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After almost exactly two months learning to love and live the dream in NoLa, my son finally got his first real taste of Carnival this weekend. His mother and I brought him down to Fat Harry's on Saturday (where nola.com is broadcasting all the Uptown parades on paradecam), just in time for the Krewe of Sparta to roll through. If the crowds and the noise were a little much for him, he did seem to absolutely love the parade itself. Compared to his first, indifferent take on bands in the street at the Krewe of Jingle two months ago, Baby T really seemed to respond to the scene on St. Charles.
Now there's every likelihood that's down to him being just a little bit older and a little bit more interested in what's going on around him, but I like to think it's just as much a result of spending two months living in New Orleans and getting into the spirit of the city. By the time Barkus rolled around the next day, Baby T was lounging in the Quarter and laughing his head off at "The Krewe of Honey Do Do" and the four-legged court in full regalia.
We got lucky with that one. The main barrier to the Heir really getting into the parades (and letting his mom and I do the same) is the limit of his tolerance for all the overstimulation and the bustle, but he must have learned to tune it out or just blow it off at Sparta, because on day two he was content to sack out in his stroller and sleep while mom and I pushed him through the crowds. He woke up just in time to see the dogs on parade come marching past the St. Louis Cathedral where we made camp. And man was he surprised!
To begin with, the crowd around us was packed with dogs--- dogs in costume and dogs without, pugs and labs and shepherds and mutts---- and our son loved looking and laughing at every one of them. And that's before the court in costume started to roll. We're not quite up to clapping yet, but Baby T can wiggle and laugh with the best of them, and he did for almost twenty minutes solid from the vantage point of mom's shoulders. The bands that marched were a big hit too, which is significant progress for a baby that --- once upon a time --- would not even tolerate the noise of trumpets on TV.
At the risk of pointing up how green I am still, I was and remain absolutely stunned by how much fun you can have in this city (almost) for free. Sure we had to pay a little for parking and a little more for the beers, but that was a pittance on the amount of joy our son got from the parade and the simple comfort of spending the afternoon together in the sunshine, laughing and loving our new home. And Carnival just started!
Take-away lessons for next year: start planning the dog's costume early, coordinated with the baby's if possible. We didn't take the pug out this year because the odds of us successfully wrangling a baby and a lunatic ball of blubber in that crowd were not great. Hopefully, given another year to get our legs under us, we can bring the whole circus out for next year. Also: to the people walking around with their own cases of canned beer--- brilliant idea. I'm still not used to the freedom of having booze on the street, or completely tuned in to the possibilities.
And that's what these first few months, and this first Carnival season, have been all about for us--- waking up to the possibilities of life that are unique to New Orleans. We loved this town as honeymooners, and then as yearly pilgrims for years, so much so that after asking ourselves "Why don't we just move here?" rhetorically for so long, we called our own bluff and moved in. Two months of fumbling through all the usual hassles of settling in a new town (Cox Cable, I'm looking at you!), and we're only now finding the space and the time to explore the love that drew us here to begin with.
Now our son is laughing his way through Barkus at seven months old, and maybe ten or twenty years from now, he'll be as stepped and settled in the rhythms of his city as any native son. We still haven't gotten around to getting this bambino baptized in the Church (soon, Mom--- I swear!), but this weekend he got baptized in being a New Orleans baby. And judging by his laughter and his smile, I think it agrees with him.


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ADA – Wausau, Wis.,native Dani Fischer has been out of the country only once, when she visited Canada.
Her first trip out of North America could be to Sweden.
Fischer, 25, who is a full-time pharmacist in Wausau, won the USA Triathlon Long Course National Championship Sunday morning at the Grand Rapids Triathlon, thereby qualifying for next year's World Championships in Sweden. She completed the 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike and 13.1-mile run in 4 hours, 23 minutes and 37 seconds.
"Cloud nine, I am on cloud nine," Fischer said moments after beating runner-up Kirsten Sass by more than four minutes. "This has always been the goal, but until it actually happens you never know what it feels like. This is what I had been dreaming about all winter, and it was a long, difficult winter."
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One of the snowiest winters in history, last winter was particularly challenging for world-class triathletes attempting to train in the upper Midwest.
"We put in a lot of miles on the treadmill," Fischer said Sunday. "It too everything you had inside you to not go insane."
Fischer, who wants to turn pro, won the national championship Sunday in her first triathlon at the half Ironman distance. "Swimming is my weak point, so the longer the run the better," she said. "This was my first half Ironman so I ignored my watch today. I took the 'ignorance is bliss' approach."
The 2014 women's USAT national champion, as well as most of the approximately 1,800 competitors in the Long Course, Olympic and Sprint events, found Sunday's overcast conditions to be ideal. "The cloud cover was the best part," Fischer said. "Nothing weather-wise throws me off though, because Wausau is a great place to train. It's very hilly and it gets humid and it rains a lot at times too."
Daniel Stubleski of Washington, Mich. also has never been to Sweden, but he could be headed there for the 2015 World Championships as he won USAT men's national championship Sunday with a time of 3:56:58, edging runner-up and 2013 national champion Dave Slavinski of New Jersey by almost seven minutes.
"I didn't have the greatest swim and the bike didn't feel that great either," said Stubleski, who crossed the finish line with his son, Brett. "I felt a lot better on the run today than on the bike, and that's not usually the case."
Before focusing on next year's World Championships, Stubleski plans to head to Hawaii this fall for the world's most famous triathlon, the Ironman. "I'm definitely going to Kona and it's taking a lot to get there," Stubleski said. "It'd be great to go to Sweden next year too; I sure hope to get there."
Triathletes also competed at Olympic (1500-meter swim, 40-kilometer bike, 10K run) and sprint (600-meter swim, 20K bike, 5K run) distances in and around Ada Sunday morning. A year after a flat tire ruined her chances at the Grand Rapids Triathlon, Dominican Republic Olympic hopeful Raquel Tavares rebounded to win the women's championship at the Olympic distance Sunday morning. She was clocked at 2:14:16, just 2:15 ahead of Samantha Kennedy who spent "about two minutes" putting the chain back on her bike.
"Swimming is probably the best for me, but I still need to swim more," said Tavares, who is pursuing an MBA at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. "I got very tired of training inside over the winter, but I love what I'm doing."
A familiar face in West Michigan triathlon and cycling circles, Jimi Minnema of Jenison, won the men's title Sunday at the Olympic distance. A former member of the Bissell Cycling Team, Minnema posted a winning time of 2:00:04. "It is a privilege for me to be out here," he said. "We were head-to-head off the bike so I went out quick at the beginning of the run and crossed my fingers that I could hold on."
Another familiar face, Abby Geurink, who turned 30 in March, won the women's spring race Sunday morning, for the third year in a row. Her time was 1:01:47. "I have been I," injury free and that's an amazing feeling," she said. "It was a mentally challenging winter, but I am feeling strong."
Former West Ottawa and GVSU runner Aaron Denner, 25, won the men's sprint championship in 1:01:58.

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WASHINGTON TWP. — Halloween may be over, but those who want to keep the scares coming can head to Washington Lake Park Saturday night. The Support Our Soldiers Haunted Trail, rescheduled from last weekend due to the surprise snowfall, will run from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Student volunteers from Washington Township middle schools' Future Act Clubs, along with the high school's Changing Our World project, will put on spooky skits throughout the trail. The $5 admission fee will go toward purchasing Wii gaming systems and iPod touches for veterans at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center to help with their rehabilitation. Approved for all ages, the event will also feature hot chocolate and soft pretzels for sale. For more information and to read up on the event, check out the Washington Township Times article from Oct. 21.
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|Fires whose fuel is paper, wood, cloth or other ordinary combustibles (not liquid, electric, or metallic) would be classified as an 'A' fire. Most fires we encounter are class 'A' fires. Since they are the most common, the majority of fire extinguishers can extinguish a class 'A' fire. Class 'A' fires can either be smothered or drowned to extinguish them. Look for an extinguisher with the symbol to the left if you need to extinguish a class 'A' fire.
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What if your fire is gasoline (class B) soaked rags (Class A) or what if you have a live electric wire (class C) igniting magnesium (class D). Many scenarios exist for multi-class fires to exist. Which fire extinguisher should you use? Is it necessary to maintain five different extinguishers? You can, but it is not necessary. The majority of extinguishers can take care of multiple classes of fires. Most common extinguishers can handle A, B, and C class fires but remember to always check the label first before use. Class 'D' and Class 'K' are for less common applications and are not likely to be combined with other fire extinguisher classes.
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|Water - Works on class A fires.
|Foam - Works on class A and B fires.
|Halogenated* - Works on class A, B, and C fires.
|Dry Powder - Works on class D fires.
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Pump action 22s with box magazines?
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> Pump action 22s with box magazines?
October 18, 2008, 10:52 PM
Have there been any pump action 22s made that use a box magazine instead of a tubular magazine?
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October 19, 2008, 07:25 PM
Not that I know of. Tubular mags are okay. I love my Rem 572.
October 19, 2008, 07:31 PM
The only pump action rimfires i know are the remington 572 and the taurus pumps. i hear they are quite good though
October 19, 2008, 08:59 PM
Only one off the top of my head was pre-WWII from Savage, IIRC. Too lazy to go get any of my reference books at the moment. :o
October 20, 2008, 03:56 PM
Oh yeah, I remember reading about that in the back of a gun magazine (I looked through the magazines found the article again) its the Savage 1903
too bad its over a hundred years old, makes it a bit hard to find magazines for it? :rolleyes:
Heres another question, have there been any 22s made that have a loading gate (instead of having to load from the front) like full sized pump and lever guns?
October 20, 2008, 04:04 PM
Henry makes a pump .22 also, in addition to Remington and Taurus.
All are tube fed, though.
I prefer tubes, usually. Most box mag .22's are thumbbusters after a while. The one exception I've found has been the AR-15 in .22LR. Those mags have light springs. I'd just as soon skip most .22 magazines due to their heavy spring tension and generally high fumble factor.
October 20, 2008, 07:00 PM
Too lazy to go get any of my reference books at the moment.
Well, I wasn't so lazy and wasted a half hour of my time researching my own reference books learning only that the aforementioned Savage apparently is/was the only .22 rimfire made using a box-type magazine. If there are/were any others, I'd also be interested (though I don't know why :confused:) learning about them.
Great trivia question, though!
October 20, 2008, 08:16 PM
irt SwampWolf, Thanks for looking that up.
It's too bad the savage is the only one of it's kind.
October 20, 2008, 08:28 PM
The Henry pump .22 is also a tubular mag.
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In the great hubbub and confusion attending studies on cancer of the lung and its possible relationship to prolonged and excessive cigarette smoking and inhalation we have elegantly illustrated the reciprocal relationship between fact and passion, against the background of scandalous indifference of the multitudes making a livelihood from the tobacco business. Unfortunately Ochsner's book does little to clear the smoky fumes of opinion and dialectic enthusiastically adding to an impressive and growing body of data which fall in the category of probability. Instead of a dispassionate and factual approach to a problem of almost excessive complexity, there is profound faith in the already accepted conclusion. There is failure to look critically at the difference between testimony and evidence; failure to distinguish between evidence and proof; failure to reckon on the role of multiple causes in cancer of the lung, and, finally, assuming that there were no systematic but overlooked
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The Record: Hold the carbs
IF YOU want to lose weight, you should stop eating fatty foods, right? Maybe not.
A study published this week says people may lose more weight by giving up carbohydrates, not foods high in fat content.
In a nation where about a third of the population is considered obese and where various diet regimens abound, losing weight is a big deal. Studies on good eating habits are not new. But this recent one by a professor at Tulane University makes legitimate points about how best to shed some extra pounds.
Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the yearlong study involved 148 overweight individuals between ages 22 and 75, none of whom had any cardiovascular problems or other weight-related diseases such as diabetes. Half of the group followed a low-fat diet, and the other half were put on a diet low in carbohydrates.
The result was that those on the low-carb diet lost on average nearly 8 more pounds than the group on the low-fat diet.
One expert at the Institute of Human Nutrition for Columbia University suggested that America has made a "big mistake" in treating fat as villainous. She noted that some foods may be low in fat but also low in nutrients and high in sugar. One answer is not simply to avoid such fatty foods as chocolate cake and red meat, but to limit the intake of all sugary and processed foods in favor of a plant-based diet.
Benita Burke, a cardiologist and medical director of Valley Medical Group's Heart Care for Women, reinforced that point, telling The Record, "It all comes back to these processed foods and these sugars. … Everything we eat that's 'white' should be out."
That message is not new. Nutritionists long have talked about the virtues of making ample portions of vegetables and fruit a part of our daily diet.
Unfortunately, that lesson is not getting through to everyone. It's not just poor eating habits, but a lack of exercise as well. Obesity among children ages 6 to 11 has risen from 7 percent in 1980 to almost 18 percent in 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During that same period, obesity among adolescents (those ages 12 to 19) rose from 5 percent to almost 21 percent.
That's an ominous trend. If young people are already overweight, there's a greater chance they will remain obese into adulthood. One positive development is the new set of federal guidelines for healthy school lunches championed by first lady Michelle Obama.
But that's not the total answer; children are in school for only a part of the day. What is needed is a full commitment by our society to healthy eating and regular exercise.


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This is snow art, created by Simon Beck.
Simon Beck is an artist living in Europe. He spends his time creating snow art by walking through fresh snow to create images.
Beck says on his Facebook page that the art started one night after skiing in 2004.
He was creating orienteering maps and used his compass to help create a design on a snow-covered lake near his home.
He says once fresh snow fall covered the previous design; he created a new one on top of it.
He has quit orienteering and decided to begin taking snow art seriously. He uses it as a primary form of exercise during winter months.
Beck generally makes his art on frozen bodies of water.
He says he gets told frequently that it is unsafe to walk on the ice, but has never been successful in damaging the ice when he is testing its safety for a piece of art.
Most the activity takes place near Les Arcs, where Beck owns an apartment and spends most of the winter.
Beck says on average the art takes 10 hours to create properly.
If his feet hurt or get cold, some of the art remains unfinished.
Designs are chosen from the world of geometry, according to Beck. He says he sets the photos using his orienteering equipment.
The ideal conditions include a sunny day for taking photos when the project is complete. He also needs an aircraft for the photography.
Beck says low wind is a must when creating the art. He says light, powdery snow blowing can wreck a design.
There must be a level site to create the art, or a uniform slope.
Ideal conditions include 9 inches of snow at the site, according to Beck.
Powder snow is best, according to Beck. He says heavy, warmer stuff is useable, but a freeze-thaw causes a crust and can be disastrous for the art.
Beck is from Southern England. He started the designs shortly after buying his apartment in Les Arcs.
Many of his designs are done in Savoie, France, because he lives there in winter.
His process is as follows: "Set out the design using orienteering equipment. Add the remaining lines by eye. Fill in the shaded areas."
Beck says the designs have gotten more complex as he has gotten better at the art.
Beck's designs only last until the next heavy snowfall.
Beck's perfect weather conditions include heavy snowfall once a week with six days of cold weather in between. He says that would allow two designs per week and then the ability to re-use the sites the next week.
Beck says in 2011, he completed half a design just after midnight and it had completely disappeared by the time he got up the next morning.
Beck says it is annoying when lakes become unsafe to walk on because of warm winters. He says he has to use off-lake locations, which get tracked by skiers, walkers and animals.
Beck uses Arctic Norway once the season ends in France to continue his projects.
Beck is 54 years old and from Southern England.
He was educated at Oxford University and worked as an orienteering mapmaker until recently.
He says creating these art pieces seemed like a natural thing to do.
Beck draws the art on paper using a protractor and ruler before creating it in the snow.
He says the previous snow art usually serves as a template because it is still visible with the fresh snowfall.
He says the art is easy to do, but easy to get wrong, too.
He says the hardest part of creating the art is avoiding a stupid mistake, like a wrong aiming point.
Beck describes changing from the damp clothes into warmer clothes as the most painful part of creating the art. He says it gets very cold in the process.
Beck says at least 25 percent of his photos have to be shot a second time because it's difficult to get a decent photo of the art from above.
He says the last several hours of a project are at night, using a head torch.
Beck says he is more interested in what people say about his art on Facebook. He makes it readily available for download. To see his Facebook page, click here.
He says most of the skiers in the area think he is a bit mad and say it's a waste of good skiing time.
He agrees with the comments about the time waste, which is why he prefers to work at night.
He hopes to spread the message that the mountains and snow are beautiful and worth preserving.
Beck generally finishes projects at night, so his focus is on getting home safely, as he is frequently alone on the mountain.
The necessary equipment to create snow art: snowshoes, an orienteering compass and string or measuring tape is required for some designs.
Beck recommends people interested in starting to create snow art use a simple design, like creating a polygon and then creating a star from the sides.
He says flat areas with about 9 inches of snow are best for creating designs. In a city, it may be best to use a flat area near a tall building.
He says it's important to either get into a building or vehicle, or take spare clothes because your clothes are likely to get damp during the creation.
Beck says he has to maintain focus during the early stages of creating the art, but later on in the process, he listens to classical music.
Beck says he has been offered several thousand British pounds for three of his photos.
Beck says he would most like a remote control aircraft for aerial photography. He says it would have to lift a heavy camera and hold it still for a good photo.
Beck is commissioned for designs occasionally, which requires a lot of studying as to the best way to create the art form.
He says he tries to continue his art in one day, even if he is working into the night to complete it.
He says many people call the art "snow crop circles" which he dislikes. He just calls it snow art.
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Football coaches are faced with numerous tough decisions throughout the course of a season.
Who should play where? What scheme fits the personnel? Who matches up best with Player X?
Their list of questions is endless.
But perhaps the most important and influential decision an NFL head coach can make is at football's most important position. Many coaches have the luxury of having an All-World talent at quarterback, so they don't face a difficult decision between two players.
Just ask Mike McCarthy or Bill Belichick.
However, most coaches aren't so lucky to have Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady under center. Some teams have to choose between a middle-of-the-road veteran or an up-and-coming rookie.
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Penelope Bryan taught entry and upper level courses in civil procedure and family law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Bryan's master's degree in sociology facilitated integration of a sociological perspective into her courses and scholarship, a strong tradition at the University of Denver. In 2005, she published a book with the American Psychological Association that uses sociological research and theory to justify procedural reforms that promised to mitigate the dysfunctional results produced by the current family law system. Penny has four children, two of whom have graduated from the University of Denver law school.


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R&D and financial systems: the determinants of R&D expenditures in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry
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This study investigates the determinants of R&D expenditures in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry from the 1960s to the mid 1990s. Various proxies for the rate of return of R&D (e.g. expected profit, sales and R&D productivity) as well as the availability of internal funding (proxied by past cash flows) have been used as explanatory variables in time series regressions. Past cash flow comes out as significant in regressions both at industry level and at firm level (made for each of the two largest companies). Another factor that is significant in most cases is expected sales. However, productivity of the R&D process does not seem to influence R&D expenditures. A comparison of these conclusions with studies of the pharmaceutical industries in countries with different financial systems; the US (with a market based financial system) and Japan (with a more bank based financial system) shows that Sweden (also leaning towards a bank based financial system) has the insensitivity to R&D productivity in common with Japan. This may be interpreted as these industries' are taking a 'longer term view' on their research than the US'. The sensitivity to cash flow, however, is possibly more pronounced in Sweden than in Japan and suggests an important role of internal financing of R&D.


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Gymnast Nastia Liukin of the USA poses in front of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament during a tour of London on September 13, 2011 in London, England.
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The NHL came down hard on Phoenix Coyotes left wing Raffi Torres, suspending him 25 games Saturday for his brutal hit on Chicago's Marian Hossa during Game 3 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series.
Torres' punishment was announced one day after he had an in-person hearing with NHL disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan.
In citing the reason for the length of the suspension, Shanahan noted that Torres was a multiple repeat offender who has been previously fined or suspended five different times for similar hits.
On the play in question, Torres launched himself off his skates and plowed his shoulder into the head of Hossa, who had just passed the puck.
Hossa, Chicago's leading scorer during the regular season, lay motionless on the ice before he was immobilized and transported to an area hospital. He was released that night.
The Blackhawks have not specified the severity of the injury to Hossa, who missed Game 4 and did not accompany the team to Phoenix for Saturday night's Game 5. The Coyotes lead the best-of-seven series 3-1.
Shanahan said Torres' hit, which he classified as "dangerous and violent," violated three league rules. The suspension will carry over for the remainder of the playoffs and into next season and will prevent Torres from playing in any preseason games until he sits out 25 games.
"The club accepts the NHL's decision and will focus on our game tonight," Coyotes general manager Don Maloney said.
The 30-year-old Torres, who was suspended twice in the past 13 months, had 15 goals and 11 assists this season.


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"From the minute you walk into the promenade – because we're going to be playing amphitheaters during the summertime – it's going to feel like a whole other world," Kevin Jonas, 22, reveals to PEOPLE. "It's going to feel like you're going to camp. There's going to be things to do from the minute you walk in to the end of the night."
That's because the shows will include lots of music from Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, which premieres Sept. 3 on the Disney Channel. Demi Lovato, who appears in the film, is joining the brothers on tour, and other Camp Rock stars will perform, too.
Kevin assures fans that the brothers will be doing their own songs as well as the Camp Rock music. "What we're doing is having our friends come out for songs that they are part of, and even Camp Rock songs," he says. "So, we'll do our set, we'll do everyone's favorite songs, all the hits, and then bring out Demi."
The tour is set to begin July 27 in Dallas and wrap Oct. 17 in Raleigh, N.C., after more than 45 North American shows. Stops are also expected in Latin American and Europe. Tickets go on sale May 15.
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In Reply: Dr Chang and colleagues describe several concerns, including that residual confounding may account for the observed differences in mortality in the propensity-matched sample, that patients whose corticosteroid regimen was changed from low-dose oral to high-dose intravenous should have been counted as treatment failures, and that the intention-to-treat analytic strategy was inappropriate. We acknowledge that the lack of information about prehospital treatment and residual confounding by indication, in which sicker patients (regardless of prior treatment with steroids in the ambulatory setting) would be more likely to be treated with high doses of steroids, is a limitation to our study. This concern led us to pursue an adaptation of the instrumental variable approach, which bypasses confounding by indication at the patient level. In this analysis, the effect estimate for a 10% increase in the proportion of patients receiving low-dose oral therapy in place of high-dose intravenous therapy was 1.00 (95% confidence interval, 0.97-1.03), suggesting little if any effect of steroid dosing on the primary outcome.
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BY RYAN LOREN | Special to the Kalamazoo Gazette
KALAMAZOO — Everybody got in on the action as the Western Michigan University women's volleyball team used a balanced attack to beat Eastern Michigan 21-25, 25-18, 25-15, 25-16 in both teams' Mid-American Conference opener Friday night at University Arena.
Junior middle blocker Jessica Brown led the Broncos with 13 kills, while three other players — Ali Grossen, Ashley Turnage, and Carlee Berland — each added 10 kills.
"We distributed the ball really evenly. We look at total attempts," WMU coachColleen Munson said. "It just goes to show we're making the adjustment. When we keep the ball alive, our defense becomes our offense."
EMU also struggled with the Western's blocking game. Brown led the Broncos with seven block assists. Freshman setter Terin Norris had five block assists and freshman outside hitter Carlee Berland contributed a block solo and two block assists.
"We listened to what our coaches said for block assignments and we worked really hard on blocking all week and all preseason, so it's nice to see that starting to pay off," Brown said.
Western Michigan stayed neck-and-neck with the Eagles through much of the first set before falling behind late and struggling to keep up with Eastern's pace.
"I don't think either team came out strong. I thought we were kind of slow and tight and I thought they were kind of slow and tight and we just made a few less hitting errors than they did," Eastern Michigan coach Kim Berrington said.
After putting their nerves aside, the Broncos found new life in the second set, pulling momentum from a series of blocked shots to take a 12-9 lead. They never looked back from there, getting big kills from Berland and Turnage to tie the match at 1-1.
"When we made the decision to make it a point to play our game, things changed. We just have to get into a rhythm where we're controlling our side of the net and controlling our tempo and not reacting to what someone is doing," Munson said.
The third set was more of the same as EMU attempted to play catch-up. After Berland earned a block solo to give Western a 15-9 lead, Berrington called a time out to bring her team back together. The rest proved fruitless however as WMU stretched their lead to 21-12 before ending the third set with a convincing 25-15 score and 2-1 lead.
"We have to play a fast game to play our game," Norris said. "We were on our game and we played really good defense."
Norris finished with 45 assists, 17 digs and five block assists, and showed her offensive skills with a couple crafty kills to give her team the victory in the fourth set.
Munson was impressed.
"She did a really nice job at reading the defense," she said.
Sophomore libero Lena Oliver had 33 digs, putting her 18 short of 1,000 at WMU.


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Here's news: I have lately stumbled upon a new, least favorite thing on TV.
It's a reality show about child abuse, called "Dance Moms."
The show features an overbearing dance teacher who is downright cruel, if you want my take, denigrating and in denial about her own bad choices - and the young girls she instructs.
Well, and their mothers.
Dancer wannabes would be my guess, also in denial, who badger and cajole their daughters to work through the sprains, tears, bone issues - and resistance to "practice, practice, practice!"
I've never seen anything like it. This show has surpassed my former least favorite practice of dressing up girls whose permanent teeth haven't yet poked through as little bitty Las Vegas showgirls and parading them in pageants.
It's a good thing I'm not a grandmother of such, or there'd be a lot of rolling around on the carpet with fisticuffs and some fierce language thrown at a daughter-in-law who could even consider putting a youngster with my blood flowing through her veins through anything like this.
Mercifully, no chance of this. Our daughter-in-law is smart and funny and wouldn't consider putting a sweater on a dog, any more than false eyelashes and blue eye shadow on a 6-year-old.
Come on. A girl - every child - should have a bona fide childhood. Somersaults, mud pies, finger-painting and coloring books, playing with dolls, dressing up in Mommy's old clothes, reading books about ponies and princesses.
A menu of activities designed to feed an imagination.
I'm not suggesting that a child who comes into the world with an absolute gift for music or dance or math or science shouldn't be nudged in that direction. But I'm pretty sure passion on his or her part must be the priority - not a parent's.
Learning sexy dance routines and the ins and outs of teasing hair and applying makeup at the age of 6? What parallel universe are we living in, here?
On the other side of the fence? I look forward to your emails - but I don't much care for the condition of your grass.
OK, rant over.
I have a reunion on my mind.
Yesterday, a classmate I went all the way from grade school at Aina Haina Elementary to graduation from Kalani High in Honolulu called to say our 50th high school reunion was coming up next year.
Fifty years since the red cap and gown (with white trim, as required somewhere, in the tassel)?
How can I be a bona fide senior citizen, when just this morning I had a hissy fit worthy of a 13-year-old? Something I'm trying to wean myself from, I'm ashamed to share, because I'm exercising the theory - well, sniffing around it - that all things happen for a reason.
As in angels disguised as people you don't love at the moment.
Most recent example: I'm doing my best to regard the 89-year-old woman who pulled out from a shopping mall's lot into 45-mph traffic, and the lane I was traveling in, going 15 mph - as a blessing in disguise.
That was some white-knuckle action and involved some fierce swallowing of invectives, which kind of hurt on the way down. You have no idea the restraint; it gave me heartburn, mostly from the words worthy of a longshoreman that begged to spew.
"What the . . . !"
"Self," I said, instead, to myself, "possibly this in an angel in disguise."
OK, this is part of my new theory: The driver in front of me slowed me down enough to save me from something horrific further down the road. The running of a red light by one who would've taken me out; a traffic jam that would've stalled me for hours; the . . .
You get the picture.
I haven't a clue or confirmation that this mindset is truth, but I'm factoring in the money saved on Maalox and anti-anxiety prescriptions, and it works for me.
Angels in disguise.
* Lynne Horner is a former Maui News features editor and writer who now lives in Springfield, Ore. Her "Second Thoughts" column appears every Tuesday. Send email to her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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NYC Based Enterprise Startup Neverware Converts Old PC's Into Blazing Machines
New York City based startup, Neverware, is creating something that can take old legacy PC's in the enterprise, and turn them into fast processing machines running Windows 7.
Taking the traditional PC out of the equation was an emerging thing in enterprise IT back when I was leaving the area (ecstatically) a few years back. You'd have to get a box, that would connect to the cloud, which would provide you with a desktop, and an entire computer system, running on a server somewhere else.
Neverware eliminates the process of replacing each PC with a terminal that connects to the cloud, and actually converts the legacy PC to a dummy terminal, eliminating the need for a costly spend on 300 new terminals, in a 300 user environment.
That means, that rather than doing the typical upgrade process of getting all new computers every 3-6 years, you could keep the machines you have, as long as they're powerful enough to run Windows XP, and still operate at fast speeds with Windows 7 operating systems.
The company's website explains thoroughly how the process works, and has a succinct but detailed FAQ section.
The management team is made up of 2 people:
Jonathan Lefter, Founder and CEO. From the Neverware site: Jonathan founded Neverware after graduating from college and spending a year developing its revolutionary product: the Juicebox. A year later, Jonathan had built Neverware from a dream of a more efficient IT infrastructure into a funded company backed by a world-class engineering team. Jonathan has been covered by a wide-range of publications, including Business Insider naming him one of "20 Hot Young Stars in NY Tech" and Inc Magazine. Jonathan graduated from the Wharton School with a Bachelors of Economics.
Lukman Ramsey, CTO From the Neverware site: Lukman is a 20-year IT veteran who has held a wide variety of senior engineering and technical management positions. Prior to Neverware he was co-founder and CTO of Myne, a social gaming website, and Talk2Us, an automated professional assistant service controlled via speech recognition. Prior to Talk2Us he was Technical Manager of Speech Engineering at Viecore Inc, a professional services firm in the Speech Recognition / Call Center IVR space where he invented and architected the Viecore Framework, a platform used to build six out of ten of the largest VoiceXML speech recognition applications in deployment. After acquisition of Viecore by Nuance, the Framework displaced the existing technology at Nuance and became the platform used to build 80% of new IVR systems in the world. Lukman has also held senior engineering positions at General Magic, Indicast, and Radius. He has a BS in Cognitive Science from MIT, and a MS/CPhil in Computer Science from UC San Diego.
Neverware took capital from a couple of different sources, to include Mark Suster, 2X entrepreneur turned Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
You can find Neverware on Twitter at @neverware, on the company's website at www.neverware.com
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The Young Descendants
Despite having wide discretionary powers, historical judgment suggests that Cornwallis' child has not turned out to be a Frankenstein.
Of late, for all the concern about the health of governance in India, only little and intermittent attention has been given to decoding a vital clue for the shape of things to come. A look at young pivots of governance who will administer the country for the next thirty to forty years or more (with post retirement assignments), must be significant to any such understanding.
So, how are your young Babus- (gender bias? female equivalent = Babunis?) and who are they? Where do they come from? What worldview do they have and are they equipped to address the governance agenda of our times? Do 'development' and 'welfare' fit in the world of young Babudom? Experts on Indian administration need not feel threatened – I'm offering no 'study'. I intend only to ramble through some observations.
Importance. Cannot be overstated
When you are talking about governance in India you cant leave the Indian bureaucrat out of any frame in the picture? He or she is all pervasive (the omnipresent), appears to be the know all (omniscient), and not much moves without his wish (omnipotent). Seems Godlike? Well, he is part of a service which during British rule was called the heaven born service. He is, to use an improvised cliché from civil servant cum novelist Upmanyu Chatterji's Mammaries Of the Welfare State, "the gird of the steel frame" of the country. He is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer.
He can be a hero for the people, and suddenly the punching bag for all public ills. But for all practical purposes of functioning, he can pompously claim, "I am the State". Even more eloquent is what I recently found scribbled on the walls of a hostel room in Delhi University. A student preparing for the IAS recruitment examination had expanded IAS to – I Am Supreme. Why? Sample this:
In 2001, the historic city of Allahabad, carrying the mythological halo of being the sangam of three holy rivers, was witness to a different kind of sangam. A massive confluence of human beings, the occasion: Mahakumbh (January 9 to February 21, 2001). The population of the city swelled to about seven crores during the period of kumbh. The scale was unprecedented. International media was simply stunned and BBC called it the "greatest show on earth".
The ultimate responsibility for managing the whole show was on the young shoulders of a twenty something Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. As the administrator of the district, he was also supervising numerous development and welfare programmes of the central and state governments. Also the general administration of the district, which includes agriculture, water, electricity, health, roads, transport, land revenues, law and order etc. That is what being a young IAS officer means in India.
It has no parallel in bureaucracies around the world; the closest thing is the position of Prefect in France. The wide range of the powers, functions and responsibilities of the IAS officer made the international media marvel at the majesty of the office of the District Magistrate (DM) in India. Remember this is just the beginning of a long career ahead.
Cornawallis' child has not been a Frankenstein, at least not always.
IAS has an enviable lineage. After India's independence, it became a successor to the highly prestigious Indian Civil Service (ICS) of British times. A brainchild of Lord Cornwallis, it was constituted in the eighteenth century. ICS became a symbol of efficiency and integrity in administration, though it served British interests. Leave alone the middle classes, getting into ICS was an aspiration that was central to Indian elite's social clout. However, most of the key posts were allotted to Britishers.
After independence, the founding fathers of Indian Constitution viewed ICS as an indispensable part of India's state apparatus. Leaders of democratic India in general and Nehru, Patel and Dr Ambedkar in particular, spoke forcefully in favour of retaining it. Under Article 312 it was given a Constitutional status, as an All India Service and was given its present name – Indian Administrative Service.
Despite the anti-bureaucracy tirade sometimes justified and sometimes fashionable, most historical accounts of India's post independence phase have identified the all India federal outlook of IAS and its relative neutrality as one of the crucial reasons for India's survival as a democratic entity. So, generally speaking, despite having wide discretionary powers at its disposal, historical judgment suggests that Cornwallis' child has not turned out to be a Frankenstein for independent India.
Decoding the Young Entrants to IAS in Last Twenty Years
One should not be fooled by any idea that economic liberalization of the last twenty years has meant any change in the magical charm of IAS for the youth as a coveted career choice. Several studies, some by corporate interest groups like ASSOCHAM suggest that a career in bureaucracy remains the most sought after among the young. Lakhs of applications received for civil services examination by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) include a large number of IIT and IIM graduates as well as doctors from prestigious medical institutions, who can mint money anywhere in the world. Call it the urge for instant and permanent social recognition or the wish to be a part of the Mai Baap state apparatus in India. Call it an expression of feudal urge to be the ruler or more optimistically a drive to combine ability and excellence with social conscience. Call it whatever you want, but the fact remains that IAS continues to monopolise the career choice space. The charm is intact, but what apparent changes have there been in last twenty years?
The points of departure are many, and the strands of change as well as continuity can be identified with these signposts;
Oxbridge Days are over. August Sens are no longer just Stephanians.
Many technocrats prefer to be bureaucrats. BIMARU states rule with some southern allies. Traditional breeding centres are crumbling and the Mandal effect is visible. There is a marked increase in the number of women bureaucrats. However some glass ceilings have not been smashed – English still rules but regional languages are making inroads.
Oxford and Cambridge educated young people constituted a large section of bureaucracy in the first three decades following India's independence. This is not true for the new entrants to bureaucracy. Similarly, products from traditional breeding grounds of civil servants in India like Delhi University, JNU, Madras University, Allahabad University, Patna University and Osmania University are also facing stiff competition from students from the hinterland (who usually shift to Delhi or their state capitals/ major cities in their states to prepare for IAS exams). August Sen from Upmanyu Chatterjee's English August, might not be imagined today with St. Stephen's College as his alma mater.
The demolition of traditional bastions of civil servants has largely been the effect of the surge led by young aspirants of BIMARU (a lampooning acronym to scoff at their poor human development indices) Hindi belt (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh). The Hindi heartland has been supported in this surge by Southern states, particularly Tamil Nadu (continuing its legacy of civil servants), and Kerala. However, it must be remembered that aspirants, with background of technical education (engineers, doctors, management professionals etc.), have also been a major factor in defining the profile of a new breed of bureaucrats. This has also led to debate on specialists (with professional degrees) opting for generalist bureaucratic positions, wasting the government funds invested in providing technical education for a very affordable fee. But equality of opportunity and freedom of career choice are their defense against any such attack.
The political initiative of implementing Mandal Commission recommendations, which provided 27 per cent reservation to Other Backward Classes (OBC) in government jobs, can also be viewed as a game changer in defining demographic profile of young civil servants.
Interestingly, though the number of people writing civil services examination in regional languages has gone up, English continues to be the first choice for taking the examination which has a year long calendar.
The number of woman officers is also on rise, and they are occupying key positions smashing glass ceilings. But even now their number is nowhere close to their male colleagues.
The evil of examination. The rote system rules. Spoonfed preparation robs the intellectual diet. The commission in panic mode making cosmetic reforms.
Unfortunately, IAS recruitment examination has all the flaws and limitations that are part of any evaluation system in the world. Rote and a syllabus-constricted approach has given rise to a system that is rewarding – mug up and vomit mode of study. And then evaluating aspirants on the degree of the stink of their vomit. The Coaching shops have sought to exploit these loopholes to mint money by spoon feeding students with the required feed to mug up and regurgitate.
Wide reading, independent intellectual analysis, and creative articulation have certainly been put to disadvantage. Union Public Service Commission, which has been mandated by the Constitution under Article 315 to conduct Civil Services examination, has pressed the panic button by introducing cosmetic changes in preliminary examinations through a newly designed Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT), and has declared its plan to bring some changes in the main examination too. But such changes are too little and may soon become part of the same rote cycle.
Young babus and the lingering disconnect.
The interesting thing to observe is that except few highly motivated and dedicated bureaucrats, who have become a minority in the IAS, the hinterland surge has not changed the narrative of disconnect between young bureaucrats and the people. The old story of becoming the smug part of power elite after making it to the final list of Civil Services Examination, is repeating itself. While young IAS officers with integrity and administrative vision are not extinct, the majority reflect the times in which they have been brought up and in which they made their career choice – the times of unprecedented consumerist upsurge. Transforming themselves from a patronizing representative of the state to a visionary policymaker and facilitator of development and administration seems a long road ahead. However, this issue warrants a separate inquiry and analysis of different perspectives on the relationship between bureaucracy and development administration in India.
In the late 80s, while referring to the wide influence of IAS officers, a political commentator had described IAS as the "New Brahminical System" in the governance of India. The young entrants to this Brahminical fold are not showing significant signs of shedding their high-born aura in public hierarchy. The persisting disconnect seems insidious, and exists between the bureaucrat, who is the policymaker, and people who bear the brunt (sometimes fruits too) of policies. Reminds me of these lines from a poem by Dhumil, who commenting on the same disconnect wrote: Lohe ka Swad Lohar Se Na Puchho, Us Ghore Se Puchho Jiske Muh Me Laggam Hai!
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Too Hot to Handle: Climate Change and Agricultural Water Use
Denise Fort
University of New Mexico School of Law
November 16, 2011
International Journal of Rural Law and Policy (Special Edition - Water Law: Through the Lens of Conflict), 2011
UNM School of Law Research Paper No. 2011-13
The world faces enormous challenges in responding to looming crises in food and water. Responding to this challenge will require flexibility; such flexibility may be impeded by legal institutions.
This paper looks at the western United States and discusses the role of irrigated agriculture in that region. Because of climate change, a growing population, declining groundwater, the need to protect ecosystems and other conflicts, the author suggests that all water uses, including long-standing agricultural water rights, need to be examined in light of these changes. Legal systems have tended to serve the status quo, but perhaps the law can help facilitate this re-examination.
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After my initial love affair with the espresso machine, I searched for an easier way to produce frothy cups of Teeccino without going to all that work. The secret is foaming milk. You can foam milk tediously with a whisk, but if you want foam peaks, you need an electric frothing wand, or "whizzy" as I call them.
Cap your cups of Teeccino with velvety foam (which will impress your guests to no end) using the Primo Latte. All you have to do is heat and whiz. Works great with non-dairy milk too.
How simple can it be?
Variation: Start with cold milk for iced lattes.


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To investigate non-take-up, we set up a microsimulation model for the German Socio-Economic Panel Study 2002-2013 and estimate the respective aid amounts students would have received, had they filed an application for need-based aid. The results indicate that about 40% of the eligible low-income students do not take up their entitlements. We employ instrumental variable techniques and a sample selection model to consider several potential explanatory factors for this behavior. Our results suggest that non-take-up is inversely related to the level of benefits, though the elasticity is rather low. Apart from that, a shorter expected duration of benefit receipt is related to a higher non-take-up rate, whereas the possibility to draw upon older siblings' experience with completing the complex application for aid is associated with higher probabilities to claim. Moreover, we find robust evidence that significantly more students socialized in the former socialist East Germany choose to take up student aid than similar West German students. Finally, in line with behavioral economic theory, debt aversion of highly impulsive and impatient students is associated with higher rates of non-take-up. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Herding behavior and volatility clustering in financial markets http://hdl.handle.net/10419/129615 Title: Herding behavior and volatility clustering in financial markets Authors: Schmitt, Noemi; Westerhoff, Frank Abstract: We propose a simple agent-based financial market model in which speculators follow a linear mix of technical and fundamental trading rules to determine their orders. Volatility clustering arises in our model due to speculators' herding behavior. In case of heightened uncertainty, speculators observe other speculators' actions more closely. Since speculators' trading behavior then becomes less heterogeneous, the market maker faces a less balanced excess demand and consequently adjusts prices more strongly. Estimating our model using the method of simulated moments reveals that it is able to explain a number of stylized facts of financial markets quite well. Keywords: Agent-based financial market models, stylized facts of financial markets, technical and fundamental analysis, heterogeneity, herding behavior, method of simulated moments. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Born entrepreneur? Adolescents' personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood http://hdl.handle.net/10419/129616 Title: Born entrepreneur? Adolescents' personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood Authors: Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; Hintsanen, Mirka; Raitakari, Olli; Pehkonen, Jaakko Abstract: Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, Responsibility, and Eagerness-Energy), measured in childhood and adolescence, and examining their relationship to self-employment propensity in adulthood. Using data from the Young Finns Study linked to the Finnish Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data and the Longitudinal Population Census of Statistics, our results show that the early-life Leadership-dimension is significantly associated with a higher likelihood 1) of becoming self-employed later in life and 2) of being more successful as an entrepreneur, as approximated by sales. 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Sibling correlations in cognitive skills are higher than 0.50; therefore, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background. Comparing these findings with those in the intergenerational skill transmission literature suggests that intergenerational correlations capture only part of the influence of family on children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and in line with previous findings on educational and income mobility. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z


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Long before Scotland Yard or the FBI, Nature fingerprinted her numerous family, writes Ellsworth Jaeger in his remarkable book about a little-known field. "Tracks may take us back to the Earth's beginnings or give us a complete autobiography of a living animal from day to day."Charmingly illustrated throughout, Tracks and Trailcraft presents a wealth of lore. In his crisp, direct style, Jaeger tells how to read nature's signs written in mud, brush, and even water and sky. It's packed with projects for both adults and children, nature lovers and amateur archaeologists - whether they want to follow the trail of a dinosaur that lumbered through the desert eons ago or the opossum that scurried through the backyard last night. Tracks and Trailcraft provides the tools of identification, turning anyone into a "nature detective." This is a perfect book for the naturalist, the hunter, the weekend tracker, the nature guide, or camp counselor. After reading this you will notice things you never saw before on your next trip to the woods. Great book to learn tracks. Fully illustrated. Learn animal behavior. Indispensable guide. Learn secrets of Native American tracking. Originally published 1948. Binding - Paper. Author - Ellsworth Jaeger. Pages - 392. Publisher - Lyons Press. Year - 2001. ISBN - 9781585742950.
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