2011 season by being named the PGA Tour Player of the Year. Keegan Bradley was also awarded with the Rookie of the Year on the PGA Tour on Tuesday.
The 34-year-old Donald was selected in a vote by players on the tour and became the first Brit to win the award since Nick Faldo in 1990.
Donald, also the No. 1-ranked player in the world, won the award over Bradley, Bill Haas, Webb Simpson and Nick Watney. According to The Associated Press, Donald won in a landslide, although the PGA Tour does not release the votes or the order in which the players finished.
"It's a great honor to cap off what has been an amazing year for me," Donald said from the Australian Masters, which starts Thursday at Victoria Golf Club in Melbourne. "Thank you to all the players for their votes.
"There was obviously some other worthy people to vote for, and I guess my overall consistency and having to go to Disney and win, and win the money list like I did, was a deciding factor," he added. "I feel very honored at the moment."
Although he accumulated two wins in 2011 - a 3 and 2 victory over Martin Kaymer in February's WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and a clutch two-stroke win in October's Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic at Disney World to wrest the money title from Simpson, Donald did not win a major title. Ten-time winner Tiger Woods - in 2003 and 2009, Greg Norman in 1995 and Nick Price in 1993 are the only players in the last 20 years not to have captured a major title when they received Player of the Year honors.
If his play this year is any indication, Donald isn't long for getting his first major title. "Obviously, this year has been a breakout year for me in terms of my confidence levels, and hopefully those confidence levels will be carried over to next year and will serve me well in the majors."
Instead, Donald was named for his unerring consistency, which was borne out by him becoming the first player in history to win the money titles on both the PGA and European tours. On the American circuit, he earned $6,683,214; in Europe, he accumulated $7.11 million.
"I've done a lot of things this year that probably not a lot of people would have given me much chance of doing," he said. "I think in the last 10 or 20 years, the power game has really taken control of golf. But I think I've been a little bit of a breath of fresh air knowing that's not the only way you can be successful.
"Through a good short game, good putting, managing your game, you can be successful in other ways," he added. "I think I've proven that quite considerably this year." (See below for the full transcript of the POY announcement.)
Donald also won two PGA Tour events to tie for the most victories on the year, and earned the Vardon Trophy for the lowest adjusted scoring average of 68.86. He had top-10 finishes in 14 of the 19 PGA tournaments he entered. In 25 official events in both America and Europe, he racked up a remarkable 19 top-10 finishes.
In being named Rookie of the Year, Bradley was also in the running for POY honors thanks to his breakout season. The 25-year-old from Vermont won the HP Byron Nelson Championship and the PGA Championship, the first-ever major he'd entered and the first-ever player to win a major title with a long putter.
Bradley ended up 10th on the PGA Tour money list with $3,758,600 thanks to the two victories, four top-10s and 12 top-25 finishes in 28 events entered. He also won the Grand Slam of Golf, beating the year's other three major winners in Bermuda, and teamed up last week with Brendan Steele to win the Franklin Templeton Shark Shootout.
On Tuesday, the executive vice president of the PGA Tour, Ty Votaw, commissioner Tim Finchem, Donald and Bradley were on hand for on the Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year announcements. Here's what they had to say.
TY VOTAW: Welcome, everybody, for today's announcement. We appreciate very much you calling in, and we appreciate the principals who are on the line with us today from various points around the world. Without further delay, I'd like to introduce Commissioner Tim Finchem, who has our announcements this afternoon.
COMMISSIONER TIM FINCHEM: Well, thank you, Ty, and thank you all for being on the call. This is an exciting point of the year when we can single out two players who were voted by their peers as Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year. I think if you look back on the 2011 PGA Tour season, it was an interesting and a different and compelling season, certainly highlighted by the youth movement on the Tour with 16 players in their 20s accounting for 18 wins and a record number of six rookies accounting for seven victories. We had 14 first time winners. The Presidents Cup had six players on the U.S. Team for the first time. We had a terrific playoff finish with Hunter Mahan and Bill Haas in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and some of the veterans played well, as well, with victories by Steve Stricker, Phil Mickelson, K.J. and David Toms. And then toward the end of the year it seems like we've seen a reemergence of Tiger Woods with his fine play at the Presidents Cup and returning to the winner's circle at the Chevron Challenge.
I think everybody on the line is aware of our process. At the end of the year we take a ballot. The Player Advisory Council puts out a ballot to all the players to vote on Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year. And the votes are now in, were in Friday. In the case of Rookie of the Year, the players chose to recognize Keegan Bradley with that commendation. Keegan had playoff victories at the HP Byron Nelson Championship and the PGA Championship, the first rookie since Todd Hamilton in 2004 to win twice, and with his PGA Championship victory over Jason Dufner, in that playoff Keegan became the first player since Ben Curtis to win a major championship in his first major championship start.
He was one of a record six rookies to win on the PGA Tour as I mentioned. He finished 20th in the final FedEx Cup points list. He became only the fourth rookie to play his way into the playoff finale since the beginning of the Playoffs. He joins Brandt Snedeker, Andres Romero and Marc Leishman in that category. Keegan had four top 10s. The other players on the ballot were Chris Kirk, Charl Schwartzel, Scott Stallings, Brendan Steele and Jhonattan Vegas. I think Keegan, in addition to his great play, developed as a player during the course of the year, clearly was an exciting player for the fans to watch and contributed a lot to what the fans thought about this year in a very positive way. And with that, Keegan, congratulations to you as the 2011 Rookie of the Year. Please share your reaction with us.
KEEGAN BRADLEY: Yeah, thank you so much. I'm thrilled to win Rookie of the Year for all that it means, but also most importantly the fact that it was voted to by my peers. You know, it's an award that you can only win one time in your entire career. You get one chance at it, and it was the main goal of mine to start the year and it's a huge honor and privilege to be the Rookie of the Year this year.
COMMISSIONER TIM FINCHEM: Thanks, Keegan. That leads us to the PGA Tour Player of the Year, and the players have recognized Luke Donald for his very consistent play. Luke is the first player from England to be voted Player of the Year since the inception of this recognition in 1990. He had two PGA Tour wins, at the World Golf Championships Accenture Match Play Championship earlier in the year and the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Classic here toward the end of the year. He led the PGA Tour among all players with 14 top 10 finishes, and he had runner up finishes at the RBC Heritage in a playoff and the World Golf Championships Bridgestone Invitational, as well.
For the second consecutive year he finished third in the FedEx Cup competition, and he posted top 5 finishes in three of the FedEx Cup Playoff events. He won the Byron Nelson trophy as well as the Vardon Award for lowest adjusted scoring average at 68.86. He also collected the Arnold Palmer Award with the money title. This is his tenth season on the PGA Tour and his best. In the balloting and selection by the players, he was selected over Keegan Bradley, Bill Haas, Webb Simpson and Nick Watney. Luke, as winner of the Player of the Year you'll be receiving the Jack Nicklaus Trophy. I think all of us have marveled at your incredible consistency in setting some real records on the greens this year, as well. I would also just say as I introduce you that from a PGA Tour perspective, you have over the course of your career in this first decade been a major contributor to what the image of the game is all about, which is our number one asset. You've handled yourself impeccably. You are a role model for what we'd like to see young players be, and I think without speaking for the players, I suspect they took all that into consideration when they voted on you, although they didn't need to because you were clearly the best player this year, and congratulations to you. Please share your thoughts with us.
LUKE DONALD: Thank you, Commissioner. I really appreciate that. That's a great honor, obviously, to cap off what has been an amazing year for me. First of all, thank you to all the players for their votes and for voting for me. There was obviously some other worthy people to vote for, and I guess my overall consistency and having to go to Disney and win and win the Money List like I did was a deciding factor. Thank you to my players, and yeah, I feel very honored at the moment.
COMMISSIONER TIM FINCHEM: I'll kick it back to Ty to take us through questions and answers.
Q. Luke, congratulations. Amongst the other things you've done, winning the money title on both sides of the Atlantic, do you think that'll ever happen again?
LUKE DONALD: Well, thanks, Doug. It's hard to tell. It's obviously been a tremendously consistent year for me. It's not easy to be a member of both tours and do what I've done. There's only really a handful of people that do it, so obviously there's a limited number of people that can do it in any one year. To be the first is very special, and I think it's probably my greatest achievement this year.
Q. Secondly, I just wanted to ask you, was there any concern, I know you felt like you had the best year out there with everything you've done, but any concern with how the vote might go just based on the members voting for Rickie Fowler over Rory last year in the rookie vote?
LUKE DONALD: To be honest, I wasn't too concerned. You know, I think I left it up to players to try and make the right decision. I felt like I deserved it, but obviously the way the year went, there was a little bit of ambiguity because I only won twice. Keegan obviously had a good opportunity, Webb had a great year. I think there were just a few things that separated myself from the other players just in terms of the overall consistency, obviously winning the Money List and a few of the other things, winning the stroke average. And hopefully - it looks like my players were on my side, and as I said to Tim, I really appreciate their support.
Q. I actually have a question for both players. Just curious, you seem to have it figured out. Do you look at your schedule this year, and can we pretty much expect the same sort of schedule for you next year?
LUKE DONALD: Yeah, 2012 I'm going to play a very similar schedule. I'll be playing both tours again. Obviously with the Ryder Cup year, again, it's nice to be a member of both tours, and I'm looking forward to earning some points and hopefully getting on that European side. But my schedule won't change too much. The only real issue I had in my schedule this year was I felt like I played a little bit too much around the U.S. Open. I felt quite tired at that event, and I didn't perform very well. It was a mixture of playing too much and being a little bit under the weather. I had some strep throat, and that didn't help matters. But other than that, my schedule will be very similar for next year.
Q. And for Keegan, as good as the year was, what do you hope to improve on next year?
KEEGAN BRADLEY: Next year I just look forward to getting back out there and playing, seeing these courses for the second time and knowing the players a little better, most importantly being a little more consistent with a little less try not to miss any cuts or less cuts but to keep contending in tournaments and try to win every time I tee it up just like Luke did this year.
Q. Luke, I was curious, you mentioned the U.S. Open, and I'm curious sort of how restless you are for that next step to win a major, and specifically out here in San Francisco it would seem like the Olympic Club suits your game. I'm curious about your thoughts on that in June.
LUKE DONALD: Well, yeah, obviously that's something that is missing from my resumé is a major and something I'll continue to concentrate on trying to focus my efforts on, giving it my best shot. I would love to win one, obviously, and I'm jealous of all the other players that have one. But yes, I don't know a lot about the Olympic Club. I've never been there. But throughout the year hopefully I'll get to see it before I get to the U.S. Open in June. I've heard good things about it. You know, I'm always a believer that any course will suit me as long as I'm playing well. I kind of proved that at the Match Play. It's a hugely long course and not many people probably thought I had a great chance there. But I think if my game is on, I'm good enough to win at any course. I'm looking forward to that one. I heard it's a great course, and again, looking forward to the challenges of all four majors next year.
Q. And one quick follow up if I can. How important is you also winning this award beyond your game? Does it make any statement that you don't have to hit it a million miles to have a great year, to be the best player on the PGA Tour and to be the best player in the world?
LUKE DONALD: Well, you know, I've done a lot of things this year that probably not a lot of people would have given me much chance of doing, just winning both money titles, being as consistent as I have been. I think consistency does go a long way, and I think in the last 10 or 20 years, the power game has really taken control of golf, but I think I've been a little bit of a breath of fresh air knowing that that's not the only way you can be successful, through good short game, good putting, managing your game, that you can be successful in other ways. I think I've proven that quite considerably this year.
Q. Ty or Tim, I was wondering if you could sort of characterize the vote tally. I'm not necessarily asking for the number because I know better, but did Luke win by a comfortable margin, and what about Keegan?
TY VOTAW: I think as you know, we don't really get into details or generalities with respect to the vote totals. I think suffice it to say that they're both deserving winners of this award, and we congratulate them.
Q. This is a question for Luke: What do you think has kept you from making that breakthrough in the majors and maybe why you haven't been as consistent in those as you have been in the other events?
LUKE DONALD: Well, it's a hard question to answer. It's always something I'm searching for, to try and be as prepared as I can. I suppose there's a little bit more pressure, a little bit more expectation in majors and I need to learn to better handle that. Obviously this year has been a breakout year for me in terms of my confidence levels, and hopefully those confidence levels will be carried over to next year and will serve me well in the majors. I think before this year I've been a good player and a consistent player but never really a great player, and obviously this year has been really a big step for me in terms of my mental side and the way I approach tournaments and how I feel about them. I can only think that that will serve me well for the majors next year, and I'm certainly looking forward to the challenge.
Q. Winning the Tour finale with all the pressure of knowing you had to win to have a chance to win both Money Lists, is that what you're talking about in terms of a breakthrough in confidence and mentally?
LUKE DONALD: Yeah, well, I think that was just one example, that you definitely feed from those kind of situations. When everything is on the line and you're able to come up with the shots when they matter, that's when the hard work and the practice is really paying off. Those are the kind of situations you feed off when you come into similar situations, you know, in majors and big tournaments. Hopefully I have a lot more to feed off of because of that. I think that will serve me well for next year.
Q. What do you do for an encore?
LUKE DONALD: That's a tough one. Well, obviously the glaring thing that's off my resumé is winning a major, and I would love to do that and add it to what's been a great ten years on Tour. Obviously this year has been a breakout year for me and something I'm very, very proud of. You know, I feel like winning both Money Lists and creating history is something very special. It takes a year to do that. I'm obviously excited to add to my record of wins, and hopefully some of those will be majors. I think there will always be a little bit of an asterisk against my name until I win one, but I'll be trying very hard to correct that.
Q. Luke, I'm curious, every player wants to be consistent, every player works to be a consistent player, but most guys have weeks where their game is kind of off. Did you kind of surprise yourself at all in just how consistent you were this season?
LUKE DONALD: Well, yes and no. I mean, I feel like I've always built my game around being consistent. I think having a proficient short game and a reasonably consistent putter will always make a year reasonably consistent, no matter how you play. It's a big equalizer. It really can make up a lot for some bad long game. For a number of years my long game wasn't where I wanted it to be. I've certainly made big strides this year. I think my driving accuracy percentages, my greens in regulation percentages have all gone up. My short game has stayed at a consistent level. That's really been the difference this year, I think, in terms of my overall consistency, just taking it from where I maybe would not miss many cuts but finished 20th, 25th a lot, taking those to top 10s and five 5s and having chances to win. Obviously every year you're just trying to look for ways to improve, and I obviously found a place to improve on, and it's really served me well in terms of consistency.
Q. And then also, the one cut you missed was at the very start of the year. When that happened, do you remember thinking anything, gee, I just started my year in the States and here I am missing a cut? What reaction, if any, did you have to that kind of start? You followed it up pretty well.
LUKE DONALD: Yeah, well, I was disappointed for sure. I had purposely taken quite a bit of time off at the beginning of the year to spend a lot of time I took five weeks off without even hitting a golf ball, and then I took six weeks where I was pretty concentrated practice, working on some fundamental changes in my swing. I put down that missed cut in LA just to being tournament rusty. You can certainly practice a lot at home and feel like you have it, but when you get to a tournament it's a different feeling, and it obviously took me that one tournament to kind of shake off the tournament rust, and by the next week I had kind of figured it out. Obviously winning at the Match Play was a huge boost for me and kind of set up the rest of my year.
Q. Luke, the consistency part in your short game you talked about earlier, the three putt streak this year, if you can just kind of talk about that and if that was more impressive to you or winning the money titles on both sides of the ocean was more impressive.
LUKE DONALD: Well, yeah, obviously I'm very proud of both of those. I think going back to your first question about my short game, I have to at this point give a big thank you to my coach, Pat Goss. I think he's been in my corner for the last 14 years since I went to Northwestern. I believe he's one of the best short game teachers I know. He's been my only real short game teacher, but the fundamentals that he teaches are very good, and they give me a lot of confidence, and I'm able to put the work in by using the correct fundamentals. I feel like it gives me a great opportunity to be very proficient in that part of the game.
In terms of the three putt, again, together we come up with a lot of drills, lagging drills and speed control, and obviously that's important in putting. Yeah, that streak was impressive. I wasn't really aware of it until people started to take notice, so it's not something I was truly that aware of until maybe the last couple of events, until it finished. Yeah, it's obviously something very impressive, but I don't think it's more impressive than winning both money titles.
Q. Tim mentioned in his opening comments about Tiger Woods coming back into form. Being No.1 player in the world and now the Player of the Year, do you look forward to having him back at that game and having him kind of competing every week? What are your thoughts about the way he's playing right now?
LUKE DONALD: Well, I think it's great for the game to see Tiger playing better again. I think it's only a matter of time. We all knew talent never leaves you, and he was always going to come back, and I'm sure he'll come back very strongly. Having been on Tour for 10 years, Tiger is obviously the best player I've ever played against, one of the greatest of all times. His record speaks for itself, and he attracts a lot of attention to the game, and I think that's great. It's good for the game that he's playing better, and I think as a top player you always want to play against the best. It's nice to see him playing better.
The transcript for the above interview is courtesy of ASAP Sports.
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"Idiosyncrasies are the name of the game right now....For many emerging markets, real interest rates on average are still very low, so identifying country-by-country idiosyncrasies is very important."
"The Washington Consensus resulted in higher reserves and higher growth rates among emerging markets countries. Thus EM economies moved away from the original sin of having too much dollar-denominated debt."
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:52:34 +0000 (UTC), Ingo Cyliax staggered into the
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> I have a Thinkpad X21 with a media slice running RH9 and I'm curious
> about which of Ultrabay drives are known to work well with Linux. At
> minimum I would like to use a CDROM, but I wouldn't mind one of the CD
> writers, if they work well.
Things in the Ultrabay are seen as IDE devices. IDE CD-RWs that follow
the MMC-3 standard (about 99.99% of them that have been manufactured
since 1999) are supported just fine.
> I don't expect to be able to hotplug the media slice while running
> Linux.
Why not? The theory is that you do "hdparm -U /dev/hdc" , remove the
Ultrabay device, insert the new Ultrabay device, then "hdparm -R
/dev/hdc". There's a shell script in the hdparm source tarball that
interfaces with tpctl and theoretically handles the hdparm commands
automagically. I have never tried this because I have only one Ultrabay
device (a CD-RW) and have never seen the need for another. HTH,
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Applying Unary (recursive) relationship
Hi. I want to apply a unary relationship to my database. I tried a lot, searched a lot, but couldn't find an answer. To make it quick and easy, here's my problem:
iam making a contacts database in MS Access. The contacts table contain first, middle, and last names for each person, and other attributes that doesn't relate to my problem. I want to create a unary relationship (parent-child), where each person have an attribute, that is a foreign key for his or her father or mother's primary key.
What i thought of is to make a supertype/subtype relationship, where each person can be a parent, child, or both.
So the final question would be:
Is there a way to apply unary relationships in MS Access? If yes, how? If no, is it done by using supertype/subtype relationship? If yes, thank you. If no, what should i do?
Thanks for any help.
Re: Applying Unary (recursive) relationship
Let the table have a simplified structure like mentioned:
contactid: ID of the contact being saved
name: Name of the contact
parentid: His/her parent's ID
The SQL statement will return all contacts and corresponding parent id:
SELECT a.contactid, a.name, b.parentid, b.name
FROM table1 AS a, table1 AS b
WHERE a.parentid=b.contactid;
Hope this helps...
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Marcus Morris never has seemed to be one who lacked for confidence, but he apparently lost that along with his playing time this month.
Upon arrival with a trade-deadline deal in late February, Morris made a splash and averaged 12.7 points over a six-game stretch. For the past two weeks, Morris has slipped in the rotation and been completely out of it in games against the Los Angeles Lakers on March 18 and Wednesday night at Utah.
"Early on, I was getting a lot of minutes, and I thought I was producing with the minutes, and then it changed," Morris said. "I'm really focusing on what I can do to make the team better and things I can work on to be better for next year. Next year, I'm for sure that it is not going to be like this — up and down like that. I'll come back in better shape and a better basketball player all around. It's a big summer for me."
Marcus and his twin, Markieff, were supposed to mutually benefit each other by becoming teammates. Markieff has remained in the starting lineup but has been a mixed bag, with a 15-rebound game a week ago against Brooklyn but going 11 for 36 from the field over three games entering Saturday night.
"Kief still has a long way to go," Marcus said. "Sometimes, he still relaxes some plays. That's what we're going to work on this summer, just to be able to react quicker and get more explosive and go get every rebound."
Suns interim coach Lindsey Hunter said Marcus' decreasing role from becoming a starter for six games was due to multiple reasons, including the transition to a new team.
"A lot of those variables played a part in him losing his confidence a little bit, but I think he looked a lot better (Thursday night)," Hunter said. "He seemed to be comfortable and getting back to his old self."
Marcus stayed in the rotation Saturday night.
"I'm trying new things and seeing what I can get advanced at," Marcus said. "I'm going to work as hard as I can in the off-season to secure a starting spot. I'm upset that it (losing playing time) happened. I felt like I was playing real well. I was showing people what I could do. It happened, and I'm past it. I'm out here trying to have fun and improve."
Offensive issues, too
The Suns offense improved Saturday night against the best defensive team in the league, but either side of the ball could have been pinned for the previous five losses.
The Suns had given up 50.6 percent shooting in the games while shooting only 40.5 percent from the field.
"Anytime we don't move the ball from side to side, we struggle," Hunter said of the offensive-efficiency issues. "It's a simple thing. If we move it, then we get shots and opportunities. We depend a lot on Goran (Dragic) to create for us. When it leaves his hands, it has to be, 'If I'm not open, I move it. If I have it, I take my shots. If I don't, maybe I drive and kick.' Just make the simple basketball play. A lot of times, we don't do that."
Marshall's moments
Hunter described rookie point guard Kendall Marshall's play as "sporadic" in his second start Thursday but praised Marshall in his two starts.
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Marshall will see mostly quicker, more athletic players at his position, as was the case with Sacramento's Isaiah Thomas having 23 points Thursday. Marshall must use his positioning, anticipation and size advantage to match up.
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on November 25, 2013 - 12:01 AM
By Jill Jedlicka
Buffalo is a coastal city, and Western New York is a Great Lakes region. It is evident that our economic revitalization directly correlates to how we embrace, protect and enhance the quality of our waterfront.
Ninety-five percent of North America's fresh water flows within our community, and this public trust resource delivers essential services to each and every one of us every day. As we continue our transformation, our region will redefine our future through our ability to apply innovative, cutting-edge economic development practices to the revitalization of our waterfront. Even the seemingly small decisions being made today have the potential to cumulatively impact this treasured resource.
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