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Madison's Marquette neighborhood could have a new place to live, eat and shop on Williamson Street.
Baldwin Development Group proposed an estimated $43 million project called "722 Williamson" would be built on 700 block between Blount and South Livingston streets.
But neighbors in the area do not agree on the plan.
John Martens, who runs the Madison Candy Company Building, said he walked away from development proposals for the space next to his building several times before, but this one is different.
"When I saw what efforts they were making to make it engage the neighborhood and accommodate my own needs I felt I'm ready to cooperate," said Martens.
Martens negotiated with the developer to give up parking spaces for room in the proposed parking lot.
722 Williamson would add 220 apartments, about 6,000 square feet of commercial space and 368 parking stalls.
The front portion off Williamson Street would be a four-story building with a rooftop garden, and the back section adjacent to the Capitol Bike Path would be 10 stories.
Neighbors say the proposed size of the development challenge the area's design standards of buildings being 7 floors high or 85 feet tall.
"I'm not convinced the scale of this building from Williamson Street is not going to be noticed or felt," said resident Steve Gallo at a neighborhood Preservation and Development meeting Wednesday morning.
Gallo wasn't alone in his view.
During the same meeting, neighbor Anne Walker said she was concerned about the building's impact on the bike path and rooftop gardening.
Other residents argued the development would feed into the traffic issues; while some said they were not against development but that it should follow current standards.
Alder Marsha Rummel said she is not against the proposal but wants to see more information.
"I want to know what it would really look like if you fit the plan. Until you show me what you could do if it fits the plan, I don't really know that what you think is the best way, is the best way," said Rumel.
A newly formed subcommittee was assembled at Wednesday's meeting.
Ten residents make up the subcommittee that will work with developers to come up with solutions to neighborhood concerns.
When asked about reconsidering the 10-story aspect of the project, Jim Bower, managing partner with Baldwin Development Group, said there is no definitive answer, but the adjustment could force them to cut parking spaces and request more financial assistance from the city.


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Peanut Butter Crunchy Surprises
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 10 min
- Ready Time: 75 min
- Yield: 4 dozen cookies
- 1 cup Crisco® Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
- OR 1 stick Crisco® Baking Sticks Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
- 1 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2 1/2 cups Pillsbury BEST™ All Purpose Flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 cups crushed potato chips
Preparation Directions
- HEAT oven to 375ºF.
- COMBINE shortening, peanut butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar and vanilla in large bowl of electric mixer; beat at medium speed until well blended. Beat in eggs.
- COMBINE flour and baking soda in medium bowl. Mix into shortening mixture at low speed until just blended.
- FORM dough into 1-inch balls. Roll in crushed potato chips. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet. Make crisscross pattern on dough with floured fork.
- BAKE 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove to cooling rack.
Nutritional Information Per Serving
Serving Size (1 cookie), Calories 150 (Calories from Fat 80), Total Fat 9g (Saturated Fat 2g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 10mg, Sodium 105mg, Total Carbohydrate 15g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 7g), Protein 3g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 2%, Vitamin C 2%, Calcium 0%, Iron 4%.
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
* Ensure all recipe ingredients are gluten free by referencing the ingredient labels, as products may vary. If uncertain, contact the ingredient manufacturer.

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New organization
As of January 1, 2012, the Volvo Group introduced a new functional organization which better utilizes the global potential of the Group's brands and products and a new financial framework to reflect the changes in the organization. The re-organization and the new framework impacts to some extent how revenues and expenses are reported in the income statement and between the different reportable segments.
In the new organization from January 1, 2012, the Trucks operations have been structured according to a functional approach, whereby the entire Trucks business is managed as one single business area consisting of five different functional organizations: Group Trucks Sales & Marketing EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), Group Trucks Sales & Marketing Americas, Group Trucks Sales & Marketing APAC (Asia Pacific), Group Trucks Operations and Group Trucks Technology. In addition, a separate unit for Truck Joint Ventures is included in business area Trucks. Business areas Buses, Construction Equipment, Volvo Penta and Customer Finance remain as separate business areas. Governmental Sales and Volvo Rents are treated as separate business areas in the new organization. The Volvo Group is thereby organized in seven business areas after the divestment of Volvo Aero in October 2012. As from October 1, 2012 the separate unit Truck Joint Ventures is included in Group Truck Sales & Marketing APAC. As a result of this change, Group Truck Sales & Marketing APAC is renamed Group Trucks Sales & Marketing and JV's APAC.
Former business units Volvo Powertrain, Volvo 3P, Volvo Logistics and Volvo Parts are included in business area Trucks from 2012. The costs of these operations are shared between the different business areas based on utilization according to the principles of the new financial framework. As from January 1, 2012 Volvo IT, Group Business Services and Volvo Real Estate are treated as business support functions and costs of operations are shared by the business areas based on utilization according to the principles of the financial framework. As from January 1, 2013, Volvo Real Estate is included in Group Business Services.
The segment information for 2011 have been restated due to the new organization.
Read more about the impact on segment reporting 2011 due to the new organization in note 32.


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Monday, November 18, 2013
New LSI SandForce Controllers Will Enable SSDs with 1.80GB/s Transfer Speed.
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LSI Introduces Third-Generation SandForce SSD Controllers
Thursday, November 14, 2013
OCZ Sees Growing Potential for PCIe SSDs, Hints on PCIe Drives with Own Controller.
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OCZ Predicts Growing Demand for PCI Express SSDs on PC and Workstation Markets
Thursday, November 7, 2013
OCZ Introduces New Vector 150 High-End SSD for Enthusiast and Workstation PCs.
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Innodisk to Boost IOPS Speed of Solid-State Storage Solutions to 1M+.
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Silicon Motion Develops USB 3.0 Flash Controller with 50% Higher Performance.
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Sales of OCZ Technology Decline as Company Suffers Insufficient NAND Flash Supply.
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SK Hynix Establishes NAND Flash R&D Center in Taiwan.
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Mohr–Tranebjærg syndrome
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|Mohr–Tranebjærg syndrome
|Classification and external resources
Mohr–Tranebjærg syndrome (MTS) is a rare X-liked recessive syndrome also known as Deafness-dystonia syndrome and caused by mutation in the TIMM8A gene. It was first described in 1960.[1] The severity of the symptoms may vary, but they progress usually to severe deafness and dystonia and sometimes are accompanied by cortical deterioration of vision and mental deterioration.
Alternative names[edit]
- Deafness-dystonia-optic neuronopathy syndrome, DDS
- Deafness-dystonia-optic atrophy syndrome, DDP
- Deafness syndrome, progressive, with blindness, dystonia, fractures, and mental deficiency
See also[edit]
- ^ MOHR J, MAGEROY K (1960). "Sex-linked deafness of a possibly new type". Acta Genet Stat Med. 10: 54–62. PMID 13771732.
External links[edit]
- The Deafness Dystonia Protein DDP and Mitochondrial Division — a free videolecture by Craig Blackstone touching on the genetics of the disorder, 2002.
- GeneReviews/NCBI/NIH/UW entry on Deafness-Dystonia-Optic Neuronopathy Syndrome
- MTS — a page at NIH website
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Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
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Federal Highway Administration Research and Technology
Coordinating, Developing, and Delivering Highway Transportation Innovations
|Project Information
|Project ID:
|Project Name:
|Fatigue of Plasma and Laser Cut Holes
|Project Status:
|Start Date:
|June 1, 2012
|End Date:
|January 1, 2015
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|Office of Infrastructure Research and Development
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|High-Performing Steel Bridge
|Structures Laboratory
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|Project Description:
|This project will determine the fatigue strength of plates that have plasma (and possibly laser) cut holes in them. The initial matrix of specimens will be procured from three different sources that will be using different plasma-cutting machines and controlling software. The initial matrix of specimens will determine the effect on fatigue strength that the type of plasma shielding (either oxygen or air), steel type (either regular carbon or weathering grades), and the orientation of the cut termination relative to the primary stress direction may have. In addition, the hardness and cylindricality of the holes from the three different sources will be correlated to the fatigue strength to understand if it is dependent upon the machine making the cut and its controlling software. The project may also address the static strength of plasma cut holes, though this will be dependent upon procurement of a larger testing machine that has been programmed.
|To determine the fatigue strength of plasma (and possibly laser) cut holes in steel plates. This fatigue strength would be compared to that of a drilled hole that is the currently accepted technique in steel bridge fabrication.
|Background Information:
|In Article 126.96.36.199 of the 2010 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Load and Resistance Factor Design Bridge Construction Specifications states that bolt holes shall only be made by drilling or punching. Though a provision is provided in the commentary that "with the owners approval, round or slotted holes for non-main members in thin plate may successfully be thermally cut by plasma, laser, or oxygen-acetylene means." However, many owners choose not to exercise this clause because there is no data to show how these holes perform under static and fatigue loading. At the same time, current machines used in steel bridge fabrication have the ability to perform multiple fabrication processes at one time, reducing the amount of handling, thus leading to reduced fabrication costs. Until this research proves otherwise, steel bridge fabricators will have to continue performing multiple material-handling steps to accommodate standard drilling and punching operations.
|Product Type:
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|Test Methodology:
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|Expected Benefits:
|Reduced steel bridge fabrication costs.
|Name: WORKING TITLE - "Fatigue Strength of Thermally Cut Holes in Steel Plate."
Product Type(s): Technical report
Description: A report to document all aspects of the testing, including methodology, testing matrix, results, and conclusions.
|FHWA Topics:
|Research/Technologies--Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC)
|TRT Terms:
|Fatigue (Mechanics)
Steel Bridges
Metal Cutting
Fatigue Strength
|FHWA Disciplines:
|Subject Areas:
|Bridges and other structures


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LBJ School Advisory Board member Betty S. Flowers will head LBJ Library
Betty Sue Flowers, the Kelleher Professor of English and director of creative writing for the UT Austin English Department, has been appointed as the new director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum.
Flowers, who will begin her new duties in January, is a member of UT Austin's Academy of Distinguished Teachers and a member of the LBJ School Advisory Council. She is also a poet, an editor, a consultant to international corporations, and an author who has collaborated with well-known television journalist Bill Moyers to produce four books.
"Betty Sue has had a very distinguished career as a faculty member on this campus, and I have every hope that in her next career she will strengthen the already excellent relationship between the Library and the university," said UT Austin President Larry R. Faulkner.
A native of Texas, Flowers earned her Ph.D. degree at the University of London. She has worked as a consultant for NASA, General Motors, Shell International, and the World Business Council in Geneva, helping executives draft global scenarios for the future.
According to Larry Temple, president of the LBJ Foundation, Flowers will bring to the directorship "proven leadership skills and a clear concept of what the LBJ Library can and should do in the developing new world of electronic communication."
Harry Middleton, who will relinquish the Library's directorship to Flowers, will continue to serve as the executive director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation. In making the announcement of Flowers' selection, Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin praised Middleton, saying that he had "set the standard for presidential library directors" and adding that "under his leadership, the Johnson Library has thrived and become a center for scholarly research and cultural endeavors." Middleton has served as director since the Library opened in 1971.
The LBJ Library, located next to the LBJ School, is part of a nationwide network administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration. The libraries are repositories for the papers, records, and other historical materials of U.S. presidents since Herbert Hoover.
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The most recent issue of Clinical Gastroenterology & Hepatology investigates prevalence, trends, and risk factors for fecal incontinence in United States adults.
Dr Ivo Ditah and colleagues from Minnesota, USA investigated the prevalence of and trends and risk factors for fecal incontinence (FI) in the United States among non-institutionalized adults from 2005 to 2010.
The researchers analyzed data from 14,759 participants in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2005 to 2010.
FI was defined as accidental leakage of solid or liquid stool or mucus at least once in preceding month.
Sampling weights were used to obtain estimates for the national population.
Logistic regression was used to identify risk factors for FI.
The researchers found that the prevalence of FI among non-institutionalized U.S. adults was 8.4%.
It was stable throughout the study period, with 8.3% in 20052006, 8.5% in 20072008, and 8.4% in 20092010.
FI resulted in release of liquid stool in most cases.
The team noted that the prevalence increased with age from 3% among 20- to 29-year-old participants to 16% among participants 70 years and older.
The research team noted that independent risk factors for FI included older age, diabetes mellitus, urinary incontinence, frequent and loose stools, and multiple chronic illnesses.
The team observed that FI was more common among women only when they had urinary incontinence.
Dr Ditah's team concludes, "FI is a common problem among non-institutionalized U.S. adults."
"Its prevalence remained stable from 20052010. Diabetes mellitus and chronic diarrhea are modifiable risk factors."
"Future studies on risk factors for FI should assess for presence of urinary incontinence."
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Learning is perhaps the most earth shattering of evolutionary innovations. Where it is weak, an organism is unlikely to thrive during radical changes to their environment, and where it is strong they have the option to either change behaviour or that environment. To these ends, nature has selected for two primary learning instincts that give us pleasure. The first is direct instruction via social interaction, and the second is play, which encourages the experimentation and exploration of our environments.
The advent of literacy prompted societies of growing complexity, and with its spread technologies like the printing press propelled both the arts and sciences forward (see Diamond-9; Fleming and Marien-14). Yet our brains have scarcely evolved to cope with this scale information and, even as late as the 20th century, people have maintained a scarcity mentality and looked to education primarily for content dissemination.
Obviously, this is no longer tenable in modern civilization. All aspirations of being well read and knowing have been crushed by an unprecedented information surplus (see Salter-24), widespread access to the means of content production threatens the hegemony of those with intellectual capital (see Batra-2), and creativity — not just specialized skills — is the basis of prosperity (see Florida-15). To still conceive of teaching as the propagation of truths and core skills is to invite the replacement of middle and senior schoolteachers with computers.
Hence the need for pedagogy that goes beyond knowing and serves as a catalyst for ongoing human development. To that end, I submit that 21st century instruction is to be defined by its role in socialization, which brings us back to the long neglected instinct which was best adapted to a vast and scarcely knowable world: play.
Instruction and its discontents
From a band of nomads to modern governments and classrooms, there has always been a dynamic of power and influence. Central to this dynamic is the distinction between those that know and those that do not (see Zuboff-29). Hence, education at its core is an exercise in equipping subordinates for roles of varying status and complexity within their organization and society.
However, this dynamic can only be relied upon in so far as the latter actually wish to take power and the knowledge it demands, and also in so far as information is actually withheld, which brings us to the dual problems of knowledge and control.
To start with, there are three key drawbacks of teaching for knowledge. First, the survival of ideas depends less upon their accuracy than their ability to self-replicate, spread, and adapt (see Dawkins-8. Second, the setting of official knowledge can be influenced by government and corporate interest in propaganda and whitewashing (see Beder-3; Hirst). And third, over reliance on any particular source — including Google — can discourage further research and questioning (see Haigh).
Now, the obvious solution to the above, prima facie, is the promotion of critical thinking skills and Okagaki & Sternberg-21 recommend this via the explicit demonstration of cross-disciplinary principles. However, this method is inherently flawed in that it does not foster critical reflection on those prescribed principles, and the continuous pursuit of feedback on their application can easily become a force for normalization (see Fendler-13).
Counter-intuitively, the problem of teaching for knowledge is not that content is always flawed, but that teacher hegemony serves to separate the student from their own learning. According to Csikszentmihalyi-5, it is the external and continuous manipulation of student attention that causes people to give up on the pleasures of learning.
Hence, teachers who rely on a pace-setting and marks-orientated style of leadership are apt to erode any honesty, creativity, enthusiasm, and satisfaction among their students (see Goleman-16). And as noted by Zimbardo-28, when one combines well-defined power-roles, gradually encroaching authority, high exiting/disobedience costs, and diffused responsibility with a legitimizing ideology, compliance can easily trump the empathy, ethics, and wishes of the individual.
Further exacerbating the problem, disengagement can slow student progression and bate the teacher into oversimplifying the curriculum just to cover everything. According to Ellis-12, this reduces the content to poorly connected facts of little meaning which not only bores the students, but also reduces the opportunity to develop higher order thinking skills.
In sum, teaching for knowledge only rewards the students who play the system and give the teacher what they think they want.
The Player
One of the most insightful things I noticed as I made my way through the first twelve years of Shultz's Peanuts, was that the characters will often start out as infants and grow up into children, which they remained for as long as fifty years – as if to imply that there is no such thing as an adult, only a bigger kid. This is how I like to conceive of the teacher: a fellow player who is trained to lead.
In sharp contrast with the instructional teaching for knowledge, it embraces the uncertainty of the world to cultivate a sense of wonder, and ideas exist to be played with and not just collected or admired in books. The role of teacher is simply to provide the toys.
Now, before we get into my methodology, I want to establish that this is grounded in the interests of society. Kane-19 suggests that play at all ages can strengthen resilience, well-being, identity, free-thinking, and autonomy, which makes it essential preparation for the interconnectedness, complexity, and unpredictability of 21st century living. But more fundamentally, Elkind-10 suggests that play is an instinct most central to our intellectual and social development.
Hence it is far better to co-opt this behavioural tendency than to fight it in the name of imposing content. As noted by Goleman-17, the best way to enhance performance — for both productivity and creativity — is to promote buy-in via consultation and the alignment of individual and organizational goals. But then, what do the students want and how can their interests align with the educators?
Starting with the students as players, there is a genuine need and desire to develop ownership of their learning and become self-directed, in which case they need an environment that is conducive to exploration and experimentation via the provision of stimuli and sufficient time and space (see Elkind-11). Furthermore, as noted by Csikszentmihalyi-6, what actually makes any learning activity stimulating is that it involves skill in a symbolic domain with rules – a goal, a way of obtaining feedback at the level of one's skills, and autonomy over their thoughts.
Applied to the curriculum, less is more. One can scaffold for the ownership of learning by gradually moving toward less provision of backgrounding and reading guidance/selection, while also seeking to connect material to what the students are already passionate about (see Guthrie, Wigfield & Perencevich-18; Silvia-25; Babbage-1).
That said however, one must keep in mind the role of variety. One reasonable critique of current emphasis of relevance in schools; is that it can limit the scope of curriculum to contemporary discourse and society (see Morgan-20). Indeed, the values underpinning which news is reported in the media — impact, proximity, prominence, timeliness, conflict, currency and oddity (see White-27) — serve to sell newspapers, being what people want to read, but tend to exclude as much as they include.
If the educator is to develop creative students then the curriculum should serve to expand their interests beyond what they already know. After all, insight actually tends to occur where an individual is both informed and flexible (see Runco-22), and the types of people who develop original ideas are those with both a mastery of their subject and ongoing exposure to concepts from unrelated; fields of study (see Simonton-26).
What this means in terms of pedagogy is that a significant part of learning to think develops from the social interaction that develops in response to content. As noted by Billig-4, much of our reasoning skills develop as the internalization of socialized argumentation and, according to Schugurensky-24, the development of deep thinking skills depends on an environment that allows for open discussion of contrary points of view.
Furthermore, and contrary to popular belief, social interaction with people of different backgrounds and expertise is essential to the creative process (see Csikszentmihalyi & Sawyer-7), which means that the creative classroom is one where students are free to interact with both the teacher and each other.
To sum, if students can be encouraged to own their learning and find pleasure in it, they are likely to become better thinkers, continuing learners, and well adjusted beyond the classroom. The method for this is the provision of curious materials and sufficient space for students to explore them on their own creative terms. Let us work with, and not against, our own playful instincts.
1. Babbage, K.J. Extreme Students: Challenging all students and Energizing Learning. 2006. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 60-3.
2. Batra, N.D. Digital Freedom: How much can you handle? 2008. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. p. 128-30, 133-7.
4. Billig, M. Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology 1989. Newcastle, Great Britain: Cambridge University. p. 110-7.
5. Csikszentmihalyi, M. Flow: The Classic Work on how to Achieve Happiness. 1992. Sydney, New South Wales: Rider. p. 141.
6. Ibid 118-20, 141
7. Csikszentmihalyi, M. & Sawyer, K. Creative Insight: The Social Dimension of a Solitary Moment. In Sternberg & Davidson-30. p. 358-60
8. Dawkins, R. The God Delusion 2006. London, Great Britain: Transworld. p. 191-201.
9. Diamond, J. Guns, Germs and Steel: a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years 1997. Sydney, New South Wales: Random House. p. 360
10. Elkind, D. The Power of Play: How spontaneous, imaginative activities lead to happier, healthier children. 2007. Cambridge, Massachusetts: De Capo. ch. 1
11. Ibid ch. 5-6.
12. Ellis, E. S. Watering up the curriculum for students with learning disabilities. Remedial and Special Education 18, 6 (1997). p. 327-8.
13. Fendler, L.. Educating Flexible Souls. In Hultqvist, K. & Dahlberg, G. (eds.) Governing the Child in the New Millennium 2001. New York: RoutledgeFalmer. p. 134-9.
14. Fleming & Marien. Fleming's Art and Ideas 2005. Belmont, California: Thompson & Wadworth. p. 301-3.
15. Florida, R. The Rise of the Creative Class 2002. New York: Basic Books. ch. 3.
16. Goleman, D. The New Leaders: Transforming the Art of Leadership into the Science of Results 2002. London, Great Britain: Little, Brown. p. 92-6 & 194-5
17. Ibid 59-63 & 66-9
18. Guthrie, J.T., Wigfield, A., & Perencevich, K.C. Motivating Reading Comprehension: Concept Oriented Reading Instruction 2004. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. p. 61-8.
19. Kane, P. The Play Ethic: A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living 2004. London, Great Britain: Macmillan. ch. 6.
20. Morgan, P. Education Made Easy. Quadrant, January-February 2007. p. 50-52.
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A traveling trophy for a fantasy football league now carries the autograph of Grand Valley's president.
Student Kyle Partlo sent President Thomas J. Haas an email, asking if he would sign the trophy. Partlo, a computer engineering major, said all the players in the fantasy league are Grand Valley students or graduates.
"Because we all shared our college experience at Grand Valley, we named the trophy after President Haas," said Partlo. "We all owe our friendships to GVSU and I hope we are able to stay in contact."


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I've been drawing a blank on new show topics this week. It doesn't help that we're apparently going to be broadcasting opposite the Superbowl this Sunday, and so it's likely we won't get many callers to carry the show. This doesn't matter to people who listen via podcast, but it does make it difficult to plan how to fill the time.
I did a show on atheist parenting once. I got some email after that which said "How about a show about YOUR experiences as a lifelong atheist?" Everybody knows Matt's story by now, about how he was studying to be a minister before deconverting. By contrast, my story is probably a lot less exciting because mainly it involves just having a normal childhood, apart from the fact that my parents happened to be atheists. Seriously, I never felt particularly persecuted, I had lots of Christian friends who didn't bother me very much, and my parents loved me. No big falling out. It's kind of boring, really.
There are a few things I guess I can draw on. I had some interesting encounters with Christian kids while I was growing up in Alabama. My atheist, scientist parents taught me somewhat different lessons about life and morality than the standard "Do this because God said so" lessons. And also, the fact that I'm a Jewish atheist and I had a bar mitzvah is kind of interesting.
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- View across the wheat fields to the western mountains and suburbs of Ljubljana, Slovenia, as the clouds break up after a morning of heavy rain. Shot in the afternoon from the northern suburb of Ruski Car and looking west to the suburb of siska, the city suburbs are often a reminder of how closely related city and farming life are.
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ACC Way Too Early Power Rankings: Part IIPosted by Brad Jenkins (@bradjenk) on April 8th, 2016
Yesterday we presented our projected order of finish next season for the bottom third of the ACC; today we will take a look at the upper two-thirds. The truth is that not all that much appears poised to change. Most of the contenders from this season should expect to be contenders again next season, and most of the teams that struggled are likely to do so again. However, one squad should enter the 2016-17 season as a clear favorite. With another top-ranked recruiting class and the return of several key players, Duke will be the conventional choice to win the ACC and compete for the national title next season. The ACC should also have three other teams that will rank among the top-15 nationally. After the top four, the next six teams could be placed in almost any order — the race should once again be that tight in the middle of the league. Here's our top 10 as we look ahead to the 2016-17 season.
1) Duke
- Key Losses: Brandon Ingram, Marshall Plumlee
- Key Additions: Amile Jefferson (RS-Injury), Harry Giles, Jayson Tatum, Frank Jackson
- Nutshell: To say the Blue Devils will be loaded next season may be an understatement. The question will be whether Mike Krzyzewski can find sufficient chemistry between talented newcomers and veterans like when his team cut down the nets in Indianapolis in 2014-15. He hasn't had this kind of depth in quite a while, but perhaps Coach K's experience in managing minutes for his U.S. National Team this summer at the Brazil Olympics will be good training.


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So, according to the nursery rhyme, Solomon Grundy 'grew worse on Friday'. Listen, Sol, I know you're dead and buried so RIP and all that, but you're a chump. If you'd only hung out on this here blog on Friday, you would not 'died on Saturday'. You're immortal thanks to rhyme, Solomon, but you were a CHUMP.
Long week? Even with all the glorious sunshine (I have tanned to a gloriously deep, even brown), no doubt. Which is why you're here. To take in sights of natural wonder in the form of hot dudes. All on the same page? Cool. Let's begin – it's The Friday Pretty!
Prior to a couple of weeks ago, TFP saw an ad that changed its perving possibilities. TFP had never even heard of a York Peppermint Pattie before watching the ad. Turns out, thanks to the internet, it need never bother. The pertinent bit is the star of the spot, one Gavin Dunne. Gavin is a model, repped by Wilhelmina Miami (see his kinda NSFW casting video here) TFP wants to cradle his face and stare into his dreamy eyes (amongst other things). Here's what Gavin Dunne looks like:
A few weekends back, TFP enjoyed the first part of a slumber party with some of its oldest friends. Alas, work got in the way, so TFP was forced to retire from the festivities too early. But before departing, the assembled group got to watch This Means War (no judgement, 'k?). Tom Hardy, man. Is he real? Was he generated by some super-secret super-smart focus group? Because he ticks all the boxes. All of them. Every time he did something adorably hot, the room would dissolve into fizzy giggles. TFP would like to nibble on his neck and mewl for a few hours… WHO SAID THAT? (um, strike that from the record):
Jesse Williams, what are you doing to TFP? You are so pretty with your cat eyes and that thing you do with your upper lip when you smile. Oh, and your freckles! They're pretty cute too. In fact, you know what? Ditch whiny Kepner and come to London, dammit. TFP and the parade of pervs who read this here blog will show you a good time. Look at you, FFS – you're adorbz:
This next guy is a no-name, found while idly clicking stuff on Tumblr (you're not on Tumblr? Get out). This was just tagged 'hot Copenhagen cyclist', which was enough for TFP. Boys on bikes are hot – it's all that eco-friendly, fit (as in strong muscles, and er, stamina) and ability to get into small spaces energy. It makes them unfailingly cute; like this one, who is tall (with excellent taste in trainers), wears glasses (nggh!) and has a beard. It's a smörgåsbord of delights!
Michael Ealy's fine ass almost made TFP want to watch Think Like A Man. TFP said 'almost', sucker – Steve Harvey and his collection of ridiculous suits is not getting TFP's money. But still – you can understand the 'almost', can't you? (PS: this goes out to Funlayo. She knows why):
Okay, it's short and sweet this week! Enjoy the looong weekend (thanks, Queenie!) and rave safe. See you next time, pervs.


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June 2008
Life in Leipzig
ECM Records
The partnership of pianist Ketil Bjørnstad and electric guitarist Terje Rypdal works like a marriage of opposites. Their styles are diametrically opposed—Bjørnstad the classical musician, Rypdal the rocker—but their chemistry has stood the test of time.
Their new disc, Life in Leipzig, draws from a 2005 concert at the opera house in that German city. The first four pieces are presented as movements in a suite, as are the seven that follow, so the album feels halved, much the way a disc of piano concertos would be. Bjørnstad, playing a brilliant-sounding Bösendorfer, begins with low-end rumbles and adds some midrange clangs before Rypdal joins in with his wailing guitar. A classically structured motif of chords evolves, and Rypdal plucks with a bit of feedback. Bjørnstad settles into what almost sounds like a Rachmaninoff concerto, and Rypdal all but disappears. Bjørnstad's left hand develops what could be described as classical stride, and Rypdal returns with a vengeance, letting loose with a searing riff. Bjørnstad's classical stride continues while Rypdal builds an epic-rock crescendo. All of this occurs in the eight-minute opener, "The Sea V."
This juxtaposition—classical pianist vs. in-your-face electric rock—pervades the entire album, even as the ideas and aesthetics vary. A lot of thought, too, goes into these improvisational works: "Alai's Room," "By the Fjord," and "The Sea IX" each find Bjørnstad searching for the appropriate notes and emotional nuances. But at its most base, this duo is a study in contrasts, an experiment in both negotiation and defiance. The beauty of "The Sea II" lies in this very concept: clanging chords pitted against pealing notes, gorgeous piano phrases set off against visceral electric shredding. It makes you wonder if Vladimir Horowitz might have enjoyed playing with Eddie Van Halen.


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Duke Snider dead at age 84
I'm not one to memorialize the dead usually, although some are significant in history and my life. And it may seem strange to choose a former baseball player when I do decide to do so. But Duke Snider was one of my all time baseball heroes as a kid. This was back in the era of 3 major league teams in New York and rivalries that simply were unmatched. I caught the fever early and young, and Duke Snider was one of those I most admired:
Duke Snider, the Hall of Fame center fielder renowned for his home run drives and superb defensive play in the Brooklyn Dodgers' glory years, died Sunday in Escondido, Calif. He was 84.
From 1949, his first full season, until 1957, the period generally considered the golden age of New York baseball — the last time the city's fans were divided into three camps, and when at least one New York team played in the World Series each October — Snider was a colossus, one of three roaming the center fields of New York.
The others, of course, were Willie Mays of the New York Giants and Mickey Mantle of the Yankees, and the three became symbols of their teams, as the city's fans argued over who was best: Willie, Mickey or the Duke?
History has since settled Snider in third place, but at the time, he had a good case to make. The Dodgers, known fondly as Dem Bums and immortalized by the writer Roger Kahn as "The Boys of Summer," won six National League pennants during Snider's 11 seasons in Brooklyn.
It was the era of Mays, Mantle and Snider and history may have put Snider in 3rd place, but not to an impressionable young kid he helped fall in love with the game of baseball.
Rest in Peace, Duke.
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National Marathon Championship – Margam Park
Joolze Dymond reports from the UK National Marathon Champs – and the Singletrack Big Welsh Weekender down in Margam Park, South Wales this weekend.
Singletrack Big Welsh Weekender getting full!
There are over 850 riders and racers booked in for this weekend's Big Welsh Weekender in Margam Park, South Wales. Looks like good weather too… Come along and watch for free – or enter the XC if you're feeling keen… The Marathon is booked up now.
The Big Welsh Weekend is now the Singletrack Big Welsh Weekend
Singletrack is stepping up to sponsor the successful 'Big Welsh Weekend' event that runs on the last weekend in May. Come and ride or race with us and with much faster types like Roel Paulissen who'll be racing both days, including the British Marathon Champs on the Sunday.


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Israel takes the swine out of swine flu
By James Martin, May 8, 2009
Israel has re-named the potentially deadly Swine Flu virus as "Mexican Flu" because the virus comes from pigs, which are non-kosher.
Ultra-Orthodox Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman made the announcement at a press conference on the grounds that under Jewish law pigs are considered unclean and pork is non-kosher.
This is despite the fact that the non-kosher meat is available in some stores in Israel.
Mr Litzman was appointed health minister in the recently-formed government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is one of eight ultra-Orthodox ministers in his administration.
Israel is not the only country to have given the virus a new name. Taiwan has named it "new flu" and the Europan commission uses "novel flu virus".
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With the triple zeros on the clock, the dream became a reality. Many previous NBA assumptions were again removed.
A team built mostly on free agents can't win a championship. Two top-5 players can't play together harmoniously. A team without a true center can't win a title.
Whatever adversity and issues the Heat had faced, they passed everyone with flying colors.
With Dwyane Wade playing on one good leg, Chris Bosh missing extensive postseason action, the role players being on and off and a confrontation between D-Wade and Coach Erik Spoelstra in Game 3 versus Indiana, the Heat proved they have the mental toughness and ability to close.
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No doubt my memory of these images has been embellished over time. But I do still remember the shape of the "flying reptiles". So much so that when I recently saw frigatebirds, the first thought that came to my mind was: Pterodactyls!
Frigatebirds look prehistoric to me, but they are also magnificent. I fact, their official name is Magnificent Frigatebirds. They have up to an eight-foot wingspan. Only a few albatross species have longer wings! The frigatebird's body weight is small compared to its wingspan, making it the lightest bird relative to wing surface area. This makes it extremely buoyant. It can float for hours on the slightest breeze.
And that's how I first saw them recently. I had the good fortune to join my friend Kay Past and her nieces and nephew on a cruise across the Gulf of Mexico. As we came into the port of Progreso, in the Yucatan, there they were, gliding alongside the ship as if they were attached to it by threads. They didn't flap their long wings; they didn't need to. Frigatebirds seem to be more at home on their wings than any other bird I've ever seen.
You don't see frigatebirds just anywhere. They are sometimes referred to as a pelagic species. Pelagic birds are those that spend almost their lives at sea, either flying over it or sitting on the water. They only come to land to breed.
Magnificent Frigatebirds, however, are not truly pelagic because they cannot sit on the water. Oddly enough, their feathers are not very waterproof. If they get wet, they can become waterlogged and drown.
So these seabirds spend their lives offshore and in coastal areas. But they are almost always in the air. They eat and drink on the wing. It is a very aerial life.
A frigatebird's feet are too small and weak for it to walk, so it usually doesn't land on the ground either. If a tidbit washes up on the beach, a frigatebird can swoop down and pluck it up with its long, hooked beak without touching the ground.
Fortunately, frigatebirds live in the tropics where the warm shores grow mangrove swamps. The mangrove trees are the frigatebirds' nesting spots. Even with weak feet they can perch on the thin twigs of the mangroves. The female carries broken off twigs to the top of one the mangroves and creates a flimsy nest. A male discovers the new nest and does a curious thing. He inflates his bright red throat pouch and leans his head way back, scanning the skies for the female. Eventually, she cruises over and sees his beautiful red balloon and lands. The male excitedly chuckles and rubs his balloon on her. If she is impressed she stays and mates with him; if not, she leaves. Once he has secured an adoring mate, the male allows the female to occupy the nest. She lays a single egg, and one or both parents stay with it until hatching and fledging.
Why not leave the egg alone for a little while? Parent frigatebirds deserve some alone time, don't they?
Not possible if you are a frigatebird. Leave the egg or chick unprotected for a moment, and it is a goner. And the culprit is usually another frigatebird.
Frigatebirds are pirates. In naval terms, a frigate is a relatively small, fast warship that can maneuver well in combat. It can outmaneuver and overtake larger vessels. A light frigate could be used as a pirate ship. Hence, a frigatebird is an agile and quick pirate.
Frigatebirds take much of their food from other birds, even from their own kind. If a gull has captured a fish and is flying homeward with it, the frigatebird zooms in and tweaks the gull's tail. The harassed gull lets go of his fish, and the swift frigatebird catches it mid-air.
Piracy comes so naturally to them that fishing for their own food is just a sideline. When a frigatebird does catch its own food, it prefers nabbing flying fish as they leap out of the waves. Occasionally, it will zip along the wavetops and dip its bill and maybe its head, just under the surface of the water to grab a minnow or a jellyfish. But it never dives. Remember, Magnificent Frigatebirds are not waterproof!


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Dear all, my ds arrived 18 days ago and I am attempting to breastfeed him completely as much as possible. I sadly gave up on BF for my dd (now 2 years old) and only gave her expressed milk. While I'm a 2nd-time mom, this would be my 1st time trying to feed my LO from the breast. I'm using all my previous experiences and knowledge to guide myself to be more successful at BF now, I'm very thankful so far because my ds is able to latch on naturally.
My question today is about a new pain I'm experiencing, my ds chomps on me very hard and one of my nipple is now quite bruise. Since he normally drinks from both breast, I have been nursing him for 1 and expressing the other for him until my nipple heals. Since this morning I have been experiencing pain on 1 side of the same breast with the bruise nipple. I wonder if I am having mastitis? I have no redness or lumps and I am not having any fever. Or does nipple pain extend all the way into breast tissue? The pain increases when my breast is engorged. Normally I am able to feel that its about time to feed, but now the pain distracts me from feeling it and it is bugging me because I can't "sense" this timing anymore


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Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe, writing from Evanston, Illinois in the USA
In my role as a fellowships adviser, I have a motto: think laterally – not literally. "Tiger mothers" as described by Amy Chua enshrine literal thinking of the kind that dooms overachievers when tested outside the realm of the rote. Such tiger cubs are the "superficial scholars" of whom Rhodes Scholarship selector Heather Wilson complains and with whom I work to overcome the soul-shattering terror imposed by tiger parents of whatever ethnicity. I think the replies Dr. Wilson labels superficial reveal tiger cubs' inability to offer their own opinions. Petrified of getting the 'wrong' answer about something as fraught as "what is worth killing for," they say something simplistically 'right.' To a tiger cub, "I don't know" means I don't know Dr. Wilson's answer, because she, in loco tigris parentis, conveys the authority to determine what is correct.
Practice makes for a particular kind of perfection. Repeat your multiplication tables until you memorize them and read historical time-lines until you remember the Americans revolted in 1776 and the French in 1789. However, the interpretive spark that makes a brilliant mathematician or political theorist does not ignite from memorization alone. You need to master the rules in order to break them. Tiger parents cultivate the former without opening their cubs' eyes to the possibility of the later. The memorization and mastery of some preexisting 'correct' method and answer offers academic means without an educational end.
Practice scholarship interviews for tiger cubs typically close with the interviewee stating in frustration, "I didn't know what answer you wanted." She cannot imagine a question to which no 'right' answer exists and for which she therefore cannot prepare by memorizing it. I have to teach the cubs to answer based on what they know, think, and even – shock – feel. Anecdotes from the play dates Professor Chua prohibits offer better fodder for a fulsome answer to a query about the human condition than endless hours pounding out chords on a piano. We have all heard child prodigies play with technical precision but an emotional tin ear. I offer a crash course on the possibilities tucked within the 'wrong' answer for the honest, the innovative, and even the right.
Thus, I agree with New York Times' columnist David Brooks' assessment that "Amy Chua is a wimp." She protects and prescribes a form of emotional coddling amidst her abuse. A child can physically survive being locked out of the house in the snow and being called "garbage." The child will learn to practice and to please mommy in order to avoid insults to body and soul. Tiger cubs have this form of tenacity in spades. If I just work hard enough, I will succeed. I owe the one who 'helped' me for everything I have. Unfortunately, they are wrong.
You can work hard and fail – think Sisyphus. When you succeed, no one person deserves the credit – think Armstrong on the moon. Children learn these lessons through interaction with their peers – in clubs, on teams, at parties. Novel situations force us to cross-apply what we do know onto the unknown (lateral thinking); it is scary. Nothing disturbs me more than when a student who says she wanted to win something for me, because I worked hard to prepare her. If a student says that, I know she missed the point of the exercise. I want to make my advisees trust their own instincts, their own worth, their own ideas, and their own limitations while valuing those of the people around them.
In my role as a mentor to fellowship applicants, I experience something similar to a mother of multiples. I wonder how Professor Chua would feel if she had twins and only one of her cubs could be top of the class. No doubt she would expect them to share in equal glory, but there are circumstances that proscribe such an outcome. How would she handle the child who came second in a fair match? I work with multiple candidates. Some win; some don't. As a result, I want each candidate who sits across a table from Dr. Wilson or some other selector to leave the conversation with the confidence that she answered each question true to her own essential self – not with an answer she thinks her mother, her interviewer, or I would give. Someone else's answer will sound superficial and is alwayswrong. Just ask Professor Chua, who admits her parenting techniques not only break cultural norms but quite possibly the law.


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When a summer film grosses over $48 million in its first week of wide release, we can assume that it is glossy and entertaining, perhaps boasting the latest special effects. But when that film has no known actors and costs a mere $30,000 to make—not even a pittance by Hollywood's Titanic standards—something else is going on. The film has hit a nerve.
Such is the case with The Blair Witch Project. The film depicts three young filmmakers who hike into the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, to investigate the legend of the Blair witch, who locals say has haunted the area for years. The opening credits tell viewers that all that remains of the would-be documentarians is the film footage that was found a year after the three disappeared. The Blair Witch Project consists entirely of this footage.
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AMARILLO -- A car crash kills two people, after troopers say one of the drivers ran a stop sign.
It happened last night on Highway 385 in Castro County.
Troopers say 20-year-old Antonio Juarez, Junior ran a stop sign at an intersection and hit a truck.
Juarez died at the scene.
The passenger in the truck, 23-year-old Kim-Jade Packer also died at the scene.
The driver of the truck is in the hospital with serious injuries.
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Now let's see what the controller does during sequential writing. The controller data transfer rates depending on the size of the data block are all given in the table below:
Now let's take a look at the graphs showing the dependence of the array speed on the data block size. The graphs will again split into groups:
Just as in case of Sequential Reading, RAID0 arrays built of multiple HDDs start showing their real advantages only when the requested data blocks are considerably large. However, during reading this array group jumped very rapidly to the maximum level of performance with small requests already, while during writing the speed growth was definitely smoother.
When there are no read requests, the performance of RAID1 and RAID10 mirrored arrays almost coincides with that of a single HDD and a two-drive RAID0 array respectively. RAID5 arrays demonstrate pretty good scalability of performance on the number of hard disk drives in the array and reach their maximum speed at relatively small data blocks already. However, they still cannot reach the maximum speed of RAID0 arrays from n-1.


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Kal Ho Naa Ho is a 2003 Indian romantic comedy-drama film, directed by debutante director Nikhil Advani. The film was written by Niranjan Iyengar and Karan Johar and produced by Yash Johar and Karan Johar under the Dharma Productions banner. The film features, Jaya Bachchan as Jennifer "Jenny" Kapur, Shahrukh Khan as Aman Mathur, Saif Ali Khan as Rohit Patel, and Preity Zinta as Naina Catherine Kapur
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