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MIFFLINTOWN - With upsets over Greenwood and East Juniata under its belt already, the Juniata boys soccer team appeared poised Thursday to take another upset win over the Wildcats with a 1-0 lead at the half during the final regular-season game for both teams.
However, it only took 10 minutes into the second half to see this would not be the case.
With a feed from Lucas Grimm seven minutes into the half, Seth Ferguson tied the game at 1-1 to give the Wildcats some momentum. Three minutes later, Hunter Miller shot a rocket up the middle for the 2-1 lead, and a half played predominantly in front of Juniata's goal secured the win.
"I thought we played well in the first half, we just didn't get the goal. We may have had as good opportunities in the first half as we did in the second half, we just didn't put a finish on anything," Greenwood coach Tom Magill said.
But it was the shots in the second half that mattered.
Greenwood notched eight shots in the first half and nine in the second, and the defense deflated Juniata's shot opportunities from five to three between the two halves, making both the second half and the game the Wildcats'.
"I just didn't think we brought the effort, especially in the second half. They came out fired up; we didn't match their intensity," Juniata coach Clint Brackbill said - although his team did manage to score the first goal of the contest.
At 14:50 in the first, Brand Brackbill got the ball rolling for Juniata when he dribbled in front of the net to maneuver for an opening, then sent a shot toward the goal that deflected off a Greenwood defender before slipping past Wildcat goalkeeper Noah Schaeffer.
Juniata was matching Greenwood pace-for-pace at that point, and Juniata goalie Matthew Coldren was keeping the Indians in the game with beautiful saves throughout the contest, but in the last five minutes of the half Greenwood took over the momentum and never gave it back.
"I thought we had really, really good shot opportunities and probably could have scored more than two, but again, we didn't quite get the finishing touch," said Magill, who was otherwise pleased with his team's second-half performance.
From Juniata's end, Clint Brackbill tried to give the team a second-half spark by subbing in for almost the entire first string, but the move came with mixed results.
"We were able to give a push there in the end, so it worked a little bit, but we couldn't pull it out," he said, explaining that the second string was able to give the starters a breather before their last push in the final minutes of the game.
In that final push, Juniata got three direct kicks within the last three minutes of the game - one of which resulted in a corner kick when the Indian's Nick Gilbert delivered a shot that Schaeffer was just able to tip over the crossbar to maintain the lead - but the Indians weren't able to hit the target in any of those chances.
Juniata finished the season at 9-7-1, 8-6 in the TVL, and awaits its seeding for the District 6 Class AA tournament. Brackbill hopes to see a certain intensity from the team in the postseason.
"We need to be there emotionally, ready to be fired up and ready to go," he said. "We need to be relentless."
Greenwood (13-3-2, 10-2-2) will also enter the playoffs - in the Wildcats' case through the District 3 Class A tournament - in a quarterfinal game Oct. 26 against the winner of Lititz Christian and Upper Dauphin.
Magill said the team is healthy, and he will be interested to see the outcome.
"We're capable of being really dangerous, but we're also capable of just falling on our face, because sometimes we just lack that finish that we need in order to obviously be really, really effective. So we'll see what happens," he said.


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MONROE, La. - The University of Louisiana Monroe's online bachelor of arts in criminal justice was ranked no. 26 in the nation by CollegeValues.com.
ULM to host free junior high band camp
The Junior High School Band Camp, hosted by the University of Louisiana Monroe, remains scheduled for July 11-13.
ULM Accounting program ranks no. 28 nationally on CPA exam passage rate
The University of Louisiana Monroe Accounting program has earned the ranking of no. 28 for first-time passage rate on the CPA exam out of 266 medium-sized university programs across the U.S.
Steven Pederson returns to ULM as director of athletic bands
Steven Pederson has been appointed Associate Professor of Music at the University of Louisiana Monroe where he will serve as Director of Athletic Bands, including the Sound of Today and Technical Fowls Basketball pep Band.
ULM President's Academy draws to a close
MONROE, La. -- The President's Academy at the University of Louisiana Monroe concluded its fifth year as a premier academic and career exploration camp for high-performing academic students.
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ULM professors conduct training on dementia for local law enforcement
First responders across the U.S. are becoming increasingly aware of the challenges they face when interacting with patients suffering from dementia. Two professors at the University of Louisiana Monroe are making sure that first responders in northeast Louisiana are equipped with the proper training to make those interactions the most effective.
ULM receives national ranking for "best value online programs"
MONROE, La.--CollegeStart.org--an online resource for campus and online education--has ranked the University of Louisiana Monroe's online platform, eULM, as one of the "Best Value Online Programs" in the nation, and no. 1 in the state.
Study abroad program takes ULM students to Costa Rica
MONROE, La. -- Nineteen students and two faculty members at the University of Louisiana Monroe recently took a two-week trip to San Jose, Costa Rica to enhance their Spanish language skills and learn about the culture.
ULM police department acquires two new Segway® vehicles
Police officers at the University of Louisiana Monroe have a new way of getting around campus, thanks to the acquisition of two new battery-powered personal transporters (PT).
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ULM education hosts STEM camps in the twin cities
MONROE, La. -- The School of Education at the University of Louisiana Monroe will facilitate two summer camps aimed toward accelerating student interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
ULM scores one hundred percent on 2016 GRAD Act report
MONROE, La. -- The University of Louisiana Monroe passed the 2016 GRAD Act performance accountability process and related legislative data audit with no negative findings.
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MONROE, La. —It was announced this week that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted the University of Louisiana Monroe the license to operate its Doppler weather radar.
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Corporate Bond Liquidity Before and After the Onset of the Subprime Crisis
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May 31, 2011
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We analyze liquidity components of corporate bond spreads during 2005-2009 using a new robust illiquidity measure. The spread contribution from illiquidity increases dramatically with the onset of the subprime crisis. The increase is slow and persistent for investment grade bonds while the effect is stronger but more short-lived for speculative grade bonds. Bonds become less liquid when financial distress hits a lead underwriter and the liquidity of bonds issued by financial firms dries up under crises. During the subprime crisis, flight-to-quality is confined to AAA-rated bonds.
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Nicole Kidman and Lenny Kravitz may be getting serious about their house hunt. The pair has now made several trips to inspect a five-story, 11,000-sq.-ft., 21-room neo-French townhouse on Manhattan's East Side, reports TV's "Access Hollywood," following up story leads first reported in PEOPLE.
The house, which used to be part of a school but is now set to be converted back into a single-family dwelling, carries an asking price of $18.5 million. "Access," however, quotes Kidman as reputedly having said she finds the place just too big.
The Douglas Elliman real estate firm, which also is handling the sale of Kravitz's downtown bachelor pad for $13.95 million, is handling the townhouse transaction, says the New York Post. According to the listing for the property, the 1920s-era building -- located in the 70s between Fifth and Madison avenues -- has all its original architectural details intact, including a grand marble reception hall, with central staircase, and private garden.
"Access," which even showed the elevator inside the house, points out that the residence also has 10 bathrooms, which should be more than enough to accommodate Kravitz, 39, and Kidman, 37 -- not to mention her two children, Isabella, 10, and Connor, 8, whose father is Tom Cruise.
The Post, being cheeky, also mentions that should things between Kravitz and Kidman not work out, the rocker has the advantage of having newly single socialite Alexandra von Furstenberg as a next-door neighbor should the house sale go through.
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Freed from the daily grind of the "Tonight Show," guitarist Kevin Eubanks slows down to release his second CD. The set, with saxophonist Billy Pierce playing a key role, covers a broad palette of musical flavors from funk to folk, from Jeff Beck's rocking "Led Boots" to a worldly take on John Coltrane's "Resolution" (with the bass sung by Take 6's Alvin Chea). The outing is also surprisingly low-key, with four of 11 cuts in deep ballad mode.
Eubanks, an heir to one of Philly's great musical clans -- brothers Robin on trombone and Duane on trumpet both appear here -- is adept at making immediate connections with an audience. The L.A.-produced set could have gone so much mushier and commercial, but Eubanks keeps the standard high and ends up making a legit jazz session that both snarls and finds some beauty.
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Ashley Monroe is one-third of the Pistol Annies, the formidable femme country trio featuring Miranda Lambert whose take-no-mess debut "Hell on Heels" was one of the standout releases of 2011. "Like a Rose" is technically her second album, though her 2009 debut, "Satisfied," was released only digitally and was effectively buried by what was then her record label, Columbia, which must be kicking itself now. That's because "Like a Rose," which was coproduced by Vince Gill, is the best collection of trad-country tunes by a Nashville major label in a dog's age. (For me, the last one was Lambert's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" in 2007.) Rose cowrote the thorny title cut with Texas troubadour Guy Clark. At just 29 minutes, "Like a Rose" is lean on its bones. But each song is a keeper.
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Few teams can write an anthem like Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora. The pair may work with additional songwriters to achieve rocking, paean-like status, but whether delivering a hair-metal hymn ("Bad Medicine") or a motivational canticle ("It's My Life") this duo knows how to rouse and rouse big. That's why "What About Now" is frustrating. After the country cool of 2007's "Lost Highway" and the somber blue-collar pop of 2009's "The Circle," Bon Jovi's songwriters are still busy saving the world while its players (including drummer Tico Torres and keyboardist David Bryan) want to rock it. But something is subduing these Jersey boys. Less swelling ambience and more punch would solve this problem. At a time when its tresses are trimmed and its membership has matured, Bon Jovi needs to let its hair down.
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For his first album in five years, Boz Scaggs traveled to the Royal Recording Studio in Memphis. Sure enough, the singer-guitarist begins by channeling the studio's most famous artist, Al Green, with his own sublime "Gone Baby Gone" before segueing into Green's "Good to Be Here," with a string arrangement by Green's late producer and the studio's owner, Willie Mitchell.
Backed by a stellar cast that includes producer-drummer Steve Jordan, guitarist Ray Parker Jr., and keyboardist Spooner Oldham, Scaggs further mines this silky vein of R&B -- as he has done going back to his '70s hitmaking days -- with superb takes on Tony Joe White's "Rainy Night in Georgia" and Sylvia Robinson's "Love on a Two-Way Street."
Memphis, of course, is also known for rootsier and grittier strains, and Scaggs is equally adept at delivering them.
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It is an eye-catching show. It involves dance after dance, flips, spins and choreography.
Ballet, tap, jazz, modern and hip hop are the main focus for students in Goose Creek High School's dance program. They visited Devon Forest Elementary School on March 12 to demonstrate their skills in hopes of inspiring their younger peers in becoming dancers by spreading the joy of dance.
The 29 GCHS Berkeley Center for the Arts (BCA) magnet school ninth and 10th graders performed group and solo numbers on the lighted stage in the multi-purpose room in front of hundreds of elementary students.
The first dance performed by freshman was "Wanna Get Hype." The second dance performed by sophomores was "You Can't Stop One Beat."
Dance teacher Erica Skibinski said the students have been rehearsing these performances since January and are gearing up for an April 11 performance at GCHS starting at 7 p.m.
The dance program is now in its third year and has been successful, Skibinski said. She's taught the program all three years. Last year the dance crew gave a similar performance to students at Bonner Elementary. Each year they make the trek to elementary schools as part of Youth Arts Month.
"The elementary kids were so surprised to see the different dances," Skibinski said. "There were oohs and aahs. Hopefully it will inspire them to dance."
Her students practice for an hour and a half every day at school, she said.
"It relieves a lot of stress," sophomore Daequan Hardeman said. "It's the only time I feel like I can be myself."
He has danced his entire life but started taking it more seriously two years ago. He said he wants to make a career of it.
"I want to inspire other people to dance," sophomore Savannah Bales said.
Both said some of the dances are difficult but sometimes are easy.
Dancers audition for the BCA dance program as rising ninth graders and are welcome from all Berkeley County middle schools, Skibinski said.
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The Real Reason Abba is Still Making Moneytoddler-times
I thought it was just my kid on the weird Swedish pop band-wagon until soccer practice a few weeks ago, when my friend's daughter burst out in a tune from Mamma Mia. OK, the girls have weekly playdates – it could be her influence rubbing off.
Then this: SF Gate's Amy Graff reported on a Mamma Mia sing-along for families. "Your daughter," she warns, "might want to be Sophie . . . after seeing this movie."
Is there a secret Abba fan club strictly for people under four-feet tall? Because I "can resist ya," but the kids apparently take one look and forget everything.
The Mamma Mia musical and accompanying film version don't hurt – they're uniquely clean with zero sex or violence. At its worst, there's the use of the word "slut." That's it. Shrek is worse than that. Throw in singing and dancing, and a storyline that's all about mishaps not far off a cartoon's, and it's obvious someone was thinking about kids when they were making this flick.
Raised on Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals by my parents because we were TV-free and they were deemed the cleanest options for both my brother and I, I can dig it. Even in my Abba apathy.
But I confess I'm surprised by the fervor a so-so flick has generated among the four-year-olds in my neighborhood. Is Mamma Mia one your kids will "never let" go?
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Phil Mickelson's stellar record at GC of Houston as well as his great play this season make him one of Michael Riek's low-risk lineup favorites this week.
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Len Hochberg makes the case for Jimmy Walker, who has a strong track record at Pebble Beach, for this week's PGA Tour event.
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Jeremy Schilling looks at the numbers and finds a lot to like in Ben Martin, who had a great time at The Players last week.
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Jeremy Schilling works through the options for this week's Zurich Classic and finds a winner in Sean O'Hair.
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After an impressive season that saw him top the money list, Rory McIlroy enters 2014-15 as unquestionably the top player in the world.
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Rory McIlroy heads to Royal Liverpool as the man to beat at this year's Open Championship.
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Jordan Spieth is the defending champ and near the top of his game as he enters the John Deere this week. What could go wrong?
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If not Phil, who? Bubba Watson has a great shot with the game to win the U.S. Open.
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April 23, 2014
Stuart Appleby finished strong on Sunday last week and could ride that momentum into this week's event.
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Is this Rory McIlroy's year to win the Masters? He's never finished better than T15, but he has all the shots to contend at Augusta.
April 2, 2014
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April 1, 2014
Houston Open Preview: Masters Prep Class
Henrik Stenson has played well at this event, including nearly winning last year, as the Tour warms up for Augusta.
February 4, 2014
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Yippie-ki-yay, "Die Hard" fans. While most of the New Orleans metro area is consumed with all things Mardi Gras, local theaters are planning for an all-day "Die Hard" marathon for Ash Wednesday (Feb. 8). It tops this week's listing of upcoming off-the-beaten-path film events for New Orleans movie fans.
'Die Hard' movie marathon Elmwood Palace, Clearview Palace, Mall of Louisiana. In anticipation of the Feb. 14 arrival in theaters of "A Good Day to Die Hard," Twentieth Century Fox and participating theaters present a "Die Hard" movie marathon (noon Feb. 13), in which the first four films in the action franchise will be screened consecutively leading up and including the 10 p.m. local premiere of "A Good Day to Die Hard."
Tickets are $35 and include a full-size "Die Hard" poster and a commemorative lanyard. For details visit the AMC Theatres website.
Canal Place Classic Movies Series 3rd floor of The Shops at Canal Place shopping mall, 333 Canal St. The theater continues its series of classic movie screenings. Coming up: director Arthur Penn's Oscar-winning 1967 classic "Bonnie and Clyde" (7 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, Feb. 7 and 9), starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway; and Tony Scott's 1993 crime thriller "True Romance" (7 p.m. Feb. 14 and 15), written by Quentin Tarantino.
Tickets are $10 and are available at the Theatres at Canal Place website.
Prytania Theatre Classic Movie Series 5339 Prytania St., 504.891.2787. The theater continues its weekly series of Hollywood classics. This week: director Alfred Hitchock's 1955 crime thriller "To Catch a Thief" (10 a.m. Sunday and Wednesday, Feb. 10 and 13), starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.
Tickets: $5.75. For details visit the Prytania Theatre website.
Prytania Theatre Midnite Movies Series 5339 Prytania St., 891.2787. The theater continues its weekly series of cult-classic film screenings. This week: director Jim Sharman's 1975 audience-participation favorite "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (midnight Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8 and 9), starring Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick and Tim Curry. The theater's newly announced "shadow cast" for local showings of the film -- The Well-Hung Speakers -- will participate at both screenings.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $9 for college students, and $8 for children and seniors. For details visit the Prytania Theatre website.
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 504.827.5858. Holding over this week: Director Ursula Meier's Oscar-shortlisted French-language drama "Sister" (5:30 nightly through Thursday, Feb. 7); and the music documentary "Beware of Mr. Baker" (7:30 nightly through Thursday, Feb. 7), about rock 'n' roll drummer Ginger Baker. The theater will be closed tonight (Feb. 5).
Tickets are $8 ($7 for students and seniors; $6 for members and children under 16). For details, including screening times, visit the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center website.


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Winning by a nose could take on a whole new meaning with a nasal strip developed to ease the breathing of horses during racing and performing.
CNS Inc., which has sold close to 1 billion Breathe Right nasal strips to open up nasal passages of everyone from NFL players to snoring spouses, goes to market with its Flair equine nasal strip this month.
"It's not going to turn every horse into a Secretariat," said Daniel Cohen, CNS chairman and chief executive, "but a product such as this will help the horse perform to its maximum ability."
Co-inventor Ed Blach, a veterinarian in Roswell, N.M., said the idea of adapting the nasal strip to help horses "was one of those 3 o'clock in the morning sit-up inspirations. It came out of experience from practice, watching horses perform on the track and on tread mills in exercise drills."
Because a horse breathes only through its nose, the soft outer nasal passage tissue can close when the animal inhales hard during strenuous exercise. The patented, drug-free strip is attached over the horse's nasal passages, where it is held in place by a special adhesive. The strip's spring-like action holds the nostrils open so the horse doesn't have to struggle for breath.
"Horses expend tremendous energy and effort simply to breathe during highly competitive events," Cohen said. "Because the strip reduces the work of breathing, horses experience less physical stress during and after heavy exercise."
Clinical trials at Kansas State University also indicated the strips can reduce pulmonary hemorrhage induced by exercise, a condition for which horses commonly are given the drug Lasix before races.
Further tests would be needed to determine whether using the strips would have any effect on the need for Lasix, Cohen said.
"Lasix reduces blood pressure. Flair works to reduce the pressure swings in the lungs. As a result, the two may work synergistically. But that's speculation at this point," he said.
In addition to the clinical trials, the strips have been tested at private training facilities and in workouts at pari-mutuel tracks.
"It's been used in breezes, the harder workouts that they do every week or so for racehorses, but not in any races," Cohen said.
The nasal strip has been ruled equipment by regulators in California, Kentucky and Florida and can be used in races, Cohen said.
"We've shown it to New York and they're evaluating it right now. We will be presenting it to many other states shortly. We're hopeful that they will find it also to be equipment," he said.
Blach said he and Jim Chiapetta of Minneapolis, the other inventor, went through many prototypes before getting it right. While the horse anatomy is quite different from the human anatomy, the function of the strips is similar.
"We started with creating something that would fit the horse's face" using what CNS had learned about human breathing and modifying it, Blach said.
"The actual act of breathing is a bit different. A horse cannot breathe through its mouth. But the bottom line is they have a lot of similarities," Blach said.
The strip for humans looks like a small Band-Aid over the bridge of the nose. The nasal strip for horses is much larger - about 4 by 6 inches - but is "light as a feather" and does not distract the horses, he said.
"Comments we've gotten from trainers and jockeys is that the horse relaxed, seemed more focused on what they're doing. It tends to let them do what they do best because they don't have to fight to get air," Blach said.
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The California Resale Royalty Act: Droit De [Not So] Suite
Emily Barker
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Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2011
It is a generally accepted principal that an artist owns certain rights to exploit the economic value of his works. In the United States an artist's rights are protected by various provisions of the federal copyright laws. These pecuniary rights exist largely in the same form across the globe, however, some countries, and now the state of California, have begun to recognize personal rights of artists in their work. These moral rights, or droit moral, are retained by the artist even after a work is sold. The particular moral right that this paper is concerned with is the droit de suite or "art proceeds right." The droit de suite grants artists the right to receive a royalty based on the resale of his work. It is the proposition of this paper that California's statutory version of droit de suite, California Civil Code Section 986 ("Resale Royalty Act"), effects a Fifth Amendment taking of private property and thus, at a minimum, requires just compensation.
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An "Out Of Control" Epidemic Is Ravaging Western Africa
Health authorities struggle to control the worst outbreak of Ebola on record.
The World Health Organization plans to meet with health ministers from 11 countries July 2-3 in Accra, Ghana, to discuss how to control the outbreak.
Nearly 400 people have died so far, according to the WHO.
Doctors Without Borders said Monday that there are 20 new deaths attributed to the disease in West Africa.
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The outbreak began late last year or early this year in Guinea. By March, it had claimed 78 lives. Health officials said the virus' continued spread, including into neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, has driven the death toll higher in recent weeks and months. Doctors Without Borders dispatched teams to Sierra Leone last month, when the death toll was considerably lower.
Doctors Without Borders is working to contain the outbreak, but has said its resources are stretched thin. An official with the health organization has also described the current outbreak as a "second wave" of the epidemic. Doctors Without Borders has criticized the World Health Organization (WHO) and African governments for not doing more to stop the disease, the AP reports.
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In recent months your bloggers have been contacted by a number of environmental reporters on the issue of leaded aviation fuel, for instance Sarah Zhang of Mother Jones, mentioned in this Jan. 28 posting. More recently, Rebecca Kessler, a science and environmental journalist based in Providence, R.I., published an article titled "Sunset for Leaded Aviation Gasoline?" in Environmental Health Perspectives, which according to its website is "a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news published with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services." Over the course of the past three months, Kessler did her homework well, contacting many individuals involved in this issue, including your bloggers. As with Sarah Zhang's article, we believe that she has provided an accurate, balanced portrayal of the various aspects of the replacement of leaded avgas, and we commend her on her work.
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I'm building an experimental aircraft with a Lycoming IO-360. Thinking about getting a 100-150 gallon fuel trailer and buying ethanol free mogas from a local supplier. My research says I can buy a small take trailer and accessories for under $4000. Mogas 91 octane Fuel (E0) can be purchased directly for about $0.50 above typical 87 octane road fuel E10 at any gas station.
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…I can buy a small tank trailer and accessories for under $4000. Mogas 91 octane Fuel (E0) can be purchased directly for about $0.50 above typical 87 octane road fuel E10 like you find at any gas station.
Many years ago I received (purchased) an STC to use MOGAS in my Piper TriPacer. I hauled it from the local gas station in 10 gallon jerry Cans, put it in my aircraft, then added TCP (lead) to avoid damage from pre-ignition in my Lycoming engine. It ran flawlessly for two years, until I sold the aircraft.
I got by fine without AvGas. Mogas is cheaper, but less convenient.
I'm sure there are issues with high performance engines (IO-540), but a solution is out there somewhere.
Centerline and fly safe
Pity you didn't have your own field to base your aircraft at. Then you could have mounted an old fuel oil tank on a stand with a gravity feed. Any fuel company would have then came out and filled it after you had added the TCP. You would have saved yourself a lot of trouble and saved the highway taxes on the fuel with a "farm" use delivery.
I've been flying for 36 years both military and civilian. Even though I have been exposed to lead from avgas I haven't really gotten sick or, " huh, duh, duh, uhm, what was I talking about?"
Seriously though, it is well established that lead is bad for your health and I am all for a practical solution to removing it from aircraft use. I am also a strong proponent for having non-ethanol mogas more widely available. I now have to haul non-ethanol 93 octane mogas in my pickup from a source 22 miles away to my airport. Not the best solution of course for a myriad of reasons. I would be extremely happy to see mogas sold at airports on a regular basis and would most definately fly much more often.
My problem with the article cited is the same problem I have with most of these environmental type's writings. Note the use of the following phraseology throughout the article; " potential, estimated, one study, probably, not conclusively implicated, we feel like, etc." I am also suspect of the motivations of these same people. They are in the "environmental business." This is who they are and what they do. If they did not exagerate and postulate on dire outcomes from certain activities they would be irrelevant and have no reason for being in this line of work. From a scientific point of view it is laughable to estimate the causes of reduced IQ points in children without a heck of a lot of more real, scientific studies and not just associational studies full of the same kind of vague wording.
So, let's get the lead out of avgas or better yet, make mogas more widely available and stop running around claiming that the sky is falling.
Thanks Kent and keep up the good work.
You yourself think that lead should be removed from avgas, presumably because, as you say, "it is well established that lead is bad for your health." Yet when an "environmental type" writes the same thing, the sky is falling? What am I missing? Better she be forthright about the fact that there haven't been many studies than to make a bunch of wild claims about avgas killing people.
Trouble is that replacement for 100LL should have been available in the year 2000. After all unleaded fuels for cars arrived in the seventies and even high performance cars had an unleaded substitute before the year 2000. The aviation industry has seriously harmed itself by fighting the demise of 100LL. Right now there is only one source and there are still aircraft that need 100LL. A replacement for 100LL will arrive, but it will be years later than it should have.


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Summary: This is a perfect setting for a leasurly family hike. The trail acends very gently from the south end of Idyllwild to Humber Park, passing through a wonderful dense forest of pines. As you approach Humber Park, spectacular views of Suicide and Tahquitz rocks come in to view. Once you reach Humber Park, walk up the road a few hundred yards to the Devil's Slide Trail head and find a peaceful spot for a picnic lunch.
If you still have some energy left, hike a half mile or so up the Devil's Slide trail for unbelievable views of both Tahquitz and Suicide rock. Return the way you came.
Trailhead: From the 10 near Banning, take highway 243 to the town of Idyllwild. On the south edge of Idyllwild, take Saunders Meadow Road past Desert Sun School, turning left on Pine Avenue, then right on Tahquitz View Drive. Drive past the South Fork Trail junction to the start of the Ernie Maxwell trail. There will be a trailhead marker on the right side of the dirt road. Note that you can also start the hike from the opposite end just below Humber park, but you wind up walking uphill on the way back (not my preference!) (Lat:33.74022 Lon:-116.7024)
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Best Seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall
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Reviewed by LD on 6/11/2012
Ascended Devil's Slide to grab Red Tahquitz and Tahquitz. Descended the South Ridge Trail to where it joined with the dirt road. Took the dirt road to the Ernie Maxwell trailhead. Great return instead of coming back down Devil's Slide! A word to the wary: According to the TOPO program map, the elevation gain is 700 feet to Humber Park, not 400 as stated.
Reviewed by Mark on 9/25/2011
This is a great family trail. With minimal inclines the trail is great for kids that might not enjoy long grades. We did come across two rattlesnakes on our trip, so keep an eye out for them...they are there!
Reviewed by Coe on 6/2/2011
I gave this a "personal favorite", as it is the only hike me and my wife have done the last 20 or so years. It was a perfect hike for us. Not too difficult, but still a "hike", not just a nice walk in the woods. So many beautiful moments to just stop and say "Thank you God". There were 4 little streams that we crossed..you can't beat the sound of a stream. The trail is highly recommended and would definitely do again.
Reviewed by Bear on 3/20/2011
Just hiked the trail today before the rains. It was a brisk morning and if you're not use to altitude, it might be a bit more difficult. Nice views and good people on trail.
Reviewed by Viewer on 4/12/2010
I just got back from Idyllwild, I rented a cabin for a few days just below the trail. What a nice hike. I walked it four times while I was there. On the last morning a large pine tree had fallen across the trail. Good thing no one was there. I will be heading back. Good fun. My dog loved it to. Eric Hildebrandt Oceanside Ca.
Reviewed by S.L. on 1/31/2010
very beautiful mountain view. A little crowded.
Reviewed by Anjana on 11/16/2009
Nice easy hike - definite plus if you have small children. My husband & I were a little bored towards the end, but it's good scenery.
Reviewed by Curt on 11/4/2009
I was on this very nice trail and enjoyed the good weather and great photo opportunities. Seeing a cyclist on it was a bit of a surprise.Strawberry Creek was completely dry but the fall colors were superb October 18th, 2009
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By Gregory Ripps, 470th Military Intelligence Brigade Public AffairsSeptember 24, 2010
FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Soldiers and Soldiers' Angels got together Sept. 10 to ready letters and snacks for mailing overseas.
Soldiers' Angels, a non-profit organization based in California, has offices and a warehouse on the Pan Am Expressway, convenient to Fort Sam Houston. The organization aids and supports U.S. troops deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq and other places outside the country in a variety of ways.
Staff Sgt. Kevin Ahn, of the 717th Military Intelligence Battalion, said 18 Soldiers who belong to the battalion volunteered for the mailing task through their Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program, which encourages community service projects as part of its mission.
The BOSS members and other 470th Military Intelligence Brigade members working in conjunction with the brigade's Family Readiness Group gave up their afternoon to build "flat rate" U.S. Postal Service boxes, pick snack assortments and deposit them into the boxes along with selected letters, most of which children had written for troops stationed far from home.
Sean Gray, Soldiers' Angels warehouse foreman, said the organization depends on volunteers because it has few paid employees. While they send boxes to troops throughout the year, their volume increases ten-fold as the holiday season nears and they need the most volunteers in November.
Ahn said the Soldiers in his battalion would be returning to help Soldiers' Angels many other times. And Pfc. Laron Gordon explained one reason for volunteering.
"When it's my turn to be deployed, I'd like to receive a package," said Gordon.
Gray pointed out that receiving the packages often meant more to the troops than the contents.
He also noted that Soldiers' Angels does more than mail care packages. For example, the organization also provides voice-activated laptops to severely wounded Soldiers, and handmade blankets for wounded, deployed and veteran Soldiers.
"It's the best job in the world to do something like this," said Gray, a U.S. Marine for eight years before going to work for Soldiers' Angels. "I actually get excited to come to work."


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EA: In-Game Ads Business Hasn't Grown as Fast as Expected
The days of real products on in-game billboards "may be over," says Ben Cousins.
Remember the absurdity of seeing in-game billboards for current day products in the future-set Battlefield: 2142? Thankfully, it sounds like that's a thing of the past -- at least for Electronic Arts. Speaking with Edge, EA's free-to-play head Ben Cousins said in-game advertising hasn't become the revenue-generator they expected, and it's being quickly supplanted by microtransactions.
"We actually aren't getting much from ad revenue at all. The in-game advertising business hasn't grown as fast as people expected it to," Cousins revealed. "If you think about how fast the virtual goods business has grown in the last year or so, it's been much quicker and become a much more reliable source of revenue."
Cousins is in charge of such free-to-play games as Battlefield Heroes and the forthcoming successor Battlefield: Play4Free (pictured above). "We hedged our bets [with Battlefield Heroes]," he said. "We thought we'd do in-game advertising and virtual goods sales, and one of those took off really fast and the other hasn't really taken off at all."
But don't get your hopes up too high -- this doesn't mean EA is abandoning in-game ads altogether; just changing the way they approach them. Cousins used as an example a promotional campaign with Dr. Pepper, where buying a can and scanning the barcode unlocked an exclusive outfit in Heroes. "That kind of deep integration will work, I think, but I'm not convinced that we'll have billboards in games and things like that," Cousins admitted. "Maybe those days are over."
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Ah wellPosted: Dec 23, 2010 12:00AM PST by Captain_Gonru
Mercenaries 2 had them (still does, as of my last play recently), and I kinda liked them. If it was a product I didn't like, it got blown up. I agree with the realism comments, especially in racing games.
in game ads dont bother mePosted: Dec 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by RobotechRyan
i buy what i want, and its rare that ANY kind of ad really sways me much. I honestly like the in game ads that make it look most realistic. As funny as it was, seeing billboards of "minty fresh pork chops" on the walls of baseball stadiums back in triple play 98 was always annoying how they couldnt get a real product on that wall.
as long as they aren't in the way of the game, im completely fine with them.
howPosted: Dec 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by smile_kill
about verizon in alan wake or energizer...come on developers we want to play a game without the urge to go broke on products u put in games...it just annoying
Ways to make ads part of the gamePosted: Dec 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by NorthernTorch
There are ways advertising could mix with gaming, by making the ads not seem so out of place.
For example, imaging playing one of the Metal Gear Solid games. Snake goes by a building, which has a billboard on top featuring him as the new Marlboro man ... leaning against a wall, with a talk bubble saying "After scoring five straight headshots, I like to relax with a smooth Marlboro ... then snipe five more!"
I would have to draw the line, however, at having a game pause so Bayonetta or Lara Croft could endorse femine protection products or douches.
didnt ads work with mass effect 2?Posted: Dec 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by mikeclark1982
i still have codes for some armor and goodies for that from that game that you got by using dr pepper products.
That is not good news, IMOPosted: Dec 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by bullet656
I'd rather see some billboard on the side of the road advertising something than to pay to download an extra car that would probably have been already included in the game in years past. Heck, billboards along the roads (and similar stuff) would only add to the realism :)
A better source of revenue!Posted: Dec 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by MorbidAri
Stop releasing bad games. Start releasing good games. Just ask Blizzard how delaying a game until it's ready and not rushing it works out for them! Seriously though if making money is more important to you than making a good game, I think your doing it wrong...and sadly it really shows....
Let me paint a picturePosted: Dec 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by Xvoid6f
You are a solider. You are alone. You look through the scope of your sniper rifle and see some movement. It is the enemy. You inhale, tense up your finger, then... you pull it.
Welcome to the world of microtransactions.
I just hope it doesn't get out of handPosted: Dec 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by Keefster
I can live with a few billboards, sometimes in can be immersive if you're playing a game that takes place in a city or something like burnout paradise, gives you a feeling you're actually in a living breathing city.
That said, I just hope it doesn't go crazy like if the radio stations give full length ads instead of funny parodies or whatnot, like in mafia 2 and gta.
I havePosted: Dec 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by MarioDragon
never known anyone to buy something because it was advertised in-game. If these advertisers think people have the time or attention to pay.. attention.. to the ad while being shot by hundreds of random enemies or trying to win a race, then they need to do something else with their lives.


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Small Area Estimation of Proportions in Business Surveys, Hukum Chandra, R. Chambers, and N. Salvati
The financial sector and economic growth, A. Cooray
Theory of Gaussian Variational Approximation for a Poisson Mixed Model, P. Hall, J. T. Ormerod, and M. P. Wand
Resource price turbulence and macroeconomic adjustment for a resource exporter: a conceptual framework for policy analysis, Charles Harvie and Grant M. Cox
Community valuations of environmental quality in coastal lakes: Lake Illawarra case study, Ann Hodgkinson and Abbas Valadkhani
Trade and investment liberalisation and industrial per capita emissions in China: 1990 to 2007, Kankesu Jayanthakumaran and Ying Liu
How can Iran's black market exchange rate be managed?, Amin Reza Kamalian, Abbas Valadkhani, and Majid Nameni
Modelling Australian stock market volatility: a multivariate GARCH approach, Indika Karunanayake, Abbas Valadkhani, and Martin O'Brien
Regression analysis under incomplete linkage, G. Kim and R. Chambers
A case of miscommunication? Obstacles to effective implementation of a plagiarism detection system in a multicultural university, S. Koshy
Theoretical implications of endogenously changing carrying capacity and concern for the world's population and environment, Amnon Levy and Peter Berck
An analysis of the world's environment and population with varying carrying capacity and concerns, Amnon Levy, Peter Berck, and Khorshed Chowdhury
International emission inequality: abatement on a per capita basis with rewards, Amnon Levy, Khorshed Chowdhury, and Jonathan Livermore
Emission abatement with per capita and trade considerations, Amnon Levy and Jonathon Livermore
Visually Identifying Potential Domains for Change Points in Generalized Bernoulli Processes: an Application to DNA Segmental Analysis, Y. X. Lin
A sensitivity test of the bilateral trade balance to exchange rates: a review of the Australian bilateral trade balance with Japan between 1988 and 2007, Yumiko Meloche
The curvHDR Method for Gating Flow Cytometry Samples, U. Naumann, G. Luta, and M. P. Wand
Explaining Variational Approximations, J. T. Ormerod and M. P. Wand
Gaussian Variational Approximate Inference for Generalized Linear Mixed Models, J. T. Ormerod and M. P. Wand
Exploring the MAUP from a spatial perspective, G. Pawitan and D. G. Steel
Regulating financial innovations without apology, Eduardo Pol
Finding the Optimal Pre-set Boundaries for Pairs Trading Strategy Based on Cointegration Technique, H. Puspaningrum, Y. X. Lin, and C. Gulati
How useful is growth literature for policies in the developing countries?, B. Bhaskara Rao and Arusha Cooray
Socio-demographic factors as a predictor of the college-choice process in international universities: some data from the United Arab Emerites, G. Rodgigues and P. Jayashree
Small Area Estimation Using a Nonparametric Model Based Direct Estimator, N. Salvati, Hukum Chandra, M. Giovanna Ranalli, and R. Chambers
Small Area Estimation Via M-quantile Geographically Weighted Regression, N. Salvati, N. Tzavidis, M. Pratesi, and R. Chambers
Asymptotics and Optimal Bandwidth Selection for Highest Density Region Estimation, R. J. Samworth and M. P. Wand
Spatial small area estimation: Comparison of different approaches - Report, G. Sofronov
Robust Estimation of Small Area Means and Quantiles, N. Tzavidis, S. Marchetti, and R. Chambers
Do retail petrol prices rise more rapidly than they fall in Australia's capital cities?, Abbas Valadkhani
Analysing the asymmetric effects of inflation on real investment: the case of Iran, Abbas Valadkhani, Amin Reza Kamalian, and Mosayeb Pahlavani
Submissions from 2008
Towards a profound sense of professionalism: teaching ethics to IT and business university students, G. al Qaimari, S. D. Samuel, and Z. Khan
Responsible Financing?: The Equator Principles and Bank Disclosures, J. Andrew
Destination brand components, M. S. Balakrishnan, Ramzi Nekhili, and C. Lewis
E-learning and blended learning in the Gulf region, S. M. Biju
Seasonal Adjustment of Aggregated Series using Univariate and Multivariate Basic Structural Models, Carole Birrell, D. G. Steel, and Y. X. Lin
Australian Commonwealth public sector environmental reporting in a new public managerialism environment, G. Bowrey
Measurement Error in Auxiliary Information, R. Chambers
Improved Direct Estimators for Small Areas, R. Chambers and Hukum Chandra
Maximum Likelihood Logistic Regression With Auxiliary Information, R. Chambers and S. Wang
Estimation of small domain means for zero contaminated skewed data, Hukum Chandra and R. Chambers
Multipurpose Small Area Estimation, Hukum Chandra and R. Chambers
Small Area Estimation Under Transformation To Linearity, Hukum Chandra and R. Chambers
Design and Estimation for Split Questionnaire Surveys, J. O. Chipperfield and D. G. Steel
Sampling for Subpopulations in Two-Stage Surveys, Robert Graham Clark
Adaptive Calibration for Prediction of Finite Population Totals, Robert Graham Clark and R. L. Chambers
Design and Analysis of Clustered, Unmatched Resource Selection Studies, Robert Graham Clark and T. Strevens
Highest density difference region estimation with application to flow cytometric data, T. Duong, I. Koch, and M. P. Wand
Baby you can drive my car. Using primary target customers to develop your marketing communications, A. Epps
Generalised linear mixed model analysis via sequential Monte Carlo sampling, Y. Fan, D. S. Leslie, and M. P. Wand
Multi-factor estimation of stock index movement: a case analysis of NIFTY 50, National Stock Exchange of India, T. P. Ghosh
Exploring student engagement for Generation Y: a pilot in Environmental Economics, Ann Hodgkinson and Alisa Percy
A model of predictors of managers performance, P. Hosie and Z. Hannif
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting of Two Note-issuing Banks in Hong Kong, F. Hui and G. Bowrey
Trends, gaps and alignments in professional education in the United Arab Emirates: implications for strategic growth, P. Jayshree and G. Rodrigues
Parsimonious classification via generalised linear mixed models, G. Kauermann, J. T. Ormerod, and M. P. Wand
Professionalism and ethics: is education the bridge?, Z. Khan, G. Qaimari, and S. D. Samuel
Using marking criteria to improve learning: an evaluation of student perceptions, S. Koshy
Environmental Concern and Rational Production, Consumption and Rehabilitation, Amnon Levy
Ramsey with Environmental Awareness, Amnon Levy
Technical efficiency in Botswana's financial institutions: a DEA approach, B. Moffat and Abbas Valadkhani
Identifying productivity change in Botswana's financial institutions: an application of Malmquist productivity indices, B. Moffat, Abbas Valadkhani, and Charles Harvie
The Australian Labour Market in 2007, Martin O'Brien, Abbas Valadkhani, and K. Townsend
An Empirical Analysis of Sustainability of Trade Deficit:Evidence from Sri Lanka, N. Perera and R. Verma
Travail to No Avail? Working Poverty in Australia, D. Robson and Joan Rodgers
Changes in Poverty Rates During the Howard Era, Joan Rodgers, Peter M. Siminski, and J. Bishop
Semiparametric Regression During 2003–2007, D. Ruppert, M. P. Wand, and R. J. Carroll
Spatial M-quantile Models for Small Area Estimation, N. Salvati, M. Pratesi, N. Tzavidis, and R. Chambers
An exploration of gender stereotypes in perception and practice of leadership, A. Sikdar and Sumit Mitra
The Recipient Value and Distributional Impact of the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card in 2007, Peter Siminski
Do Government Benefits for High Income Retirees Encourage Saving?, Peter M. Siminski
The Price Elasticity of Demand for Pharmaceuticals amongst High Income Older People in Australia: A Natural Experiment, Peter M. Siminski
What Would the Average Public Sector Employee be Paid in the Private Sector?, Peter M. Siminski
The effect of OPEC production allocations on oil prices, J. Simpson
Robustness for general design mixed models using the t-distribution, J. Staudenmayer, E. E. Lake, and M. P. Wand


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ESJ Towers' Olympic Size Swimming Pool and Jacuzzi area has a Pool Bar that offers cool poolside drinks and hot snacks. At the Mano a Mano Cocktail Lounge you can get your favorite drinks. The Business Center has wireless internet access, photocopy, fax service and is open 24 hours. For kids we have a Game Room, Ping Pong Tables, Video Game Room and Playground on the premises.
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*Fitness Room & Sauna
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Scoring judges is unfair; every case is different
I have tried civil and criminal cases in courts all over New York State. I represent major corporations, insurance companies and ordinary folks with major and minor problems. I have personally appeared in the Appellate Division, Supreme Court in Rochester and Albany 12 times in the last three years. I was the district attorney of Erie County.
I have personally tried criminal cases before Judges John L. Michalski, Larry M. Himelein and John T. Ward. Each of these gentlemen is kind, even-tempered and knowledgeable with all persons in his courtroom. Each is particularly concerned with the rights of those charged with crime, as he is with the rights of the state of New York. I can't fault any of these gentlemen as being better or worse than the other judges I have appeared before over my many years. Each case is so different from the other, and the many difficult decisions that have to be made by a judge to ensure justice for all can never be scored.
Edward C. Cosgrove, Esq.
Covering contraception saves money in long run
The recent letter about abstinence was written from the heart, not from well-researched data. Pregnancy is not a disease, but teens are at a much higher risk of having serious medical complications, placenta previa, hypertension and premature labor, to mention a few.
All medical agencies that deal with women's and men's reproductive health care, especially sexually active teens, should be required to cover the cost of contraception and all medical care covering sexually transmitted diseases. Younger adolescents are more likely to have unplanned sexual intercourse and more likely to be coerced into sex.
It is estimated that teen childbearing in the United States cost taxpayers (federal, state and local) more than $10.9 billion a year. These costs to taxpayers include health care, foster care and lost wages. The teen birth rate in New York State declined significantly in the last 10 years and saved taxpayers an estimated $511 million each year. We owe thanks to all health care agencies, including Planned Parenthood, that make it their mission to assist our adolescents in making responsible reproductive health care decisions as part of their healthier lifestyle choices.
Linda Ulrich-Hagner
East Aurora
Compromise is essential in order to move forward
I believe our elected officials in Washington, D.C. -- Democrats, Independents and Republicans alike -- desperately need to take a refresher course in American history. If our country is to have any reasonable chance to acquire long-term stability, today's elected leaders must heed the crucial lesson regarding the art of compromise, which our Founding Fathers discovered during their well-documented struggle to form "a more perfect union."
What most elementary school children learn in their civics classes, many in our nation's Capitol have simply forgotten. Fortunately for our country, representatives of the 13 original colonies learned the critical importance of compromise while crafting the Declaration of Independence, as well as the Constitution. These American patriots realized that, especially after their heated debates regarding fundamental principles, comprise is required from all sides.
I trust most of us agree that the members of the Continental Congress faced far more challenging and complicated issues when compared to the recent efforts in Washington to extend the national debt ceiling. Rather than the disheartening and perhaps dysfunctional behavior of some on Capitol Hill, America's history is replete with examples of our Founding Fathers ultimately finding common ground, even among their detractors. It is our country's very good fortune that their decisions were based on what was in the best interest of our young country, rather than the wishes and ambitions of individual colonies.
Given this historic perspective, our government leaders might realize that the Founding Fathers were successful in their efforts because of, and not despite, their willingness to compromise. We should all pray that today's elected officials will conclude that their willingness to compromise will determine whether our government has the willpower to provide "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for all.
Eli Mundy
Consolidation plan will slow mail delivery
Postal workers take pride in providing prompt, dependable mail service to the residents of Western New York, which is why I am concerned about the Postal Service's planned study to shift mail-sorting operations from Buffalo to Rochester. The Postal Service "consolidation" plan will result in slower, less reliable mail service for the citizens of Western New York. Mail will be collected earlier in the day and arrive later, possibly after dark. Checks will be delayed, bills may not get paid on time and medication delivered by mail will take longer to arrive.
Sending our mail to Rochester for processing also will hurt local businesses and will drain more jobs from our area. Previous consolidations around the country have not saved the Postal Service money and the level of service has declined. Officials are trying to take the "service" out of the Postal Service.
I encourage citizens and community leaders to take a stand against the consolidation. You can start by contacting your representatives in Congress and urging them to support keeping the the processing of our mail where it belongs, here in Buffalo.
Dan West
Financial Secretary
American Postal Workers Union
Buffalo, Local 374
GEICO would be wise to invest in community
Despite the excess of entertainment at last Saturday's Music is Art Festival, it was difficult to ignore the small plane towing a GEICO banner as it circled Delaware Park. The GEICO name may have been in the skies Saturday, but it was not a listed sponsor in either the festival program or on the Music is Art website.
I would hate to think the real reason GEICO saves people money on insurance is because it skips out on financially supporting local not-for-profit organizations like Music is Art.
Music is Art is able to contribute to music programs in our local schools because of special events like the festival. Now 9 years old, the festival cannot operate without the generous donations from local businesses. My advice to GEICO's marketing department is: Save your money on cheap advertising moves. Invest in your community.
Kelsey Dewey


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Residential Life
Landmark College is a great place to call home.
Welcome to Residential Life at Landmark College — your home away from home. Campus living can be a very exciting and life-altering experience. Here you will make new friends, share experiences, and create memories to last a lifetime.
Residential Life at Landmark College is committed to providing quality living options, programs, and services that support the academic mission of LC by promoting safety, encouraging student development, and fostering the understanding and appreciation of diversity within our community. In order to carry out this mission, we believe in the following principles:
- Providing safe, secure, clean, and reasonably priced residential environments conducive to the academic and personal development of the student
- Providing services, programs, and activities that encourage students to mature intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually so as to add value to their community and society at large
- Providing residential environments that honor human diversity and embrace students as individuals — each with rights and responsibilities, each with unique goals and needs
Each residential hall/area is staffed by a professional staff made up of a Resident Dean and Resident Assistants who live in the hall with you. Staff are available right in your hall for support, emergency assistance, and to help create a positive and supportive community for everyone.
Living on campus provides numerous benefits, including:
- Being only steps away from the dining hall, classes, faculty offices, programs, events, student center, and athletic center
- High-speed wired and wireless (Wi-Fi) internet
- Cable TV
- Phone
- Kitchenettes and common rooms in some suites
- Common Lounge with large-screen TV for social gatherings
- Laundry facilities in campus residence halls available to all students
- Supportive staff (Resident Deans, student Resident Assistants, and Safety & Security)
- Surrounding communities that offer more than meets the eye (Shuttle Services can take you there.)
Click here to learn more about Landmark College's residence halls.
Questions? Contact us for more information!
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Our world and our universe are almost beyond belief. Here are five mind-blowing scientific questions and answers, which is just a teeny tiny sample of all that's out there.
What is a light year?
The name light "year" is a bit of a misnomer because it makes it sound like it's a measurement of time. A light year is simply the distance that light travels over one of our years on earth. Since light travels at about 671 million miles per hour (1,080,000,000 km per hour), a light year works out to about six trillion miles (9.5 trillion km). At the speed of light, you could travel to the moon and back again more than 1400 times in just one hour!
How big is our galaxy?
The Milky Way galaxy, of which our planet is a tiny part, is about 100,000 to 120,000 light years across. Our Sun is about 25,000 light years from the center of the galaxy, and orbits the center of the Milky Way clockwise. The Sun is moving at about 550 kilometers per second, so it will complete one orbit of the galaxy every 225-250 million years, dragging our little planet along with it.
How far have we seen into space?
The Hubble Telescope is our eyes in space, collecting snapshots of the distant universe since it was launched in 1990. In 2012, Hubble captured images of some galaxies that are 13.2 billion light years away from Earth. That means it took that long for the light of these galaxies to reach Hubble, so it's more like looking into the distant past. Some of those galaxies came into existence just after the beginning of the universe!
What are the odds that aliens exist?
A 2013 study suggested that as many as 60 billion planets in our galaxy alone could support life.
Even if 0.0001% of those actually contain life, that's still six million planets with living things.
And there are around 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets in the universe! The odds that life doesn't exist somewhere other than earth are pretty slim, just because of the amount of tries the universe has had.
If we DO find aliens, will they conquer the earth?
Because of the vastness of space and the difficulty in traveling from one place to another, we may never meet intelligent life even if it does exist. But Steven Hawking, at least, thinks that it's possible that aliens could come to earth to conquer us.
We humans could unwittingly broadcast our location into space, only to have hostile aliens find their way back to earth to kill us all. It's possible that aliens could be nomads who travel around in search of natural resources. Hawking compared aliens coming to earth with Christopher Columbus landing in America, adding that that "didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."
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Single Particle Model of a Lithium-Ion Battery
Application ID: 14527
An isothermal single particle model formulation for a lithium-ion battery is presented in this work. The single particle model is a simplification of the 1D formulation for a lithium-ion battery along with a few assumptions. The model is typically valid for low-medium current scenarios. Note that validity of the assumptions and applicability of the single particle model also depends on the parameter values and electrode/electrolyte chemistry used in the model.
The single particle model can be used for parameter estimation studies (kinetic, transport properties) by comparing with experimental data. Additionally, it can be used instead of the 1D formulation, in the 2D and 3D thermal model formulations, for computational advantages.
In this work, the single particle model formulation is compared against the 1D formulation (libattery1D from the model library) for different discharge currents.
Ce modèle a été construit avec les éléments suivants:Batteries & Fuel Cells Module
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Alumnae/i Association
The Office of Alumnae/i and Parent Relations, located on the third floor of the Student Activities Center (formerly the SMA Mess Hall) on the upper campus, serves as a liaison between the college and its alumnae/i. Our office plans and hosts many events to foster a sense of community and fellowship, including Reunion, Family Weekend, and social events in various cities. As a means of providing opportunities for alumnae/i engagement, the Alumnae/i office facilitates the Alumnae Association, which includes all former students of Mary Baldwin University. Dedicated Alumnae/i volunteer to serve the college through leadership, student recruitment, Reunion giving, event planning, and more. Interested in hosting an event to reconnect, meet new alums, and talk about Mary Baldwin University? Please contact Event Planner, Anne Holland at firstname.lastname@example.com or 540-887-7171.
Alumnae/i Association Board of Directors 2015-2016 (term is July 1 – June 30)
Executive Committee Members:
|Christy Hawkins Howell '93
|Chicago, IL
|Theresa Cash Lewis '99
|Vice-President/President Elect
|Midlothian, VA
|Kelley L. Rexroad '79
|Odessa, FL
|Lindsey Lieberman '04
|Chair, Nominating
|Dallas, TX
|Jules Moss '92
|Chair, Alumnae/i Engagement
|Mooresville, NC
|Jane Kornegay Eng '83
|Chair, Fundraising
|Glen Allen, VA
|Susan N. Palmer '67
|Exec Committee Member at Large
|Chapel Hill, NC
|Crystal Newcombe Nosal '00
|Exec Committee Member at Large
|Fairfax, VA
|Kim M. Hutto
|Alumnae/i Office Director, Ex-Officio
|Staunton, VA
|Rebeka Turner '16
|President, STARS
|Gloucester, VA
|Susan "Alexander" Tucker Barfield '80
|Raleigh, NC
|Lucia "Yogi" Almendras Carroll '02
|Kensington, MD
|Damaris Christensen '90
|Washington, DC
|Mark W. Craft '00
|Leesburg, VA
|Susan Parker Drean '83
|Richmond, VA
|Jane Kornegay Eng '83
|Glen Allen, VA
|Virginia "Ginny" Royster Francisco '64
|Staunton, VA
|Lea Ayers Gilman '72
|Richmond, VA
|Luanne Whitlow Goodloe '82
|Staunton, VA
|Sarah Malloy Greenberg '95/'99
|Little Rock, AR
|Susan "Janaan" Hashim '89
|Chicago, IL
|Jemma Levy '11
|West New York, NJ
|Julie "Jules" Moss '92
|Mooresville, NC
|Naianka "Naka" Rigaud '11
|Alexandria, VA
|Janie Huske Satterfield '70
|Richmond, VA
|Christina S. Sayer '04/'08
|Staunton, VA
|Ethel M. Smeak '53
|Honorary Alumnae/i Board Member, Ex-Officio
|Staunton, VA
|Loretta Vigil Tabb '83
|Richmond, VA
|Lynnette Yount '73
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Baseball Team Suffers 6-3 Sunday Loss
Ball State's baseball team, under the direction of head coach Rich Maloney, suffered a 6-3 Mid-American Conference loss to Central Michigan at Ball Diamond.
With the loss, the Cardinals fall to 15-17 overall and 5-7 in MAC play, while Central Michigan improved to 15-19 overall and 5-7 in league action.
Ball State jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning and maintained a 3-2 advantage through eight innings. But, the Chippewas rallied for four runs in the top of the ninth to claim the 6-3 victory and won two of the three games in the weekend series.
T.J. Weir started the game on the mound for the Cardinals and pitched 5.1 innings, allowing only two earned runs. He struck out eight of the 24 batters he faced and left the game when the contest was tied at 2-2. Ball State used five additional pitchers in the game and Miles Moeller was the pitcher of record after allowing two runs in two thirds of an inning.
Blake Beemer was hit by a pitch in his first inning at-bat and advanced to third on a single by Cody Campbell. Billy Wellman's single scored Beemer to give Ball State a 1-0 early lead. Campbell advanced to second on Wellman's hit, moved to third when Weir walked and scored on a wild pitch to put the Cardinals up 2-0.
With the game tied at 2-2 in the bottom of the seventh, Winkle opened the inning with a single to center field. Beemer walked and that was followed by a Sean Godfrey double to right, scoring Winkle and putting the Cardinals ahead 3-2.
But the Chippewas mounted the ninth inning rally with four runs on four hits and left Muncie, Ind., with the victory.
Ball State will host Indiana Tech Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Ball Diamond before hosting Indiana Wednesday at 3 p.m. in a pair of non-conference games. The Cardinals will travel to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, for a three-game series Friday through Sunday. Admission to all Ball State regular-season home games is free of charge.


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Monarchs, Griffins clinch playoff berths
Two more postseason tickets were punched on Friday night as the Manchester Monarchs and Grand Rapids Griffins clinched berths in the 2014 Calder Cup Playoffs.
Manchester secured a spot in the postseason for the fifth year in a row and the 12th time in 13 seasons overall with a 5-1 win over the Worcester Sharks on Friday.
The Monarchs (43-17-2-6, 94 points) own the best record in the AHL and are closing in on their first division title since 2007. Brian O'Neill scored twice and Jean-Francois Berube made 27 saves in Friday's victory.
The Griffins (41-20-2-4, 88 points), the defending Calder Cup champions, are heading to the playoffs for the eighth time in 13 years as members of the AHL.
Despite a 5-4 loss in Rockford on Friday, Grand Rapids clinched a playoff spot thanks to Rochester's loss to Toronto and Utica's overtime defeat to Abbotsford earlier in the evening.
- Griffins rout Heat in Game 2
- Stars head home with 2-0 lead
- Marlies roll again, take 2-0 series lead
- Amerks snap playoff skid, win Game 2
- Da Costa nets OT winner for Senators
- Special teams help Devils pull even
- Norfolk's offense awakens, ties series
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Luxury retailer Michael Kors (NYSE: KORS) has been taking market share away from rivals like Coach (NYSE: COH) and Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL). Since its initial public offering in late 2011, the stock has displayed wonderfully trending price action for investors and traders alike.
KORS made a big entrance with its IPO. It was priced at $20 a share, above its estimated range of $17 to $19, and soared 21% that day to close at $24.20. The company sold 47.2 million shares, raising $944 million.
The offering gave the company a market value of roughly $1.2 billion, which has expanded to $16.7 billion. At its current size, Michael Kors is larger than Ralph Lauren, a Fortune 500 company. And Michael Kors is quickly expanding both domestically and internationally in its efforts to gain more brand awareness.
On Nov. 5, Michael Kors reported strong quarterly earnings and gave a rosy outlook, which led to another leg higher in its stock price.
For its fiscal second quarter, the company reported that total revenue increased 38.9%, to $740 million, from the same period last year. At the end of the quarter, Michael Kors operated 352 retail stores, not including the company's partnerships with other retailers like Macy's (NYSE: M).
Net income came in at $146 million, or $0.71 per diluted share, which represented a stunning 50% year-over-year gain. Gross margins expanded to 61%, with operating margins at 30%.
In addition to the company's impressive fundamentals, the stock has great respect for technically important price levels, which makes it wonderful to trade from the long side.
Since its IPO, KORS has trended higher in an impressive way (not surprisingly considering the company's growth rate), but also routinely allowed for healthy consolidation periods. From a technical perspective, KORS has traded higher in a simple uptrending channel. Each dip was bought, and traders sold when the stock ran too far or at least did not chase it too high.
The multi-year chart below shows this trading channel well (I've included Bollinger bands):
In recent months, the stock has spent most of the time tracing along the upper Bollinger band, which is constructive as long as a chart's slope is not too steep. The continued consolidation periods followed by rallies keep the stock in a positive pattern.
On the daily chart below, KORS continues to hold its 50-day simple moving average (upper blue line) as great first support -- and thus a risk/reward line to monitor.
Since mid-November, the stock has again settled into a bullish sideways consolidation pattern, and in recent days has again pushed toward the upper end of it. The stock looks to be coiling up for its next break higher.
Action to Take -->
-- Buy KORS on a close at or above $83
-- Set stop-loss order at $80.40
-- Set initial price target at $88 for a potential 6% gain in three to six weeks
This article originally appeared at ProfitableTrading.com:
Luxury Retailer's Breakout Could Make Traders Fast Money


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