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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Haverford College opened with the first two goals, but that would be the extent of the Fords' celebration as fifth-ranked Gettysburg turned in the next nine goals en route to a 15-5 victory in Centennial Conference women's lacrosse action at Clark Field.
Gettysburg (4-1, 1-0 CC) rebounded from its loss of the season to No. 2 Hamilton College with a dominating effort in every area except off the draw against Haverford (4-2, 0-1 CC). The Bullets held significant advantages in shots (36-14) and ground balls (25-15), while forcing the visitors in twice as many turnovers (22-11). Haverford did win the battle off the draw 12-10.
Senior Marnie Commins (Fairfax Station, Va./Robinson) led eight Bullets in the scoring column with three goals. Sophomore Lindsey Robinson (Potomac, Md./Holton-Arms) and freshman Katie Blumenthal (Malvern, Pa./Academy of Notre Dame) each posted two goals and one assist, while junior Hannah Church (Ellicott City, Md./Mount de Sales) and freshmen Loren Pruitt (Moorestown, N.J./Moorestown) and Grace Ciolfi (Scituate, Mass./Notre Dame Academy) each tossed in two goals.
The Fords were flying high in the game's opening minutes as Josie Ferri and Kayleigh Herrick –Reynolds posted back-to-back goals to open the game. Gettysburg deflated Haverford's sails quickly, rapping off the next nine goals leading into the start of the second half. Robinson had a hand in three of those scores, assisting on Blumenthal's first collegiate goal at 11:40 before taking a pair of passes from sophomore Hayward Sawers (Timonium, Md./St. Paul's School for Girls) to the cage for goals at 9:36 and 6:45.
Haverford pulled to 10-4 on a goal by Perrin Downing at 23:21 in the final period before the hosts tallied five of the final six goals to put the game out of reach. Commins and Ciolfi accounted for the final Gettysburg goals.
Defensively, Gettysburg held Haverford to its lowest goal total since the two teams met during the regular season last spring - a 12-3 victory for the Bullets. Gettysburg's defense also shut down Ferri, the conference's leading goal scorer, holding her to just three shots after the opening goal.
Sophomore Alex Casey (Jenkintown, Pa./Abington) led the hosts with three caused turnovers and scooped up three ground balls. Senior Becky Lutz (Madison, Conn./Daniel Hand), who spent the majority of the game marking Ferri, posted three ground balls, two caused turnovers, and two draw controls.
Senior Laura McIntyre (Glenmoore, Pa./Coatesville) and junior Maddie Coleman (Lexington, Va./Rockbridge County) each played a half in goal for Gettysburg and combined for five saves.
Gettysburg returns to action on Wednesday, March 23, with a home date against No. 14 Catholic University at 5:30 p.m.
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|Instrument: X-SAR : X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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Earth Remote Sensing Instruments
Instrument Class: Active Remote Sensing
Instrument Type: Imaging Radars
Instrument Subtype: X-SAR
Related Data Sets
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The objectives of the X-band Synthetic Aperature Radar (X-SAR) are to
provide all-weather monitoring of Earth's land and ocean surface to
provide data for studies of (1) vegetation extent and biomass
condition, (2) soil moisture and snow properties, (3) recent climate
change and tectonic activity, and (4) ocean wave spectra. The X-SAR is
designed to be operated in conjunction with the Spaceborne Imaging
Radar-C (SIR-C) on the same platform. The X-SAR, designed and built by
the German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR) and sponsored by the
German and Italian governments, will operate at X-band (3.1-cm
wavelength or 9600 MHz) with VV polarization. The swath width is from
10 to 45 km at 25-km resolution with illumination angle of 15 to 60
degrees off-nadir. The X-SAR antenna has a fixed beamwidth of 5.8
degrees in elevation and 0.13 degrees in azimuth as opposed to the
phased array, multi-polarization antenna of SIR-C. The X-SAR was
flown on the Shuttle STS-59 in April 1994 and the STS-68 in
September/October 1994. See Jordan,R.L.,B.L.Huneycutt,and
M.Werner,"The SIR-C/X-SAR Synthetic Aperature Radar
System",Vol.79,No.6,June 1991.
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Tavern incident leads to jail time for Iron Mountain woman
By NIKKI YOUNK
Staff Writer
FLORENCE, Wis. – An Iron Mountain woman accused of attempting to run down two women with her vehicle in Aurora, Wis. will spend 30 days in the Florence County Jail after accepting a plea agreement on lesser charges.
Valerie Edwards, 25, will also serve one year of probation.
She must submit to an alcohol and drug assessment, attend an anger management class, abstain from using alcohol and medical marijuana, and write letters of apology to her victims.
During a court hearing on Tuesday, Edwards agreed to plead no contest to one amended misdemeanor count of operating a motor vehicle negligently, one misdemeanor count of battery, and one misdemeanor count of possession of marijuana.
Two felony counts of recklessly endangering safety, one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, and one misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia were dismissed.
Florence County District Attorney Douglas Drexler said that the charges stem from an early morning incident on New Year's Day at an Aurora tavern.
According to Drexler, Edwards became agitated at two women who were talking to a man she was attracted to. Edwards then physically attacked one of the women.
Drexler further reported that Edwards followed the women outside of the bar, and just missed hitting them with her vehicle.
"It was very traumatic for these ladies," he added. "They couldn't understand why this woman was acting this way."
Based on the danger of the situation and Edwards' prior record, which consists of misdemeanor convictions for embezzlement, larceny, and marijuana, Drexler recommended that Edwards spend 60 days in jail.
Edwards' attorney Michael Scholke argued that his client was having a bad night and made some poor decisions.
Scholke claimed that Edwards had been the victim of a hit and run accident earlier that evening, and she was trying to get the man in the bar to help her. When he would not help, she became aggressive with him and the two women.
"She was not attempting to run anyone down," Scholke added. "But, she does understand how she frightened them."
Scholke believed that a probation sentence would be an appropriate punishment.
When given a chance to speak, Edwards apologized to the victims, who were not present at the hearing.
"I didn't mean to harm them," she said.
Judge Leon D. Stenz noted that Edwards had accepted responsibility for her actions and did not have a substantial criminal record.
However, he did not believe Scholke's claim that Edwards did not intend to run down the women with her vehicle.
"It sounds like she was lying in wait, maybe not to hit, but to scare them," said Judge Stenz. "She could very easily have killed somebody."
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Simplicity's Pantry
Simplicity's Pantry Homemade Collection • Almost all foods at The Mast Farm Inn are handcrafted and homemade in our gourmet kitchen "Simplicity at The Mast Farm Inn". What follows are foods, snacks, goodies and treats we developed to serve our guests at The Inn. Increasingly guests want to purchase these to keep in their room during their stay, to take home for themselves, or to bring or mail to family and friends as gifts. As such we have developed this page so you can review our ever evolving and expanding collection of homemade foods, that you can request on arrival, or request for your arrival, using the online order form accessible by clicking here. And you too can say "As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again"
All of these items below can be waiting in your room, cottage or cabin on arrival, ordered for delivery to your lodging at an appointed day and time, or prepped for the road, for day trips, or to bring home. All can be presented with a hand written parchment gift card with your personal message if requested, at no extra charge. Some of the items below can also be mailed to a person of your choice. Enquire at 828.963.5857 as to which items are can be mailed. To order any of these items pre-arrival click here, and while here you can place your order at The Front Desk.
HOMEMADE, HOME-BAKED CAKES • Order Here
The Incredible Edible Fruit Cake
This incredibly edible fruitcake is not for mailing to friend or foe. It is appetizer, main and dessert in one nice package guaranteed to win hearts and minds. If you take it into battle, don't throw it, offer to the enemy and you become fast friends and allies against the forces of evil. The most requested dessert in our gourmet kitchen Simplicity at The Mast Farm Inn, downright addicting. For four • 24
The Southern Hummingbird
It's the most requested cake recipe in Southern Living magazine history and frequents covered dish dinners all across the South, always receiving rave reviews. The recipe was submitted by a Mrs. L. H. Wiggins of Greensboro North Carolina and consists of two layers of cake full of chopped pecans, crushed pineapple, and mashed bananas that are filled and frosted with a delicious cream cheese icing. For four • 40
Chocolate De Cadence
Chocolate layer cake with chocolate frosting and chocolate shavings. In 1828, Conrad Van Houten of the Netherlands developed a mechanical extraction method for extracting the fat from cacao liquor resulting in cacao butter, a compacted mass of solids that could be sold as it was "rock cacao" or ground into powder. The processes transformed chocolate from an exclusive luxury to an inexpensive daily snack. A process for making silkier and smoother chocolate called conching was developed in 1879 by the Swiss Rodolphe Lindt and made it easier to bake with chocolate as it amalgamates smoothly and completely with cake batters… and the world has never been the same. For four • 40
Not So Plain Jane Subtilis Vanilla
Lacking adornment or pretension; basic and simple, so it's all about subtlety and finesse… Yep, like a bridal garter is about finesse. For four • 40
Elvis Beard's Red Velvet
James Beard's 1972 reference American Cookery describes three red velvet cakes. The reaction of acidic vinegar and buttermilk tends to better reveal the red anthocyanin in the cocoa. Before more alkaline "Dutch Processed" cocoa was widely available, the red color would have been more pronounced. This natural tinting may have been the source for the name "red velvet". Endorsed by Elvis, whose image was last sighted in the mist at Linville Falls. For four • 40
COOKIES • Order Here
The Cookie Monster Master Collection
A truly monstrous variety & quantity of homemade cookies made by Mast Farm Inn elves & the cookie jar to keep. Presented with hand written parchment gift card with your personal message if requested • 40
Mama Mia Marie's Biscotti
18 homemade organic pistachio biscotti. Twice-baked biscuits originating in the Italian city of Prato. "Biscotti" is the plural form of biscotto. The word originates from the medieval Latin word biscoctus, meaning "twice-cooked/baked." It defined oven baked goods that were baked twice, so they were very dry and could be stored for long periods of time. Pliny the Elder boasted that such goods would be edible for centuries. Such nonperishable food was particularly useful during journeys and wars, and twice baked breads were a staple food of the Roman Legions • 36
Hand It Over Financier
18 homemade financiers. A financier is a small French cake, often mistaken for a pastry. The financier is a light, moist teacake, similar to sponge cake, and usually contains almond flour, crushed or ground almonds, or almond flavoring. Financiers are often baked in shaped molds. The name "financier" is said to derive from the traditional rectangular mold, which resembles a bar of gold. Another theory says that the cake became popular in the financial district of Paris surrounding La Bourse du Commerce. • 18
Chip's Chocolate A-La-Ruth-Grave
24 homemade chocolate chip cookies. The chocolate chip cookie was accidentally developed by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1930. She owned the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Massachusetts, a very popular restaurant that featured home cooking in the 1930s. Her cookbook, Toll House Tried and True Recipes, was published in 1936 by M. Barrows & Company, New York. It included the recipe "Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie", which rapidly became a favorite to be baked in American homes. • 12
Blackstrap Molasses
18 homemade Blackstrap molasses cookies. The term Blackstrap molasses is an Americanism dating from around 1920.The third boiling of sugar syrup yields blackstrap molasses. The majority of sucrose from the original crystallizes through this process, though the calorie content of blackstrap molasses is still mostly due to the small remaining sugar content. However, unlike refined sugars, it contains significant amounts of vitamin B6 and minerals, including calcium, magnesium, iron, and manganese; one tablespoon provides up to 20% of the recommended daily value of each of those nutrients. Blackstrap is also a good source of potassium. • 12
Honey B. Mast & Cookie B. Goode
18 homemade honey cookies. Made with our own Mast Farm Inn honey from the bees and hives you see near the barn. Endorsed by Country Boy Berry Chuck. • 18
Jerry's Certifiable Better Nuts & Fruit
18 homemade nut and fruit cookies. Made with dried fruits, figs, dates, raisins, almonds, walnuts, marmalade, honey and brandy. • 24
MARMALADES • Order Here
What's Up Doc? • The Which Way Did He Go Size?
Top secret ingredient 1, Top secret ingredient 2, Top secret ingredient 3, Top secret process, Almonds & Brandy. Organic Whole Wheat Crackers. Trust us, if you order nothing here but this, this is it. For two • 11
What's Up Doc? • The Oh Yeah Size!
Top secret ingredient 1, Top secret ingredient 2, Top secret ingredient 3, Top secret process, Almonds & Brandy. Organic Whole Wheat Crackers. Trust us, if you order nothing here but this, this is it. Get this size. For eight • 24
Holy Figs Mama Ave Maria
No need to travel to the Holy Land for salvation. This and a prayer and you're all set. Figs, Lemon, Ginger, Star Anise, Cinnamon, Organic Whole Wheat Crackers. Add leftover syrup to your moonshine. For eight • 24
Greg's Blue Sky Peaches
Light, Refreshing, made with fresh whole peaches, cooked with the pit for nutty aftertaste, Lemon, Ginger, Star Anise, Cinnamon, Organic Whole Wheat Crackers. Add leftover syrup to your moonshine. For eight • 24
HONEY • Order Here
Mast Bee's Very Own, Herb Butter, Toasted Owl Creek Breadworks
Our own Mast Farm Inn honey from the hives you see near the barn. Owl Creek Breadworks • Bruce Paul Ezzell, in little old Boone NC, is without a doubt one of the finest artisan bakers in America; We're talking James Beard Award here folks. Owl Creek Breadworks is a family-owned and operated micro-bakery located in the heart of downtown Meat Camp. Bruce specializes in European style hearth breads, using fresh ground organic and certified chemical free grains. For two. • 25
Mast Bee's Very Own
A jar of our own Mast Farm Inn honey from the bees and hives you see near the barn. • 10
Mast Bee's Very Own Working Overtime
A Jar of our own Mast Farm Inn honey from the bees and hives you see near the barn, but twice as much. • 20
CANDY • Order Here
Dulce di Caramel Butterscotch
Jar of our special home-made caramel butterscotch • 20
Chocolate Covered Strawberries
12 Sumptuous Chocolate Covered Strawberries made by our gourmet kitchen Simplicity at The Mast Farm Inn. Presented with hand written parchment gift card with your personal message if requested • 25
Chocolate Covered Cherries
24 Sumptuous Chocolate Covered Cherries made by our gourmet kitchen Simplicity at The Mast Farm Inn. Presented with hand written parchment gift card with your personal message if requested • 25
SANDWICHES • Order Here
Little's Chicken Salad
Homemade chicken salad, down home but a little sophisticated, fruity and crunchy. Our attorney says we have to tell you how many ounces and how many dill pickles and/or olives come with each thing, but we're not going to do that. Comes with organic chips. • 12
Chuck's Tuna Salad
Homemade tuna salad, also down home but a little sophisticated, fruity and crunchy. Comes with organic chips. • 12
Asparagus Alsace-Lorraine
Worth invading a border. Light yet filling and zesty. Comes with organic chips. • 12
No need to shake a spear Rosalind, a sandwich "As you like It"
Your own very robust custom designed sandwich any sandwich way but loose, organic chips, North Carolina craft beer • 15
No need to shake a spear Rosalind Vegan, a vegan sandwich "As you like It"
Your own very robust custom designed vegan sandwich any sandwich way but loose, organic chips, North Carolina craft beer • 15
ARTISAN CHEESE & MEATS • Order Here
Artisan Charcuterie A La Chef Andrew
Sampler of home cured and smoked meats by Chef Andrew Long, with toasted Owl Creek Breadworks, herb butter, local organic artisan goat cheese, olives, pickles, a bottle of house red or white, or two craft beers. Friendship Cake Dessert. • 75
The Mast Farm Inn Cheese & Fruit Platter
For two. A sampler of five cheeses, some local and organic, grapes, Mast Farm Inn home-made fruit compote, 3 varieties of crackers, presented on a wooden cutting board. Presented with hand written parchment gift card with your personal message if requested. • 65
Gourmet Blue Ridge Parkway Picnic Basket
Simplicity at The Mast Farm Inn can prepare you a gourmet picnic basket that is both healthy and robust on the day or days of your choice. We use wholesome products, mostly organic, free from harmful ingredients, and we can accommodate special requests. Vegetarian & Vegan Versions available.• 25 per person
Late Night With Simplicity Latermam
With this package no need to stop for a fast-food "meal" on the road, or on your way back from day-trip while here. Two healthy and robust sandwiches made to order, olives and dill pickles, organic chips and snacks, a bottle of house red or white wine, or three North Carolina craft beers, home-made cookies, bottles of water, and for desert two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches & chocolates. Vegetarian & Vegan Versions available. • 65
For More Information
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WebSite • www.themastfarminn.com
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Featured Giving Opportunities
Campaign Gustavus
Endowed Faculty Positions
A premier institution must have premier faculty to ensure its success. Gustavus is proud of our world-class and award-winning faculty who come from all over the world to shape the lives of our students. The gift of an endowed faculty position is truly an investment in teaching and learning that lasts a lifetime and will directly impact the lives of many students.
Endowed Scholarships
Endowed scholarships provide Gustavus students with the opportunity to receive a degree from one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation. Your gift of an endowed scholarship through Campaign Gustavus has a great direct impact on the lives of our students and will help the College build a firm foundation for the future. As an added benefit, endowed scholarships are a lasting way to celebrate your Gustuavus experience or honor a special person in your life.
Kendall Center
A gift to Campaign Gustavus directed to support the Kendall Center will ensure that Gustavus faculty continue to grow as educators and scholars in order to challenge and nurture students. It can also provide resources for professional development accounts, which enable faculty to explore new ways to help students learn and enhance scholarly activities in discipline-specific ways. This is a way to revitalize classes and offer opportunities for students to engage in, and benefit from, faculty research, scholarship, and creative practices. The sky is the limit when it comes to opportunities for lifelong learning.
Naming Space in Beck Hall or the West Mall
Seize the opportunity to honor a loved one, recognize a favorite professor, or celebrate a special time in your life, by naming a room in the Warren & Donna Beck Academic Hall. Whether it's a classroom, learning suite, lab, studio, or office, you can be certain that your investment will encourage engaged and interactive learning for many years to come. And while your gift will have a BIG impact on learning, you can feel good knowing it will have little effect on the environment. That's because Beck Academic Hall was constructed to exceed the state of Minnesota Sustainable Building 2030 targets. Thanks to its solar panels, the building saves 44 percent more energy and 30 percent more water than those built to current code.
Or you can let nature be your legacy by choosing to name an area of the new West Mall. The West Mall will serve as a transitional gateway from Christ Chapel to Linnaeus Arboretum. The green spaces will welcome all members of the Gustavus community and encourage activity, exploration, and reflection. The Sesquicentennial Plaza will proudly display the College's history, while the versatile amphitheater will provide a new outlet for creativity and performance.
Contact us today for a list of available opportunities. Commitments should be documented by July 1, 2012.
Center for Servant Leadership
Gustavus has long prepared its students to live out lives of service and leadership in their communities. Recognizing this tradition of excellence, the College merged four separate programs (the Center for Vocational Reflection, the Community Service Center, the Office of Church Relations, and the Career Center) to create the Center for Servant Leadership (CSL) in 2011.
Capital Improvements
Buildings are a key part of the equation that results in an engaged learning environment. Every student deserves classroom, lab, and performance space—whether in science, math, the arts, or nursing—that fits their needs and inspires creativity and critical thinking. Gustavus recognizes that facilities have an average useful lifespan of about 40 years and that teaching techniques and technology are constantly evolving. Your gift to fund capital improvements is crucial to recruiting and retaining students and faculty.
American Swedish Institute
Gustavus Adolphus College was founded in 1862 by Swedish immigrants and named after King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden, a great supporter of education and the arts. Through the years the College has remained true to its roots and still maintains many connections to its Swedish heritage.
So what does that mean to today's students, alumni, and faculty? It means that the Swedish values of environmental stewardship, gender equality in the work place, and peaceful conflict resolution are relevant and integral parts of their Gustavus experience. By growing its partnership with the American Swedish Institute, the College is ensuring a future built on these values, while expanding its presence and outreach in the Twin Cities.
At Gustavus, the gift of music is multiplied. Music at Gustavus, in the form of coursework and performances, becomes Music from Gustavus, through professors, conductors, performers, and others who do so much to enrich their communities everywhere.
There are several ways to support musicians, the Music Department, and your passion for lifelong engagement at Gustavus, including establishing scholarships or endowed faculty positions, providing capital for facility improvements, and supporting ensemble tours. Create your own or support one of our existing opportunities.
Multicultural Initiatives and Campus Diversity
For generations, the College has actively recruited students with diverse backgrounds to systematically diversify its campus. Today the community includes students from 20 countries (13 percent of whom are of color), 14 student-led multicultural programs and the Building Bridges Conference, which annually engages the community in diversity-related discussions.
Your gift to the area of diversity and multicultural programs can help grow outreach, office space and resources so Gustavus can continue to celebrate our differences and seek out common threads in a challenging and nurturing campus community.
A Celebration of Faith
Gustavus Adolphus College is a church-related, residential liberal arts college firmly rooted in its Swedish and Lutheran heritage. The College aspires to be a community of persons from diverse backgrounds who respect and affirm the dignity of all people and a place where a mature understanding of faith and lives of service are fostered. An atmosphere that allows students and faculty alike to grow in their own faith while challenging them with interreligious conversation is worth celebrating.
Signature Events
It should come as no surprise that a college vested in providing its students with a one-of-a kind education is also committed to showcasing unique learning opportunities outside of the classroom. Signature events recognizing peace, science, cultural diversity, music, and Swedish traditions draw thousands of alumni and friends to Gustavus each year.
Your gift to Campaign Gustavus in support of signature programs can provide the resources necessary to ensure these important conferences and concerts remain a part of the College community for future generations.
Gustavus is considered one of the top Division III athletics programs in the nation. More than 700 Gusties play intercollegiate sports, with 80 percent of the student body taking part in intramurals. The championship banners hanging from the ceiling in Lund Arena not only represent several national championships, MIAC crowns, and All-Americans, but they are also a steadfast reminder of bruises, blood, sweat, and the pursuit of excellence.
Maintaining competitive programs and facilities is critical to fielding championship teams. Your gift to Campaign Gustavus in support of scholarships, building renovations, endowed coaching/teaching positions, athletic equipment, and travel opportunities can make the difference between an average program and a great one.
Alumni Mentoring
The program, which began as a class research project, offers substantial benefits to both students and alumni. Students learn real-world business practices, build their resumes, and begin establishing their professional network, while alumni have a chance to share their knowledge, meet tomorrow's job seekers, and reconnect with their alma mater.
The yearlong mentoring program is currently open only to Economics and Management majors and includes an opening banquet, monthly communications between students and mentors, a potential job shadow opportunity, and a closing banquet.
A January IEX internship is also encouraged. With your help, this program can be extended to juniors and seniors of all majors.


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As we wrote about yesterday [4], this week is the submission period for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award [5], and it seems the occasion has stirred up debate about the merits of the award.
Yesterday, Mediabistro's GalleyCat [6] posted a defense of the success of last year's winning book, Fresh Kills [7], in response to snarky reader comments. Another Galleycat post yesterday linked to an article [8] published in N1BR, the new online book supplement to lit mag n+1, written by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, one of last year's award judges. And, today, GalleyCat [9] posted a correction to Wellington's article submitted by Jane Ciabattari [10], president of the National Book Critics Circle [11]. Let's see what tomorrow brings.


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The UCLA Bruins men's basketball program has built an historic legacy. Established in 1920, the Bruins have won an NCAA record 11 national championships, including 10 under legendary head coach John Wooden. UCLA won seven of those titles consecutively from 1967 to 1973. Under Wooden, the Bruins also went undefeated four times and college greats Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played under the tutelage of Wooden. UCLA won their 11th national championship in 1995 and went to three straight Final Fours in the mid-2000s. Overall, one of the top programs in college basketball history has won a mind-blowing 35+ conference regular season titles, three conference tournament championships, 40+ NCAA Tournament appearances, and 18 Final Four appearances. Score with TicketCity - the place to go for UCLA Bruins basketball tickets.
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The Bruins play their home games at the historic Pauley Pavillion, located in Los Angeles, California on the campus of UCLA. With a capacity of nearly 14,000 fans, Pauley Pavillion is the place to be for all UCLA Bruins basketball games. The student section nicknamed "The Den" has given UCLA the home court advantage needed throughout the years. The UCLA Bruins home bench is on the Pauley Pavillion sideline in front of section 103. Pauley Pavillion parking information is covered in our event guide.
USC Trojans
This rivalry dates back to the late 1920's and has been hard fought and intense from the start. With both schools fighting for state and conference bragging rights, the games are always close. The campuses are less than 15 miles apart which has led to this becoming one of the better rivalries in college sports with the hatred extending to the fan bases.
The UCLA Bruins have established a legacy that can't be topped. The Bruins have won 11 national championships and have appeared in over 40 NCAA Tournaments. UCLA has advanced to the Final Four 18 times and have won their conference tournament three times over the years.
Gates open at Pauley Pavillion 60 minutes prior to tip-off.
Pauley Pavillion is easily accessible from Lots 4, 7 and 8. Parking is $12 per car. Parking kiosks are located at the entrance of Lot 4 and north of the intersection of Westwood Blvd & Strathmore Blvd (near Lot 8 entrance). Visitors may pay in cash or credit card at these kiosks. Parking attendants will also be stationed in front of parking structures on game day and take cash only.
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by Anton Shilov
Intel Corp. on Tuesday introduced Studybook, a ruggedized, purpose-built tablet for education, that provides mobility for students, comes with Intel Learning Series (Intel LS) software suite and supports unique classroom-ready features. The device is aimed to substitute paperbooks and enable new ways of education.
Intel Studybook is based on Atom Z650 system-on-chip (one core with Hyper-Threadink, 1.20GHz clock-speed, 512KB cache, 3W TDP), 7" capacitive touch screen (1024*600 resolution) and Microsoft Windows 7 or Google Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" operating system. The tablet is equipped with 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB flash storage, 1GB DDR2 memory, 0.3MP front and 2.0MP rear cameras, microphone, speaker, accelerometer, light sensor, USB, microSD, miniHDMI, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, optional 3G and Bluetooth as well as other features. The exact configuration can be changed in accordance with actual requirements.
The education software of Studybook includes classroom management, LabCam applications that support scientific enquiry, and an optimized e-reader. The collaboration software has a user-friendly interface which enables teachers and students to collaborate in the classroom for improved learning efficiency.
The rugged tablet reference design is constructed from a single piece of plastic and includes shock-absorbers around the screen. It is designed to withstand accidental drops from a standard student desk and is also water- and dust- resistant. Young students, often owners of slippery fingers can learn and have fun in and out of the classroom with reduced stress for parents and teachers concerned about damage.
"An Intel studybook offers students limitless opportunities to enhance their learning experience. Expanding the Intel Learning Series portfolio of affordable, purpose-built educational devices brings us closer to our vision of enabling more students and teachers to participate in high quality education," said Kapil Wadhera, general manager of Intel's education market platform group.
As a component of the Intel Learning Series family of products, an Intel Studybook is grounded in ethnographic studies. The hardware and software elements of an Intel Studybook have been piloted in more than 2000 classrooms in 36 countries. Its infrastructure is tailored to individual geographies in terms of content, cultural relevance, and language.


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This graph tells a really sad tale - basically, this assumes we surrender to the inevitability of Global Warming, and decide to do essentially nothing about it. The "Other Renewable Energy" category is composed of the following - electricity from landfill gas, biogenic municipal waste (biogas), wind, PV and solar thermal, as well as the heat from active and passive solar. The energy units are quadrillions of British Thermal Units per year (Quads). For reference, in 2010 the US made an average of 29.34 GW electricity from hydropower (257,052 GW-hr/yr, from http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/hydroelec/hydroelec.html, or 2.98 Quads, as there are 9.84 GW per Quad). Most of that "other renewables" is composed of wind turbine sourced electricity - about 84% in 2010. In 2012, this is likely to be close to 90% wind turbine based.
So what is seen in this top graph is pretty much the end of new additions of DELIVERED renewable electricity (MW-hr/yr) at the end of 2012 in the US (the end of the PTC/ITC incentives which, with the MACRS tax avoidance subsidy, allows wind sourced electricity to be sold at "grid prices" of between 3.5 c/kw-hr to 4.5 c/kw-hr). This leads to horrible graphs like the one below (actual or estimated CO2 pollutant emissions per year for the next 25 years). While on the positive side at least the CO2 pollution rate does not increase, it does not decrease, either, at least to any significant extent.
This is a disaster, climate wise, because if the US persists in powering up in such a reckless manner, much of the world will not change their evil ways and evil trends (in the climatic sense), either - notably China and India (it is assumed that Europe will continue onwards with its renewable energy trend). And if there is more CO2 put into the atmosphere than is taken out by dissolution into the oceans (as is the present case), then CO2 concentrations will continue to INCREASE at a rate of between 2 to 3 ppm/yr, at least. And if CO2 concentrations just stay constant, things will keep going from bad to worse. But, if CO2 concentrations INCREASE, well, "worser" will come faster, and at an accelerating rate, too. Uggh!!!!
But, this fast trip to more or less permanent weather disaster (floods, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes more severe, more common, and pretty much the extinction of most trees in the western part of the US due to forest fires that can't be brought under control due to super-intensive droughts, and then coastal flooding to beat the band) is only made a more likely event through the inability to install more renewables. And in this piece of EIA science fiction (a nasty, dystopian version, too), electricity from polluting sources is made possible to the exclusion of all else via cheap natural gas, which keeps coal prices ALSO cheap.
Right now, fracking provides about 30% of the 24 trillion cubic feet per year (tcfy) (see http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9736#more) we use in this country. Four years ago, that was less than 5% of the US Ngas supply. Fracking was not chosen as methane source because it is cheap; it is about 5 to 10 times more costly than conventional methane extraction approaches. But, those conventional sources are rapidly depleting, and these presently cannot supply 24 tcfy in the US - only about 16 tcfy. Prices need to be in the $10/MBtu range, at least for tracking based Ngas, to justify the average added risks and costs, and due to the way the natural gas market is structured in this country, almost ALL natural gas gets this price if any gas gets that price, even the stuff from old conventional fields which is incredibly cheap to produce. To maintain a consumption rate of at least 24 tcfy without resorting to imports (why go to the US when Ngas in Europe goes for $11/MBtu and $16/MBtu in Japan…), MORE Ngas has to come from fracking over the next decade, not less.
But most tracking wells are losing money at present prices (this week the spot price (Henry Hub) is around $3.30/MBtu, though a small minority of prolific fracking Ngas wells are profitable at these prices. If the average tracking well needs $8.30/MBtu and is only getting $3.30/MBtu, this loss (8 tcfy * $5/kcf = $40 billion/yr) is projected to last for at least 10 years, but it will rise to $80 billion/yr (16 tcfy from tracking). This scenario of cheap fracking sourced Ngas just does not compute…
Cheap Ngas also begets cheap coal prices. Cheap coal and Ngas prices lead to low cost electricity, and increased electricity usage (why bother being efficient, since it is SO cheap…..). And cheap electricity from pollution based fossil fuels prevents renewables from providing increasing amounts of electricity that also result in less CO2 pollution. Such trends are exemplified in this graph:
And with effectively no jobs in the manufacture of renewable energy systems when the wind turbine installation rate is effectively zero, there is unlikely to be any economic rationale to make more renewable energy systems, and specially the most cost effective ones, commercial scale wind turbines (made so by the incredible US wind resources). And above all, there will be no POLITICAL drive to keep the 75,000 now employed in the wind biz and the up to 1 million people who COULD BE employed in this sector of the economy. Or all the people who would be employed by the 75,000 or if the 1 million people WERE employed in the wind biz.
So there is a lot involved in the climate nightmare that is a logical conclusion of the EIA forecast of the end of the wind biz (as shown in the top graph) and of significant new renewable energy DELIVERED to our country (remember, capacity to make electricity is not the same as electricity made). For the time being, almost all renewable energy made that is not biomass or hydropower sourced is wind sourced - PV has a negligible effect on prices and is no threat to Ngas consumption, nor does it exert any significant downward effect on electricity and especially Ngas prices. But wind turbines do such things, and that is why a lot of effort is being directed to kill off this young industry before it spreads and does some serious good with respect to employment, economic activity, real wealth creation and CO2 pollution mitigation. Maybe you should take up this obtuse issue (EIA future energy trends with respect to renewable energy) with your elected officials. Or better yet, do something about why pollution based energy gets loads of subsidies, but the wind biz should either get none (and thus go extinct), some (like the bizarre but better than nothing PTC) or else a sane pricing system that does note NEED tax avoidance subsidies like Feed-In Tariffs (FITs) or at least the less effective than FIT mandatory quota systems, which at least DO work.
Your world (got another one - yeah right, not too likely), and your choice (well, you and a lot of others, and maybe not much chance of affecting things much, either, but what's the alternative?). As Quicksilver Messenger Service famously stated "Whatcha gonna do?"(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ-O4HsP_-o), well, that's also a good question about both our economy and what we want to do about our electricity supply. Our future ahead may be a rough ride, but why make it worse by putting the peddle to the metal with respect to CO2 pollution and its result, Global Warming? Why not at least try to make the world a better place? Why settle for the doom that is this EIA vision of horror? And hey, maybe there needs to be some proverbial kicking of butt in the EIA? Let's start with the upper management: http://www.eia.gov/about/senior_executive_bios.cfm
BTW, this (see picture below) is the one of the main ways that we can have a sane and functional climate in the near future and still have electricity at a significant scale and quantity. Without these (and lots of these), we can have electricity but not a sane climate. And with 7+ billion people in the world, achieving a sane climate but without sufficient access to energy is probably not a good space to be in. And this is why the top graph represents such a really bad idea..... and why this image below represents a much better alternative..
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VeGiTAX2 Dec 27, 07
Trying to, it's really odd to see how some of these cards are performing though in tests. Sometimes they come up high, other times the 3850 comes up higher. @_@ hopefully some level of stability can come around for all this.
I'm still interested in the AMD / NVIDIA config files in Crysis, only to see what benefits / caps come out of all this since it could even mean that owners might be able to get some additional engine optimizations out of it all.
I'm still interested in the AMD / NVIDIA config files in Crysis, only to see what benefits / caps come out of all this since it could even mean that owners might be able to get some additional engine optimizations out of it all.
Tweaker Dec 28, 07
Another good Pro-consumer review, thanks again Kspiess for the good read. I wish Amd dropped the price a little more to make the price/performance more relevant to how the 3850/3870 perform unless its driver error where they could actually correct the performance and justify the the near 8800gt price for less than that performance. But they are still great cards for the price just to me the 3850 would be a better buy than the 3870 if strapped on cash then you got the 8800gt which would be the better buy if you saved a couple more clams to put down vs the 3870. Argh to me feels like price bloatation.
Candle Dec 29, 07
once again i am not impressed, it struggles agaisnt the 8800GTS 320 at times and looses most of the time to the 8800GT 256mb model. Its a 2900XT with a new name and similar preformance practiclly and the 2900XT failed to impress anyone so why should the HD 3870, AMD needs to pull there head out and work on something worthwhile before they launch another disapointment.
VeGiTAX2 Jan 1, 08
quote TweakerActually it is, it has been since pretty much the launch. The cards are slowly starting to come down right now, some with rebates bringing it below the MSRP while others hang high.Argh to me feels like price bloatation.
Hopefully the inflation quits being so bothersome and they kick down the prices. With 8800GT's at $241 the 3870 starts to get stiff competition. (Yes I'm talking about the 512 model not the 256, why someone would go for 1/2 the ram is beyond me given how easily these games cap out texture memory now)
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Skip to comments.Senate ends Hagel filibuster, nomination moves closer to vote
Posted on 02/26/2013 9:53:22 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Chuck Hagel moved a step closer to confirmation as Defense secretary after the Senate voted Tuesday afternoon 71-27 to end a GOP-led filibuster of his controversial nomination. A final vote is expected no later than Wednesday evening.
Hagel will likely win final confirmation with fewer votes, however, making him the first successful Pentagon chief to attain the post with more than two dissenting votes in decades. Leon Panetta, the outgoing secretary, was confirmed unanimously in 2011.
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Nothing like "conservatives" with principles, I always say (/sarc)
Like I said on the duplicate posting, Brennan, not Hagel, is the one I worry about.
I agree with your comment on Brennan. As for the Hagel nomination, most of the criticisms I have heard are pathetic when you compare them to his years of of service to this country. His critics have taken comments out of context and called him many things, one being that he is a Jew hater. Was it George Orwell who said, "freedom is being able to tell people what they don't want to hear"? Hagel seems to have the courage to do that. Over the years, we all say many things — look at the contributions he has made to this country. I entered this comment before only to find the thread had been pulled?????
What "contributions"?
Hagel will direct the military to attack US citizens on our own soil. I have no doubt about it whatsoever. That is precisely why he is being installed, I believe.
Hagel nearly died in combat for his country. whether we like or dislike his politics, that's a contribution to be honored.
Surrender monkeys, just making nice with their good butt buddies on the other side of the aisle.
Enforced conformity of thought is alien to our founding principles and serves no good in the long run.
Exactly what qualifies Hegel for the office of Sec of Defense. That he served in Vietnam? What about his blundering interview: before the Senate Committee. Doesnt matter? More important, is this the man who is to manage the reductions to Dod? Panetta made no attempt to discriminate in his cuts, even though he had a whole year to prepare. No Hegal is walking in with so little knowledge and handle this matter. I guess McCain and others have already decided to cave on the sequester and probably on the continuing resolution.
Give him a medal; give him a pension. Dont put this unqualified man in charge of DoD, not under this President. Talk about playing the race card. The veterans card can be as bad.
His contributions are many. If you had been watching C-SPAN hearings on Hagel confirmation this morning, you would have been impressed with the comments of Illinois Senator Dick Durbin on the many ways Hagel has served the country. They were many, and for reasons of wanting to be totally accurate in response to your question, I will comment on one that really stands out. During the Viet Nam War he was sent to a safe post in Europe. At that time, he requested a change so he could participate in the war zone in Viet Nam. There, in the war zone, he received many awards for performance in active duty.
Trotting out the commentary of Dick Durbin is not a very effective strategy. Didn't he compare U.S. troops to Nazis and more in the not-too-distant past?
It is not unfair to judge a nominee on his past, and Hagel's service is certainly a big weight on the positive side of the balance. However, the negatives of the past decade or so very much outweigh his service positives. Like McCain and Kerry, whatever honor they once had has been fed to the fire to fuel their political careers. This is not a thing to be celebrated...
To Mr. Frog: Could that comment have been a reference to what we all saw at Abu Ghraib?
Benedict Arnold was a combat veteran, too. So was John Kerry. If that's all Hagel did, I'm unimpressed.
Service does not always equate to qualification. McCain served and sacrificed, yet he has voted consistently to reduce our freedoms and against rights spelled out in the Constitution. Hagel served, but his comments, not just occasional stupid comments like Biden's, show a consistent anti-military, anti strong US and pro enemy ideology. He is not who should be in charge of the US military
Republicans start these fights, collect the maximim bad will and bad press then give in.
Each.... and every .....time.
Yeah, honored, and then moved on from—he isn't qualified to occupy the position of SecDef.
Lots of people fought for the country...and I honor all of 'em. Doesn't mean I think they're all material that I want to put in charge of anything other than a coat rack.
Hagel is one of those.
Tell us all, there TiaS you lurking liberal, what happened at Abu Grabe from your perspective. And while you are at it, Why don't you tell us also how much interest you and your lib friends in the media had in Abu Grabe vs how much interest you and your lib friends in the media had in Bengazi and wanted to know what really happened there.
I'm never impressed by Dick Durbin.
John Murtha was also a decorated Vietnam veteran. What are your thoughts on him, since you brought up Abu Ghraib?
By Alan Goldsmith, Americans for a Strong Defense
Read it all, it is worth it.
Here, then, is the real professional record of Chuck Hagel, aside from his distinguished military service: Insufficient management experience; limited accomplishments; botched performances; and extreme views.
But the security of the United States is too important for partisan politics. And the American people including the millions of Americans who serve in our nations Armed Forces dont really care about partisanship. They dont care if Chuck Hagel is a Republican or if the president who nominated him is a Democrat. They dont care who opposes Chuck Hagel and what tactics they use.
The American people just want to make sure that the right person is in charge of the Department of Defense. And as recent public opinion surveys indicate, the more that Americans be they Democrats, Republicans, or independents learn about Sen. Hagel, the more they oppose his nomination, because Sen. Hagels record falls so far short.
Comparing Abu Ghraib and the Nazis is obscene, and displays a colossal lack of perspectibe.
Confirming him has nothing to do with honoring his service.
I am a combat veteran from '52-'53 and would never want my service be counted as qualification for anything other than what I have knowledge and experience.
"I have heard are pathetic when you compare them to his years of of service to this country"
What service are you talking about. Being drafted with hundreds of thousands of others and going to Vietnam for less than a year? And the minute he got back started badmouthing the war likt all good little liberals do? Or the few years he had as US senator siding with democrats and bashing Bush for eight long years? Hagel is a disgrace as a republican and has the intelligence of a third grader. I would suspect his garbled words and acting punch drunk, to go along with the baggy ass eyes, are from years of snorting that white stuff up his nose, or drinking a fifth of Jack a day. Anyone that thinks this character will be calling the shots at the Def Dept are sadly mistaken. He was put there to bash Israel and kiss Iran's ass. No other reason. We are the laughing stock of the world with the American-hating Marxist as president, the America-hating traitor Lurch Kerry as Sec of State and now the punch drunk Pvt. Goober Bagel as Sec of Defense. Putin laughs himself to sleep.
I rarely get my news from network programs. I spend most of my time reading newspapers from all over the world on my computer. I have no lib friends in liberal media. As far as Bengazi — Hagel had nothing to do with that. Maybe Brennan could enlighten you on that subject. I might ask, did you see any of the photos from Abu Ghraib? I didn't see any on TV, they were available on the internet for anyone who was interested.
You didn't answer the question and like libs the world over, you deflected my question. Hagel had nothing to do with Bengazi, but you attempted to equate Abu Grabe to the Nazi camps, a typical lib move. Thus my question, tell me what happened at Abu Grabe from your perspective. And, you don't need to get your news from the media, but that doesn't mean you aren't a lib or one of those who go to conservative sites and try to act intelligent with sometimes vague and other times inuendo questions.
I honor his service and sacrifice -
Just not his ideology and IQ
You got a lot of history to look at man. That war was deemed illegal by Robert Mc Namra, Secretary of Defense, in charge of the Viet Nam war. There has also been an admission that the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a fabrication to promote the war. As far as bashing Bush, articles of impeachment were brought against him by the US Congress and charged him with misleading the country into the Iraq War. There are many countries waiting to charge, Bush, with war crimes, for which there are no statutes of limitations. When I said Hagel's service to the country was outstanding, that did not mean that his war service was his only means of serving the American people
I have the photos of Abu Ghraib in front of my face and I am at a loss of words to describe them. You too, can search the internet and find the pictures — I'm sure some of them are still out there. These are the ones we've seen . . . .
Hagel is a tongue-tied joke. Anyone that saw his performance three ago before Congress can see the aint the brightest bulb in the chandelier. He has never any position in Congress that would remotely qualify him for Sec of Def. He has never been on the Armed Services Committee. No qualifications whatsover for the job. He was chosen by the dear leader because he was against the war in Iraq and was a consistently Bush basher.
Lastly, why would a liberal like yourself want to discuss a liberal's (Hagel's) qualifications for Sec of Def? Do you think anyone will agree with you that Hagel is the right man for the job? Why did you join Free Republic? You will get no sympathy here for Obama and his gang of marxists (Hagel included) that want to destroy the country.
Again, only half truths. Two congressmen, both far left congressmen: Kucinich and Wexler introduced articles of impeachment which through standard procedures were referred to the judiciary committee where they died. To say that articles of impeachment were brought against Bush is technically correct, but saying that articles of impeachment were brought against Bush by the US Congress is a total misrepresentation as only two leftist congressmen introduced them. Apparently though you may read a lot in worldwide newspapers etc on your computer, either you do not comprehend what you read or intentionally misrepresent what you read. If you can't be intellectually honest, I'm not going to waste any more of my time on an obvious lib plant.
Oh brother...we knew this is going to happen....so now that they spent Tuesday on this, they are going to spend Wednesday voting for Hagel. Why couldn't they do both today? I don't like it but if it was going to happen just get it overwith. They could spend Wednesday going over budget things. These guys have zero priorities!!!
Dick Durbin?!?!?! Really!?!?!
Do you STILL not understand what the GOP has become?
There must have been some kind of vote because Mr. Ryan, Mitt Romney's running mate for president was one of the Republicans who voted against it when a vote was taken. That was the reason I chose not to vote for Mr. Romney.
Done deal. Israel hater Rand Paul votes with three other RINOs to confirm the moron Hagel.
NOTHING, and I repeat NOTHING Durbin says would impress me EVER!!!!!
"Exactly what qualifies Hegel for the office of Sec of Defense."
He was nominated by the President of the United States.
I don't like it, but that's what happens. Elections have consequences, and this is one of the consequences for failing to make our case to the American people last year.
I don't want Dems to play political games and deny the next Republican president his choice of Cabinet officials, and we shouldn't countenance the GOP doing that today. It's a bad precedent to set.
"""I dont want Dems to play political games and deny the next Republican president his choice of Cabinet officials, and we shouldnt countenance the GOP doing that today. Its a bad precedent to set.""
Are you kidding or do you actually think a republican will ever get elected to President again?
Yes, indeed, he was nominated by the President but this nomination must be confirmed by the Senate, and the Republicans had the POWER to prevent this nomination from being confirmed. They chose not to. Yes, elections have consequences. Too many Republicans showed themselves unworthy of out support. Too many voted to let the guy advance to the office simply out of personal friendship, or because they share his opinions, or maybe out of fear for their own re-election. They maybe want, desperately, to be IN, and therefore they do what they have to to stay IN.
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MARSHALL – How about a bus stop at the Marshall-Lyon County Library, community members are asking the Community Transit system.
Christine Bean of Marshall is a regular library and city transit user and has circulated a petition in which she has compiled 100 signatures of people agreeing that adding a library stop to the Red Route would be beneficial to the community.
"I've received a lot of positive feedback," Bean said. "People don't understand why there isn't a stop at the library."
Cathleen Amick, the Marshall transit director, said there used to be a regular stop at the library before it moved to C Street and Saratoga Street. She said there is a stop at the YMCA, which is a block away from the library. In addition, people can always call the Community Transit and schedule a ride directly to the library.
Bean said riding on an established route costs $1 and scheduling a ride costs $2 to get to a particular destination.
In addition, "I've walked from the YMCA before, but I have asthma and can't walk in this kind of cold weather," Bean said.
She said she has seen "less than a handful" of people go to the YMCA by bus and the bus waits there for "five, sometimes seven or eight minutes. It could go to the library during that time."
Amick said it isn't easy to change an established route.
"We have two very successful routes – the Red and Blue," Amick said. "It takes a long time to establish a route."
Amick said bus riders value the regular pattern and timeliness of a route, so a route can't be changed quickly or without examining if an additional stop is needed and if needed, what would be the impact to the route?
"It's time-consuming and expensive (to change a route)," she said. New bus schedules would have to be printed up to reflect the changes.
Amick said a passenger survey has been made available to riders. She will be looking at the results of the survey. She will also distribute a survey to library patrons for their input as well.
"We'll do that sometime in February," she said.
Amick said she received the petition and will take it into consideration. She said she appreciates hearing from riders who have ideas on how to improve the transit system.
"We definitely seek community input," Amick said. "We'll continue to look into this. The next step is to analyze all the information and present it to the Marshall transit committee."
Amick said transit authorities will discuss whether it is feasible to adjust the Red Route or the Blue Route or "consider other ways of getting to the library."


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Shafer Vineyards is proud to be a wine industry leader in the area of solar power. In 2004 we became the first winery in the U.S. to make the switch to 100 percent solar power. In 2008 we built a second array to power the vineyard system that we use to irrigate the 50 acres of vines that surround the winery.
On sunny days these two arrays produce, at peak, more than 200 kW of electrical power, or in other words, enough to meet the baseload needs of 160 average homes.
Going solar is our way of treating the air as well as we treat the land. The generation of electricity is the number one source of toxic air pollution in the US. Most generator plants burn coal and pump millions of tons of greenhouse gasses and toxins into the air.
Over the lifetime of Shafer's system alone (30 years) the greenhouse gasses that won't be produced on our behalf has the air-purifying effect of planting more than 30,000 trees.
In addition, of course, we have eliminated our electricity bill and we actually contribute power to the electrical grid.
Farming for the Future
Twenty years ago each of our vineyards looked as clean as a pool table: not a blade of grass, not a weed, no sign of bird or insect life, just knobby vines were sticking up out of the soil.
"The only way to achieve that super clean look was by using heavy duty chemicals," says Doug Shafer. "We realized it was the wrong direction."
It meant tainting the soil with rodent poison to kill gophers, spraying potent herbicides to kill unwanted foliage, applying powerful insecticides to vanquish pests such as the blue-green sharpshooter, and by relying on chemical fertilizers to feed stripped-down soil.
Today we are 100 percent solar powered, we reuse and recycle our water, make our own compost for fertilizer. We partner with owls, songbirds, hawks, bats and other wildlife to cultivate successful vineyards and rely on cover crops to help control insects that would otherwise blight our vines.
Preventing Poison
In the late 1980s we started erecting nesting boxes for Barn Owls and perch poles, which attract birds of prey such as Red-shouldered Hawks, Red-tailed Hawks, and American Kestrels.
The reason we want to attract owls and hawks is simple – we wanted to stop putting rodent poisons in the soil to control the gopher and mole population. These creatures like to tunnel through the ground and eat young vine roots.
Between the hawks and owls, we have day and night rodent patrol (hawks feed during daylight, while owls are nocturnal hunters).
"The work of these raptors is so effective we named our Chardonnay vineyard 'Red Shoulder Ranch' to honor them," says Doug Shafer.
Controlling Insects
Vineyards attract lots of insect pests, among the most troublesome are blue-green sharpshooters and leafhoppers.
"You can spray powerful chemicals to rid your vines of these particular insects, but we prefer to rely on the natural eating habits of songbirds and bats," says Doug Shafer.
To attract some of nature's hungriest eating machines, we have erected songbird houses throughout our vineyards. These provide homes for cavity-dwelling species such as swallows and bluebirds, who tend to eat the flying bugs that blight our vines.
These birds raise their young on our property and feed their families on the bugs that would otherwise damage our vines.
After sunset, we benefit from the eating habits of bats, who consuming anywhere from 15 to 25 percent of their body weight per night. Given our location at the base of towering cliffs, called palisades, we enjoy some insect patrolling by bats.
To attract more, we've erected a 500-lbs bat roost, which is currently awaiting its first residents. The bat box is designed to house a maternity colony, meaning this will be a place where the bats can breed and raise their young.
Partnering with Bugs and Weeds
Another key part of farming sustainably is the use of cover crops. Today our vine rows grow wild with clover, vetch, oats, bell beans and other vegetation that creates a lively habitat for insects.
"The cover crops create a healthy environment where "good bugs" prey on "bad bugs," says Doug Shafer. "More specifically, insects such as spiders and ladybugs naturally kill off or consume vine-damaging insects such as leafhoppers and blue-green sharpshooters."
Cover crops do double and triple duty. They control erosion while also choking back weeds we don't want. They control the vigor of the vine and at the end of their lifecycle they're plowed under and enrich the soil with nitrogen and other macronutrients. This combined with our own compost allowed us to say good by to chemical fertilizers.
20 Years of Sustainable Farming at Shafer


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As America celebrates its independence this Fourth of July, it seems only natural to include pets in the celebrations. Although cats and dogs seem like part of the family every other day of the year, they may need some special treatment on this holiday. Higher numbers of pets turn up at shelters the days following July 4, and many others become traumatized by the fireworks displays. However, by taking certain precautions, owners can make this holiday a happy one for all members of the family.
Understanding the fear of fireworks
Dogs are more likely than cats to be frightened by fireworks, but both species can be stressed by the cracks and booms that echo across the sky. This fear may cause a dog or cat to injure itself trying to seek refuge. All pets are better off at home rather than attending fireworks displays with their families.
Shelters and animal control agencies across America tend to see an increase in stray and lost dogs right after July 4, usually because dogs will escape their home or yard when they panic over the thunderous booms. To increase the chance your pet will be returned to you if they are lost, VCA Animal Hospitals encourages all owners to properly identify their pet with a microchip and identification tags with up-to-date contact information.
Creating a safe haven at home
To prevent escape or injury, set up a safe, secure and comforting environment for your pet at home. Having a familiar human there to comfort and supervise cats and dogs during these events is ideal, too.
However, if the entire family is heading out to watch the fireworks, make sure your home is secure and your dog or cat has a cozy, safe retreat should they become stressed during the fireworks. For cats, this might be a miniature cave inside a piece of cat furniture or a warm bed in a quiet room. Dogs tend to get comfort from a den-like atmosphere, so set up its crate or kennel with blankets, toys and other familiar objects that might take its mind off the loud noises.
Reduce the animal's anxiety
If this is your first Fourth with your pet, you might be unsure about how it will react. If the dog or cat has ever seemed fearful during thunderstorms or other loud noises, prepare yourself for anxiety on Independence Day. Some veterinarians will recommend sedative medications for pets with a history of anxiety.
If you're unsure whether your cat or dog will be anxious or don't want to use medication, you may be able to minimize a negative reaction by exercising and feeding your pet well before the show. Tired animals will have less energy to become stressed and it will be easier for them to relax.


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Delivers ultra fast modeling technologies for designers to embrace innovative shape design creation
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As designers or engineers you constantly need to visualize, present, and share your ideas. From design review to marketing material, visualization is an essential process to communicate your product and concept.
CATIA Rendering delivers all the appropriate tools for real-time visualization and photorealistic rendering. You can interactively create and manipulate your materials, lights and environments and visualize your product in real-time. With CATIA Rendering, you can also produce photorealistic computed images with the integrated mental ray® system.
CATIA Rendering is a key advantage that accelerates the validation process and reduces the need of physical prototypes, allowing faster decisions and cost reduction!
- Persuade and accelerate design validation
- Decrease the need for physical prototypes
- Benefit from native integration with CATIA design environment
- Experience high-performance, real-time visualization
- Create high quality, photo-realistic images based on mental images' mental ray
- Use with ease
Advanced material definition to match realityDesigners can easily apply material definitions using standard Windows drag-and-drop or cut-and-paste methods and edit/modify them in the 3D context. CATIA Rendering provides a library of 203 predefined materials ready to apply. These preset materials are based on 20 CgFx shaders to provide highly realistic results.
Creation and manipulation of scenesCATIA Rendering provides all the capabilities needed to author a scene. You can define cameras, light sources, environments, as well as stickers so that you can visualize your product within its context and create several labeling and graphic variants on a product for review. It also includes a library of more than a hundred predefined scenes (including backgrounds and tuned lights), allowing occasional users to directly render mock-ups out of the box, without having to setup a stage by themselves.
Material and scene specifications are stored in the V6 databaseMaterial and scene specifications can be shared between applications across the whole product development process to ensure consistency and early-stage integration. All CATIA V6 applications such as analysis, drafting, composite and rendering now benefit from unified material definitions and rendering scenes.
Improved reflections, ground shadows and object-to-object shadowsThe Realistic Rendering workbench enhances reflection functionalities. The user has the ability to define one environment image per material, in order to display reflections that will exactly fit with the object. Soft ground or hard shadows of a mock-up can be displayed either on each planar wall of an environment or on a virtual plane. The realism of the scene can be significantly increased by taking advantage of the new generation of graphic adapters with object-to-object shadows. It produces highly realistic smooth self-shadowing effects. The shadow quality can be fully controlled with access to the color and contrast. Several lights can project shadows at the same time for complex scenes and lighting.
Life-like visualization experience for allNow available at the core of CATIA V6, a cutting-edge, real-time visualization is offered for an astonishing lifelike experience for all. Once set and activated with the Realistic Rendering workbench, all the scenes can be visualized and reviewed at any time in any regular CATIA installation with no requirement for additional products. The predefined lighting environment and real-time shadows within CATIA V6 make the lifelike visualization better than ever.
AmbiencesAll CATIA configurations come with ready-to-use advanced visualization capabilities. These capabilities are synthesized in all-in-one predefined sceneries called ambiences that are directly accessible from the contextual menu of the background, just as if you would like to modify your desktop wallpaper. Some ambiences are adapted for design creation and other are for design review activities. Others come with a significant visualization enhancement called SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion) that provides an accurate perception of the 3D object by adding soft shadows between surfaces.
Photorealistic rendering with mental images' mental rayProduce high-quality photo-realistic images of a digital mock-up, with mental images'® latest generation rendering software component mental ray®. Its powerful ray-tracing engine dramatically enhances the realism of computer generated images by computing real soft shadows, as well as accurate reflections, and refractions of light.
Rendering quality far beyond graphic card capabilitiesCATIA Rendering capabilities are based on state-of-the-art ray-tracing technologies that surpass graphic card capabilities. It manages real shadow computation, real reflection effects, anti-aliasing, final gathering, global Illumination, caustics, etc. You can also control the depth of field, and compute images bigger than the full screen resolution.
Advanced photographer-oriented toolsCATIA Rendering provides a set of photographer-oriented tools, which allows advanced users to control aperture, shutter time, exposure or any parameters that are usually accessible on a real camera. All the computer generated images will enable physical definitions of materials and lights previously defined in the Realistic Rendering workbench. The produced images are progressively displayed directly within 3D, reinforcing the ease-of-use and the user immersion. The results can be saved in several formats like .rgb, .jpeg, .tif and .bmp.


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Monday, November 21, 2005
Supply Side
Embraer [ERJ] delivered the first of 12 Embraer 190s to Panama's Copa Airlines. The plane is configured with a 10-seat business class and 84 seats in coach. Copa will continue to take deliveries of the Embraer 190 through 2008. It also holds options on 18 additional 190s. Copa is the first carrier in Latin America to take delivery of the 190, which was certified earlier this fall.
Bombardier [BBD] recently announced that Bombardier Capital will no longer service its manufactured housing portfolio. It sold the servicing rights to the loans to Green Tree Services for about $900 million. Bombardier Capital continues to sell off its earlier portfolios so it can concentrate its resources on commercial aircraft financing.
Club 328
Club 328, an executive jet operator based in London, reached an agreement with the trustee of the bankrupt AvCraft Aerospace in Germany to purchase a second Dornier 328Jet. The newly built plane is expected to be delivered in January and will be configured to seat 14. The charter operator recently added to its fleet a Dornier 328 turboprop, which is configured to seat 12.
L-3 Communications
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently awarded a $4.8 million contract to L-3 Communications Security & Detection Systems to study the effectiveness of using neutron resonance radiography to scan containerized air cargo for explosive devices. The contract was awarded in a competitive bid. L-3 is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its Bates Linear Accelerator Center to design electronics, a mechanical system and detection algorithms. The technology will also be able to identify other contraband in the containers.
Montreal-based CAE [CAE] has installed two new business aviation simulators in its new Morristown, N.J., training center. Now under construction, the center will house Sikorsky S-76 helicopter full-flight simulator and the Gulfstream IV full-flight simulator. Both simulators are now housed in CAE's Dallas training center. Morristown will also host the Falcon 7X and the Falcon 900 simulators, as previously announced.
Global Aircraft Solutions
Global Aircraft Solutions [GACF], an aircraft and aircraft parts trading firm as well as maintenance services provider, has applied to be traded on the American Stock Exchange. It eventually wants to be listed on the NASDAQ. The company is now a pink sheet stock traded over the counter.
Vancouver's Avcorp [AVP] reported a loss of $3 million on sales of $20.2 million in the third quarter compared to a loss of $1.9 million on sales of $14.4 million in the same period last year. Avcorp designs and builds major airframe structures for Bombardier, Cessna and Boeing [BA]. Its sales to Bombardier are expected to decline this quarter as Bombardier suspends production of the CRJ 200.
Standard Aero
Standard Aero Holdings, a San Antonio-based provider of maintenance and overhaul services, reported a third quarter net profit of $7.3 million on sales of $216.9 million. In August, Standard Aero completed the acquisition of the maintenance unit of Dunlop Standard Aerospace Group and its operations have been merged into the Standard Aero financial statements.
Jet Engineering Technical Support, a Southampton, England-based provider of maintenance and overhaul services, has hired Bob Burley as its new sales manager. He was most recently the aftermarket sales manager for Honeywell.


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How to Train a Cat
Cats are very independent creatures-they are not as demanding of attention as dogs and they don't make large efforts to win your approval. While this makes for a fairly laid-back, easy-going house companion, it can present training challenges.
While many cats can be trained to do tricks and walk on leashes, the most important training for cats is to make sure they are performing normal and natural cat behaviors in the proper places at the proper times. For example, toilet training a cat is critical to living happily with a cat. Cat potty training is usually fairly easy to do as cats are naturally clean and prefer to bury their waste. The first step to training kittens is to make sure they know where their litterbox is located. It is often necessary to confine your kitten to a room with water, food and a clean litterbox for a short time until he or she is successfully using the litterbox every time. Cat toilet training usually happens very quickly.
Contact us if your kitten is not using the litterbox as there may be a medical or behavioral issue we can help with.
Another good example of important cat training is proper scratching behavior. Scratching is a normal cat behavior but it must be done on an appropriate scratching post so as to not destroy the household furniture. When training a cat to scratch in the right place, you must provide adequate scratching posts and then praise him when he uses the post and offer only minor corrections (not punishments) when he is caught in the act of scratching elsewhere. The most successful way to train a cat is by providing adequate environmental stimulation and then using positive reinforcement techniques. There are many tips for training cats to instill good manners and avoid bad behaviors which may lead to problems with aggression or inappropriate elimination.
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