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The Geo - Geodome in Cornwall
- Geodome for 2 from £104 per night (read our low price promise)
- 1 double
Not suitable for children
Not suitable for pets
Soon to be joined by other domes popping up at Ekopod, the original Geo was the inspiration for an unusual new retreat. While the design is cool and modern, Ekopod was created as the perfect rural antidote to hectic city life. Now, the Curve and three more domes have joined the Geo in this peaceful spot. You could spend your whole stay simply lying on the sun loungers on the terrace, curled up on the giant bean bag or just staying in bed. The Geo, with its private kitchen and bathroom, sits above the vicarage and looks out over the hills. There's plenty for the outdoors types too, with great walking on the moors (bring your wellies - the area around the pod can get muddy), Cornwall's two highest peaks to climb and even surfing at Widemouth bay. Whatever you do at Ekopod, you'll be doing it in sumptuous but sustainable style.
Our guests say...
We had a lovely time at The Geo. It has just the right combination of modcons while having a real feeling of being in the middle of nowhere. It was the little things that really impressed us, like the hot water bottles, extra blankets, and the replaceable freezer packs for the cool box. It is in a great location for exploring Cornwall and also a great set up for just hunkering down and relaxing should the weather be bad, as it was for us!17/06/2016
We had the most fun filled, adventure filled, good old fashioned fun. We ended up booking a weekend which collided with a massive wind storm and an Antarctic frost but so hi we survived with many stories to tell. Our hosts Jon and Lyn were fanstastic, they couldn't have been kinder and more welcoming. The place itself surpassed our expectations with a very efficient log fire burner and a gorgeous big bath along with complimentary wine and bread and chutneys. We are already planning a summer trip now!20/11/2015
wow canopy and stars you have out did yourselves finding this perfect hidden little gem!! me and the husband choose this place for our honeymoon finally after 7 years and it was just utterly perfect!!! the owners Ron and Lyn are the perfect host they stock the little kitchen with some bread jams and cheese and a box of chocolates and a nice bottle of wine! once you have the wood burner going it is utterly warm and cosy you could not wish for more! the bathroom is like a luxury spa once you get the wood burner going in there and you have lovely local shampoos and shower gel, its the most romantic getaway as your totally alone!! also if you do want anything there is a very well stocked honesty shop you don't want or need anything while staying hear!! will defiantly be going back!24/07/2015
We had a very relaxing time on our honeymoon. The view from the Ekopod was lovely and going to sleep with just the sounds of nature was calming and made us feel far from our day to day lives! Ron and Lyn were very welcoming and informative which was great and made us feel very much at home.22/06/2015
Had an amazing stay, quiet, relaxing.15/06/2015
"We absolutely loved our stay in the Geo. Ron and Lyn were fantastic hosts getting the balance right between information and self sufficiency. The location is brilliant, you're not over looked and the wild moor landscape was just what we'd hoped for. The Geo is so well equipped and Ron and Lyn had thought of everything, we loved the log burners and cooking dinner each night. We have been lucky enough to stay in some lovely places but this was one of the most romantic by far. Don't hesitate to book this venue, we will definitely be back!!"03/10/2014
"Ekopod was the perfect break from the big smoke, and a lovely location to celebrate my boyfriend's birthday - we felt a million miles from London, it was peaceful and beautiful! The wood-burner is a nice touch and particularly the one in the bathroom to heat bath water for the ROLL TOP bath - definitely the most luxurious 'glamping' we've experienced, but also a nice 'back to basics' fun having to wait till the water was warm enough for a bath! Lyn and Ron are very special hosts, and really made our stay - they thought of everything (even a birthday card was left for my boyfriend!) and were on hand if you ever needed them. We hope to return in the future, and cannot recommend the Geo enough!"26/09/2014
"Very much enjoyed our stay. Very friendly welcome. Honesty shop and access to freezers was a lovely touch. The range of local maps and suggestions of things to do was useful. And a few board games for a quiet evening in."25/08/2014
"Loved it. Insanely comfortable bed, well stocked and equipped, cooking on the wood burning stove was great fun, lovely and secluded, the honesty shop and meals were great. Loads of fun, basically."05/07/2014
"Was a great stay, the hosts where lovely and helpful. Plenty of food on offer if you dont fancy going out. Highly recommend the brownie!"20/06/2014
"After a hectic year, we really wanted to get away from it all. We saw the ekopod on line and loved the location and style of the "tent" ... and we weren't disappointed. Simon was excellent, his welcome and advice on the local area was really good and useful. Sitting outside in the evening with a glass of wine, looking up at the night sky, watching satellites and shooting stars, not a sound around, no light pollution was absolute bliss. We explored the local area, even taking the walk to the pub, visited the Holy Well and went out and about to Padstow, but loved coming home to our pod. Heating the water for the bath was fun, and lighting the log burner in the evening, lying on the beanbag, flickering tealights just nattering was lovely - relaxing and tranquil and just what we needed. Thank you."23/10/2013
"Loved every minute of it. We could have spent the whole time in the geo as it was so incredible, but there was some fantastic beaches and pubs just around the corner."30/07/2013
"Yes! It was superb. The venue was amazing, it was very peaceful but there was plenty of things you could do nearby. The fire heated bath and tea-lights was very cosy, finally the stars were amazing, no light pollution made for beautiful evenings. The best thing was the fact that it was so secluded and peaceful, it was exactly what we needed to get away from it all. Managed to take some beautiful photos and see the stars. The only bad thing is that it's such a long drive from home, but totally worth it for the peace and solitude!"07/06/2013
"Best thing: the peace and quiet and the little things Simon has thought of - plenty of wood etc for the wood burners already in the tent and the honesty shop where simple things like ice were stored if needed. The worst: the weather, but that is beyond our control and actually forced my husband and I to do absolutely nothing which was very welcome after planning a wedding!"17/08/2012
"Our time in the pod was wonderful and we both left feeling like new people! The pod is secluded and beautiful. They really have thought of everything. Best thing - that view! It's really difficult to motivate yourself to leave when just sitting and looking at it is such a lovely thing to do. "23/07/2012
"We had a fabulous time at the Geo Ekopod. The English weather didn't let us down and we experienced both sunshine and rain every day. This didn't stop us having a very relaxing time, which is what we both needed. Loved building a fire each day to heat the bath water. A very unique experience in a very special place."16/07/2012
"We really enjoyed our short break. We loved the way that the Ekopod is sited in a beautiful meadow, with lovely views. We appreciated the quiet, tranquility and beauty of the location. We were able to walk for just 45 minutes across the fields to a very friendly pub for excellent meals. It is quite close to a beautiful stretch of the Cornish coastline and, of course, Bodmin Moor, itself, so we loved the walks nearby."22/06/2012
"Found the wood burning stoves in both the Pod and bathroom section to be brilliant...such fun to have to "fire up" your hot water for a luxurious bath and have the chance while reading a book in bed to have the kettle slowly boiling away on the stove in your tent."07/05/2012
"Best thing was the remoteness and the feeling of being in the open air. Wood fire. Seeing the stars from the bath. Worst thing was the weather - maybe go in the summer next time."06/04/2012
There were so many thoughtful little details. We experienced just about every kind of weather, and can honestly say that it's a lovely place to be in the sunshine or the pouring rain.09/05/2011
This time last week I was drinking champers and relaxing in the most sumptuous roll-top bath in the middle of a field under a beautiful starry sky. Try the Bodmin Moor ekopod, it has to be done.15/04/2011
Thoroughly enjoyed our stay, couldn't fault a thing, accomodation amazing, location wonderful & very picturesque. The perfect place for us to spend our honeymoon, something we will always remember & cherish. Thanks to Ekopod.01/04/2011
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The federal Transportation Security Administration has kicked in almost $7.8 million to design, construct and equip a new baggage screening area at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport.
The city had budgeted $6.4 million to do the job, Assistant City Manager Jarrett Atkinson said.
The project is part of a $48.3 million airport renovation that includes construction of a new concourse and a behind-the-scenes, ground-floor TSA screening system, which will remove luggage security equipment that has jammed the ticket lobby since 9/11.
Transferring the cost of the screening system to the TSA grant will allow the city to free up $5.5 million in airport reserves and almost $2.3 million in future Federal Aviation Administration annual entitlement funds that had been committed to the airport overhaul, Airport Manager Scott Carr said.
The Amarillo City Commission accepted the TSA grant on Tuesday, as well as $3.2 million in anticipated FAA entitlement funds. The TSA grant will pay 95 percent of the security screening area cost, with a 5 percent match of $410,000 from the airport.
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Country group to visit BJC
UNIVERSITY PARK - Live Nation will present The Zac Brown Band, Sonia Leigh and Nic Cowan in concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Bryce Jordan Center.
The Zac Brown Band's major label debut, "The Foundation," was a big hit and won the band a Grammy for Best New Artist in 2010. Seven of the group's first eight singles have hit No. 1 on the Billboard Country Charts, including the Grammy winning "As She's Walking Away."
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The Zac Brown Band will perform, with special guests Sonia Leigh and Nic Cowan, at 8 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Leigh and Cowan are country acts signed to Brown's record label Southern Ground, which he launched in 2009.
Tickets for the concert are $37, $51.50 and $60.50 and go on sale at 10 a.m. today. Tickets can be purchased at the Bryce Jordan Ticket Center, Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State Downtown Theatre, Penn State Altoona Campus, online at www.bjc.psu.edu or charge by phone at 865-5555.
Caverns hold haunted event
HUNTINGDON - Lincoln Caverns will present "Ghosts and Goblins 2011," its 28th annual haunted cave and trail, Oct. 7 through Oct. 29 at the Huntingdon area caverns.
From 6 to 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays in October, the caverns will present the haunted caverns, plus the haunted trail walk.
From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays in October, the venue will host one-hour family tours of two crystal caverns - one haunted and one natural.
Tickets are available at the door or online at www.lincolncaverns.com.
For more information, call 643-0268.
CPA offers student sale
UNIVERSITY PARK - The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State is throwing a party - complete with free food, entertainment and prizes - for University Park students. During the fourth-annual Student Patio Party, from 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 7 at the Eisenhower Auditorium patio, University Park students may purchase tickets to 29 2011-2012 CPA presentations for 20 percent off the already-discounted student prices.
Presentations eligible for the sale include: the touring Broadway shows "In the Heights," Green Day's "American Idiot," "Young Frankenstein" and "Cats"; National Acrobats of China; Paul Taylor Dance Company; four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald in concert; Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis; world music superstar Anoushka Shankar; jazz vocalist Gretchen Parlato; and Vienna Boys Choir.
In order to purchase discounted tickets, a University Park student must show his or her Penn State identification card. Each eligible student may purchase one discount-priced ticket per event.
Students attending the patio party may enter drawings for prizes, including retail store gift cards and fitness club memberships.
For more details, visit www.cpa.psu.edu and click on the patio party banner.
SAMA to host Blue Monday
The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Altoona will close its 2011 Blue Monday season at 6 p.m. Sept. 12. The program will feature music by Tom McCarty & Friends and a tour of the museum's latest exhibition, "Artists in Our Midst: Art in Common Annual Juried Exhibition."
Admission is $20 per person. Call the museum at 946-4464 for reservations.
SAMA-Altoona is located in the Brett Building at 1210 11th Ave., Altoona.


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LEMONT, Ill. (AP) - After flirting with birdies all over the front nine, something clicked when Davis Love III made the turn.
Maybe he felt Scott Hoch, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods closing in on him.
Love birdied the first three holes of the back nine Saturday and went on to shoot a 3-under-par 69, giving him a one-stroke lead after the third round of the Western Open. He's at 14-under 202 for the tournament.
But Love can't get too comfortable.
Hoch is at 203 after making birdies on the final four holes for a 66. Mickelson (67) birdied three of his last four holes and is five strokes back.
And Woods finally broke out of his "slump" with a flurry of birdies on the back nine, getting within seven strokes with a 68.
Woods could have been even closer, after making an eagle and two birdies on the front nine. But he gave all the strokes back with two double-bogeys.
"Today was one of those rounds where I can't explain it. It was just an interesting day," Woods said. "I figured something out last night with my golf swing. I started hitting the ball the way I used to and started hitting the ball my normal distances again."
Pak up by four strokes at Farr
SYLVANIA, Ohio (AP) - Se Ri Pak held off challenges from Meg Mallon and Kris Tschetter to build her lead to four strokes after Saturday's third round of the Jamie Farr Kroger Classic.
Pak's 2-under-par 69 left her at 12-under 201.
She has held or shared the lead heading into the final round in eight tournaments in her four years on tour, winning all but one of those. The only time she lost a last-round lead was at the 2000 Giant Eagle LPGA Classic.
Pak is pursuing her third victory of the year and her third Farr win in the last four years. She is 52 under par in her 15 competitive rounds at Highland Meadows Golf Club, with a third-place finish last year preceded by her wins in 1998 and 1999.
Nelson, Gilder lead Farmers Charity
ADA, Mich. (AP) - Defending champion Larry Nelson eagled the par-5 17th hole in his second straight 5-under 67 for a share of the lead Saturday in the Farmers Charity Classic.
Bob Gilder followed his opening 65 with a 69 to match Nelson at 10-under 134 on the Egypt Valley Country Club course.
Nelson, who had a tournament-record 198 total last year, is seeking his fourth victory of the Senior PGA Tour season.
Nelson rallied after opening with two bogeys.
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Police: Robbers tried to steal laptop from Craigslist sellerUPDATED 6:55 PM CDT Aug 06, 2013
Oklahoma City police are searching for two robbers who tried stealing a laptop in the middle of a busy shopping center.Video Transcript
ROBBER ON THE RUN. POLICE SAY THE SUSPECT FOUND HIS VICTIM ONLINE... AND THIS ISN'T FIRST TIME HE'S DONE IT. K-O-C-O'S MICHAEL SEIDEN IS LIVE TO EXPLAIN. MICHAEL...? EXACTLY TWO WEEKS AGO TODAY A MAN WALKED INTO PENN SQUARE MALL TO BUY A CELLPHONE FROM A WOMAN WHO HAD POSTED AN AD ON CRAIGSLIST. BUT ACCORDING TO THE VICTIM THE MAN GRABBED HER PHONE AND TOOK OFF WITH IT. LAST WEEKEND A similar SCENE PLAYED OUT ONLY THIS TIME IT WAS CAUGHT ON SURVEILLANCE IT IS A BUSY SHOPPING CENTER WHERE SOMEONE IS ALWAYS WATCHING OVER THE WEEKEND SURVEILLANCE CAPTURED A ROBBERY IN FRONT OF THIS SUPER TARGET NEAR MEMORIAL AND PENN CLIP 1 422-26 " I didn't think somebody was going to rob me in broad daylight" FOR WALLEY KING IT ALL BEGAN AFTER HE POSTED HIS MAC- BOOK PRO ON CRAIGSLIST WALLEY AND THE PROSEPECTIVE BUYER AGREED TO MEET IN THIS PARKING LOT CLIP 1 Walley King :30:44 "he started walking up and he said that I'm here to see the computer. I came out. I showed him and I turned it on and off. He said I cant see. So when I put it in the car like this, he's looking at it and stuff." WHAT HAPPENED NEXT :48-54 "he said, you're new to the area?' I said. I'm new to the area. I just got out of the military three weeks ago. As soon as I said that, he went" WAS ALL CAUGHT ON CAMERA. TAKE A LOOK THAT'S THE ROBBER RUNNING ACROSS THE PARKING LOT AND WALLY IS RIGHT BEHIND HIM 1224-27 I WOULD've got'em. If I didn't have my knee problem and I didn't have my phone." LUCKILY- MULTIPLE PEOPLE WITNESSED THE CHAOS ONE MAN EVEN FORCED THE SUSPECT TO DROP THE COMPUTER BUT HE STILL MANAGED TO GET AWAY WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND WHO WAS WAITING IN A CAR CLIP 1 623-30 "you never thought at 2 in the afternoon that someone was going to take off with it. "the parking lot was crowded; it was tax-free weekend and kids going back to school and all. WALLY TOLD ME THAT RIGHT AFTER THE ROBBERY THE SUSPECT APOLOGIZED TO HIM THROUGH A TEXT MESSAGE BUT THAT'S THE LAST TIME HE'S HEARD FROM HIM REPORTING LIVE IN OKC MICHAEL SEIDEN KOCO 5 -NEWS.
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Kevin Farmer has dedicated his life to music, and now is focused on helping students learn how to play the guitar and "unlock the mystery of music."
Farmer said he and his wife recently moved to Tiffin from the Findlay area and opened Kevin's Guitar Studio this month. Farmer said he runs the studio from his home, located at 259 Noble St., and offers lessons to children and adults. So far, he said, the response among age groups has been "a good mix."
Farmer said he chose Tiffin to open the studio because it seemed to be a good community with a lot of local support. Tiffin is a "great location with lots of thriving small businesses," he said.
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Farmer said the studio's focus is to provide individualized classes using a slightly unorthodox, but successful, teaching approach. Farmer said he is committed to being flexible with lesson schedules, realizing the time commitments of students and their families are unpredictable.
As a home-based studio, he said, "we are able to be very flexible in our scheduling."
Lessons at the studio, he said, typically are weekly half-hour sessions and cost $65 per month. Similar to a regular school schedule, Farmer said he breaks the year into fall, spring and summer terms, and lessons are scheduled throughout those terms.
One difference with Kevin's Guitar Studio, Farmer said, is students are not locked into a long-term contract when they decide to try guitar lessons. Such an approach is part of the studio's flexible approach and is meant to offer a more relaxed environment for students and their families.
Farmer said he began learning to play the guitar as a sophomore in high school, and, while he originally was self-taught, he later began working with an instructor. As a music major in college, Farmer said he declared the guitar as his primary instrument, and his depth of knowledge about the
guitar then increased substantially.
Farmer said he feels the guitar is "a cool instrument that appeals to everybody," and kids as young as first grade can benefit from learning to play. At that age, he said, lessons include not only the guitar itself, but learning about music as a whole, including how to truly listen to music.
Learning to play the guitar, he said, can provide an outlet for kids who like to express themselves through music, but don't want to participate in activities such as band.
Another unique aspect of Kevin's Guitar Studio is the absence of method books in his teaching approach. Farmer said he chose not to incorporate method books because "they don't account for the differences in the way music students learn." Farmer's personalized approach acknowledges those differences and strives to provide a learning environment for each student that best helps them grow as musicians.
In addition to offering lessons at Kevin's Guitar Studio, Farmer teaches guitar at a friend's studio in Bluffton. He has more than 10 years experience teaching
music, and received a bachelor of arts in music and business from Bluffton University.
Kevin's Guitar Studio can be reached by calling (419) 303-9585 or via its Facebook page.


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PX387 Astrophysics
Lecturer: Boris Gänsicke
You will find here the material shown in the lectures as Powerpoint file (ppt) that you can download, as well as web pages to view online. Have a look at the syllabus for more details on the aims and the content of the course. Get the lecture captures here.
|1. Observational instrumentation: optical & X-ray telescopes, CCD detectors, imaging, spectroscopy
|2. Accretion onto compact objects: a powerful energy source, Eddington limit
|3. Binary stars: Roche potential, Lagrange points, binary star configurations, interactions in close binaries, angular momentum and mass transfer between two stars, conservative mass transfer, stable and unstable mass transfer, orbital angular momentum loss, common envelope evolution, binary star zoology
|4. Black holes: mass measurements of stellar black holes in binaries and of the black hole in the centre of the Galaxy, ultraluminous X-ray sources, and the possible existence of intermediate mass black holes
|5. Accretion discs: structure, emitted spectrum, stability, boundary layer, indirect imaging
|6. Jets: Jets in AGN, superluminal motion, relativistic beaming, jets in young stellar objects, SS433, escape velocity, jet driving mechanisms
|7. Accretion onto magnetic stars: Alven radius, the origin of magnetic fields in compact stars, accretion columns, conditions in the pre- and post-shock plasma, gas dynamics, thermal bremsstrahlung, cyclotron radiation
|8. Cosmic explosions: degenerate material, classical novae (explosive nuclear shell burning), supersoft X-ray binaries (stable nuclear shell burning), SNIa progenitors, supernovae type Ia = exploding white dwarfs, all other types of supernovae = collapse of massive stars, gamma ray bursts
|9. Pulsars: History, estimating B from P and P-dot, millisecond pulsars = old pulsars, recycled in binary stars, period glitches, effects to on pulsar timing measurements, binary pulsars as test cases for GR, the dispersion measure, the pulsar emission mechanism, pulse profiles
Problem classes:Questions and Solutions
Previous exams available from the Library
Additional (optional) reading material (if you can not get the full-text papers, use the Warwick Library Proxy):
Chapter 1:
- An example of infrared imaging using adaptive optics: the expanding shell of a Helium nova.
- The data release (DR9) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the BBC News, a fantastic example of astronomy with state-of-the art technology (multi-object fibre spectrograph, large CCD camera). SDSS is now at DR12.
- Photon-counting in the optical? In principle yes, see First Astronomical Application of a Cryogenic Transition Edge Sensor Spectrophotometer, but is still technologically challenging, and the size of the detector arrays are tiny compared to conventional CCD.
- Direct detection of four planets around the A-star HR8799 as an impressive example of the high-contrast, high spatial resolution that can nowadays be achieved with ground-based telescopes.
Chapter 3:
- Ransom et al's discovery of A millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system (see the BBC's new item)
- Van Kerkwijk et al's paper on the detection of Doppler boosting in the light curve of an eclipsing binary
- Gänsicke et al's paper finding the elusive "minimum period spike" in the period distribution of cataclysmic variables
Chapter 4:
- Marsh et al's paper weighing the black hole in the low mass X-ray binary A 0620-00
- Schoedel et al's paper on the mass of the black hole in the centre of the Milky Way
- Gilessen et al's paper on the discovery of a gas cloud on its way to SgrA* (see the BBC's news item)
- Silverman et al's paper on IC10 X-1, one of the most massive stellar black holes known
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
Chapter 5:
- Shakura & Sunyaev's seminal paper on the structure accretion discs, and a recent discussion on the possible values of "alpha"
- Gänsicke et al's paper on a metal-rich debris disc around a white dwarf, see also this sequence of cartoons
- Tanaka et al's paper on a relativistic Kα emission line from close to the supermassive black hole in MCG-6-30-15
- Marsh & Horne's paper introducing the method of Doppler tomography
Chapter 6:
- Several papers by Margon et al. announcing the discovery of SS433, and coming up with the basic model for the observed radial velocity changes: 1979a, 1979b, 1980
- One of the most recent papers attempting a mass determination of the compact object in SS433 - not overwhelmingly exciting except for the conclusion that we still don't know if it is a NS or BH.
Chapter 8:
- The light echo around Tycho's SNIa from 1572 (Krause et al.)
- Smartt's review on core-collapse SN
- van Paradijs et al. showing the cosmological origin of gamma ray bursts
- A string of papers in Nature regarding the origin of short gamma ray bursts: Gehrels et al., Fox et al., Hjorth et al. , Berger et al., Tanvir et al.
- Tanvir's paper on the highest redshift gamma ray burst seen so far, z~8.2
- GRBs and neutron stars accreting asteroids: the full circle (Martin & Salpeter 1972; Colgate & Petschek 1981; Campana et al. 2011)
Chapter 9:
- Hulse & Taylor's discovery of the double neutron star PSR B1913+16
- Hulse's Nobel 1993 laureate lecture
- Burgay et al's discovery of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0737-3039A, and Lyne et al's identifying that also the second star in this system is a pulsar. Read a whole review on this system by Kramer & Stairs.
- A recent review paper on neutron star masses, radii, and their equation of state


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Without Borders
Lately I've been searching for a deeper meaing of just what the World Music Show means to, well, the world at large. Ok, I'll admit, that the "world at large," is most likely just the fine listeners in Richmond, Va (and perhaps some other pin-dots on the globe). And that's a good thing, because being able to bring sound clips of the world to the ears of RVA is a worthy effort. I guess the meaning boils down to having a world without borders, at least musically. It's about bridging the gap via sound.
And with that, as the saying goes...away we go.


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THERE HAVE BEEN few reports of phenylketonuria (PKU) in thoroughly-studied American Negroes, with and without known white admixture.1-4 As yet there are no reports of phenylketonuria occurring in Negroes in the Western United States. Glass and Li predicted that phenylketonuria in the North American Negro should be one-ninth as frequent as in the whites. They based their estimate upon the accumulated white admixture to the Negro race thought to be about 30%.5 The previous reports of patients in Negro families have generally involved admitted Indian or white admixture. This report describes an American Negro family from Southern California with two phenylketonuric children with no admitted white background. Many characteristics of this family suggest that white admixture had previously occurred, but with intensive investigation this could not be verified.
Report of Cases
Case 1.—The patient was referred to Children's Hospital of Los Angeles for evaluation and treatment of phenylketonuria
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Re: "Jindal pounces on critics of education plans; Union official's comment is blasted," Page A2, Jan. 25.
Gov. Jindal's statement regarding the offensiveness of Michael Walker-Jones' suggestion that parents in poverty might not have the personal resources to navigate the voucher system was patronizing and showed a basic lack of insight into the heart of the educational problems currently facing Louisiana.
For years many of us have bemoaned the inadequacy of many of New Orleans' public schools. Many of the children who attended those failing schools are now parents struggling to make ends meet. It makes sense that those parents might lack the resources to navigate the complicated voucher process.
Therefore, parents with more resources and education will be the ones to benefit from vouchers (and, subsequently, leave the public school system). Mr. Walker-Jones did not say that all individuals who lack income or education do not have the wherewithal or interest to make decisions, or that those parents are uninterested in making decisions about their children's education.
Mr. Walker-Jones was simply stating the obvious. The families that are most in need of vouchers will likely have difficulties obtaining them. Poverty often plays a huge roll in how parents are able to address the education of their children. By feigning offense on behalf of the poor, Gov. Jindal was attempting to divert our attention from the actual issue.
Vouchers will not even the educational playing field. Instead, vouchers have the potential to create a larger educational division.
Jolynn King
New Orleans


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This golden seal of John VIII displays Christ before a low throne on the obverse, and the emperor, wearing a crown and loros, holding a long cross and an akakia on the reverse. John is identified as autokrator, the only appearance of a title other than despotes on an imperial seal since the reign of Michael VII (1071–1078).]]>
This seal contains the title megas basileus, "great emperor." Alexios II is known to have been styled this way in public acclamations. In addition, the Komnenian tradition of including porphyrogennetos, naturally where such an epithet was warranted, is continued on this seal. Iconograhically Alexios's seals follow in the tradition laid down by his great grandfather, Christ is shown enthroned on the obverse, and on the reverse the emperor is depicted wearing a crown and loros, holding a labarum and globus cruciger.]]>
At Alexios's assumption of power in 1081 the empire had lost its Asian provinces, and the Turks of Smyrna were taking to the sea to raid the Aegean islands, even besieging Constantinople in 1090/91. Byzantine Italy had fallen to the Normans, who were planning an invasion of the Balkans, which were not fully under Byzantine control because of the incursions of Patzinaks and others from north of the Danube. By the time of Alexios's death in 1118, the Normans had been defeated twice (in 1085 and in 1108), the Patzinaks had been almost obliterated as a people in 1091, and the northwestern quarter of Asia Minor had been recovered from the Turks. In this last success much credit must be given to Alexios's clever use of the First Crusade that arrived in Byzantium in 1096.
After reaching the deepest point of debasement in the 1080s, Byzantine currency was reformed in 1092 with four denominations, three of which were alloyed. This proved adaptable for trade and, with the fiscal reforms of 1106–9, ensured the renewal of the imperial treasury. One act, which may have both stimulated the imperial economy and laid the foundations of future problems, was the granting of trade privileges to the Venetians. Alexios had done this to acquire Venetian aid against the Normans in the 1080s. While probably increasing the volume of international trade in Byzantium, eventually the tax exemptions granted to Italians would give them an advantage over Byzantine merchants and deny the state an important source of income.
Alexios also pioneered a new way of running the empire. The frequent rebellions that had plagued imperial politics since the death of Basil II proved that the emperor needed provincial governors, generals, admirals, and administrators that he could trust. Alexios turned to his family, and those linked to the Komnenoi by marriage or blood. By arranging clever marriages for his children and other family members, Alexios bound much of the aristocracy to his clan. Alexios was so successful at intertwining the ruling dynasty with other families of the military aristocracy that although four more families would sit the throne of Byzantium, as well as the rulers of the splinter states of Trebizond and Epiros, every emperor after him was his direct descendent.
The seals of Alexios reveal, perhaps unwittingly, extensive connections to past emperors. The obverse revives the enthroned Christ type of Constantine X and Michael VII, into whose family Alexios married. Komnenos, his family name, appears on the reverse inscription, a practice started by his uncle Isaakios I, and echoes the process of aristocratization that made family connections the highest qualification for state office. Alexios's portrait, meanwhile, conserves the regalia of Nikephoros III, against whom Alexios rebelled after having served as his adviser.]]>
During the first thirteen years of his reign Basil developed a hatred of the established aristocracy. His novel of 996 attempted to curb the influence of powerful individuals and their families by extending the statute of limitations on property purchases back to Caesar Augustus. This immediately bankrupted a number of powerful families, reducing them to the level of the peasants who they had previously exploited. Although Basil technically governed alongside his brother Constantine VIII, no real power was ever allowed to fall into the hands of the younger emperor. Not content with his successes in the East and in the Balkans, Basil was preparing for an invasion of Sicily when he died in 1025. Having never married, he left the governance of the empire to his seventy-year- old brother, Constantine.
Two varieties of seal depict Basil II: the first shows him alone, the second with his brother Constantine, the last occurrence of the Macedonian, two-emperor type. A peculiarity are two examples of the first kind. These are taken by the editors of DO Seals 6 to be an abbreviation of autokrator, but it could also be a holdover of a John I inscription, reading autokrator Romaion (sole ruler of the Romans). By issuing two types of seal Basil was able to show the legitimate imperial family on his seals while also demonstrating that true power resided in his hands alone.
Constantine, based on his reputation in contemporary sources, stands at the center of what has been called the Macedonian Renaissance. The intellectual production of his reign, much as during his father's, was largely one of compilation and encyclopedism. In his name are works on foreign policy (De administrando imperio), the themes (De thematibus), and imperial ceremony (De ceremoniis), as well as a biography of his grandfather and a number of speeches delivered to the troops. Constantine continued where Romanos I had left off by issuing legislation to protect both the poor and the empire's soldiers' lands from encroachment by the powerful.
Constantine's seals maintain the realistic portrait that was revived on seals by Romanos (and on coins by Leo VI). He is depicted with a characteristically long face and beard. Constantine issued two types of seals. On the first he is depicted alone, the first Macedonian with a crowned son to be shown this way, and the inscription combines the titles basileus Romaion with autokrator, "sole ruler." These are a conjuncture, on seals at least, of pre- and later-Macedonian titulature. It is perhaps possible too see, in Constantine's choice of an individual portrait and the title autokrator, that the repercussions of nearly three decades lived in the shadow of regents and rival emperors. The second, rarer type displays Constantine on the obverse and his son Romanos on the reverse. For the seals of Constantine's family see the Macedonian Dynasty in the Dynasties of Empire section.]]>
John's reign, in its bellicosity, was a natural extension of Nikephoros's. In 971 he succeeded in expelling Svjatoslav, the prince of Kiev, from the Balkans. He extended Byzantine control further into Bulgaria during this campaign, destroying the Bulgar capital of Great Preslav, which was temporarily renamed Ioannoupolis, and capturing the Bulgarian tsar Boris. Activities on the eastern front were similarly expansive, with a Fatimid Egyptian army defeated in 970/1 near Antioch by the eunuch-general Nicholas patrikios, an incursion into Armenia in 974, and a large offensive into Syria in 975 that made John the first emperor to visit the region since Herakleios almost three hundred and fifty years earlier. Ultimately, this final offensive guaranteed a measure of security for the recently-won city of Antioch. The administration of the empire remained under the eunuch Basil Lekapenos, the parakoimomenos, who had been important at court since the reign of Constantine VII. John continued to defend the poor against the dynatoi. He greatly improved relations with the Western Empire by agreeing to the marriage alliance that Nikephoros had rejected. In 972 John's niece, Theophano, married the German emperor Otto II. John unexpectedly became ill and died in 976, leaving the government in the hands of Basil Lekapenos and the infant Basil II and Constantine VIII. There were rumors, impossible to prove, that Basil Lekapenos had poisoned John. However he died, John's early demise was a severe blow to the empire.
John's seals follow the pattern laid down by Constantine VII: the emperor is shown alone on the reverse with the inscription autokrator Romaion (sole ruler of the Romans). The obverse of John's seals are interesting for the addition of the inscription Iesus Christus rex regnantium. John, like Nikephoros, was pious and devoted to the cult of the Mother of God. On the reverse of two of John's tokens, as well as on his gold coins, he is shown being blessed by the Mother of God.]]>
The seal presented here is a double portrait of Basil and Constantine from the former's reign. Constantine, at right, and Basil hold a patriarchal cross between them. A seal of Constantine alone, preserved in the Hermitage (M-11160, I. Sokolova, Byzantine Imperial Seals, no. 101), depicts a bust of Christ on the obverse and, on the reverse, a bust of Constantine holding a labarum and wearing crown and modified loros.
Constantine was the first emperor to consistently depict himself full-length on seals since the second reign of Justinian II, at the beginning of the eighth century (there is one specimen of Isaakios full-length as well). The emperor is shown wearing a crown and loros and holding a labarum. Constantine preserved the obverse of Christ Emmanuel favored by his predecessors. A later design shows the first depiction of Christ enthroned to appear on imperial seals on the obverse, and the emperor, being blessed by the Mother of God on the reverse. This was the first time that a divine figure accompanied the imperial portrait on seals. In addition, although not appearing on his seals, several issues of coins depict Constantine with his wife, Eudokia Makrembolitissa, the first appearance of an empress on coins with her husband since Theodora with Theophilos in the first half of the ninth century. For the seals of Eudokia's family see the Doukas Dynasty in the Dynasties of Empire section.
Constantine ruled over a brilliant court and patronized a collection of learned men, poets, lawyers, philosophers, and historians; in 1045 Constantine refounded the University of Constantinople. The year 1054 saw the opening salvos in the schism between the eastern and western churches. The old divisions that had arisen during the Photian Schism reappeared as the two sides debated the theory of papal supremacy, and the filioque clause that the western Church had added to the Nicene Creed. Eventually the papal legate Cardinal Humbert excommunicated Patriarch Michael Keroularios, to which Keroularios responded in kind. Although this is not the definitive act that it was once portrayed as, it nevertheless highlights the tensions growing between East and West, as well as between emperor and patriarch. Constantine had hoped for an alliance with the papacy against the Norman threat in southern Italy. Keroularios was to gain great prestige from this point, essentially running the government of Michael VI and playing kingmaker for Isaakios I Komnenos. In economic matters, Constantine's reign saw the continued expansion of aristocratic estates and the first substantial debasement of the Byzantine gold coin—the dollar of the Middle Ages—since its creation seven hundred years earlier. This marked the first step in the loss of international prestige that would characterize Byzantine monetary history for the remainder of the eleventh century.
As with the seals of Romanos III and Michael IV, those of Constantine IX maintain the bust of Christ with the "Emmanuel" inscription on the obverse. The obverse side of Constantine's seals resemble those of his immediate predecessors. The emperor is shown wearing a loros and crown, and holding a globus cruciger and scepter. There are, however, three different obverse inscriptions found on his seals. Constantine is either identified as basileus Romaion (emperor of the Romans), autokrator (sole ruler), or autokrator augustus Romaion (sole ruler and augustus of the Romans).
In the East Manuel extended Byzantium's boundaries by annexing much of Cilicia, buying the County of Edessa, and forcing the submission of Antioch. He was also involved in ambitious plans to conquer Egypt. The new heights to which Manuel carried Byzantine prestige amongst the crusader states can be seen in the ceremony of his triumphal entry into Antioch in 1159. Manuel made a ceremonial entry into the city on horseback while the Prince of Antioch and King of Jerusalem walked behind him on foot.
In the West Manuel had to deal with the Second Crusade and the newly united Norman kingdom of Sicily. The Second Crusade reached Byzantium in 1147 with contingents led by the German Emperor and the King of France. Although Manuel provided ships to transport the crusaders to the Holy Land, and he became friends with the German Emperor, he was largely blamed in the West for the failure of the crusade as a whole, particularly by Odo of Deuil, a chronicler in the party of Louis VII of France who proved to be an incompetent crusader and needed someone to blame. Taking advantage of Manuel's preoccupation with the crusade, Roger of Sicily sacked a number of important towns in Greece. Manuel responded by invading Italy and for a while held part of the mainland as a protectorate.
Not all of Manuel's actions were successful: in 1171 Manuel poisoned Byzantine relations with Venice by arresting and expelling her citizens from the empire and confiscating their property. Furthermore, after decades of largely ignoring Anatolia, during which time the Sultans of Iconion united most of the Turks of the region into a unified polity, he suffered a major defeat at their hands at Myriokephalon in 1176, which threatened to unravel much of his life's work.
From a social perspective, Manuel's reign witnessed growth of Western influence at the Byzantine court and in life in general. Manuel's second wife was a princess of Antioch, and the emperor himself took part in jousting contests organised in the hippodrome in Constantinople. Notable during his reign is the expansion of the pronoia system, which assigned to individuals, originally members of the Komnenian family but increasingly common soldiers, specific tax revenues, diverted from the fisc, instead of direct payment from the imperial coffers.
On the obverse of his seals and coins Manuel employed Christ Emmanuel: he is depicted as unbearded and fleshier than the portraits that prevailed after the introduction of Christ by Justinian II. The imperial portrait on the seals is of the same type as those of Alexios I and John II, but he holds in his left hand an anexikakia rather than a globus cruciger. The two had distinct symbolic meanings—the former, according to Hendy, "a representation of the life-giving law," and the latter a symbol of ecumenical rule—but their employment on seals and coins seems to have had little significance beyond their basic identity as imperial insignia. Finally, Manuel retains the epithet porphyrogennetos, first introduced on seals by his father.]]>
The seals and coins of Romanos's reign are the most cluttered examples from the whole Byzantine period. During Romanos's reign, Constantine's third son, Andronikos, was associated in rule, and on his seals and coins the nominal senior emperor appears vastly outnumbered by the family of Constantine X. Romanos and Eudokia appear either side of Christ, who blesses them. On the reverse the three sons of Constantine X are shown in their imperial regalia. Although interpretation of the seals follows the convention of placing the senior emperor on the obverse, the sides are reversed when considering the coins, the concavity of which allows us to determine which was the top die.
Unlike his seals, none of Alexander's coins depict the emperor with his nephew and colleague, Constantine VII. The innovations of Alexander's coinage, most importantly the full-length depiction of the emperor being crowned by St. Alexander, are absent from the slight sigillographic record. The seals of Alexander are very similar to those of his father and older brother, replicating the design common to the early Macedonian dynasty, with Christ on the obverse and the two emperors on the reverse. For the seals of Alexander's family see the Macedonian Dynasty in the Dynasties of Empire section.
Leo began the process of codification and collection that would mark what has been called the Macedonian Renaissance. From orders of precedence (the Kletorologion of Philotheos) to Constantinopolitan guilds (Book of the Eparch), Roman law (the Basilika) to military tactics (the Taktika), Leo's efforts demonstrate the wide range of imperial interests. The works published during his reign and in his name were nominally interested in updating past conventions to the realities of the present, and serve to underline and, at times, exaggerate the relationship of Byzantium with its past.
One of the most dramatic events of his reign was the Tetragamy Controversy. Heirless with his first three wives, he conceived a son, Constantine, with his concubine Zoe, but met resistance from Patriarch Nicholas I Mystikos when he attempted to marry for a fourth time and thus legitimize the child. The controversy continued from 906 until the Tomos of Union in 920, long after Leo's death. Ranging far beyond the subject of Constantine's legitimacy, it encompassed a struggle between the factions of patriarchs Nicholas and Euthymios, the legitimacy of their tenures, and, not least important, the validity of their respective ecclesiastical appointments. Leo appealed to the pope, reopening the argument about papal superiority over the Byzantine Church.
Leo's seals follow the pattern laid down by Basil I. Christ is shown on the obverse while Leo and his brother Alexander are depicted on the obverse holding a labarum between them. Leo as the senior emperor is shown bearded, while Alexander is depicted as a beardless youth. For more seals of Leo's family see the Macedonian Dynasty in the Dynasties of Empire section.]]>
In the realm of Orthodoxy, Andronikos repudiated his father's union of the Greek Church with that of Rome, yet took twenty-eightyears to resolve the Arsenite Schism within his own church that the union had caused. The last seven years of Andronikos's reign were spent fighting a ruinous civil war against his grandson Andronikos III, who deposed his grandfather in 1328 and forced him to become a monk. Despite the disasters associated with his rule, Andronikos's reign saw a flowering of scholarly activity, art, and architecture.
On his seals Andronikos is shown standing, wearing a crown and a loros, and holding a larbarum and an akakia. A Manus Dei blesses the emperor. Andronikos is identified by his family name of Palaiologos. The obverse shows a standing Christ similar to that seen on the seals of Michael VIII.
Michael's seals mark a return of the autokrator, in both their inscription as well as in their depiction of the emperor full-length and alone. Family did not return to imperial seals again during the empire; lineage instead would be indicated in increasingly complex family names. For the seals of Michael's family see the Doukas Dynasty in the Dynasties of Empire section.]]>


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For the second time today, the Parti Québécois introduced a new candidate who is also a prominent media figure; both are contributors with the Journal de Montréal.
Diane Lamarre, who was also, until today, president of Quebec's Order of Pharmacists, will replace Marie Malavoy as the PQ candidate in South Shore Taillon.
Pressed by reporters - who were told by a PQ press attaché to only ask questions about healthcare - Lamarre hesitated on how long her candidacy has been in the works (pharmacists were recently in negociations with the government).
"Yesterday," Marois reminded Lamarre (audio below).
Lamarre added: "It was confirmed yesterday evening - the evening before last."
This morning, former student leader Martine Desjardins, also a Journal pundit, was unveiled as the PQ's candidate in the North Shore Groulx riding. Wednesday, her former Quebecor Media colleague Alexis Deschênes, once a TVA reporter, became the PQ's candidate in Trois-Rivières.
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There was another thread about this not too long ago. I remember that someone recommended a device called a Kegelmaster and I thought it sounded interesting. Might not hurt to try.
I can't believe I am typing this. Ugh. I do all the right things: I keep my weight in a healthy range, I don't smoke, I exercise regularly for 25 years, I eat well and I don't take any meds. And still I can't beat Mother Nature.
I am on my way to a diagnosis of Pelvic organ prolapse. One of my restrictions is no heavy lifting. What the hell? Right now, I cannot even tolerate a fast walk or slow job. I can do some squats and leg lifts but anything involving holding weights is too much strain.
I am near tears with frustration.
Anybody dealing with this or have resolved this problem?
I'm pretty young (47) to be experiencing these symptoms but it is what it is. They came on suddenly 2 weeks ago and were complicated by a concurrent UTI. I did have some minor exercise induced incontinence over the past 2 years so I guess this is just a progression of what was already in the works.
Another thing I need to do is avoid constipation like the Plague. Any suggestions? Coffee doesn't always do it, and it seems like all the red meat I've been eating isn't helping matters. I don't want to take laxatives.
Thank you, in advance.
Age 48
Start date: 7-5-12
GOAL: to live to be a healthy and active 100
"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
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There was another thread about this not too long ago. I remember that someone recommended a device called a Kegelmaster and I thought it sounded interesting. Might not hurt to try.
You can try a pessary during exercise. I personally wouldn't give up lifting. The natural progression of this is you needing a TVT or something along those lines later on, regardless, especially given how early this started for you. Maybe not lifting will delay that by a year, but IMO, it's not worth it. I rotated through urogynecology in med school and saw lots of women with this problem, so I think I have a fair amount of knowledge about this - not to mention, I'm not even 30 and have always suffered from stress incontinence, so I'll probably have the same problem by the time I get to your age....
You could start with pelvic floor exercises a few times a day. I would consider also talking to a physical therapist, they can start you on a good program
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PHaselow, are you talking about uterine prolapse? Do you also have a cystocele(weak bladder wall) and/or a rectocele(weak rectal wall)?
If these things are your problem, I hate to say it but, no amount of kegel exercises are going to fix those. I speak from experience.
I've been dealing with this for the past 3 years. I still lift heavy things but that comes with the price of making the situation worse. I can no longer use my rebounder because it's become to uncomfortable. Unfortunately, hysterectomy w/ a & p repair is the only fix for this and probably in the next few months.
I have a DVD with excercises for that- have a look around on Amazon, I know they have lots more now. This one claims to help prolapse. Not sure what it was called....came with a red resistance band... I've never had prolapse, but could certainly be that it helps.
I feel much better when my bowels are empty. I took several of my magnesium citrate capsules so I hope that helps. This is all so frustrating. I don't want to stop running and jumping and lifting! Over time I might build up the confidence to lift heavy things again, but for now I'm chicken.
Age 48
Start date: 7-5-12
GOAL: to live to be a healthy and active 100
"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
Henri Frederic Amiel
With regard to your constipation I recently learned here that chia seeds help. I make a type of pudding using chia seeds and coconut milk that is easy and with vanilla and honey quite tasty. You should be able to search for it if you're interested.
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The regulars pounding the track in the Downtown YMCA may have noticed a few unusually fast women lapping people at a ridiculous pace in the past several weeks.
Three Olympians, Marla Runyan, Elva Dryer and Anne Marie Lauck, have whirled through their training runs there while in town to visit their recuperating friend, Jenny Crain. Runyan and Dryer each spent a few days here in December, and Lauck arrived for a visit early on Thursday.
Cheryl Neumann, a top local runner and long-time friend of Jenny's, has hosted the elite athletes and helped arrange for their guest passes at the gym in the Grand Avenue Mall.
Neumann is grateful for the assistance offered by the Y and for the compassion that the elite runners have shown toward Crain, 39, who was struck by a car while on a training run in late August. She suffered devastating injuries and is undergoing daily therapy at the Columbia St. Mary's Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center.
"Jenny has a world of friends at all levels of running caliber," Neumann said. "She goes way back with Marla and Elva, when she was living in Eugene and also training in Albuquerque.
"When they visited Jenny, it was just great. She seemed to really lighten up when they came in. We don't know what she was thinking, but there was an expression on her face that was very positive."
In their latest update, Crain's family reported some encouraging progress: She spoke her own name and said "Merry Christmas" and verbally recognizes her mother and other family members; and she has taken a few steps with the help of her therapists.
Crain's friends and colleagues have organized a benefit for her at the Milwaukee Ale House, 233 N. Water St., at 5 p.m. on Jan. 17. The All-Northwestern Mutual Band, "Say Van Delay," will provide the entertainment. All proceeds from the event will go to the Jenny Crain Make It Happen Fund.
Donations to the fund can be sent to the M&I Bank, Mail-098-9120, Attn: Cathy Haukedahl, 651 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minn., 55402.
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Kentucky bowler breaks through at USBC Open
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Published: May 16, 2014 |
RENO, Nev. -
Marc Massie of Alexandria, Ky., said he always has struggled to get comfortable in the team event at the
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, but everything fell into place for him at the National Bowling Stadium on Friday.
The 44-year-old right-hander bowled better as the day progressed on the way to games of 223, 236 and 300 for a 759 series, the highest set in any event during his 17-year USBC Open Championships career. It was the 18th perfect game of this year's tournament and lifted Ebonite Fehr Calhoun to a 3,229 team total.
Massie has flirted with perfection on the championship lanes before, including a 279 effort in the first game of his tournament career, which started at the NBS in 1995.
"The reason I'm so jacked up right now is because I've always struggled in the team event and never gotten comfortable or gotten a great reaction," Massie said. "I had more confidence along the way today, and my reaction was very stable, so I was able to get comfortable. This is something I'll be able to enjoy for the rest of my life. A lot of 300s may be forgotten, but this one is special."
As Massie was putting the finishing touches on his 300 game, Ebonite Fehr Calhoun's companion team, Storm Cincinnati, was a few lanes away making a run at history.
The decision to bowl on different pairs was made a few years ago because they struggled with the way the lanes broke down when they bowled together. Sharing the lanes with other teams seems to have worked out for both halves of the group.
The experienced Storm Cincinnati team opened the day with games of 1,112 and 1,104 before nearly chasing down the highest team game in 111 years of Open Championships competition.
All five threw at least two strikes in the final frame, but they came up just short, finishing with 1,285, the second-highest game in tournament history. They moved into fifth place in Regular Team with a 3,501 total. Motion Plus Lanes of Cudahy, Wis., leads with a record score of 3,561, while 123Bowl.com of Naugatuck, Conn., owns the single-game record of 1,299, rolled earlier this year at the NBS.
Ron Pollard Jr., the newest member of Storm Cincinnati, set the pace with a 761 series and was followed by Eddie Graham Jr. (696), Jeff Fehr (689), Ken Jessee (680) and Ken Abner (675).
Abner and Jessee were part of the team, then known as Browning Pontiac, that claimed the Regular Team title in 2006 and Team All-Events crown in 2007. Fehr was on their companion team at the time but took a lot away from the experience of being so close to that success, which included his father, USBC Hall of Famer Steve Fehr.
"Execution and communication were the keys today, and we talked to each other after each shot," Jeff Fehr said. "We got on a roll the last game, and it fell into place for us. RJ (Pollard) was our rock today, and having two champions on the team with so much experience really helps. I was on the companion team both of the years they won, and there's nothing that can make up for that experience. Now, we're hoping to build on what they've already done here."
Now, Massie and his teammates are hoping to carry their momentum into doubles and singles, which will bring on the challenge of a new lane condition. The team event at the 2014 Open Championships is being contested on a 43-foot Sport-certified oil pattern, and doubles and singles features a 40-foot pattern.
Massie typically feels more comfortable during doubles and singles, and he's got extra confidence after his team performance. He also has spent some time this week at the Storm Bowlers Journal Championships presented by USBC, which uses the same pattern he'll see on the main tournament lanes Sunday morning at 1:30 a.m. EDT.
"After bowling at the Bowlers Journal, we now have a good idea about how the lanes are going to break down, so we're going to come in tomorrow and go after it," said Massie, who finished tied for fifth in Regular Doubles last year with Patrick Dombrowski. "Learning about the pattern and having the extra confidence after a 760 start has me really looking forward to tomorrow."
Anthony LaCaze of Melrose Park, Ill., leads Regular All-Events this year with 2,273, while Janz's H.I. of Beaver Dam, Wis., leads Team All-Events with 10,363.
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His manager, Jason Bagdade, said DePriest died Friday, Feb. 8, at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz.
DePriest was music director of the Oregon Symphony from 1980 until 2003 and served as music adviser for the Grand Rapids Symphony in the mid-1980s prior to the appointment of Catherine Comet as music director in 1986.
A music advisor in a symphony orchestra plays a critical role, overseeing the artistic aspects of the organization in the absence of a music director. While serving as music director of the Oregon Symphony, DePreist took up duties in 1985 with the Grand Rapids Symphony following the departure of music director Semyon Bychkov.
The nephew of contralto Marian Anderson, the first African American musician to perform on stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, DePriest contracted polio in 1962 and used two canes, and later a motorized chair, to move about.
In 1965, he was selected as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic by Leonard Bernstein and later was named associate conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., by Antal Dorati in 1971.
DePreist led orchestras in Quebec, Monte Carlo, Tokyo and Malmo, Sweden during his career and made more than 50 recordings, including 15 with the Oregon Symphony.
He was music director laureate of the Oregon Symphony and director emeritus of conducting and orchestral studies at The Juilliard School's conducting program in New York.
DePreist's wife, Ginette DePreist, told The Oregonian her husband had been in and out of the hospital since a massive March heart attack that was followed by open-heart surgery.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Ashley Landess, the president of the limited-government supporting S.C. Policy Council and a frequent critic of the states governance structure, said state ethics laws make legal many practices that are unethical.
Its tempting to limit reform to tweaks, but that wont solve the problem, she said. Those in power are allowed to operate with no accountability.
Among Landess suggestions to lawmakers Thursday: ax legislators authority to appoint judges, do away with boards and commissions and give the governor more power.
Landess said under the states current legislatively dominated model, the governor is little more than a cheerleader instead of a CEO.
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