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The Columbia men's golf team concluded the two-day, 36-round Dayton Flyer Invitational in 12th place Tuesday at the NCR Country Club. Columbia improved its standing from a 17th place after the first round of competition.
The Columbia men's golf team finished day one of the Dayton Flyer Invitational in 17th place Monday at the NCR Country Club. Columbia will play 18 more holes tomorrow in day two. A shotgun start format will be used for round two with tee times for both days beginning at 10 a.m. ET.
The Columbia men's golf team will travel to Ohio to compete in the 36-hole, two-day Dayton Flyer Invitational, held at the NCR Country Club on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 17-18. The event marks Columbia's final tournament of the 2016 fall season.
The Columbia men's golf team ended the 54-hole, two day competitive Nick Watney Invitational in ninth place with an 884 score Tuesday at the San Joaquin Country Club. Columbia shot a three-round 884 (plus 24). It shot a 293 in Monday's first round, posted a 299 in the second round and 292 in Monday's third round.
Led by Joshua Suh's 16th place day one finish, the Columbia men's golf concluded 36-holes at the Nick Watney Invitational in ninth place Monday at the San Joaquin Country Club.
Columbia men's golf will travel to California to compete in the 54-hole Nick Watney Invitational, held at the San Joaquin Country Club on Monday and Tuesday.
Five Columbia golfers competed as individuals at the three round, 54-hole Patriot Intercollegiate Sunday and Monday at Laurel Hill Golf Club. The golfers finished 18 holes on Sunday and 36 on Monday.
Joshua Suh led the Columbia men's golf team with a fifth place individual finish as the Lions concluded the two-day, two-round Quechee Club Collegiate in fifth place with a combined 597 score Sunday at the Quechee Club.
Joshua Suh and Arjuna Anday chipped in fifth place performances in leading the Columbia men's golf team to a fourth place finish in day one Saturday at the Quechee Club Collegiate. Hosted by Dartmouth, the final round will tee off Sunday morning at 9 a.m. at the Quechee Club.
Columbia men's golf will participate in its second fall tournament this weekend as it will compete in the Dartmouth Invitational at Quechee Club.
Led by superb Sunday performances from Arjuna Anday and Mert Selamet, the Columbia men's golf team improved from seventh place to conclude the Cornell Invitational with a fifth place finish Sunday at Robert Trent Jones Golf Course.
Led by Arjuna Anday and Joshua Suh, the Columbia men's golf team concluded day one of the Cornell Invitational in seventh place among 14 teams with a two round score of 603. Anday finished Saturday's 36 holes in ninth place with a 147 score (plus-5) while Suh concluded the day in 16th place at 149 (plus-7).


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In some Texas districts, teachers can confiscate cell phones and charge students $15 to get their phones back. Cell phone fines have netted $100,948 for Klein Independent School District, which has been charging the $15 fee for two years. The money has paid for art supplies, free P.E. uniforms, pizza parties to reward students and other enrichment activities.
Cell phones can be a learning tool, says Education Secretary Arne Duncan. He wants schools and colleges to deliver course content to phones, reports eSchool News.
"Kids are on their cell phones the 14 hours a day they are not in school," Duncan said in a recent interview with eCampus News . . . With teenagers and young adults using cell phones constantly, Duncan said, technology officials should find ways to send homework, video lectures, and other classroom material so students can study wherever they are.
Of course, students might use phones less if it meant listening to lectures.
At some colleges, students are downloading course material on their cell phones, avoiding the high costs of buying textbooks. Ball State nursing students must buy an AT&T mobile device to "access lab books, medical dictionaries, diagnosis literature, and other resources throughout the school year." Undergrads pay about $250 for course materials that can be used throughout their studies. And they've got a lot less to carry from class to class.


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The Upper Peninsula Sportsman Alliance and the wolf problem go back several years. It took years of struggling with the government agencies to get the wolf removed from the Endangered Species list. This included the hiring of lawyers who spent a lot of time traveling to Minnesota and Washington DC.
Once they were removed from the endangered species list, the Michigan Legislature had to make the wolf a game animal so that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources could establish some sort of control of these animals.
UPSA teamed with the Michigan United Conservation Club (MUCC) in supporting our state senators and representatives in getting the bill approved and sent to the governor for his signature.
UPSA has now again teamed with MUCC because the anti groups are trying to stop any control of these animals in the state of Michigan. We are very fortunate to be able to team with MUCC as they recognize our problem. We need the support of the public to allow the Michigan DNR to scientifically control the wolf population in the problems areas of the Upper Peninsula.
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Sacrificing Local Green For Global Green
Contributing Monkie G Living Staff Monkies
Topics of Interest Uranium
Published on December 3, 2007
Section Green Report / Media
In Fort Collins Colorado, renewal is a way of life" at least according to their town motto. However, recent debates have emerged between local politicians and environmentalists regarding two projects the city is currently working on. The goals of both projects are to produce a new form of zero-carbon energy, but while one process has earned residential approval, the other one hasn't. But neither one of them seems particularly green in its execution.
The most controversial of the two projects would utilize a uranium mine a fact that has never pleased the townspeople and massive drilling to extract nuclear-generated electricity. Local politicians have united in expressing their concerns about using the mine as part of the project, given the potential contamination of the city's water supply.
Local enviornmentalist Dan Bihn, according to an article in the New York Times, believes people should hear the complete plan for the uranium mine before jumping to conclusions. The newspaper quotes Mr. Bihnwas as saying, "I think nuclear needs to be on the table […] and we just can't emotionally react to it." Yet, strangely enough, when asked for his emotional reaction to the issue, he replied, "Deep down inside, my emotional reaction is that we should never do this."
Even stranger, the more popular project is called AVA Solar and proposes to utilize new technology to create solar panels using cadmium, a hazardous metal thought to cause cancer.
Which begs the bigger question of whether or not communities should potentially sacrifice local green in their attempts to achieve global green.
The debate is currently going on in Fort Collins, and will no doubt be popping up in other areas.
Read the New York Times article here.


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In short: Hastings should be proud of this proper half.In full: My first time doing this one, it has the feel of an event which has been going for some time with quite a bit going on at the start finish area.The first five is hard with a mix short sharp hills and then a long drag, but you benefit from this at nine to ten miles and then it is a flat run along the seafront. The crowd support was really really good even on what was a bitterly cold day.A really good run in all, with drinks including hot tea at the finish which was perfect for today's conditions. Its proper half marathon so please don't change it and start handing out cheap goody bags or neon t shirts at the end by adding 10 quid to the price, the race with its athosphere stands on its own merit.Date of review: March 24, 2013
In short: Half was a lovely challenging low key raceIn full: The half runs through nice countryside throughout. There is one hefty hill at 3 miles that had a few walking despite it being so early on in the race. After that there were great views and a nice descent.Not a large field but enough people to try to chase down. Organisation was smooth, the venue is very good and finish times were available within moments the end. Would recommendDate of review: November 18, 2012
In short: Excellent Race, great place and great supportIn full: I think this is a great race. The course was pretty flat with a few fairly gentle undulations when you were headling out into some wonderful coastal scenery and then flat for the sceond half so I'd say fairly fast.The organisation was very good, loads of well stocked drink stations, a good amount of loos at the start for a big field, well thought out course and gun went off pretty much on time. For next year - any chance of a lift to be fitted to cope with those cruel steps after the finish though.The support along the course was smashing and Brighton should be proud of itself for that.Date of review: April 15, 2012
In short: A Great RunIn full: There is no doubt this is a special race, the atmosphere and support is brilliant.The organisation is slick, only grumbles would be there should be more loos at the start as you get penned in early and the T-shirts you get are now cheap quality compared to what they used to be. That said you do it for the run not the T-shirt and the run is one you have to do.Date of review: September 22, 2011
In short: Great race by the seaIn full: A fairly lumpy first half and pretty much flat second with a little sting in the tail at 25 miles. It is pretty much by the sea all the way, so nice views and since it is along the promenade there was nice support from the locals sat on their deckchairs along the way.The organisation was very good, with plenty of drink stations with gels. There were also loads and loads of marshalls handing out jelly babies, who were to the last really supportive and encouraging - a big thank you to all of them.Date of review: September 4, 2011
In short: Excellent race, tough hills, well organisedIn full: A really well organised race with plenty of drinks stations and loads of friendly supportive marshalls out & about. The run went out into some really lovely countryside, there were some tough hills (particularly a monster at 10/11 miles) and at times some strong headwinds to contend with. I really enjoyed it, with early start being a bonus. Well done to the organisers.Date of review: July 24, 2011
In short: Friendly, well organised run in nice open countrysideIn full: This run has very slick organisation and there was a really friendly and supportive atmosphere at the bustling start/finish area.The course is pretty much flat in open country side, maybe a bit more up hill in the last half. The heat was a bit of a challenge but all in all certainly fun & pb potential. Date of review: July 10, 2011
In short: Really Hard but Really Good!In full: The organisation of this race was spot on from start to finish and you really do get a lot for your money.The scenery and terrain change continuously and there are some really hard ups & downs to add to the fun.PS, Thanks to all the marshals, and whoever made the carrot cake from the fine selection offered at the end, should be proud!whoever made teh carrot and walnt cake at the end should be proudDate of review: June 19, 2011
In short: Fun race but bit of a let down at the endIn full: The organisation at the start and all the marshall & supporters out and about were great. As others have said; a drink at the end and a clear finish line somewhere in the middle of the field and not at the gate would have avoided the rather drab end to what otherwise was a spot on course. Date of review: January 31, 2011
In short: Scorching Again!In full: This is a really nice run with PB potential but the race keeps getting blessed with glorious sunshine - one year it has to rain! The fete that the race is part of is great to take the family along to and makes a good day out.Date of review: June 26, 2010
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Even the most intrepid buyer might find acquiring a down-at-the-heels late-18th-century château a daunting experience—all the more so if the landscaping around it has also been neglected. This was the situation facing a French couple who purchased precisely such a château near Orléans in the late 1990s. But when it came to reviving the grounds, they knew exactly what to do: They contacted Louis Benech, a French garden designer with an affinity for restoration projects.
The entrance of a château near Orléans, France; the grounds were restored by French landscape designer Louis Benech. The house is flanked by lilac bushes and Atlas cedars, and Benech had the yews shaped into cones.
Benech has a reputation for creating landscapes that fit seamlessly into their natural surroundings. His career got a jump-start in 1990 when, as he tells it, he was "dragged" into partnership by a fellow landscape designer for an international competition to redevelop the Tuileries gardens in front of the Louvre. To his surprise, they won, and since then he has made and remade gardens in many parts of the world for a roster of high-profile clients, including François Pinault, Guy de Rothschild, and Princess Caroline of Monaco. For the owners of this estate, Benech had already worked on their garden in Paris.
Benech restored the series of pools behind the house, which are original to the 1837 garden plan.
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Jimena de la Frontera
Situated very close to Algeciras Bay, Jimena de la Frontera is an exceptional spot where the Ronda Mountains and the Strait of Gibraltar meet. Its old town has been declared Property of Cultural Interest.
Jimena de Frontera, a town whose origins go way back in time, enjoyed a boom during the Moorish period, especially as a frontier town in the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada during the 14th and 15th centuries. The emblematic building in this town - its Moorish castle - was built in that period. Together with the walls and the cistern, known as the "Moorish Queen's Bath", it forms a priceless architectural site. Other very attractive elements are the churches of La Misericordia and La Victoria, Los Ángeles Shrine, the Royal Artillery Factory building, the cave paintings in the nearby Laja Alta Cave, and the splendid nature area - the Los Alcornocales Nature Reserve - where the cave can be found.
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Neely's Deep-Fried Turkey
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons black pepper
- 1 1/2 teaspoons onion powder
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 (14-pound) turkey, giblets removed, washed and dried
- *2 3/4 gallons peanut oil, for frying
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
*Cooks Note: To measure the amount of oil needed to fry the turkey, put the turkey in the fryer, add water to top of turkey. Remove the turkey, and then mark the water line with a crayon or marker. Remove the water. The water line will indicate how much oil will be needed to fry your turkey. Having too much oil can cause a fire. The pot should not be more than 3/4 full or the oil could overflow when the turkey is added. Dry the fryer before adding the oil.
After measuring the amount of oil needed for the deep-fryer, dry the turkey well, inside and out, before proceeding.
Mix the smoked paprika, salt, garlic powder, black pepper, onion powder, cayenne pepper, and thyme together in a bowl. Sprinkle the spice rub inside the cavity of the turkey and on the skin. Separate the skin from the breast meat and massage the rub onto the meat with your hands. Put the turkey on a large sheet tray and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate overnight or up to 24 hours.
Fill the electric deep-fryer with peanut oil and preheat to 400 degrees F, (it will take about 1 hour for the oil to come to temperature).
Remove the turkey from the refrigerator and let it come to room temperature.
Once the oil is hot and the turkey is at room temperature, very carefully lower the turkey into the hot oil. Make sure the oil maintains its temperature while frying. Fry the turkey until the skin is dark golden brown and crisp, or until the internal temperature of the breast reaches 155 degrees F on an instant-read thermometer, roughly 45 minutes. Carefully remove the turkey from the oil and let it rest and drain on a wire rack, about 30 minutes. The internal temperature will rise to 165 degrees F while resting.
Transfer the turkey to a serving platter and serve.
Recipe courtesy of The Neelys
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It's just a wooded entry to another Columbus neighborhood, but Morris Chisholm envisions so much more.
Chisholm, who has lived in the Brittany Hills neighborhood for decades, sees past the thicket on a hillside to a parklike area filled with ornamental trees, shrubs and perennial flowers.He sees a peaceful oasis in the heart of the city.
Not everyone shares his vision. Some say it's simply too expensive.But Chisholm believes that the time to begin is now. The project wouldn't be finished for another decade. The neighborhood, he said, needs a fresh start, a pick-me-up, a new image.
After all, there have been too many news stories about a drug gang that adopted the neighborhood's name.
Maurice Lamont Williams, known as "Papa Joe," was the leader of a notorious drug gang dubbed the Brittany Hills Posse. A federal jury convicted Williams in April for running the cocaine-trafficking empire for more than a decade. Twenty-nine people were indicted in the case.
Most of them weren't from the neighborhood, community leaders said.
"We're concerned about the perception," said Chisholm, a civic association member who has scrubbed the "BHP" tag from Brittany Hills signs at the neighborhood's entrance.
So he wants to help change it, in part by sprucing up the entrance to the neighborhood at Sunbury Road and Bethesda Avenue. The neighborhood association owns the land, which Chisholm said is a little more than an acre.
"We're trying hard to create an iconic entryway to our neighborhood," he said.
The civic association hired the city-funded Neighborhood Design Center in Columbus to create concepts for the area. The center's staff has met with residents since May 2009.
"My vision is simply that of a place that doesn't look like a nature preserve," said Al Berthold, the center's executive director.
Cheryl Huffman, the center's director of landscape and urban design, calls Brittany Hills a proud neighborhood.
"That entry feature can really exemplify that, help entice people to the neighborhood," she said.
Chisholm, 77, an avid photographer and a former maintenance worker for Borden and Kroger, said the initial cost would be about $13,500, although the final price tag will run higher.
"He has a gorgeous vision," Berthold said.
But Alfonso Hooper, another veteran community leader, said others want something more practical for the entrance. He estimated that Chisholm's plan could cost as much as $100,000.
"Those tree lines have been there a long time," he said.
Brittany Hills, which was developed south of Mock Road about 40 years ago, once was owned by the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority. The three- and four-bedroom houses, including ranches and split-levels, were built as part of a CMHA turnkey program that helped low-income people buy their own houses.
That's how Hooper bought his house. After moving to Columbus in 1969, he moved from the Hilltop to Brittany Hills in 1971, buying a house on Bethesda Avenue where he and his wife raised three sons and a daughter.
"It was family-oriented," said Hooper, 60. "Even if you walked through Brittany Hills, you never had to cross a major street through the neighborhood.
"It was the ideal neighborhood for a beginning family."
But by the mid-1980s, the neighborhood started to change, and drug problems began to pop up, Hooper said. Houses became rental properties, and some new residents didn't have a vested interest in Brittany Hills, he said.
He and others said they are working to make it better so it can overcome those problems.
"You have a lot of good people in the community," said Chris Davis, who leads the Brittany Hills Civic Association.
Davis is a member of a neighborhood youth committee that will honor five to six neighborhood high-school graduates next month with $50 gift cards and certificates. He hopes some of those students will return to the area.
"Some people have been there for 30-plus years. A lot of elders bought here and stayed here," Davis said.
Chisholm has lived there for 25.
The neighborhood has seen new housing. A decade ago, the 35-lot Hegemon Crest subdivision rose from the site of Linton Gardens, which opened in 1969 as public housing for senior citizens but decayed into a pit infested with drugs and prostitution.
MiraCit, a nonprofit corporation formed by the Living Faith Apostolic Church, developed the new housing. The city agreed to spend $200,000 on sidewalks and streetlights. It became part of the city's first Festival of Homes.
And in 2003, Port Columbus and the Federal Aviation Administration began installing air conditioners and sound-deadening windows in 64 houses because of noise from planes.
Davis thinks the improvements to the neighborhood gateway at Sunbury and Bethesda will happen. Now, it's up to the residents to determine what they want, he said.
In Chisholm's mind, the answer should be easy.
"I do think with all my heart," he said, "that when you're driving down Sunbury Road you would say, 'Wow.'"


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The Most Fashionable Rooms of the Week
A contemporary shingle-style house in Greenwich, Connecticut is the backdrop as a modern family reunites for weekend nuptials in the new romantic comedy The Big Wedding, in theatres now. The all-star ensemble, led by Robert De Niro, Susan Sarandon, Diane Keaton, and Robin Williams, faces a looming fiasco as De Niro and Keaton, playing the divorced parents of the groom, pretend they're still together for their son's wedding.
Film, television and musical production designer Andrew Jackness and set decorator David Schlesinger created the interiors and wedding set entirely on location—a rarity for films these days when so many "homes" are created on a soundstage.
"There were several requirements for [De Niro's character] Don's house," says Jackness. "It needed to suit a successful sculptor, and have enough property around it to put up a wedding tent, yet not be too ostentatious, to fit with his character."
"The idea behind the house is that Don had, for the most part, left the decor that his former wife chose," says Jackness. "Tasteful, comfortable, and understated." American antiques, oversized furnishings in neutrals, blue accents, and sculptures from a local estate complete the look.
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Introduction | Catherine Holliss | Interior Designer
Contributing Monkie Whitney Sander
Published on January 1, 2008
Filed Under G Living
I am Catherine Holliss the designer in charge of the interiors and the materials on the project.
The architect, Whitney Sander and I collaborate on the choice of finishing materials and other details for the building. That means that I present materials and ideas for the flooring, the wall coverings, the kitchen cabinets, the fixtures, the bathrooms, the exterior finishes, colors, and the list goes on. I like to think that this level is where the texture gets added to the 'canvas' of the architecture.
The clients, Joanna and Thomas are passionate about green, eco-friendly materials and solutions and so are we – it has been a marvelous collaboration from the very beginning.
Of course, Hobbes, their dog is an important part of the process. He's a Briard (a kind of shepherd originally from the region of Brie, in France) and the project name, Residence for a Briard, is appropriate because he has been a big influence on many aspects of the design. Keeping the house pet-friendly has been an important part of many of our design decisions.
One of the things that is most fun about my job is the opportunity to get to know the client very, very well. It's a deeply personal thing to embark on a new home and being asked to create someone's home — their haven from the world — is an honor. It's a process that brings out a lot of emotion. I like to joke that there are days it would be helpful to have a degree in psychology. Luckily Joanna and Thomas are very much on the same page when it comes to their aesthetics and their priorities. They also love our work. That makes it easier because we know we'll have not only a positive response to our design suggestions but a unified one. Imagine how tough it is to negotiate when one half of the couple loves traditional and the other modern. It happens all the time – and then a degree as a marriage counselor would be helpful too!
I am particularly thrilled to be a designer at a time when there are so many cutting-edge materials — and they are not only green but gorgeous. I will throw in links to some of my favorite materials over the upcoming weeks. Call it my greatest hits list…
When we started thinking about this building we quickly realized that the flooring of the ground level would be the concrete construction slab. To warm it up literally we will use radiant heat. To warm it up visually we wanted to stain it a warm brown or reddish color.
That's where the first fun ideas started flying around. Leslie Bega, who is a raw food chef, among many other talents, suggested that we use natural stains. Well, that set off a flurry of suggestions: red wine, pomegranate juice, tomato juice and so on. You can imagine that the idea of a staining party, using several cases of 'Two-Buck Chuck' or Charles Shaw red wine, to be consumed frugally and spilled liberally was a source of great amusement.
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ACC women pull off big upset
The ACC girls (6-18, 2-13 Eastern Conference) watched their male counterparts struggle heavily against Henry Ford Community College at the "Hoops for Hope" pink game against Henry Ford Community College on Saturday.
It must have fired them up as they were able to pull up a convincing 69-61 upset over the playoff bound Hawks (14-12, 7-8 Eastern Conference).
"I'm really glad that the girls were able to play like that during the Pink Game. It's great to see them coming together as a team. If they had played like that all year, they could have swung with the big dogs," head coach Bobby Allen said.
Key to the victory were five girls who all scored in double figures: Lauren Siebert, Whitney Frazier, Amy Nowak, Ashleigh Monticello and Sarah Cummings.
"Sarah came out of nowhere tonight. I've never seen her play like that before. She was doing some great moves under the basket and grabbing some important rebounds," Allen said.
The game started quickly for the Jacks with a Nowak field goal a minute into the game. Dejanique Reddix of Henry Ford hit a three to take the lead 10 seconds later but Frazier went on a seven point run which the Hawks only answered with one field goal to pull to a quick 9-5 lead.
Frazier was the night's top scorer with 16 and pulled down 11 rebounds for a double-double. She also hit five of five free throws on the night.
The Lumberjacks continued to press the temp of the game, snagging rebounds under the Hawks basket and going into a tight zone defense which stymied Henry Ford's offensive tactics. With just under 12 minutes left in the half ACC led 15-7.
The Hawks started answering back as the Jacks started to struggle a little. An Asha Payne field goal with just under eight minutes left in the half took the Hawks to an 18-17 lead.
ACC didn't lie down and die, though. Increasing effectiveness and two Seibert treys in a row took ACC to a 25-24 lead with four minutes left.
However, a pair of Reddix and Charisse Carr treys ended the half 34-28 in favor of Henry Ford.
"We were kind of down and a little bummed at the end of the half. But our coach (Allen) told us to keep it up and not put our heads down or give up," Seibert said.
Henry Ford was able to keep the lead through most of the second half as ACC struggled to mount a successful defensive attack as they widened their lead to 40-30 with just two minutes gone in the half.
ACC began narrowing the gap with effective free throw shooting from Monticello, increased offensive pressure and scoring from Cummings and the fast paced play from Seibert. With eight minutes left in the half, Seibert knocked down a basket to take a 49-47 lead, much to the excitement of the packed crowd.
Monticello then hit two back-to-back treys to pull ahead 57-51. The Hawks answered back with two of their own later to keep the game to a 59-54 spread.
"Ashleigh did great tonight. I had to sit Allison who is usually my big point guard and Ashleigh came out and played hard and scored big in a way that really helped keep us in the game," Allen said.
The last five minutes of the game belonged strictly to ACC was they outscored the Hawks 12-10.
Frazier was proud to see her teammates play as a single unit for the win.
"It was great to pick up a win like this. We finally played like a team and played the way I know we can and should have been all season," she said.
ACC (69): A. Burley 1-1-2-3: L. Seibert 4-1-3-11: W. Frazier 5-5-5-16: S. Smith 1-0-0-3: A. Nowak 6-3-7-15: A. Monticello 3-2-3-11: K. Wollan 0-0-2-0: S. Cummings 4-2-4-10.
Henry Ford (61): K. Stallworth 3-0-2-6: D. Reddix 8-0-0-20: A. Payne 7-1-2-16: C. Carr 4-3-6-12: H. Bazzi 1-0-0-3: A. Fowler 0-0-2-0: B. Hamilton 2-0-0-4.


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IBM joins OpenJDK: A big day for Java
By dannycoward on Oct 11, 2010
Big news today. Wow.
IBM is joining the OpenJDK !
There's already a welcome note, and here's the joint press release, and more here from The Aquarium. But what does it really mean ?
- It means that IBM will be joining Oracle engineers working on the roadmap for JDK 7 and 8 for OpenJDK.
- It means that IBM's long involvement in the Java platform can be orders of magnitude deeper than it has even been before.
- It means that IBMs engineers will be contributing their valuable fixes, code, optimsations directly into the OpenJDK platform
- It means that OpenJDK will be the primary venue for Java SE
impementation code: Direct, open discussions in the mailing lists +
quicker fixes + better quality = better code.
And it will still leave plenty of room for Oracle's JDK (which is of course based on OpenJDK code) and IBM's SDK to compete on other aspects of the platform than the core libraries: tuning, tools, deployment and so on.
A new era of co-oper-tition !
There's going to be a bunch more information following today's initial news, stay tuned.
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HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. (July 19, 2012) – The 2012 USA Volleyball Beach High Performance Championships (Beach HPC) crowned their first gold medalists on Thursday.
In the men's under-21 division, Kyle Stevenson (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.) and Alex Jones (Sunnyvale, Calif.) won the gold medal, defeating Kevin Villela (Phoenix) and Weston Carico (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) in the final, 21-18, 21-11.
Chris Long (Long Beach, Calif.) and Robbie Page (Rochester, N.Y.) won the bronze medal, defeating Parker Kalmbach (Coto De Caza, Calif.) and Vaun Lennon (Westchester, Calif.) in the third-place match, 20-22, 21-16, 16-14.
In the women's U21 division, Jace Pardon (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Litara Kiel (Long Beach, Calif.) won the gold medal, defeating Betsi Metter (Phoenix, Ariz.) and Eve Ettinger (Santa Barbara, Calif.) in the final, 21-19, 12-21, 17-15.
Sisters Stephanie and Kristina Pellitteri (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) won the bronze medal.
The Beach HPC will give participants exposure to international style competition within five separate age divisions. The USAV Beach HP Championships is the marquee event for USA Beach Programs.
Teams competing in the Beach HPC will be representing USA Beach National Teams, USA Beach High Performance Teams, or affiliated USAV Regions. Region High Performance teams scheduled to participate are: Florida, Aloha, Intermountain, Chesapeake, Arizona, Lakeshore, Iowa, and Southern California.
The USAV Beach HPC is taking place on the south side of the Hermosa Beach Pier, adjacent to the Jose Cuervo Hermosa Beach Open, which will be on the north side.
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Friday, July 20: U15 and U17 Pool Play Round 2, U19 Pool Play Round, Jose
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MIO-The Mio boys basketball team improved to 7-0 on the season with a 59-25 victory over Fairview on Thursday in a North Star League game.
The Thunderbolts led 16-10 after one quarter of play and then stifled the Eagles (2-5) in the second quarter, outscoring them 16-1.
Micah Thomey led Mio with 14 points and six assists. Bryce Degrammott added 11 points and seven rebounds and Dennis Kann III and Aaron Georgieff had six rebounds each.
Kasson Willobee led Fairview with 11 points.
Fairview outscored Mio 10-7 in the third quarter, but Mio came roaring back in the final period, topping the Eagles 20-4 in the final eight minutes.
Mio is 6-0 in the North Star League and hosts Tawas on Tuesday.
Hale 50, Atlanta 32
ATLANTA-The Atlanta boys basketball trailed by just seven points entering the fourth quarter of a North Star League game against Hale on Thursday, but couldn't pull close to challenge for the lead and lost 50-32.
Atlanta trailed 35-28 entering the final period, but Hale outscored the Huskies 15-4 in the final eight minutes to take the win.
Garrett Badgero led Atlanta with 16 points and Jake Chambers added 10. Drey Focks led the Eagles with 18 points.
Tawas 65,
Oscoda 39
OSCODA-The Tawas girls basketball team got back to the .500 mark with a 65-39 win over Oscoda on Thursday.
Tawas got off to a fast start, leading 12-4 after the first quarter and 26-16 at halftime. The Braves (4-4) followed up by outscoring Oscoda 20-6 in the third quarter and 19-17 in the final period.
"I thought we played really solid," Tawas coach Todd Kaems said. "Everyone rebounded, we were good in transition and we were good offensively."
Serina Sciotti led Tawas with 20 points and Ivy Schaaf added 12.
Tori LaPointe led the Owls with 14 points.
Tawas hosts Standish on Monday.
Alcona 56, Whittemore-Prescott 26
WHITTEMORE-The Alcona girls basketball team opened Huron Shores Conference play with a 56-26 win over Whittemore-Prescott on Thursday.
Karina Cole had 25 points, five rebounds and five steals for the Tigers who took a 28-4 lead at the end of the first quarter and led 34-12 at the half.
"We turned it up on defense tonight," Alcona coach Brad Cole said. "Our whole team played well and we had many players contribute to this win."
Megan Quick also reached double figures for Alcona, notching 11 points and three steals.
Alcona led 44-20 after three quarters.
Other stats for Alcona included: Nikki Smith with seven points and four rebounds; Kendra Cole with four points and seven rebounds; Cassie Carpenter with three points and three rebounds; Turner Somers with two points, seven rebounds and five steals; Tylar Campbell with two points and three steals and Lilly Manning with two points and three rebounds.
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'Check' yourself to be safe
September 9, 2006
CNJ Staff Photo: Tony Bullocks
Linda Davis, vice president and cashier at Portales National Bank, displays some of the counterfeit checks she has received this year.
Tearing up a check made out in your name for thousands of dollars would be a hard thing for most people to do. Tearing it up could be the wisest course of action to avoid being scammed, say law enforcement and banking officials.
Scams, particularly those involving fake lottery checks, have been prevalent for the last seven or eight years, according to local police. During that time the scammers have continually refined their art, using more authentic-looking documents, the Internet and other technology to separate unsuspecting people from their savings.
According to Linda Davis, who tracks scams and counterfeits at Portales National Bank, her institution has seen an increase in the number of scams coming to her attention over the last year. Davis has retained a copy of the various fake documents received at the bank in the last year, and she's well on her way toward filling a big binder with bogus lottery checks, travelers checks, hoax letters and even fake cashiers checks.
"It's been out there a long time, but I guess there are still a lot of people that don't realize it," Davis said, shaking her head. "Crooks are creative, and these days they can get the equipment."
She said color copiers and printers paired with check stock with a watermark purchased at an office supply store can help criminals produce some impressive forgeries.
Davis is particularly concerned for elderly customers who sometimes fall quick prey to the slick schemes, often saying the person has won a lottery or some other prize.
"Some of our elderly have gotten real upset on this," Davis said. "We'd love for them all to win, but it's just not real."
According to Davis and the New Mexico attorney general's Web site, the lottery schemes are often received in the mail with a check made out to the target for an amount usually in the thousands of dollars. Along with the check is a congratulatory letter or certificate along with instructions to wire money, up front, to take care of taxes or handling fees.
Capt. Lonnie Berry of the Portales Police Department said his department gets calls four or five times a week on various scams. He said the most important things to remember are that there is no prize and if you get taken in on a check scam you're liable to the bank.
"If you have won an award, you never have to pay for it," Berry said. "You never have to pay taxes up front."
Berry said he knows of four or five cases in the community where people were scammed out of as much as $30,000.
One case was an elderly lady who got taken three times. In that case Berry said he even got New Mexico Sen. Stuart Ingle involved to try and convince the lady it wasn't real. After they did, she was subsequently contacted by a swift-talking scam artist on the phone who convinced her to send the money anyway.
"Most times the money is moved around so quickly and dispersed so rapidly that the chance of getting the money back is zero," Berry said.
Berry says there has been some good cooperation recently with Royal Canadian Mounted Police, because of the number of scams that originate in that country, but the effort has largely been to no avail. Usually by the time the police are notified, the crooks have moved the money and are long-gone.
Max Stansell, a detective in charge of white-collar crimes with the Clovis Police Department, paints an equally gloomy picture. He says he refers a number of cases to the FBI, but knows that it usually doesn't do any good.
He said scams are common these days and the checks used are good fakes.
"Sometimes even the banks can't tell they're fake until they check the routing numbers," Stansell said.
Stansell noted that a lot of the scams originate outside the country with Canada, Nigeria and England being some of the most common.
He said that another scam becoming more common is one that sometimes originates from online auctions. Someone who had placed a bid will get a call saying the winning bidder had defaulted, and they'll sell the item to them if they'll just send the money, he said.
"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," Stansell said. "Nobody is giving money away."
Other popular schemes that Berry has noticed are those in which someone buying a car or other big-ticket item directly from a person will make out the check for considerably more than the purchase price, saying they need extra money for tags or whatever and they'll pick up the vehicle later.
Another one involves a phone scam artist talking up a culprit and making the person believe they have the same last name in common. The chat puts the mark at ease, and it makes the check or money transfer more likely to succeed.
"People might just assume you're wiring money to a grandson or a family member," Berry said. "It causes people to be less suspicious.
Berry advises people not to call a number to claim a prize, not to send money and never to give out personal information such as account numbers or Social Security numbers to anyone they don't know.
"We question everything," Davis said. "Our longtime customers, it's hard for them to get used to that."
Davis said the bank would rather take a little extra time in verifying checks before customers cash them and are held liable than to see customers lose their money.


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Pineapple Glazed Pork Ribs
- 2 pounds baby back pork ribs
- 2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
- 1/4 cup Chinese five-spice powder
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds, for garnish
- Chopped fresh cilantro leaves, for garnish
- Pineapple glaze:
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 whole fresh pineapple, peeled and cubed
- 1 cup low-sodium soy sauce
- 1/2 cup dark rum
- 1/4 cup hoisin sauce
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 3 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 fresh red chile, sliced thin
- 2 garlic cloves, smashed
- 1 (2-inch) piece fresh ginger, whacked open with the flat side of a knife
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
Rub the ribs all over with the sesame oil; season generously with five-spice powder, salt, and pepper. Arrange the ribs in a single layer in a shallow roasting pan and roast for 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
To prepare the pineapple glaze: In a saucepan over medium heat melt the butter and add the pineapple chunks; saute for 3 minutes. Add the soy sauce, rum, hoisin sauce, ketchup, vinegar, brown sugar, chile, garlic, and ginger. Bring to a slow simmer and cook, stirring, until thickened, about 20 minutes. Pull out the ginger pieces. Pour the glaze into a blender and puree until smooth.
In the last 30 minutes of cooking, baste the ribs with some of the glaze. When they are done, the pork will pull away from the bone and you will see about 1/2-inch of bone showing. When you are ready to eat, baste the ribs with more glaze and stick them under the broiler for 5 to 8 minutes to give the ribs a nice crust. (Watch them carefully as they can easily burn.) Separate the ribs with a cleaver or sharp knife, pile them onto a platter, and pour on the remaining sauce. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and chopped cilantro before serving.
Recipe courtesy of Tyler Florence
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Drum gear of the month: October 2011
Every month MusicRadar's industry-leading sister magazines - Guitarist, Computer Music, Total Guitar, Rhythm, Future Music and Guitar Techniques - publish the best independent and in-depth music-making gear reviews.
This is a collection of kits, snares, electronic drums and more from Rhythm Magazine's gruelling testing process, plus a couple from Future Music too. First reviewed in Rhythm issue 195 and Future Music issue 244 and published on MusicRadar throughout September.
Scroll on for this month's top picks and click through to read each product's full review. First up: Gretsch USA's new, accessible drum setup.
Gretsch USA Standard Kit
MusicRadar's verdict:
Gretsch drums are renowned for their unique sound and charismatic design, and the USA Standard range makes them more accessible without demystifying the brand.
FULL REVIEW: Gretsch USA Standard Kit
(Reviewed in Rhythm Magazine issue 195)
Korg Wavedrum Mini
MusicRadar's verdict:
Slimming down the feature set loses a large part of the Wavedrum's appeal.
FULL REVIEW: Korg Wavedrum Mini
(Reviewed in Future Music issue 244)
Jalapeno V-L Series Kit
MusicRadar's verdict:
Pricewise it's up there with some of the most prestigious brands, but it competes well in quality and sound terms. Considering the hours spent creating the kit, it's a steal.
FULL REVIEW: Jalapeno V-L Series Kit
(Reviewed in Rhythm Magazine issue 195)
Tama Camco Anniversary Pedal
MusicRadar's verdict:
The stripped-down design of the Camco pedal is elegant simplicity personified - what it lacks in bells and whistles it makes up for in panache.
FULL REVIEW: Tama Camco Anniversary Pedal
(Reviewed in Rhythm Magazine issue 195)
Alesis Performance Pad Pro
MusicRadar's verdict:
It sounds okay and the drum machine is a bonus, but it's too basic to wear the 'pro' badge.
FULL REVIEW: Alesis Performance Pad Pro
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Tiki Snare Drums
MusicRadar's verdict:
Both snares are a joy to play - well built and versatile. Considering the standard of construction and quality of components, they're great value too.
FULL REVIEW: Tiki Snare Drums
(Reviewed in Rhythm Magazine issue 195)
Mapex Meridian Retro Fusion Kit
MusicRadar's verdict:
This kit will appeal to jazz or funk drummers, or indeed any drummer who needs to squeeze into a small area without compromising the sound of their drums.
FULL REVIEW: Mapex Meridian Retro Fusion Kit
(Reviewed in Rhythm Magazine issue 195)
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I wanted to add that if you have more difficulty than I did making a boot disc, you can always have one sent to you if you can wait for snail mail. It's on the site somewhere.
I wanted to add that if you have more difficulty than I did making a boot disc, you can always have one sent to you if you can wait for snail mail. It's on the site somewhere.
Just upgraded my dauthers laptop from kramic to lucid (i386) but now I have difficulties to find libstdc++5 : the link that I followed for installing a Dell A920 = Lexmark X1150 on kramic :
which contains a reference to the Z600 drivers and which depend on libstdc++5 :
comes back with an error : two or more packages specified (libstdc++5 jaunty) ??? In fact when moving up the tree one does not find Jaunty any longer : all links for jaunty came back with an error.
I could find it from hardy : libstdc++5_3.3.6-15ubuntu6_i386.deb
but that one throws up an error when trying to install it :
Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: gcc-3.3-base (>= 1:3.3.6-15ubuntu6)
Is it a case that a more recent version of libstdc++5 (say linstdc++6) needs to be soft linked to ? Does any one know if this will work with the lexmark.z600-0.4.deb ?
Also the lexmark website (as indicated in one of the earlier posts) does not give a linux version for this model (only Win and MacOS).
Any help much appreciated ...
Since you upgraded to lucid, why not use this package?:
I think it should be useful to update the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ha...inters#Lexmark page to include your suggestion : it would be, I'm sure, greatly appreciated by people trying to install such kind of printers.
How can we achieve that ?
Very easily: Just create a launchpad account and you should be able to log in to edit the wiki.
I can do it, but I need to finish something else now and I would also like to see people edit the wiki themselves instead of always waiting for others to do it.
[QUOTE=justfred;10268743]I didn't think of that ... in the mean time I found a thread where the libstdc++5 was extracted from an amd64 package and this seems to work (but alas I did not find the thread back otherwise I would have posted it here).
I think it may have been post 7 by fagulhaspt at
If you want to test the depth of the water .........don't use both feet !
Yes, that's the thread.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic-backports/libstdc++5) as an alternative source.
Installing Lexmark x1270 on a desktop with Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 installed.
I followed the steps outlined here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=Lexmark+x1270
At the part where I double clicked on the libstdc++5_3.3.6-17ubuntu1_i386.deb icon to install it, I was informed that it was the wrong version since I have amd64.
So after some searching around this Link worked.
What I did:
1) I installed libstdc++5 from synaptic.
2) I dl'd and installed getlibs-all.deb by double clicking on it's icon.
3) I dl'd and installed lexmark.z600-0.4.deb by double clicking on it's icon.
4) I went to System/Administration/Printing.
Added my printer from the list and chose
the z600 colour inkjet driver.
5) I printed a test page. Now I need to buy ink.
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5) I printed a test page. Now I need to buy ink.[/QUOTE]
Same here
If you want to test the depth of the water .........don't use both feet !


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Birkerts, Sven
Sven Birkerts 1951–
American essayist and critic.
The following entry presents an overview of Birkerts's career through 1996.
The author of An Artificial Wilderness (1987) and The Gutenberg Elegies (1994), Birkerts is a self-described "amateur" literary critic, who received a citation in excellence in book reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle in 1986. Though not formally trained in criticism nor espousing any particular academic theory in his approach to literature, Birkerts has established a reputation for arguing his positions with passion, clarity, and eloquence, both provoking and welcoming debate about his ideas. His extensive reading (usually in English translation) has qualified him to critique European, Russian, and Latin American literature, producing a critical discourse that not only acknowledges the talents of such literary luminaries as Heinrich Böll, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Jorge Luis Borges, but also recommends the merits of such lesser-known writers as Robert Musil and Erich Heller. Birkerts's critical purview also has extended to matters dealing with the relationship between society and technology in late-twentieth century civilization, specifically in terms of the art of reading, the printed word, and the proliferation of electronic media. Intrigued by the freshness and range of Birkerts's thought, critics generally have admired the simple, quotidian language and style of his essays, although a few have claimed that his literary exegeses neglect problems germane to translated texts and that his cautionary essays about "the fate of the book" often betray profound nostalgia.
Biographical Information
Born in Pontiac, Michigan, Birkerts attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1973. Upon graduating, he stayed in Ann Arbor and worked as a clerk in bookstores there, and later, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, until 1983; he has credited his bookstore experiences for prompting his voracious reading habit, remarking that "I chewed my sandwich with an open book in my lap." Meanwhile, Birkerts contributed book reviews and critical essays on world literature to such periodicals as New Republic, Mirabella, and the Boston Review, serving the latter publication as contributing editor since 1988. In 1984, Birkerts accepted an invitation to join the faculty at Harvard University as a lecturer in expository writing, a po-sition he held until 1991. Following his National Book Critics Circle award, he published his first book, An Artificial Wilderness (1987), a collection comprised mostly of book reviews first published over a seven-year period during the 1980s. For his second book, The Electric Life (1989), Birkerts won the P.E.N. Award for Distinguished Essays in 1990. A prolific contributor of articles and book reviews to numerous periodicals, he collected some of these in American Energies (1992), which deals exclusively with American fiction and writers. A defining moment of Birkerts's reputation came with the publication of his controversial essays in The Gutenberg Elegies. Subsequently, he assembled the essay collection Tolstoy's Dictaphone (1996), which presents opinions on the social effects of technological media. Birkerts, who has lectured extensively both in person and on-line, has taught writing part time at Emerson College in Boston since 1992.
Major Works
Birkerts's writings display a genuine fondness for literature as books (opposed to texts), an abiding respect for the printed word (opposed to electronic formats), and a minute attention to the act of reading words on paper (as opposed to on a screen). The thirty-nine essays collected in An Artificial Wilderness draw attention to the works of some of the world's notable twentieth-century writers whose works are available in English translation, including Joseph Roth, Osip Mandelstam, Marguerite Duras, Michel Tournier, Primo Levi, Lars Gustafsson, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and Julio Cortázar, among many others, notably excepting any contemporary American authors. The other essays in An Artificial Wilderness concern general cultural topics; for instance, the function of television in the creation of the "mass age." The title of The Electric Life alludes to a phrase found in Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Defence of Poetry (1821), which describes poetic language as "electric life that burns." The essays comprising The Electric Life concern the influence of electronic media on contemporary literacy and describe the contemporary social context for the art of poetry. Among the themes contemplated are the ways television informs late twentieth-century poetic language, the idea of poetic inspiration, the politics and aesthetics of poetry, and analyses of some individual poems and poets. American Energies, Birkerts's third collection of book reviews and critical essays, offers a general assessment of the contemporary American novel genre, which he finds weakened or "lightweight"—lacking depth and historical resonance of vision in comparison to previous generations of American novels—due to its coincidence with the technological boom in communications media. Divided into three parts, The Gutenberg Elegies, a collection of fifteen essays, concerns the place of reading in society, centering on changes occurring in print and electronic media and the threat to the act of reading occasioned by these changes. The essays comprising the first section, "The Reading Self," are largely autobiographical, dealing with Birkerts's own reading experiences that illuminate the dynamics of reading. In the second section, "The Electronic Millennium," the essays examine the question of how reading, or the interpretation of texts, changes in an electronic environment. The last section, "Critical Mass: Three Meditations," addresses changes in the culture at large with respect to the quality of literary or intellectual life, the so-called "death of literature," and the ways in which technology has affected the role of the serious writer. Tolstoy's Dictaphone, an essay collection edited by Birkerts, features twenty articles by "writers who use and have been used by today's electronic machinery," as Cliff Stoll has described them, each one reflecting the tension that frequently exists when technology impinges upon social intercourse.
Critical Reception
Birkerts generally has impressed critics with his breadth of knowledge of world literature as well as with his common language and cogent, direct style as an essayist and literary critic. As David Holmstrom put it, "Birkerts brokers his analysis on the reader with a sharply reasoned but calm style." Birkerts's critical acumen, though esteemed as it is in most literary circles, has prompted a vigorous debate about the demise of print-oriented culture in the face of explosive developments in electronic modes of communication. Although many commentators frequently have pointed out Birkerts's evident bias for the printed word and often have cited what Wulf D. Rehder has called "falling in love with our own nostalgia" as the principal defect of the tone of his thought, the majority also have responded to the inherent value of Birkerts's insights, particularly those expressed in The Gutenberg Elegies. "There is no denying that Birkerts' quiver of arguments contains many sharp arrows that are, like Cupid's, dipped in such a sweet poison of persuasion and passion and appeal that, once hit, we might want to give in to their narcotic effect," Rehder has stated. "That Birkerts proves so open to attack," Andy Solomon has observed, "is far more a testament to the courageously vast sweep of his polemic than to the disputable validity of his argument," suggesting that Birkerts's way of thinking and style of writing invites the reader "to synthesize a new, deepened understanding of our own relationships to the printed and electronically transmitted word." Gesturing toward the significance of Birkerts's contribution of The Gutenberg Elegies "to our ongoing discussion of the nature of the continuing electronic revolution and its impact on the nature of the process by which we 'read' and acquire information, knowledge, and wisdom," Norman D. Stevens has asserted that "in the long run, we will all be the poorer if we fail to take [Birkerts's] insights into account as we design and implement electronic alternatives to the book."
Principal Works
An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature (essays) 1987
The Electric Life: Essays on Modern Poetry (essays) 1989
Writing Well [with Donald Hall] (criticism) 1991
American Energies: Contemporary Fiction (essays) 1992
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (essays) 1994
Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse [editor] (criticism) 1996
Sven Birkerts (essay date Fall 1983)
SOURCE: "Television: The Medium in the Mass Age," in Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXII, No. 4, Fall, 1983, pp. 619-32.
[In the following essay, Birkerts ponders (he role of television in contemporary society, describing its "consciousness" with respect to the social implications of "watching" it.]
No one who has walked through the excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii is likely to forget the oppressiveness of the experience, far outweighing its historical fascination or its cachet as future table talk. The dreariness of a George Segal sculpture has been multiplied a thousandfold: the heavy seal of Time has been impressed upon the ordinariness of daily life. We are...
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Jack Miles (review date 30 August 1987)
SOURCE: A review of An Artificial Wilderness, in Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 30, 1987, p. 4.
[In the following review of An Artificial Wilderness, Miles admires the range of Birkerts's literary knowledge.]
This is too cruel, but I will do it. One of the books reviewed in this collection of Sven Birkerts's book reviews and other short essays is a similar collection by George Steiner, of which Birkerts writes: "When I heard that Oxford University Press was issuing George Steiner: A Reader (1984), I was distressed to see that venerable old house giving in to the bonbon sampler trend—and shocked to find Steiner a party to the deed."...
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Donald Hall (review date 8 November 1987)
SOURCE: "Truth in Transit," in The New York Times Book Review, November 8, 1987, p. 16.
[In the following review of An Artificial Wilderness, Hall praises Birkerts's "urgent, serious, energetic voice" for celebrating non-American writers and books.]
Sven Birkerts shakes us by the shoulders, telling us what to read and how to read it. He urges Robert Musil on us, comparing him to Nietzsche: "We find in both the same impatience, the same determination to stay in motion, and the understanding that the truth is itself a process, its seeker forever embattled. We turn to Musil because he never lies to us and because he never hides from the unsightly implications of a...
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Sanford Pinsker (review date Spring 1988)
SOURCE: "Collecting Cultural Evidence," in The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 351-9.
[In the following excerpt, Pinsker evaluates Birkerts's style, range, and method in An Artificial Wilderness.]
Sven Birkerts, a voracious reader and reviewer, is "burdened" neither by the venerable reputations that Professors Marx and Brooks enjoy nor by the tortured jargon that infects so many of his contemporaries. He writes with independence and with style and surely deserves the citation he recently won from the National Book Critics Circle for excellence in reviewing.
An Artificial Wilderness is a collection of some thirty-nine...
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Jay Farini (review date Summer 1988)
SOURCE: "Reading Sven Birkerts," in The Kenyon Review, Vol. 10, No. 3, Summer, 1988, pp. 124-27.
[In the following review of An Artificial Wilderness, Parini illuminates Birkerts's critical technique with respect to contemporary, academic criticism.]
"The arrow of modern life and the arrow of private sensibility have passed in opposite directions," writes Sven Birkerts, one of the most independent critics now writing in America, in his first collection of essays, An Artificial Wilderness. This remark is made in the course of an "appreciation" of Cyril Connolly, a critic who in many ways Birkerts himself recalls. Connolly is praised for his awareness of...
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John L. Brown (review date Summer 1988)
SOURCE: A review of An Artificial Wilderness, in World Literature Today, Vol. 63, No. 3, Summer, 1988, p. 515.
[In the following review, Brown appreciates the way Birkerts treats "literature as literature" in An Artificial Wilderness, outlining the contents of the book.]
Sven Birkerts began his career as a member of that menaced species, the bookseller whose passion is "the unpunished vice of reading," the bookseller who is also a talented man (or woman, like Sylvia Beach) of letters and whose shop is no Walden or Crown supermarket of perishable print but the equivalent of a literary salon. He carries on the tradition of an Edmund Wilson and writes, not...
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Helen Benedict (review date 16 April 1989)
SOURCE: A review of The Electric Life, in The New York Times Book Review, April 16, 1989, p. 2.
[In the following review, Benedict describes Birkerts's attitude toward poetry in The Electric Life as intellectually challenging yet provocatively open to debate.]
Sven Birkerts—who won considerable acclaim for his first book of literary criticism, An Artificial Wilderness, and who won the l996 National Book Critics Circle award for criticism—writes in a voice that veers between passionate harangue and smart-aleck banter. He is not too arrogant to engage the reader in debate, for even when he sounds contemptuous he leaves open a back door for...
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Sven Birkerts with David Holmstrom (interview date 17 August 1992)
SOURCE: "A Call to Authors: Explore Culture," in The Christian Science Monitor, Vol. 84, August 17, 1992, p. 14.
[In the following interview, Birkerts expresses his attitude toward contemporary novelistic fiction and reading habits of the public.]
To stretch a comparison here, critic Sven Birkerts has approached what he sees as the weak cathedral of the American novel, and like Martin Luther with his 95 theses, has nailed a protest to the door.
In this case, the protest (really a summons) is directed at American novelists writing in the fields of minimalism, nostalgia, and the other sweet-smelling soaps of Post-Modernism. Mr. Birkerts wants them to...
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David Holmstrom (review date 17 August 1992)
SOURCE: "Today's Novels Are Lightweight, Says Critic," in The Christian Science Monitor, Vol. 84, August 17, 1992, p. 14.
[In the following review, Holmstrom concentrates on a question of excellence that he believes is implied by Birkerts's arguments in American Energies.]
After a reader turns the last page of Sven Birkerts's American Energies, a question comes quickly to thought: Is there any effort left in the United States to be excellent? Not to win, not to have the most, or be the biggest, or the quickest, but to be excellent?
Birkerts's collection of essays on what he sees as the weakened condition of American novels is not directly about...
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Bernard Sharratt (review date 18 December 1994)
SOURCE: "Are There Books in Our Future?," in The New York Times Book Review, December 18, 1994, p. 14.
[In the following review, Sharratt exposes several assumptions that inform Birkerts's analysis of reading in The Gutenberg Elegies.]
Major historical transformations can be imagined most poignantly as parental anxieties. Any book-loving parent today contemplating a 5-year-old daughter absorbed in the first magic of solo reading can whisk forward to her teen and college years, vicariously re-anticipating that first full encounter with Austen, Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann—only to halt this nostalgic rerun in sudden recognition of an alternative possible scenario: of a...
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Andy Solomon (review date 29 January 1995)
SOURCE: "Endangered Books?," in Chicago Tribune, January 29, 1995, pp. 4-9.
[In the following review, Solomon discusses the pros and cons of Birkerts's thesis in The Gutenberg Elegies.]
Deeply imprinted in both our racial and individual psyches is the image of a lost golden age, paradisiacal in its virtue and brilliance. Nothing, it seems, can recall that Edenic hour of splendor in the grass or glory in the womb except lamentation that the good old days have yielded to coarser, brasher times.
So those of us who love the spell and sensuous delight of books come with predisposed sympathy to Sven Birkerts' mournful elegy for the printed page [The...
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Wulf D. Rehder (review date January-February 1995)
SOURCE: A review of The Gutenberg Elegies, in The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, January-February, 1995, pp. 3, 8.
[In the following review, Rehder praises Birkerts's powers of persuasion in The Gutenberg Elegies, heeding the emphasis on the personal aspect of his thought.]
Second only to sex, the human mind seems concerned about books. Both can be all-consuming, and their decline has been seen as a sure sign that Western culture is coming to an end. What the nether areas of pornography are to sex, the new media of TV, hypertext, CDs, and the Internet are to books. According to Sven Birkerts, they are "masturbation aids" for the mind, except that...
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Jay Tolson (review date 22 May 1995)
SOURCE: "Afterwords," in The New Republic, Vol. 212, No. 21, May 22, 1995, pp. 40-1.
[In the following review, Tolson describes the principal themes of The Gutenberg Elegies, explaining the deficiencies of Birkerts's arguments yet admiring his passion for reading.]
It's not easy to pick up a book about the impending death of a practice once thought to be at the heart of the well-lived life. I mean the practice of reading, especially the kind of serious reading we were taught was not only the means to an education, but its self-delighting end. And though it may be comforting to hear one's twilight fears echoed and elaborated by someone so steadily persuasive as...
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Wen Stephenson (review date 1995)
SOURCE: "The Message Is the Medium: A Reply to Sven Birkerts and The Gutenberg Elegies," in The Chicago Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, 1995, pp. 116-30.
[In the following review, Stephenson challenges Birkerts's thesis in The Gutenberg Elegies, addressing the impact of electronic media on the literary arts.]
"Where am I when I am involved in a book?"
—Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies
"You're in cyberspace."
—Kevin Kelly, executive editor of Wired magazine, responding to Birkerts in the Harper's Magazine Forum....
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Norman D. Stevens (review date January 1996)
SOURCE: A review of The Gutenberg Elegies, in Library Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 1, January, 1996, pp. 105-06.
[In the following review of The Gutenberg Elegies, Stevens evaluates Birkerts's insights on the act of reading in an electronic environment.]
Technocrats are likely simply to reject the views expressed by Sven Birkerts in these fourteen challenging essays as being a Luddite love of the way things are. Old-fashioned librarians are likely simply to accept those views at face value or, worse, to quote excerpts that they may have read in a review to justify their continuing reluctance to deal with technology. That would be unfortunate, for in The...
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Sven Birkerts (essay date Summer 1996)
SOURCE: "'The Fate of the Book,'" in The Antioch Review, Vol. 54, No. 3, Summer, 1966, pp. 261-72.
[In the following essay, Birkerts speculates about the implications of (he transition from page-centered (book) to screen-centered (on-line) communication in contemporary society.]
I would need the fingers of both hands to track how many times this past year I have been asked to give my thoughts on something called "the fate of the book." I have sat on symposia, perched on panels, opined on-line, and rattled away on the radio—not once, it seems, addressing the fate of reading, or literacy, or imagination, but always that other thing: the fate of the book. Which would be...
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Lisa Jardine (review date 13 September 1996)
SOURCE: "Pulling the Plug," in New Statesman, Vol. 125, No. 4300, September 13, 1996, pp. 46-7.
[In the following review, Jardine faults the integrity of Birkerts's polemic in The Gutenberg Elegies, dismissing his prediction of cultural doom from technological advances.]
Sven Birkerts composes his literary essays on an old IBM Selectrix typewriter. He is proud to admit that he understands little about new technology. But he is absolutely sure that the advent of the personal computer marks the end of reading, and that the headlong expansion of the Internet sounds the death knell for the book as we know it.
Enthusiastic reviews of the U.S....
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Cliff Stoll (review date 1 December 1996)
SOURCE: "Wired Thing, You Make My Heart Sing," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 1, 1996, p. 4.
[In the following review, Stall highlights the degree of ambiguity surrounding the relationship between society and technology, explaining the titular allusion of Tolstoy's Dictaphone.]
Slowly, our blind infatuation with digital technology is giving way to some obvious questions: How do we treat computers? How do computers affect us? Might we be involved in an electronic Faustian bargain?
My online friends immediately respond: "Don't worry, the computer is just a tool." But in The Media Equation, Stanford University professors Byron Reeves...
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by Anton Shilov
Sales of standalone graphics processing units (GPUs) for mobile computers have been decreasing for many years now, but it looks like the recent design wins from ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, and Nvidia Corp. show that the trend may be over.
According to ATI, among 135 design wins for the Vision 2010 platform, half of the systems can feature discrete ATI GPUs and there are at least twenty of them that do sport standalone graphics processors. Nvidia claims that it has around 50 design wins with its Optimus technology, which dynamically enables and disables modern GeForce M-series graphics chip, which means that this year there will be over one hundred of notebook designs that can sport discrete GPUs.
"Roughly half of AMD Vision 2010 designs are discrete graphics capable. OEMs have the flexibility to ship discrete graphics or integrated graphics based on their target price points and customer/market requirements. Today PC OEMs typically do not design discrete-only notebooks. Providing a platform with integrated graphics gives the OEM added flexibility to take a single design and build multiple SKUs that typically require the full chipset. […] Our new platforms will not arrive in stores until late June and some assortment decisions are subject to change between now and then," said John Swinimer, a spokesman for AMD's graphics business unit.
At present ATI commands around half of overall standalone mobile graphics chip shipments and the share may actually grow since the company's latest code-named Manhattan DirectX 11-compatible lineup of processors is considerably more energy-efficient compared to Nvidia Corp.'s Fermi-series chips and offer higher performance than Nvidia's previous-generation 40nm family.
"ATI is indeed bucking the trend and increasing their share of discrete GPUs in the notebook space, as the chart and data reflect. ATI recognized the demand for better graphics performance in the European and China market and targeted those markets successfully. ATI did not participate in the netbook category and concentrated on mobile workstation and desktop replacement where discrete are used and appreciated," said Jon Peddie, the principal analyst at Jon Peddie Research (JPR).
The importance of high-performance graphics engines is generally increasing. Even now graphics processors – such as ATI Radeon or Nvidia GeForce – can process general-purpose applications and the number of such programs, which can be accelerated using GPUs, will only grow.
However, it is a question whether the share of discrete notebook GPUs will continue to grow in the long-term. Next year both AMD and Intel plan to integrate high-speed graphics cores into their central processing units (CPUs) and thanks to closer integration, so-called super high-performance process technologies and overall speed gains, the efficiency and performance of those integrated graphics processors (IGPs) will be much higher compared to today's IGPs.
"Intel's new Sandy Bridge processor, AMD's new Llano processor and its little brother, Ontario, will [be able to process graphics very efficiently thanks to close integration between x86 and graphics cores]. We will have the hardware readily available by 2011, [but] the software to exploit it will probably not be available until 2012 or 2013. [Such integration is] inevitable, and essential. It is inefficient to physically separate scalar and vector processors. Advantages of inter-processor communication via an L3 cache are too compelling to be ignored. With the new process nodes (32 nm and smaller), the construction of these ultra-complex machines is economically feasible," explained Mr. Peddie.


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NYPA report 'misinterprets key facts'
This is in response to the OBSERVER's View of Aug. 11 headlined "Agency looks power hungry."
The state comptroller's report misinterprets key facts and ignores reforms that the New York Power Authority has instituted over the last two and a half years. If they had contacted us at any time during this process, we would have been glad to clear up these misconceptions.
NYPA makes the following points in response to the comptroller's report and press release:
Contrary to the report, NYPA's low power rates are unaffected by its financial contributions to New York state. The contributions have been significantly reduced since 2011 and have become more predictable going forward. Such contributions are not unique to NYPA. Other public power utilities around the country, including JEA (Northeast Florida), Salt River Project (Phoenix), Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and CPS Energy (San Antonio, Texas), have been among those that have made contributions in their jurisdictions.
NYPA has a small eight-seat prop plane – not a jet. The plane is used by NYPA engineers and operating personnel in monitoring, maintaining and upgrading the Authority's 16 power plants, more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines and 14 large substations across the state – and only after a cost-benefit analysis of other modes of travel before each flight. The NYPA plane has been of great value for transporting personnel to hard-to-get-to NYPA locations such as our large hydroelectric power plant, transmission lines and substations in Northern New York and for quickly dispatching engineering personnel in case of facility emergencies.
The NYPA Travel Desk enforces government-rate fares for all employees and contractors and anyone who does business with NYPA. This ensures we have the most cost-effective travel arrangements and adhere to NYPA's travel policies and procedures.
NYPA salaries are comparable to other large public power utilities in the U.S., but significantly lower than investor-owned electric utilities in New York state. NYPA must pay competitive salaries in order to attract and retain qualified personnel to run its highly technical and complex generation and transmission facilities.
NYPA offers the lowest cost power in New York state to its customers, including businesses that commit to create and protect jobs.
Mike Saltzman is director of communications and media relations at New York Power Authority.


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