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Middle school students' interest in college may STEM from CAC's scientific field day
By Guy Harrison, Media & Marketing Specialist
PINAL COUNTY, Ariz. - More than 160 students descended upon Central Arizona College's Signal Peak Campus on Friday, Feb. 18, for the Next Generation STEM Leaders Project, a middle school student field day sponsored by CAC, AREA Foundation, and Helios Education Foundation.
Students from the J.O. Combs Unified School District, the Casa Grande Elementary School District and the Toltec Elementary School District were split into eight groups that toured the campus and participated in activities illustrating several of today's hottest trends in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) subjects. Some of these activities included robotics, "genetic cupcakes," and renewable energy.
In robotics, a lecture presented by CAC instructor Pete Lomeli, students were introduced to toys that were powered by the concept of robotics. At the end of the lecture, students were able to utilize some of toys, ranging from a dancing robot to a wildcat to a racecar track.
"He's got nice moves," quipped one of the students about the robot.
Rebecca Adams, one of the students in attendance, took the gyrating android for a test spin.
"It has so many controls," she said in amazement.
In another classroom on campus, students received a tasty illustration of how human genetic code works. In "genetic cupcakes," students were instructed to dress up a cupcake with specific icing colors as well as candies such as licorice and Skittles. Icing represented hair color while the candy represented limbs, eyes, and other parts of the body.
"This shows the students that everybody's genetics are different," Mary Holland, the CAC professor who instructed the session, explained. "This activity gives them a visual of human genetic code."
As is the case in real life, there was one instance of identical twins during the activity, two cupcakes made of the exact same genetic code from students sitting adjacent to each other.
Renewable energy also was on the slate and students were placed into teams where they were charged with the task of creating the best wind turbine while using paper plates. The students sat on the floor, some coloring their plates for aesthetic effect, while designing and constructing the instrument that would generate the most electricity.
When the teams were finished, their turbines were placed in front of a fan and attached to a device that measured the turbines' electrical output.
The teams, instructed by Kristen Benedict, created incarnations of turbines large and small, ranging from the usage of entire plates to those who just made four small scoop-like pieces out of their plates. The students huddled around the fan and watched for the electrical readouts with anticipation as their turbines moved.
At the end of the day, Adams, who aspires to one day become a scientist, could appreciate the relevancy of the day's activities to current STEM trends.
"Science is important in life, and it's very different now than it was in the past, that's for sure."


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The KitchenAid Cook for the Cure mixer is amazing. First of all, anyone who enjoys baking needs a kitchenAid mixer. I have baked so many batches of cookies with my family's. Plus, it supports Breast Cancer Research. And, its a light shade of pink. This mixer is a great gift for anyone who likes spending time in the kitchen. So much can be done with it, and it looks so fantastic on your counter!
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Slovakia Rejects Expansion of Euro-Zone Bailout Fund
A handful of dissident Slovak lawmakers held up approval of a critical part of a euro-zone crisis-management plan Tuesday, setting back European leaders' campaign to bolster confidence in the common currency, as European officials pushed more openly for a deeper haircut for holders of Greek government bonds.
The measure's rejection means that Slovakia, the euro zone's second-poorest member, is the only one of the bloc's 17 countries that hasn't approved the expansion of the European Financial Stability Facility. Slovak lawmakers said parliament would likely approve the measure eventually, as most parties in parliament support it. But first, the small country faces a political crisis, because its government also lost a vote of confidence late Tuesday.
Political and public opposition to bailouts in Slovakia partly reflect the relatively poor country's anger at being asked to subsidize Greece, a wealthier country whose public finances have spun out of control. But broad political support in Slovakia for the euro zone's anticrisis measures means Tuesday's vote is expected to delay, rather than derail, the EFSF's enlargement.
Read the full story at WSJ.com and see highlights from parliament in our live blog.


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address: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
Present address: Surface Engineering Division, CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore 560017, India.
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
This article reviews work done at authors' laboratories about catalysts based on combinations between copper and ceria for preferential oxidation of CO in H2-rich streams (CO-PROX). The main focus of this review is the characterization of active sites for the process on the basis of spectroscopic analysis of the systems under reaction conditions (
Production of H2 for polymer fuel cells (PEMFC) is usually accomplished by a multi-step process that includes catalytic reforming of hydrocarbons or oxygenated hydrocarbons followed by water-gas shift (WGS) [
Different types of catalysts have shown their efficiency for the CO-PROX process. These can be classified into three general groups as a function of their nature and/or respective catalytic properties. The first group involves supported noble metal catalysts (mainly Pt ones) and follows from the first developments done by Engelhard researchers in the context of processes related to production of clean hydrogen for ammonia synthesis [
The particular ability of copper-ceria catalysts for the CO-PROX or related processes has been essentially attributed to the synergistic redox properties exhibited upon formation of copper oxide-ceria interfacial sites [
The present contribution reviews such studies and also analyzes issues related to catalytic/redox correlations on catalysts of this type in order to attempt to establish the most relevant aspects of the state of the art in this field.
The ability of catalysts based on combinations between copper oxide and ceria for CO oxidation or the CO-PROX process has been related to the promotion of redox properties, which is achieved upon combination of both oxides, taking into account that they appear to operate under a redox-type catalytic mechanism [
Top: X-ray diffractograms of catalysts with 1 wt.% copper oxide dispersed on ceria (CuC), Ce-Zr mixed oxide (CuCZ) and Ce-Tb mixed oxides with 4:1 (CuCT4) and 1:1 (CuCT1) Ce:Tb atomic ratios. Bottom: XANES spectra for the indicated catalysts. Note: This figure is adapted with permission from [
Left: Wagner diagram showing Cu (2p and AES) XP parameters observed for CuC and CuCZ samples. Right: Profile of the Cu/(Ce + M), M = Zr or Tb, atomic ratio as a function of the Ar+-sputtering time for the indicated samples. Note: This figure is adapted with permission from [
Profiles of CO conversion (top) and selectivity for the CO-PROX process (bottom) obtained during catalytic tests under 1% CO + 1.25% O2 + 50% H2 (Ar balance) for the indicated catalysts. Note: This figure is adapted with permission from [
CO2 production during the CO-TPR runs performed with a tubular reactor over the indicated samples. A CuO reference sample prepared by microemulsion has been included for comparative purpose. Note: This figure is reproduced with permission from [
However, such apparently enhanced reduction of dispersed copper oxide entities upon Tb-doping of ceria (as inferred from interpretation of the CO-TPR profiles;
DRIFTS spectra in the carbonyl stretching region following interaction of the indicated catalysts with a diluted CO flow at room temperature.
Considering the results exposed in the former section, a set of catalysts with most active configuration involving the combination of copper oxide and ceria were explored with regards to their CO-PROX properties by means of spectroscopic techniques under reaction conditions (the so-called
Main textural and structural characteristics of the indicated copper-ceria catalysts. The initial number in the samples prepared by impregnation reflects the respective Cu wt.%, while atomic amounts of copper and cerium are indicated in the names employed for the samples prepared by microemulsion-coprecipitation [
|Synthesis method
|SBET (m2/g)
|Lattice parameter a (Å)
|Crystal size a (nm)
|Phases detected b
|Fluorite CeO2
|Fluorite CeO2
|Fluorite CeO2, tenorite CuO
|microemulsion coprecipitation
|Fluorite Ce1−
|microemulsion coprecipitation
a For the fluorite phase; b Based on XRD and Raman [
Thus, XRD displayed only peaks corresponding to the fluorite structure of ceria, except for 5CuO/CeO2 for which weak and narrow peaks of tenorite CuO were detected, in agreement also with HRTEM, XANES and XPS results. As shown in
Concerning the catalytic/redox behavior of the series of samples collected in
DRIFTS spectra under CO-H2-O2 reactant mixture flow at the indicated temperatures for 1CuO/CeO2. The spectrum at the bottom corresponds to that recorded at 303 K after pretreatment under diluted O2 at 773 K, prior to contact with the reactant mixture. Note: This figure is adapted with permission from [
On the other hand, the reaction mechanism under which this type of catalyst operates for CO oxidation has been proposed to be of a redox, generally speaking, of the Mars-van Krevelen [
Raman spectra obtained for Ce0.8Cu0.2O2 under CO-PROX conditions at the indicated temperatures. Note: This figure is adapted with permission from [
The analysis of the Cu K-edge XANES spectra of Cu0.2Ce0.8O2 and 5CuO/CeO2 under CO-PROX conditions indicates the presence of three different chemical species during the course of runs. The first one corresponds to a Cu2+ chemical state displaying geometry similar to that found in CuO, though it also displays some particularities as a consequence of interactions with the support, as discussed in more detail elsewhere [
The existence of different active sites (interfacial ones and on top of the reduced copper oxide particles) for each of the two reactions basically involved in the CO-PROX process over this type of catalyst (CO and H2 oxidation) is in agreement with kinetic analysis showing the absence of interference between CO and H2 during the two reactions (
Cu-K edge XANES spectra under CO-H2-O2 mixture over Ce0.8Cu0.2O2 (
Another recent finding is related to a very recent study in which three samples of copper oxide supported by ceria with different surface morphological characteristics (nanocubes exposing (100) faces at their surface, nanorods exposing (110) and (100) faces and nanospheres with polyhedral shape) have been examined with respect to their CO-PROX performance [
This reveals differences in the catalytic properties of the dispersed copper oxide entities as a function of the surface characteristics of the ceria support with which they interact,
Catalysts constituted by combinations between copper oxide and ceria (or structurally related doped ceria) are amongst the most active catalysts within operative temperature ranges for the process of preferential oxidation of CO in H2-rich stream (CO-PROX). This is an economically and practically interesting procedure for the purification of hydrogen extracted from hydrocarbon sources, particularly focusing on its use as fuel of proton exchange membrane fuel cells in mobile or small-scale applications. Although general agreement exists concerning the necessity of establishing contacts between both components' oxides, simply achievable upon dispersing at highest possible level copper oxide on high surface ceria, it is required to go a step further in the sense of understanding basic aspects of the CO-PROX process over this type of system in order to get optimized configurations, particularly considering that the main competitors within catalysts active for the process are very robust platinum-based catalysts. In this context, the present contribution basically revises work done in the authors' laboratories focused on gaining basic insights in two interrelated aspects: (1) determining the nature of the sites active for the various reactions involved in the process; and (2) establishing catalytic/redox correlations. Concerning the first point, it must be noted that basically two reactions take place below about 200 °C (before formation of WGS-active metallic copper under CO-PROX reaction conditions) in the presence of a CO-PROX mixture over this type of catalyst: CO and H2 oxidation. In turn, concerning the second point, when starting from a fully oxidized catalyst, changes can be produced in the oxide components during the course of the interaction with the reactant mixture,
On the other hand, the results point out some discrepancies as to the use of classical TPR runs for getting catalytic/redox correlations since redox processes of relevancy to explain CO oxidation can take place at relatively low temperature, typically during gases equilibration prior to data collection. In addition, as pointed out in previous works, the reaction mechanism under which the catalysts operate for CO oxidation can be of a redox Mars-van Krevelen type with oxide anions apparently constituting the active centers, according to Raman investigation. Other aspects of relevancy which have not been treated in detail in this contribution, are related to understanding the catalysts' deactivation mechanisms [
This work was funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Plan Nacional Projects CTQ2009-14527 and CTQ2012-32928) and Comunidad de Madrid (Project DIVERCEL, Ref.: S2009/ENE-1475). Support from EU COST CM1104 action is also acknowledged. Antonio López Cámara acknowledges a PhD grant from the CSIC JAE program.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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Buckley reveals in a Twitter post that he and his fiancee Abigail Ochse, who is 5-month pregnant with their first child, are having a baby girl.
Actor A.J. Buckley and his fiancee Abigail Ochse have found out the sex of their unborn baby. The "CSI: NY" actor reveals in a Twitter post that Ochse is pregnant with a baby girl.
"I'm having a baby girl!!! Happiest day of my life," he wrote on September 3. The Adam Ross depicter also attached a sonogram of his baby to the Twitter post. "Thank you for all the kind wishes! So excited to be a dad," he wrote again.
A representative for the actor previously confirmed to PEOPLE that Ochse, an oncology nurse, is 5-month pregnant. The couple's bundle of joy is expected to arrive in early 2014.
Buckley proposed to Ochse on Monday, December 31, after two years of dating. He popped the question in front of his mother Patricia Buckley, Ochse's sister, Alyshia and a few close friends when they were on holiday in Hawaii. The 35-year-old actor proposed to Ochse under a special tree where they left some ashes of Buckley's late father.
Buckley will next be seen in movie "North of Hell", which he also produced. He plays alongside Katherine Heigl and Patrick Wilson.


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Submitted to: American Society of Agronomy Meetings
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/19/2007
Publication Date: 11/8/2007
Citation: Meek, D.W. 2007. Concordance correlation for model performance assessment: An example with reference evapotranspiration observations [CD-ROM]. In: ASA-CSSA-SSSA Annual Meeting Abstracts, November 4-8, 2007, New Orleans, LA. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Procedure for assessing model performance in agronomy is often arbitrary and not always helpful. An omnibus analysis, correspondence correlation, is available and widely known and used in many other sciences. An illustrative example is presented here. The analysis assumes the exact relationship observations = predictions is true. An adjusted correlation coefficient (rc) for the exact correspondence model is estimated using adjustments on the well-known product-moment correlation coefficient (r) for a scale shift (v) and a location shift (u). Data are for 50 d selected from a published lysimeter - weather station calibration study. Daily totals of measured reference evapotranspiration (ET0) are compared to estimates from two possible weather observation based models using correspondence correlation analysis. Both models use the same weather data inputs and estimate an hourly total. The daily value for model-1 is the sum of hourly estimates that use a published empirical wind function calibration. The daily value for model-2 is the sum of hourly estimates that use a published iterative aero-dynamical stability routine. Using model-1, r = 0.980, rc = 0.975 (P<0.015), v = 0.908, and u = -0.025. Using model-2, r = 0.982, rc = 0.945 (P<0.037), v = 0.841, and u = -0.215. Hence, although model-2 predictions have less scatter, having a greater r, it is not a better choice because it has both greater u and v values revealing greater systematic under-estimation of observation location (mean bias) and scale (variance). Researchers should therefore consider correspondence correlation analysis for model performance assessment because it provides a simple and sound probability-based omnibus test and useful analytical insight.


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no delete....friday
I mean, we can pretend it is Thursday, if you want. I would have done a no-delete post yesterday, but I was busy napping and eating sour patch kids.
This post is brought to you by the fact that Clara is exhausted from another riveting day at daycare, but absolutely refuses to sleep, because why sleep? Last time she fell asleep Mom abandoned her and left her in the care of teens, so instead, she will just lay on my side and stare at me angrily. How dare you, Mom, how dare you? It is sad, how desperately she fights sleep, and how she absolutely refuses to be held or cuddled, since that would lead to sleep. Stubborn little nugget. (We should have expected this behavior, coming from the former-fetus who would start moving head down, only to flip back up. My c-section scar thanks you for that, Clara Alice.)
Anyway, when I say riveting in reference to daycare, I mean it, that isn't the usual Child Bride sarcastic bullshittery you've grown to know and love. They take very good care of her there, despite the fact that until recently she was very fussy, and had a habit of staging passive aggressive diaper blow-outs every day during her nap. I guess that isn't passive aggressive that is just regular aggressive Way to break gender normative expectations of conflict avoidance, child. Anyway, they take very good care of her, and there really is only one teen who comes in as an aide, and I like her.
What else is new? Not much. I thought Mimi Smartypants had a funny post today. (CAUTION: blog linked is profane sometimes, politically incorrect often, and occasionally sweet and tender. So read at your own will and pleasure and please don't email me some nonsense about how you just cannot believe that a sweet Mormon girl would link to such trash. Because I will just laugh at you because WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS.)
Anyway, here is a link to the Smartypants blog: http://mimismartypants.com/
Here is my favorite blurb from her last post:
"Her teacher is a dude, and is of the "Entertaining Rockstar" ilk—chatty, goofy, fond of props and technology and humor. The kind of teacher that kids LOVE and parents…also love, although my inner bitch sometimes silently rolls her eyes at the level of sparkly enthusiasm. Do not get me wrong, if there is any profession where daily sparkly passionate enthusiasm is a huge plus it is probably teaching. I am super grateful that people like that exist and are making my kid's fourth-grade year a joyful, learning-rich time. I just get a little mentally worn out being around such people."
I probably would wear out Mimi smartypants, especially today when I drank so much caffeine to get through the day that I was walking the fine line between "enthusiastic educator" and "manic lunatic not to be left in the presence of children." Also, Mimi Smartypants is not a fan of Mormons, so I'm probably screwed on that front too. (I can't believe a sweet little Mormon girl would link to such trash, yada yada yada I hate you....)
Maybe Smartypants lady wouldn't like me, but it doesn't stop me from reading and enjoying her blog. Sometimes I get comments or emails from people saying things like "I like your blog, even though you probably don't like mine." I always wonder about that. I click over to their blogs and they are usually mommy- type blogs, and I am, despite frequent accusations to the contrary, cool with moms. Are you nice? Do you talk about your kids in a funny way? Do you occasionally post really easy recipes that are delicious? I will probably like your blog just fine. Do you humblebrag about how awesome you and your spouse are, including the inability to separate yourself from your spouse's academic or career accomplishments ("We are in Medical School....".) Game over, in that case. Otherwise, please proceed I probably like you fine, and probably even find your children adorable. Be funny. Don't be a dickalope.
Speaking of children, my students were very funny today. If you are my friend on facebook, you already hear a lot about the funny things they say, but what if you are not my friend? If you are not my friend please enjoy the following gems for the first time.
Student A: "I hate this class! We spend so much time looking at words!"
Student B: "That's called reading, this is English, and you are an idiot."
Best tattletale student ever: " Richard won't give up his notions of normative gender roles! He's being a privileged male again!"
See? They are funny. If you are seeing those gems for a second time, I apologize. Clearly, my blogging skills are bordering awfully close to non-existent. I did not even swear creatively in this post. Unless you count dickalope, which I guess I do.
Thus ends this edition of no-delete Day-Ending-With-Y. I cheated a few times. I was going to talk about a mom-blogger that is rude to me, but I decided I've got 99 problems but a crazy mom-blogger ain't one.
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part-time and half-lives
I felt like I needed a break from the internet. Do you ever feel that way? I even deleted my Facebook account for about....34 hours. (I really enjoy Facebook, all right?) I thought about explaining why I needed a break from the internet, but then I recognized that potential post as the most boring thing ever.(Life! Transitions! Sad feelings! Happy feelings!) So instead you get a blurb, and an update. Woot to you, good sirs and madams. Here's what is new with me:
School started again. Would you like to read about my schedule? I teach four classes instead of six, and I only work on B days. (High school schedules have four classes on A days, and four different classes on B days.) So for the first few weeks of school, by the miracle of Labor Day, I only had to teach 4 times. Things are a little bit busier now, but I like part time teaching for the time being. It was really important to me to go back to work, but I'm glad (and very aware* of how privileged** I am,) to have a gig where I spend lots of time with Clara Chubzilla and lots of time with squirrelly teens.
Clara goes to a daycare at my school, and she copes by either sleeping a lot, or not sleeping at all and screaming a lot. One time I went to collect her and an anxious looking teen was holding her and bouncing her up and down. As she carefully passed her over, she sighed and stretched out her arm, wincing. "My arm has been asleep for the last hour, but I didn't want to put her down or she would start screaming again." Sheesh. Sorry teen, hope that helps you remember to play it safe should you ever decide to engage in adult relationships with a romantic partner.
The moral of the story? Hopefully Clara adapts to daycare soon, and I really, really, enjoy my job. I was away for a long time, and I have less on my plate this year, so I've really been able to enjoy working. The class dynamics have been pretty positive so far, and I love what I teach, and I feel really alive and happy when a lesson goes particularly well, or a student says something truly insightful.
Every summer I debate about my job. It is hard, and stressful, and the pay is bullshit. But the first few weeks of school always suck me back in. I love my job. Every September I remember the sixteen-year- old girl who sat in AP U.S. History beaming as she realized she was good at learning. And ten years later she has her own classroom, and her students are watching her because, damn, she has great teacher presence, and that woman and those students are learning together. I'm still beaming, and it is a dream come true, and I'm glad I stuck with it.
This feeling? I want Clara to have it. Whatever it is that makes her feel just a little bit more alive than she felt when she woke up. I hope I show her that, when she watches me work, that what I am doing helps me feel more alive, and she deserves that feeling too.
You know what really helps one appreciate being a woman and having something that makes one feel alive? Reading The Feminine Mystique for book club last month. I felt enraged and discouraged, but happy and hopeful the whole time I read it. I've lived in worlds where I was forced to accept "The Problem That Has No Name," as inevitable, and even as a godly trial. To fight against that constantly, and to fight against that for my child, is exhausting. But as Betty Friedan so beautifully put it, before women started fighting for freedom, "Only men had the freedom to love, and enjoy love, and decide for themselves in the eyes of their God the problems of right and wrong. Did women want these freedoms because they wanted to be men? Or did they want them because they also were human?" Amen, Betty, amen.
A few weeks ago, someone left a comment on my blog, (and to be fair, I'm unsure of the intended tone,) about women wanting the Priesthood. "Is Priesthood Envy the new Penis Envy? Just askin'?"
I ignored the comment because I don't think that person meant it as a question. I think they were stating something they believed to be fact, and by reducing female ordination to a flippant comment about female pettiness, they might not have to think about it anymore.
But I guess I'm not ignoring it now, just long enough to say that Penis Envy (and it's various incarnations, including Priesthood Envy,) is a stupid myth meant to demonize feminism and shut down meaningful discourse between people. Women do not want equality so that they can be men. Women want equality, as Friedan points out, so that we can be human. We do not want your body parts, we want your rights and privileges, which in the case of Priesthood, are granted based on those body parts.
I am lucky that I have a job and a life that most of the time, helps me feel alive. But there are so many women who still feel "stopped at a stage of evolution far short of their human capacity" (Friedan). Sometimes they feel like me, that their spiritual evolution stopped when they turned 12, or when they went through the temple, or when they had a good idea, but no "Presiding Priesthood Authority" to fight for them. Wherever you fall on the question of feminism, or the question of female ordination in your church, you should stop thinking of these movements and questions as an attempt to take something from someone else. (Penises, Priesthood, authority, etc.)
Instead, you should start seeing these movements and questions as what they are: the simple desire to feel human. To feel more alive.
So that's what's new with me.
*Liberal blogger buzzword alert! Aware, AND **Privilege! Bam.
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The Soapbox: Misunderstanding "50 Shades" & Kink Is Hurting Those Of Us Who Practice
I haven't exactly kept it a secret around here the way that I'm sexually wired. For the most part, though, the only person whose opinion matters on the subject is my sexual partner. (And any roommates who have to listen to occasional smacking.) Yet, every so often, BDSM — that's bondage, dominance, sadomasochism — pops up in mainstream popular culture and us kinksters and spankos get to hear the mainstream's opinion on our lives.
"Secretary," starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader, a flick about a secretary who enters into a dominance/submission relationship with her boss, came out while I was in college. Although the flick was understandably controversial, it explained to a lot of people, "Hey, we're just regular folks like you. Except, you know, not so regular!"
More recently, it's the BDSM erotic novel 50 Shades Of Grey that has people talking. It seems everyone has an opinion on the subject — including those who are completely misguided about who kinksters are and what we do. Take, for instance, feminist blogger Morgane Richardson and a piece she wrote calling 50 Shades "a glimpse into domestic violence."
Richardson's piece begins with being honest about the fact she doesn't think a BDSM relationship could be for her. That's cool. It's not a lot of people's cup of tea. And yet, like a lot of people, she was open-minded to the idea other people could really be into it. Her mind was changed, however, by reading 50 Shades and getting freaked out about the content therein:
[I] began reading this novel with the belief that I would ultimately find the concept okay; I had heard that it was largely about BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Dominance, Submission, Sadomasochism, Sadism, Masochism) and though I don't believe I could ever partake in such a relationship, I have never denied the fact that others obtain pleasure from this subculture. However, what I found to be the basis of Fifty Shades of Grey was not erotica or BDSM, rather it was the story of a man, Christian Grey, who had experienced severe amounts of physical and emotional trauma as a child and whose only way of feeling sexual and emotional pleasure was by dominating others.
Richardson goes on to explain all the various reasons why the story of Christian Grey, the dominant, and Anastasia Steele, the submissive, are "tell-tale signs of domestic abuse." She writes:
[T]he submission isn't only in the bedroom or the "Red Room of Pain," as she calls it. Grey's desire to dominate and control Ana is translated into their daily lives where Grey demands that Ana remains obedient: doesn't talk with other people, dresses in the clothes he chooses, waxes all of her body hair and exercises based on his schedule (oh, and she is able to negotiate this one to only work out three days a week rather than four, Yippie! – insert sarcasm). Yes, Grey learns to love it when Ana talks back and asks questions, but largely because it means that her "defiance" will lead to punishment, which Grey deeply enjoys giving by "fucking" and "spanking" her.
Maybe to vanilla people this sounds like "tell-tale signs of domestic abuse." And if it wasn't consensual and wasn't occurring with the express permission of Anastasia because she is enjoying it, it would be domestic abuse. But this fantasy play is not domestic abuse. In fact, to this kinky woman, that sounds like hot, hot, Hot, HOT sex.
Kinky play does not have to halt at the bedroom door. Just like vanilla sex, BDSM play can be hands-on and physical, involving hands and tongues and teeth and various fun orifices. Kinky folks get aroused by having their penis smacked, their hair yanked, their nipples pinched, or whatever else it is that turns their crank. But a huge element of BDSM play is the psychological element of fantasy. This cannot be overstated. Submissives and dominants get off on the aspects which are not hands-on but purely communicated though words and actions; a submissive in particular gets off on the knowledge that he or she is submitting to someone else. For instance, knowing you are going to get "punished" this evening if you go to work not wearing any panties, or being instructed to wear a certain outfit during the day, are both ways that fantasy may play out. Being told, like Anastasia, you have to exercise a certain amount each week or pay your bills on time or do your homework also plays into that fantasy. (This type of relationship dynamic is called "domestic discipline" and you should Google it if you want more information.) Consenting to a partner's dominance can happen with words, looks, gestures and establishes the dominant/submissive dynamic. It's not only enjoyable (on some level) in the moment for both partners involved, but the establishment of the dynamic makes both partners anticipate what is going to happen once they are behind closed doors.
I understand where this misunderstanding comes from. Other people don't always understand what we do. So here's what we do: Kinky folks operate under the phrase "safe, sane and consensual." That means everything you do will not cause any emotional harm or any long-lasting physical harm; that it's not impossible, illogical, dangerous or life-threatening; and that it is utterly and completely consensual. Everything you do with a partner has been negotiated at some point beforehand. Kinky folks also operate with a "safe word," meaning that when a person says his or her safe word, all play is supposed to end immediately. (For example, lots of people use "red," "yellow" and "green" while playing, because their connotations clearly indicate where their partner is at. But for me, I tell my partners in bed that my safe word is "stop." If I say "no" in bed, it doesn't mean stop. "Stop" means stop.) In my experience, it's been a constant negotiation; the lines of communication are always extremely open. This is how emotionally healthy folks like myself practice BDSM. Anastasia's obedience and the way she is controlled by Christian in 50 Shades Of Grey may sound to people who misunderstand BDSM like she is being abused. Take their behavior outside of the fantasy realm and I would agree. But a sexual fantasy is a sexual fantasy. And it's no one's business to tell me my fantasy is "wrong" so long as I am not hurting anyone else. It's judgmental — not to mention paternalistic — to think otherwise. (Yes, I am looking at you, Dr. Drew.) That's not fair to me or anyone else who's wired the way I am.
Of course, Richardson came at her analysis from a feminist point of view. I understand why the content of 50 Shades would raise her concern antennae. And to be fair, she did makes one really legitimate point about a problematic dynamic between Christian and Anastasia: Christian is pretty fucked up and Anastasia thinks she can "save him." As Richardson writes, "[S]he tries to save him all the while negotiating whether or not she can actually be the submissive partner he wants and 'needs." Elsewhere she notes, "[Christian is] a man who is only able to work through his past traumas through, often literally, beating others into submission." I don't dispute even for a milisecond that one person cannot "save" somebody else or that literally beating someone into submission Chris Brown-style is wrong. But it's important to see the nuance here: BDSM sex and one partner's fucked-upness are TWO different issues and they should not be intertwined. There are plenty of folks who practice BDSM who are not fucked up and there are plenty of folks who have vanilla sex who are fucked up. Plenty of vanilla folks commit domestic violence, too. I don't want people thinking that I am being abused just because of the type of sex that I enjoy.
To be sure, Christian Grey is "50 shades of fucked up" and that's not a desirable quality for any partner, dominant or not. Would I personally get involved in a BDSM relationship with someone who had fucked up personal problems? Most likely not, because someone who is working out their own emotional shit may not be at a good place to be the type of partner a submissive needs. I know from experience that being submissive to a dominant requires an incredible amount of trust, communication, trust, and, oh, more trust. Were Anastasia and Christian real people and not characters in a book, that would be a conversation I would certainly like to have with Ana. However, it is not something I will pretend to know about as someone who is merely outside looking in. Just because someone has had a shitty childhood or whatever does not mean their sexual desires — dominant or submissive — should automatically be suspect. Because if having to have had a perfect childhood is going to be my golden ticket to the OK-ness of my fetish, I am not going to pass muster … and neither would a bunch of my other kinky friends.
At the very end of her piece Richardson writes that the story is "sad and often disturbing," but she will continue to read the rest of the 50 Shades series to see how it end. "[I] will be crossing my fingers that Grey gets the help that he needs and deserves, and that Ana finds the strength to love herself enough to walk away." My hope is that though reading the series — and hopefully reading some of my own writings on the subject, as a feminist who has kinky sex — doubters like Richardson will have a greater understanding about BDSM and a less judgmental outlook about it all.
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Polls. They are our proverbial 'crystal balls' in guessing the outcomes of Presidential Elections. Right now, they all show results within a "margin of error." That is pollster vernacular for "hey, we could be completely off the mark, so don't hold us accountable if it goes a different way."
If I were to prognosticate the outcome of this election, I might employ simple logic instead. I might turn to past variables, to predict future outcomes…such as, the 2008 election.
If one were to employ such logic, and apply simple quantitative reasoning to this years' election, one might come up with a very different, and overwhelming result:
Romney is going to win in a landslide.
Let's utilize logical reasoning, critical thinking, and apply here:
- Obama has lost a significant percentage of disenfranchised Dems that he was awarded with in 2008 (like myself)…and also a percentage of enthused young voters who no longer are inspired by Obama since moving into their parents basement after graduating college.
- Obama has lost ANY Republican voters he got in 2008…you know…those that turned red states blue in voting for him…fool us once applies here.
- Obama had overwhelming majority of Independent voters….Romney owns this segment in this election…let's be honest…Independents wanted the Candidate Obama policies as much as Dems, but they are even more adept and attune to the fact that they received the exact opposite in policy from him.
- Obama had no record to be held accountable to in 2008…we voted for "hoping" he was different…we DO have a record now. That makes Obama instantly less believable/desirable as a candidate this time around for anyone who actually pays attention…a small percentage, but unless he expanded the pool of "lever-pullers" in this cycle…he loses even more.
- Polls are relying today on turnout in 2008…McCain/Palin ticket offered less than enthusiastic turnout…let's give increase in enthusiasm of Republicans showing up just a few points increase.
- African American community suffering more now than any other segment of the population…and they are speaking out more than ever.
- Jewish vote…gone.
So, I see a HUGE Romney victory...if past is prelude, and I think logically, no other conclusion can be found. It is why, I suspect, pollsters cannot be definitive in their reporting…they still cannot fathom a negative towards Obama…much like all of MSM. Then you look at major newspaper endorsements, and see they have not repeated their support for Obama again this cycle…and just a teeny bit of hope that there is some integrity left in journalism remains.
My crystal ball employs logic, and looking into it shows me that Romney will actually win, and will win decisively.


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I'm a Swedish author and aikido instructor. In addition to fiction, I've written several books about life force concepts and East Asian traditions. I'm also a historian of ideas, researching ancient thought and mythology. My personal website: stenudd.com
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The life energy exists in many traditions, such as qi (chi) in China, prana in India, pneuma in Ancient Greece, spiritus in Latin, and vitalism in philosophy. Here they are all explained.
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Life Energy Fundamentals
In agrarian society, everything must have a purpose and be put to use. Primeval man marveled at the mysteries of life, but agricultural man needed to explain the mysteries systematically, to bring order and predictability to the world.
This is quite outspoken in the old Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish, where the god Marduk (see the image above) declared that mankind should be created to serve and bring offerings to the gods. Genesis 2, the second creation story of the Bible, is another clear example of this. God let all the creatures of the world parade before Adam, so that he could name them and regard them as his, to do with them as he pleased. But when he broke God's rule, he was forever condemned.
The plants and the beasts were easy enough to make use of, but the immaterial life force was something else. There had to be an immaterial use for it.
The primary concern in agricultural society was order, and obedience to it - for the purpose of cultivating the land, but also to govern the thousands of people this society was able to feed. Everything in this society was formed to propagate and affirm that order.
So, the life force became something that needed and fostered discipline - a force aimed at conforming man to society. The Indian life energy prana is a good example, accessible only to the appeased mind, mainly by meditation and similar exercises of controlling the mind as well as the body. The life force was something that you had to work to get, and you got it only to the extent of your effort.
Also, the life force was becoming less personal. It was an ether existing all over, of which people could feed much like the animals of a farm were fed by their owners - if they conformed to the terms. The life force was believed to have a will of its own, working its ways through man, and not the other way around.
To Homo rudis, the life force had been a tool for the mind, but in agrarian society the human mind was a tool for the life force. This is very distinct with the Holy Spirit of the Bible: it belongs to God, who is the ruler of all, and it acts on humans according to His will (see the illustration on the next page). The humans were no longer free to utilize the life force according to their wishes, but had to obey in order to receive it at all. The most obedient ones got the most of it. Humans could do nothing but stay pious and pray to receive it.
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Trouble sleeping? Eat your way to a good snooze
But according to The Sleep Council, a body that aims to raise awareness of the importance of a good night's sleep, some foods can really set you up for a healthy kip.
Sounds much more fun than counting sheep...
Sleep Council member Jessica Alexander explains that certain foods, eaten before bed, can get you in a sleepy mood.
"While we don't recommend eating a big meal just before bedtime, as it can lead to discomfort and indigestion, some people find a bedtime snack a helpful aid to sleep," she says. "The best is one that contains complex carbohydrates and protein and perhaps some calcium - which is why dairy products are one of the top sleep-inducing foods."
Yogurt and milk products are great if you've got the late night munchies, as the calcium in dairy products can reduce stress and stabilise the nerve fibres in your brain, making you feel calm and relaxed.
Calcium is also found in leafy green veg such as cabbage and spinach, so don't hold back on raiding the fridge for a midnight salad!
Other foods that help to stop your brain buzzing and prepare you for some downtime include whole grain cereals, bananas, almonds, and most types of fish.
We wouldn't advise eating them all together, though!
Once you've treated yourself to an insomnia-busting snack, settle down on a good bed in a well-ventilated, quiet and dark room. You'll soon be sleeping like a baby. Zzzzzz.


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NOW is the time for Dems to Dial Up the Pressure for more sensible gun controls that plugs "Gun Show Loop Holes" and require license for hand guns. We require a license to drive. We need to require one to own a deadly weapon. Thirty four Americans killed every day of every week by hand gun. It is time to stop the killing fields in America.
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With all the talk of peak oil, it is hard to believe that something as important as peak water may have already come and gone with no equivalent hue and cry. The major constriction for producing food for a burgeoning population is water - not land. According to the International Food Policy Research Institute, nearly 5 billion people, about half of global grain production, and 45% of the GPD ($63 trillion dollars) will be at risk due to lack of water with current consumption practices. Eighteen countries; including the big-three grain producers China, India, and the U.S.; are now over-pumping their aquifers. For 20 years Saudi Arabia was self-sufficient in growing wheat. They have nearly exhausted their aquifer and will quit growing wheat in 2016. Recent droughts in California and Texas seem bad but there is evidence that a major portion of the Southwest U.S. underwent a 10-year drought with hardly a drop of rain several hundred years ago. Inexpensive desalination is needed.
One of the largest storehouses of energy lies quietly at the bottom of the ocean. It is not oil, and it is not methane hydrate. It is cold water. Specifically, it is deep ocean water, also known as DOW, from the upper levels of the Midnight Zone at 3,300 to 13,200 feet deep. Approximately 90% of the ocean by volume is deep ocean water. This water is at a temperature of 32˚ to 37˚F. More correctly, it might be called a storehouse of a relative lack of energy because it is only the combination with a more energetic (warmer) mass that results in an extractable form of energy. That more energetic mass would, of course, be the warm upper regions of the Twilight Zone and the Sunlight Zone of the ocean and the tropospheric layer of the atmosphere.
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Although this is the coldest water, anything 2,500 feet and deeper in the ocean is about 46˚F, which is considered "cold ocean water" and is usable for the applications described here. More than 90% of the oceans are greater than 2,500 feet.
The best place to exploit this temperature differential is the Tropics where the temperatures near and above the surface of the water are mild to hot year around. Fortunately, approximately 40% of the world's surface lies in the Tropics and it includes a lot of DOW and cold ocean water. While a tropical climate is the most efficient location for extracting water and power, an appreciable percentage of the North and South temperate zones have sufficiently warm weather to make this practical. For the United States that would include the coastline and offshore of states along the Gulf of Mexico, the eastern coast of Florida and the southern coast of California.
Cold ocean water in combination with warm, humid tropical and subtropical air will provide an opportunity to meet water and power needs for the future.
For just the cost of equipment and maintenance the system described here will provide both water and electricity. It is basically a tower mounted on a spar-type, offshore platform. Deep, cold ocean water is pumped into a gas-to-liquid heat exchanger in the top of the tower. Wind is concentrated and re-directed into the heat exchanger. The air becomes cooler and the humidity condenses out onto the surface of the heat exchanger and is collected. Because cool air is denser it accelerates toward the bottom of the tower; essentially a reverse stack effect. A wind turbine at the bottom of the tower harvests the wind energy before it leaves through openings around the base of the tower. The collected water and generated electricity is sent to shore.
Another version is built on the shoreline and uses an onshore reservoir to store the water. This stored water produces electricity that makes up for slumps in production from the wind turbine.
Another version is free-floating with its own propulsion. With the ability to produce electricity and water, it will become a base for mining, aquafarming, recycling ocean plastic, or scientific studies. These could be very independent, almost like tiny nations with their own GPD and tax laws. They could move wherever needed to provide power and fresh water as well as food.
This free ranging version could work in conjunction with special sea-going barges. These would store fresh water and hydrogen from the electrolysis of sea water. When the barge is full, it is towed the nearest port in need of water and fuel.
Barge to lighter water and hydrogen to shore. Top tank is for hydrogen, bottom two for water.
The central spar provides stability for the tower even in high winds and heavy seas. Although it resembles an offshore drilling or production rig, it is much more simple and less expensive. It is even simpler than a cruise ship to construct. Cruise ships are currently running between $2 and $3 dollars per pound to construct.
A unit 120 feet in diameter, 300 feet tall (the spar below the surface counterbalances and structurally stabilizes the tower even in high wind) could produce 20MW on average and between two and five million gallons of water per day. At 7 million pounds it would cost about 18 million dollars. The electricity and water produced would retail for about 25 million dollars per year so the unit could conceivably pay for itself in a year. A hundred of these in the Gulf of Mexico could provide the same amount of water as the Brazos River watershed and as much electricity as a large nuclear plant. That would also provide the ability to cool the surface water temperature of a large area and reduce the strength of storms and hurricanes before they reach land.
- Bird deaths eliminated.
- Even if it's located onshore, the sound of the turbine is mitigated by the tower wall.
- Flickering shadows on the surrounding landscape are eliminated.
- Maintains a cool environment for heat-generating rotating parts of the turbine no matter what the external environment.
- The horizontal plane of the turbine allows more efficient, longer lasting bearings to be used.
- The horizontal plane of the turbine also eliminates gravity and wind load fluctuations making the blade construction cheaper.
- The seawater in contact with the inner, hard-to-clean surfaces of the device is too cold and salty to form algae, minimizing maintenance.
- No chemicals to leak into the environment.
- Produces power even when the wind is still due to the reverse stack effect.
- No azimuth yaw mechanisms needed to keep wind turbine aligned.
- Being at sea eliminates land purchase or rental.
- Nutrient-rich deep ocean water can be used for aquatic farming near the surface.
- There's plenty of "fuel" since 90% of the ocean's volume is between 32ºF and 37ºF and 40% of the world is tropical or subtropical.
Ever since I wrote a blog The Future of Wind Energy I've been thinking about this and it has finally crystalized into something useful.This is patent pending technology looking for a sugar daddy. A prototype needs to be built and tested to get the bugs out. That takes money I don't have. If you're reading this and have an "in" with the likes of Bill Gates or Richard Branson or somebody at Google, send them a link. It is a multi-billion dollar market that is going to keep growing.
Visit this blog to check out the stats that make it such a compelling idea.
Visit this blog to check out the stats that make it such a compelling idea.
Also, it is entered in the annual NASA Create the future contest. If you feel like it is a good idea, fill out their form and vote on it. FYI - this is a popular vote and does not affect the outcome of the contest. You can look at the entries there without signing up and there are some good ones.
At the very least, this solution can bridge the gap for humanity's needs for clean power and fresh water until nuclear fusion or some other technological breakthrough can carry the load.
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Summer may be waning but that doesn't mean the concert circuit is winding down. Tickets for three big tours go on the block Friday. Seats for the second leg of Aerosmith's Global Warming tour, which kicks off Nov. 8 in Oklahoma City, aren't available until Monday, but the band is offering a Facebook pre-sale starting Friday. Little Monsters can start scooping up tickets Friday at LiveNation.com for the North American leg of Lady Gaga's Born This Way Ball world tour, headed to 25 cities starting Jan. 11 in Vancouver. Nas and Lauryn Hill's Life Is Good/Black Rage tour also goes on sale Friday. The pair launch Oct. 29 in Dallas with later stops in Houston, Atlanta, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Oakland, New York and Magna, Utah. -- Gundersen
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Michael Jackson's history-making follow-up to Thriller is reissued in Bad: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, a three-CD/one-DVD set (Sony/Legacy, $40) that captures the King of Pop at his height of popularity. Bad was the first album with five straight No. 1 singles: I Just Can't Stop Loving You, Bad, The Way You Make Me Feel, Man In the Mirror and Dirty Diana. The set includes the original album, unreleased material and new remixes featuring Pitbull, Afrojack and Nero. The Bad tour DVD features the complete July 16, 1988, show at London's Wembley Stadium before a crowd of 72,000 that included Prince Charles and Princess Diana. The concert DVD ($12) will also be sold separately. --Jones
Katy Perry's 'Part of Me' yours to bring home on DVD/Blu-ray
If you're a Katy Perry fan but somehow missed her well-received documentary in theaters this summer, Katy Perry: Part of Me is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. As the title suggests, the film juggles concert footage with behind-the-scenes interviews and moments in which the singer/songwriter discusses her life and career, from her upbringing in a Pentecostal family to her relationship with British actor/comedian Russell Brand, whom she divorced this year. The Blu-ray is available in 3-D (as the film was presented), and there are cameo appearances by fellow pop stars Adele, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. -- Gardner
Green Day, iHeartRadio bring the music to you
Give Green Day's new Uno! a test drive. The trio are streaming the full album (out Tuesday) on their Facebook page this week. It's the first installment of their trilogy of albums, which continues with the aptly named Dos! (Nov. 13) and Tre! (Jan. 15), all produced by longtime friend Rob Cavallo.
Meanwhile, the iHeartRadio music festival returns to Sin City, but not everyone can make it, of course. No matter: The Vegas fest is streaming (at festival.iheart.com). Headliners include Taylor Swift, Aerosmith, Rihanna, Swedish House Mafia and the aforementioned Green Day, offering another way to give Green Day's new stuff a spin. -- Lopez
Womack, Mumford, Ne-Yo lead a weekend of tune-ins
Music fans with wide tastes will be rewarded on television this weekend. On Friday's The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC, 11:35 p.m. ET/PT), R&B legend Bobby Womack teams up with Blur's Damon Albarn to perform music from Womack's new album, The Bravest Man In the Universe. British folk group Mumford & Sons appears on Saturday Night Live (NBC, Saturday, 11:30 p.m. ET/PT). Finally, Ne-Yo will be featured in what's looking like an especially promising season of VH1's Behind the Music (Sunday, 9 p.m. ET/PT). His episode will feature exclusive footage of the young singer performing on Showtime at the Apollo as a member of a boy band. --Mansfield
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With a roster that includes seven senior pitchers, Jackson County may have the deepest collection of arms in Northeast Georgia.
In the team's first six games, four different pitchers have already posted decisions for the Panthers, who lost their first two games to Beauregard (Ala.) but have subsequently claimed four consecutive victories.
"I don't know that we have a No. 1 (starter) on our staff," said Jackson County coach Tommy Fountain. "We've got three or four guys who are interchangeable from a starting standpoint and that's part of the reason we've got so many guys with decisions so far. We put them on a rotation early and we open region play on Wednesday, so we're just going with the next guy in the rotation."
And while hurlers are still competing for slots in the Panthers' rotation, senior right-hander Kolin Zimmer has already made his mark for the team, which begins Region 8-AA play Wednesday, hosting Elbert County (7-0), the No. 4 team in Class AA.
In his second start of the season, the 6-foot-1, 170-pound Zimmer — who has been the basketball team's leading scorer the past two seasons — threw a no-hitter last Wednesday in a 1-0 victory over Clarke Central in Athens. Zimmer recorded six strikeouts and scattered four walks.
"I've never thrown a no-hitter before," said Zimmer, who moved to Jackson County from Ohio before his junior year and spent last spring in the Panthers' bullpen. "It was crazy. I didn't know what to do after the game. I felt good because I knew I had a great defense behind me, so all I had to do was to get the batter to hit it and I knew my defense would make a play for me."
Fountain said he didn't plan to have Zimmer to go the distance against Clarke Central (whose starter, sophomore Patrick Matthews, allowed only three Jackson County hits) but liked what he saw in the middle innings and kept sending him back to the mound.
"The plan going into the game was since it was our last non-region game, Kolin would pitch the first four innings and Jalen (Banks) would pitch the last three," said Fountain, who noted that Zimmer threw 89 pitches and also had one of the Panthers' three hits in the game. "Clarke Central had the Matthews kid, who is pretty legit and was on that day.
"With the way the game was progressing, Kolin had not given up a hit and we were only up 1-0 and we had our three hits by the fourth inning. We kept running him out there. Before he walked the next-to-last batter, he'd retired 13 straight."
Zimmer's no-hitter wasn't without its dramatic moments, one of which came when the Panthers — which scored the game's only run on a double steal — loaded the bases with no outs in the fourth inning but were unable to push a runner across the plate.
"Clarke Central got out of a mess and had their 2-3-4 guys coming up," said Fountain. "So I looked at Kolin as he came out of the dugout and I told him we had to have a quick inning to get the momentum back. He went out there and got the first guy to pop up on his second pitch and then struck the next two guys out on four pitches each. Then we were rolling – it was like he turned on a switch and at that point it got really fun to call the pitches. It didn't matter what I called – he hit the spots and it was fun."
"I had a rough third inning, when I walked two batters but I was able to get out of it. I thought after that I might not be able to go much longer but (Fountain) said we needed a big fourth inning. After that, I just kept going back out there."
With two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Zimmer walked a Clarke Central batter to bring the winning run to the plate.
"It got a little hairy in the seventh," said Fountain. "(Zimmer) walked the next-to-last batter. You look at the scoreboard and see you're up 1-0 with the winning run at the plate. But the kid is throwing a no-hitter. He got the last guy to ground out to second, so it worked out."
The Panthers, who have had only one winning season during Fountain's tenure and were narrowly left out of the postseason in 2011, are poised to make a playoff run this spring. Zimmer said he's pleased with the no-hitter but added he hoped the game was just a component of a memorable season.
"It feels pretty good but it will feel even better if it helps our team do something special this year," he said. "I hope it will be just a small part of a very special year. Now I'm just looking forward to getting back on the mound and pitch again and doing as well as I can to help the team win."


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Scooting around from station to station on Friday, Joe Paterno did his requisite yelling at practice from a golf cart.
He dislikes losing the element of surprise that came when he was on his feet more often, as he'd sneak in and out of different position drills, shouting instructions as he went along.
Paterno hopes he'll be able to do simple things like that again soon.
The 81-year-old coach is looking much better these days after having much-needed hip replacement surgery last month, but he's not quite ready to resume all of his typical routines.
For now, long-time staffer Tom Venturino still chauffeurs Paterno around Holuba Hall in the cart. But Paterno is starting to feel like his normal self again.
"(Everybody's) worried about me going too fast," Paterno laughed. "But I feel good, I really do. I don't have any problems. I know when I start to do some things for a little longer period of time, I get a little tired. That'll be a couple of days. But after that, I'll be fine."
Paterno walked into his Rose Bowl media day press conference on Friday without a cane, the first time he'd appeared in front of reporters since his operation on Nov. 23, one day after the Nittany Lions wrapped up the regular season with a win over Michigan State. He stood at a podium for the entire 30-minute session.
After injuring his hip early in the season, Paterno's mobility rapidly decreased as the games went on. He spent the second half of a Week 4 win over Temple in the coaches booth before gritting out a night game against Illinois at home the following week.
That was the last time Paterno stood on the sideline for a game, remaining in the booth for the rest of the regular season. When he did move around, it was exclusively with a cane or a cart, as he chose to put off surgery until the team had a break before its bowl game.
"It wasn't pleasant," Paterno said of the experience. "I'm a lot better. … Really, I don't have any pain. If this were before the operation, just standing up, I had a lot of pain. It was a pain in the rear end, to be honest with you. But right now, I don't have any pain."
Whether that means he'll be back on the sideline for the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1 is uncertain. Paterno said last Sunday after the BCS selection show that he would like to try and get well enough to take back his old spot on the field.
But it's too early to tell just yet, and he sounded less optimistic about it on Friday.
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Center A.Q. Shipley and defensive end Aaron Maybin continued to rack up postseason honors, as both were named All-Americans by the Football Writers Association of America on Saturday.
Both were also named first-team All-Americans by the Walter Camp Football Foundation, while Shipley became the first Penn State player to win the Rimington Award as the nation's best center earlier this week.
Maybin, a redshirt sophomore, and defensive tackle Jared Odrick, a junior, said Friday they had filed paperwork with the NFL to receive draft evaluations.
Both said their intention is to return next season to play for Penn State. Some extremely favorable reports could cause them to weigh their options, however.
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Voters from Colorado and Washington approved on Tuesday measures that would allow marijuana use for recreational purposes. But while the move signals victory for pot backers, the federal government won't seem to take the residents' decision without doing anything, the Reuters reports.
"This is a symbolic victory for (legalization) advocates, but it will be short-lived," Kevin Sabet, a former adviser to the Obama administration's drug czar, told reporters. "They are facing an uphill battle with implementing this, in the face of … presidential opposition and in the face of federal enforcement opposition."
The U.S. drug control officials said on Wednesday that the federal government could sue to block parts of the measures or send threatening letters to marijuana shops. These efforts could be followed up by street-level clampdowns similar to those efforts targeting medical marijuana dispensaries which the government suspects are fronts for drug traffickers.
The U.S. Department of Justice did not provide comments about their stand if the law pass, but says they are reviewing the ballot initiatives.
Sabet added he expected the Obama administration to file a federal lawsuit that would challenge or seek to block aspects of the legalization measures, and that the issue "is going to be caught up in the courts for quite a while."
Marijuana proponents, on the other hand, agree it's about time pot is made legal but they already expecting the legalization to face some legal disputes in the coming days.
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A major union is seeking annual pay rises of 5 per cent a year for electricians and others building the national broadband network, a claim almost twice the rate of inflation that illustrates how skills shortages are leading to wage pressures.
In a proposed workplace agreement for NBN contractors, the Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union argued that the three-year deal should be set at current industry wage levels in the first year, followed by two annual pay rises of 5 per cent in 2012 and 2013.
The inflation rate is 2.7 per cent.
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Industry sources said the base pay rates could be roughly doubled through allowances, shift penalties and overtime. The union will detail its claims at a meeting with contractors in Sydney today. They include a guarantee on training new workers.
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The Browns have compiled a magnificent record over the past years. Right from the start of their career, they have gotten their mitts on almost all major championship trophies. The late 1940s and 1950s was the golden period in the history of the Cleveland Browns when they won an impressive seven League Championships in the form of the AAFC Championship and NFL Championship in the span of only nine years. The team has performed equally well in its conference and has gotten a number of titles to its name. The Browns won six AFC Central Championships as well as three NFL Century and four AAFC Western championships. The list of the team's conquests does not end there. The Browns have made it into to the playoffs a staggering twenty eight times over the years. Even though Cleveland Browns is one of the very few teams which has not qualified for the Super Bowl but the fans do not have an iota of doubt in their team.
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