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This is the fire truck that extinguishes imaginary infernos with a working water hose from atop a ladder that extends 3 1/2' in the air. Made by Bruder, renowned German toymakers for 82 years, the 1:16-scale engine has an on-board 8-oz. reservoir that supplies water to its hose, which attaches to the 3 1/2'-tall ladder's basket. Separate easy-to-turn cranks and knobs allow little hands to operate the hose reel, slewing/extending ladder, and water pump with confidence. Flashing lights, horn, siren, and engine sounds encourage imaginative play. Faithful details include a tilting hood that reveals a replica engine block, folding side-view mirrors, and four stanchions. Durable ABS construction. Ages 4 and up. Includes two AAA batteries. 28" L x 8" W x 11 1/2" H. (6 3/4 lbs.)
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The NHCCI is updated quarterly and has a base period of the First Quarter of 2003. The data series began with 45 states in 2003 and currently includes 48 states; Alaska and Hawaii are excluded due to unique cost issues.
The NHCCI does not have the exact same coverage as the C30 (Value of Construction Put in Place) dataset from the Census Bureau. The C30 data only covers the value of new construction, and the NHCCI tracks materials and services purchased by states.
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HIEs Essential in Fee-for-Value Era
This article appears in the September 2012 issue of HealthLeaders magazine.
The pursuit of population health and value-based care may be reviving the business case for organizations to join health information exchanges. Now more than ever providers need accurate and complete patient data to effectively manage chronic care populations and attain incentive payments; this means healthcare organizations must have the ability to capture their own data as well as that of their affiliates and competitors. Health information exchanges just became an essential for providers looking to succeed in the fee-for-value era.
An HIE is an organized regional network that enables hospitals, physicians, and other care providers to upload and access patient health information. HIEs connect data for organizations—from affiliates to competitors—to share clinical data that can improve a patient's overall care. The HIE is generally connected through a provider portal, giving easy access to clinical applications that allow caregivers to see all of the patient's clinical information in real time while restricting access to any claims data or other financial information. Early data indicates the HIE can reduce costs for participants.
In May, the Journal of the American Medical Information Association released a study of the members of the MidSouth eHealth Alliance in Memphis, Tenn., that focused on emergency department encounters and reported that the HIE was responsible for reduced costs of $1.9 million and a net savings of $1.07 million; reduced admissions accounted for 97.6% of the total savings. The study looked at HIE use across 12 hospitals over a 13-month period and included 15,798 HIE encounters.
Though preliminary results indicate HIEs can help healthcare organizations save money, there's still reluctance by some in healthcare to participate in these exchanges. "It's understandable," says Steve Robertson, executive vice president and CIO at Hawai'i Pacific Health, a four-hospital system with three physician groups based in Honolulu. "There's still a lot of uncertainty about the cost that hasn't been worked out, especially in these very difficult economic realities of healthcare reimbursements, like who will pay for it—the government, the insurance companies, the laboratories, the hospitals, the physicians?"
Robertson, who manages IT for HPH as well as the revenue cycle, says healthcare leaders need to look at HIEs for long-term health improvements, not short-term tactical gains. An HIE allows immediate access to a patient's medical history for all providers involved in that patient's care, which makes information gathering and analysis easier for the physician and clinical staff, he says.
HPH helped to found the nonprofit Hawai'i Health Information Exchange in 2006 and has helped it evolve. The Hawai'i HIE is governed by its participants and is funded by participants, state grants, and donations. HPH recently donated more than $100,000 to the state HIE program.
HPH and its competitor, Queens Medical Center, exchange patient clinical information so if HPH patients receive treatment at Queens Medical, the doctors are able to access their medical records. "We've been able to save lives doing this," Robertson says.
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Category: Politics, Violence against Women
Shedding Light on Political Intimidation & Violence
January 10, 2011
Examining recent political intimidation can shed a light on the toxic political and media landscape in which the Giffords shooting took place. Here are some highlights from the past two elections that paint a broader context and help us analyze this tragedy:
- In April 2010, Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin received loud applause at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, while ridiculing the president's expertise and experience. Palin confronted the media's response to her inflammatory remarks by telling her supporters, "don't retreat, reload."
- In the last presidential election, we saw shirts that read "Too Bad Hillary Didn't Marry OJ" and heard media professionals spew misogynist snipes like, "I cross my legs when I see Hillary Clinton. "We saw racist shirts and signs depicting cartoon monkeys while referring to the President as "Curious Barack." Following the health care vote, a throng of Tea Party protesters, supported by several Republican lawmakers called Rep. John Lewis the "n" word and spat on Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver. Tea Party supporters in this same horde yelled epithets at Rep. Barney Frank, calling him a "faggot."
- In March 2010, Rep. Clyburn, reported to Keith Olbermann that he received racially offensive faxes featuring images of nooses and messages with racial slurs following his health care reform vote. "If you look at some of the faxes that I got today, racial slurs, nooses on gallows, and I'm telling you, some very vicious language. This stuff is not all that isolated. It's pretty widespread. I hope it's not too deep."


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Thanks, guys. Mittineague, I know the process you mentioned, and it works. The present issue I've is with the localhost DesktopServer. I've not been able to use FTP with it. Thanks.
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If you have problems, try opening the editor from the right-click "Run as administrator"
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As part of the Hayes School of Music's Max Smith Memorial Gamelan and Organ Concert on Sunday, September 29, rare music books, scores, and manuscripts from Special Collections [1] will be on display in the Music Library [2], located on the second floor of the Broyhill Music Center. Organist and retired faculty member Max Smith [3] (1931-2012) created an endowment to build special collections in classical music to enhance teaching and research at the School of Music.
The concert begins at 3:00 p.m. in Rosen Concert Hall. Click here [4] for more information.
Pictured: Title page from Franz Liszt's Feuilles d'Album pour Piano [5].


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AU Optronics (AUO) will debut its six-inch touch e-book at Display Taiwan 2009 (June 10-12 in Taipei).
The e-book is empowered by Sipix's Microcup technology, which equips the device with 800x600 high-definition screens, 16 gray levels, high contrast ratio and high reflectance. The e-book is expected to enter mass production this year, according to AUO.
AUO said it will also exhibit at the show full-array, glasses-free 3D displays, including 4.3-inch, 8-inch, 17-inch and 65-inch models that are based on different types of technology. Among them, the 65-inch 3D display is enabled with 12 views and is based on a barrier type technology that creates a stereoscopic effect by creating a distance discrepancy between the human's left and right eye.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
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|Monthly Motor Fuel Reported by States, March 2001
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Based on reports of 45 States, gasoline consumption for January-March 2001 increased by 3.3 percent compared to the same period in 20001. During this period, vehicle-miles of travel increased by 0.4 percent.
The gasoline volume shown in this report is a cumulative tabulation of gross volume reported by wholesale distributors to State motor fuel tax agencies. It includes highway use, nonhighway use and losses. There is a lag of up to 6 weeks between the wholesale transactions reported and retail sales to consumers. Travel trends are reported monthly in Traffic Volume Trends based on actual traffic counts at permanent traffic recorders operated by the State highway agencies and, thus, reflect only highway use of fuel. The vehicle-miles reported include all vehicles, regardless of fuel type. While data in both reports reflect changes in trends, large monthly changes can be caused by exceptional weather conditions, variations in timing of holidays, or processing delays.
All States levy volume taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel. The rates in effect for 2001 are shown in Table MF-121T. The gasoline rates vary from a low of 7.5 cents per gallon to 31.1 cents with an average of 19.96 cents. Four States provide for full or partial exemptions for gasohol, a blend of 90 percent gasoline and 10 percent fuel alcohol. Diesel fuel rates vary from 7.5 cents to 30.8 cents per gallon.
Traditionally, State fuel tax rates could only be changed with legislation, but 11 States now have variable rate motor fuel taxes. These taxes are adjusted at specified intervals--annually, semiannually, or quarterly--usually on the basis of an index or formula specified in the enabling legislation. These States are identified in the notes on Table MF-121T. Adjustments to variable rate taxes are announced by State tax agencies shortly before the effective date of the change. In addition to rate changes under variable rate tax laws, the following rate changes are anticipated through the end of 2002:
|Effective July 1, 2001, gasoline rates will increase to 21.5 cents per gallon.
|Effective 1/1/02, alternative fuels pay an amount proportional to the diesel tax (round to the nearest .1 cent and also add 1 cent to these amounts) -ethanol .29 times the diesel tax rate, bio-diesel . 50 times the diesel tax rate, and LPG .33 times the diesel tax rate.
|Effective 7/1/01, gasoline and gasohol will increase to 21 cents per gallons, diesel will increase to 23 cents per gallons, and LPG will increase to 20 cents per gallon. Effective 7/1/03, gasoline and gasohol will increase to 22 cents per gallon, diesel will increase to 24 cents per gallon, and LPG will increase to 21 cents per gallon.
|Effective by administration certification of two State programs, special fuel rates will drop to 14.75 cents per gallon.
|Effective 7/1/01 to 12/31/01. the tax rate will be increased to 24.5 cents per gallon.
|North Carolina
|Effective 7/1/01, the tax rate will decrease to 24.1 cents per gallon.
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Guess How Much Kristen Stewart's 'Breaking Dawn' Premiere Dress Is Selling For?
Kristen Stewart's sheer Zuhair Murad dress from the L.A. 'Breaking Dawn' premiere is up for auction. Guess how much it's going for?
-Lucia Peters
We've got another auction to add to the selection of CharityBuzz prizes this week—and since we started the week off with an examination of Kristen Stewart's increasingly unclad red carpet style, let's continue the discussion: The sheer Zuhair Murad creation Kristen wore to the Los Angeles premiere of Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 is currently up for grabs. Guess how much it's going for?
Answer: $2,250 as of 8:15am on Tuesday.
That's… actually surprisingly reasonable for a designer dress. It even more reasonable when you consider that it also carries the signature of a major star (did we mention that Kristen signed it? Because she did. Just FYI). The strapless dress features peekaboo paneling and matching panties; it's anyone's guess whether the winning bidder will attempt to WEAR said matching panties themselves, or just put them on display so they can gaze longingly at them from time to time.
Read Kristen Stewart's Latest Red Carpet Look: Underwear as Outerwear
In the event that you'd like to place a bid yourself (and we'd understand if you did), the auction ends this Thursday, December 20, at 4:13pm EST. Visit CharityBuzz to place your bid; proceeds from the auction benefits the Robin Hood Foundation, which has been helping to fight poverty in New York City for more than 20 years.
Surprise gift for your favorite Twilight fan? Maybe! Although of course, if you'd rather have a less see-through, more affordable gown that you can actually wear, this Dalia MacPhee strapless chiffon gown ($328, shop.nordstrom.com) might be a better idea. Recreate Kristen's smoky bronze eye and red lip with DuWop's Crush eye shadow palette in 18 Karat ($24, beauty.com) and NARS Satin Lipstick in Rogue Basque ($24, beauty.com) and you're good to go!
Tell us: Would you rather wear Kristen's sheer premiere dress or our chiffon pseudo-lookalike?
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* OpenGL 3.2 extension support
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- BGRA vertex component ordering (GL_ARB_vertex_array_bgra)
- Drawing commands allowing modification of the base vertex index (GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex)
- Shader fragment coordinate convention control (GL_ARB_fragment_coord_conventions)
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- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat – Performance improves as much as 6% on single card configurations
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* Catalyst Control Center: all supported resolutions are now displayed in the Desktop Properties panel
* A confirmation dialog is now displayed when setting up an Eyefinity group
# Windows Vista
* Playing some Flash content with hardware acceleration enabled might result in video edges not appearing smooth
* WinDVD 10 may stop responding when moved to an extended display in a multi-monitor setup
* No audio when hotplugging HDMI display while media file is being played
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* Sound output from Display Port audio is now heard with extended mode configurations with VGA or DVI panels
* Cyblerlink PowerDVD 9: setting the "Allow PowerDVD to automatically disable Windows Aero to optimize Blu?Ray playback" no longer causes the system to become unresponsive during Blu?ray playback
* Cyberlink PowerDVD: Blu?ray playback video no longer fails to render when swapping primary displays in a multi?monitor configuration
* Corruption no longer observed with some DX9 applications when Anti?Alias 8x is enabled.
* WinDVD10: Blu?ray playback will now start and does not require the application has been minimized and restored
* Resident Evil 5 Japanese version is now supported
* Playing back Blu?Ray content on some system with 120 Hz display no longer results in black screen playback
* Changing desktop resolution no longer causes the Operating System to stop responding when real?time protection is enabled in Microsoft Security Essentials
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Families of September 11 is now operating as the For Action Initiative. The web pages on this site are available for informational purposes only. Please visit us at www.foractioninitiative.org.
Later this month, we will commemorate the bombing that occurred at the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993. Our thoughts go out to the families that lost loved ones or were injured on that day. We continue to remember the loss and heroism that occurred on that day, and on 9/11, in hope that we can move towards a safer and peaceful world.
To that end, FOS11 strongly supports the implementation of the 9/11 Commission's Recommendations as a step towards increase safety and security. Last month, the House passed H.R. 1, Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007 to take measures to further implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. This legislation calls for, among other things, 100% screening of all cargo on passenger planes within three years; all US-bound cargo ships to be checked for nuclear weapons before they leave foreign ports; and increased risk-based homeland security funds for cities likely to be terrorist targets.
This month, the Senate is in the process of developing their version of this bill to implement the 9/11 Commission reforms. The Senate bill is likely to include measures to enhance: the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screener rights; information sharing among Federal, State, and local governments, state and local emergency communications systems; local responder capabilities; and other critical areas.
Among the most important outstanding 9/11 Commission recommendations that have not been implemented are the use of 100% of homeland security dollars being allocated on risk (currently, there is a minimum each state is guaranteed, regardless of risk), improved Congressional oversight on homeland security and intelligence, improved interoperability and allocation of broadband spectrum so first responders can communicate, and a "maximum effort" to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
FOS11 Board Member, Carie Lemack, along with other family members, attended a Senate hearing on Thursday 15Feb07 to support passage of a strong bill. As of the sending of this newsletter, the Senate is considering bringing the bill, known as S.4, to the Senate floor the week of 26Feb07. There is concern that certain member of Congress will try to attach non-germane amendments to S.4, including amendments relating to US policy in Iraq. Families of September 11 strongly believes that only 9/11-related amendments should be considered for a 9/11 Commission recommendation implementation bill.
FOS11 will continue to update our members on the progress of this work. We continue to support Congress' efforts to continue to implement reforms as outlined in the 9/11 Commission Report, published July 2004. To read this report, click here.
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State Health Department to Study Fatalities of World Trade Center Responders
For more information about the Department's response to the World Trade Center, respiratory illnesses, or worker safety please visit: www.nyhealth.gov or http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html.
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University of South Carolina Law School Study on Response to 9/11
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NYDCC Renewing Relationships Weekend Workshop
The workshop will be held at the IBM Learning Center, Armonk, NY in Westchester County, only 30 minutes by car or train from Manhattan. The program, available at no cost to participants, is open to any law enforcement and/or EMS personnel and their spouse or domestic partner. It begins at 11 am on Saturday at the IBM Conference Center in Armonk, NY and extends through Sunday at noon. Dress for the weekend is casual. The IBM Learning Center is located on Old Post Road in Armonk, NY. Learn more about them at http://www.ibmlearningcenter.com or call 914.499.2000. Each weekend is open to 30 couples who will be registered on a first come first serve basis. For information on registration or to become a facilitator, please call 212-582-8208. Click here for more information.
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Thread: Attention Illinois Bow Hunters
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- Jul 2004
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- Roscoe, IL
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Attention Illinois Bow Hunters
Looks like our wonderful IL DNR cannot afford to test for CWD this year in Winnebago County, they will only be testing in the following counties.
Please read carefully and please respond, via E-mail to Paul Shelton (DNR Manager)Paul Shelton . I feel this is unaccceptable for the DNR to not utilize the bowhunters to help this cause. Furthermore to not even test our deer before consumption is a damn shame!
We will only be able to accomplish very limited CWD sampling during the
archery season this year, due to lack of funding. As a result, we only
have a single site where hunters can drop of a deer head for testing.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. I have included a
copy of the news release below which provides the details. As to the
"new rule coming soon" statement on the website, it concerns regulations
that have already come and gone - it is long out-of-date and should have
been removed.
Paul Shelton, Manager
Forest Wildlife Program
During this year's archery deer hunting season, the Illinois
Department of Natural Resource (IDNR) will be testing adult white-tailed
deer for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) from Kane, Lake and McHenry
Counties. Adult deer of either sex will be tested for free. This
monitoring program will help determine the distribution of this disease
in Illinois white-tailed deer. Currently in Illinois, CWD has been
found in Boone, DeKalb, McHenry and Winnebago Counties.
Hunters who are interested in participating in this voluntary program
can have their deer tested free of charge, and should follow the
following instructions. Hunters can submit one or more adult deer for
CWD testing. Deer should be checked in at an official Illinois
Department of Natural Resources archery deer check station for the
county where the deer was harvested. The deer's head should be
removed so the two vertebrae nearest the skull are still attached to the
skull. The head should be placed in a strong plastic bag and kept cool
until the hunter delivers it to the dropped off site. The head should
be stored on ice or refrigerated. The head should not be frozen.
Tissue samples cannot be taken from heads refrigerated more than three
days. IDNR will remove brain tissue for analysis at a pathology
The drop-off site is the main office at the Chain 'O Lakes State
Park, 8916 Wilmot Road Spring Grove, Illinois 60081. The drop off site
will be open October 1 through November 17, 2004 on Sunday through
Thursday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Samples should not be dropped off on
Friday or Saturday.
IDNR appreciates hunters assistance with this very important wildlife
disease surveillance program.
>>> "Dave Taylor (Rkfd)" <email@example.com> 9/21/04 11:44:11 AM >>>
Hello IL DNR,
Am I missing something because I can't find any info on how and
where the DNR plans to test Archery deer this year?The season opens in
10 days....whats up? Also, what is the "NEW RULE COMING SOON" that's
been on the site for ever?
Dave Taylor
Last edited by Sportsman; 10-08-2004 at 12:24 PM. Reason: Add E-mail address for Paul Shelton
That is interesting
If I am right wasn't the CWD the most important issue in the hunting of deer and the preservationof our deer mangement?
I have had them do there testing on the best property you could ask to hunt,they took 8 deer,who know what...
Now they don't have enough money to even see if we will even know if Illinios has a CWD problem?
I smell fish.......
- Join Date
- Jul 2004
- Location
- Roscoe, IL
- Posts
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Anyone concerned about getting deer tested for CWD?
Or are there not many Northern Illinios bow hunters in here?
This came from the DNR, they are working with the local meet lockers to collect samples of deer for CWD.
All of these are in Winnebago County I believe. I had a friend call Pinnons(Fulton Ave., Rockford) to see if they could check his deer yet. They said yes and it was free, just bring them the head! Anyway the meat lockers are supposed to be taking samples and sending them in for testing. Pinnons for sure, you might want to call the other ones.
Still unsure of the turnaround though...waiting for federal funds but at least they are trying.
"These lockers are Eickman's, Smokehouse Meats, Bryans Trade-rite, and Pinons. Some of these may be misspelled. However, as I said
earlier, the turnaround time for testing is currently unknown -
although the samples are being collected, the actual tests cannot be run until
Federal funding comes through to pay for the testing."
At least someone is testing them.Chris Christenson - Admin
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I thought I would try the smokehouse this year,I heard nothing but good things of the last 2 years.
I want to be the first human to contact CWD,If I keep having the season I am having,I won't have to worry about a thing.
Its early I should keep my hopes up,I will try again tomorrow.
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People always ask me if being a teen feminist in high school made it difficult for me socially. I always respond that it didn't really matter. Sure, I got the annoying comments from guys and girls in my school alike, who largely had no idea what the hell I was always going on about. But of all things (and there are a lot, I'm weird for a variety of reasons) what really made things difficult for me socially in high school was the fact that I chose to be a part of a really close group of all-female friends.
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As I posted before, I have elected NOT to continue with the Tarceva (still staying with the Gemzar though) because I felt like I had the flu every single day with no end in sight. As I have said, I would rather have 6 months of wonderful, or even normal, than 8 months of misery. But this leads me to another question. For those of you who are getting other treatments, with or without Gemzar, how do you feel, how are you functioning? this is important to me as I research other avenues of treatment. I can take feeling pretty awful if I know that there is some respite, some relief in sight. What I can't take is feeling awful all the time such as with the Tarceva. If I can't be a mother to my son and can only lay around the house puking or miserable ALL the time, what is the point. I want to make memories for my son and me, not nightmares. So, how do you all feel?


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This French film won Best Screenplay at the 2012 Venice Film Festival, but I am not quite sure why. It tells the personal story of the filmmaker Olivier Assayas, a kind of semi-autobiography. It starts off well enough in a high school classroom in Paris 1971, when a teacher reads from Blaise Pascal: "Between us and Heaven or Hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world."From then on, the film follows the main character, Gilles (Clément Métayer), an aspiring artist who w … [Read more...]
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The Solar Homestead, one of the most popular entries in the DOE-sponsored Solar Decathlon last fall, soon will move beyond the classroom and into the real world.
As part of a recent agreement to market and manufacture the energy-efficient home, Asheville, N.C.-based Deltec Homes is offering the structure to consumers nationwide as a panelized building shell or as a turnkey project for local customers.
The original 883-square-foot Solar Homestead, which was designed by students and professors at Appalachian State University, won the People's Choice Award at the 2011 Solar Decathlon in Washington D.C. As part of the new agreement, Deltec will pay royalties to support the university's Department of Technology and Environmental Design's next large-scale, sustainable design-build project and other research and creative activities.
Displayed near the national mall last September and October and toured by thousands of visitors, the Solar Homestead is a self-sustaining, net-zero energy house inspired by the traditional homesteads of America's early mountain settlers. The project utilizes a highly energy-efficient building envelope, incorporating renewable resources and innovative technology into a prototype that is adaptable, self-sufficient, affordable and attractive. Students merged traditional sustainable practices with modern clean-energy technology, including:
•Forty-two bifacial photovoltaic panels that supply solar energy while providing filtered daylight and protection from the elements
•An on-demand solar thermal domestic hot water system that uses phase-change materials to provide constant water temperature in compact storage
•A trombe wall that is filled with phase-change material to store heat throughout the day and release it at night.
The plans offered by Deltec start at 1,032 square feet and feature a two- or three-bedroom floor plan and additional outbuilding modules for living and storage space customized to owners' needs. "The Solar Homestead is a house people can grow into, and add on to at a later date," says Chad Everhart, ASU associate professor.
The biennial Decathlon is a program that challenges collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive. For the 2011 competition, 19 teams and their solar-powered houses competed in 10 categories that included engineering, hot-water generation, affordability, market appeal, energy balance, and architecture.
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The Shatner Show is Sean Kenney's premier gallery exhibition. Sean spent over 180 hours creating the 9000-piece LEGO sculpture of William Shatner, which is offered for sale at the gallery. A portion of all sales will go toward a charity of William Shatner's choice.
William Shatner's presence in everything he does somehow removes the glittery plastic coating that the media normally glosses onto Hollywood. After surviving a typecast that would have otherwise smothered a weaker personality, he has emerged defiantly proud, and rightfully amused at the world of celebrities that he regardlessly inhabits.
Three miniatures representing his past are designed to sit in front of and beneath the sculpture, illustrating his rise beyond (and due to) his past. Depicted are the buisinessman in "Nightmare at 20,000 feet", Star Trek's iconic Captian James T. Kirk, and Shatner singing in his spoken-word style.
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The sculpture was unveiled as the centerpiece of the show at the Uppercase Gallery in Calgary Canada on June 15, 2007.
Sean was interviewd by Canada's "Global TV News" about the sculpture.
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Shatner has personally endorsed the project by saying, "Every artist has their muse. Leonardo was inspired by the ceiling in the great chapel. Michelangelo found his art in the Italian marble. Who am I to stand in the way of all these fine artists and artisans who want to use my lumpy, aging face for inspiration? Some creators love a great sunset; some have in mind my bloodshot eyes. Nevertheless, out of awe, amusement, or pity, you should come and see this unique show.
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Kendrick Lamar fan throws cell phone on stage and asks rapper to find it
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(Yahoo!) - Kendrick Lamar graciously extended lost and found services to a fan Tuesday during his hour-long set for the Yahoo! On the Road mobile entertainment and innovation festival.
Near the end of his show at Cincinnati's Bogarts theater, a female concertgoer asked him to help her find her phone.
When Kendrick asked her where the phone was located, she told him that she had thrown her cell on the stage.
"You threw your phone?" he asked before rejecting her request to come on stage. He said, "No, you can't get it."
Kendrick patiently looked for the phone and found it underneath his DJ's platform.
When he asked the fan why she had thrown her phone on stage she replied, "I didn't mean to."
He laughed in response. "You trying to tell me your phone just flipped over here?"
Kendrick said this was the first time someone threw a mobile device on stage during his show. "Now you're [hyped] the f—k up if a phone could fly from the audience all the way to the mother—king stage," he said to the crowd.
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Pinnacle 2013 "What Next?"
IIM Americas
Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (PDT)
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IIM AMERICAS invites you to its San Francisco/Bay Area Annual Convention "Pinnacle 2013". The theme of this year's conference is "What Next?". Pinnacle 2013 features scintillating speeches, thought-provoking panel discussions, valuable workshops, interactive discussions with the movers and shakers of Silicon Valley and powerful networking. Breakfast, lunch, hors d'oeuvres, beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be provided.
Pinnacle is a great opportunity to expand your network, create business contacts and catch up with the community!
08:30 am - 09:00 am Registration, Networking, Breakfast
09:00 am - 09:05 am Welcome
Jayant Swamy, Emcee, Director, IIM Americas, Trainer, Consultant, Writer, Coach
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Ashima Jain, Founding President, IIM Americas, Managing Director - PwC
09:15 pm - 10:00 am "Nowcasting"
Dr. Steven Scott, Sr. Economic Analyst, Google
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10:15 am - 11:00 am "Where the Trillion Dollar Market Opportunities Lie"
Vivek Wadhwa, Tech Entrepreneur, Academic, Researcher, Writer
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11:15 am - 12:00 pm Keynote: Economic Forecast
Dr. Mario Belotti, W.M. Keck Foundation Prof. of Economics, Univ. of Santa Clara
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01:00 pm - 02:30 pm Panel Discussion: Social Mobile Cloud
Session chairman: Madhu Nutakki, VP, Digital Presence, Kaiser Permanente
Ramneek Bhasin, Vice President & General Manager Mobile, The Find, Inc.
Deepak Chandnani, Consultant, ex CEO, Obopay
Ankit Jain, Head of Search & Discovery, Google Play, Google
Manu Rekhi, Venture Partner, Inventus Capital
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Navneet Chugh, Managing Partner & Founder, The Chugh Firm
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Ashima Jain, Founding President, IIM Americas, Managing Director - PwC
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Sunday, August 30 2009 - 9/11 Consequences
WPost Helps CIA Defend Torture
By Ray McGovern
It seems coverage of the Bush administration's "war on terror" has been put back on track by the editors of the Washington Post and their "sources" who are determined to highlight the supposed successes of waterboarding and other forms of torture.
Frankly, I was wondering when this return to form would happen at the Post. I was surprised to see Post journalists recently lose their grip, so to speak, and fall into the practice of reporting real facts -- like the sickening revelations in the long-suppressed CIA Inspector General's report on torture.
Apparently they have now been reminded of the biases of the newspaper's top brass, forever justifying the hardnosed "realism" of the Bush administration as it approved brutal and perverse methods for stripping the "bad guys" of their clothes, their dignity, their sense of self -- all to protect America.
Hooded, threatened with cocked guns and electric drills, deprived of sleep for long periods, beaten, dressed in diapers, forced into painful stress positions, locked in tiny boxes and subjected to the near-drowning of waterboarding, the terrorism suspects were supposed to be terrorized into what the CIA psychologists called "learned helplessness."
And to read the Washington Post's account, it all worked, transforming alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed from a "truculent enemy" into what the CIA considered its "preeminent source" on al-Qaeda.
The Post made the story of this transformation -- "How a Detainee Became an Asset: Sept.11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding" -- its Aug. 29 lead story on Page One.
To drive home the central point, the Post declared that "this reversal occurred after Mohammed was subjected to simulated drowning and prolonged sleep deprivation, among other harsh interrogation techniques."
But the story contained some weird contradictions that might have given pause to a less credulous -- or less biased -- newspaper. For example, the Post's two unnamed sources who told the tale of Mohammed's transformation depicted him as anything but a broken man suffering from "learned helplessness," terrified of more torture.
Instead, Mohammed, known as KSM, is described as holding forth like a professor in a lecture hall, pontificating about Greek philosophy and criticizing his American students for their shortcomings. "In one instance, he scolded a listener for poor note-taking and his inability to recall details of an earlier lecture," the Post wrote.
So, instead of a cowering figure induced to talk out of fear that he might be subjected to a 184th session of waterboarding, Mohammed appears to be a boastful narcissist who views himself as a historic figure -- exactly the sort of interrogation subject who would be susceptible to flattery and other successful, non-violent strategies favored by experienced FBI interrogators.
If the "learned helplessness" had worked -- and was the reason Mohammed was talking -- would he really have risked scolding an American interrogator, like an angry teacher chastising an inattentive schoolboy?
However, that is not a question the Post asks or its editors apparently want the readers to think much about. The story is written as if the Post writers Peter Finn, Joby Warrick and Julie Tate are seeking expiation for their sins of writing fact-and-document-based stories in recent days.
The Post management, it seems, is determined to return to its past practice of acting as stenographers for the CIA's PR machine.
Loving the Inquisition
Warming the cockles of Dick Cheney's heart, the Washington Post is "confirming" that waterboarding and sleep deprivation worked -- just as we were told by Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, on May 13 at a hearing on detainee interrogation that included an implicit tip of the hat to all manner of infamous torture past:
"The Vice President [Cheney] is suggesting that there was good information obtained, and I'd like the committee to get that information. Let's have both sides of the story here. I mean, one of the reasons these techniques have survived for about 500 years is apparently they work."
Five hundred years takes us proudly back to the Spanish Inquisition when the cardinals at least had no problem calling a spade a spade. Their term for waterboarding was tortura del agua. No euphemism like "enhanced interrogation technique" or EIT for short.
As for Cheney's earlier claim that two CIA documents would prove that the EITs were effective -- the two were released this week, and they prove nothing of the kind. Together with others, they do indicate that detainees like KSM provided important intelligence on al-Qaeda and its plans. But they fail to support the contention that it was the use of harsh techniques (as opposed to traditional interrogation methods) that yielded the information.
In short, Cheney is no closer to proving that "torture works," than he was before the release of those two documents to which he gave so much fanfare. Indeed, given how the two fizzled out, he is now farther away from making that case, except in the eyes of senior editors at the Washington Post and other outlets of the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM).
Water and Sleep
For years now, the FCM has largely succeeded in trivializing "water torture." So who's afraid of a little water? Don't those Muslims know how to hold their breath, like we do at Rehoboth? And besides, we waterboarded our own troops in training, without adverse effect.
Are Americans so dumbed down that they cannot see the difference between a U.S. military training exercise, during which a simple gesture will stop the torture, and the real thing?
And how well did torture work on KSM? If one examines the record more carefully, it turns out that the alleged 9/11 mastermind was uncooperative and deceptive during the torture.
When U.S. authorities finally let KSM be interviewed by the Red Cross, he said this (which was shoehorned onto page 6 of the Post, presumably to provide the article some semblance of "balance"):
"During the harshest period of my interrogation I gave a lot of false information in order to satisfy what I believed the interrogators wished to hear in order to make the ill-treatment stop. I later told interrogators that their methods were stupid and counterproductive.
"I'm sure that the false information I was forced to invent in order to make the ill-treatment stop wasted a lot of their time."
Ask FBI investigators and others sent on wild goose chases to check out such "information"; in candid moments they will corroborate what KSM has to say on that key point.
It truly boggles the mind what information one can extract by torture. A U.S. Army interrogator with long experience in conducting interrogations, and in training others in traditional Army techniques, recently told me this:
"Give me no restrictions on enhanced techniques and I promise you I could get a detainee to confess to having launched, solo, not one but two successful suicide bombings!"
The FCM's dismissive attitude toward waterboarding goes in spades for sleep deprivation. One hears things like: "We've all gone without sleep -- preparing for exams, for example. We know what it's like, and it's no big deal. And, anyway, these are bad guys."
Not so fast. It's difficult to say that sleep deprivation is worse than waterboarding, but it is just as torturous. Much can be learned from Darius Rejali, a scholar who is one of the world's leading thinkers and writers on torture and its consequences. The paragraphs that follow are drawn largely from his book, Torture and Democracy.
Israeli terrorist and later prime minister, Menachem Begin, describing the sleep deprivation inflicted on him when he was a prisoner of the KGB as a young man, observed that anyone subjected to this condition knows that "not even hunger or thirst are comparable to it."
Experts now agree that sleep deprivation is a basic, and potentially dangerous, physiological-need state, similar to hunger or thirst and as basic to survival. Sleep-deprived people are highly suggestible (a condition not unlike drunkenness or hypnosis), making sleep deprivation ideal for inducing false confessions.
Rejali gives a 15th-century Italian lawyer "credit" for introducing this technique into the Inquisition's toolkit. But Inquisitional interrogators soon became aware of the unreliable character of information acquired through sleep deprivation, and the preferred technique became the rack.
The Gestapo used sleep deprivation among other "Verschäfte Vernehmungen" -- sharpened interrogation techniques. Against whom? You guessed it; against "Terroristen."
Sleep deprivation also was in the quiver of British interrogators in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and is still included in current Israeli procedures. And after 9/11, the CIA and the military were authorized to take the technique out of mothballs and apply it in interrogations -- with terrific results, if you believe Page One of the Washington Post.
For additional context, it may be worth citing what Rejali says about the experience of using sleep deprivation in the U.S.:
"American courts finally barred sleep deprivation for domestic policing during World War II. In 1941 Tennessee police subjected one suspect to sleep deprivation and interrogation for thirty-six hours until he confessed he had killed his wife….
"In 1944, the Supreme Court not only tossed out the confession as unacceptable in any democratic society," but drew a link between sleep deprivation and "the practices of certain foreign nations dedicated to…physical or mental torture."
Political Correctness
Khalid Sheik Mohammed was captured as the writers of the 9/11 Commission were preparing their report. Ask him why he did it, was their understandable request. The answer was quite telling.
Mohammed had attended North Carolina A&T in Greensboro; thus, initial speculation regarding his motive centered on the supposition that he had suffered some gross indignity accounting for his hatred for America. Not so. Rather, as the 9/11 Commission reported on page 147:
"By his own account, KSM's animus toward the United States stemmed not from his experience there as a student, but rather from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel."
Today's Washington Post article offers a revisionist view. It seems Mohammed's initial response was found to be politically incorrect by implicating "U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel."
Perhaps after a few more sessions of waterboarding or a few more days of sleep deprivation he came up with a more acceptable explanation of his motivation. Or perhaps the Post has been selective in picking and choosing among the various things that came out of reports that emerged from his interrogation.
In any event, without so much as a word as to why his story has changed, the Post now would have us believe that the following is the real reason:
"KSM's limited and negative experience in the United States -- which included a brief jail stay because of unpaid bills -- almost certainly helped propel him on his path to becoming a terrorist," according to the [CIA] intelligence summary. "He stated that his contact with Americans, while minimal, confirmed his view that the United States was a debauched and racist country."
A telling revision, indeed.
But let's also look for a moment at "debauched and racist" on its own merits. Could the hated Khalid Sheik Mohammed be speaking some truth here?
If he and other Middle Eastern Muslims looked and acted more like us, would it be so easy to demonize them -- and to torture them?
Would the Washington Post's editors be so supportive if representatives of a more favored ethnic or religious group were stripped naked before members of the opposite sex, put in diapers, immobilized with shackles in stress positions for long periods, denied sleep and made to soil themselves?
In my view, racism is very much at play here.
And "debauched?" Just read the CIA Inspector General report and decide for yourself.
And please: don't stop with a "Tsk, tsk; those interrogators were certainly debauched." We -- all of us -- let it happen. We -- all of us -- need to ensure that our country does not descend again into such depravity.
The only way to do that is to hold ALL the rotten apples accountable, from the top to the bottom of the proverbial barrel.
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. He worked for almost 30 years in Army intelligence and as a CIA analyst, and is now a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
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Brevard, N.C. – The Brevard College Tornados will look for their first South Atlantic Conference win at home this Saturday afternoon, as the Tornados will play host to No. 17 Carson-Newman College on Homecoming Weekend. The kick-off is slated for a 2 p.m. start time with Homecoming festivities scheduled for both before and during halftime of the game.
Having switched back to the triple option offensive attack two games ago, the Tornados have seen their offensive production increase, particularly in the ground game. In BC's last two games, the Tornados have rushed for 542 yards and have put 56 points on the scoreboard.
In the lost to Mars Hill last week, the Tornado offense protected the ball well, turning the ball over one time on a miss-handled snap. Against the Eagles, sophomore quarterback Trey Wilborn will be given the task to run the offense successfully, by protecting the ball, gaining yards and keeping the Carson-Newman offense off the field. Since becoming quarterback Wilborn has rushed for 206 yards and one touchdown, as the running attack for BC has resurged. Senior running back John Taylor along with Desmond Wilson and Xavier Johnson will all see some snaps in the down-back position, while slot-backs Donald Hudson, Shaton Pratt and Matthew Gaines, a converted quarterback, will all play a huge part in the offensive option attack on Saturday.
On the defensive side of the ball, Defensive Coordinator Scott Brumett and the Tornados will face perhaps their toughest challenge this season in the Carson-Newman Eagles. The Eagles have seven pre-season all-sac selections and can score from anywhere on the field. Junior linebacker Stanley Jones, who leads the SAC in tackles with 67 total take downs, will head a linebacking corp. that will be asked to make plays all over the field. Fellow linebackers Brandon Rawls, 44 tackles and three sacks, and Zac McAlister, 41 tackles, along with freshman Prince Simunyu, who is coming back off an injury, will all be challenged on every snap as the Eagles will look to run the ball effectively.
Safety's Joshua Durm and Michael Gist, who were in almost over play against Mars Hill a week ago, will both be in charge of preventing the long-plays in both the run and passing attack of Carson-Newman. The defensive line - headlined by juniors Travis Flynn and John Hardee - will have to make plays up front against a much larger C-N offensive line in order for the Tornados to be successful on Saturday.
The Carson-Newman Eagles, the 2008 Coaches Pre-Season selection to win the South Atlantic Conference, returned 21 starters from last year's 10-1 team that shared the league crown.
The Eagles, who were No. 7 in the nation in many polls at the start of the season, are 5-2 overall on the year with their two losses coming to then No. 3 North Alabama and a overtime thriller with Newberry College.
The No. 17 Eagles are a high-powered and high-scoring offense that is the top-scoring offense in the South Atlantic Conference, as they have scored 314 points on the season, an average of close to 45 points per game. In four of their first seven games, the Eagles have pushed across 59 points are more, with two of those games coming against SAC opponents. The Eagles offense is first in the SAC in rushing offense, averaging 318.7 yards per game.
The C-N offense is led by Pre-Season All-Conference First Team selections quarterback Alex Good and running back Buck Wakefield. Good leads the Eagles in both rushing and in passing, as he as rushed for 621 yards on 84 carries and seven touchdowns, an average of 7.4 yards per attempt and 88.7 yards per game. Through the air, Good is 36-of-68 for 758 yards, nine touchdowns and four interceptions. Wakefield has 542 yards on 58 rushing attempts with eight touchdowns, an average of 9.3 yards per carry.
However, the Eagles have a number of other weapons on the offensive side of the ball, as running backs Ricky Harris, Tony Richardson, quarterback Joel Statham as well as receivers Reggie Hubbard, Otis Miller and Mo Whitten are all capable of making big plays and finding the end zone.
Defensively, the Eagles are allowing 152.4 yards per game on the ground, something that the Tornados will like to take advantage of with their triple option offensive attack. The Eagles are giving up close to 24 points per game, but have forced 16 turnovers on the season, including 11 fumbles.
Pre-Season All SAC First Team selections Otis Ballard and Brian Brown are in the top-three in tackles for the Eagles along with defensive back Mario Russell. Ballard leads the team with 23 solo tackles and two interceptions. Russell leads the team with 31 total tackles over the first seven games and also has two interceptions, while linebacker Brown leads the team with six tackles for loss, including a team-high three sacks for the year.
The Tornados have only faced the Carson-Newman Eagles once before on the gridiron with that game coming one-year ago, Saturday, October 27, 2007, in Jefferson City, Tennessee. The Eagles used a big first half, outscoring BC 31-0, to pull away and pick up the 52-13 win.
The kickoff time is slated for 2 p.m. at Brevard Memorial Stadium in Brevard, N.C. The shuttle buses begin running at 12 p.m. and the gates will open at that time as well, two hours prior to the opening kickoff.
You can catch the game via live broadcast brought to you by the "Voice of the Tornados" Rob Walden over the radio at WSQL 1240 AM or over the Internet at www.wsqlradio.com. You may also visit the Brevard College Athletics website at www.BCTornados.com.
Football Game Notes - No. 17 Carson-Newman vs. Brevard College


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iphone 7 replease this month..... http://iphone-mania..com/iphone7release.html
But then again.. they're lots of Trolls on here. Thank god for free speech eh.. or i mean dumb speech.
Well... I enjoyed the article. Can't please everyone in the world. Didn't know this would be such a big problem.
Because in that case.. we should kill are children for not listening to us, kill gays for not liking the opposite sex and not have sex until we are married, so on so forth.. my point smart one..? You wouldnt kill a kid because they dont listen or a *** for being ***... SO WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT FREE MAC/PC GAMES IS NOT MAC NEWS?? please. Save your sarcastic comments to yourself. I'm not the one whos talking smack on here about the site you are.. you can just as easily go somewhere else.
Again... I'm the troll eh.. Ha.
this was a failure.
I'm making a note here: huge letdown
it's hard to understate my disappointment
valve could have ported
this awesome game to iOS
for the entertainment of us poor ARM-using trolls
but there's no use crying over every failed port
you just keep on hoping, though its coming up short
and the profits are gleaned, if they're letting off Steam
for the people with Intel Inside(tm)
i'm not even angry.
i'm not even trolling now
even though Valve still ignores my iPhone
and LOLs at the hardware, and powerful GPU within
as it idles futilely
I'm so happy it sleeps.
now the pace of development in this platform
ever stuck in Beta, will it never transform?
so I'm glad that valve shrugged, iOS wasn't plugged,
for the people still posting online
Also if they only published information as you see it, there would be maybe one post a week. There's nothing wrong with random articles, you can choose not to read them. And if you do, there's nothing wrong with expanding your knowledge. I'm sure unless you follow Valves every move, you wouldn't know about this. This is a good opportunity to try Portal out.
--just sayin
I'm sick of people like you, bich out these people who put a crap load of effort into something.
And the "pea-nut gallery" being you, feels the need to put their 2-cents in.
Your one of those people who show up after an accident scene and tell the witnesses what happened.


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Reds name Bryan Price new manager
CINCINNATI - Cincinnati Reds President and Chief Executive Officer Bob Castellini and President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Walt Jocketty will introduce Bryan Priceas the club's new field manager.
Price, 51, has agreed to a 3-year contract through the 2016 season to become the 61st field manager in club history and the 51st since 1900. He replaces Dusty Baker, who went 509-463 (.524) in Cincinnati the last 6 seasons.
"I have spent a lot of time with Bryan since the season ended, and I was convinced after the first meeting he is the right person to help us move this organization forward," Jocketty said. "We've all seen his work here with our pitching staff. He has proven himself to be an excellent communicator and leader and clearly is one of the most respected people not only in our clubhouse but in baseball in general."
Castellini said, "I am impressed with Bryan as a pitching coach, leader and person. We're very confident he'll take the helm as manager of the entire team and lead us in the right direction."
Since Price became pitching coach prior to the 2010 season, the Reds' staff has ranked seventh, 12th, third and fourth in team ERA after finishing 13th and 15th the previous 2 seasons. Over the last 2 years, the Reds' 187 wins and 3.36 ERA rank third in the Major Leagues.
Price's 2012 and 2013 staffs were 2 of the most successful in franchise history. In each of those seasons, Reds pitchers established club records for strikeouts while becoming the first staffs in Major League history to produce in consecutive seasons at least 6 pitchers with 100 strikeouts.
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In 2012, Reds relievers led the Major Leagues in ERA (2.65), saves (56) and opponents' batting average (.219) while producing the second-highest strikeouts-per-9-innings ratio in baseball history (9.90). The starting staff that season became only the ninth in Major League history to include 5 pitchers who made at least 30 starts each. Bronson Arroyo, Homer Bailey, Johnny Cueto, Mat Latos and Mike Leake started 161 of the 162 Reds' games that season.


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It's that time of year again: National Geographic Adventure has nominated ten individuals to stand in the running for 2013 People's Choice Adventurer of the Year. This year in particular, we're incredibly proud to announce that the outstanding Shannon Galpin of Mountain2Mountain is one of the Adventurer of the Year nominees — and you can vote for her now!
M2M, which Shannon founded in 2006, "believes in the power of voice as a catalyst for social action," and has touched the lives of many since its inception. In its latest project, Streets of Afghanistan, M2M utilizes the power of photography as the voice of change.
In 2009, Shannon became the first woman to bike in Afghanistan, challenging societal norms and gender perceptions in that part of the world. In general, Shannon's work has seriously highlighted the significance of perpetuating equality for women and girls in conflict regions, and will continue to impact generations to come.
For good reason, Shannon is nominated as Humanitarian of the year. Via Nat Geo Adventure:
The 38-year-old has braved some of the most violent periods in Afghanistan—a country considered by many humanitarian agencies to be the worst place in the world to be a woman—to work on women's education and health. She fostered midwife training to combat infant and maternal mortality in the Panjshir Province. In Kabul and Kandahar, she helped develop reading programs for the daughters of women in prisons, some of whom were jailed for adultery after they were raped or for escaping arranged marriages.
She has used her bicycle as an icebreaker with village elders in remote mountain villages, and in a particularly bold fundraising act, she's mountain biked 140 miles across the Panjshir Valley. In Afghanistan, women cannot ride bikes because of laws and social customs, a fact that Galpin believes has hindered women's education by preventing them from being able to independently travel to school. As a foreign woman, Galpin was able to cross this boundary and turn it into a conversation starter.
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