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CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo ENMU junior infielder Mitch Wolfe comes off the bag to take the throw and tag out Southwestern Oklahoma's James Cloud during the opener of Saturday's Lone Star Conference baseball doubleheader at Greyhound Field.
PORTALES — Two streaks ended in the first game of Saturday's Lone Star Conference baseball doubleheader at Greyhound Field.
Eastern New Mexico University put an end to its nine-game slide and posted its first conference win with a 4-2 victory over Southwestern Oklahoma behind senior right-hander Anthony Smith's complete-game three-hitter. It also snapped the Bulldogs' 12-game winning streak.
Southwestern (14-5, 10-5 LSC) got back on track in the nightcap, however, routing the Greyhounds 14-2 behind a nine-run fourth inning to capture the three-game series.
Smith (1-3) walked one and struck out seven in the seven-inning opener, needing just 94 pitches. The only damage against him came on catcher Tyler Wells' third home run of the season, a two-run shot in the top of the fifth.
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Kluge, Alexander
Alexander Kluge 1932–-
(Born Ernst Alexander Kluge) German short story writer, novelist, essayist, and filmmaker.
The following entry presents an overview of Kluge's short fiction career through 1998.
Kluge is known as one of the most experimental and controversial writers and filmmakers in Germany. His short stories explore the German experience during and after World War II and are distinguished by their documentary style, a narrative technique that utilizes an objective voice and bureaucratic documents, including bits of interviews and sermons, government statistics, drawings, and biographies. Critics consider Kluge an important voice in the cultural life of postwar Germany.
Biographical Information
Kluge was born on February 14, 1932, in Halberstadt, Germany. In April 1945 his family's home was destroyed in an air raid. Soon after that event his parents divorced, and he moved to Berlin with his mother. This early and sudden upheaval left a huge impact on the young Kluge and is reflected in his later fiction. He went to university in Marburg, Freiburg, and Frankfurt, and received his doctorate in law in 1956. He became interested in film production and released his first short film in 1960. Kluge was one of the founders of the Oberhausen Group, a group of experimental filmmakers. They issued their manifesto in 1962, which proclaimed the need for artistic freedom in German film. In 1963 he set up his own film production company, Kairos-Film, and released his first feature film, Abschied von gestern (1966; Yesterday Girl). During the 1970s Kluge's popularity declined, and he increasingly turned to nonfiction and television work. In recent years he has published books of interviews with politicians, literary figures, scientists, and journalists. He has received several awards, such as the Munich Culture Prize (1986), the Lessing Prize (1990), the Heinrich Böll Prize (1993), and the Darmstadt Ricarda Huth Prize (1996).
Major Works of Short Fiction
Kluge's major works of short fiction focus on the German experience during World War II and its aftermath. Thematically, his stories explore the meaning of life, the powerlessness of the individual versus the collective, and the impact of war on individual lives. Stylistically, his fiction has been described as a montage of contemporary and science fiction elements, as well as historical material, interviews, biographies, anecdotal information, and documentary reports. In one of his early stories, "Attendance List from a Funeral," Kluge opens the piece with a list of family members and friends attending a funeral, with one or two adjectives to describe the state of mind of that person. "An Experiment in Love" utilizes lengthy quotations from Nazi documents about medical experiments on Jewish concentration camp prisoners. "A Change of Career" compiles quotations from Nietzsche, Humboldt, Socrates, and other philosophers to chronicle the story of a teacher who quits his job in disgust over the shabby treatment of a fellow instructor. In Schlachtbeschreibung (1964; The Battle), Kluge explores the defeat of Hitler's Sixth Army at Stalingrad. Sometimes classified as a novel, the book is comprised of Third Reich field manuals, troop reports, drawings, diary excerpts, medical records, photos, interviews, speeches, and sermons delivered by military chaplains blended with fictional material. In a later collection of short stories, Lernprozesse mit tödlichen Ausgang (1973; Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome), Kluge explores the capitalist work ethic and the passivity of the modern worker against economic exploitation.
Critical Reception
Initially Kluge's short fiction garnered critical and popular attention for its experimental style, but in the 1970s interest in literary experimentation faded. Subsequently, Kluge's reputation went into decline. Critics often have difficulty classifying Kluge's work: some view fictions such as The Battle as a novel, others as short stories, and still others as a workbook of documents, biographies, and statistics. Most reviewers consider these works as difficult, dispassionate, and enigmatic, but others find Kluge's objective approach as a fitting treatment to the absurdity of war and the modern experience. A few commentators have noted that Kluge's documentary style of fiction forces the reader to participate in the literary process. Critics also discuss his work as protest literature, particularly against war and the capitalist order. In recent years, there has been a renewed appreciation for Kluge's role in Germany's cultural life.
Principal Works
Lebensläufe [Attendance List for a Funeral; also translated as Case Histories] 1962
Schlachtbeschreibung [The Battle] 1964
Lernprozesse mit tödlichem Ausgang [Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome] 1973
Neue Geschichten: Hefte 1-18 1977
Neue Geschichten: Hefte 19-28 1977
Chronik der Gefühle. 2 vols. 2000
Die Universität-Selbstverwaltung: Ihre Geschichte und gegenwärtige Rechtsform (nonfiction) 1958
Kulturpolitik und Ausgabenkontrolle: Zur Theorie und Praxis der Rechnungsprüfung (nonfiction) 1961
Öffentlichkeit und Erfahrung: Zur Organisationsanalyse von bürgerlicher und proletarischer Öffentlichkeit [with Oskar Negt; Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere] (nonfiction) 1972
Filmwirtschaft in der BRD und in Europa [with Michael Dost and Florian Hopf] (nonfiction) 1973
Geschichte und Eigensinn [with Oskar Negt; History and Obstinacy] (essays) 1981
Die Macht der Gefühle (workbook) 1984
Theodor Fontane, Heinrich von Kleist und Anna Wilde: Zur Grammatik der Zeit (nonfiction) 1987
Ich schulde der Welt einen Toten [with Heiner Müller] (interviews) 1995
Ich bin ein Landvermesser [with Heiner Müller] (interviews) 1996
Verbrechen: Gespräche mit Dr. Ulrike Sprenger, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kersten und Manfred Pichota (interviews) 2000
Verdeckte Ermittlung (interviews) 2001
Joseph Bauke (review date 8 October 1966)
SOURCE: Bauke, Joseph. "Inferno Revisited." Saturday Review 49, no. 41 (8 October 1966): 106-07.
[In the following review, Bauke describes reading Attendance List for a Funeral as a sobering and enlightening experience.]
In the last five or six years German literature has made the comeback for which readers in and outside Germany had been waiting since the fall of the Third Reich. Günter Grass and Jakov Lind, above all, have revived a language that seemed all but dead and unfit for any artistic purposes, after the uses to which it was put under Hitler. In their work these authors descend into the hell of the past and reflect their vision of it in a profusion of surrealistic images that has compelled the attention of audiences in many countries. In his collection of short stories, Attendance List for a Funeral, Alexander Kluge demonstrates that there are other ways of exorcising the evil spirits of an era.
Kluge, born in 1932, was too young to experience the Nazi years consciously; but, like many of his generation, he is profoundly concerned with the sins committed by the fathers. A lawyer by profession, he writes with a precision and a detachment rather rare in the German tradition. In these stories about the paths of people under Nazism there are no verbal cascades, no intellectual fireworks, no expressionist flights into the absolute. Instead, we have a prose as reasoned and as dispassionate as a lawyer's brief. In one of the stories, a superb piece about the career of an academic, Kluge resorts to lengthy footnotes to underscore his quest for the factual.
Sometimes the tendency to documentation is mannered and...
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Stanley Kauffmann (review date 10 December 1966)
SOURCE: Kauffmann, Stanley. "Almost-English." The New Republic 155, no. 24 (10 December 1966): 26, 38.
[In the following review, Kauffmann faults the translation of Attendance List for a Funeral.]
The subject of translation is worth continual discussion, and I am especially qualified to discuss it because I cannot read any foreign language.
I had just written the above when the November 18 New Statesman arrived with an article on translation by the always stimulating Hans Keller. Says Keller: "So far as my views on translation are concerned, I only accept criticism from bilingual people: nobody else...
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J. P. Bauke (review date 30 September 1967)
SOURCE: Bauke, J. P. "Defeat on the Volga." Saturday Review 50 (30 September 1967): 43-57.
[In the following review of The Battle, Bauke maintains that Kluge's documentary style of fiction functions to demystify the Battle of Stalingrad and lay "bare the absurdity of that and every other battle."]
No battle in modern times has agitated the Germans more than the one they lost at Stalingrad in 1943. The annihilation of the Sixth Army jolted the German masses into the realization that the tables were about to be turned, and for the first time during the war even fanatic Nazis had their optimism put to the test. Goebbels's ministry of propaganda, while...
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Times Literary Supplement (review date 12 September 1968)
SOURCE: "Legal Fiction." Times Literary Supplement (12 September 1968): 977.
[In the following review, the critic provides a negative assessment of The Battle.]
This is a reedited version of a book that created a great stir in 1964 when it was published by Walter in Olten. Since the new version has been prepared for paperback publication by the author himself, it is worth reviewing it in perspective.
Alexander Kluge, whose great-uncle Kurt (1886-1940) wrote some charming pieces of entertainment fiction (Der Herr Kortüm, Die Zaubergeige), turned away from entertainment with a vengeance when he decided to study law. Born in 1932, he...
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Peter Labanyi (review date 9 July 1976)
SOURCE: Labanyi, Peter. "Programmed for Disaster." Times Literary Supplement (9 July 1976): 854-55.
[In the following review, Labanyi considers the defining characteristics of Kluge's short fiction.]
A wholly quixotic bid for Lebensraum by white Africa has failed, unleashing a major crisis. The world waits, trying to piece together fragmentary reports and scattered communiques—while there is still time. Confusion and despair prevail. Meanwhile, the sociologist H., "a sensitive seismograph," is in a basement room in the hotel where he is attending a conference, hastily trying to compose his thoughts "in case there will be time for the publication of a...
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Rainer Stollman (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: Stollman, Rainer. "Reading Kluge's Mass Death in Venice." New German Critique, no. 30 (fall 1983): 65-95.
[In the following parodic essay, Stollman uses the fictional character of Professor Noodlekopf to provide an interpretation of Mass Death in Venice.]
Having just read the story Mass Death in Venice by Alexander Kluge, Noodlekopf, Professor of German in the university town of B, wrinkled his brow in astonishment. Since he knew that his present condition might presage some new insight, he did not give up on the dry report of horror which, although its literary allusion was certainly...
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Hans-Bernhard Moeller (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: Introduction to Case Histories, by Alexander Kluge, translated by Leila Vennewitz, pp. ix-xix. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1988.
[In the following essay, Moeller offers a thematic and stylistic analysis of the stories comprising Case Histories, which has also been published under the title Attendance List for a Funeral.]
Radically experimental, Alexander Kluge's writings, films, and other creative activities have contributed greatly to the development of contemporary Central European intellectual life. Although recognition of his achievements has been slow in coming, he is now recognized as one of the leading lights of the German cultural scene....
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Miriam Hansen (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Hansen, Miriam. "Introduction." New German Critique, no. 49 (winter 1990): 3-10.
[In the following essay, Hansen discusses Kluge's treatment of sexuality and sexual politics in his short fiction and novels.]
In the United States, the critical debate on Alexander Kluge's work has only just begun, thanks to a comprehensive retrospective of his films organized by Stuart Liebman and sponsored by the Goethe Institute and Anthology Film Archives. A retrospective, Kluge might say, is a bit like an inventory of boxes left behind in the basement after one has moved to another city—the boxes still contain some useful things, though one's current life is elsewhere....
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Christopher Pavsek (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Pavsek, Christopher. Introduction to Learning Processes with a Deadly Outcome, by Alexander Kluge, pp. vii-x. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1996.
[In the following essay, Pavsek elucidates the challenges of translating Kluge's short fiction.]
Alexander Kluge's novella Lernprozesse mit tödlichem Ausgang was originally published by Suhrkamp in 1973 as part of a larger collection of stories by the same title, the remainder of which Duke University Press hopes to publish at a future date. The translation of this fascinating story comes at a moment of increasing interest in Kluge's extremely diverse body of work, as marked by the dedication of two...
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Further Reading
Review of Attendance List for a Funeral, by Alexander Kluge. Booklist 63 (15 October 1966): 237.
Generally positive review of Attendance List for a Funeral.
Cassill, R. V. "Waltzes and Goosesteps." Bookweek (13 November 1966): 6.
Favorable assessment of Attendance List for a Funeral. Asserts that Kluge's stories mean "to sing the heroism of the commonplace and to celebrate a tragedy so fragmented and proliferated that our age seems incapable of noting it except by documents and statistics."
Review of The Battle, by Alexander Kluge. Publisher's Weekly...
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In the first quarter of 2006, phones weren't ringing for used-jet sellers. Last year, the situation was the opposite, as activity out of the gate was head-spinning and never slowed. It's anybody's guess how '08 will unfold, but one thing seems clear: no longer does the market's health depend solely on the U.S.
Last year, in fact, it felt somewhat as if America had become the Wal-Mart of the world, as aircraft buyers around the globe took advantage of a spiraling dollar to update their fleets. This was anything but a story of old aircraft exiting the U.S. to finish out their days in some sleepy country, like an old mare being put out to pasture.
The large-cabin segment of the market has garnered the most attention of late and will likely do so going forward. New-aircraft backlogs extending beyond 2010 have left many clamoring for viable aircraft from the used fleet, a trend that has depleted inventory and boosted prices for many models. Still, buyers have not been put off and have come to accept that if they want aircraft, they will pay through the nose. While few expect a radical downturn, it's likely that the large-cabin market segment will be somewhat resilient if one should occur.
Light jets might take the biggest knock in such a downturn, but at the moment this segment, too, is booming. The conventional wisdom is that individuals and small companies own many of these aircraft, and that both groups may react to a threatened recession by divesting themselves of their airplanes more quickly and in greater numbers than some major multinational companies might. Large-cabin values and interest also seemed to be buoyed of late by increasing demand for charter lift-despite Southwest Airlines' recent television ad claim that flying with that carrier is like owning your own jet.
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Here's a look at a few models that have recently become relatively expensive--or bargain-priced:
Gulfstream IV-SP. Buyers last year bid up prices of this model beyond what had been a $30 million ceiling. While values are holding at high levels, only six of 287 GIV-SPs reside on the used market, so there probably aren't any great buys here and there may be downside risk. Seemingly ever-extending G450 backlogs coupled with buyers' insatiable appetites for large-cabin, long-range aircraft have brought stability to this model, but few believe prices will exceed current levels.
Citation CJ2 and CJ3. These models built a huge and well-deserved following in 2007 and sellers were rewarded with higher prices. Now, after a significant drop in CJ choices and with prices for nearly new CJ3s topping $8 million, some think the Bravo and Encore might, in many respects, offer more performance at a better price.
Astra SPX. Inventory of this model has nearly doubled in less than six months and if you have an eye on value, this may be a place to look. With nearly 20 percent of the fleet for sale, the SPX is in the midst of a price adjustment. Downward pricing pressure from the G100, essentially the Gulfstream nameplating of the IAI Astra SPX, may have something to do with this. The G100 pricing appears to have prompted some mid-$8 million-priced SPXs to vacate that territory and move to the upper-$7-million range. Nearly all of the 11 SPXs on the market are in the $7 million range.
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Citrus Salad
- 1 large orange, peeled and ends trimmed
- 1 grapefruit, peeled and ends trimmed
- 1 large or 2 small fennel bulbs, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup packed fresh basil leaves
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1/3 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Place a sieve over a medium bowl. Hold an orange over the bowl, and using a paring knife, cut along the membrane on both sides of each segment. Free the segments and let them fall into the sieve. Repeat with the grapefruit. Squeeze the membranes over the bowl to extract as much juice as possible, reserving the juices in the bottom of the bowl. Place the fruit segments and fennel in a salad bowl.
In a blender or the bowl of a small food processor, blend together the oil, basil and 3 tablespoons of the reserved juice until smooth. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Pour over the fruit and fennel. Add the chopped walnuts and toss until all the ingredients are coated.
Recipe courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis, 2008
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This page is based on parts of a presentation by rugby guru Pierre Villepreux from the FIRA website and a presentation of him I found on the Internet. I am very fortunately to have met Pierre several times now and participate in his lectures of the game. You can download a copy the FIRA presentation in French and English here.
Tactical Problems in Rugby today
How to beat the flat defensive line? Pierre Villepreux observes:
- There is too much individual confrontation! Based on power and hardhitting defenders;
- Teams are organised to utilise the individual (powerhouse) player who can penetrate the defence (linebreaker)
- Playing against the wall; rather then creating and using space;
- Go forward by keeping possession without disorganising the defence (from one phase to another, trying to reach the goal line or to get a penalty (rugby league game).;
The questions to be answered are?
- How can we (by collective positioning and actions of attacking lines) make it more difficult for the defence to stop the attack?
- How can we develop this in training sessions?
Effective play is achieved by the team, which is capable of ensuring a complex series of sequences of play linked together, whatever the origin of the possession or when it occurs in the game. The most effective play (in terms of points scored: tries/penalties) is achieved when the teem is capable of putting together at least 2-3 phases of play.
The majority of points are scored from ball, won back from the opposition at the breakdown or in ruck or maul, or in broken play, e.g. producing counter attack, and much more often than from scrums and line outs. Because the defence is much more organized at set play. In fact, few points are scored directly from set moves off scrum or lineout. Points are more likely to be scored from second or third phase play following these set moves.
Taking this analysis one step further, we find the following:
- The team that wins the game engages in less ruck/maul situations, but when they do form them, they always produce quick ball;
- When the initial set play produces penetration down the middle of the field, it is more likely that a complex sequence of play will produce effective continuity;
- Kicking in attack can be either very effective, or ineffective. If the ball is recovered after the kick, a try is scored approximately 90% of the time;
This analysis suggests that the coach's first preoccupation should be to make the players as effective as possible in broken play. To do this, the players need to understand the game of movement so that they can then understand each other.
If the objective is really to develop continuity in the game, thanks to the capacity of all the players to play in a coherent way, linking the game of the forwards to that of the backs and vice versa, then it is essential to practice in the areas of improving understanding the game and the decision-making processes of all the players. This is the only way of creating some kind of logical link between the actions of each individual player within the game.
So, we need to produce players able to adapt their game to the reality of the opposition, with skills, which enable them to assume any role in either attack or defence.
It is the connection between ATTACK and DEFENCE which conducts the positioning of the attacking players. How to give to the players the understanding of their positioning in relation with the reaction of the defense?: by letting them practise in controlled games!
How to play?
First you have to decide what style of rugby you want to play. Pierre Villepreux distinguishes two styles:
- the Adaptive Game
- The Planned Game
The Adaptive Game
Played by teams who:
- attempt to keep possession of the ball using a collective system of play;
- allowing the movement of the attackers, (designated positioning and relevant repositioning) to whatever the situation requires on the pitch;
This collective organisation aims, by means of running, passing and the exploitation of gaps and open spaces to avoid the incidents of ruck - and maul situations or if this is not possible, to deliver the ball at the right time to stop the defence effectively reorganising.
- in case of a turnover, attempt to use the ball immediately;
- when the situation requires it, attempt to use kicking strategies;
The Planned Game
The Planned Game is played by teams who:
- try to maintain the possession of the ball by making the defense move back without disorganising it;
- adopt as a priority, individual physical confrontation, increasing the incidents of tackles where a large number of players are involved;
- use kicking but not as a last option;
- do not take advantage of turnovers;
[Note: The Adaptive Game is ofcourse the exciting game we want to play, we use to describe the french way of playing "French Flair". The All Blacks seem to have this adaptive style of play in recent years.
The Learning Process, problems arising?
Look on other pages for more information on the Adaptive gamestyle and the associated game based learning style. Yes, you can develop the tactical decision making skills of your team!
Related topics are
- Skill Acquisition and "Rugby Sense", by Jeff Hollier, more about this learning process and conscious / unconscious decision making.
- Learning and playing the adaptive style of play.
- The Planned vs. the Adaptive Game style of play;
- How to set up a gameplan, deals with the managing development.
- Cognitive processes and learning motor skills.
- Pierre at the Rugby Heroes website


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It passes the right header and I get in. If, however, I attempt to pass a parameter like this:
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It does pass the parameter (I see this by calling inspect on response) but it does not pass the right header for Content-Type. If I call inspect on response when I don't pass the parameter (i.e. the first call above), I see that it sets Content-Type to application/json as it should. When I pass the parameter, it sets Content-Type to text/html.
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U.S. Press Kit for FIVB World Grand Prix
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 3, 2010) – The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team is 9-3 in 2010 with podium finishes in its first two tournaments, but the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix in August will serve as its next challenge on the road to the 2010 FIVB World Championships at the end of the year.
The FIVB World Grand Prix, the annual premier international women's volleyball tournament now in its 18th year since its introduction in 1993, is a 12-team event pitting most of the top teams in the world. The event has three consecutive weekends of preliminary round pool play divided into three locations per weekend with four teams each competing in a round-robin format. Teams accumulate nine total matches through the three preliminary round weekends, with the top five teams in the standings joining the host country for the Final Round.
Team USA, currently ranked fourth in the FIVB world rankings, travels to Gdynia, Poland, the opening weekend to face Dominican Republic on Aug. 6, Germany on Aug. 7 and host Poland on Aug. 8. The Americans travel to Bangkok, Thailand, for the second preliminary round weekend and will challenge Italy on Aug. 13, Thailand on Aug. 14 and Puerto Rico on Aug. 15. The U.S. concludes pool play in Hong Kong with matches against Germany on Aug. 20, Thailand on Aug. 21 and China on Aug. 22.
During the preliminary round, match winners will receive three points for a 3-0 or 3-1 victory and two points for a 3-2 victory in the overall standings to determine the teams advancing to the Final Round. A team that loses in five sets will be awarded one point. The 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round, a round-robin format consisting of five matches over five days, will be held Aug. 25-29 at Ningbo, China.
Based on the preliminary round pools, the U.S. has a modest schedule with an overall 9.88 world ranking and only one match against a team ranked higher than No. 7. Yet, the bottom line for the tournament aside from winning is improvement with each opportunity on the court.
"We want to keep getting better with each match, and that is the main focus for this trip," U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon said. "We will use the World Grand Prix as further preparation for the FIVB World Championship. By the end of the World Grand Prix, we hope to know more about our team and what we need to do to be successful as we move closer to forming our core group of players for the rest of the quadrennial."
For the FIVB World Grand Prix, McCutcheon has named the team's 19-player preliminary roster for the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix. The outside hitters are three-time Olympian Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah), Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.), Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.), Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) and Angie Pressey Forsett (Lake Mary, Fla.). Opposite hitters on the preliminary roster are two-time Olympian Ogonna Nnamani (Bloomington, Ill.), 2004 Olympian Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa), Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio) and Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas).
Middle Blockers on the roster are three-time Olympian Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), 2008 Olympian and team captain Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.), Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), Christa Harmotto (Hopewell, Pa.) and Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.). The three setters on the preliminary roster are Mary 'Nellie' Spicer (Barrington, Ill.), Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.) and Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.). The two liberos listed on the preliminary roster are three-time Olympian Stacy Sykora (Burleson, Texas) and 2008 Olympian Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.).
Each team in the World Grand Prix can travel 14 players selected from the original 19 players. However, only 12 players can participate in each match and determined prior to the start of each contest. Each team can make two substitutions to its original 14-player roster per preliminary round weekend, so long as the new players were on the 19-player preliminary roster. The final player roster for the Poland preliminary weekend will be announced on Aug. 5, the day of the preliminary inquiry when rosters are submitted to the control committee.
The U.S. will be making its 17th appearance in the FIVB World Grand Prix having missed just the 1999 event. Only China and Japan have played in every World Grand Prix. Team USA won the World Grand Prix in 1995 and 2001, while earning the bronze in 2003 and 2004. Last year, the U.S. used a very young roster at the World Grand Prix to provide important international experience in their playing development. Despite an unimpressive 3-6 record and ninth-place finish, the players were able to improve and the results are showing this year.
Fans can watch the FIVB World Grand Prix action online via a couple Web sites. Universal Sports (www.universalsports.com) will show all three USA matches in Poland live, while the next six matches played in Thailand and Hong Kong will be available tape delayed for same-day coverage. Selected matches will also be shown on television. All matches will be on-demand after they take place. The FIVB has created its own web streaming channel and some matches of the FIVB World Grand Prix will be available. Visit the FIVB TV page by clicking here.
Prior to leaving for Poland, the U.S. staged two intra-squad Red-Blue scrimmages in Southern California in front of near-capacity crowds. Hodge scored a total of 42 points in the two matches for an overall team-high. Tom tallied 28 points in the first match on July 17, but did not play in the second contest. Larson, who did not play in the first match, scored a team-high 24 points in the second scrimmage on July 24.
"The two Red-Blue scrimmages were mainly positive," McCutcheon said. "First, it was great to see the support provided our team from the local communities in which we train. It is always nice to compete in such a nice environment at home. And second, the scrimmages gave us an opportunity to look at new players and combinations to help make decisions for the World Grand Prix rosters each weekend."
The U.S. has played in two tournaments this year, both days apart in June. Team USA captured the silver medal at the prestigious 26th Montreux Volley Masters held in Switzerland from June 8-13. The U.S. topped its NORCECA rival Cuba in straight sets during the semifinals, but dropped a hard-fought four-set match to China in the gold-medal match.
Most recently, the Americans earned the bronze medal at the IX Pan American Cup in Mexico. During the Pan American Cup, the U.S. won all five of its pool matches in straights sets before falling to Dominican Republic in four sets during the semifinals. However, the Americans bounced back to sweep Cuba for the second time in 2010 to gain the bronze medal. Based on its finish in the tournament, the U.S. qualified for the 2011 FIVB World Grand Prix.
"Our main goal was to qualify to the World Grand Prix, but it was good to see our team coming back strong after the loss of last night (to Dominican Republic)," McCutcheon said. "We are happy with the victory and happy about going to the Grand Prix next year."
With two successful tournaments in 2010 and two Red-Blue matches involving 20 athletes, McCutcheon feels the team has made vast improvement since the first year of the quadrennial.
"Our early season success validates a lot of our hard work put in last year," McCutcheon said. "If we can keep working on the technique systems and principles, we can be a good team. We are off to a nice start, but now we need to get back to the competition court. Hopefully, we are a little better than a month ago."
Through the early part of 2010, the U.S. has traveled 28 different players to international events including the exhibitions in China, Montreux and the Pan American Cup. Just the last two events in Switzerland and Mexico, McCutcheon utilized 18 different players. Add the World Grand Prix roster into the mix, three additional players – Tom, Hooker and Paolini – could be seeing their first action of 2010.
"We are going to have a lot of difficult decisions in the coming months in deciding our World Championship roster and moving forward through the quadrennial," McCutcheon said. "We are developing a lot of depth on our team in all positions. Suiting up as many players as we have has been by design. It has allowed us to look at different combinations of players. Montreux and Pan American Cup were positives in that respect with having the different lineups."
McCutcheon said that many countries use predominantly the same 12 players for each tournament, and that is not the case for his squad.
"For us, we have depth and that is a strength for us as we can accelerate our own development," McCutcheon said. "No one gets to rest on their laurels. Everyone has to perform to earn playing time."
And there will be plenty of playing time throughout the month of August, thanks to the World Grand Prix.
U.S. Women's National Team Preliminary Roster for FIVB World Grand Prix
# - Name (Pos, Ht, Hometown, College)
1 - Ogonna Nnamani (OPP, 6-1, Bloomington, Ill., Stanford)
2 - Alisha Glass (S, 6-0, Leland, Mich., Penn State)
3 - Christa Harmotto (MB, 6-2, Aliquippa, Pa., Penn State)
4 - Angie Pressey Forsett (OH, 5-8, Lake Mary, Fla., California)
5 - Stacy Sykora (L, 5-10, Burleson, Texas, Texas A&M)
6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
7 - Heather Bown (MB, 6-3, Yorba Linda, Calif., Hawaii)
8 - Cynthia Barboza (OH, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Stanford)
9 - Jennifer Tamas (MB, 6-4, Milpitas, Calif., Pacific)
10 - Courtney Thompson (S, 5-8, Kent, Wash., Washington)
11 - Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)
12 - Nancy Metcalf (OPP, 6-1, Hull, Iowa, Nebraska)
13 - Lauren Paolini (MB, 6-4, Ann Arbor, Mich., Texas)
14 - Nicole Fawcett (OPP, 6-4, Zanesfield, Ohio, Penn State)
15 - Logan Tom (OH, 6-1, Salt Lake City, Utah, Stanford)
16 - Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)
17 - Nellie Spicer (S, 5-9, Barrington, Ill., UCLA)
18 - Megan Hodge (OH, 6-3, Durham, N.C., Penn State)
19 - Destinee Hooker (OPP, 6-4, San Antonio, Texas, Texas)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Assistant Coach: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Jim Stone (Columbus, Ohio)
Technical Coordinator: Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Athletic Trainer/Medical Support: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)
Team Leader for Poland/Thailand: Reed Sunahara (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Team Leader for Hong Kong/Japan: Laurel Iversen (Kalaheo, Hawaii)
2010 FIVB World Grand Prix Schedule
Pool A (Sao Carlos, Brazil * Ginasio Nilton Olaio Filho)
Aug. 6: Brazil vs. Chinese Taipei, 9:20 a.m.
Aug. 6: Italy vs. Japan, 1 p.m.
Aug. 7: Brazil vs. Japan, 10 a.m.
Aug. 7: Chinese Taipei vs. Italy, 1 p.m.
Aug. 8: Brazil vs. Italy, 9:30 a.m.
Aug. 8: Japan vs. Chinese Taipei, 1 p.m.
Pool B (Gdynia, Poland * Gdynia Competition Hall)
Aug. 6: USA vs. Dominican Republic, 5 p.m.
Aug. 6: Poland vs. Germany, 8 p.m.
Aug. 7: Poland vs. Dominican Republic, 4:15 p.m.
Aug. 7: USA vs. Germany, 7:15 p.m.
Aug. 8: USA vs. Poland, 4:15 p.m.
Aug. 8: Germany vs. Dominican Republic, 7:15 p.m.
Pool C (Chengdu, China * Sichuan Provincial Sports Bureau)
Aug. 6: Netherlands vs. Thailand, 4 p.m.
Aug. 6: China vs. Puerto Rico, 7:30 p.m.
Aug. 7: Puerto Rico vs. Netherlands, 4 p.m.
Aug. 7: Thailand vs. China, 7:30 p.m.
Aug. 8: China vs. Netherlands, 4 p.m.
Aug. 8: Thailand vs. Puerto Rico, 7:30 p.m.
Pool D (Bangkok, Thailand * Keelawes 2)
Aug. 13: USA vs. Italy, 3 p.m.
Aug. 13: Thailand vs. Puerto Rico, 5:30 p.m.
Aug. 14: Puerto Rico vs. Italy, 2 p.m.
Aug. 14: USA vs. Thailand, 5:30 p.m.
Aug. 15: USA vs. Puerto Rico, 3 p.m.
Aug. 15: Italy vs. Thailand, 5:30 p.m.
Pool E (Macau, China * Forum de Macau)
Aug. 13: Brazil vs. Dominican Republic, 5:30 p.m.
Aug. 13: China vs. Netherlands, 9 p.m.
Aug. 14: Brazil vs. Netherlands, 2 p.m.
Aug. 14: China vs. Dominican Republic, 4:30 p.m.
Aug. 15: Netherlands vs. Dominican Republic, 1 p.m.
Aug. 15: China vs. Brazil, 3:30 p.m.
Pool F (Okayama, Japan * Okayama Momotaro Arena)
Aug. 13: Chinese Taipei vs. Poland, 3 p.m.
Aug. 13: Japan vs. Germany, 6 p.m.
Aug. 14: Germany vs. Chinese Taipei, 2 p.m.
Aug. 14: Japan vs. Poland, 5 p.m.
Aug. 15: Germany vs. Poland, 2 p.m.
Aug. 15: Japan vs. Chinese Taipei, 5 p.m.
Pool G (Hong Kong, China * Hong Kong Coliseum)
Aug. 20: USA vs. Germany, 3 p.m.
Aug. 20: China vs. Thailand, 8 p.m.
Aug. 21: USA vs. Thailand, 1:15 p.m.
Aug. 21: China vs. Germany, 3:45 p.m.
Aug. 22: Germany vs. Thailand, 1:15 p.m.
Aug. 22: USA vs. China, 3:45 p.m.
Pool H (Taipei, Chinese Taipei * Taiwan University Gym)
Aug. 20: Brazil vs. Puerto Rico, 3:30 p.m.
Aug. 20: Poland vs. Chinese Taipei, 7 p.m.
Aug. 21: Puerto Rico vs. Poland, 2:30 p.m.
Aug. 21: Chinese Taipei vs. Brazil, 4:30 p.m.
Aug. 22: Brazil vs. Poland, 2:30 p.m.
Aug. 22: Chinese Taipei vs. Puerto Rico, 4:30 p.m.
Pool I (Tokyo, Japan * Yoyogi National Stadium)
Aug. 20: Italy vs. Netherlands, 3:30 p.m.
Aug. 20: Japan vs. Dominican Republic, 6:30 p.m.
Aug. 21: Dominican Republic vs. Netherlands, 2 p.m.
Aug. 21: Japan vs. Italy, 7 p.m.
Aug. 22: Dominican Republic vs. Italy, 2 p.m.
Aug. 22: Japan vs. Netherlands, 5 p.m.
Final Round (Ningbo, China * Ningbo Beilun Gymnasium)
Aug. 25-29: Teams TBA


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Paleozoic Partner Highlight
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Many of the first specimens collected in Glacier Bay were from the northern end of Willoughby Island, seen here looking north.
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Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve (Alaska)
Significant, Spectacular, Silurian Fossils
The Silurian limestone (about 425 million years old) of Glacier Bay contain a significant invertebrate megafauna. Fossils are extremely large, with some bivalves approaching 8 inches (20 cm) in length! Their huge size suggests they lived in very favorable conditions during a period of extremely high "bio-productivity" in a warm, shallow-water, shelf environment adjacent to a deep marine basin.
The Upper Silurian rocks of southeastern Alaska are part of the Alexander terrane. Terranes are massive groups of rocks (sometimes called "microcontinents") that form elsewhere, are transported by plate tectonic processes, and later accreted onto another continent. Fossils in terranes are of special interest because they provide clues as to where the rocks originally formed, allowing geologists and paleontologists to reconstruct local paleobiogeography and plate tectonic processes. Many of the Silurian fossils are not North American. They are more similar to fossils found in Siberia and the Ural Mountains (western Russia), suggesting that the Alexander terrane was transported from what is now Eurasia and accreted onto North America! Eurasia was near the equator during the Silurian.
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Leperditiid ostracod from the Willoughby limestone. The large bean-like ostracodes were among the first Silurian fossils identified at Glacier Bay. Scale is in mm.
Early Discovery and Description
Conincidentally three Henry's were involved in the early paleontology studies of Glacier Bay. The first written mention of Silurian megafossils in Glacier Bay was by Henry Platt Cushing (1892) who was on the Henry Fielding Reid expedition to Muir Glacier. Cushing (1895) designated all of the dolomitic limestone around Glacier Bay as the "Glacier Bay limestone". Some of those rocks are known to be younger (Devonian) and are mapped as Black Cap Limestone (Rossman, 1963). On a trip across the bay to Drake Island, Cushing collected Leperditia (an ostracode) and observed cross sections of large gastropods on the glacially polished limestone. Cushing sent his collections to Henry Shaler Williams who determined a probable Paleozoic age for the ostracodes (Cushing, 1892). At the request of Alfred Hulse (surprisingly not "Henry"!) Brooks in 1901, Williams sent the specimens to the US Geological Survey (USGS) where they were examined by Charles Schuchert. Schuchert returned his report to the USGS Director on January 3, 1902. Using Leperditia as an index fossil, Schuchert determined a Late Silurian age for the fossils.
Many of the early publications describing the Silurian fossils of southeastern Alaska and Glacier Bay were written by Edwin Kirk (1884-1955) of the USGS. These specimens were collected on Willoughby Island by Frederick Eugene Wright in 1906 and by Kirk in 1917. Estimates of the rate of glacial retreat in Glacier Bay (Carlson and others, 2002) suggest that the ice retreated from Willoughby and Drake Islands about 1850 providing the early geologists better exposures than those present today.
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Abundant brachiopods and gastropods occur in the Willoughby Limestone on Drake Island.
The largest known Paleozoic bivalve Pycinodesma, was collected and named by Edwin Kirk in 1927 for specimens from Chichagof Island (Freshwater Bay) and Willoughby and Drake Islands (Glacier Bay). Kirk observed specimens at Glacier Bay as large as 12 inches (30 cm) and with shells as thick as 2 inches (5 cm)! He also noted (1927, p. 2) "The pelecypod is an excellent horizon marker, as owing to its tremendously thick shell it can often be recognized in section on weathered rock surfaces where metamorphism and shearing have destroyed other organic remains beyond the possibility of accurate determination." The frilled gastropod, Bathmopterus was collected from northern Willoughby Island by Kirk. Kirk's collections from Willoughby Island are part of a large-shelled molluscan assemblage as well as large thumb-nail-sized ostracodes.
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One of the largest known Paleozoic bivalves, Pycinodesma. A: The original graphic illustration by Kirk (1927). B: the actual specimen in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (USNM specimen 71277). C: Specimen in outcrop on Willoughby Island in Glacier Bay.
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Kirkospira. This specimen was collected and prepared by Edwin Kirk in 1917. Rohr and Blodgett named the new genus in his honor in 2004.
Discoveries Continue
We examined Kirk's unpublished material and established the large gastropod genus Kirkospira, in honor of Kirk, as well as a new species of gastropod Coelocaulus karlae. Soja and others (2000) described a stromatolite reef on Drake Island.
In 2011, we visited Drake Island and collected from a gastropod and brachiopod-rich outcrop. The gastropods included high-spired murchisonids and Coelocaulus, but the matrix has been recrystallized and the shells could not be broken free. The brachiopods showed preservation of internal calcified structures, and good specimens were recovered. These proved to be a previously unknown brachiopod, Sapelnikoviella santuccii.
Not surprising for rocks that have travelled long distances, the Silurian Willoughby limestone shows low to very high levels of recrystallization (meaning it was "metamorphosed" by high temperature and/or pressure) throughout Glacier Bay. This recrystallization probably obscures some of the fossils present. It is likely that many of the fossils described from similar Alexander Terrane limestones to the south (Heceta limestone), may be present in Glacier Bay waiting to be found.
Article and photographs provided by David M. Rohr (Sul Ross State University; Alpine, Texas) and Robert B. Blodgett (consulting geologist; Anchorage, Alasa).
About Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Covering 3.3 million acres of rugged mountains, dynamic glaciers, temperate rainforest, wild coastlines, and deep sheltered fjords, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is a highlight of Alaska's Inside Passage and part of a 25-million acre World Heritage Site-one of the world's largest international protected areas. From summit to sea, Glacier Bay offers limitless opportunities for adventure and inspiration. The park lies west of Juneau, Alaska, and can only be reached by plane or boat. The only road merely connects the small town of Gustavus and its airfield to park headquarters at Bartlett Cove. Daily jet service from Juneau to Gustavus is available in the summer and year-round scheduled air service to Gustavus is also provided by a variety of small air taxis and charters. Many visitors arrive in Glacier Bay as passengers on board cruise ships, tour boats, charter boats, and their own private vessels. Others bring their kayak to Glacier Bay on the ferry or rent one in Gustavus or Glacier Bay.
Blodgett, R.B., A.J. Boucot, D.M. Rohr, and A.E.H. Pedder. 2010. The Alexander terrane—A displaced fragment of northeast Russia? Evidence from Silurian-Middle Devonian megafossils and stratigraphy. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 39:325-341.
Blodgett, R.B., D.M. Rohr, and A.J. Boucot. 2002. Paleozoic links among some Alaskan accreted terranes and Siberia based on megafossils. InTectonic Evolution of the Bering Shelf-Chukchi Sea-Arctic Margin and Adjacent Landmasses, ed. E.L. Miller, A. Grantz, and S.L.Klemperer, 273– 291. Geological Society of America Special Paper 360. Boulder, CO.
Blodgett, R.B., A. J. Boucot, V.V. Baranov, and D.M. Rohr. 2013. Sapelnikoviella santuccii, a new gypidulinid brachiopod genus and species from the upper Silurian of Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Southeast Alaska. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 44, 65-72.
Brooks, A. H. 1902. Preliminary report on the Ketchikan mining district, Alaska, with an introductory sketch of the geology of southeastern Alaska. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1, 120 p.
Carlson, P.R. P. Hooge, G. Cochrane, A. Stevenson, P. Dartnell and K. Lee. 2002. Multibeam Bathymetry and Selected Perspective Views of Main Part of Glacier Bay, Alaska .U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-391.
Cushing, H.P. 1892. Notes on the geology of the vicinity of Muir Glacier. National Geographic Magazine, v. 4:140-146.
Kirk, E. 1927. Pycnodesma, a new molluscan genus from the Silurian of Alaska. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 71, article 20.
Kirk, E. 1928. Bathmopterus, a new fossil gastropod genus from the Silurian of Alaska. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 74, article 18, 1–4.
Rohr, D.M., and R.B. Blodgett. 2003. Kirkospira, a new Silurian gastropod from Glacier Bay, southeast Alaska. In Studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 2001, ed. J.P. Galloway. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1678 (direct link to PDF): 117–125.
Rohr, D.M., R.B. Blodgett, and J. Frýda. 2003. New Silurian murchisoniid gastropods from Alaska and a review of the genus Coelocaulus. In Short Notes on Alaska Geology 2003, ed. K.H. Clautice and P.K. Davis, 87–93. Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys Professional Report 120.
Rossman, D.L. 1963. Geology of the eastern part of the Mount Fairweather quadrangle, Glacier Bay, Alaska, in Contributions to general geology, 1960: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1121-K, p. K1-K57.
Soja, C.M., B. White, A. Antoshkina, S. Joyce, L. Mayhew, B. Flynn, and A. Gleason. 2000. Development and decline of a Silurian stromatolite reef complex, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Palaios, v. 15, no. 4, p. 273-292.
2013 Paleozoic Partner feature articles:| January: Fossils of the 2013 National Fossil Day Artwork | February: Paleontological Research Institution, Museum of the Earth | March: Falls of the Ohio State Park | April: Field Museum of Natural History, Mazon Creek Collection | May: Prehistoric Trackways National Monument | June: Cincinnati Museum Center | July: Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve | August: University of Michican Museum of Paleontology, Silica Formation Fossils | September: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Beecher's Trilobite Bed | October: Guadalupe Mountains National Park | November: Utah Geological Survey, Millard County Cambrian Fossils | December: Denver Museum of Nature and Science, High-Altitude Mass Extinction |
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Siweh Harris
When Siweh Harris started his capstone project as part of the master's degree program in Organizational and Strategic Leadership (OSL) at Neumann, he never thought it would lead to installing the first hand pump and source of clean, running water in his village of Goahblee in Liberia.
"When the capstone project came up, they suggested using a real life situation that you are passionate about. I have seen the suffering of the people in villages with no water, bathroom facilities, or education. I thought I could use my leadership skills to help them," he said.
Harris set up the Morweh Self Help Initiative (MORSHI) to raise the money needed to install hand pumps in five villages at a cost of $2,000 per hand pump. "When I went to visit, water was the main concern. One of the towns wanted a school first, but the water was more important. The water they had access to was unsafe, and they were drinking, cooking, and bathing in it. They did not realize it was unsafe for them," he explained.
The first hand pump was installed in Goahblee on Friday, November 30, 2012. "The villagers celebrated with shouts of joy after the completion," he said. Harris also explained that the cost of installation is high because there are no roads to drive the materials needed for the hand pump into the village. "The concrete pipes are very heavy to carry. That makes installing each pump more expensive."
The first pump was installed sooner than he expected. "My daughter, Zoe Harris, is just as compassionate as I am, and she donated $1,000 towards the first pump. Three of us matched her donation and we were able to have the first pump installed before Christmas," he said. "I didn't think we would be able to have it installed so soon."
"I think what Siweh has been able to accomplish really shows the power that one individual can have," stated Dr. Sam Lemon, director of the OSL program at Neumann. "This is a dream he has had for 15 years, and he was able to connect what he was learning in class to what's going on in the world. I think it really ties into the Franciscan part of our program, a way to make the world better."
"The OSL program gave him leadership skills and the ability to be an exemplary leader. I also think it taught him the nuts and bolts of managing a complex project on two continents and two different cultures," said Lemon.
After all of the water pumps are installed, with a goal of November 2015 as a completion date, he hopes to install a latrine in each of the five villages as well and then focus on education. "We hope to start an education program on health and hygiene; how to use toilets, how to wash hands properly. We have two health professors willing to go and teach," Harris explained.
"I am very passionate about helping people who cannot help themselves," Harris said. "I am asking well meaning people to help them. All donations go directly to the people. From inception until now, everything has mostly been done by me. I appreciate people coming to their rescue. They get sick and are poisoning themselves by drinking the contaminated water."
"People can do great things in a short period of time. I think what Siweh has been able to accomplish really speaks to that. I think it also shows the value of getting perspective from students from other cultures. His work shows that our Franciscan perspective isn't just a slogan, it's something that is practiced here," said Lemon.
Harris arrived in the United States in 2000 as a result of the Second Liberian Civil War. He is currently enrolled in the master of education program at Neumann. He expects to graduate this May and will visit Liberia this summer.
For more information on the Morweh Self Help Initiative or to donate, visit http://www.morweh.org. MORSHI is a nonprofit and prospective 501c3 organization. Harris also accepts used clothing, shoes, and books.
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Kristen W. Lynch, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Department: Biochemistry and Biophysics
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Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stellar-Chance Labs 909B
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Harvard University, 1996.
Harvard University, 1990.
Harvard University, 1996.
Description of Research ExpertiseRESEARCH INTERESTS: mechanisms of regulation of alternative splicing, antigen-induced splicing in T cells
KEY WORDS: RNA binding proteins, alternative splicing, gene regulation, T cells
Recent insight into the human genome has revealed that most genes encode multiple distinct protein isoforms through the process of alternative pre-mRNA splicing. My laboratory is focused on understanding the biochemical mechanisms and regulatory networks that control alternative splicing in response to antigen-challenge of the human immune system. In addition, we are working to characterize the physiological consequences of this mode of gene regulation. Recently we have identified ~150 genes that exhibit an alteration in isoform expression in response to T cell stimulation. Through our initial work on the regulated splicing of the protein tyrosine phosphatase CD45, we have identified the regulatory sequence and proteins that controls activation-induced isoform expression of CD45 as well as several other genes essential for T cell function. This work is on-going as we seek to understand the mechanism of this regulation in more molecular detail. Moreover the analysis of binding specificity of the proteins involved in signal-responsive regulation is allowing us to predict further examples of regulated splicing in the immune system. Finally, the generation of mice deficient in their expression of critical splicing regulatory proteins is allowing us to dissect the functional significance of alternative splicing for the proper function of the mammalian immune system. Together these studies are providing new insights into the mechanisms and consequences of RNA-based gene regulation in the cellular response to environmental stimuli.
1. Characterization of sequences that regulate alternative splicing
2. Identification of novel targets of signal-induced splicing in T cells
3. Mutational analysis of proteins that control alternative splicing
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Skip to comments.Singer Tony Bennett Equates Isolated Gun Violence to Nazi Germany, Fears Foreign Invasion
Posted on 02/07/2013 9:58:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Tony Bennett is one of America's most popular singers but he has proven once again that talent in the arts is no predictor of intelligence.
At a Wednesday press conference, the outspoken pacifist and ardent Democrat Bennett compared isolated gun deaths in the U.S. to Nazi concentration camps and said that if America did not do something to curtail violence in this country, the other countries would take care of us in a really bad way, just like they did in World War II to the Germans. Bizarre video and story below.
In a subsequent interview with CNN, Bennett declined to defend his comments but he did not distance himself from them either. Heres what he said in full at the conference:
Its the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany where Nazis came over and created tragic things and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world is really going to take care of us in a really bad way.
We should learn that were the greatest country because were all different nationalities, were all different religions, and we should show the rest of the world how to behave.
Tony Bennett is apparently unaware that the Nazi party was actually created in Germany and did not come over from some other country. He also is apparently unaware that gun control laws were one of the many restrictions placed upon citizens under Nazi domination...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Yearning for Benito, eh, Tony Bennetto?
[[Singer Tony Bennett Equates Isolated Gun Violence to Nazi Germany, Fears Foreign Invasion]]
Here's a clue Tony- Free of charge- IF we do get invaded, you'll NEED all the guns you can get your hands on- there'sw a reason why foreign natiosn avoid attacking us you dolt- it's precisely because we DO own firearms- Are you so anti-American that you would have us be at the mercy of foreign natiosn who attack us? Stick to singin Tony- it appears that's al l you're qualified to do
And I never cared much for ol' Tony's music. He's going from riches to rags in my opinion.
Bennet is a WWII vet and I've always enjoyed his singing.
I don't know if he was always this stupid or it just happened as he got old, but as the article says, having a great voice doesn't mean that you have a great mind to back it up.
Sad, really.
Bennet's had a few too many botox injections.
There must be something in the Kool-Aid....
Boy is HE ever screwed up in his reasoning.
He's inhaled way too much toupee glue.
He left his brain in San Fransicko.
Youre right, Tony, its exactly like NAZI Germany. The National Socialist government outlawed guns and started confiscating them. Then the National Socialist government started killing its own people. Then the National Socialist government attacked other countries. Then we invaded and killed the National Socialists. Dont be a national socialist.
I think Tony Bennett left more than his heart in San Francisco
..."Heres a clue Tony- Free of charge- IF we do get invaded, youll NEED all the guns you can get your hands on- theresw a reason why foreign natiosn avoid attacking us you dolt- its precisely because we DO own firearms- Are you so anti-American that you would have us be at the mercy of foreign natiosn who attack us? Stick to singin Tony- it appears thats al l youre qualified to do."...
Tony Bennett's ignorance was on display for all the world to see yesterday. True history shows that Hitler could have not done what he did without disarming law-abiding citizens first. Mr. leftist, Tony, should stick to music, for sure. I am a musician who loves jazz who almost bought one of his albums this week. Now, I would not touch a product of his with a ten foot pole. Everytime I would take a listen, I would be thinking of what a traitor he is to our country, the nation which has made him filthy rich just because he has a nice instrunment in his throat. Chris Rock, Tony Bennett..What hypocrites!
He will be doing a duet with the Dixie Chicks soon.
Tony Bennett is old enough to KNOW some of the history behind the NAZI Party and their "Obama style" disarmament of the German people just for starters. IGNORANCE is, however, no respecter of persons. - Remember, Tony, it's better to be silent and thought a fool; rather than to open your mouth and REMOVE ALL DOUBT!
He's rememberin' all them Joooooooes crammed into those cattle cars with their semi-autos, high-capacity magazines and cases and cases of ammo.........................
Gotta feel sorry for an 80+-year-old drug addict.
Tony Bennett is still alive?
Tony's voice was a gift given him by God.
He was given this gift to make amends for having given Tony sh*t for brains.
TB is the Patriarch of the entertainment idiots. Great voice but no brain.
The glue from his wig has impacted his brain. Give it up Bennet
"On this rock a group of teenage guerrillas carved the names of their fallen comrades who lost their lives fighting against the invaders of our country"
Even although the earthquake was over fifty years from the gold rush days, where violence and murder were common, it is still any eye opener. A bit of a ramble for which I hope to be excused, but anyway.
Disaster By The Bay.
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Connecticut 2003.
Things eventually were a vast improvement, in that city, as wiser heads prevailed. Tony should take time to reconsider making statements like he did. The left, as always, obviously drool at this kind of rhetoric and probably do not believe a word. (laughs)
Nazi's didn't "come over" and they weren't "told off." The Nazi's were an internal movement of Germany, the National Socialist Party. They took advantage of the 1928 German gun control laws (registration), which were enacted before they came into power, and amended them in 1938, disarming Jews particularly and everyone else generally. The resulting mayhem was staggering--genocide and Word War. The body count racked up by the Nazi's and Axis allies was in the 10's of millions.
The Nazi's (the government and their party favorites) reserved arms for themselves, while disarming everyone else. Does this sound familiar? It should. This is what the American socialists want to do -- disarm everyone but themselves and their allies/minions -- transforming us into a fascist/police state, a threat to its own citizenry and the peace of the world.
We refuse to go down this path. We know where it leads. We don't care what the screwed up world thinks. The blessings of Liberty are beyond their comprehension and their poster boy.
Someone needs to acquaint Mr Bennett with that comment by Yamamoto about not invading America because there'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.
Or by that Russian about how in the US there were just too many Coke bottles and gas stations.
Agreed. That's why I wrote that Tony Bennetto is yearning for his Benito (Mussolini).
Is he serious? Equating the GUN OWNERS to the Nazi's when it was the the Nazi's who were the GUN GRABBERS???
The US GOVERNMENT is more like the Nazi's than the public gun owners.
And many in the old Germany and Russia said "if we had only resisted sooner" (i.e. when they grabbed all the guns!)
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Eccentricity: Our E46 Prototype
A couple weekends ago at Frostbike, we introduced our E46 prototype to a small group of dealers and vendors. Word got out, and we've received a lot of interest, but there's also a healthy bit of confusion, so this morning we went ahead and sent out the following press release:
Problem Solvers Designs New Eccentric Option for PressFit 30 Frames
Problem Solvers has introduced the E46, a prototype eccentric bottom bracket to help riders adapt new frames with 46mm inside-diameter bottom bracket shells (the same size used for PressFit 30 bottom brackets) for singlespeed use.
This is the first product designed for this application. "Singlespeed setups established relevance in cross-country and cyclocross a long time ago," said Problem Solvers brand manager Chris Duerkop, "but it doesn't seem manufacturers have caught up; new frames don't have an elegant solution for singlespeed."
The E46 accepts cranks with 24mm spindles used in popular external bottom brackets from FSA, Race Face, Shimano, SRAM and Truvativ. When installed, the bottom bracket has 16mm of fore-to-aft adjustability to add chain tension as needed.
"In 2011 we're seeing more manufacturers adopt the PressFit 30 standard," said Problem Solvers product development manager Joe Meiser, "by 2012 it will be the dominant standard for new frames due to component availability and ease of manufacture,"
The prototype was first shown at Frostbike, the annual vendor and dealer event held in February by QBP. According to Problem Solvers design engineer Sean Mailen, the E46 has exceeded expectations: "We've been testing the prototypes, both with FEA and riding on some very harsh Minnesota winter days—the performance has been great."
Dealers can expect the E46 to be in stock at QBP by early July, just in time for cyclocross season. The E46 will sell at an MSRP of $150.


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Karen Lee Birt Enos
Karen Lee Birt Enos, 68, of Lander, Pa., passed away on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013, at Warren General Hospital. Karen was born Sept. 6, 1945, in Warren, Pa., the daughter of the late Timothy Layton Birt and Virginia M. Fellows Birt.
Karen was a woman of many hats-she was a member of the United Methodist Women, currently serving as the district President, a member of the Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary, and a board member for the Ruth M. Smith Center in Sheffield, Pa. Additionally, she was a member of the Lander United Methodist Church, where she had previously served as secretary, sang in the choir, and had also been in charge of missions for years. She was also most recently voted to be at trustee for the church next year.
Most importantly, Karen will be remembered by her family and many friends as a caring woman who touched the lives of so many people. She and her husband, Norman, helped raise 13 foster children over the years. They also answered the call to serve God through many mission trips, including Louisiana, Miss., and most recently, Joplin, Mo.
She is survived by her husband, Norman V. Enos Sr., whom she married in June 1965; her son, Nor-man V. Enos Jr., New Kensington, Pa.; two siblings, Terry Birt, and wife, Ann, formerly of Warren, Pa., and Becky Abbey, and husband, Robert, Russell, Pa.; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her infant son, Timothy Paul Enos.
Friends will be received Tuesday, Oct. 1, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at Peterson – Blick Funeral Home, Inc, 1003 Penn Ave., E., Warren, Pa. The funeral will be held 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at Lander Unit-ed Methodist Church, 5582 Pennsylvania 957, Russell, Pa., with the Rev. J. Mark Hurst, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow at Foster Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Lander United Methodist Church Memorial Fund, 5582 Pennsylvania 957, Russell, PA 16345. To view, or send e-condolences, please visit www.petersonblickfuneralhome.com.


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DENVER — Prison time for a murder he didn't commit robbed 52-year-old Robert Dewey of priceless moments, like the birth of his grandchildren and the burial of his only son.
For 17 years he was locked away. He entered prison an able-bodied 33-year-old nicknamed "Rider" because of his love of motorcycles. Now, Dewey uses a walker to support his lanky frame because of chronic back troubles that have required two surgeries.
His wrongful imprisonment means Dewey is owed nearly $1.2 million from Colorado, under a new state law he helped inspire. The total sum works out to be about $70,000 for every year he spent in prison. Last month, he received his first payment.
"It hasn't brought me peace of mind. It hasn't brought me closure," Dewey said recently, his waist-long hair tied behind him, his goatee longer — and grayer — than in his prison mug shot. "It hasn't made me forget what I went through. Nothing's going to make that go away."
Dewey is the first exonerated Colorado inmate to benefit from the new compensation law, which took effect in June. No one else has applied for compensation.
Every September, Dewey will get $100,000 until the state's debt is paid. He's finding that the money goes by fast, even though by his account he continues to live modestly.
"I still only have one pair of shoes," he said.
He's bought a used truck, a motorcycle, and repaid friends who helped him over the years. He's given money to his parents and grandchildren, and he budgeted for a year's rent for his basement apartment in Colorado Springs that he shares with his ex-girlfriend. He has to buy health insurance, or the state will deduct $10,000 from future awards.
He said the money is "just about" spent, but he declined to say how much he has left.
Laws to compensate the wrongly incarcerated are not uncommon. Including Colorado, 29 states and the federal government have some form of compensation.
"We wanted to right the worst kind of wrong the government can inflict on someone," said Denver Democratic Rep. Dan Pabon, one of the lawmakers who sponsored Colorado's compensation law.
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The Digital Skeptic: 10 Watches You're Now Naked Without
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- What happened to the art of telling time?
Have you noticed? Everything in this noisy digital age seems to tell time: the phone. The car. The stove. Each proffers up a cheesy, numeric rubric that does nothing but cheapen the seconds it counts.
But even these time-worn eyes are seeing a glimmer of hope for time staging a comeback. Better watches, mostly with analog faces and old-school mechanical movements, are finding new customers. According to the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry, last year broke records for watch exports.
"Leaving aside 2010, which followed a major downturn," said the report , "growth surpassed anything seen in the past 20 years."
Which makes this holiday season the perfect time to celebrate the return of watches. So I offer my top timepieces for 2012. Put any of these on your wrist, or on the wrist of those you love, and you will give the greatest gift of all: not merely telling time, but exquisitely keeping it:
Kent Wang Bauhaus
Price: $350
Old-school, high-end mechanical watchmakers are cringing at what League City, Texas-based Kent Wang is offering in terms of automatic wristwatches. The Bauhaus is a well-made, no battery, power-it-yourself timepiece -- your movement powers the watch -- for just $350, which makes this a throwback to mechanical watches at a reasonable cost. Wang deserves real props for making a non-digital watch more people can afford. I liked the clean, easy-to-read face and the surprisingly good quality for the price. You will find some discussion among watch snobs as to just how much of a knockoff this Asian-made movement is. But at these prices, this watch geek is not complaining.
Even better, you can reliably order one online and it comes in a nice gift box, which makes this the impulse timepiece for the year.
Montblanc Star Large
Price: $1,520
I don't know at what it is about Montblanc, but 99 out of 100 of the pieces from this brand are so boring they put me to sleep. In spite of that, the Star Large works. The face design is legitimately first rate; I could look at it for a lifetime and not be disappointed. The reasonably sized case is done in a fine stainless steel. And though the watch is driven by a boring quartz movement, the black-grained calfskin band matches nicely with dressier leather shoes and belts. Even better, the usually blaring Montblanc logo is well under control with the Star, engraved tastefully on the side of the unit.
Montblanc typically pumps out plenty of units into the market, so it's likely there will be good deals to be had. That makes this the leather-band watch that goes with anything you own.


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Relive the Montreal Jazz Festival 2013 With WBGO
September 5, 2013. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM, FIJM 2013, Jazz Alive, michael bourne, Simon Rentner, WBGO Travel
Montreal lives, breathes, and loves jazz every July, when millions of fans and hundreds of acts take over the city - and so does WBGO, especially Singers Unlimited and Blues Hour host Michael Bourne, who has attended the Festival International du Jazz de Montreal on our behalf every year for the past two decades.
Bourne was in Montreal once again this year, along with Simon Rentner and David Tallacksen, to deliver previews, day-by-day reports and more than two dozen behind-the-scenes interviews with the festival's music makers and organizers.
Miss something? You can relive WBGO's best moments in Montreal right here, and read some "bonus entries" to Bourne's Journal. And just as we did this year, WBGO Travel will take us to Montreal next year, and we hope fans and listeners will join us then as well. So enjoy the very best of FIJM 2013 - and FIJM 2014 - with WBGO!
WBGO's FIJM 2013 Interviews
Pianist Steve Kuhn and Bassist Steve Swallow
Guitarist Charlie Hunter and Drummer Scott Amendola
Rentner's FIJM 2013 Preview for NPR's A Blog Supreme
Bourne's Montreal Journal
Prizes for Charles Lloyd And Holly Cole
Saxophones Galore And Organ Grooves
Quartier Des Spectacles Street Scene
Alain Caron & Steve Kuhn Trio At Gesú
Moments With Lovett, Swallow and More
Les Triplettes de Belleville Ride Again
Les Grands Evenements & Champion
Bourne's Montreal: Nous Reviendrons A Montreal
July 11, 2013. Posted by Michael Bourne.Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM, FIJM 2013, Jazz Alive, michael bourne, Simon Rentner
Montreal is the City of Festivals -- 108 through the year.
Festival International de JAZZ de Montreal is the biggest and best-known, although the Juste Pour Rire comedy festival is getting bigger and better-known.
While the jazzfest was happening, also happening was a circus festival. I'd like to have seen a troupe called Gandini Juggling, nine Brits juggling 80 apples in a show characterized as "Downton Abbey Meets Monty Python."
Meanwhile, an international fireworks festival happens every summer. Also a world choir festival in suburban Laval. Also a festival of First Natives, celebrating the Algonquin and other peoples here long before the British fought the French and Indian War. Not to forget the African Nights festival and the Francofolies, celebrating French culture in very French Quebec.
None of the other festivals contributes as much to the Quebec economy as FIJM does -- $64 million annually -- or generates as much media interest as FIJM does. Altogether this year the festival accredited 400 journalists and broadcasters representing 135 media outlets from 16 countries.
Including us.
This year was our ninth broadcasting from Montreal.
Next year will be the 35th anniversary of WBGO and the 35th anniversary of FIJM. We will celebrate together wonderfully.
To paraphrase the iconic song of Robert Charlebois:
nous reviendrons a Montreal ...
Downbeat's Alkyer And Bourne Trade Montreal Stories
July 10, 2013. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM, FIJM 2013, Interviews, Jazz Alive, michael bourne
Frank Alkyer, publisher of Downbeat Magazine, talks with WBGO's Michael Bourne to share impressions of this year's Festival International du Jazz de Montreal, as well as their experiences in past years. Enjoy!
FIJM's Vincent Lefebvre With Bourne On Montreal
July 10, 2013. Posted by Tim Wilkins.Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM, FIJM 2013, Interviews, michael bourne
Vincent Lefebvre, publicist for the Festival International du Jazz de Montreal, talks with WBGO's Michael Bourne about the two million visitors, press and performers who attend the festival from around the world. Enjoy!
Bourne's Montreal: The Climb Up Mount Royal
July 10, 2013. Posted by Michael Bourne.Add new comment | Filed under: FIJM, FIJM 2013, Jazz Alive, michael bourne
Maisonneuve, for whom one of Montreal's jazzfest's concert halls is named, was the founder of Montreal as a settlement of what was then called New France.
After surviving floods from the river, Maisonneuve gave thanks by planting a cross atop the royal mountain. That's what the city's name means: Mount Royal.
I think of this every time my old bones creak and groan up and down the hills Montreal is built upon. Even the short block between the Hyatt Regency and the Maison du Festival is a climb.
And then, on the deambulatoire, the walking street that's now a scene for the jazzfest's grandes evenements, I watch little kids run through the fountains that spurt from the pavement.
And even though I cannot wetly gambol as I might have 60 years ago, I feel that I am, for a moment, one with the splashing children.
And, for that blessed moment, grunting up the damned royal hill, my knees don't ache.