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One La Crosse house goes above and beyond to put on a show!
Everywhere you look these days you will find holiday lights twinkling from above. Some displays are big. Some more modest. But rarely are they quite like this.
"Merry Christmas from the Knudsen's. Hope you enjoy the show. Now where is that switch???"
La Crosse firefighter Tim Knudsen has been hanging holiday lights ever since he moved here 14 years ago.
"It's just kind of evolved and gotten bigger and bigger every year."
But three years ago he was inspired. "There was a beer commercial that had them animated and then you started finding more and more people were doing it."
So, months before the Holiday season, the planning begins. "This is kind of an above view of my house. This is my roof line and this is the star on my addition."
Armed with a special computer program, Tim spends hours perfectly choreographing this years performance. "I'll have about 30 hours into this song getting it to do what I want it to do. You have to be able to see what you have in your head and know what it's going to look like when you're standing out looking at it."
"This is my new...I call it a fire stick. It's going to go up the center of my mega tree and it's going to go whew!"
Every part of this display is designed and built by Tim. The 30 foot mega tree. "I made the star. It's a rod that I've bent and welded." He even built his own nativity scene.
And perhaps the biggest challenge of all, tackling the virtual maze of lights and extension cords. "I'm over 30,000 actual lights."
To top it all off, he has his own radio frequency to broadcast the music. "You can get it just around each corner and it doesn't transmit any farther."
So much work, which makes the unveiling so much better. "You can hear them when they are out with their windows down saying, oh, oh that's cool. They enjoy it and that's all that really matters."
If you'd like to see the house for yourself, the address is 2830 Robin Hood Drive in La Crosse. All they ask is that you drive carefully and are respectful when you stop by.
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LOVINGTON —The Lovington Wildcats (2-7, 2-0) took control of District 4-3A with a 21-point second half, beating the Portales Rams 27-20 Friday night at Wildcat Stadium.
The Wildcats (2-7, 2-0 district) quickly erased a six-point halftime deficit, turning three Portales turnovers into 21 points in just over three minutes in the third quarter, to seal the win.
"When you turn the ball over twice on kickoff returns, you're not going to beat anybody, I don't care who it is," Rams head coach Andy Correll said. "We've done that kind of stuff all year, and we've got to grow up. We've got to get out of that, or our seasons going to be pretty short."
The Ram defense never found an answer for Lovington senior running back Nathan Moore. Moore rushed for 203 yards and three touchdowns on just 23 carries.
"We were trading punches back and forth," first-year Lovington
head coach Jaime Quinones said. "That third quarter, we knew we needed to step it up, and we made a few adjustments. The kids just came out and played hard, we were able to get the momentum, picked up a couple of touchdowns and thats what you have to do in a big game."
The Portales special teams made the first big play of the game, as senior Taylor Teague blocked a Lovington punt at mid-field, and recovered it in Wildcat territory, setting the Rams (3-5, 1-1) up for the first score of the game. Seven plays later, Portales junior quarterback Chris Mosier scampered up the middle for a two-yard touchdown.
Lovington responded on their second drive of the contest, as Moore took the option pitch, and ran 63-yards down the right sideline to bring the Wildcats to within one point, 7-6.
Portales added to their lead in the second quarter, as Mosier found plenty of room to run for a 19- yard gain, followed by a 17-yard pass to senior Cruz Ontieros to the 7-yard line. Junior Ricky Lovato, playing for an injured Eric Segovia, scored on the next play from 7 yards out, to give the Rams a 13-6 lead going into the half.
The third quarter was a nightmare for Portales. The Rams defense held the Wildcat offense to two 4-and-out drives, before junior running back Orlando Sanchez took the hand-off, and threw the ball down the field to a wide-open Austin Tramell for a 58-yard touchdown half-back option touchdown pass to tie the game 13-13.
The Rams lost a fumble on the kickoff, and Moore carried the ball off tackle for an 11-yard score two plays later, to give Lovington their first lead of the game, 20-13.
The Wildcats recovered a fumble on Portales' first play after the
kick-off, and the Wildcats scored again, this time on a 44-yard run from Moore, to give the Wildcats a 27-13 lead.
"We stopped ourselves all night," Correll said. "I wish I could
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Despite the loss, many Rams believe they could have beat the Wildcats.
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Due to recent events, people are once again wondering if this whole "trial by jury" thing is bullshit. On one hand, one of the biggest advantages of Western democracy is the right to be judged by a jury of your peers. On the other hand, your "peers" are a bunch of people who are missing work who are generally annoyed and/or bored with the process, and who may or may not be crazy. So it's no surprise that this system goes wrong from time to time. It's just surprising how wrong it goes.
5 A Jury Consults a Ouija Board for a Verdict
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Don't get us wrong: If Ouija boards could actually be used to consult with the dead in the afterlife, they would be useful as hell for solving murders (or at least finding corpses). But their validity as a forensic tool is actually not recognized by modern science.
Cootie catchers are still totally legit, though.
But don't tell that to a jury in the U.K., which was having some trouble deliberating on the case of Stephen Young, who was accused of murdering a couple as part of an insurance scam in the '90s. As is typical when a jury can't reach a verdict, the judge had them sequestered in a hotel room overnight to sort their shit out. But at some point that night, they got a bright idea and whipped out a Ouija board, figuring they might get some answers if they just asked the murder victims directly.
In their defense (or not), they were pretty drunk -- the jury took advantage of the "all expenses paid" component of the sequestration, and things started to go awry when somebody located the liquor cabinet. So it's true that four of the jurors were absolutely OK with summoning the dead via Ouija, but they were so liquored up that they would probably have agreed to praying over some goat entrails.
"Room service says the best they can do is some chicken livers and fish bones."
Anyway, reportedly the four jurors sat down in the dark with their hands on an upturned glass and asked the spirit world for guidance. A ghost identifying itself as Harry Fuller, one of the murder victims, guided the glass over the Ouija board and spelled out the words "vote guilty tomorrow." Nailed it!
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"Y'know, now that the mescalines wearing off this seems like a terrible idea."
Of course, when the court found out that the guilty verdict was decided from the results of a 12-year-old's birthday party game, they discharged the jury and started all over again, putting Young back on trial with explicit instructions that poltergeists are only to be consulted if they've been sworn in as witnesses.
4 A Juror Seduces the Accused
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Obviously the biggest part of jury selection is filtering out bias -- if a celebrity is on trial, they're not going to put the president of his fan club on the jury. So being a good juror means both remaining impartial and not giving any outward appearance of bias. Such as, say, fucking the defendant during the trial.
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"What's the stance on 'handies' in the restroom?"
In 1995, the notorious Canadian gangster (yes, there are Canadian gangsters) Peter Gill was arrested and in court facing some very serious charges for gangland murders and drug running. After the case began, one of the jurors, Gillian Guess, evidently thought that murder and drug running were totally hot, because she immediately hooked up with him in a hotel room.
Now, Guess did state later that she thought Gill was one of the lawyers, so she was probably confused about why everyone else in the room seemed mad at him. But even after discovering that the man she was bumping uglies with was actually the murderous defendant, she continued locking eyes with him by day across crime scene photos and impassioned witness testimonies, and shacking up with him by night.
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The story would go on to inspire three Lifetime movies and two Skinemax ones.
She didn't even try to hide the affair, either, telling her sister, her best friend, even her teenage daughter that she was intoxicated by this married boy toy/crime lord 10 years her junior. Unsurprisingly, Guess voted to acquit him, and after getting the rest of the jury on board, Gill walked free.
After the authorities discovered the affair, Guess became the first person accused of sexing a defendant while sitting on his jury, a crime so idiotic that they didn't even have a name for it yet. Her defense was that she just didn't think that it would affect her decision. Unfortunately, she couldn't find anyone on her own jury to bone, so they sent her to prison for 18 months.
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NASA has named physicist and former astronaut John Grunsfeld as the new Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Grunsfeld will take the reins of the office effective January 4, 2012. He succeeds Ed Weiler, who retired from NASA on Sept. 30.
Grunsfeld currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Space Science Telescope Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, which manages the science program of the Hubble Space Telescope and is a partner in the forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope. His background includes research in high energy astrophysics, cosmic ray physics, and more recently in the emerging field of exoplanet studies with specific interest in future astronomical instrumentation.
A veteran of five space shuttle flights, Grunsfeld visited Hubble three times as an astronaut, performing a total of eight spacewalks to service and upgrade the observatory.
"John's understanding of the critical connection between scientific research and the human exploration of space makes him an ideal choice for this job," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "I look forward to working with him to take the agency's science programs to even greater heights and make more of the ground-breaking discoveries about Earth and our universe for which NASA is known."
"It's been a privilege and a great pleasure working with John at the Institute for the last 22 months. John has brought a tremendous new vitality and energy to STScI; qualities which I know he will now bring NASA's Science Mission Directorate," said Dr. Matt Mountain, STScI Director.
Grunsfeld graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in physics. Returning to his native Chicago, he earned a masters degree and in 1988 a doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago using a cosmic-ray experiment on space shuttle Challenger for his Ph.D. thesis work. From Chicago he joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology as a Senior Research Fellow in Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy.
Dr. Grunsfeld joined the NASA Astronaut Office in 1992. He logged over 58 days in space on five shuttle missions, including 58 hours and 30 minutes of spacewalk time. He first flew to space aboard Endeavour in March 1995 on a mission that studied the far ultraviolet spectra of faint astronomical objects using the Astro Observatory. His second flight was aboard Atlantis in January 1997. The mission docked with the Russian space station Mir and exchanged U.S. astronauts living aboard the outpost. Grunsfeld then flew three shuttle missions - aboard Discovery in December 1999, Columbia in March 2002, and Atlantis in May 2009 - all successful flights to service and upgrade the Hubble telescope. He served as the payload commander on the 2002 mission and lead spacewalker in charge of Hubble activities on the 2009 flight. In 2004-2005 he served as the Commander and science officer on the backup crew for Expedition-13 to the International Space Station.
"It is an honor and a privilege to be offered the opportunity to lead NASA's Science Mission Directorate during this exciting time in the agency's history," Grunsfeld said. "Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space. I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe."
Grunsfeld's NASA astronaut biography is available at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/grunsfel.html
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I'll be watching the draft, covering it etc. But unless you truly love the NBA (as i do) then there is no need (as a knicks fan) to watch it. we will not have ANY picks. i wont guarantee and end up looking like an ass. but i truly believe we will trade both away before or during the draft. Larry has gone on record as to saying we dont need any more young guys. he has the two young guys he wants (Frye & Lee). expect both picks to be traded to Atlanta in an Al Harrington deal.
IF and thats a big if, we do keep our picks. i expect us to either trade up with them (as portega said) for Tyrus Thomas (perhaps in a deal for darius miles. or take Josh Boone early with the 20th and take a pure PG with the 29th. i can see portega got his info from NBADRAFT.NET haha which is completely fine. But Roby (although compared on the site) actually plays D compared to Houston haha. remember this isnt whos the best player at the positions we pick BUT what Larry wants. cause hell get it.


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- Under the rules of tennis, the final deciding set can be either an advantage set or a tiebreak set as predetermined by the event organizers. Both approaches are used. The tiebreak brings a close match to a conclusion, but can be criticized, as it does not require a break of service to win the match. The advantage set has the potential to extend the match beyond reasonable limits as witnessed at the 2010 Wimbledon (score 70-68). Although creating worldwide interest, this match lacked the sports principle that play should be continuous and not played in separate segments over a number of days. It also risked player injury, left the winner unable to perform in the next round, and would have damaged television coverage if it had been a final. In this paper, we study the distribution of the additional number of games in an advantage set given that it has reached 6-6. Constructive solutions to this potential problem are outlined.
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- Journal of Medicine and Science in Tennis, Vol. 16, no. 2 (2011), pp. 25-33
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- 2011
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- 50-40 game; Advantage game; Advantage set; No ad game; Skewness of tennis scoring systems; Tiebreak game; Tiebreak set
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December 11, 2013 —
Members of the Sullivan County Visitors Association (SCVA) gathered at the Villa Roma Resort and Conference Center on December 5, for their annual meeting. There were quite a few comments about the type of development that may come with the establishment of a full Las Vegas-style gaming casino in the Town of Thompson.
One of the people who was honored was Tony Cellini, supervisor of the Town of Thompson, who after working hard for decades to bring a casino to his town, is retiring at the end of the year.
In accepting the award, Cellini alluded to the fact that there was some controversy about granting SCVA the contract to promote tourism in Sullivan County at the end of 2012. Some members of the legislature wanted to grant the contract to a new company called Sullivan County Tourism and Promotion (SCTP). Ultimately the contract went to SCVA.
Cellini said, "I want to commend the legislators that are here for allowing Roberta [Byron-Lockwood] and Herb [Lewis] to continue to do the excellent work that they do, and I hope that you continue to follow through because you have real professionals here and we need them to carry on in the next few years, and it's going to be exciting here in Sullivan County."
The 11th annual Tribute to Outstanding Associate Serving Tourism (TOAST) awards were also announced. Award recipients were Lisa Lyons of Morgan Outdoors in Livingston Manor, and Jenny Vielandi of The Country Bum'kin Arts & Collectibles in Mongaup Valley.
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If we want to get away from mediocrity we need to analyse why the game is becoming mediocre and address that. This can be discussed on the Licensing/P & R thread.
However as far as Salford go having a rich man at the helm may help them rise above the mediocrity they have delivered SL for years (just a fact not a dig). I hope he does that not by simply outbidding currently more vibrant clubs for their players, but re-builds the game around the M60.
He's not even on board yet and I want him to rescue RL in and around Manchester/Salford. A tad unfair, but we won't get away from mediocrity just by inflating wages.
I think if the Deal goes ( Pray God it will happen ) through this season will be about scrabbling for what experienced & Quality players he can lay his hands on - But in his interviews he briefly discussed the ' policy of buying in internationals ' as unsustainable and talked about investing in long term development to produce local stars and a winning culture- that's where the tag line about creating a Dynasty came from . This is where the root of the club having a home & the effort to buy into the Stadium , He wants to build a state of the art gym , training facility and even mentioned building on site accomodation for development players to stay .In the past few years , Alan Hunte hasn't even had money to give his kids kit, his head must be spinning.
Bizarrely due the Dr Koukash's experience is in horse racing , he buys horses for relatively small money ( in racing terms ) and trains them to win. he understands that ethic and will want to transfer it to his new challenge , except it may be RL bloodstock not hoofed.
On a side note I bet Chris Hamiltons grin is getting wider by the day- When Oldham announced a link up with Salford pre Xmas there were alot of witty comments about the Roughyeds getting the runt of the SL litter and little benefit from the arrangement.
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Activists criticizing what they called a slow pace to climate talks protest Saturday at the convention center in Qatar. Norway's environment minister, Bard Vegar, speaks to some of them.
DOHA, Qatar -- Almost 200 nations on Saturday extended until 2020 a weak international plan for fighting global warming, averting a new setback to two decades of U.N. efforts that have failed to halt rising greenhouse gas emissions.
The eight-year extension of the Kyoto Protocol keeps it alive as the sole legally binding plan for combating global warming. But it was sapped by the withdrawal of Russia, Japan and Canada, so its signatories now account for only 15 percent of global greenhouse emissions.
A package of decisions, known as the Doha Climate Gateway, would also postpone until 2013 a dispute over demands from developing nations for more cash to help them cope with global warming.
All sides say the Doha decisions fell far short of recommendations by scientists for tougher action.
Though expectations were low for the two-week conference, many developing countries rejected the deal as insufficient to put the world on track to fight the rising temperatures that are raising sea levels. Some Pacific island nations see this as a threat to their existence.
"This is not where we wanted to be at the end of the meeting, I assure you," said Nauru Foreign Minister Kieren Keke, who leads an alliance of small island states. "It certainly isn't where we need to be in order to prevent islands from going under and other unimaginable impacts."
"It was not an easy ride. It was not a beautiful ride. It was not a fast ride, but we managed to cross the bridge and hopefully we can increase our speed," added European Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard.
She said the deal would pave the way to talks on a new, global U.N. pact meant be agreed in 2015 and enter into force in 2020, when Kyoto now expires. It will have emissions goals for all, including emerging nations led by China and India.
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which controls the greenhouse gas emissions of rich countries, expires this year. However, the second phase only covers about 15 percent of global emissions after Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Russia opted out.
Originally, Kyoto obliged about 35 industrialized nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by an average of at least 5.2 percent below 1990 levels during the period from 2008 to 2012.
The U.S. never joined Kyoto, partly because it didn't include China and other fast-growing developing countries.
Poor countries came into the talks in Doha demanding a timetable on how rich countries would scale up climate change aid for them to $100 billion annually by 2020 — a general pledge that was made three years ago.
But rich nations -- including the United States, members of the European Union and Japan -- are still grappling with the effects of a financial crisis and were not interested in detailed talks on aid in Doha.
The agreement on financing made no reference to any mid-term financing targets, just a general pledge to "identify pathways for mobilizing the scaling up of climate finance."
The two-week U.N. meeting had been due to end on Friday but the talks went on into Saturday evening.
World carbon dioxide emissions are set to rise by 2.6 percent this year, and are more than 50 percent higher than in 1990. Recent growth has come mostly from emerging nations, led by China and India.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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I know there are someplaces in America that will not be able to see fireworks this year or some of our friends that will not be able to attend any as they have plans. That said, I am starting this thread so that we can share some of our photos of what we took this tonight and tomorrow night.
These are from our porch in Bridgton, ME...not bad considering we were a mile away.
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It was Labor Day weekend, and as amateur hikers she and her husband Lenny were ill prepared for the trek. There were odds and ends dangling out of their backpacks. She didnŌĆÖt bring a pad to sleep on, and the pack didnŌĆÖt fit well.
ŌĆ£We came home and we said, ŌĆśWe did this all wrong,ŌĆÖŌĆØ she said.
Six months later, they found an advertisement for a hiking club and decided to improve their outdoor skills.
ŌĆ£ThatŌĆÖs when we really got hooked,ŌĆØ she said.
Working as a computer science professor and software developer, Bernstein enjoyed the planning details of a hike, but the outdoors also gave her a chance to get out of the office and gaze beyond the computer screen.
In the early ŌĆś70s, she and her husband started doing hiking challenges in New England, earning patches for climbing to the tops of mountains. One of the challenges was the New Hampshire 4,000-footers ŌĆö and she hiked up to the top of all 48.
It wasnŌĆÖt a race. She took her time climbing the peaks, learning to savor the journey and not just the destination.
ŌĆ£IŌĆÖd like to think hiking is not a competitive sport,ŌĆØ Bernstein said. ŌĆ£You have your lifetime to do them.ŌĆØ
Now sheŌĆÖs turned decades of hiking experience into an easy-to-follow guide book called Hiking in the Carolinas (Milestone Press), a handy paperback full of tips, maps, and directions for going on 57 day hikes throughout Western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. Bernstein has personally logged all of the hikes she recommends in her book and backs them up with fun facts, history, observations and a glossary of hiking terms and resources about joining hiking groups. ThereŌĆÖs even an index on books and movies related to hiking.
The challenge with coming up with a book full of hikes, Bernstein explained, was to offer up a mix of popular destinations like Graveyard Fields and Clingmans Dome but also include places like the Panthertown Loop in Jackson County where there are little-known waterfalls off the touristŌĆÖs trail. The book features rugged day hikes like Cold Mountain which rises 3,500 feet in elevation as well as easier, shorter hikes like the old-growth woods of Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest which includes a trail with a mere 400 feet in elevation. The hikes in the book range from Mt. Mitchell west to the Tennessee line and from Roan Mountain in the north to upstate South Carolina.
The project of putting all these hikes together in a 355-page reference guide was a seven-day-a-week job for a several months. Bernstein looked over about 100 hikes and pared them down with the criteria of scenic locations, rich history, and a smattering of long and short hikes with varying degrees of difficulty spread out through much of Western North Carolina.
About a third of the hikes are six miles or less and another third are six to nine miles. Armed with a global positioning system, maps, a camera and a tape recorder, Bernstein hiked the trails, commenting on what she saw and what would-be hikers would need to know. She then transcribed her notes and culled through what she thought were the best clearly marked and accessible hikes. The results include national park and national forest trails, some with waterfall views, others with majestic mountain ridge vistas, some with rare plants or cemeteries as their highlights, and eight hikes in upstate South Carolina. ItŌĆÖs a comprehensive collection that is sure to become a standard guide in the backpacks of new and experienced Western North Carolina hikers.
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There are more than 2,000 miles of maintained trails in Western North Carolina, and Bernstein wants to make sure people take advantage of the natural beauty of these paths.
If people had a chance to climb to the top of mountains, surely we could solve the drug problem of people seeking thrills, Bernstein said. If you want thrills, seek the trails.
And every time you hike, itŌĆÖs different, she adds. ItŌĆÖs the people you go with and what you bring with you.
Mountains are more than scenery, Bernstein will tell you. They are an integral part of who we are, part of the culture that has existed here for thousands of years, the diversity of life that continues to thrive around us.
When it comes to mountains, itŌĆÖs not just getting to the top.
ŌĆ£You have to enjoy the small things that you see on the way to the top,ŌĆØ Bernstein said.
Her book not only gives people plenty of reasons to hike. It also supplies helpful advice for beginners ŌĆö for example, knowing what kinds of clothes are appropriate to wear.
ŌĆ£When youŌĆÖre a new hiker, you overdress,ŌĆØ Bernstein said.
The key is to wear layers, and she usually goes in shorts, knowing sheŌĆÖll warm up along the way.
ŌĆ£Jeans are the worst thing,ŌĆØ she added, since they hold moisture. In the summer, that means youŌĆÖll be hot and sweaty. In the winter, that moisture can turn your body even colder.
Instead, she recommends wearing synthetic clothes that wick or ŌĆ£breatheŌĆØ through the fabric and donŌĆÖt hold on to your bodyŌĆÖs moisture. Shorts will give you more mobility.
For novices and experienced hikers alike, Bernstein recommends getting involved with a local hiking group. ItŌĆÖs a great way to meet new friends and share the experiences.
Bernstein also encourages hikers to get out past the popular trail sites and beat the crowds by starting your hiking day early. That way if you happen to get lost, youŌĆÖve got more daylight hours to find your way to safety.
Along the way, you never know what youŌĆÖll find.
Bernstein recalled one time when she was out hiking toward Mt. Sterling when she heard a rustling in the woods.
ŌĆ£This is it,ŌĆØ she thought to herself, imagining sheŌĆÖd come upon a huge bear.
But it turned out to be a man. She still laughs about that one.
A Life on the Trails
In addition to hiking in states along the East Coast, Bernstein has hiked in California and throughout Europe.
As a college professor, she had two sabbaticals in New Zealand.
ŌĆ£And I made good use of it,ŌĆØ she said, having completed nine of the major trails in that island country.
In the 1980s, when she lived in Europe, she hiked from town to town in England and also ventured into Scandinavia and France.
But as plenty of experienced hikers will tell you, Western North Carolina is a hikerŌĆÖs mecca. When she was living in New Jersey, she and her husband would take weekends to hike sections of the Appalachian Trail. They jokingly proclaimed their motto as ŌĆ£Georgia to Maine in 25 years,ŌĆØ and it took about that long. No doubt, driving got to be a bit much. Georgia, which is the bottom end of the Trail, was more than a dayŌĆÖs drive from her home. She and her husband would walk the A.T. in three-week chunks, and thatŌĆÖs how they discovered Asheville.
ŌĆ£Basically, we moved here for the hiking,ŌĆØ Bernstein said.
The couple resettled in May of 2001 ŌĆö literally just after she handed in her last grades as a professor.
In no time, she joined up with the Carolina Mountain Club after doing a little homework as one might seek out churches after moving to a new area. With members from throughout Western North Carolina and from as far away as Raleigh, Charlotte and South Carolina, the club has a steady membership and is one of the longest-running clubs that maintains the Appalachian Trail.
Bernstein fell in love with the diversity of flowers found along the hiking trails in Western North Carolina. In New Jersey, she admits she never was into flowers.
ŌĆ£Here, you canŌĆÖt help but learn about the flowers,ŌĆØ she said.
At Hemphill Bald, for example, you can sample 50 different types of flowers in May. And to behold a meadow full of trillium is like walking into a fairy tale.
ŌĆ£Everything here depends on the altitude,ŌĆØ she explained.
From the beginning of March in South Carolina, spring works its way up the mountains like a reverse avalanche of green.
And beyond the scenic beauty is the rich history ŌĆö the Cherokee culture, the Scotch-Irish legacy and the evidence of artifacts, buildings and monuments.
Along with the mountain vistas and graceful trees, Bernstein says she treasures ever chimney, every railroad spike, and every cabin she passes.
Now she works as hike leader for the Carolina Mountain Hikers and occasionally teaches hiking classes.
SheŌĆÖs climbed all 40 of the 6,000-foot mountains in the Southeast, sheŌĆÖs hiked the entire Appalachian Trail, and now her latest challenge is to hike all 900 miles of trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. She has about 200 miles to go. Unlike the linear A.T. or the summit hikes in New Hampshire, the Great Smokies challenge requires going through a network of trails, crisscrossing back and forth through similar terrain.
ŌĆ£I feel incredibly lucky,ŌĆØ she said, having had the experiences of hiking some of the most beautiful trails in the world.
Now her new book gives her the opportunity to share a part of these wonderful experiences. Her Western North Carolina book signings began in April and continue throughout the month of May with stops at bookstores in Waynesville, Sylva, Hayesville and Highlands. For more information, go to www.milestonepress.com.


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Home List of Titles Tunable single-mode photonic lasing from zirconia inverse opal photonic crystals
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- Title
- Tunable single-mode photonic lasing from zirconia inverse opal photonic crystals
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- Nishijima, Yoshiaki; Ueno, Keisei; Juodkazis, Saulius; Mizeikis, Vygantas; Misawa, Hiroaki; Maeda, Mitsuru; Minaki, Masashi
- Abstract
- Lasing from zirconia inverse opal photonic crystal structures infiltrated by solutions of rhodamine dyes was found to exhibit single-mode lasing peaks with spectral width less than 1 nm and quality factor in excess of 4000. The lasing occurs within the approximate range of high-reflectance spectral region associated with photonic stop band along (111) crystallographic direction, but its wavelength is not fixed to the corresponding Bragg wavelength of the periodic structure, and depends on the spectral position of the gain band. This lasing regime can be useful for realizing tunable single-mode photonic crystal lasers.
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- Opals; Photonic crystals; Photonic lasing; Refractive index; Rhodamine dyes; Zirconia; Zirconia inverse opals
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Laurier professors recognized for popular research article
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Dec 9/05
Dr. Gordon McDougall and Dr, Terry Levesque of Laurier's School of Business & Economics recently received recognition by Emerald Literati for having one of the "top 50" most downloaded articles among the over 50,000 articles published in Emerald journals.
The article, "Customer Satisfaction With Services: Putting Perceived Value Into the Equation," was published in The Journal of Services Marketing (Volume 14, No. 5, 2000, 392-409) and in their work, McDougall and Levesque tackled the factors underlying customer satisfaction, an issue commonly linked to customer loyalty and firm profitability.
The cited article examined how three factors (the service provider's promise, the way that it delivered the service and the customer's perception of the value of the service) affected customer satisfaction and their future intentions across four services.
The results showed that the service promise and perceived value were the most important drivers of customer satisfaction with relational service quality (the delivery) a significant but less important driver as well as identifying a direct link between customer satisfaction and the customer's plans to use the service provider again or to complain to others about poor quality or low value.
It reached the important conclusion that both perceived value and the customer's judgement about how well the service provider had met its promise should be examined by managers to provide a more complete picture of the drivers of satisfaction.
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Drs. Levesque and McDougall were surprised and pleased that the paper was of interest to such a large number of researchers and marketers. They noted that the ease with which academic journal articles can be downloaded has had a significant impact on researchers' ability to access papers that are current and relevant.
Emerald (www.emeraldinsight.com) is the leading international publisher in the library and information sciences and management sectors as well as offering a strong range of engineering, applied science and technology journals and regularly attracts contributions from esteemed authors such as:
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Emerald publishes such flagship titles as:
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Dr. Gordon McDougall is a professor of marketing whose current research interests include service marketing, customer satisfaction and retention, and marketing strategy. He has co-authored fifteen books and published in a wide range of journals including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Retailing and The Journal of Services Marketing.
Dr. Terry Levesque is a professor of economics. His published research involves applications of economic analysis in political economy, transportation, and marketing. He teaches statistics and econometrics.
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U.S. Women's National Team Tryouts Set for This Weekend
by Clare Lochary | LaxMagazine.com
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Eighty-one of the best women's lacrosse players in the country will descend upon UMBC Friday through Sunday for the tryouts for the 2012-2013 U.S women's national team. From the field of 81, the selectors will choose a roster of 36 to 40 who will compete for a spot on 18-player team that will participate in the 2013 Federation of International Lacrosse World Cup in Oshawa, Can.
"We're going to have a lot of tough decisions to make, which I think, as a coach is a great place to be," Team USA coach Ricky Fried said.
The Americans won the gold medal in the last FIL World Cup, held in 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. Of the 18 players on that roster, 12 are returning for this year's tryout, including attackers Lindsey Munday and Sarah Albrecht, and defenders Gina Oliver and Amber Falcone, all of whom were All-World players in Prague. Munday was elected team captain of the current squad earlier this month during the team's trip to Canada for the North American Cup Challenge, a three-team tournament that is a part of the run-up to next year's world championship.
"It's a huge honor. I'm so fortunate to be a part of this team. I think everyone feels that," Munday said.
Sis players from 2009 U.S. World Cup team have since retired from international competition, the most recent being midfielder Acacia Walker, who announced her retirement on Thursday. Walker, named head coach at Boston College in May, participated in the North American Cup Challenge and has been in the U.S. national team program since 1999, when she played on that year's gold-medal winning under-19 team.
Twenty-six attackers, 26 midfielders, 21 defenders and eight goalies are scheduled to participate in the three-day tryouts. Both goalies from the 2009 team, Devon Wills and Megan Huether, are in the latest tryout pool, although Huether will sit out this weekend's events due to a concussion she suffered during an exhibition game in Buffalo, N.Y., just before the North American Challenge Cup.
The players will be evaluated over the course of two days of drills and scrimmages by Fried and the five members of the U.S. team staff, as well as six other selectors, all of whom are NCAA coaches. All 12 evaluators take part in the discussion of players, and each gets a voice in determining whether a player makes the team or not.
The roster will be announced on Sunday afternoon, and the selected players will compete in the annual Stars and Stripes Tournament to be held on Oct. 5-7 at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. Following Stars and Stripes, the coaching staff will cut the roster to a 24-player training team, and then select the 18 players for the final 2013 FIL World Cup roster after Champion Challenge in January 2013.
All tryout sessions this weekend at UMBC are open to the public. The schedule:
Friday: 1:30-5 p.m., 6:30-9 p.m.
Saturday: 8 a.m.-Noon, 1:30-4:30 p.m., 6:30-10 p.m.
Sunday, 8 a.m.-Noon
Check back to LaxMagazine.com for coverage of U.S. women's national team tryouts, and Sunday for the official team announcement.
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Sports: South Jeff, Clarkson Win
South Jefferson pulled to an early 13-6 lead over IHC Wednesday night in girls high school basketball and never looked back.
The final: South Jeff 65, IHC 31.
In Canton, Clarkson beat St. Lawrence University in mens college hockey, 4-1.
We have video highlights from both games, along with video from Canton's 5-4 win over Salmon River in girls high school hockey, and the signing of Indian River lacrosse standout Katie Brierton to play Division 1 college lacrosse at the University of Albany.
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On this day (Oct. 1) in 1924, James Earl (Jimmy) Carter Jr. was born in Plains, Ga., into the family of James Earl Carter Sr. and Lillian Gordy Carter.
The oldest of four children, Jimmy was raised in a strict Baptist household where traditional Christian ethics and morality were taught and practiced. Jimmy graduated from the public high school in rural Plains in 1941.
In 1943, he gained admission to the U.S. Naval Academy, from which he graduated in 1946 – 59th out of a class of 820. On July 7, 1946, the 22-year-old, newly minted naval officer and 20-year-old Rosalynn Smith were married. Together they had four children: Jack, Chip, Jeffrey and Amy Lynn.
The highlight of his brief naval career (1946-1953) was being selected by Admiral Hyman Rickover to serve in the nuclear submarine program. In preparation to becoming an engineering officer on a nuclear submarine, Carter took advanced graduate work at Union College. However, upon the death of his father in 1953, he abruptly resigned his commission and returned to Plains to take over the Carter business enterprises.
Success in his various business enterprises led almost inevitably to a political career. Carter won election to the Georgia Senate, where he served with notable distinction from 1962 to 1966. In 1966, he ran unsuccessfully for governor. However, in 1970, he won the gubernatorial election to become Georgia's 76th chief executive.
As governor (1971-1975), Carter gained a national reputation as a progressive southern chief executive. In his inaugural address, for example, he boldly declared that "the time for racial discrimination is over."
In late 1974, he announced his candidacy for president, and through tireless campaigning won 18 of 31 Democratic Party primaries. He won the Democratic nomination on the first ballot and then, with his vice presidential candidate, liberal Minnesota Sen. Walter Mondale, narrowly beat the Republican ticket of incumbent president Gerald R. Ford and vice presidential nominee and Kansas Sen. Robert Dole with 51 percent of the popular vote and a 297–240 electoral vote split.
As the 39th U.S. president (1976-1980), Carter usually is rated as one of the most unsuccessful presidents in recent history.
He presided over a country in turmoil. The 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, high gas prices, runaway inflation and a high unemployment rate of more than 7 percent combined to project the image of a chief executive who, although seen as a "good" man and devoted Christian, was not up to the job of president. Perhaps because of this perception, which was not entirely accurate, Carter was defeated in his re-election bid in 1980.
However, there were, in fact, several significant achievements, which included establishment of diplomatic relations with China, the Salt II treaty with the Soviet Union, the Panama Canal treaties, and the Camp David Accords (which brought temporary peace to the Middle East).
Since his involuntary political retirement in 1980, Carter has been extremely and productively busy. He founded and is actively involved with the nonpartisan Carter Center that, through its Global 2000 programs, promotes democracy and human rights. He regularly works with Habitat for Humanity. He teaches Sunday school and is a deacon at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains. Finally, he has, in his "spare time," written and published 27 books.
Carter's crowning achievement was the Dec. 10, 2002, awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
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Home List of Titles Anaerobic glyoxylate cycle activity during simultaneous utilization of glycogen and acetate in uncultured Accumulibacter enriched in enhanced biological phosphorus removal communities
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- Anaerobic glyoxylate cycle activity during simultaneous utilization of glycogen and acetate in uncultured Accumulibacter enriched in enhanced biological phosphorus removal communities
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- Burow, Luke C.; Mabbett, Amanda N.; Blackall, Linda L.
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- Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) communities protect waterways from nutrient pollution and enrich microorganisms capable of assimilating acetate as polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) under anaerobic conditions. Accumulibacter, an important uncultured polyphosphate-accumulating organism (PAO) enriched in EBPR, was investigated to determine the central metabolic pathways responsible for producing PHA. Acetate uptake and assimilation to PHA in Accumulibacter was confirmed using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)-microautoradiography and post-FISH chemical staining. Assays performed with enrichments of Accumulibacter using an inhibitor of glyceraldehyde-3- phosphate dehydrogenase inferred anaerobic glycolysis activity. Significant decrease in anaerobic acetate uptake and PHA production rates were observed using inhibitors targeting enzymes within the glyoxylate cycle. Bioinformatic analysis confirmed the presence of genes unique to the glyoxylate cycle (isocitrate lyase and malate synthase) and gene expression analysis of isocitrate lyase demonstrated that the glyoxylate cycle is likely involved in PHA production. Reduced anaerobic acetate uptake and PHA production was observed after inhibition of succinate dehydrogenase and upregulation of a succinate dehydrogenase gene suggested anaerobic activity. Cytochrome b/b6 activity inferred that succinate dehydrogenase activity in the absence of external electron acceptors may be facilitated by a novel cytochrome b/b 6 fusion protein complex that pushes electrons uphill to more electronegative electron carriers. Identification of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase genes in Accumulibacter demonstrated the potential for interconversion of C3 intermediates of glycolysis and C4 intermediates of the glyoxylate cycle. Our findings along with previous hypotheses from analysis of microbiome data and metabolic models for PAOs were used to develop a model for anaerobic carbon metabolism in Accumulibacter.
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- Accumulibacter; Fluorescence in situ hybridisation; PAO; PCR; Polyphosphate accumulating organisms; Polyhydroxyalkanoate; Quantitative reverse-transcriptase
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Our dogs and table manners
Our dogs have forgotten their table manners.
When we sit down to eat, Molly, my wife's 2-year-old beagle, only a few months out of the animal rescue group, jumps up and puts her front paws on someone's lap and her head within licking distance of the nearest plate.
We push her down and she pops up a minute later at someone else's plate.
Huey, my little 15-year-old terrier mutt, is a little more reserved. Maybe it's his age, but he just sits next to my chair and begs.
Somehow, I don't think we would rate too well if Cesar Millan and his "Dog Whisperer" television crew ever showed up at our house.
Jenny blames me for all of this commotion. She says we wouldn't have this problem if the dogs just ate dog food, like they're supposed to. She says it's because I sometimes slip the dogs a little something from the table.
She is quick to remind me that Fancy, her big, black lab-mix who died last summer, was pretty much perfect until she met up with me 10 years ago.
And that my dog Huey had lots of bad habits—and still does.
(She seems to have forgotten that when I met her, she had balloons taped to the inside of her front door to keep Fancy from jumping up and clawing the wood. But I don't think I'll bring that up.)
Anyway, she contends that I ruined all of the dogs' behavior by giving them snacks from the table.
Usually, it's about the time I have a tasty morsel headed toward one of their mouths.
I admit that I would not quality as a very good "pack leader" in Cesar Millan's eyes. I don't really think it hurts anything, but I don't get very far with that argument. That all changed one Sunday.
There I was, sitting in the pew at church and the preacher had started his sermon.
He was talking about the verse in Matthew where a woman is seeking help with her daughter, who is possessed by demons.
But Jesus tells her that it isn't right to take the master's bread and give it to the dogs (meaning those not from Israel).
She responds that "even the dogs under the table deserve the master's crumbs."
About that time our high-school senior, Joe, grinned and nudged his mother. I tried to keep from laughing out loud.
Of course, I know that's not what the story is really about. It's about the woman's faith and how Jesus decides to heal her daughter.
But it works for me, especially around the dinner table.
"Hey, it's in the Bible," I say, as I'm distributing the "crumbs."
Now, if I could just find a reference to dogs sleeping on the furniture.
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UVM leader wants to make admissions harderTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS | December 11,2012BURLINGTON The new president of the University of Vermont wants to reduce the number of undergraduate students on the Burlington campus and make the school harder to get in to for out-of-state applicants, as part of a plan to enhance the quality and affordability of the school.
But the increased selectivity would not come at the expense of Vermont students.
To help accomplish the goal, UVM is allocating up to $500,000 in surplus funds for beefing up efforts to meet the new goals in enrollment management.
The money will pay for enhanced student recruitment efforts via direct mail and by personal visits of admissions officers to high schools and college fairs, said UVM Vice President for Enrollment Management Chris Lucier.
Being more selective will also help attract better faculty, Lucier said.
Great faculty wants great students in their classroom and working with them on their research as undergraduates, Lucier said. If you have great faculty, students want to study at UVM to engage with the faculty in and out of the classroom.
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Originally published on September 11, 2013 7:54 am
Today marks the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Over the last several years, a group of family members have created a movement to turn the anniversary into a national day of service. This year more than 30 million people will be involved, and they claim it's the largest day of service in the country.


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WATERLOO Laurier researcher Shohini Ghose received a prestigious Sera Bangali award July 20 in West Bengal (India) for her contributions to the field of science, which include her work on a ground-breaking study that will further the field of quantum physics.
The Sera Bangali awards honour people of Bengali origin who have made significant contributions in the fields of music, film, business, science, sports, art, or public life, as well as an overall lifetime achievement award. Previous winners include Muhammad Yunus, an economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Pranab Mukherjee, the finance minister of India.
I was very honoured that they considered me for this award, said Ghose, an associate professor in Lauriers Department of Physics and Computer Science. Im already very passionate about my work, and getting this award just reinforces my commitment to this type of research.
Ghose is an expert in quantum chaos. She designed a study with Poul Jessen, a professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, which provided direct evidence of a connection between the very different worlds of quantum mechanics and classical chaos. Previously, this connection had never been directly observed at the atomic level.
By using state-of-the-art equipment in Jessens lab, the team was able to observe the impact of chaos or unpredictability on atoms. It essentially demonstrates the idea that small changes can have a huge effect.
Quantum chaos experiments are difficult, said Ghose. Its only in the last few years that weve been able to do clean experiments. There is a lot of experimental noise that can wash out any of the measurements that you want to observe.
Their study also provided the first-ever look at a connection between entanglement and chaos. Entanglement suggests that atoms can be connected in ways that arent possible in the macroscopic classical world around us.
All of these results are useful to the creation of the quantum computer.
Ghose, Jessen and three graduate students co-authored an article on their study called Quantum Signatures of Chaos in a Kicked Top. It was published in the prestigious journal Nature in 2009.
The Sera Bangali awards were established in 2006, and are sponsored by STAR Ananda, Bengals leading news channel.
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