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The 2014 Conference will bring together a diverse group of investigators that share a common interest in understanding how proteins cross or insert into biological membranes. Elucidation of protein transport mechanisms remains a fundamental objective of modern cell biology as ~30% of all proteins are either transported across or integrated into cellular membranes. Achieving correct cellular compartmentalization by these mechanisms is essential for cell function, and different facets of protein translocation directly impact human health. The 2014 conference will be organized by research topic, each of which will incorporate talks employing different methodologies to solve a common conceptual problem. Research topics will include sorting and targeting of proteins among intracellular membranes, the passage of proteins through translocation channels, the mechanisms of membrane protein assembly, the structural biology of transport machines, specialized pathogenic transport pathways, biogenesis of organelles, and others. This Gordon Research Conference will foster the synthesis of new ideas by bringing together a combination of established leaders and early career scientists. In addition to invited speakers, short talks will be selected from submitted abstracts.
The 2014 conference also features a pre-conference Gordon Research Seminar (GRS), organized by postdoctoral scientists, that will be oriented towards junior investigators. The aim is to provide participants with background on common mechanisms involved in protein transport, to discuss their ongoing research projects, and to facilitate interaction and networking with their peers within this scientific community. We fully anticipate that the talks, discussions, poster sessions, and other informal interactions at this GRC and GRS will contribute to advancing our understanding of molecular mechanisms of protein trafficking, which is essential to both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.


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Eminent Domain Is Bad Ploy for Underwater Mortgagesby
Officials in San Bernardino County, California, believe they have figured out a clever way to solve the county's, and possibly the nation's, housing problems.
Detailed by a Cornell University professor, and pitched by influential San Francisco investors who stand to make a fortune from it, this new idea is based on one of the oldest concepts: the taking of other people's property.
County officials, joined by the cities of Ontario and Fontana, are considering using an expansive interpretation of eminent domain -- typically used to acquire real property to build public works -- to seize the mortgages, not the real property, of those homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth.
The funds would be provided by private investors, who would pay the holders of the mortgages "fair market value" and then write new ones for the homeowners based on much lower principal amounts, reflecting the new depressed values of the homes. The firm behind this complex plan, Mortgage Resolution Partners, may be in the running to acquire vast numbers of mortgages at discounted rates. Local officials would have, theoretically, solved their local housing problems. Homeowners would stay in their homes and have much lower mortgages.
Advocates tout it as a win-win solution, but the holders of the mortgages must give up their assets and accept whatever value the governmental authority assigns to their notes.
Wholesale Price
The "fair market value" probably wouldn't be based on an expected sales price of the home, but on a wholesale value that would be at least 20 percent lower than that, said Mark Dowling, the chief executive officer of the Inland Valleys Association of Realtors. (The value would probably be based on the fair market value of the mortgage -- the home price minus many transaction costs -- and thus far lower than the fair market value of the home itself.)
In such a deal, the mortgages' owners -- bondholders, banks, individuals -- would be hard-pressed to challenge the valuation. Granted, the current owners -- bondholders, for example -- may not be able to collect the full amount owed to them, but they should be free to pursue repayment without being forced to accept a sum lower than what they might have expected to receive.
Wall Street's largest lobbying group, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, has weighed in against the idea, citing constitutional issues, Bloomberg Businessweek reported.
This complex plan should have been nothing more than a thought experiment in a college economics class except that Mortgage Resolution Partners took the idea to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, which this month unanimously voted to create a "joint-powers authority" to pursue the plan.
Officials say the authority was formed only to explore this idea, but as the Inland Valleys Association of Realtors pointed out in a letter to the county board of supervisors: "Currently, the JPA agreement does not require partner members to approve any JPA programs. Instead, the board is only required to seek approval for its budget from the participating local governments if those governments are asked to contribute funds."
So the county has spawned a new governmental agency, with few limits on its power and little direction from elected officials. The county will have no oversight of it unless that agency comes to the taxpayers for money -- unlikely, given that investors will pay for this project.
Abandoned Subdivisions
San Bernardino County was hit hard by the foreclosure crisis. Larger in land area than nine states and with a population of 2 million, the county starts about 40 miles east of Los Angeles and ends at the Nevada border.
During the real-estate boom, people looking to buy homes headed inland because it was far more affordable than coastal regions. When the housing bubble popped, the area was left with abandoned and half-built subdivisions. In many places, prices fell by two-thirds or more from the market peak.
The county's foreclosure rate is one in 179 houses, which is 3 1/2 times the national average, according to published reports. But the eminent-domain idea deals with only 20 percent of the county's estimated 150,000 underwater households. To avoid tangling with the federal government through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, or with politically influential banks, the plan targets only the holders of those bundled, privately held securitized mortgages. This is about acquiring properties on the cheap rather than addressing the main problem.
There would surely be unintended consequences. Grabbing private mortgages could lead to a widespread reluctance by private firms to lend money in the county -- or at least an increase in the cost of lending in that area. That would be a particular problem given that an obstacle to a revived housing market, especially in low-income, high-unemployment areas, is the inability of homebuyers to qualify for mortgages.
As Gideon Kanner, professor emeritus at Loyola Law School, argues, "If you make a reduction in loan balance available, whether by eminent domain or otherwise, these people will be provided with a powerful incentive to stop making payments on their mortgages, hoping to get bailed out by the government."
The deal could, then, have the opposite result of what is promised.
However it shakes out, the plan would create perverse incentives. Mainly, it seems like a way for big players to muscle out the smaller investors who now are competing for short sales and foreclosures. (I may qualify as one of them, because I own an investment property in San Bernardino County.)
There is increased evidence that the market is fixing itself. Foreclosure rates are down almost 43 percent in California and almost 60 percent in Nevada since the peak of the market, according to CoreLogic, the mortgage data . Although the number of foreclosures was up in San Bernardino County in May over the previous month, it has been little changed since last year, and prices have risen 5.7 percent there in 2012.
Housing Revival
The Orange County Register reported on a feeding frenzy of buyers for foreclosures in nearby Orange County. That wealthy coastal area is a far cry from pollution-choked San Bernardino. But Southern California coastal trends always move inland. Even Arizona, ground zero for the foreclosure crisis, is undergoing a homebuilding revival, as a recent article in Bloomberg News detailed. Many investors have been raising money to buy up foreclosed single-family properties to turn them into rentals, while awaiting a stronger housing market.
Rather than advancing a public good, the main beneficiary of this idea would be those private interests most adept at manipulating the government. Policy makers should reject this abuse of property rights and allow the housing market to do what it already is doing -- recover on its own.
(Steven Greenhut is vice president of journalism at the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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As the Interactive Practice Lead for the ICF Ironworks' Tysons Corner Office, I have the good fortune to manage and work with some very talented digital strategists, information architects, interactive art directors, content strategists, research analysts, and front-end developers.
I was thrilled to learn this week that The UX Booth, "a publication by and for the user experience community," accepted and published an article by our own Colin Eagan.
This is something that started out as a whiteboard sketch, and evolved as Colin bounced the idea off of other peers, and incorporated their feedback and input.
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4th Sustainment Brigade hosts own Operation Rising Star
By Sgt. 1st Class Chris Bridson
4th Sust. Bde. Public Affairs
FORT HOOD, Texas– In the early hours of Nov. 20, 2013, Soldiers from the 154th Transportation Company, 49th Transportation Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade waited in the company motorpool for their convoy brief before setting off on a 300 mile round trip along Central Texas roads to earn their driver's license and qualify on the M-1075, or Palletized Loading System (PLS).
"Operation Rising Star is designed to get your trucks out on the road, get your new guys some experience, and get them licensed up," said Staff Sgt. Ralph C. Williams Jr., the Truck Master for the 154th TC, and a native of Beaumont, Texas.
For the past couple of weeks, the men and women of the 154th TC were put through their paces at the Drivers Training Academy (DTA) learning how to competently handle various tactical vehicles before moving on to the PLS training.
"It's (DTA) a 2-week course. They learn the Texas laws and they get familiar with the pieces of equipment that they are going to be going to. They also get licensed on the 1078 LMTV (Light Mobility Tactical Vehicle) and the Humvee coming straight out of DTA they get those licenses there," added Williams.
Over the past few days, Williams and his Senior Driving Instructors (SDI) have made the trip to Rising Star multiple times and as a result they decided that this convoy and convoy brief will be run by the junior Noncommissioned Officers such as Cpl. James Schultz, a native of Chicago, and the convoy commander for this trip to Rising Star.
"We will be traveling in the dark for the majority of the route, so make sure you keep an eye out for animals that will be a hazard on the route," said Schultz, as he conducted his convoy brief. "We encountered 3 black cows in the middle of the road the other night," he added.
As soon as the convoy brief was over, the Soldiers headed out to their vehicles and conducted their final checks before heading out on the open road. The drivers and truck commanders check safety equipment, lights and hoses, and ensure that the trailers are connected properly before giving the convoy commander the "thumbs up."
At the very back of the convoy is the Bobtail truck, or recovery vehicle, normally manned by experienced drivers and designated to move forward if needed to tow any disabled vehicle back to the motorpool.
"I will be in the Bobtail and we will be making sure that if anyone breaks down we can recover the vehicle and pick up the Soldiers," said Spc. Esmeralda Ramirez, a native of Kerrville, Texas and a Motor Transport Operator with the 154th TC. "I have been driving vehicles in the Army for three years now."
Ramirez recently transferred to the 154th TC from the 96th TC where she gained vital experience during a tour in Afghanistan and hopes that she can pass this experience on to the new Soldiers in her current unit.
With no major problems throughout the month's training and ten newly licensed PLS drivers contributing to the success of Operation Rising Star, the men and women of the 154th Transportation Company are confident and ready to take on any task that the 4th Sustainment Brigade may be asked to carry out in defense of this great nation.
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Having a Powerpoint presentation for your Blog is a must if you want to gain loyal readers in your blog and it is very important for your readers.
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2. How to Embed Slideshare in Blogger?
So why do we need it?
It is because of the following points:
1. Gaining Loyal readers
2. Traffic.
These are the two things that I think that is really important on why we need a Powerpoint presentation for our blog sometimes and putting our articles on Slideshare in the form of a presentation. If you have a Powerpoint presentation you will gain loyal readers because through Slideshare you can share your articles in the form of a presentation and if your presentation is good then it will help you as a blogger in gaining loyal readers. In return you will get traffic to your Blog which is the most important thing to us as bloggers and this is a great way to get more traffic, it is like having your Articles in two places.
Therefore if you want to gain more readers and get more traffic, Slideshare is also one of the ways where you can get that, it is a great place to share your articles in the form of a presentation.
Now let us how we can Share and embed Slideshare presentations in your Blogger. It involved only six simple steps.
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ENGAGEMENT: Jessica Bloom and Robert Kniss
April 18, 2013 10:40 AM
Chris and Melissa Bloom, of Armagh, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Jessica, to Robert Kniss, son of Rose Berger, of LaJose, and Bob Kniss, of Johnstown.
Miss Bloom is a 2007 graduate of United High School and will graduate from St. Francis University with a doctorate in physical therapy in 2013. She will be employed by Lycoming Physical Therapy in Montoursville.
Her fiance is a 2006 graduate of Bishop McCort High School and a 2011 graduate of St. Francis University, where he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry. He is an account manager at NALCO Champion in Hughesville.
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It's Los Angeles, 1953, and the tide of crime is changing. East-coast gangster Mickey Cohen, who has been cozy working the west coast for the last decade, is heading to prison on a tax-evasion rap, leaving his profitable rackets dangling. Enter the Los Angeles Police Department, which, thanks to the sanctimonious national television show Badge of Honor, heralds a bogus new prestige. While the good men of the force have their eye on cleaning up the city, a lot of them want a piece of Cohen's rackets. Surrounded by too many disgruntled and corrupt fellow officers and rumors leaking from the top, green police Sgt. Edmund Exley (Guy Pearce) is trying to bring honor to the force and hopes he'll be able to drag some of the more corrupt officers to justice. Across the same precinct , Officer Bud White (Russell Crowe), a bruiser of few words who doesn't mind not going "by the book" as long as it leads to his idea of higher justice, stews. Mocking both of these men and most of the precinct is smarmy Sgt. Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey), who shows the cast of Badge of Honor how to walk and talk like real members of the LAPD when he's not taking cash and working with low-life Sid Hudgens (Danny DeVito), a tabloid reporter.
These three very different police officers are drawn together when a series of investigations uncovers a wide-ranging conspiracy that involves Beverly Hills pimp Pierce Patchett (David Strathairn). Patchett runs a high-priced escort service that features women "cut" to look like movie stars. It also becomes clear that loose-cannon Officer White has a soft spot for Patchett's resident "Veronica Lake," Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger).
In bringing L.A. Confidential, the sprawling saga of popular crime-novelist James Ellroy to the screen, director Curtis Hanson had a series of vintage postcards, magazine clippings and stills that spelled out the texture he wanted for the film. Studio executives, actors and members of his creative team were given Hanson's vivid pitch, which pulled a noir-flavored novel out into the layered sunlight of the City of Angels. Cinematographer Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC (The Insider), quickly understood Hanson wanted neither the traditional "nostalgic haze" frequently relied on in films to suggest the period nor the clichéd smoke and diffusion of film-noir visuals so often used in urban crime stories. As Hanson eloquently put it, he wanted the "Light of Los Angeles." In an interview on this disc, he explains, "The light is very much what this place is about. It's why the movies came here in the first place — to be shot in that light. There's a softness to the light that perfectly complements the palette of the desert landscape." With that in mind, Spinotti took advantage of the city's natural light and worked on interior locations and soundstages to simulate and match those natural layers, giving the film a more contemporary and realistic feel. Spinotti's handsome work on the picture earned him an Academy Award nomination.
Warner Home Video recently released L.A. Confidential on Blu-ray, and the high-definition image transfer is very good. While occasional grain is evident, and there are minor incidents of softness, the transfer is a solid rendering of the way the film looked in theaters. The color palette has good stability, even in the sequences with the most contrast, and the light the collaborators worked so carefully to capture is vividly on display. The digital 5.1 audio track has good range, with surround channels busiest during music cues and the film's dizzying shootout finale.
In addition to a special audio CD with selections of 1950s pop music from the film, this package includes a stash of solid supplemental features. Borrowed from the laserdisc and standard DVD released in 1998 is the "Off the Record" feature, which includes Hanson, producers David Wolper and Arnon Milchan and a handful of screen tests. Also returning from the 1998 DVD are an interactive location map and the film's theatrical trailers. There are more than 90 minutes of excellent new documentary segments that feature extensive interviews with Hanson, Spinotti, Ellroy, all major cast members and a number of other key collaborators. Also included is the pilot for the L.A. Confidential TV series (2000) and a fun re-creation of the photo pitch Hanson used to sell the film to the studio, actors and other collaborators. Finally, in addition to a lone track featuring Jerry Goldsmith's jazzy score, there is a jam-packed but rarely scene-specific audio commentary led by film critic Andrew Sarris; this features audio snippets cribbed from the documentary footage and nearly a dozen participants.


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Recommended Speaker Protect Kits ???
Can anyone recommend a decent speaker protect kit? For an amp in the 100watt range or less. There looks to be 20 choices but no reviews on who uses what.....
You can have a look at Rod Elliott's web site
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There you can find a lot of audio related projects, including speakers protection and a discussion forum.
He also sells PCB for almost all of the projects.
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Aamir Khan is planning to pay a homage to India`s original disco dancer Mithun Chakraborty, in hes new film Delhi Belly ! Vir Das is planning a big surprise for everyone by dressing as Mithun ( in Disco Dancer ) for the song Jaa Chudail ! Can anyone imagine how he will look like ? I guess not ! But there is more : he will do some of the steps of Mithun ! For some time now, Delhi Belly has the attention of media, and i guess it will be a hit !
The script for this movie was written by Arkshat Verma who studied at University Of California, in Los Angeles.Delhi Belly will be a movie only for adults !
A source says for Bollywood.Celebden.Com that : "It's all in fun. But it will shock Aamir's and Imran's fans. Aamir has always been known to be this no-nonsense guardian-like figure to Imran. And we presume that his nephew is afraid to some extent of his uncle. Therefore, to see him let off a chain of maa-behen gaalis to Aamir is quite a shock."
What do you think about this movie ? How it will be ? Are u going to see it ?


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Mississippi River Day Canoe Trip
Explore the Wilderness in the Heart of the Twin Cities
Sample ItineraryYou will paddle one of three routes that are chosen depending upon water levels and other enviromental factors. Click on the trip links below to see the route options. Each route takes 3-4 hours, with about 2 hours of actual paddling time. We will send you detailed instructions on your route when you register.
Upper Route: Brooklyn Park to Boom Island
Middle Route: East River Flats to Sand Flats
Lower Route: Hidden Falls to Harriet Island
Travel, Terrain, Etc...You will be paddling in 24-foot Voyageur canoes, following the river's 3-4 mph current as it winds along the shoreline. The voyageur canoes hold 6-9 paddlers and 1 boat captain. They are fast and stable boats, designed specifically for trips on big or moving water. Paddling distance ranges from 4-8 miles, depending upon the route we do. It is active paddle, but not strenuous.
Wilderness Inquiry will provide water and snacks, but you should bring a bag lunch—coolers are provided. Wilderness Inquiry provides a shuttle to bring you back to your car after the trip is over. Detailed instructions on your route and where to meet will be sent upon confirmation of your participation.
The trip will start with paddling and safety instruction provided by Wilderness Inquiry staff. There will be a trained boat captain in the stern (back) of each canoe to ensure safety and a fun trip for everyone. National Park Service Rangers accompany us on selected trips to provide cultural and natural history interpretation.
Groups consist of 30 to 60 participants, plus Wilderness Inquiry and National Park Service staff and volunteers. Temperatures can vary greatly throughout the season. A suggested packing list will be sent upon confirmation of your participation in the event.
There are bathroom facilities at the put-in and take out places. Your group will stop prior to departing and again upon completion of the trip.
A note about the itinerary: Our trips are real adventures in the outdoors. While we'll make every effort to follow the itinerary listed here, elements may change due to weather or reasons beyond our control.
The river changes character dramatically within the park boundary. From the river's humble beginnings at Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it enters the park north of Dayton, Minnesota, as a small prairie river. Moving through a mix of landscapes in Minneapolis, including an industrial area that marks the head of barge navigation, it thunders over Saint Anthony Falls, through the river's tallest lock, and under the historic Stone Arch Bridge into a river gorge. It winds through this relatively tight and narrow canyon, where it is easy to forget that you are in a city, until its confluence with the Minnesota River below the restored and historic 1820s Fort Snelling. The sandstone and limestone cliffs stand fairly close to the river as it continues on the way to downtown Saint Paul, where the river valley opens up to the large floodplain river that flows to the sea.
Archeological evidence suggests that people have lived alongside the river for nearly 12,000 years. Known to the Dakota as Ha-Ha-Wakpa (meaning Waterfall River), native peoples used the Mississippi as a means of trade, travel, and for important religious practices for thousands of years. Following European exploration in the late 1600s, Dakota villages became important sites of trade and commerce.
By the late 1800s, the Mississippi River had become both a tourist attraction and an economic powerhouse as the expanding lumber and flour milling industries took advantage of the waterpower of Saint Anthony Falls. By the 20th century, Minneapolis led the nation in lumber production and the world in flour production. The Gold Medal and Pillsbury Best flour brands, processed with the power of the Mississippi, soon became famous around the world. The Mighty Mississippi remains the lifeline of the Twin Cities' economic, cultural, and historical life, and today we can paddle through it in our very own National Park, the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area.
Following a concerted community effort to clean and preserve the river, the Mississippi is once again home to an extremely diverse ecosystem. Pelicans, herons, egrets, wild turkeys, and many more species of birds nest or migrate along the river. You may see a fox hunting along the shoreline, or a playful river otter diving through the water. Even within the heart of the city, it is common to see eagles soaring overhead as you paddle along the river. Rarely does an urban landscape allow for so many opportunities to view wildlife and natural scenery so easily. There is no better way to experience nature's wonders than from the water. The Mississippi River is yours to enjoy and WI will help to navigate it!
Frequently Asked Questions:
Can I plan a private experience with Wilderness Inquiry paddling canoes on the Mississippi?
Absolutely! We organize many outings for private groups.
Please contact our Customer Service Manager for more information:
Josh Swedberg
Should I bring a meal on a Mississippi River Day Canoe Trip?
Yes! These river paddles usually start in the morning (around 10am) and last for 4-5 hours. We encourage participants to bring a picnic lunch to eat during the trip. A detailed packing list and meeting place information will be sent when we receive your completed registration form.
What is the minimum age for a Mississippi River Day Canoe Trip?
There is no hard age limit, but we recommend the event for ages 5 and older. All participants must be able to wear a PFD (personal floatation device). All children must be 30 lbs or greater to fit into a PFD provided by Wilderness Inquiry. You must supply a PFD for any smaller children. Participants can plan to be in the canoes for at least one hour at a time and should be comfortable sitting still for this length of time.
How many people typically participate in a Mississippi River Day Canoe Trip?
Typically 20-50 people join us for each scheduled Mississippi River Day Canoe Trip.
Which route do we paddle on a Mississippi River Day Canoe Trip?
There are a few main routes we paddle on these river trips. All routes are within a short drive of the Minneapolis and St. Paul area. You will be sent detailed information about meeting places and times once we receive your registration.
For more information, visit these links:
Mississippi National River & Recreation Area - National Park Service
Mississippi Watershed Management Organization
As stated in the Trip at a Glance section, we typically paddle three different routes. To determine the starting and ending places for the trip you are interested in, click on the name of the trip above.
Please note: River conditions do change, and we may change our routes accordingly. If we do change the route we will notify you by email or phone.
Group Trips: More Information & Pricing
Interested in a custom Mississippi River Day trip for your group? We do many trips each year for private groups.
Wilderness Inquiry's Half-Day Canoe Trips are typically 4-hour excursions on either the Mississippi River or the Chain of Lakes. Captained by a highly trained Wilderness Inquiry Trail Guide, each 24-foot Voyageur canoe can accommodate up to 9 paddlers. We utilize many metro locations for these trips and are ready to deliver a wide variety of curricula and interpretation. Whether an extension of the classroom or a simply a fun outing, our Half-Day Canoe Trips can be custom tailored to meet your group's specific goals and needs.
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Power up: Infiniti Australia will ramp up the horses as it sees performance as its point of difference over its rivals.
12 February 2016
By NEIL DOWLING
INFINITI is planning a series of high-performance engines that it said are
paramount to the success of the brand and they are aimed directly at Australian
According to Infiniti Australia managing director Jean-Philippe Roux, the
bi-turbo engines – based on the unit found under the bonnet of the Nissan GT-R
– will fit perfectly with Australia's love of performance cars.
Infiniti has dumped its VQ engines, which are fitted to models including the
Nissan 370Z, and will replace it with the VR family as used by the updated GT-R.
The VR engine family is smaller, lighter and capable of delivering more power
and broader torque.
It come in two stages of tune and has up to two water pumps, water for the
intercooler, an integrated exhaust manifold and an electric motor to improve
the response of the variable-valve timing.
But it will not be the same engine as the GT-R. Rather, the 3.0-litre bi-turbo
petrol V6 will be available in different outputs up to the most desirable 300kW.
"It will be included in the Q50 by the end of this year," Mr Roux said.
"Performance is important to us. It's our point of difference. For example,
when we have a hybrid, it is a performance hybrid."
The 3.0-litre bi-turbo engine will also be available in a lower state of tune
to expand the audience of the Q50.
Infiniti confirmed the engine would come as a 225kW/400Nm version that can also
be spilled over to other Infiniti variants.
It will be a big step–up for the Q50 sedan that currently has comparatively
mild engine choices of a 2.0-litre turbo-petrol, 2.2-litre turbo-diesel or a
3.5-litre petrol V6 in hybrid format.
Mr Roux said that the new 300kW/475Nm top-spec engine that's planned for the
Q50 could also be used in other models.
"We are currently looking at the Q60 as using that engine," he said.
The Q60 coupe, expected in November 2016, is the replacement for the G37 coupe.
It shares the platform and drivetrain with the Q50 sedan.
Infiniti in 2014 showcased a 410kW/600Nm 3.8-litre engine in its concept Q50
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The Ashes balance of power was reversed in Brisbane. How much was, for want of a better word, real - due to Australia's rising confidence and skill, and England's decline? How much owed to the one-off conditions of the Gabba's fast, bouncy wicket and bullring atmosphere?
Adelaide will minimise the second of those variables. Of all the Australian wickets, the Adelaide Oval's drop-in pitch is expected to most closely resemble the low, slow, abrasive surfaces that were cooked up in India - pardon, England - during the winter. There will be spin for Graeme Swann and reverse swing for James Anderson and company. Adelaide's genteel crowds will be as close to English as can be found here. If England cannot take this chance - the type of hospitality Australia never received - they will be unable to keep telling themselves Brisbane was some kind of rogue happening.
Because wickets won't fall easily, captaincy will come to the fore. Much will be said next week as Michael Clarke and Alastair Cook play their 100th matches in Perth, a nice coincidence that will offer many opportunities to compare and contrast. But the longer a team is in the field, the more important its captain, and it will be in Adelaide that the captains will have a decisive impact.
The first contribution will be winning the toss. The drop-in pitch will promise a dominant position to whichever team has first use. After two sub-200 scores in Brisbane, England are crying out for runs, and they will look to their man at the top. Cook batted better in Brisbane than he had throughout the winter.
Whenever Australia pitched the ball up on his off-stump in England, Cook managed to pat it tentatively to mid-off or nick it to the cordon. In his second innings in Brisbane, he middled some off-drives, a shot out of his comfort and scoring zones, which showed he has improved his game. The overwhelming pressure and a good ball from Nathan Lyon eventually got him, but in Adelaide he will be freer. His strength square of the wicket will bring the short side-on boundaries even closer.
Clarke's second innings in Brisbane was a case of the cricketing adage that confidence is only one ball away. Trapped by a bouncer in the first innings, Clarke got the short one from Stuart Broad four balls into his second knock. He hooked it for four in front of square leg. A slight technical change, a carefree attitude, and all was rosy again. He averages 100 at Adelaide, and will expect no less, and probably a lot more. As with Cook, the burden on Clarke can be lifted by his teammates.
Centuries in the last three Test matches by Chris Rogers, Shane Watson, Steve Smith and David Warner have sent a message to Clarke that it's not all on his bat. The supporting cast owe their team more runs in Adelaide.
In the field, Cook and Clarke are as different as modern captains can be. Since becoming England's captain a year ago, Cook has resembled an urbane chauffeur, slipping behind the wheel of a sleek midnight-blue Bentley. He put on his cap and, perspiration free, took it for a drive, rotating his senior seamers and, when things go wrong, throwing the ball to Swann for a long spell.
When it hits a roadblock and wickets stop falling, he still sits, apparently inert. Shane Warne and others criticise this as passive, defensive, even clueless captaincy. Cook commits what Australians see as the great sin of ''letting the game drift''. On the other hand, it could be said his calmness under pressure shows a confidence in his bowlers that they will do the job, as they have before, and his stillness signals total belief.
Much is said about how these captains shape their teams, but Cook and Clarke have been shaped by their resources. It is impossible to imagine Cook leading this Australian team. He would have waited his way to a sacking by now. But with Andy Flower issuing directions from the back seat and two great bowlers, Anderson and Swann, under the bonnet, Cook inherited a team from Andrew Strauss that asks only that he replicate Strauss' unflappable style. The outcome of this match will dictate how long that lasts.
Nor is it easy to picture Clarke leading an established team of big egos. He drives too hard for that. This transitional Australian team has shaped and accentuated Clarke's restless inventiveness. Last summer, he tried to out-funk and out-quirk Graeme Smith, and went within a James Pattinson injury at Adelaide of doing so.
Clarke has been accused of not letting his bowlers settle down, switching their ends and their fields in the constant search for a chance, but his bowlers have got used to it, and they seem to enjoy it now. Whereas Cook tries to bore batsmen into giving their wickets away, Clarke likes to agitate them out of their rhythm.
If Cook were driving the car, he would have the radio tuned to something blandly classical, Brahms or Schumann, while Clarke would be twirling the knob from station to station, adjusting the faders, resetting the volume, looking for something new. Good captains come in many types.
In Adelaide, every wicket will be precious. Bowlers will bowl, catchers will catch, and umpires will - we hope - continue their good decision-making form from Brisbane. How much the two captains' tactics bring to the capture of those wickets will be another reason to watch.


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Mr Rogers: 4. On What We Do "What matters isn't how a person's inner life finally puts together the alphabet and numbers of his outer life. What really matters is whether he uses the alphabet for the declaration of a war or the description of a sunrise–his numbers for the final count at Buchenwald or [Read More…]
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Spiritual Warfare: Problems
Some people see cosmic forces, even diabolical spiritual beings, at work whenever evil appears; others find such talk primitive and systemically dangerous. Within this either/or spectrum, James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy find four approaches to "spiritual warfare": (1) the world systems model of Walter Wink, the classical model of David Powlison, the ground-level [Read More…]
Young Adults: Disengaged from the Public Sector?
Did the election of 2008 indicate that emerging adults would turn the corner to become more engaged in the public sector? Christian Smith, with Kari Chistoffersen, Hilary Davidson, and Patricia Snell Herzog, in their book Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood contend that the evidence shows that they are "less involved in various [Read More…]


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text: No recent wiki edits to this page. OriginUrsa Major transforming back into human form.Mikhail Ursus was one of the first known mutants born in the Soviet Union in the 20th Century to survive past childhood. Up until the time of his birth, the Soviet government had been performing euthanasia on all mutants at the first manifestation of their superhuman powers. The government was made to see the potential value of superhumans serving the state due to the efforts of scientist Pieter Phobos.Phobos opened a private school to train mutants and Mikhail was one of the first of many mutants to join the school. Unknown to the students and the government, Phobos had built a device to siphon the energy from his students to give himself artificial powers. The process was killing many students and Phobos would explain their deaths to the Soviet government as training casualties. Phobos had three students left, Mikhail and two siblings, Laynia Petrovna and Nikolai Krylenko who later be known as Darkstar and Vanguard when the second Red Guardian discovered Phobos's activities. Phobos went into hiding but gave two totems to Laynia and Nikolai so he could still siphon their powers. Mikhail and Nikolai would join the Soviet army for a brief time.CreationUrsa Major was created by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema in 1981 and first appeared in The Incredible Hulk # 258.Mayor Story ArcsSoviet HeroUrsa Major and the Hulk take down Phobos.After certain field work, the three remaining mutants from Phobos's school would be reunited by the Soviet government and become the Soviet Super Soldiers. Ursus was given the code name Ursa Major and one of their first assignments was to investigate the contained radioactive area of Khystym known as the Forbidden Zone. They discovered that their former teacher was planning to radioactively contaminate all of the Soviet Union in order to foster the birth of more mutants so he can eventually siphon off their powers. The plan was thwarted by the Soviet Super Soldiers and the Hulk. Phobos was brought to the government to stand trial.The Soviet Super SoldiersThe Soviet Super Soldiers resolved to remain together as a team but vowed to never again unquestioningly serve the state. They existed as a quasi-independent band of crime fighters based in the Soviet Union. As a member of the Soviet Super Soldiers, Ursa Major would face various enemies. The Super Soldiers would team up with the spaceknights Rom and Starshine against the Dire Wraiths. His team would also battle the X-Men and the Avengers over the mutant, Magneto. Ursa Major, Vanguard and Darkstar would defect to America and are nearly killed by the Supreme Soviets when they disguise themselves as the Avengers. The Soviet Super Soldiers would eventually disband and merge with members of the Supreme Soviets to form the Winter Guard. Ursa Major is currently a member of the Winter Guard.Winter GuardsUrsa Major vs the Snow Leopards.The Winter Guard would fight a group of superhuman Soviet revolutionaries called Remont Six. This group is led by Iron Maiden and they come into conflict with the Guard when they raid an AIM facility. Ursa Major would fight the Snow Leopards and Volga. The Winter Guard prevail and defeat the Remont Six. Powers & AbilitiesUrsa Major gives Wolverine a bear hug.Ursa Major has the ability to transform into a large anthropomorphic bear. The transformation takes about 10 seconds and Ursa Major possesses superhuman strength in bear form. He can lift about 15 tons in bear form and has the reflexes, stamina and resistance to injury of an adult Siberian bear. Ursa Major also retains his human intelligence and the ability to speak in bear form. Ursa Major can maul his opponents with his sharp claws and a powerful bite.


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Drywall mud to use?
I have used Pro-Roc all-purpose (blue box) to put on the corner beads and all my tape. Can I go to the lite-finishing mud (green box) for all coats to follow? This is what was supplied to me but I was advised to just use all-purpose for everything. I hope the lite finishing is OK as it will be a pain to exchange today. Not to mention I want to use it right now.
I would recommend against using any type of light weight mud period. It scratches and "dings" much easier than regular ready mix. It is however your choice...
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We just returned to U.S. soil after watching Aaron Martens for the past three hours. We only had a 20-mile run to where he was fishing after trailering two hours from Detroit, but the 4- to 6-foot chop on Lake Erie made that 20 miles a one hour, soggy trip from hell.
That said, if it is possible to be comfortable fishing in these conditions, Martens certainly was. He caught his fifth keeper only minutes after we arrived. He is drop-shotting two different baits on a couple of small reefs a couple miles off the Ohio shoreline. He is keeping his drifts very short, and uses his trolling motor to keep his pace slow.
At first, his bites were coming frequently, as he'd miss a strike, then hook a fish almost on every drift. The second fish we saw him land culled one from the livewell. He guessed that put him around 18 pounds. His next fish was short, and the one after that was a huge drum. Although the wind didn't pick up while we watched him, it didn't lay down, either.
Chris Noffsinger, our guide for the day, said Aaron has a 27-mile run on a very rough Erie just to get to the mouth of Miracle Mile, which will no doubt be even rougher. We estimate his run back to the Detroit weigh-in between 2 and 2 1/2 hours. The lingering question is simply this: how long will he stay in Erie to try and upgrade his catch? A couple extra pounds could seal the deal on his second AOY title, depending on how Evers does today. Waiting a couple minutes too long could end his tourney.


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Truths and Rights is probably one of the best albums by the prolific Jamaican singer Johnny Osbourne. Heartbeat records, the label specialising in Studio One catalogue will reissue on July this album produced by Clement Dodd, originally recorded and released in 1979 on Studio One.
Over 16 tracks, this Deluxe Edition features the all ten album songs remastered from the original recordings along with 6 great bonus tracks, including the killer Truths & Rights in extended mix or a deejay version by Jah Jesco featuring Jucey Bravo on West Gone Black to name just a few. The new jacket is still unknown but as usual with Heartbeat's Deluxe Editions, we may bet that it will be the same as the original one…
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Boca Raton, FL – The Research Park at Florida Atlantic University released its 2011-2012 Report to the Community showcasing positive year-to-year growth in various sectors. The annual report outlines a detailed economic growth and impact study that reveals significant progress being made towards positioning the Research Park as the preeminent R&D asset in Florida.
The Research Park is widely regarded as South Florida's laboratory for new entrepreneurial ideas and technologies. Four new companies: American Sugar Refining, FWC Management Company, Modernizing Medicine and Mobile Help moved into the Research Park during the year.
Growth highlights for the Research Park in the past year:
- Employment increased 22 percent to a total 952 direct jobs.
- Economic impact to the South Florida economy increased to $274 million annually.
- Revenues earned by Research Park companies topped $1.7 billion with average company growth for the next twelve months projected to be 55%.
- Average Research Park employee salary is $68,158. 47% higher than the average salary in Palm Beach County and 55% higher than that in Broward County.
The report highlights the continued formation of valuable partnerships between Research Park companies and FAU's various colleges, resulting in employment of 63 FAU graduates and 35 FAU interns in their chosen field of academics.
Equally important for the long term growth of the Research Park, and sustainable job creation for South Florida, the Technology Business Incubator expanded to 14,000 sf and is now at full occupancy housing 23 emerging companies.
Research Park activity indicates an increased concentration in medical technology and healthcare IT companies, key ingredients that bode well for healthy economic growth in South Florida.
"The Research Park stands out as a bright spot in turbulent economic times, paving the way to sustainable growth, both in jobs and technologies, for South Florida. The Report to the Community lays out how our companies work together with FAU to create new technologies and opportunities for the future," stated Andrew Duffell, president & CEO of the Research Park.
About the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University
Established in 1985, the 94-acre Research Park (www.research-park.org) is home to
23 technology companies working in conjunction with the FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science, the FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and the FAU College of Business. The Research Park also hosts the Technology Business Incubator with 23 startup technology companies, each of which receives business and consulting services with the goal of becoming established businesses and permanent residents in the Research Park.
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Wind Mobile Internet stick
I think this is for anyone in the Ontario, Canada region. Not sure if this service is available in the US.
I have an internet stick (USB) which performs rather well but I cannot access any gaming sites. The game I play (Links2003) takes very little bandwidth but it seems to be firewalled. I can't figure out how to get access to the stick to open ports, etc. Customer Service (wow..oxymoron indeed) say they have no firewall on it and cannot tell me how to access programming for the stick.
Any suggestions would be appreciated:(
In the US we have USB wi-fi sticks, plug them in and if there's wi-fi about, you connect. Same as 3G and now 4G.
I would agree with what your customer service people are saying. At least for US models, there is no built in firewall. Either your PC or ISP is fire walling you, or something else weird is going on.
My two cents, YMMV!
Yup. There is something you set when you set up the actual internet account that you need to change. Or your virus or firewall doesn't like something and you will have to manually allow it as an exception. Final possibility is the site blocks Canadian IP addresses. Just work through one for where the site is located.
Thanks guys for the response. Sadly, I can't even get a tech to understand what I need with regards to DMZ and port routing. Anyway, I decided to go back to my original ISP and for $10 more I can get high speed and 65G of download..plus, I get a modem which I can talk to..not a bad deal. Not sure what high speed means
these days though. The brochure says 6.2Mbps..to me that means 6.2 Mega "bits" per minute. The sales rep tells me its 6.2 Mega "Bytes" per second. I must be a dinosaur. I always learned that small b=bits and capital B=Bytes.
For others who may want to try the Wind Stick, I would give it time. They obviously need more towers which will come in time. If you are just accessing emails and the occasional browsing, its fine but there are probably better providers who at least have a deeper technical support group.
Gibson Research Corp. (www.grc.com) can test your firewall and check for open ports etc.
There is a method of checking to see if your ISP is blocking anything that is explained also!
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Thatcher Legacy Sees Employment Rising Amid U.K. Slump
Margaret Thatcher is keeping a record number of Britons in work, nearly 30 years after her policies drove unemployment to the highest in living memory.
Slammed in swathes of northern Britain for shutting down industries from shipbuilding to mining, Thatcher's vision of the job market has now led to 29.8 million people in work at the end of December, more than at any time in history. That's after a double-dip recession and the country's worst financial crisis since World War II.
"I would have expected unemployment to rise quite a lot further, perhaps another million wouldn't have been surprising," said Nicholas Crafts, professor of economic history at Warwick University. "If we ask why it hasn't risen further, the answer is real wage flexibility. The reforms Thatcher put in place brought down unemployment largely after she left office."
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Thatcher, who died yesterday at the age of 87 from a stroke, fought battles with labor unions to reduce their power, sold state industries and opened the economy to competition, as well as unleashing a revolution in the City of London.
The result was unemployment that reached a postwar high of 3.3 million people, a rate of 11.9 percent, in 1984, a social legacy that divides the country to this day. While the likes of Prime Minister David Cameron and her successor, John Major, praised Thatcher yesterday, people reacted in Glasgow, Scotland's main city, by dancing in the street.
"Unemployment went through the roof, we had riots," former Labour lawmaker Clare Short told the BBC. "She did enormous damage."
'Divided Opinion'
"We can't deny that Lady Thatcher divided opinion," Cameron said outside his Downing Street office last night. "For many of us, she was and is an inspiration. For others, she was a force to be defined against. But if there is one thing that cuts through all of this -- one thing that runs through everything she did -- it was her lion-hearted love for this country. She was the patriot prime minister."
Cameron's list of Thatcher's fights focused on the economic. "Taking on the union barons, privatizing industry, unleashing enterprise, rescuing the economy," he said. "When today we admire Britain's strongest companies, very often they are ones she helped transform from failing state monoliths to thriving private sector businesses."
British Airways Plc, Centrica Plc (CNA), British Telecommunications Plc (BT/A), BP Plc (BP/) and BAE Systems Plc (BA/) all traced their origins as public companies to the Thatcher government. Ordinary people were encouraged to buy the shares.
Banking was opened up with the introduction of electronic trading, and access given to foreign banks, helping London to maintain its status as a global financial hub.
Strike 'Discontent'
Thatcher came to power in 1979 after a wave of strikes dubbed "the winter of discontent." Water and rail workers, truckers and oil-tanker drivers, ambulance personnel and gravediggers, teachers, dock workers and garbage collectors all stopped work. She was determined to reduce union power, and introduced rules to restrict when they could strike and whether they could force people to join.
Her success made it easier for companies to cut pay and hours in the latest recession.
"The 1970s were a bad decade for the U.K.; it seemed as if everything was going wrong -- we had stagflation, little growth and high inflation, the place was depressing to live in," Howard Davies, a professor at the French School of Political Science who worked under Thatcher as a Treasury official, said in an interview with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Radio's Bloomberg Surveillance. "When she came in, there was a sense of what was possible, a sense that the U.K. did not need to condemn itself to genteel decline and that it was possible to turn things round."
Employment Rebound
One difference can be seen in unemployment. After the most recent recession, it peaked at 2.7 million, or 8.4 percent in 2011. It took four years for employment to pass its June 2008 peak. After previous recessions, job levels took twice that to recover. Employment didn't reach its 1990 peak until 1998, or its 1979 peak until 1987.
The shift reflects workers accepting real-term pay cuts and shorter working hours: since May 2008, the number of people working full-time has fallen by 400,000 while the number working part-time has risen by 561,000.
"I always fought Mrs. Thatcher, but unemployment would be millions worse in this recession if she hadn't made our labor market more flexible," Matthew Oakeshott, a Liberal Democrat lawmaker, wrote on his Twitter Inc. feed.
Widening Gap
According to Crafts at Warwick University, losers under Thatcher were low-paid male manual workers, as their jobs went overseas. Income inequality also rose.
"The poor got poorer, for the first time in a century," Neil Kinnock, who led the opposition Labour Party against her from 1983 to 1992, told the BBC.
Still, Crafts points out that when Labour under Tony Blair won power back from her Conservatives in 1997, it had accepted her changes and reversed few of them.
"She moved the center ground of British politics," Labour's current leader Ed Miliband said. "She also defined the politics of the 1980s. David Cameron, Nick Clegg and I all grew up in a politics shaped by Lady Thatcher."
"The economy was in a frightful mess in the 1970s," Major told the BBC. "Nobody believed we could move from a neo- socialist economy to a free-market economy, and that's what she achieved."
Economic Influences
Thatcher said her economic thinking was influenced by the Austrian philosopher Friedrich Hayek and the University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman. Crafts was skeptical of this.
"I really don't think Thatcher had any sense of economics whatever," he said. "After the fact one can reconstruct the legacy of what her governments achieved, but she certainly didn't understand the concepts as far as I can tell."
One of Thatcher's great enemies, former Labour London Mayor Ken Livingstone, disputed that she had improved the country. "Almost everything that's wrong with Britain today is her legacy," he told Sky News television. "It was her that decided to deregulate the banks. She decided to let our manufacturing wither. She was fundamentally wrong."
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I want a USB-to-115v mains cable just to annoy all the people that freaked out over the Cerberus cable.
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In that case, is there any (relatively easy) way to fix the older version of the board to use the correct inductor? I have the older one too.
I'd love to see more QFP adapters in general, particularly ones for the most common pin counts (32, 44, 64, 100). Of course, if I'd just get off my butt and learn Eagle, I could just have BatchPCB make me up a bunch of them… ;)
There's a long story about this I read somewhere on a blog (probably Adafruit or EMSL)… but the bottom line is that the first Arduinos had a layout error, and by the time it was noticed, the first shields had already been produced too.
After all, people routinely stick reflow ovens in their kitchens, right?
Just me?
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Oh, if only there were a way to charge each and every idiot who complains that they didn't get their free stuff. You'd be able to finance an infinite number of Free Days just from the money you'd be raking in from the WAAAAAAAMBULANCE.
I was one of the lucky ones last year. This year I tried, made it to the first quiz question, couldn't submit it before time was up. It was frustrating, it was disappointing, but folks, THAT'S LIFE. DEAL WITH IT.
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If most movies are true depictions of the world, as we've always believed, then knocks on the head should be accompanied by amnesia, the acquiring of magical powers and elaborate dream sequences a la The Big Lebowski. Unfortunately, when it happened to us, we just got a little sleepy and woke up with an awful headache. Lucky for us we don't play sports. But for those who get hit in the head a lot, or those who coach people who get hit a lot, or for anybody interested in head health, there will be a lecture this Tuesday: Rebound and Recovery: A Concussion Discussion, exploring the ins and outs of getting knocked out and how to treat getting knocked out properly. Cowboys' legend Daryl "Moose" Johnston will share his own concussion stories as he's joined by experts in the field who'll show some new research. The discussion takes place 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Center for Brain Health, 2200 West Mockingbird Lane. To order tickets, or for more information, visit concussiondiscussion.eventbrite.com.
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#6 Merrimack Athletics 2013-14 Moment: Women's Cross Country Qualifies for National Championships
The Merrimack College Athletic Department is unveiling the top-10 moments of 2013-14 over the month of June. Join us as we count down some of the most memorable moments of the past academic year!
Setting The Scene
The Merrimack College Athletic Department enjoys the great fortune of having several head coaches who boast not only multiple years, but multiple decades on their staff.
The men's and women's cross country teams are one of those teams who benefit from that leadership, and Chris Cameron would be one to tell you that in his 22 previous seasons of coaching experience, he had seen just about everything.
Under his tutelage, Cameron's squads have produced All-Americans and even a three-peat at the Northeast-10 Conference Championships in the late 1990s, and the team has consistently been a contender at the conference and regional level year in and year out.
But with all that success, Cameron and the program had been missing one key piece from their resume: a trip to the National Championships. Never in school history had the Warriors qualified for Division II Nationals despite all that success nearly a decade ago, when a different qualification process was used to select teams to race for the national title.
Now, any team that placed in the top-three at their respective Regional Championship earned an automatic berth for the National Championships. No easy task given the quality of teams in the East Region, but Cameron still believed that there was something special about his team this past fall.
And he was exactly right.
What Happened
Guided by a pair of top-20 finishes, Merrimack placed third at the NCAA East Regionals on November 10 in Boston, earning the school's first-ever qualification for the NCAA National Championships in Spokane, Wash., in the process.
Merrimack sealed itself a spot in Nationals after finishing with a combined time of 1:58.37, good for the third-best time in the 26-team field to clinch a spot in Nationals. Sophomore Kristin Schmidt's 16th-place finish was tops among all Warriors, finishing in 23:14 in the 6K course. Also earning a top-20 finish was senior Fiona Coleman, who placed 18th with a time of 23:18.
Two weeks later, the Warriors brought their talents to Spokane, Wash., where they would wrap up their historic season with a 31st-place finish at the National Championships. Schmidt and Coleman again paced the team with the top-two finishes, capping off a magical year on the country's biggest stage.
What It Meant
Head Coach Chris Cameron: "At the start of the season, I had a sneaking suspicion that the women's team could be good and surprise some people. I just didn't know how good. I told the girls in our pre-race talk that I'd rather finish 10th place while going for it all than finish 4th and run conservatively. The strategy worked, as we got out in great position and continued to run as a pack. Throughout the race I kept telling the girls that we were in the top-three and the rest was up to them. They knew what was at stake and they gave everything they had and willed their way to the NCAA Championship! We didn't have a front-runner but our tight pack was what got us to Nationals! I couldn't be more proud of a group of student-athletes! They had given everything they had and were physically spent after the race. That's all a coach can ever ask for!"
Senior Captain Briana Devereaux: "This past fall began with a mission. We were ready for a change, and this change included maximum dedication, teamwork and supporting each other through every obstacle. I couldn't be happier going out with this drastic change in performance as a team; I never thought we would actually make it to nationals prior to this year of dedication. Through every hill and every tiring workout, we were there pushing our teammates forward to create a better pack. I know the girls will continue on the dynamic Fiona and I had built within this past year, and know they will make NCAA's again."
This is the fifth of 10 Merrimack Athletics Top Moments of 2013-14 installments.
10. Men's Ice Hockey Plays in Citi Frozen Fenway 2014
9. Men's Lacrosse Reaches Fifth NE-10 Final in Six Years
8. Men's Soccer Returns to NE-10 Final
7. Men's Tennis Earns Seventh Straight NCAA Tournament Berth
6. Women's Cross Country Qualifies for National Championships
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1. Monday, June 30
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50 years: TAG Heuer celebrates Carrera milestone anniversary
A half-century after its dramatic arrival into the motor-racing scene, TAG Heuer's iconic CARRERA, the first sports choronograph designed specifically for professional drivers and sports-car enthusiasts, celebrated its 50th anniversary at New York City's prestigious Highline Studios.
Paying homage to the original creator of the iconic series and watchmaking legend, Jack Heuer, TAG Heuer North America held a prominent event that showcased the CARRERA series from its birth through today. With vintage and modern porshe's displayed alongside imagery of Jack Heuer and racing legends like the Rodriguez brothers, Juan-Manuel Fangio and more, the evening celebrated the spirit and passion of motor-sports.
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Vans DQM General store coming to Boston
Action sports brand Vans — known for its skate, surf and snowboarding shoes — is bringing a new retail concept to Boston.
Vans DQM General, a skate and streetwear store, is scheduled to open at 174 Newbury St. this summer.
The co-branded store is a collaboration between the California-based Vans and DQM, a streetwear seller and skate shop in New York. It will carry exclusive co-branded DQM for Vans footwear and clothing, and select Vans and DQM premium products for men and women.
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