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Continuing coverage in the sage of former Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino. Razorbacks fired the veteran coach April 10 for what his boss called a pattern of deception and misdeeds tied to Jessica Dorrell, a woman he gave $20,000 to and helped fast track her hiring in the UA athletic department.
Bobby Petrino has arrived at Western Kentucky and says he and his wife Becky "consider this coming home."
The man who was hired to right the ship after scandal rocked the University of Arkansas football program, has been removed as coach.
Ark. State Police has unveiled its first policy for troopers who provide security to college football teams.
The Arkansas Ethics Commission says there's probable cause that a state police captain who provided security for former Razorbacks coach Bobby Petrino broke the law when he accepted tickets and a Sugar Bowl ring from Arkansas' football program.
Bobby Petrino, disgraced former Arkansas football coach, has sold his mansion in Fayetteville, Ark., for $1.7 million, $550,000 less than what he paid for it in 2008.
Arkansas offensive lineman Jason Peacock has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor theft charge and been sentenced to 10 days in jail.
It's been an eventful week for Razorback fans, with the team getting a new head Hog.
Weber State hired John L. Smith as its football coach after last season and was looking forward to seeing what he could do with his alma mater.
Emotions explode onto Twitter as Arkansas names John L. Smith as its interim football coach.
The Arkansas Children's Hospital Foundation announces that the Bobby Petrino Charity Golf Classic is cancelled.
Bobby Petrino is out as Razorbacks head coach.
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Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino is apologetic in text messages sent to a series of athletic department employees.
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Ousted football coach Bobby Petrino says he accepts responsibility and will not appeal his firing by the University of Arkansas.
Former Arkansas head football coach Bobby Petrino endorsed Jessica Dorrell's hiring as student athlete development coordinator out of 159 total applicants, a process that was completed in less than a month.
Running back recruit Jamel James tweets, "I still love Arkansas," after decommitting to the school, ESPNU reports.
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Arkansas Razorbacks fans are buzzing about what will become of their favorite team now that head coach Bobby Petrino is gone.
Six months of telephone records show that Bobby Petrino was in frequent contact with his mistress.
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Petrino's Statement
Fired Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino says he is sorry for what he calls selfish decisions that hurt his family and others.
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Razorback fans will hold a rally in support of University of Arkansas head football coach Bobby Petrino.
Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino returns to practice just two days after a motorcycle crash left him hospitalized.
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The Arkansas athletic director said Coach Bobby Petrino will attend Tuesday's spring practice.
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Arkansas alum and Hall of Fame broadcaster Pat Summerall will emcee "Talking Football With Bobby Petrino" on July 18.
Western Kentucky Athletic Director Todd Stewart talks about giving Bobby Petrino a second chance as a football coach.
Bobby Petrino describes how he's moving forward after being fired from Arkansas and getting a second chance as a football coach.
Jeremy Corbyn has won a decisive victory as leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party after he fended off a challenge from Owen Smith in a nationwide membership vote.
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Director's Book Forum
The aim of this forum is to provide opportunities for Princeton faculty working in international and regional studies to present their most recently published work to the Princeton community.
The series will be held at noon; lunch will be provided. Registration required. Contact Carole Frantzen, email@example.com or 609.258.7497.
April 16, 2015
France 1940: Defending the Republic
Philip Nord
Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Department of History
In this revisionist account of France's crushing defeat in 1940, Philip Nord argues that the nation's downfall has long been misunderstood. He assesses France's diplomatic and military preparations for war with Germany, its conduct of the war once the fighting began, and the political consequences of defeat on the battlefield. He also tracks attitudes among French leaders once defeat seemed a likelihood, identifying who among them took advantage of the nation's misfortunes to sabotage democratic institutions and plot an authoritarian way forward. In his book, Nord states that the longstanding view that France's collapse was due to military unpreparedness and a decadent national character is unsupported by fact. He reveals that the Third Republic was no worse prepared and its military failings no less dramatic than those of the United States and other Allies in the early years of the war.
Co-sponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society
April 20, 2015
Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema
Steven Chung
Associate Professor of East Asian Studies
In Split Screen Korea, Steven Chung illustrates how the career of Korea's most important postwar film director reveals surprising continuities between South and North Korea. He illuminates the story of postwar Korean film and popular culture through the first in-depth account in English of Shin Sang-ok's remarkable filmmaking career. Split Screen Korea shows how cinematic styles,
popular culture, and intellectual discourse bridged the divisions of postwar Korea, raising new questions about the implications of political partition.
April 27, 2015
Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and Their Consequences for Human Welfare
Carles Boix
Robert Garrett Professor in Politics and Public Affairs, Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School
The fundamental question of political theory, one that precedes all other questions about the nature of political life, is why there is a state at all? Is human cooperation feasible without a political authority enforcing it? Or do we need a state to live together? If a state is necessary to establish order, how does it come into place? And, when it does, what are the consequences for the political status and economic welfare of its citizens? Combining ethnographical material, historical cases and statistical analysis, this book describes the foundations of stateless societies, why and how states emerge and the basis of political obligation. As a result of this inquiry, it explains the economic and political roots of inequality, describes the causes of the stagnation of the preindustrial world and explores what led to the West's prosperity of the past two centuries.
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October 21, 2014
The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu
Isabelle Clark-Decčs
Professor of Anthropology; Director of the Program in South Asian Studies
Clark-Decčs presents readers with a focused anthropology of Tamil, a waning marriage system: its past, present and dwindling future. The book takes on the main pillars of Tamil social organization, considers the ways in which Tamil intermarriage establishes kinship and social rank and argues that past scholars have improperly defined "Dravidian" kinship. Within her critique of past scholarship, Clark-Decčs recasts a powerful and vivid image of preferential marriage in Tamil Nadu and how those preferences and marital rules play out in lived reality.
About the Author
Isabelle Clark-Decčs's research interests are in South Asia, with a research focus on the Tamils of South India. Her first three books focus on Tamil ritual and the series of conceptual, existential, theoretical issues it opens up: Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals (as Isabelle Nabokov); No One Cries for the Dead: Tamil Dirges, Rowdy Songs and Graveyard Petitions; and The Encounter Never Ends: a Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals. She has edited a volume of essays that explore how ongoing discussion about the nature and effects of modernity and globalization is reshaping the anthropological study of India (A Companion to the Anthropology of India). Her ethnography of marriages to close kin in Tamil Nadu seeks to make a contribution to the anthropological interpretation of kinship and social change (The "Right" Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu). Currently she is looking at the processes of growing up in the Indian state of Karnataka as well as planning a new research on individual and social being in South India. She teaches courses on India, ritual, kinship, anthropological theory and ethnography and directs the Program in South Asian Studies.
November 11, 2014
Object of the Atlantic: Concrete Aesthetics in Cuba, Brazil, and Spain
Rachel Price
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
Rachel Price's The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. She uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery and media technologies from the Atlantic world.
About the Author
Rachel Price (B.A., Yale; Ph.D., Duke U.), works on Latin American, circum-Atlantic and particularly Cuban literature and culture; media and literature; and empire. Her book entitled "The Object of the Atlantic: Concrete Aesthetics in Cuba, Brazil and Spain 1868-1968," is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. Her current manuscript on contemporary Cuban aesthetics, provisionally entitled Planet/Cuba, is under contract with Verso Books. Price is a member of the 2012-2015 PIIRS Research Community on Empire.
December 2, 2014
Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin
John P. Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs; Acting Director, Program in
Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
In Stalin, Stephen Kotkin offers a biography that is equal to this shrewd, sociopathic, charismatic dictator in all his dimensions. The character of Stalin emerges as both astute and blinkered, cynical and true believing, people oriented and vicious, canny enough to see through people but prone to nonsensical beliefs. Kotkin describes a man inclined to despotism who could be utterly charming, a pragmatic ideologue, a leader who obsessed over slights, yet was a precocious geostrategic thinker and who also made egregious strategic blunders.
About the Author
Stephen Kotkin joined the Princeton faculty in 1989. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on modern authoritarian regimes, global history (1850-present), and Soviet-Eurasian history. His books include Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Random House Modern Library, 2009), with a contribution by Jan Gross; Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000 (Oxford, 2001; new edition 2008), Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (1995); and Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World, coauthored with others (W.W. Norton, 3rd edition 2010).
He directed Princeton's Russian and Eurasian Studies Program for thirteen years (1995-2008), and served as a member and then chairman of the Princeton University Press editorial board (2003-7). He has written reviews and essays for The New Republic, Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Financial Times and for a number of years was the regular book reviewer for the New York Times Sunday Business section. He serves as a consultant on emerging markets and global trends for the World Pension Forum, an association for institutional investors, and philanthropic institutions, such as George Soros' Open Society Foundations. Ph.D. University of California Berkeley (1988).
December 9, 2014
Acts of Union and Disunion
Linda Colley
Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History
Political unions are under pressure. The Soviet Union has unraveled. The government of the United States appears dysfunctional. The European Union is increasingly unpopular. Now Linda Colley examines an older political union in growing difficulty – the United Kingdom. She analyzes the successive acts of union that linked England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. She also explores some projected unions that have failed, such as the repeated attempts to unite Britain and America. Drawing on art, literature, politics, music, architecture and landscape – and on international comparisons – she unpicks some of the identity stories deployed in the making of the UK
About the Author
Linda Colley, the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, is an expert on Britain since 1700. She favors cross-disciplinary history, and in both her writing and her teaching, she examines Britain's past in a broader European, imperial and global context. Born in Britain, she graduated from Bristol University with First Class Honors in history (1972) and completed her Ph.D. in history at Cambridge University (1977). The first female Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, she moved to Yale University in 1982. Her first book, In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714 1760 (1982), challenged the dominant view by arguing that the Tory party remained active and potent during its years out of power, exploring the wider consequences of this in regards to ideas, electoral and popular politics and political action.Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (1992), which won the Wolfson Prize for History and which has just been re-issued in a revised 5th paperback edition, investigated how - and how far - the inhabitants of England, Scotland and Wales came to see themselves as British over the course of the 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1998, Colley left Yale to accept a Senior Leverhulme Research Professorship in History at the London School of Economics. Colley is also the author of Namier (1989), a reappraisal of the Polish-born and Zionist historian Lewis Namier. Her work The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History was nominated one of the 10 best books of 2007 by the New York Times.

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This week on Capitol Hill, decorated former Naval Officer Nat Kreamer, who serves as CEO of San Francisco-based Clean Power Finance and Vice Chairman of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), delivered the following testimony to the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee:
Mr. Chairman, Thank you for having me today. My name is Nat Kreamer and I am the CEO of Clean Power Finance, which is a leading provider of financing and software to the US solar industry. I am also the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the national Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA), which represents the US solar industry.
Returning home from Afghanistan in 2007, where I fought in the US Special Forces as a Navy Officer, I started the multi-billion-dollar residential solar financing industry, which helps hundreds of thousands of Americans save money on their electricity bills using clean, affordable, and domestic solar power, harvested right at their homes.
Americans who get their power from solar today can save money immediately on their utility bills. If they buy an electric car, they can fuel it for less than $0.10 per mile using solar electricity versus more than $0.20 per mile using gasoline. Those compelling economics are attracting hundreds of thousands of Americans to go solar now at home and at work.
Going solar makes our economy, defense, and environment stronger. Going solar is patriotic.
Solar is making our economy stronger. Last year the solar industry grew 27%, making it among the fastest growing in the country, according to the Solar Energy Industry Association. The industry's growth is translating into more domestic jobs. Specifically, the US solar industry added approximately 24,000 domestic jobs in 2013, increasing the number of Americans working in solar to approximately 143,000, according to the non-partisan and non-profit Solar Foundation. In addition to the 143,000 Americans working for solar companies, many thousands more work for companies providing goods and services to the US solar industry. Today, more people work in the US solar industry than in the US coal industry—a win for our economy and environment.
Solar provides valuable jobs for Americans. For example, the US solar industry employs Americans in a broad set of jobs including: research and development, manufacturing, distribution, construction, finance, software development, as well as sales and marketing. Furthermore, the wages for tradesmen working in solar are higher than US averages for similar jobs in other industries. Domestic solar jobs are good ones.
American military veterans are particularly passionate about building the US solar industry and buying solar electricity. The US solar industry employees 22% more military veterans than the US economic average employment rate for veterans, according to The Solar Foundation. Military veterans represent more than 20% of the homeowners who get their power from a solar system on their roof today, according to SunRun, the leading residential solar company I co-founded after fighting in the US Special Forces in Afghanistan in 2006. Veterans like me are building the US solar industry and going solar at home because we know first-hand that more clean, affordable, and domestic power makes America and the world safer.
Veterans are building the US solar industry because we view it as our patriotic duty to serve the nation. For example, while fighting in Afghanistan I realized that we had to cut off funding sources to terrorists and insurgents to permanently win the war. Using renewable energy at home denies jihadists the petro-dollars they use to buy bombs and bullets. I got 'religion' about renewable energy fighting in Afghanistan.
US solar companies hire veterans because we come trained, ready, and passionate. First, the US military is the best training institution in the country. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines are motivated, disciplined, organized leaders who have the skills the solar industry requires to continue its rocket-fast growth. Second, the solar industry is filled with people who are passionate about the job and who work to help people, the environment, and national security. Solar, like the military, is not just about the paycheck; it is also about working for something larger than oneself. Veterans working in solar get to serve our nation twice.
The US Department of Defense is investing in solar power because it is a force multiplier. For example, the military is putting solar systems on the roofs of buildings at bases around the country. That solar electricity saves the military money it can invest in our national defense. Installing distributed solar systems on military bases improves their security by helping make bases self-sustaining and resilient to attack. US military units in the field are starting to use solar panels to generate electricity to run combat systems. Those solar panels make our fighting units more effective by reducing their reliance on vulnerable supply chains and expensive over-land diesel fuel deliveries for generators. It costs the US military approximately $50 per gallon for every gallon of diesel delivered to combat units in the field, according to the US Marine Corps Expeditionary Energy Office. An average solar panel costs approximately $150, creates as much energy as approximately 250 gallons of diesel fuel, and only has to be delivered once. Solar is a force multiplier for everyone wearing a uniform today.
Traditional power companies—utilities—are investing in solar because it makes them stronger too. Duke Energy, Dominion, NextEra, Edison International, Integrys, Mid American, Exelon, ConEd, PSEG, NRG, and PG&E, among others, have invested billions in utility-scale and distributed solar power generation. Utilities investing in solar today—including five of the aforementioned that have invested with my company, Clean Power Finance—are doing so because solar power generation provides them a better return on investment than other power generation types. In addition to strong returns, utilities investing in solar enjoy strategic benefits including access to new markets and owning end-user relationships. Consequently, last year 20% of new power generation capacity in the US came from solar power, second only to natural gas, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Solar is strategic and profitable for utilities.
Using solar power makes our environment stronger. Solar protects precious fresh water resources. Power generation from fossil fuels evaporates 0.5 gallons per kilowatt power produced, according to the US Department of Energy. When you add this up, 41% of fresh water in America gets evaporated in power production using fossil fuel. Every new solar system installed saves a lot of water for drinking, agriculture, and wild life. We can use more of that water in the West right now—thank God we have sun to install more solar.
Going solar makes our economy, defense, and environment stronger. Going solar is patriotic.
Thank you Mr. Chairman for having me today; I look forward to the committee's questions.


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A walk called "Snowshoe Discovery Tour: GPS mapping skills" is set at 10 a.m. Sunday at Whitegrass Ski Touring Center.
Rick Landenberger will lead the program and provide an introduction to GPS technology including principles for mapping points and routes, with particular emphasis on central Appalachian forest ecology and wildlife applications. Participants can bring their own GPS if they'd like, but Landenberger will have loaner units for first-timers. All are welcome.
Snowshoes for the walk will be provided by White Grass free of charge, so it is a good way to try out this sport. Landenberger is the executive director of a nonprofit geospatial research and education network, and West Virginia University faculty member in Geology and Geography.
These free Sunday walks are offered at White Grass each year as an effort to expand appreciation of the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge. More information is available at www.whitegrass.com or 304-866-4114.
The event is co-sponsored by the Refuge, White Grass and the Friends of the 500th.


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London Mayor presses PM Cameron on the EU calling for a referendum
London Mayor Boris Johnson heaped pressure on Prime Minister David Cameron this week by calling for a referendum on a deeply pared back British membership of the European Union.
Johnson, speaking at a Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event, said the Euro was a calamitous project and that Britain should negotiate a new treaty to prevent its slide out of the world's biggest economic area.
"Boil it to down to the single market, that's the great achievement of the European Union, I think we could easily scrap the social chapter, the fisheries policy," Johnson, a Conservative party member seen as a potential rival to Cameron, said in a speech.
"That is a renegotiated Treaty we could and should put to the vote of the British people.
"It is high time that we had a referendum, and it would be a very simple question. Do you want to stay in the EU single market — yes or no?"
Johnson sidestepped three questions on whether he would like to be a future prime minister but he has set a high bar for Cameron. Negotiating such a new deal with Europe would be extremely difficult with EU allies unlikely to approve such a radical treaty change.
"There will be a huge barrage from foreign legations saying 'This is not on the table, there is no way we'll accept this,'" said Johnson, a formidable campaigner whose messy mop of platinum blond hair makes him instantly recognizable.
"The choice is going to be very simple: it's between staying in on our terms or getting out" he told the audience of investors and bankers.
Dropping out of the European Union could isolate the world's sixth largest economy and bankers warn that such a dramatic move would sap the power of the City of London, Europe's dominant financial centre.
But the turmoil of the eurozone crisis and the prospect of the currency bloc forming a closer political union that London will not join have convinced many within the ruling Conservative party and beyond that they must seek a new deal with Europe. The issue, which has ripped previous Conservative administrations apart, has shot to the top of the political agenda with anti-EU party lawmakers pushing for a looser relationship with the 27-nation bloc — or even leaving altogether.


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Steelers -3.5Only 3.5??? Zona hasn't looked even remotely close to a competitive team and they'll be hunting for Kolb all day long!
Skins +1.5I'll take them with points after losing a tough divisional last week against the Eagles, let's see what Beck has
Oakland -3.5 who cares who starts at QB, running game ALL day and a heavy hitting D
Also like all 3 big spreads, but going to wait out the early games and see what happens.
O/U potentialsBears/Bucs U-44ATL/DET O-47Pitt/Zona O-45
Big season coming up, BOL EVERYONE! Let's shred them books and make some dough!
KC -3.5Eagles -4Lions +1.5Steelers +1.54:00 potentials - Chargers -8.5, Zona -7 (worried about laying too many points today) tonight - JETS -5.5
opinions always welcomed!
Boston HUGE (Leafs stink against the Bruins and Boston wants to win so the Leafs end with lotter pick)T-Bay (can you say....sweep!)San Jose (weird lines on this game)Vancouver (can't lose back to back...can they?)
also like some overs but questioningOver in T.O/Bos & Phil/TB)
Huge card today so had to cut some leans...
FLA St -1.5 & under 131.6
Uconn -2
Wisconsin GB -2
Arkansas St -4
leaning on Bama, Cal +13.5, North Zona +1.5, UCLA -8.5 & St Mary's -6...
any thoughts people???
Gonna be a great year ppl!!!
Picks for week 1 are
Jax, Tenn, NYG and Zona.....all against regular spread, no teasing no foolery!
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Guiley (The Encyclopedia of Saints) has revised this essential lexicon in response to Wicca's rise in popularity and recent acceptance as an organized religion. Spanning centuries and continents, the book defines 480 of witchcraft's and wizardry's major historical events, figures, tools, sites, symbols, and abstract terms. The highly engaging, alphabetically organized entries run several paragraphs in length and deftly clarify a term's etymology as well as its spiritual, historical, or spell-making significance. A nice complement to Lexa Rosean's The Encyclopedia of Magickal Ingredients(2005); recommended for Wiccan, religious studies, and occult collections.
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Can eating baby powder during pregnancy harm the baby?
Definitely eating baby powder is not healthful for you or your baby.
If you are having that kind of craving, please consult with your ObGYN and consult with a registered dietician to make sure you are getting your vitamin, mineral and macronutrient (carbohydrate, protein and essential fats) needs met.
Keep taking your prenatal vitamin with a meal that has some dietary fat and eat within an hour after waking, and every three to four hours throughout the day. Focus on nutrient dense foods, foods that have the most nutrients per chew -- more back to nature foods (organic fruits, vegetables, beans, grains, meat, fish and organic dairy and eggs).
Health and happiness to you,
Deborah Klein, MS, RD


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Dallas Mavericks (32-20, 17-11 road) vs. Okla. City Thunder (30-21, 15-10 home)
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Offensive Rating: Thunder – 106.0 (21st), Mavericks – 108.6 (12th)
Defensive Rating: Thunder – 102.7 (3rd), Mavericks – 106.8 (16th)
Pace: Thunder – 92.3 (16th), Mavericks – 92.1 (20th)
View from the enemy: The Two Man Game
I'm still trying to shake the cobwebs off after All-Star Weekend. I haven't totally recouped, both mentally and physically. And I didn't really do anything. So I can't imagine what it's like for guys like Kevin Durant, James Harden and Russell Westbrook who were everywhere last weekend.
The Thunder is the first team that gets to see Dallas test out the new guys. Which actually is probably a small advantage. The Mavericks hit an absolute grand slam with the trade and are now one of the three or four best teams in the league, no doubt. BUT, there is always a feeling out process with new guys and with only one practice under their belt, the on-court chemistry might be off. In fact, the new guys didn't even practice with the team yet. So either the Mavs will play shorthanded, or Caron Butler and Brendan Haywood will likely play limited minutes. Then again, that can all easily be reconciled by Dirk Nowitzki, so I don't know how much it really matters.
Dallas coming in: Before the break, the Mavs were 4-6 in their last 10 and were kind of slipping. They are a good road team at 17-11 on the year though.
Other than the fact Dallas is playing with almost a brand new team, the big matchup is Shawn Marion on Kevin Durant. I'm sure we all remember the last time the Mavs came to the Ford Center. Durant had his worst game of the season, going 4-18 from the floor for just 12 points. Dallas used an interesting defensive strategy against KD, running an extra defender at Durant any time he put the ball on the floor on the wing.
Obviously, Dirk is the key for Dallas and so far, I think Serge Ibaka has done the best job on him in two games. Ibaka has the length and strength to compete with Dirk, and was good at using the technique of "getting under" Nowitzki. Jeff Green just doesn't have the size to really match Dirk.
Inside, Brendan Haywood is a load, but again, how many minutes does he see? Same thing with Caron Butler. But it's not like Dallas doesn't have firepower (am I allowed to say that still?). Jason Terry will be more than able to fill any offensive void tonight.
It's about Russell Westbrook playing well against Jason Kidd, Durant doing his routine thing and then another guy stepping up. The break surely killed some of the Thunder's momentum, but as it stands, OKC has won six straight and is the thick of the playoff hunt. Tonight would be a great statement and a good way to get the second half kicked off on the right foot.
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A 9-year-old who is going blind made a list of all the things he wants to see before he loses his sight. A hot-air balloon ride in Albuquerque was on his list.Video Transcript
FROM TEXAS IS ABOUT TO GO BLIND. SO HE MADE A LIST OF ALL THE THINGS HE WANTS TO SEE BEFORE HE LOSES HIS SIGHT. AND TODAY, A HOT AIR BALLOON RIDE IN ALBUQUERQUE WAS A DREAM COME TRUE FOR THIS COURAGEOUS AND INSPIRING LITTLE BOY. sound of clapping and cheering HOW COOL IS THIS? 9 YEAR OLD BEN PIERCE GETS HIS WISH. A HOT AIR BALLOON RIDE IN ALBUQUERQUE. It was kind of a magical experience. :03 FLYING OVER TREES, AND THE CITY... WITH NEW MEXICO'S BLUE SKIES AS A BACK DROP. It was great THESE ARE SIGHTS BEN WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO SEE FOR A SHORT WHILE LONGER--- I'm so happy BEN'S WORLD IS ABOUT TO GO DARK. HE'S GOING BLIND. THIS YOUNG BOY FROM TEXAS IS TRYING TO GET AS MANY VISUAL MEMORIES BEFORE THAT HAPPENS... SO HE MADE A WISH LIST .. ON IT....THE EIFFEL TOWER AND AMAZING FORESTS IN ASIA ....AND ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO. SO SATURDAY THE COMMUNITY MADE THAT HAPPEN. Wishes are coming true that we didn't think we could pull off at all BEN DIDN'T ONLY GET TO RIDE A BALLOON you got to open it slowly , wow BECOMING AN HONORARY FIREFIGHTER BROUGHT A HUGE SMILE TO THIS LITTLE ONES FACE. THE PIERCE FAMILY DOESN'T KNOW WHEN THE LIGHTS WILL GO OUT IN BEN'S WORLD--- BUT, AT LEAST FOR TODAY--- IN THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT-- HE HAS ONE LASTING MEMORY OF A BEAUTIFUL BLUE SKY, A BALLOON WITH A KALEIDOSCOPE OF COLORS AND PEOPLE WHO SHOWED HIM LOVE AND KINDNESS DOESN'T HAVE TO BE SEEN, IT CAN BE FELT WITH THE HEART. ALONG WITH BEN'S TRIP IN A HOT AIR BALLOON... HE'S ALSO GONE TO NEW YORK CITY, THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND GOT TO SEE A WATERFALL UP CLOSE.
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ANDOVER TOWNSHIP — Three people were arrested for allegedly trying to steal a vehicle from an off-duty Sussex County sheriff's officer while they were fleeing from a group home for developmentally disabled youths in the township, police said.
Two of the suspects — Jamar Justice, 18, and a 15-year-old boy — surrendered to police after they initially tried to flee the scene. The third suspect, a second 15-year-old boy, was arrested near Willowglen Academy on property owned by St. Paul's Abbey on Route 206, police said.
During the investigation, police learned the trio were runaways from Willowglen Academy, which is located at the abbey.
The trio had tried to steal the vehicle immediately after leaving the facility, but the escape was thwarted when the off-duty officer was returning to his vehicle and saw them running from the scene, police said.
Justice and one of the 15-year-old boys were charged with conspiracy to commit theft. The second 15-year-old boy was charged with criminal attempted theft of a motor vehicle.
All three suspects were released back to the custody of Willowglen Academy.
Andover Township Patrolmen Daniel Kern and Robert Youngs, and Lt. Eric Danielson investigated.


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Jeanette and Neil live off the land in a yurt in northern California. Neil is dying. Jeanette's long-lost cousin and her husband are visiting from the Midwest after losing their daughter.
Wrap a love story in a comedy and you get Jane Anderson's "The Quality of Life" at Artists Repertory Theatre. The work won awards for best new play in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Anderson's credits include the Emmy-winning "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murduring Mom" and the screenplay for "How to Make an American Quilt."
Allen Nause, former artistic director at ART, directs. He calls it a "tricky play, full of surprises and landmine issues, but they are treated so delicately that it is hard to stick to one side. You may walk in with notions, but be prepared to shift."
Veteran Portland actors Linda Alper, Michael Fisher-Welsh, Susannah Mars and Michael Mendelson star.-- David Stabler


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October 12, 2010
Mayor Villaraigosa, Drew Carey, Bob Harper, and Other Special Guests Join 30,000 Participants for California's Largest AIDS Fundraiser; Event Comes Days After Devastating State HIV/AIDS Budget Cuts
A range of VIP and celebrity guests, elected officials, and AIDS Project Los Angeles clients living with HIV/AIDS will be available for comment on the event and on the recent state HIV/AIDS budget cuts.
WHAT: 26th annual AIDS Walk Los Angeles (AWLA)
WHEN: Sunday, October 17, 2010 8:00 a.m. Media Check-In Open (Backstage left) 9:00 a.m. Aerobic Warm-Up on Main Stage on San Vicente Boulevard 9:15 a.m. Opening Ceremony on Main Stage on San Vicente Boulevard 9:55 a.m. Backstage Photo/Interview Opportunities with Celebrities, Elected Officials, APLA clients 10:00 a.m. Walk Begins
WHO: More than 30,000 participants are expected. Jeffrey Katzenberg (CEO, Dreamworks Animation SKG), former AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) board member and AWLA sponsor, will speak on behalf of APLA.Confirmed celebrity guests include: Drew Carey("The Price Is Right"), Bob Harper ("The Biggest Loser"), Carson Kressley ("True Beauty"), Ana Ortiz ("Ugly Betty"), Pauley Perrette ("NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigation Service"), Sara Ramirez ("Grey's Anatomy"), Hal Sparks(Actor and Comedian),and Michael Urie("Ugly Betty").
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosaand West Hollywood Mayor John Heilmanwill speak about the current HIV/AIDScrisis in Los Angeles County and the vital work of lead beneficiary APLA. Other elected officials expected to attend include:United States Representatives Howard Berman, Judy Chu, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Diane E. Watson, and Henry Waxman; California State Senator Fran Pavley; California State Assemblymembers Mike Feuer and Anthony Portantino; Los Angeles City Councilmembers Paul Koretz, Paul Krekorian, and Mark Ridley-Thomas; West Hollywood City Councilmembers John Duran, Lindsey Horvath, Abbe Land, and Jeffrey Prang; and West Hollywood Police Department Captain Kelley Fraser.
WHERE: West Hollywood Park: San Vicente Boulevard between Santa Monica Boulevard and Melrose Avenue. Venue map: http://www.aidswalk.net/losangeles/eventinfo/maps.html
General Media Parking: Cedars-Sinai Medical Towers, 3rd Street & Sherbourne. Travel westbound on 3rd and turn right on Sherbourne. Shuttle service to the venue provided.
Broadcast Crew Parking: Koontz Hardware, 8914 Santa Monica Boulevard. Travel northbound on Robertson and enter at Robertson Boulevard and Melrose Avenue. Take the last right before Santa Monica Boulevard (unmarked alley) to parking lot. Please contact Gabriel McGowan at 213.201.1521 to reserve this parking.
Note: This lot is covered.
MORE: AIDS Walk Los Angeles is the single largest source of private support for direct services that thousands of low-income Angelenos living with HIV/AIDS depend on – like food, medical care, housing help, and more. This year's event will take place just days after the announcement of a crushing $52 million budget cut to California's HIV/AIDS care and prevention programs. Yet more Angelenos are now living with HIV/AIDS than ever before, and infection rates are soaring among those at highest risk. AIDS Walk Los Angeles is more important than ever as a source of vital support for programs and services that work to save lives, prevent infections, and end AIDS.
AIDS Project Los Angeles: AIDS Project Los Angeles, one of the largest non-profit AIDS service organizations in the United States, provides bilingual direct services, prevention education and leadership on HIV/AIDS-related policy and legislation. With more than 25 years of service, APLA is a community-based, volunteer-supported organization with local, national and global reach. For more information, visit apla.org.
About AIDS Walk Los Angeles: Since 1985, AIDS Walk Los Angeles has raised more than $66million for HIV programs and services throughout Los Angeles County, and has grown into one of the largest AIDS fundraising events in the country. In 2009 alone, 30,000 participants, many ofwhom were members of 1,600 corporate and community teams, raised $3 million for AIDS ProjectLos Angeles and over a dozen other AIDS service organizations. For more information, visit aidswalk.net.
About MZA Events: AIDS Walk Los Angeles was founded in 1985 by Craig R. Miller and his organization of activists, MZA Events. Miller is the AIDS Walk originator and has produced hundreds of public service campaigns and fundraising events, generating more than $350 million for major AIDS organizations throughout the country. For more information, please visit mzaevents.com.
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The runways were inundated with child-inspired trends (to wit, kitty prints, bloomers, knee socks, and bows) this season, and who better to drive the message home than a passel of pint-sized rascals? Shot by Ryan McGinley for Purple Magazine, these little guys let their faces show just how excited they are to be in head-to-toe looks from the runway (or—more likely—that they just got offered ice cream for dinner). We'd be just as giddy if we were in that high-necked Chanel ruff or the studded Givenchy dress—and, trust us, it would have been a whole lot chicer than the dungaroos we had sported when we still had our baby teeth in. (Coute Que Coute)
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A Jefferson County jury today returned a $750,000 judgment against two DHR workers accused of negligence in the beating death of a 16-month-old Birmingham boy.
The wrongful death and negligence lawsuit was brought through the grandmother of the boy, Dominic Ware, who was killed by his mother's boyfriend in 2006, two weeks after he was returned to his mother.
The defendants in the suit, Lacie Watson and Erica Jackson, both failed to ensure Ware's mother complied with a court order mandating a drug test and psychological evaluation, said Courtney French, an attorney for Dominic's grandmother. Jackson recommended to a judge that Dominic be returned to his mother, while Watson failed to investigate the conditions at the home, French said.
French and attorney Michael Petway, who sought a $1 million judgment, asked the jury to award their client a judgment that would deter other DHR workers from failing to follow mandated rules in place to protect children.
One of the jurors, in an interview after the verdict was read, said that's what they aimed to do.
"I believe that we were supposed to send a message so this does not happen again," Susan Heil said.
Bill Dawson, an attorney for the DHR workers, said he was disappointed with the verdict and intends to appeal. He argued to the jury that the workers were diligent and did not intentionally do anything wrong.
The judgment will be paid through a liability fund for state workers, French said.
Jorge Latrice Carter, the boyfriend of Ware's mother, was convicted of capital murder in Ware's death and is serving a life sentence without a chance for parole.


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Polyaniline (PANI) is a conducting polymer of the semi-flexible rod polymer family. Although the compound itself was discovered over 150 years ago, only since the early 1980s has polyaniline captured the intense attention of the scientific community. This interest is due to the rediscovery of high electrical conductivity. Amongst the family of conducting polymers and organic semiconductors, polyaniline has many attractive processing properties. Because of its rich chemistry, polyaniline is one of the most studied conducting polymers of the past 50 years.[1]
As described by Alan MacDiarmid,[2] the first definitive report of polyaniline did not occur until 1862, which included an electrochemical method for the determination of small quantities of aniline.[3]
From the early 20th century on, occasional reports about the structure of PANI were published. Subsequent to his investigation of other highly-conductive organic materials, MacDiarmid demonstrated the conductive states of polyaniline which arose upon protonic doping of the emeraldine form of polyaniline.[4] Conductive polymers such as polyaniline remain of widespread interest,[5] providing an opportunity to address fundamental issues of importance to condensed matter physics, including, for example, the metal-insulator transition,[6] the Peierls Instability and quantum decoherence.[7]
Synthesis and properties[edit]
Polymerized from the inexpensive aniline monomer, polyaniline can be found in one of three idealized oxidation states:[8]
- leucoemeraldine – white/clear & colorless (C6H4NH)n
- emeraldine – green for the emeraldine salt, blue for the emeraldine base ([C6H4NH]2[C6H4N]2)n
- (per)nigraniline – blue/violet (C6H4N)n
In figure 1, x equals half the degree of polymerization (DP). Leucoemeraldine with n = 1, m = 0 is the fully reduced state. Pernigraniline is the fully oxidized state (n = 0, m = 1) with imine links instead of amine links. Studies have shown that most forms of polyaniline are one of the three states or physical mixtures of these components. The emeraldine (n = m = 0.5) form of polyaniline, often referred to as emeraldine base (EB), is neutral, if doped (protonated) it is called emeraldine salt (ES), with the imine nitrogens protonated by an acid. Protonation helps to delocalize the otherwise trapped diiminoquinone-diaminobenzene state. Emeraldine base is regarded as the most useful form of polyaniline due to its high stability at room temperature and the fact that, upon doping with acid, the resulting emeraldine salt form of polyaniline is highly electrically conducting.[2] Leucoemeraldine and pernigraniline are poor conductors, even when doped with an acid.
The colour change associated with polyaniline in different oxidation states can be used in sensors and electrochromic devices.[9] Although color is useful, the best method for making a polyaniline sensor is arguably to take advantage of the dramatic changes in electrical conductivity between the different oxidation states or doping levels.[10] Treatment of emeraldine with acids increases the electrical conductivity by ten orders of magnitude. Undoped polyaniline has a conductivity of ×10−9 S/m, while conductivities of 6.28×10−5 S/m can be achieved by doping to 4% HBr. 4.60[11] The same material can be prepared by oxidation of leucoemeraldine.
Polyaniline is more noble than copper and slightly less noble than silver which is the basis for its broad use in printed circuit board manufacturing (as a final finish) and in corrosion protection.[12]
Although the synthetic methods to produce polyaniline are quite simple, the mechanism of polymerization is probably complex. The formation of leucoemeraldine can be described as follows, where [O] is a generic oxidant:[4]
- n C6H5NH2 + [O] → [C6H4NH]n + H2O
The most common oxidant is ammonium persulfate. The components are each dissolved in 1 M hydrochloric acid (other acids can be used), and the two solutions slowly combined. The reaction is very exothermic. The polymer precipitates as an unstable dispersion with micrometer-scale particulates.
(per)nigraniline is prepared by oxidation of the emeraldine base, one typical oxidant being meta-chloroperoxybenzoic acid:[13]
- {[C6H4NH]2[C6H4N]2}n + RCO3H → [C6H4N]n + H2O + RCO2H
The synthesis of polyaniline nanostructures is facile.[14]
Using special polymerisation procedures and surfactant dopants, the obtained polyaniline powder can be made dispersible and hence useful for practical applications. Bulk synthesis of polyaniline nanofibers has led to a highly scalable and commercially applicable form of polyaniline that has been researched extensively since their discovery in 2002.[15]
A multi-stage model for the formation of emeraldine base is proposed. In the first stage of the reaction the pernigraniline PS salt oxidation state is formed. In the second stage pernigraniline is reduced to the emeraldine salt as aniline monomer gets oxidized to the radical cation.[8] In the third stage this radical cation couples with ES salt. This process can be followed by light scattering analysis which allows the determination of the absolute molar mass. According to one study in the first step a DP of 265 is reached with the DP of the final polymer at 319. Approximately 19% of the final polymer is made up of the aniline radical cation which is formed during the reaction.[16]
Polyaniline is typically produced in the form of long-chain polymer aggregates, surfactant (or dopant) stabilized nanoparticle dispersions, or stabilizer-free nanofiber dispersions depending on the supplier and synthetic route. Surfactant or dopant stabilized polyaniline dispersions have been available for commercial sale since the late 1990s.[12]
Polyaniline and the other conducting polymers such as polythiophene, polypyrrole, and PEDOT/PSS have potential for applications due to their light weight, conductivity, mechanical flexibility and low cost. Polyaniline is especially attractive because it is relatively inexpensive, has three distinct oxidation states with different colors and has an acid/base doping response. This latter property makes polyaniline an attractive for acid/base chemical vapor sensors, supercapacitors and biosensors. The different colors, charges and conformations of the multiple oxidation states also make the material promising for applications such as actuators, supercapacitors and electrochromics. They are suitable for manufacture of electrically conducting yarns, antistatic coatings, electromagnetic shielding, and flexible electrodes.
Attractive fields for current and potential utilization of polyaniline is in antistatics, charge dissipation or electrostatic dispersive (ESD) coatings and blends, electromagnetic interference shielding (EMI), anticorrosive coatings, hole injection layers,[17] transparent conductors, indium tin oxide replacements, actuators, chemical vapor and solution based sensors, electrochromic coatings (for color change windows, mirrors etc.), PEDOT-PSS replacements, toxic metal recovery, catalysis, fuel cells and active electronic components such as for non-volatile memory.
Currently, the major applications are printed circuit board manufacturing (final finishes, used in millions of m² every year), antistatic and ESD coatings, and corrosion protection.
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- ^ Cattena, Carlos J.; Bustos-Marún, Raúl A.; Pastawski, Horacio M. (2010). "Crucial role of decoherence for electronic transport in molecular wires: Polyaniline as a case study". Physical Review B. 82 (14): 144201. Bibcode:2010PhRvB..82n4201C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.82.144201.
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- ^ Huang, Li-Ming; Chen, Cheng-Hou; Wen, Ten-Chin (2006). "Development and characterization of flexible electrochromic devices based on polyaniline and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrene sulfonic acid)". Electrochimica Acta. 51 (26): 5858. doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2006.03.031.
- ^ Virji, Shabnam; Huang, Jiaxing; Kaner, Richard B.; Weiller, Bruce H. (2004). "Polyaniline Nanofiber Gas Sensors: Examination of Response Mechanisms". Nano Letters. 4 (3): 491. Bibcode:2004NanoL...4..491V. doi:10.1021/nl035122e.
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Reggie Lawrence said it was strange.
But it was familiar, too.
There was Lawrence, on the sideline in another playoff game, watching his team take another step toward another sectional title.
The weird part for Lawrence, Willingboro's well-traveled and much-accomplished coach, was the team on the other side of the field. It was the first time he had coached against Camden, his alma mater.
There was something special about the other head coach, too.
"We used to walk to school together every day," Lawrence said of Camden coach Durwin Pearson. "Then we'd walk to football practice and walk home together."
Lawrence was talking Friday night after his Willingboro team improved to 9-0 with an imposing, 45-13 victory over Camden in the first round of the South Jersey Group 2 tournament.


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They were far from healthy.
Why was their lifespan so short? Same with other primal tribes. Or is this just CW trying to fight and argue the fact that fat is bad for you? Same with cavemen....are we POSITIVE their lifespans were so short because of disease?
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They were far from healthy.
The only plus side is that they ate the whole animal, so they got thyroid glands and other things in their diet.
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Most increases in lifespan among modern humans is due to the control of infectious disease and good trauma care.
Female, 5'3", 50, Max squat: 202.5lbs. Max deadlift: 225 x 3.
A lot of what we've spent the last several hundred years curing, is the result of the last 500 or so years of backsliding. Sanitation wasn't much of an issue until we started living close enough together and having populations large enough to contaminate the water supply and spread diseases amongst ourselves. And even today, the most common fatal health conditions are things like heart disease that are largely preventable with proper diet and exercise.
The Inuits were Asians of Mongolian background. They traveled to the Arctic when the Bering land bridge was dry. They followed the food out of necessity and many of the Inuits traditional home lands were inhabited and abandoned with regularity through the centuries. They are amazing people in that they could even survive there, but they did actually thrive. Lots of good seafood, berries, seaweed, shellfish, fatty land animals. Also smoky huts, dangerous lives, and cold injuries. It's not even worth comparing them to us.
Two words: Infant mortality.
Inuit today that are returning to a more traditional diet are seeing diabetes and obesity drop in their communities. Was a Canadian study on it, methinks.
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For all of us who enjoy watching the diversity of wild birds we have in our region, an upcoming event offers the opportunity to provide researchers with important information about bird distribution and populations.
The 2011 Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) will take place from Friday, Feb. 18, through Monday, Feb. 21. This annual event is a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.
GBBC participants are asked to count the various species of birds in their area and then submit an online checklist of those findings to the GBBC Web site, www.birdcount.org. Last year, bird enthusiasts from all 50 states and all Canadian provinces submitted more than 97,000 checklists that reported sightings of an amazing 603 species of birds.
In Pennsylvania, the dark-eyed junco, cardinal and tufted titmouse were the three species most often sighted during the 2010 GBBC, while the three most numerous species reported were Canada goose, dark-eyed junco and American crow.
To participate in the GBBC, you can count birds for as little as 15 minutes on a single day during the event or spend as much time counting as you want over several days. You may also count birds in several different places, from your backyard feeder to woodlands, fields or parks - anywhere wild birds are found. You will, however, need to submit a separate checklist for each new day and each new location where you count.
To keep the exercise manageable, counting every individual bird you see is not required, just the most individuals of a species that are sighted at one time during a counting session. For example, say you have a group of chickadees coming and going to your backyard feeder, but the most you observe there at one time is six of them, then that is the number you would record on your checklist for that viewing session.
One of the most important aspects of the GBBC is birders of any skill level can participate in this citizen-science project - even if you are not able to identify every bird you see - either as individuals or as a group. And the GBBC Web site hosts a wealth of information and online resources about the event and birding in general. In addition to all the instructions about participating in the GBBC, you can download a regional bird checklist, which lists all the birds that are likely in this area during February. There are even educator's materials available for teachers who might be interested in making participation in the GBBC a class science project.
While I'm on the subject of birding, I will pass on another superb resource I found recently. Like most bird enthusiasts, I have acquired a stack of field guides over the years that helped me become reasonably proficient at identifying the majority of the birds we're likely to see in this part of the world. I also enjoy just browsing these books to brush up on my bird-ID skills and to find species that I would like to add to my personal life list of birds sighted.
Last week, however, I found an electronic bird field guide that is nothing short of amazing, and if you are a birder who owns an iPhone or iPod Touch, it is well worth checking out. You can find it in the Apple App Store under iBird Explorer. There are several regional versions of iBird, including the one for our region, iBird Explorer North, which comprises information on more than 500 species of North American birds.
The promotional material for iBird Explorer says this app is the equivalent of having 4,000 pages of birding information right at your fingertips, and I don't believe that is an overstatement. For each of the hundreds of species covered, there are several drawings and photographs that include seasonal and juvenile plumages, range maps and more detailed information on specific habits and behavior than is available in any other field guide I've seen. The most amazing feature of iBird is it also includes live recordings of the calls and songs of every bird. This resource alone makes the app more than worth the price to me.
Even better, all the iBird apps are on sale for 50 percent off right. That makes iBird Explorer North a very reasonable $4.99, and iBird Explorer Pro, which covers all of the more than 900 species in North America, is $14.99. And if you would like to take a test drive, there is even a free version called iBird Lite, which includes 30 species and will give you an idea how the app works in practice.


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"I think the city and the schools work very well together when we have those opportunities, but I think we need to explore more opportunities," said Sundstrom, at a recent joint meeting of the two bodies. "I think there is potential for maintaining services at risk, improving our services or even saving money. I think we owe it to our common taxpayers to look at where those opportunities are and to make the most of them."
Deputy City Manager Eric DeLong and Lisa Freiburger, chief operations officer for the school district, have been working on some additional areas where the two can share resources. On Friday, they discussed a preliminary list they are compiling, including potentially sharing purchasing and financial management opportunities.
Mayor George Heartwell said the city believes the model going forward for the state will be that entities, if not mandated, will be strongly encouraged and given incentives to work together.
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Mad as hell
September 30, 2008 - LLee Janssen
I'm ticked off. (Actually, there's another word I want to use here, but I'm not sure it's appropriate in the context of a family publication.)
The people we elect to represent us have sold out the American people and allowed the you's and me's who have little more than 2 cents to rub together to be hitched up to a machine that sucks our life forces from us.
We work. They play.
We toil. They raid.
We pay our taxes. They find loopholes and laugh all the way to the corporate yacht.
Yet still we show up at the office, loyally, for weeks and years and decades on end. And we don't ask for much. We want to be treated with respect. And we want to do more than just survive while we're saving for retirement.
Yes, saving for retirement. Many private businesses long ago ditched the pension plan that was the norm when I was a child. They've replaced those plans with the promise that, if you save 4 percent of your income, we'll contribute 1 percent. If you save 8 percent, we'll pitch in 2. But if you don't save, oh well. Your problem.
And so many of us buy in. Meaning less in the paycheck we take home. But all in the hope that a cushion will be there when we're old and our bones hurt and it's hard to climb that ladder anymore.
Except, much of that money went up in smoke this week.
And tomorrow we'll bail out the Wall Street elite, who will still get to fly around in their corporate jets and make so much money that the wages of middle America will resemble, to them, nothing more than spare change.
But we'll bail them out nonetheless, so we will still have jobs and get paid next week. So the markets might have a chance to stabilize. And so that our retirement savings may somehow rebound.
Yes, let's bail out those who caused the problem so we can all survive. But don't be fooled into thinking that, the next time you need help and go to one of those high and mighty banks with your hand out, that they'll be there for you.
The system just doesn't work that way.
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A female shooting victim was killed, three other people were shot and a car crashed into a pole at 27th Street and Indiana Avenue on Friday night in Kansas City, police said.
Police said it appears the incident started when the occupants of two vehicles in the 2800 block of Bales started shooting each other.
A female gunshot victim in one of the vehicles, which crashed at 27th and Indiana, died. A male also in the vehicle was taken to a hospital in serious condition.
A third victim from the other vehicle was dropped off at a hospital. Another victim was found nearby. They are both in serious condition.
Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS.


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we would like to inform you about the academic programme "Spring University Prague 2011", taking place at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) during April 2011 (April 14 – 25). Its topic is "Central Europe between Germany and Russia". This study programme is internationally acknowledged and recognized, successful participants will be given 8 ECTS. For detailed information please see the attached file or our official homepage http://summer-university.fsv.cuni.cz.
- to provide students a broad understanding of the historical, political, economic, social and cultural development of Central Europe
- to analyze Central Europe's role as an international political and economic player and its relations with its biggest neighbours – Germany and Russia
Method: the course is based on an interdisciplinary approach and combines different methodologies such as lectures, workshops, round-table discussions, group-work and students' presentations
Extras: culture, sport and fun activities which ideally accompany the academic program
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Open innovation is good for business
Open innovation is an area only beginning to enter mainstream enterprises, despite years of success in open source communities. It allows people both inside and outside the company to get involved and collaborate on new products and processes that result in beneficial change.
Dr. Andrew McAfee, who coined the term "Enterprise 2.0," recently highlighted "open innovation" as an area ripe for mainstream business adoption. Organizations that want to find fresh approaches to their business processes, product or service offerings are encouraged to look outside traditional sources of expertise and be receptive to new contributors.
A research paper released last month by the McAfee-led AIIM Task Force on Social Business and Process Innovation, showed high levels of satisfaction for early adopters, but still found significant levels of reluctance to engage with external stakeholders such as customers, partners or prospects.
Through its case studies and survey results, the McAfee research reveals open innovation is working for its practitioners who report consistently satisfactory outcomes. Forty-eight percent of respondents engaging in open innovation reported major changes to internal processes, while 34 percent reported positive changes to external offerings.
Best summarized in what has become known as "Joy's Law," open innovation encourages companies to consider that "the smartest people work for somebody else. " Tapping into this intelligence is a key component to cost-effectively uncovering new perspectives on process and product improvements. Looking for expertise anywhere in the company org chart, across business units, regional offices and in all levels of the hierarchy can benefit a company on many levels. One research participant observed, "With a social media innovation system, you can find the ideas and develop them so that you can grow your business. "
Entrenched company culture can be a barrier to change, according to the McAfee Task Force paper. Many companies don't feel ready to embrace open innovation. Changing internal culture to be more receptive to diverse contributors can be difficult, as can re-thinking reward systems to encourage new ideas to be offered and adopted.
The McAfee research offers a series of recommendations to aid in breaking down business resistance to open innovation practices and encouraging a more open work culture. Key recommendations:
Do something. Open innovation is appropriate now for most if not all organizations. Ideas that can contribute to revenue growth or cost savings exist all across the enterprise — not only in management ranks.
Be focused. Help get creativity started by focusing on specific goals. Unstructured, vague calls for contribution are less effective than asking for concentration on specific opportunities or challenges.
Reward contribution and reputation. Monetary rewards aren't required, but a form of recognition of contribution, participation or helpfulness does increase participation and repeat input.
Open up to customers. Most of the task force respondents had "internal only " innovation communities. However those organizations that did open up more broadly to include external stakeholders received most of their best ideas from outside participants.
Be patient. Open innovation is not an overnight phenomenon. It means changing behavior and culture, and this requires sustained attention and effort, often accomplished slowly.
Open innovation is second nature for open source communities, but remains a relatively new concept in most businesses. More research and case studies that demonstrate the tangible benefits of an open approach to contributions, ideas and debate are needed. Keeping the focus on this important evolution in enterprise thinking is essential to helping your company stay relevant, creative and competitive in the digital knowledge economy of today.
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Good article, in particular I like the use of Open Innovation as a better way to describe the practice of open collaboration. In the past I have used Open Methodology, but have come to notice that there is a tone of implied constraint when responded to in conversation. Innovation implies positive change and open suggests transparency.
I very much agree with the McAfee Research recommendations though I would emphasize the focus on specific goals. Unless there are clear and unambiguous objectives asking people to be openly innovative is like asking them to participate in Social Media; without an end in focus people will dabble and either become distracted or eventually resort back to their workday habits.
Even when specific goals have been set focus is paramount, as scope creep can derail the best intentioned project. Open innovation is exhilarating and can open the floodgates of ideas producing a plethora of innovations. Good management practices are needed to remain on track and ensure that the supernumerary innovations are recorded and reviewed in regular planning cycles.
The reluctance to engage mentioned in the article is commonplace for the following reasons to name but two:
1) Enterprises are still focused on shareholder value and meeting stock market expectations. This forces short termism, that is maximizing profits and efficiency at the expense of long term growth, employee loyalty and most importantly focus on their customers. Open dialogue with employees and customers is almost antithetical. Roger L. Martin's book - "Fixing the Game" articulates the need to focus on the real market, where business interacts with customers, rather than the expectations market where business reacts to investment mechanisms.
2) Hierarchy and the culture of protectionism. All too often openness and collaboration is obstructed by organizational segmentation and the belief that ideas and knowledge are the property or responsibility of anointed groups and individuals. The thought of sharing is anathema because to do so is to dilute the value of the group or individual. Those that are aware of their shortcoming and those that are unaware yet believe in their own infallibility will both resist the call to collaborate, one from fear and the other from arrogance.
Establishing and maintaining the objectives, especially those that are culture changing, requires not just leadership, it needs champions. Champions are individuals who walk the walk, challenge business thinking, break down the walls of resistance and demonstrate that sharing is to everyone's benefit especially the business.


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Autistic Kids Who Wander: Amazing Technology Alleviates Parents' Worst FearsJoslyn Gray
The wandering started when Ian was three years old. He slipped out of the house in the middle of the night, in 40 degree weather, in the rain.
"Luckily, we woke up because the dog started whining. We found him, naked, on the swing set," said Marj Hatzell, Ian's mom. Ian, who has an Autism Spectrum Disorder and is non-verbal, is now a well-known escape artist in his neighborhood.
When you hear the word elopement, you probably think of weddings in Vegas. But to parents of autistic kids, it means something entirely different: escaping, wandering, running away. Although no formal data exists, a 2007 informal online survey showed that 92 percent of parents of autistic children said their child had a tendency to wander. But "tendency to wander" does not describe the experience of a number of parents whose kids frequently escape from home or school.
Despite living in homes likened to Fort Knox, replete with alarms, gates, multiple keyed locks and deadbolts, these kids escape. And disappear. There are parents who live with terror, every day, that in the time it takes to go to the bathroom, their child will go missing. This stress takes immense toll on parents.
"It is literally the most stressful thing I've ever endured in my life," said Ms. Hatzell. "My job as a parent is to keep him safe from harm. I have no idea how to do that, since it takes two adults with 100 percent undivided attention to keep him safe. Even with door alarms, padlocks, locked windows and dogs we just don't feel he is safe." Ms. Hatzell works part-time from home as a writer, and blogs about her parenting adventures at The Domestic Goddess. She and her husband have two sons, both of whom are on the spectrum. Their other son does not elope.
Ms. Hatzell calls the police to aid in her searches for Ian about seven times a year. He has been found in neighbors' swimming pools, on trampolines, in nearby parks, and inside strangers' homes. Ian has pica, which means he tends to eat non-food substances. Sometimes, when he escapes, he takes things–string, cloth, etc.–his parents would otherwise take away from him. Also, because of his significant sensory issues, Ian tends to shed his clothes before or during his escape. In one recent incident, the nine-year-old was found naked, on a park bench, eating lotion.
I need you to pause for a moment. Think about that. Think about what it would be like for you, if you lived in fear, every day, that your child would shed his clothes and escape from your locked, alarmed, gated house. Think about that moment when you realize he's missing.
That is the reality for families of children who wander.
Much of the Hatzells' constant fear has been alleviated since they began using a device called Emseeq, which is made by EmFinders. The Emseeq is worn on the wrist like a watch. For kids with sensory issues, like Ian, it can also be worn on the ankle, over socks.
Marj had researched several tracking devices for Ian, but decided on the Emseeq because its cell phone technology allows it to transmit through buildings, unlike GPS.
I interviewed EmFinders CEO Patrice McAree about how the device works.
"The Emseeq is unique in that it leverages the existing 911 network," he explained. "The big difference between the 911 network and GPS is that it's more reliable and sophisticated. It's a very sophisticated method of triangulation that's only available for emergency situations."
Essentially, the wristband contains high-grade, miniature cell phone components. When a person goes missing, the parent or caregiver calls EmFinders. The wristband is then remotely activated to essentially make a 911 call for itself. EmFinders then gets in contact with the local police department, which uses 911 technology to locate the missing person, typically to within 50 to 100 feet, even inside a building.
In one case, Mr. McAree said, a school activated a child's Emseeq device, and the 911 dispatcher was able to immediately identify that the child was still in the school building. He was found, unhurt, in a supply closet.
EmFinders, which is also frequently used for adults with dementia or Alzheimer's, had helped rescue over 100 people. One recent rescue was that of Jakob Mull, a 10-year-old Spokane, WA boy with Asperger Syndrome, a form of autism.
Jakob's mom, Stephanie Lund, said that at various points in Jakob's life, they had to call the police on average of once a week to help find Jakob.
"We had keyed entries, deadbolts, and regular locks," said Ms. Lund. "We had alarms. He'd move furniture to find the keys. He'd figure out how to turn off the alarms. It's like we were living in Fort Knox, and he still wasn't safe."
Once, when Jakob was six, he slipped out in the middle of the night and got into his mother's car. He managed to get the car into neutral, and coasted down a hill for a quarter mile before the car hit a tree. Incredibly, Jakob was unhurt.
"One time, one of the police officers joked, 'I wish we could get a tracking device for him!'" said Ms. Lund. "He was joking, but I took it seriously. I looked up tracking devices for autism on the Internet, and found EmFinders."
Last fall, when Jakob was nine, he escaped from school. Using the EmSeeq, he was found in 20 minutes. Previously, it would take an average of between three to four hours to find him.
"It would take 3-1/2 hours to find him a block and a half away, hiding behind a car."
Police searches aren't cheap, either.
"The cost of missing persons searches can be astronomical," said Mr. McAree. "In one case in California, an elderly gentleman went missing. The search cost over $250,000 over four days, and included helicopter searches. The 73-year-old individual was found 400 yards from his home, deceased."
Ms. Hatzell hasn't had to use the EmSeeq yet, and of course she hopes she never has to. But as the weather warms up, Ian tends to wander more.
"In the spring and fall, especially with the nicer weather he becomes very restless," Ms. Hatzell said. "He elopes constantly, whether it is to the yard next door or the playground three blocks away. Our challenge with this is he also has no healthy safety awareness whatsoever. With pool season upon us and many, many neighbors with pools, it terrifies us to think what might happen. Every time he escapes I try to push the ugly scary thoughts out of my head but I can't help but panic over the thought of finding him in a pond or pool.
Mr. McAree emphasizes that "EmFinders is not a stand-alone solution. It's part of a whole program we recommend to families. Teaching your child to swim, installing locks, registering with your police departments–those are all critical."
Despite that, both Ms. Hatzell and Ms. Lund describe an immense sense of security and peace of mind with having the Emseeq device. Both of them expressed the exact same thought:
"I can go to the bathroom now."
"It alleviates our stress because he is monitored as long as he is wearing the bracelet," said Ms. Hatzell. "If he escapes, all we have to do is call 911, file a report and dial Emseeq. It takes seconds to activate. I hope we never, ever have to track him but we have had to call law enforcement several times in the past. He has also escaped while we've been asleep in the middle of the night or while we've been in the bathroom. So having the bracelet on is very important."
"It was easy to set up and the people at Emseeq were great in answering our questions and helping us understand how it works."
Because of Ian's sensory issues, EmFinders advised the family on how to use a "sensory protocol" to help him gradually build up a tolerance to the bracelet.
Ms. Hatzell said she even gets text messages and cell phone reminders if the battery is running low. "All I have to do is pop it back on the charger while he is at school," she said. "We do remove it for school because we feel he doesn't need it there. Yet."
Unless you've met someone dealing with elopement, it's hard to fathom the seriousness of the situation. Stephanie Lund said,
"It's hard to explain to parents who don't have children who run. People think, 'why can't you just keep an eye on your kid?' But these little boys who don't even know how to tie their shoes, they know how to get out. They'll do anything they can to get out. Jakob was finding any means necessary to get out of the house."
Ms. Lund believes the EmSeeq has actually helped curb her son's tendency to wander. Since last fall's incident, she says, "we haven't had to use it, Thank God. He's growing up and understands the dangers a little better. Plus I think he knows I'll always find him."
For more information and tips on keeping wandering kids safe, see the website for the AWAARE Collaboration (Autism Wandering Awareness Alerts Responding Education).
For more information about the EmSeeq device, please see EmFinder's website.
Related Autism Awareness Month Posts:
Hollywood Loves It Some Autism (Sort of)
But S/he Doesn't Look Autistic (Video)
You can read more from Joslyn at her blog, stark. raving. mad. mommy. You can also follow her on Facebook and on Twitter.


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A few days ago an aeroplane carrying Major R. W. Schroeder of the American army aviation service reached an altitude of 36,020 feet, about 5,000 feet higher than the previous world's record for such a mode of flight. Only a few years ago this marvelous performance would have been rated as virtually impossible because of the limitations of the human organism at great heights. In the oft quoted balloon ascension of the meteorologist Glaisher, in 1862, an altitude of about 30,000 feet was reached. When the balloonist attained a height of 26,000 feet, he first noticed that he could not read his instruments properly. Shortly after this his legs became paralyzed, and then his arms, though he could still move his head. Then his sight failed entirely, afterward his hearing, and he became unconscious. Glaisher's companion, Coxwell, likewise incapacitated in the upper air, managed to open a valve which permitted
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles is trying a humorous approach to answer common questions online.
It introduced the "DMV AnswerMan" on Tuesday, releasing the first in what will be a series of nine Internet videos on its website.
The two-minute video addresses how to get a California driver's license. It features 'AnswerMan' describing how to make an appointment, which documents to bring to the DMV office and what to expect.
Other videos will be released monthly on topics that include registering a vehicle for the first time, steps to take if a vehicle fails a smog test and selling or transferring a vehicle.
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The Benefits of Delayed Cord Clamping Explained by Penny Simkin [Video]Ceridwen Morris
More and more of my childbirth education students have been asking about delayed cord clamping. Over the last year or so there have been a few articles and studies suggesting it's better for the baby to let the blood pulse from the placenta for at least a couple minutes after birth, rather than cut the cord instantly as is common practice.
I thought the following video was a nice, simple explanation of why it can be beneficial to let the placental blood flow a little longer.
The basic idea is that the baby is being deprived a significant last blast of iron and oxygen-rich blood. As far as I can tell from reading the literature on the subject the one downside to delaying the cord clamping for more than a couple of minutes is that there's a slight increase in newborn jaundice— which can be treated by photo-therapy–but likely at such a low level as to not be considered an issue.
Here's the lowdown from educator, author and childbirth guru Penny Simkin:
The systematic review Simkin refers to in the video was published in the Journal Of The American Medical Association (JAMA) and concludes,
"Delaying clamping of the umbilical cord in full-term neonates for a minimum of 2 minutes following birth is beneficial to the newborn, extending into infancy. Although there was an increase in polycythemia among infants in whom cord clamping was delayed, this condition appeared to be benign."
If you're interested in delayed the cord clamping, talk to your care-provider in advance. It may become more common for care providers to postpone clamping, but for now, this would be an exception to standard practice and something you'd likely need to bring up yourself.
(PS, I'm digging Penny Simkin as the Julia Child of childbirth ed videos with the reading glasses, the work table and the decanting of blood through a little kitchen funnel. It's totally working for me.)


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Colorado coach Bill McCartney may want Saturday's game between his second- ranked Buffaloes and No. 3 Nebraska to be a rousing grudge match, but Cornhuskers coach Tom Osborne just wants to yawn.
Osborne says the Cornhuskers have been pegged as Colorado's chief rival by McCartney, the Buffalo players and the Colorado fans. But Nebraska doesn't consider any team as its rival - including Oklahoma, a squad that had numerous meaningful shootouts with Nebraska in the 1970s.
Osborne, a man who speaks slowly and softly, won't allow himself or his players to think of Colorado as an archrival - or even a plain, garden-variety rival.


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Kansas City-area prep point guard Clayton Custer says he plans to play for Iowa State.
Custer is 6-foot-1 and hails from Overland Park, Kan.
He was a first-team, Class 6A all-state pick as a sophomore for Blue Valley Northwest High last year and has two years of high school ball remaining.
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JACKSON, MI – The Miss Jackson County RoseQueen Scholarship Pageant has a new executive director. That much is certain.
What could be uncertain is the future status of the pageant's long-standing relationship with the Miss Michigan Scholarship Program and subsequently the Miss America Organization, according to Jackson County Rose Festival Board of Directors President Stefanie Riggs.
Three weeks ago, Rose Festival Board of Directors – the RoseQueen pageant is part of the Rose Festival – removed Christine (LaRock) Gorton as executive director of the pageant, a title she held for three years, and replaced her with board member Lynda Waldron.
Riggs said the move came after some changes in hierarchy made in order to adhere to the RoseQueen pageant's contract with the Miss Michigan organization.
According to Riggs, the agreement between the RoseQueen Pageant and the Miss Michigan Program is that there is one director to oversee both the RoseQueen program and the Miss Jackson County Outstanding Teen pageant, which typically serves as a feeder program to the RoseQueen pageant.
"Windy Chmiel, the director of our Miss Outstanding Teen program, always reported to the board and not the executive director because we felt it relieved burden from Chris so she could concentrate on the RoseQueen pageant, but that was never an issue before," Riggs said. "Someone complained to the Miss Michigan people that we weren't doing it that way, and that's what started the problem."
When reached for comment, Gorton, who is still on the festival board of directors, deferred questions to Riggs.
The Miss Michigan Program affiliates itself with local pageants, including the RoseQueen pageant, based on one-year contracts. The Miss Jackson County RoseQueen pageant's relationship with the Miss Michigan Program, which guarantees the RoseQueen a spot in the state pageant, dates back to 1960.
When asked if the current situation could affect the contract being renewed in October, Riggs said "there could be potentially a problem," but declined to expand on her answer other than "there are a lot of politics involved."
Miss Michigan Program Executive Director Shelley Taylor said no decision has been made by her organization on whether to maintain its relationship with the RoseQueen pageant, nor has the subject even been discussed.
"We don't even start to take a look at those things until the Miss Michigan Pageant is over (in June)," she said. "We're focused on that and only that until then."
Riggs is optimistic things will work out between the two organizations, but the RoseQueen pageant will continue either way.
"It's been around for 54 years, and it's not going away," Riggs said. "We have our prelims coming up in April, and we've told the girls who are planning to compete about the situation.
"They expressed it doesn't affect their interest, which is in RoseQueen and the educational money available."
Riggs said the RoseQueen pageant awarded about $35,000 in scholarship money last year, thanks to donations from Baker College, Jackson Community College and Spring Arbor University.
"We've been told (by representatives from the Miss America Organization) we're the most lucrative pageant in the state in terms of scholarship money and one of the largest in the country," Riggs said.