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Gorman: Aliquippa in pursuit of perfection
Aliquippa is steeped in high school football tradition, including one that seems to shout from its rooftop.
When the Quips win a WPIAL championship — and they hold the league record, with 15 — the title year is painted on the fieldhouse roof at Carl A. Aschman Stadium, otherwise known as The Pit.
Those years stretch from Aliquippa's first title team in 1952 to this year's WPIAL Class AA champions, who became the 14th team in school history to finish the regular season undefeated.
Yet, for all of that tradition, these Quips have a chance to do something unprecedented.
"If we win states, we'll be the first team in Aliquippa history to do that undefeated," said Dravon Henry, a junior tailback-safety who is living up to his promise as the Quips' next great. "It's real good to know that, but we've got to stay humble and keep working hard in practice to achieve that goal. It's a lot of pressure. You want to be the first team that ever did that."
Believe it or not, Henry is right. Aliquippa has had undefeated teams and PIAA champions, but never in the same season.
Twice, undefeated teams lost in the PIAA final. The 1988 Quips, led by Sean Gilbert, were 14-0 and ranked No. 2 by USA Today before losing to Berwick in the inaugural PIAA championships. As were the 2000 Quips, led by Josh Lay, before losing to Mt. Carmel.
Twice, one-loss teams won the PIAA championship. The 1991 Quips, led by Ty Law, lost to Farrell before going on to win the PIAA Class AA title. The 2003 Quips, led by Darrelle Revis, lost to archrival Beaver Falls before winning the PIAA crown.
"They shouldn't look at it as pressure but as excitement," said Revis, now an All-Pro cornerback for the New York Jets. "They have a chance to rewrite history in the record books."
This pursuit of perfection was the last thing on Mike Zmijanac's mind when Aliquippa arrived at North Allegheny's Newman Stadium on Friday with a 14-0 record to play District 6 champion Richland.
The Quips coach is full of wit and wisdom, refusing to fall for any provocation of what Aliquippa could accomplish this season.
"That's going beyond the moment," Zmijanac said. "Those are things you look back on if you're able to accomplish them. Our goal is to win. We'll worry about all those things afterwards, the things we did and did not do."
Perhaps his reluctance comes from having a coaching staff of Aliquippa alums ranging from the late 1970s to the late '90s. No need to cause internal strife, right?
"You know what? I agree with what Mike says: They don't see a point in making comparisons. You're talking different eras, different classifications, different levels of competition," said Don Yannessa, who turned the Quips into a perennial powerhouse in the '80s. "Aliquippa was bad between 1965, when Aschman retired, to 1972, my first year as coach. They were 14-59. One thing that's been constant is that they've been good, except that one era."
These Quips have been absolutely dominant. They rank first in the WPIAL in both offense and defense, averaging 411 yards a game and allowing only 81. They have invoked the mercy rule a dozen times and beaten opponents by an average of 46 points with six shutouts and six more games with seven points or fewer allowed.
That's not what impresses Zmijanac most. Of his 42 players, 18 are honors students. They don't cause problems, except for foes.
"What's special about them has nothing to do with football," Zmijanac said. "They really are a good group of kids who are good citizens, good students and good people. That's what I'll remember most about them, no matter how many wins they have. It's a special group on that front. They like each other. I like the way they carry themselves."
Whether they are the best Aliquippa team ever remains to be seen. After beating Richland, 37-21, the Quips advanced to next Saturday's PIAA Class AA final at Hersheypark Stadium, where they will play another undefeated in the winner of Saturday's Imhotep Charter-Wyomissing semifinal.
"You hear people arguing about it, whether this is the best Aliquippa team ever," Henry said. "If we don't win states, we can't say we're the best team ever. That's why we're trying to win states, so we can prove it with an undefeated record. It means so much, to be the best team in this small town. You can carry that on for life."
Which would be just perfect.
Kevin Gorman is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at email@example.com or 412-320-7812.


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KINGSTON, Ontario — Nobunari Oda was unable to hold onto the lead he took after the short program and settled for second at Skate Canada on Sunday with an unconvincing free skate performance.
Oda finished with a total of 236.52 points, 3.0 behind local favorite and world silver medalist Patrick Chan, who came from fourth to win after generating the highest free skate score in the second event of this season's Grand Prix series.
American Adam Rippon placed third with 233.04. Yasuharu Nanri, the other Japanese in the field, was ninth with 188.96.
"I got so nervous that I couldn't skate fast enough to land a quadruple, the first jump in my program, cleanly," said Oda, whose long program ranked third after Chan and Rippon.
"I might have tried to perform defensively all in all and probably it affected the score for my performance. Hopefully I won't repeat that mistake next time," he said.
Oda gave Japan a podium finish for the second consecutive week in the Grand Prix series after world champion Daisuke Takahashi won the season-opening NHK Trophy in Nagoya.
American Alissa Czisny rallied to win the women's title, taking advantage of Canadian star Cynthia Phaneuf's two falls.
Czisny had a winning score of 172.37 points. Russia's Ksenia Makarova was second at 165.00, and Canada's Amelie Lacoste was third at 157.26.
Phaneuf, the leader after the short program, finished fourth.
"I was disappointed in myself, what can I say, I wasn't on top of my legs for the entire program," Phaneuf said. "I'm just very mad that I couldn't put it all together and do what I can on the ice."


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To the receptive, an old painting can sometimes seem like a time machine, giving a vivid sense of the hand and mind that created it, as well as the social milieu and atmosphere behind it. But this time- traveling analogy doesn't just extend to the viewing of venerable art. Even the creation of new paintings can enable the gifted artist to travel — in a formal and imaginary sense — to the distant past. Both forms of time travel seem to have defined the career of one of Japan's most unusual painters, Tosio Arimoto, whose encounter with early Italian Renaissance art struck a chord with which his own art ever afterward resonated.
Wisely, "Tosio Arimoto: A Celestial Music" is held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum. In the modern metropolis of Tokyo, this is a relatively archaic building (1930s Art Deco) and has an elegant ambience of times past that suits Arimoto's retro Renaissance painting. The artist, who was born in 1946 but tragically died in 1985 at the age of 38, can best be described as a modern Japanese Giotto (c. 1267-1337) or a Showa Era Fra Angelico (c. 1395-1455). His paintings try to evoke the style and texture of the tempera panel paintings and frescoes of that bygone era, even to the point of carefully simulating time-worn effects such as cracking and fading.
To some, it may seem perverse that Arimoto chose to lodge his oeuvre on these particular pages of the history of Western art, and it is legitimate to ask why he didn't seek inspiration instead from the more developed art of the High Renaissance or some subsequent period. The explanation given at the exhibition is that he was attracted to the paintings of this period because they reminded him of Buddhist temple paintings.
However, this sounds more like an attempt to maintain the painter's cultural integrity by basing his love for Renaissance art on something rooted deep in Japanese culture. It seems there is always a lingering suspicion about anyone who completely abandons their own native cultural traditions in favor of those of a foreign and — in terms of time — remote land.
In paintings such as "Day of the Showering Petals" (1977), which shows a woman ascending a spiraling tower, and "Way to the Theater" (1980), where a nude descends a staircase leading underground, a formal simplicity and touching naivity are juxtaposed against a sense of mystery. What does the tower signify? Where do the steps lead?
These are questions that can never be answered, but the ingenuousness of the formal elements creates a sense of reassurance and control. Rather than being mixed together in an unmanageable sensory equation, each color, shape and motif seems almost isolated, allowing the artist to indulge in relatively stress-free variation from painting to painting.
Perhaps, as suggested by the exhibition's title, a clue can be found in Arimoto's musical tastes. A keen musician who played the recorder, he was especially drawn to Baroque music. Although this creates a temporal mismatch of around 200 years between his artistic and musical tastes, there are actually a lot of similarities between early Renaissance art and Baroque music.
The continuity of mood and rhythm of Baroque music, the "terraced dynamics" (sudden changes in tempo that resemble steps) and the absence of gradual changes, such as crescendos and decrescendos, as well as the repetitiveness of motifs, all find their visual counterparts in early Renaissance art and in the works of Arimoto.
As our eyes scan the pictures, we move from one block of color to another with very little gradation. Within the entire oeuvre there is a frequent repetition of motifs. Arimoto's pictorial language is relatively limited: curtains, tables, stairs, clouds, trees, and similarly- attired figures account for most of the visual vocabulary. There is also a pristine, unvarying, slightly-stilted mood to each work, which, to a modern audience, can't help evoking a dreamlike surrealistic quality.
Occasionally, we catch Arimoto transporting himself back into the minds of the early exponents of Renaissance art, reliving the challenges and visual conundrums that they experienced firsthand, but which he, as a modern painter and the beneficiary of the centuries-long traditions of Western art, had long since progressed beyond.
In "Chamber Music" (1980), a naively painted nude is seated at a grid-patterned table inside a room with a striped floor. Here Arimoto plays gentle tricks with perspective. While the left side of the table matches the angle of the stripes, the right doesn't. This suggests that Arimoto craved the relative artistic ignorance of the early masters, possibly because it created a sense of visual mystery and wonder, with which the later successes of the Renaissance largely did away.
"Tosio Arimoto: A Celestial Music" at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum runs till Sept. 5; admission ¥1,000; open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (till 8 p.m. 14-20 Aug), closed 2nd and 4th Wed each month. For more information, visit www.teien-art-museum.ne.jp/exhibition/arimoto/english/html


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Secret Agent X was the title of a U.S. pulp magazine published by A. A. Wyn, and the name of the main character featured in the magazine. The magazine ran for 41 issues between February 1934 and March 1939.
The Secret Agent X stories were written by more than one author, but they all appeared under the "house name" of Brant House. The first Secret Agent X story, The Torture Trust was written by Paul Chadwick, who went on to write at least fifteen others. Later stories were produced by G. T. Fleming-Roberts, Emile C. Tepperman and Wayne Rogers.
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The Perfect Mimosa
I like pretty drinks…Meaning pretty colors. Ask any of my friends, I'm so not a person that chooses alcohol over soda but I thought about it and this year is the year of the Mimosa. It's that sparkly refreshing drink.
It's usually a delicious drink for brunch / breakfast. If you have people over for breakfast, guarantee you'll guests will love it! It's a mix of your favorite bubbly and orange juice.
Here's the best way to make a tasty one:
3/4 Champagne (my favorite is Barefoot Champagne)
1/4 Orange Juice (no pulp)
1 piece of a cut up strawberry on top
And I prefer both chilled and ice in the glass, too.
Also you could make a bowl of it, sort of like a punch bowl if you like. And sometimes I've even put some orange sherbert in the bunch bowl. That's good!
*Remember the fruit on top–if it's not a strawberry, try a cherry or even pineapple chunk.


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The Vampire Diaries 4×10 Recap and Review01/18/2013
The Vampire Diaries 4×10 After School Special Recap and Review
The Vampire Diaries 4×10 After School Special Synopsis: Rebekah questions Stefan, Elena and Caroline about the search for a cure. Meanwhile, Bonnie's father suddenly becomes more involved in her life.
The Vampire Diaries 4×10 Guest stars: Rick Worthy as Rudy Owens; Joseph Morgan as Klaus; David Alpay as Professor Shane; Claire Holt as Rebekah.
It's been awhile since the episode last month, when Jeremy wanted to kill Elena until Professor Shane decided he should use Jeremy's beloved Bonnie as a touchstone to divert his killing compulsion, Damon told Elena to go home and forget him, Stefan found out Damon and Elena had gotten to 3rd base, they may be getting closer to a cure since the good Professor knows where the secret is buried, Tyler's plan to kill Klaus was foiled by Hayley, and Klaus killed 12 of his newly unsired hybrids after which he killed Tyler's mother to get back at Tyler for the unsiring. It was a wonderfully musical blood fest! Click here for the full recap of "O Come, All Ye Faithful"!
The Vampire Diaries 4×10, "After School Special," opens with the result of Klaus' final fury, as Sheriff Liz speaks at the memorial service for Tyler's Mom that's being held at the high school. It's too much for Tyler to take, "Screw this!" He storms out past Rebekah, who is peeking around the corner to see what's going on. Elena, spying her peek, goes to find out what she's doing there but instead of Rebekah she finds April crying near the lockers. April tells her she knows that Elena is a vampire. The surprise on Elena's face is wiped off by Rebekah's fist, laying Elena real low. "Was that necessary," April asks. "No, but it was fun!" responds Rebekah.
After Elena wakes up in the school library, April asks her how many times she compelled her, "And don't lie." Elena tells her Rebekah isn't who April thinks she is, but April knows she's an original. Rebekah returns and compels Elena to wait until the rest of the "class" returns.
Back at Stefan's, he's having an alcoholic binge now that he knows Damon and Elena have slept together. Caroline calls and tells him Tyler's upset so Tyler has to take priority. Stefan has to get his act together, "I can't do it alone." Then Rebekah calls Stefan and tells him she's holding Elena hostage. Guess who removed the dagger! Inquiring minds and Stefan wants to know. Stefan calls Caroline and asks her to redagger Rebekah with the white oak stake.
Caroline stakes out the library while texting Stefan, who has arrived at the school. Rebekah is so fast that she zips past Caroline then zips past Stefan, back and forth, until she gets the stakes from Caroline and ends up in front of Stefan. She grabs him and then he grabs her by the throat. He sees she has the stake. Turns out she also wants the cure.
Back at the library, "Class is in session." She tells April to go. Rebekah wants to know about the hunters. They tell her about the tattoos, the map, and the sword. She wants to know why they haven't found the cure. She taunts Stefan, revealing he wanted the cure for him and Elena so they could grow old together. Awkward! Caroline tells her they broke up. Stefan tells her she slept with Damon. Rebekah now knows why Stefan stinks of alcohol. Stefan reveals that Damon sired Elena. Rebekah wants to know why Elena slept with Damon, and Elena reveals that in spite of the Damon sire she slept with him because she loves him, much to Stefan's dismay.
Caroline brings up the cure again, and Rebekah wants to know how to find it. Stefan tells her Professor Shane knows.
Let's not forget Jeremy, who is still at the Gilbert house by the lake. As Damon listens to a message from Elena telling him she knows he sent her away because of the sire thing, but she really loves him and "I hate not being near you." Damon hangs up and watches as Jeremy slams Matt to the ground. He's pretty proud of himself until Damon tells him that he was moving in slow motion. Jeremy wants Damon to teach him something useful. After Damon tells Matt to hit the bench he easily beats Jeremy. Damon scares the pizza girl when she arrives with the pizza, but he gives her a big tip and tells her not to come back. Jeremy and Matt tell him he can't starve them. "If that's what it takes to make you a hunter," Damon tells him. Then he tells them to run some laps. When they're gone, Damon listens to the rest of Elena's message.
Bonnie's dad, Rudy Owens, is appointed the interim Mayor, and he discusses Carol's murder with Caroline's Sheriff mom, Liz. Liz tells him although she's listed it as an accident she's still investigating. Does he really want to be the interim Mayor. He tells her yes and the reason just walked in. Bonnie! After Liz leaves, he tells Bonnie that he knows she has gifts but he still wants to protect her.
Back at the lake house, Damon has Jeremy breaking down and reassembling a pistol. Jeremy tells him he doesn't care about his hunter skills, he just wants to get the cure for Elena. Damon has upgraded their relationship to, "Its complicated." Klaus saunters out of the woods by the house and wants to know how many vampires Jeremy has killed. "If we throw Jeremy out into the world right now, he's chum," Damon says. He wants the map to be completed so he can get the cure. Klaus tells them, "Chum! That's not a number. 12. That's a number. That's how many of my hybrids I slaughtered with my sword. Three. That's how many days it took to quelled the urge to kill your brother after he knowingly watched as I walked into a death trap. One. That's the number of purposes you serve. You are here to grow Jeremy's mark. So how many vampires has he killed since he's been here?" "Zero," Damon tells him, then grabs the gun. "Watch and learn," he says, then shoots Klaus twice in the chest. Klaus slumps against a tree, clutching his heart. "That's for Carol Lockwood," says Damon.
The Vampire Diaries 4×10 Sneak Peek #2
Tyler gets a call from Caroline's phone, "I told you not to call me." But it's Rebekah who gives him her condolences about his mother. She tells him she knows what it's like to have Klaus ruin your life, then she tells him she's got Caroline, "Maybe you'll have a better shot at saving her than you did your mother." Ouch. Nasty!
Bonnie thanks Shane for helping her get her gifts back. It's graduation day and he gives her a necklace of human bones. "Legend goes that it belonged to a 2000-year old witch that wrote on it for strength." She's come so far so fast. Her strength and magic are right where they should be. But he has ulterior motives. They all do. As she leaves Shane's office she passes Kol, Klaus' and Rebekah's brother. When she realizes who he is, she rushes back into Shanes office, but they're both gone and the office shows signs of a fight.
Kol has vampirically zipped over to the library to deliver Shane to Rebekah. Rebekah tries to compel Shane, but he learned a few tricks in Tibet about how to resist. In that case, they'll have to do it the old fashion way. Kol starts beating him to get the answer, and when that doesn't work he starts to dunk him into a tank of water.
Back in the "class room," Rebekah has her "students" glued to their seats and decides to play "Truth or Dare" with them, which reveals lots of info. Elena admits she still loves Stefan, but she's not "in" love with him. He makes her feel like a broken toy, whereas Damon makes her feel unpredictable, wild, and free. Damon makes her happy. She asks Stefan if it hurts to have the one you love drive a dagger through your heart. "Yes," he admits. "Now you know what it's been like for me the last 900 years," she confesses.
Back at the ranch, I mean lake house, Damon carving stake. Klaus sits down beside him and tells him he should adjust the angle to get a better edge. "Now I know why those hybrids hated you," observes Damon. "You are annoying." He wants to know why Jeremy hasn't been killing vampires. Damon tells him again that Jeremy needs more training. Klaus suggests turning the nearby town into vampires so Jeremy can get some practice with the slaughter. In fact, he's already taken care of it.
Inside the house, the pizza girl knocks on the door and when Matt answers she says she ran out of gas and asks if she could use the phone. He says sure, but when she tries to come in we learn that she's a vampire. Jeremy sees her standing at the door and tells her to come in. Since she's now been invited in, she takes a cautious step across the threshold and then continues to strut in. When Matt comes back, she attacks him. Then Jeremy attacks her and drives a stake through her heart. When Damon comes in he and Matt watch as Jeremy's tattoo grows further up his right arm.
Tyler arrives at the "class room" and Rebekah compels him to turn. She orders them to stay in the room, "No running in the halls." Now that she has Shane she doesn't need them to find the cure. She again orders Tyler to turn, then she leaves to go back to Kol and Shane, leaving Tyler to kill Caroline, Elena, and Stefan. But he starts breaking up and knocking over furniture in an effort to not turn. He doesn't want to be a killer.
At the chemistry lab, Bonnie discovers April and April tells her she knows she's a witch and tells her that Rebekah has compelled her friends and plans on compelling Shane. Bonnie knows Shane can't be compelled, only tortured, so she asks April to find salt so she can create a protection spell. They pour salt into beakers and Bonnie goes into a trance. Suddenly the salt bursts into flames. Meanwhile, Kol is dunking Shane into a vat of water, but then the spell starts to work. Suddenly as Shane takes water into his lungs, the water ends up in April's lungs. She starts to cough. Then water starts to come out of her mouth. Between dunkings Shane tells Rebekah he knows about the cure. He knows about Silas. They can have the cure. He just wants Silas. Rebekah tells him Silas is a myth, concocted to scare children. Silas is real and Shane knows where he's buried. Rebekah accuses him of blowing up the council. "A noble sacrifice," Shane says, and Silas will bring back from the dead everybody who died on his behalf. Kol stabs Shane with a metal pole and Shane appears to die, but back in the chemistry lab, April's blouse oozes with blood as she begins to die in his place thanks to the protection spell. After Rebekah and Kol leave. Shane comes back to life and pulls the metal pole out of his chest.
Tyler has turned and Elena, Stefan, and Caroline are on the run from him. They're chased into an area where they can close some double doors and they use a fire ax to bar the door. Then they use some locker doors. Finally the sound and sight of Tyler breaking through the door stops. They open the door to see that he's gone and go to the chemistry lab where they find Bonnie and a dying April. Somehow her protection spell linked April with Shane. They tell them to get out of the school, but they can't because they've been compelled.
Bad time for Elena to try and talk to Stefen. "How many ways can you rip out my hear," he screams at her. Oh, let me count the ways!
Caroline finds Tyler, naked on the floor after he managed to get control of himself and change back. She tells him it wasn't his fault as she covers him with a blanket and holds him as he cries over the death of his mother. "The whole thing's my fault. I should have saved her."
Back in the chemistry lab, Elena and Stefan are reunited with Rebekah. She offered to compel Stefan to forget her and everything about their relationship, just like Klaus had compelled Stefan to forget everything about his relationship with her, Rebekah. Elena says, "No." But Stefan says, "Yes." Well, "That would be too easy," says Rebekah. "But now you know how he really fells," she tells Elena. Her eternity of pain is her revenge. They can go now. She doesn't need them anymore. Elena watches as Stefan coldly turns his back on her and walks away.
Bonnie goes back to Shane's office where's in the process of changing. He tells her Kol is a problem. She tells him she almost kill April and she doesn't want to use black magic. He explains that it's not black magic, but "expression" is a way of doing magic that isn't monitored by nature or the spirits. "It isn't a clear path, but it also has no limits. How you use it is up to you." She's the key to everything. He's not going to let anything bad happen to her.
Back at the lake house, Damon is burying the pizza girl when Elena calls him. "Hope your day's going better than mine," he says. Elena tells him Stefan know about them. She asks how Jeremy's doing and thanks him for taking care of her brother. When he tells her he has to go she tells him she has to tell him something first. Today she realized something. She realized that whether it's the sire bond or not, she really loves him. She in love with him she tells him again and again. He's a little stunned but you can tell he's thrilled. He tells her he's to get the cure for her and he may have to do things she doesn't like. Then he tells her to get in her car and come to him. "I'll be there soon," she smiles happily as they hang up.
Rebekah shows up at Stefan's place, at his invitation. She wants to get the cure and force it down Klaus' throat and look into his eyes as he realizes he's mortal again. The problem is that Shane is now dead so she doesn't know how to find the cure. Stefan tells her about Bonnie's spell and that Shane's not dead. Rebekah reveals Shane has an agenda and it's a dark one. He blew up the council and plans on using Silas to wake the dead and the 12 hybrids that were killed. He tells her about "expression." They both hate their brothers. Damon's got Jeremy. Klaus has the sword. Shane has Bonnie. That leaves the two of them. Whoever finds the cure first gets to decide what to do with it. They agree to be partners.
April tells Sheriff Liz and the interim Mayor, Bonnie's father, that her father had no reason to kill anybody or himself. Professor Shane brain washed him and orchestrated his death and the 11 that died with him. "It's time this entire town started telling the truth," she says.
At the town near the lake house, Damon, Matt, Jeremy and Klaus enter a pool hall and find everybody lying around dead. Klaus tells them they're not dead, only in transition. "Killing them is your job," he tells Jeremy. Jeremy tells Damon that he told him he was going to convince Klaus to do this another way. "Well, I thought about," says Damon, "and then I realized his idea was better."
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This year two-year, full-time MBA programmes received less applications compared to 2010. About two-thirds reported a decline in a new survey from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).
Prestigious schools were no exemptions: At Stanford's Graduate Business School, applications dropped by 8.9 per cent, at Harvard Business School by 4 per cent and at Wharton, applications were down by 5.9 per cent. The hardest hit region was Asia Pacific where 78 per cent of programmes had declines in application volume, compared to 68 per cent in Europe, and 61 per cent in the U.S.
Part-time and Executive MBA programmes, however, were not affected and specialized master's programmes saw applications rise.
These are the facts - but how much value to put on these numbers?
Whereas many were quick to jump on the new statistics questioning the future and value of an MBA, it is worthwhile drawing the attention to a few other facts – not to question the numbers but to put them in perspective.
Application numbers have not declined massively over all MBA offers - instead part-time, executive and specialized MBAs were either not affected or even on the rise. This might show new trends but it also mirrors the uncertainty of our economy. Students don't want to give up their current job as easily anymore. They prefer continuing to work instead of only accumulating big loans.
Also, application numbers were very strong in 2010, so the decline in numbers might only shift things back to normal. Another thought worthwhile pondering is: could it be that the actual number of applicants has not decreased dramatically but that people only apply to fewer business schools than before? With the rise of MBA consultants and an increasingly better preparation, students might not choose to apply at several schools anymore but limit it to their favourites. A tighter economy and the need to continue work might also force them to stay in their local area where selection for b-schools is more limited.
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Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Zhang, Chenggang URN etd-04132005-144806 Title Comparative Study of the Physical and Mechanistic Properties of HMA Mixture: Field Vs Laboratory Degree Master of Science in Civil Engineering (M.S.C.E.) Department Civil & Environmental Engineering Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Louay N. Mohammad Committee Chair John B. Metcalf Committee Member Linbing Wang Committee Member Keywords
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Date of Defense 2005-04-04 Availability unrestricted AbstractThe objectives of this study were to investigate the variability in the physical and mechanistic properties of HMA due to production, characterize and compare the mechanistic properties of roadway cores and laboratory compacted samples, develop the relationship between modulus from in situ NDT and those obtained from laboratory tests on roadway cores, and compare air voids measurements between laboratory and field test methods. Six ongoing rehabilitation projects in Louisiana were selected, in each of which several test sections were tested. Comparative analyses were conducted on density measurements between two laboratory (AASHTO T-166 and ASTM D6752-02, or Vacuum sealing) and one in situ test (Pavement Quality Indicator) methods. Three types of nondestructive in situ test (NDT) devices, Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD), Light Falling Weight Deflectometer (LFWD), and Potable Seismic Pavement Analyzer (PSPA) were conducted on asphalt layers. Four laboratory mechanistic tests including Indirect Tensile Strength test (ITS), Indirect Tensile Resilient Modulus test (ITMr), Frequency Sweep at Constant Height test (FSCH), and Loaded Wheel Tracking (LWT) test were conducted on roadway cores and/or Superpave Gyratory Compactor (SGC) samples. High variation was observed in mixture composition and air voids, as well as mechanistic properties along the mixture production. A strong correlation was observed between the two laboratory air void measurement methods. In general, SGC samples had higher mechanistic properties than those of roadway cores. Good correlations were observed between roadway cores and SGC samples in terms of complex shear moduli and indirect tensile resilient moduli. A methodology was developed for the prediction of laboratory resilient modulus from the in situ PSPA test parameter. Field test results indicated that the LFWD test might be used as an alternative for the FWD test in pavement structure evaluation. Pavement Quality Indicator (PQI) results did not correlate well with laboratory air void measurement methods. Files
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an elemental work that has helped to shape and define the past 25 years of American culture. This special audio edition presents this adventure in an exciting new way - for the millions who have already taken this journey and want to travel these roads again, and for the many more who will discover for the first time the wonders and challenges of a story that will change the way they think and feel about their lives.
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"Profoundly important...intellectual entertainment of the highest order." (The New York Times)
"Brave wanderings, high adventures, extraordinary risks...A horn of plenty." (Los Angeles Times)
"Fantastic performance of a great book"
A wonderful book that everyone should read or listen to at least once in their life. As the book admits, it's not really about zen, nor much about motorcycle maintenance either. Rather, it's about how to make sense of life.
I recommend this version over the unabridged version for two reasons. First, the actual text gets pretty heavy at times, and if you're not a philosophy major you might be turned off by that (and also might find it hard to understand just what the hell he is saying at times). The second and bigger reason is Lawrence Pressman. He reads the book with a kind of laid-back casualness, a kind of "relax, slow down, we're in no hurry" attitude. He quickly becomes the main character. This is not so much a reading as a performance. I have purchased both this and the unabridged version (just as I have purchased entirely too many copies of this book--different editions and whatnot) and this is the one I keep turning to again and again and again.
Very well written and read book. Seemed like a lot of heavy philosophy but soaked it up and fully enjoyed it. If I had realized that there was an unabridged version available, I would have gone that route.
"The narrator really captured my interest."
Fascinating; not Zen
When the author revealed that he had had a mental illness.
This was the first time I listened to Pressman. His performance was really gripping. Pressman seemed to inhabit the narrator in the book. He was simultaneously brilliant (just as the author was brilliant) while giving a strong sense that there was a lot underneath his surface (as one would expect of the very best actors).
The ending
For many readers, this may be their primary knowledge of Zen Buddhism. While there are some connections to Zen, the author is presenting his own philosophy as well as rich personal details. Readers will not learn much about Zen. Having said that, the book is excellent for other reasons.
"A feast for mind and soul"
I had read the book a few years ago and hearing it read was a whole different dimension of thought and connection with the author.
Questions I had long ago decided were un-formable (never-mind answerable) are distinctly defined and satisfactorily linked to other questions and epiphanies of my own Chautauqua in fresh new words of R. Pirsig's experience that I often knew what he was about to say before I got to where he wrote it.
Every page just about is rich in insight. I'm anxious to read it .. or maybe hear it read .. again after a time of settling.
"Doesn't follow the real story"
The audio didn't follow the book. It skipped around and left out complete paragraphs at times. Without all the information, especially in this type of book, you cannot get into the ideas behind it.
"Classic Story"
It's not better than the written version...reason: reading inserts your thoughts at your pace during the time of life you are reading it. I first read this based on a suggest of a late friend of mine shortly before he had passed away. The audio version allowed me to relive that time without rereading; remembering how dramatic this book impacted my life.
All characters great but Chris saw the world through the transition from child to losing his innocence from the world. The world becomes a differnt place as we get older.
No other performances but he did a good job transitioning between the stories interwoven in the book.
There is no movie - just a cool poster - please read the book!
Next to The Bible this has been one of the most influential books in my life. It transformed my thinking and how I felt life was organized (or disorganized as the case may be). The depths of thought opened my eyes to a world and how I perceived it. I'm glad I took the journey again with the audio book.
"My favorite of all time"
I learn something new every time I listen. Great story that never gets tired but builds on the nostalgia of the 70s culture. Definitely a zeitgeist kind of feeling to it.
"Drags a bit"
Okay, not great. I liked the book, but the audible seems to be dragging on and on. Very dry. And pretty dull.
"Didn't get it"
This book is a little out dated in terms of its theme - probably best read by college students in the 1970's. I simply did not really care for the interlacing of ancient greek philosophy into a personal memoir of a motorcycle ride across the country. I wouldn't have minded that - but the philosophical elements were so superficial. Glad I read it since so many people have been talking about this book since I was in college in the 80's. Had I read it then I might have a different take on it - but now, in my 40's it simply was a waste of time for me.
"just didn't get it"
I have tons of postgrad education...not the dullest knife in the drawer... but I could not make it through this. The philosophy seemed inpenetrable.. when I could understand it, it seemed obvious. I was interested in the story itself but ultimately, it didn't sustain the book. After a while, I just became annoyed by the author stringing together multiple polysyllabic words that said nothing...at least nothing I could understand. I can't remember the last book I just couldn't make it through..
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Negombo Vacation Packages
Negombo is situated about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of the national capital Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, and approximately 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Colombo.
Visitors can use Negombo as a launch pad for further adventures. Sri Lanka is blessed with a treasure-trove of wonderful cities, attractions and landscapes. Colombo and Kotikawatta are two other places worth seeing while you're in Sri Lanka.
Organise your transportation and spend some time in Colombo, a retail and transport hub for the region, located approximately 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Negombo. This regional center has a wide range of tourist attractions, for example Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque, Sugathadasa Stadium and Sinhalese Sports Club. If you're still looking for things to do in the city centre, be sure to check out R. Premadasa Stadium, Galle Face Green and Pettah Market before heading back to Negombo.
Experience the region's rich cultural fabric within Sri Lanka's excellent art galleries and history museums. Drop into Sri Lanka's popular ruins, it's an excellent way to explore the area's rich history.
Have some fun upon the water and enjoy popular watersports such as canoeing or rafting.
When it's finally time to bid goodbye to Negombo, head to the nearest major airport situated in Colombo, 4 miles (6 kilometers) away.


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Joe B. Phillips Goes For "Despicable Lawyer Of The Year" Award: Rips Off Mentally Incompetent Vets
A strong showing
Just before his trial was set to start in federal court yesterday, Houstonian Joe B. Phillips, 73, faced up to the truth: He's a pretty despicable guy.
How despicable? He entered a guilty plea to ripping off mentally incompetent veterans to the tune of more than $2 million.
That's right: Phillips was chosen by the Veterans Administration with protecting the money and rights of men and women who had served their country and now were unable to fend for themselves. Instead of doing so, he pocketed the cash because hey, who's gonna find out? These mentally incompetent vets?
Luckily, the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service -- Criminal Investigation department also found out and brought a case against him and his wife Dorothy, 72.
Among his transgressions:
Phillips admitted to submitting false accounting statements to the VA in Houston, which included fraudulent verification forms for bank information for a number of his veteran clients. He also admitted that on numerous occasions he and his wife unlawfully transferred money from bank accounts he maintained for his veteran clients on at least three occasions to accounts in his and his wife's name.
He further admitted that he did not file a proper accounting with the court or VA for the transfer of these funds. He admitted that his wife had gambled extensively at casinos in Louisiana between 2003 and 2007.
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Well, according to the team of industry analysts at Bloomberg, each 16-gig iPhone 5 would hypothetically cost Apple around $270.10 to produce with software, research and shipping costs included in the estimate. Sure, the real figure might be completely different as the next-gen iPhone has yet to be released and torn apart, but it is not impossible for Bloomberg to be using insider information in its analysis.
If the estimate turns out to be correct, however, every iPhone 5 that gets shipped to a US carrier would yield about $350 in profit going straight to Apple's already fat wallet. In comparison, the iPhone 4 was said to be built using only $187.51 worth of components, yet this estimate does not take into account anything beyond the pure cost of its hardware.
We have to clarify that the graphic presented here has been found on Bloomberg's servers, but a complete written article on the topic has yet to be published by the media. However, we will be keeping an eye on it and will update you should any other interesting information gets unveiled.
source: Bloomberg via SlashGear
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Research by the Reserve Bank of Australia has found the labour market is split into two groups: those who move between jobs very frequently and those who stay in the same job for many years.
In an article titled "Labour Market Turnover and Mobility" in the December quarter RBA Bulletin, economists at the RBA looked at how the resources boom and the associated appreciation of the exchange rate have led to structural change in the labour market by changing the nature and location of jobs.
They found some workers change jobs frequently, particularly in mining, retail and hospitality, while a relatively large group of workers changes jobs very rarely.
They found that while one in five workers changes jobs each year, the average tenure for workers is around seven years and more than 40 per cent of employed workers have been in their current job for over five years.
A quarter of all workers have been in the same job for more than 10 years – and the education and public sectors record the lowest turnover.
"The high incidence of long job tenure indicates that many workers and firms value the certainty and benefits of experience associated with job stability," the report found.
"One implication of the observed distribution of job tenure is that job stability is very unevenly distributed across workers."
Only one-third of workers are terminated, while the rest are voluntary moves associated with workers seeking more suitable jobs or leaving employment for career or life-cycle related reasons.
The report also found that Queensland has done better at recruiting Australians to move interstate to fill resource-sector jobs.
But Western Australia has been more reliant on foreigners to fill its resource-fuelled jobs boom, with the RBA saying companies had told them many Australians were unwilling to move from east to the west.
Both of these states also filled jobs that have come from within each state through a combination of larger increases in participation rates and larger declines in unemployment rates than occurred at the national level.
The Australian Financial Review