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Crafting A Prototype to Protect An Egg During Freefall
Lesson 14 of 14
Objective: Students will utilize their understanding of momentum and collisions to create a prototype that prevents an egg from shattering upon impact.
The goal of this lesson is to help students use research and design to construct explanations and design a solution to an engineering problem using concepts that relate to momentum and its conservation. I want students to apply the idea that momentum is conserved when the net external force acting on a system is zero. In the case of a freefalling object, momentum is not conserved because the net external force is the force due to gravity. This lesson addresses the HS-PS2-3 standard because it asks students to leverage their understanding of forces and momentum to create a device that protects an extra large grade A egg from breakage during free fall from a known height. It aligns with the NGSS Practices of Asking Question (SP2), Planning and Carrying Out Investigations (SP3), Constructing Explanations (SP6), and Obtaining, Evaluating and Communicating Information (SP8) for Science because students use their prior knowledge of momentum, free fall and design to construct a device within a set of constraints to protect an egg dropped from a fixed height.
Within this lesson, students constructing an explanation of the key terms that relate to an object's momentum. Students collaborate to design and build a device that protects an egg during free fall using their understanding of momentum. Students then test their prototypes to compare the theoretical and experimental values for final velocity and time of flight. Finally, students create headlines that correspond to today's lesson. Within this lesson, I ask students to focus on deepening their current understanding of momentum. I assess student understanding throughout the lesson using informal check-ins, and assess each student's work at the end of the school day. I want students to learn to integrate information from various points of this course into a coherent project. I ask students to look for and take note of more direct connections between the factors from this week's lessons and the presentation they are constructing during the next few lessons. Instead of a traditional bell-ringer, I present students with a set of rules for a design challenge. During this design challenge, student work in pairs to use their knowledge of momentum and forces to prevent an egg from breaking after falling between the second and ground floors of our school building.
During this section, I spend the first few minutes distributing a handout with the criteria for the Egg Drop project. While students spend five minutes reading the handout and choosing partners, I circulate and address any puzzles students may have. This part of the lesson has students create a plan for building a device that will prevent an egg from breaking within the following constraints and requirements:
- The device must free-fall
- The mass of the device must not exceed 120 g
- The dimensions of the device are bounded by 25 cm
- The final date for prototype testing
- Physics quantities to define, compute and measure
Students spend about ten minutes crafting a plan of action on how to go about creating the device and conducting research to meet the requirements from the handout. Typically student game plans include:
- Today's date
- Group Member Names
- Project Title
- Group member responsibilities
- Sketches of prototypes
- Resource links (videos, digital textbook chapters, websites)
Students use their game plans to keep track of project requirements. Students must build a device within these constraints and communicate a set of required information including the time of flight, the average force of impact and a sketch of student-designed devices. As students complete their projects, their focus will be on the NGSS Cross-Cutting Concept of Systems and Models while they illustrate their understanding of momentum conservation to create a prototype to protect an egg from shattering upon impact after it free falls from the top of the second floor stairwell to the ground floor.
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I introduce this section of the lesson by asking students to spend five minutes writing everything that comes to mind when the hear the word "engineering" in their laboratory notebooks. After five minutes pass, we have a five minute whole class discussion about student ideas on engineering. Student responses included: "Building", "Solving Problems", "Uses lots of math and physics", "Requires sifting through a lot of information", and "Cool Job". I remind students that communicating information in an easy to understand way, like creating detailed sketches drawn to scale like an engineer would, is an essential skill for scientists.
Then I ask students to spend the next thirty minutes work in pairs to create a device that can hold a single raw hen's egg and protect it when dropped from the 2nd floor of a building. The front resource station holds equipment in labeled drawers or containers and includes scissors, rulers, meter sticks, washers, colored pencils, markers, dry erase markers, string, whiteboards, multiple sized unlined paper, and highlighters. I project the requirements for student projects on the interactive whiteboard at the front of the room. Each momentum and collision engineering design project must include:
- A Title
- Labels for exhibit components
- A tri-fold poster that:
- Defines key vocabulary
- Gives example problems
- Highlights Historical Context
- A 2D/3D artifact (Ex. Egg Drop Device, Schematics Drawn to scale)
- A digital artifact (Ex. short film, presentation or virtual museum)
Some students split up the work and one team member creates prototypes while the other partner conducts research. Other teams work in tandem using Chromebooks to conduct research using a shared google document. While students work on this project, I circulate and check-in with student teams about their designs. Click here to see an example of student work. Students test their prototypes the following day when we meet at the end of the school day.
At the end of this section, I pause and ask students to label their exhibit components and return the materials they used during this section to the front resource station. A resource manager returns each material to a bin or labeled drawer so that they are readily available the next time the materials are needed.
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The closure activity asks students to identify and describe their personal level of understanding of key ideas within the lesson. The writing prompt asks students, "If you were to write a headline for this topic or issue right now that captured the most important aspect that should be remembered, what would that headline be?" Students write their responses either in their notebooks on or our Edmodo wall. I like this activity because students identify and share the portions of the lesson they feel are important and challenging as headlines. Student responses include: "You need to understand that momentum is conserved to create a working prototype to keep an egg from breaking" and "Gravity is the only force acting during free fall, so if you need to understand free fall to keep your egg from breaking".
To wrap up this section of the lesson, I ask students to look at this tutorial and practice questions that I post on the class Edmodo wall for homework. I check student responses to this closure to determine whether students are proficient in the understanding of the connection between scenario descriptions and the design project from this lesson.


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Well-known Elk brethren
Babe Ruth, Ben Affleck, Buffalo Bill and Clint Eastwood are famous for different reasons, but they can all claim membership in The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
At Lodge No. 1, formerly located in Manhattan until the 1960s but now based in Lynbrook, well-known members included Harry Houdini, Irving Berlin, Cardinal Francis Joseph Spellman and New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia.
To become an Elk, candidates must be recommended by an existing member from any Elks Lodge, and have two co-sponsors. When Ruth applied, his sponsors were New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker and Gov. Al Smith. Ruth's application is on display in the Lynbrook lodge's Heritage Room.
"It gives us pride that we've had so many prominent members over the years," said Al Hoffman, a Franklin Square resident who has been an Elk for 29 years and is the lodge's unofficial historian. "Back then, anybody who was anybody at one time was trying to get in as a member."
Members of other Elks lodges included Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford and five former presidents, among them John F. Kennedy.
According to Hoffman, every Elk gets treated the same, regardless of fame or social status.
"When you're a member, you could be the CEO of the company or you could be some guy working in a supermarket stocking shelves, and you have the same rights."
Connect with the Elks
Elks Lodge No. 1
57 Hempstead Ave.
Lynbrook, NY 11563-1639

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Education Realty Trust, Inc. (EDR - Free Report) recently hiked its quarterly cash dividend by 2 cents to 7 cents per share. This translates into a massive 40% increase from the prior dividend. The increased dividend will be paid on August 16, 2011, to stockholders of record as on June 29, 2011. This takes the annual dividend yield as of June 23, 2011, to 3.4%.
With this dividend increase, the annualized dividend of $ 0.28 per share represents approximately 70% of the previously issued 2011 core funds from operations guidance which is in the range of $ 0.38 to $ 0.42 per share.
Funds from operations, a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs, is obtained after adding depreciation and amortization and other non-cash expenses to net income.
During the first quarter 2011 FFO (funds from operations) stood at $9.4 million or 13 cents per share, compared to $8 million or 14 cents per share in the year-earlier quarter.
At the end of first quarter 2011, Education Realty cash balance stood at $75.6 million. We believe the company has enough cash and cash equivalents to provide optimum shareholder value.
Education Realty is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that develops, acquires, owns, and manages student housing communities located near university campuses in the United States. It manages 57 communities in 23 states with more than 33,800 beds in more than 10,600 units.
Education Realty currently retains a Zacks #2 Rank, which translates into a short-term Buy rating. We are also maintaining our long-term Neutral recommendation on the stock. One of its competitors, American Campus Communities Inc (ACC - Free Report) currently retains a Zacks #3 Rank which translates into a short term Hold rating.
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Beijing Wages War Against Termites, Hungry Moths
BEIJING China's capital is under attack from twin plagues of termites and moths, newspapers reported on Monday, prompting fears for the city's antiquities and concerns that Beijing's "Green Olympics" could be turned brown.
Workers renovating Beijing's 700 year-old Forbidden City for the 2008 Olympics discovered termites burrowing through the wooden structure, the China Daily said.
"High-tech devices" detecting and infecting the bugs with a "special powder" had been employed to control the outbreak, the paper said.
The wars against termites and moths are just two of the pest control initiatives Beijing has launched ahead of the Olympics.
Other campaigns have included targeting rats, fleas and lice at gymnasiums and athletes' villages.
The American White Moth, a ravenous plant-eater native to North American forests, was found in Beijing's Temple of Heaven park, the Beijing News said, weeks after forestry officials reported a plague in Beijing's surrounding hinterlands.
"If the moths aren't controlled quickly, they could even threaten Beijing's Olympics," the Beijing News quoted Wu Jian, a forestry official, as saying.
A single moth can spawn 30 million to 200 million descendants in a year, the Beijing News said, with larvae capable of stripping a healthy tree of foliage in a matter of days.
The crisis has prompted environment officials to wage a large-scale elimination campaign to save the "Green Olympics" -- a key slogan promoting the capital as an environmentally sound city.
Salvation may come in the form of a billion-strong army of larvae-eating bees, the moth's natural predator, the paper said.
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I wouldnt rule out anything. Rex is on record with BPA as his philosophy. At 29 they'll see who drops and hopefully end up wiht a top 15 player.
I hope we draft Worilds in the second.
I wouldnt rule out anything. Rex is on record with BPA as his philosophy. At 29 they'll see who drops and hopefully end up wiht a top 15 player.
Why? JT isn't the definitive answer for our pass rushing needs.
If Graham is on the board, I swear I will pose as a Jets employee and hand in a card with his name on it to Goodell.
players drop.
the Miami Dolphins selected Dan Marino with selection #27.
every year, players drop.
the question is, which players will drop in 2010
1st round: DE Tyson Alualu - California
2nd round: OLB Jason Worilds - Virginia Tech
That would be an awesome first two rounds.
jason taylor is old as heck and on a 1 year deal
this doesn't really change the draft plans
cough *mays* cough cough
I dont think you guys Mike T's philosphy yet. We fill holes in FA and go out and try to get the best guy on our board.
Pool....Taylor...Leon...Braylon...Cromartie....Hol mes...all these dudes are 1 yr deals.
We are set to go BAP---and as Baltimore and the good teams do--Hopefully will be that team that gets the stud that falls.
If Iupati is on the board he is going to be our pick...
Rex did not deny the Faneca story and was talking about BPA...
I think with all the moves that we have made this off-season it makes it clear that the Jets will draft the best player available at their position at #29. i think that they might surprise everyone and possibly go with an offensive player at our spot. but we do still have a bunch of picks this year excluding number 3 and 5 i think they can improve their team substantially by having these picks and will get their needs filled with them. Just my opinion, but i do think we take the best players left...O line, D line, rb, maybe another wr or more d backs.
With the taylor signing and Ghost moving to DE(where he might be very productive), I think the DL will be addressed in round 2 or later and possibly with a FA pick up from preseason cuts.
Corner can be addressed in round 2 as well.
I think the team will go OL in round one, safety/corner in rd 2 then depth rest of the way


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Aquatic ecologist introduces DIY zebra mussel detection
By Crystal Dey / A,exandria Echo Press
Spring has finally arrived in Minnesota. Soon lake lovers will be setting their sights on scenes of summer: boating, skiing, canoeing, kayaking, swimming – and, of course, the emergence of watercraft inspectors patrolling for zebra mussels.
Residents of Douglas County have grown mindful of what goes into and comes out of area waters. But, if you really love lakes, you're going to need scuba gear and a PVC pipe.
Aquatic ecologist Dr. Darby Nelson shared insights on what has become of waters in Minnesota, Canada and New England at the Latoka Lake Property Owners Association annual meeting on Saturday at LaGrand Town Hall.
"It's great to see groups like this forming," Nelson said of the association. "We're not going to beat the zebra mussels without them."
Nelson began observing aquatic ecosystems during his first paddle boat voyage as a child. Since that time, he has served in the Minnesota Legislature, taught at Anoka-Ramsey Community College and written a book on lake deterioration. While in the state House of Representatives, Nelson served on the environment and natural resources committees, among others, between 1983 and 1988.
Nelson said that nationwide, 43 percent of surveyed lakes and 80 percent of urban lakes have substandard water quality. When Nelson decided to write a book on the topic, he knew he had to delve deep to find out why drastic changes are occurring, so he bought scuba gear and started exploring.
"I gotta get down there," Nelson thought.
Nelson was in search of an answer to why lakes people used to be able to see the whites of their toes in as kids are so murky now that people can barely see to mid-thigh. One explanation is concentrations of phosphorus and blue-green algae.
"It [algae] turns lakes into pea soup."
Dr. Darby Nelson
Nelson said phosphorus is present in all cells, that without phosphorus, there is no life. Too much phosphorus, however, will stimulate a sequence of events that leads to growth of algae, Nelson explained.
"It turns lakes into pea soup," Nelson said.
Through his exploration, Nelson met a veterinarian who told him of a disturbing incident. A dog died a "gruesome" death within hours after lapping up lake water that contained high concentrations of blue-green algae. Some types of algae will produce a toxic chemical that prevents other organisms from eating it, making it poisonous to humans and animals.
Ironically, animals contribute to the toxicity through shoreline runoff from farmland. Nelson said when it rains, urine-carrying phosphorus runs off farmland into lakes, making the water no longer viable for human recreation.
Nelson said a 50-foot buffer of land from the shoreline would keep chemicals from causing such a problem. He added that many farmers are getting the message and taking proactive steps toward a common goal of clean water.
Erosion, leaf bags and unbuffered, developed shoreline are also contributors to deterioration of lakes, Nelson said. Natural shorelines are raw buffers that filter what enters water systems. Nelson said people have difficulty understanding what they don't see. People see the tall trees and rough floor of the forest but can't see past the placid sheet atop a lake.
"Different perceptions produce different behaviors," Nelson said.
"It's a simple, cheap way of getting a handle on where zebra mussels are."


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Southwick man killed by falling tree
March 30, 2012
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EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass.—A worker for a western Massachusetts tree cutting company has been killed by a falling tree.
Police in East Longmeadow say 28-year-old Tyler Granfield of Southwick was working in the back yard of a home on Thursday afternoon when he was apparently struck by the upper limbs of a falling tree as he tried to get out of the way. He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Granfield worked for Tyler's Tree Service of Southwick.
The death remains under investigation but police say it appears to be an accident.
The federal Office of Occupational Health and Safety Administration was notified and responded to the scene.
© Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.


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Oh no! My free VPS is going away! (my what?)
Got this email today. Um, my what? Never had service with them.
Hi, This is to inform you that due to abuse/spam we will be discontinuing the free vps service on 28 September 2012. Please take backup of your data before that. Regards, Amanah Support
FieldMoose Member
LOL I just got one, haven't the foggiest either.
Damian Member
What company did it come from?
jarland Administrator
The world needs to know, and you're part of it. Pass it on to your contact list!
@Damian said: What company did it come from?
DanielM Disabled
It's obvious it was a scam to get customers. It's typical to use spam as an excuse. LET has seen this many times.
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@DanielM said: It's obvious it was a scam to get customers. It's typical to use spam as an excuse. LET has seen this many times.
Mmmhmmm @DreamServers. I got that e-mail too even though I didn't have anything..
zhuanyi Member
@Infinity said: LET has seen this many times.
More recently we have FortaTrust? I think only one of the LET memebers got the free server from them.
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Spencer Member
It wasn't spam it was newsletters ami right?
Asim Member
Same here, I got trapped by maxmind and created a ticket which was never replied back in March and now they sent me this.I blog at www.asim.pkThanked by 1netomx
nocom Member
@nocom said: @raindog308 just request your login data from amanah.com, you still have one week to play with vps
What's the point in that?
Legendlink Member
I got this email too. I DID have service with them, before they decided to delete everyone's account to make them sign up again. For what reason, I don't remember.
Amanah is run by retards, who are clueless at best.
And yeah, childish ploy to get clients that ended with them getting a lot of bad press at WHT, iirc.
Jeffrey Member
Very unprofessional at best.
eastonch Member
Unmetered 100TB? Isnt that... Metered 100TB? :S!
Looks like keyword bingo trying to get 100TB.com's sales. :)
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Night Member
At least they give a notice this time around. It sucks though, because it was a decent little box.
AmanahTech Member
The free VPS offer was an effort to support smaller users by offering a temporary promotion. However, our system won't accept free email accounts (gmail, hotmail) so some people may have been rejected by the system without every getting the service.
From those who successfully registered, we found too many were abusing the service (spamming, hacking etc). If you received an email it's because you were registered, at some point, for our service. We wanted to give legitimate users the opportunity to backup their data before we started shutting down accounts.
Essentially the promotion didn't workout as well as we originally hoped. We're sorry for the inconvenience.
24khost Member
@AmanahTech, alot of people are saying they never signed up with you. How is it you got there information.
netomx Member
@AmanahTech said: However, our system won't accept free email accounts (gmail, hotmail) so some people may have been rejected by the system without every getting the service.
I use my domain, and didn't get past the maxmind check; sent a ticket and... well, you know, no responseReferral links: DigitalOcean referral link
Never signed up. Never heard of you.
proteus Member
@AmanahTech LOL at the cancellation emails. With support tickets remaining unanswered forever and VPSes already being shutdown for no reason for months, getting a cancellation email was just plain ridiculous.
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I got an email about my VPS was terminated for abuse, and I didn't even know that I got a VPS with them =)
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Health Reimbursement Arrangements: Making a Good Deal Better
No. 438
Thursday, May 08, 2003
by Devon Herrick
The proportion of health care paid directly by consumers has been falling for decades. In 1960, individuals paid directly for 50 percent of their health care. Today they pay for only 15 percent. The other 85 percent is paid by third parties, generally employers, insurance companies or the government. See Figure. As their share of health expenses declined, so also did consumers' interest in controlling health care costs. For example, if patients pay only 15 cents out of each dollar they spend on health care, they have an incentive to consume care until its worth to them is only 15 cents at the margin.
The widespread adoption of managed care over the past few years was an attempt to blunt these incentives by limiting the ability of patients and doctors to spend third-party insurance money. However, as the patients' share of the bill decreased, so did their power to make decisions about their own health care.
Consumer-driven health care has begun to restore patient power by allowing consumers to control a greater portion of their health care spending and directly experience the financial consequences of the decisions they make.
Patient Power: MSAs, FSAs and HRAs.
Two well-known mechanisms for consumer-directed spending are Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs). Employees with FSAs usually fund these accounts through pretax deductions from their paychecks. Employers usually fund MSAs. In both cases, the funds are intended for the payment of health care expenses third-party insurers do not pay. However, the popularity of these accounts is limited by restrictions on their funding and use. For example, FSAs have a use-it-or-lose-it provision. The law requires employees to forfeit any unused funds at the end of the year, even though they had to decide at the beginning of the year how much to deposit each month. Failure to predict their health care spending accurately means sacrificing the end-of-year balance or engaging in last-minute spending on items of marginal value. This is one reason why, of the estimated 29 million employees with access to such accounts, only about six million use FSAs to pay medical bills. Far more use the accounts solely to pay their portion of health insurance premiums.
MSAs also face burdens that limit their appeal. For example, they are limited to the self-employed and to small employers who are the least likely to offer health insurance to their employees. The sizes of deductibles and of MSA deposits are also restricted.
Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) are another type of personal account from which employees can pay directly for their medical care. A June 2002 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revenue ruling clarified that HRA funds can roll over each year and grow tax free. The ruling puts HRA spending on an even playing field with third-party payments.
HRAs Are Flexible.
Firms of any size can establish an HRA program. Like qualified MSAs or FSAs, the accounts are not a taxable employee benefit and employers' contributions are tax deductible. Employers have great flexibility in designing plans to meet their employees' needs. For example, an HRA may accompany any type of health insurance plan or none at all. An employer could place a uniform amount into every employee's HRA, which the employees could use to pay medical expenses or insurance premiums.
Indeed, employers might even tailor benefits to suit different types of employees' medical needs. For instance, employers are allowed to adjust HRA contributions based on such factors as age, medical risk or seniority. Employers might even alter copayments and deductibles to encourage employees to buy medications for chronic conditions. To encourage employees to seek preventive care, employers might stipulate a portion of the HRA is forfeited if not used within the year.
If an employer's HRA plan allows it, after leaving a company employees could use accumulated HRA funds to pay medical bills, COBRA premiums for continuing coverage under the employer's health plan or premiums for a new health insurance plan.
HRAs for Retirees.
One of the most promising applications of HRAs is for retiree benefits. Employers are currently hard pressed to meet these obligations, particularly with health care costs rising at alarming rates. An HRA may serve as a "defined contribution" retirement benefit plan, giving employers more control over their future obligations.
Employees can build up funds during their working years to be supplemented with additional postretirement employer contributions.
As with pension benefits, the employer can institute a vesting requirement so that employees have access to the full value of the funds only after they have been with the company for a number of years.
After retirement or Medicare eligibility, seniors can use the accumulated funds to pay Medicare Part B premiums, pay medigap premiums or pay for prescription drugs and other medical expenses not covered by insurance.
Researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) have found that, on average, 10 percent of employees account for 80 percent of medical expenses in any given year. Yet many of the individuals with high expenses in one year have low or no medical expenses in other years. If allowed to accumulate over their entire work lives, at the end of 35 years more than 95 percent of retiring individuals would have unused HRA balances.
Making HRAs Better.
Currently HRA funds must be spent only on qualified medical services. This means employees can never withdraw their HRA funds as cash for nonmedical uses. This also means that employees are barred from choosing between health care and other uses of the money. Yet nothing encourages prudent shopping like the prospect of a cash reward. Without clear-cut incentives, employees will not modify their behavior and become wise consumers of health care. With this in mind, employers should design benefit plans to allow year-end rollovers of unused balances each year and continued access for ex-employees. Employees need to have a clear property right in their HRA balances and to be able to withdraw unused balances in cash - after paying income and payroll taxes on them. These accounts also need to be portable, traveling with employees as they move from job to job.
Finally, the contribution restrictions need to be relaxed. Currently, only the employer can fund an HRA program, and no such program can be tied to salary reduction or deferred compensation. In other words, the employee may not contribute directly or indirectly to the HRA. These restrictions serve no useful purpose.
Reformed HRAs would allow employers to control their contributions, while providing employees with incentives to consume medical care wisely. They would also give employees greater control of the health care dollars spent on their behalf. Thus HRAs could fulfill their promise, offering employees more choice and control over the health care they consume and helping employers hold the line on costs.
Devon Herrick is research manager for the NCPA.


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Marketing and Data Analyst
OPM is working withan independently owned creative agency working with some of the biggest names in games, music and lifestyle. We have a very exciting vacancy for a full time Marketing and Data Analyst within their elite team.
This is a unique, one of a kind opportunity to work in a fast paced studio environment exclusively collaborating with one of the world's largest gaming companies while playing a pivotal role in helping inform and influence their future growth.
The ideal candidate will have a good mix of strong data analysis skills along with an in-depth knowledge of digital marketing. Ideally from a digital marketing background you will understand data and be responsible for defining and implementing measurement strategies that align with their clients marketing and business objectives. You will be the lead for the production and consultation of data analysis in relation to all campaigns and digital activities on behalf of our client for all EMEA markets. You will be expected to produce regular performance assessments based on agreed KPI's while being able to deliver key insights as well as anecdotal findings that can help inform and guide future campaigns and core site programming. Working closely both with studio, design and development teams as well as key client side stakeholders to ensure every aspect of a campaign from conception through to delivery and beyond is results and data driven to obtain maximum client ROI.
The ideal candidate will have a good mix of strong data analysis skills along with an in-depth knowledge of digital marketing. Travel will be required as part of this role with time split between our studio and on-site with a client. A keen interest in the video game industry is preferred but not essential.
Educated to degree level in marketing & communications, statistics or a related discipline.
Experience of working in an agency environment or a similar role with a proven track record of digital marketing experience and solid web analytics experience.
Expert user of Adobe Marketing Suite (Omniture), including experience of advanced Sitecatalyst functionality and admin tools (e.g. segmentation, Report Builder, SAINT, Data Warehouse, implementation, configuration).
Extensive experience of tagging and tracking campaigns across multiple channels.
Ability to interpret results from a large data set and present in a meaningful way.
Able to intelligently demonstrate improvements made based on identified insights.
Broad experience of digital marketing and web industry.
Conversion rate optimisation experience.
Familiarity with other major analytics tools.
Experience with Adobe Discover.
Experience with UX analytics tools.
Experience of integrating data from other sources.
Experience of search engine optimisation methods.
Experience of working in a fast paced, dynamic agency environment.
To apply, please send a copy of your most recent CV to firstname.lastname@example.com
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The salary bracket is approximate and is no guarantee of the income on offer. Salary and benefits will be discussed with candidates at interview with the company and are individually negotiated by OPM.


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Bozeman Locals Who Became Famous – Our Successful 6
This topic was another assignment from our digital genius Cole, and I must say I had NO CLUE how many famous people were either from, or spent a good amount of time here!
Now, I will say I got most of these facts from Wikepedia…
We'll start with some of the more well known peps –
Jack Horner – The dinosaur dude. He was the technical advisor for Jurrasic Park – and we are lucky enough to have him at our own Museum of The Rockies.
Ted Turner – Founder of CNN and WTBS – which started the cable super-station revolution. Look around Bozeman. See a wide open space of land? He probably owns it.
Kevin Michael Connolly – Born without legs, Kevin didn't let that or anything else stop him from accomplishing more than many of us will ever will. Kevin is a graduate from Montana State University, and in 2007, Kevin won a silver medal in the X-Games in the Mono-Ski races. Recently Kevin had a series of photographs on display at the Smithsonian that chronicled his journey through countries around the world. Watch a great video profiling Kevin from ESPN here.
Alex Lowe – widely considered one of his generation's finest all-around mountaineers. He rode out a 40 foot fall while ice climbing in Hyalite Canyon and stopped to get coffee before going to the hospital. He eventually lost is life to an Avalanche in Tibet.
Dane Fletcher – Watch football? Look for New England Patriots #52 – Dane was an MSU grad and you can now watch him smash people for a living during Monday Night Football!
Most of the above names you probably have heard about – but did you know?
Jan Stenerud – played football in the NFL for the Kansas City Chiefs, the Minesota Vikings, and the best – the GREEN BAY PACKERS! He scored 1699 points in his career second only to George Blanda
Brannon Braga – Are you a Star Trek freak? Well Brannon worked on three of the four modern Star Trek television series, the Star Trek feature films, as well as being co-creator and an executive producer of Star Trek – Enterprise. Brannon is also currently the Executive Producer of the new series Terra Nova
What Do You Think? Who am I missing?


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SYDNEY, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- An Australian man allegedly acted as a middleman to help Australians travel through Turkey to fight in Syria, court documents state.
Mohammed Ali Baryalei has not been charged, and is likely still in Turkey, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Baryalei left Australia in April last year. Australian police intercepted one of his phone calls two months later, and the conversation indicated he had been to a battle where people had been killed and injured.
He allegedly worked with Hamdi al-Qudsi, a man from Sydney who was arrested in December for sending six young Australians to fight in Syria.
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Nursing Research and Practice
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 695729, 8 pages
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Improvement Research Priorities: USA Survey and Expert Consensus
1Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice, School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA
2Steering Council Member, Improvement Science Research Network, USA
3Medical Management Centre, The Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden
Received 2 March 2013; Revised 3 June 2013; Accepted 25 June 2013
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Our leaders choose their words carefully as they seek to persuade us. Let's take a look at some recent examples.
Two labor-related proposals pending in Congress are the Employee Free Choice Act and the Re-Empowerment of Skilled Professional Employees and Construction Trade Workers (RESPECT) Act. The terms "free choice" and "respect" have powerful connotations. These labels make it tempting to avoid exploring the meaning of the two bills.
Unions, through the Free Choice Act, want to deprive workers of the right to secret ballots in union elections. This has the potential to open up the election process to intimidation and coercion, and has implications for other areas of society.
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Help! Erythromycin and stomach pain... NHS Direct worse than useless... I need MN!(13 Posts)
I know this is an old thread but reading everybody's experiences with this nasty drug is so helpful. I'm on day 2 and doubling over in pain! I had to get a cab from my local tube because I couldn't bear the thought of being on a bus. It's like a mix between nausea, extreme gas (doesn't help I am prone to IBS) and wanting to fart but fearing I might pop myself. I'm going to try taking a probiotic friendly yogurt (got some plain Yeo valley one) and just try and drink lots of water. I do find hot water does clear that bloated feeling but wanted to know if I put some ginger in (it helps with digestion) will it cause a reaction? Already had a weird reaction with lemon (in my hot water) which made me wake up at 5:45am this morning from extreme nausea. It's a miracle I wasn sick!
I don't know what they have done to make ABs so nasty. When younger I had no problems with the tetracycline types.
Our dentists prescribe that sadistic metronidazole as first choice, which i now refuse to take.
Their 2nd choice was Erythromycin, which i also refused as my Statins leaflet says I must not take it.
So, I took Clindamycin, but chemist warned me to take each tablet with loads and loads of water. I was fine.
Hey everyone, I am not yet a mum however I have just had tremendous success, after trial and error with taking erythromycin and had to share it with someone (NHS direct doesn't allow me to post!)
I first found this board as was getting extreme nausea/ stomach cramps from the erythromycin that I was prescribed for a tooth abscess as allergic to penicillin, however the various recommendations all over the internet (and what the pharmacy & dentist told me!) miss out the fact that the medicine instructions says to take on an EMPTY stomach!! I suffered for 2 days before I have finally found the "right" way to take it to avoid the pain and sickness:
1. Take 1 hour before your meal/ food (the antibiotic kills the bacteria in your stomach that deals with food, so your tummy cannot cope with both food and erythromycin @ the same time).
2. Drink plenty of water, especially if still feeling a bit nauseous.
3. As a treatment for the mild nausea/ cramps you may still experience: drink plenty of Actimel yoghurt drinks - have as many as you like (I have been having up to 4/5 a day and only experiencing mild "stool loosening" , but that is much more preferable to the "other end"!) - as the antibiotic is killing the bacteria in your stomach (aswell as where your infection is) the Actimel can be used to replace your "good bacteria" and soothes it almost instantly.
I hope you all have as much luck as I did with this method, before this I was crying at work because I had tooth pain plus stomach cramps, and I have just taken my last dose of erythromycin (1 hour before my dinner!) and am happy to report no stomach pain plus tooth is healed!! Woohoo!!
P.S. I am not a doctor - merely just found a solution!
Thanks all. I can cope with the shits, it's just - ahem - 'the other' that I don't deal with.
The type I tend not to react to is anything in the tetracycline family. They don't tend to like prescribing them (as they're fairly heavy duty antibiotics) but I point blank refuse to accept erythromycin now because of my experiences - even with the "newer" less side effect versions of erythromycin I STILL react.
But then I rarely have them. I am the stupid person who spent a week and a half alternating paracetamol and nurofen constantly with raging tonsillitis so I wouldn't have to go to the GPs and get given antibiotics Note: not the best decision I ever made...
i would stop taking them tbh. dd1 reacts to erthromycin badly. starts with stomach pains, then the runs. (sorry)
Erythromicin also makes me horribly sick so perhaps that's what's happening to you? You could go back to the dr to ask for slow release erythromicin that is not as bad.
I am also allergic to penicillin so am a veteran of erythromicin probs. Keep taking it till you can see a doc tomorrow and see if you can get onto the slow release one?
Thanks both... I have no evidence that I am allergic to penicillin, but my mum, sister and several cousins are (some violently) so I try to avoid it. However, this is not funny... I have had a probiotic yogurt with my tea, but am also mildly dairy intolerant so that is likely to give me a bad tummy as much as to make it better....
And now it seems the ear ache is coming back. Oh whoopee-doo!
Phone the out of hours doc - they'll probably tell you to stop taking them and go to your gp for a new prescription in the morning.
I had this the first time I took erythromycin and in the middle of the night the pain got so bad I thought I'd have to phone an ambulance In the end I spent the night curled up on the bedroom floor sobbing.
Now the first dose I take of any erythromycin-based antibiotics makes me feel instantly nauseous.
It's fairly common to react badly to erythromycin, if I remember correctly. My GP told me that 1 in 4 people who are allergic to penicillin also have bad reactions with erythromycin (makes it a bugger to get antibiotics I tell you...)
I am allergic to penicillin, so have been prescribed erythromycin most of the times I have needed antibiotics. It has given me a gippy tum on a few occasions, but the thing that I found helped was eating the yoghurts with "friendly bacteria" in.
I think that the yoghurt helps because it replaces the good bacteria in your gut which are killed by the antibiotics (as well as the bacteria in your ear), and gets your digestive system back on track.
Thanks SMS... thing is (and here's the rub, as it were) I am scared that it will make me throw up if it gets any worse. (Have googled erythromycin and stomach pain and found many cases of people claiming it does that... ) I know I'm a big fat wuss, but honestly what with the pain in my ear, the deafness, the tinnitus and now the stomach ache... vomiting (with the resultant panic attack etc) would just finish me off!
I would try and tolerate until tomorrow so you keep the antibiotic in your system to kill the nasties.
Try and get to GP tomorrow and see if you can change to a different one.
Hello. I know I said I was having a break from MN, but I need some advice and have tried NHS Direct to no avail... so here I am!
I have a nasty ear infection for which I have been prescribed erythromycin. A known side-effect of erythromycin is stomach pain, and the doctor did warn me about this yesterday when she prescribed it. Took two doses yesterday and was fine. Pain started at about 9.00 this morning after third dose. First of all like mild indigestion, annoying but not the end of the world. However it has been getting worse all day and now I am in real discomfort if I try to walk around/stand up/do anything except just lie on my front. Will it be like this for the whole 7 day course of antibiotics? If so, I don't think I can continue to take it (not least because I have to go to work this week and I have a 40th birthday party - mine! - on Saturday).
I just don't know what to do. Do I keep on taking the antibiotics at least till tomorrow and then try to change them for another sort? Should I phone the out of hours doctor tonight? I don't want to stop the antibiotics as my ear is still tender and I am still deaf in that ear.
NHS Direct ignored the fact that I was taking antibiotics (even though I kept repeating that I was sure the antibiotics were causing the pain) and just went through their list of 900 questions about stomach pain and then concluded that it was probably the start of a stomach bug (which, as an emetophobe, was welcome news... NOT!).
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Five Must-See Migrations
"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds ... something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter." So wrote Rachel Carson in The Sense of Wonder.
From birds and butterflies in flight to whales swimming, you can't help but be inspired by the natural phenomenon of migration. In spring, many animals are on the move, traveling to their summer homes and breeding grounds. Many will leave North America during the fall and head south to winter in warmer climates. Celebrate these seasonal pageants via our list below of "Five Must-See Migrations" in Virginia.
1. Shorebirds
The Conservancy's Virginia Coast Reserve and associated natural areas on the Eastern Shore offer a critical mosaic of habitats for migratory shorebirds. American oystercatchers nest on wild barrier island beaches. Red knots replenish their body weight before continuing their journeys to breeding grounds in the Arctic. Whimbrels also refuel for their epic flights to Canada and Alaska, stalking mainland mudflats and gorging on abundant fiddler crabs.
Late April through early June is prime time for spotting shorebirds. Just remember that, even in one of North America's migration hotspots, birding is often part science and part luck. Fortunately, the scenery is always beautiful.
Try arriving after a weather front passes through and at mid-to-low tide, but first, plan your trip by checking out the Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail's Eastern Shore Loop.
2. Whales
Abundant food around the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay helps attract two of Virginia's most majestic migratory animals. During the winter, humpback and fin whales feed along the Virginia coast as they head south to mate and calve in tropical waters. Humpbacks grow to 50 feet long, and their songs and spectacular leaps from the ocean thrill seafarers of all ages. Fin whales grow even longer; these powerful swimmers are the second-largest animal on Earth next to the blue whale.
From late December through mid March, the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center offers whale-watching trips departing from Virginia Beach.
3. Songbirds
Neotropical migratory songbirds herald the arrival of spring in Virginia and across North America, raising young and spending their summers here. In the fall, massive flocks hurtle into the night skies as they depart for their winter homes in Mexico, Central America, South America or the Carribean.
The prothonotary warbler is a familiar warm-weather resident of blackwater rivers and forested wetlands. This bright-yellow songbird is unique among Eastern warblers in that it nests only in tree cavities, preferably near standing water. In Virginia, the prothonotary most commonly nests along tidal tributaries to the Chesapeake Bay, and it is the signature songbird of Dragon Run.
From wood warblers in the Allegheny Highlands to cerulean warblers at Fortune's Cove, birding opportunities abound across the commonwealth. The Eastern Shore — especially the southern tip — provides some of the world's most critical stopover habitat. Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge offers excellent viewing opportunities, and for a truly special treat, visit the bird-banding station at Kiptopeke State Park for close encounters of the feathery kind.
For viewing opportunities across the state, consult the Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail.
4. Monarch Butterflies
The migration of the monarch butterfly spans four generations and up to 3,000 miles. Monarchs east of the Rockies migrate south to Mexico, where they spend the winter hibernating in oyamel fir trees. The spring generation must return northward to the milkweed flowers that feed the insect during its larval stage.
In Virginia, both monarchs and songbirds converge by the millions on the Eastern Shore's southern tip in the fall, awaiting favorable weather before launching in waves across the Chesapeake Bay. Thus, one of the best spots in Virginia to experience both colorful migrations in all their glory is Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge.
5. Raptors
The raptors — birds of prey — include eagles, hawks, kites, harriers, falcons, owls and osprey. While some North American raptors are year-round residents, many others depart en masse during the fall, heading for warmer climes. Broad-wing hawks, for example, gather by the thousands into swirling flocks called kettles as they ride thermals over the mountains.
Virginia hosts a number of popular sites from which to view the spectacle of raptor migration: Snicker's Gap, west of Leesburg; Rockfish Gap, north of Charlottesville; Harvey's Knob, north of Roanoke along the Blue Ridge Parkway; and Kiptopeke State Park on the Eastern Shore. Raptor migration in Virginia typically runs from late August into October, peaking by late September.


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a Republican majority has already shown it is willing to ignore the law to further a partisan agenda.
Sometimes God's will requires pissing on the law. While choking a bitch.
Wow, the whole scene out there is really messed up. Sad thing is I am sure the state is being use as a testing ground of a strategy that will be employed elsewhere.
Pfft Michigan's GOP was f*cking the dog before it was cool.
This is such a depressing illustration of what it looks like when Fascism moves into your neighborhood. Good luck, Wisconsinites.
Wow. Good luck, WI folks. I have no idea how you fight the good fight here.
It's not a coup, since it doesn't involve military force, so what do you call it when a political party takes power, and then changes the rules so that it can't lose power again?
Typically, a coup d'état uses the extant government's power to assume political control of the country. In Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, military historian Edward Luttwak says, "A coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder", thus, armed force (either military or paramilitary) is not a defining feature of a coup d'état.
Are you referring to the same GAB that dragged their feet when reviewing ruling on recall petitions against Democrats after already setting election days for the Republicans being recalled? The same GAB that ruled against Nygren being a candidate in one of those elections? Oh yeah, they sound like they are definitely in the bag for the GOP.
Post when you have some actual facts. Something more than "scattered reports of shenanigans". Then you will at least have some basis for making accusations. This is just more of the same GOP witch hunt.
MattDaddy, given what you're seeing in Wisconsin, you can't seriously still support them, can you? Seriously?
I don't get all the whining by Democrats about the redistricting plans. No one is taking away anyone's right to vote. Why not make districts that are cohesive rather than bitterly divided? Most of the new areas make more sense looking at the maps and understanding who makes up those areas.
The Racine/Kenosha area will get broken down into a mainly Republican district and a mainly Democratic district instead of two mixed ones. What is wrong with that? Isn't it better to have a district represented by someone who is liked by the majority instead of one that may be liked by half and hated by the other half?
The only reason for the uproar that makes sense is that it's the GOP majority making the decisions, therefore the Democrat minority automatically must cry foul about it. You'd think they were planning on creating 20 new GOP districts while gathering all the Democrats in a single district of their own based on some of the ranting going on in opposition to it.
In case you didn't read the linked article, there is unrefuted testimony by the staff of the Legislative Reference Bureau that Senator Fitzgerald did lean on their office to release 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 on their website, laying the foundation for GOP claims that the act was published and should already be in effect. I don't think it's unreasonable (or a witch hunt) to want to know the details of an election-day rule change by the GAB (if that report turns out to be true, a caveat I noted in the original post).
Which has absolutely nothing to do with your unsound accusation. An investigation is fine (if the report even turns out to be true), but for you to say they need to start with Fitzgerald is a witch hunt. You admit that you don;t even know if the report is true and yet you're ready to "start with Fitzgerald".
Nygren failed to gather the 400 valid signatures to obtain a place on the ballot. The fact that Nygren only gathered 424 signatures total, giving him a razor-thin margin of error, is not the fault of anyone outside the Nygren campaign.
I never said it was. The fact they ruled against him shows they aren't in the tank for the GOP as you inferred in your prior post.
Edit: To clarify: I never said Nygren's campaign was not at fault. What matters in my argument is that the GAB ruled against him.
Also some folks are now reporting robocalls from a northern Virginia number telling them to use absentee ballots (except, of course, the deadline for absentee ballots has already expired and anyone following these directions will not have their vote counted).
As noted before, it's too early to know the details about these allegations. MattDaddy, can we agree that (if true), attempting to trick people into not having their votes counted is a bad thing?
You need to be very careful with this story, and make sure you check sources and get verification. Everything I've seen reported on this so far sources the same blog post from a single blog.
My mom, who was a political operative for years, says that she's heard this exact same story before, more than once.
I'm disgusted at what the Republican party is doing in Wisconsin, but be careful to check your facts.
This is what I'd actually said:Dimmerswitch wrote:
If that report is true, I want to see an investigative report about whose idea the rule change was, and what process was followed to rush through the change. I'd start with Senator Fitzgerald, who we already know is willing to lean on government agencies to try to force through his political agenda.
I said I would start with Senator Fitzgerald because there is testimony that he exerted inappropriate political pressure on other governmental agencies to further his political agenda. It's a bit of a stretch to characterize that as a witch hunt. There's not even an accusation there, unfounded or otherwise.
Nowhere in that article are the words "inappropriate" or "pressure" mentioned. It also wasn't his political agenda, but a bill passed by the senate he was pushing to get published. One the secretary of state should have published himself. Instead, he chose to make his position political by holding off publication for no reason other than to give the Democrats time to find Sumi and have her hold things up (temporarily, as it was passed later in the budget).
To say "start with Fitzgerald" without any reason to do so other than some unrelated issue you have with him is what I would classify a witch hunt.
If you don't believe that to be inappropriate pressure, I don't expect that any behavior by our state's GOP will ever meet your criteria.
I didn't state what I believed about it one way or the other.
It doesn't matter what I believe about that scenario. Using that as the sole reason to start with him as part of some (at this point non-existent) investigation into the GAB decision would be unfair.
So because I don't agree with using a rumored story as an opportunity to bash Fitzgerald that it makes me a stalwart defender of him?
I think it's pretty laughable to take "He's used inappropriate pressure before, and if an investigation happens I'd want to make sure these changes weren't also made at his behest" and characterize that as a witch hunt. :)
But you didn't word it that way. You used an unverified report and said they should "start" with him, as if he should be the #1 suspect in any investigation. That, plus the other posts by you that use rumors you find on the internet as a way trying to insinuate that the GOP is up to evil things is what led to the witch hunt tag, laughable as that may be to you.
At this time, the Milwaukee Journal is calling four of the six primaries for the real Democrats running with the other two leading by comfortable margins. Here are the numbers as of 7:45 PM PDT:
State Senate - District 2 - Dem Primary
Wisconsin - 83 of 90 Precincts Reporting - 92%
Nusbaum , Nancy 13,360 65%
Junkermann , Otto 7,142 35%
State Senate - District 8 - Dem Primary
Wisconsin - 55 of 77 Precincts Reporting - 71%
Pasch , Sandra 16,174 67%
Huber , Gladys 8,128 33%
State Senate - District 10 - Dem Primary
Wisconsin - 92 of 110 Precincts Reporting - 84%
Moore , Shelly 14,626 54%
Weix , Isaac 12,426 46%
State Senate - District 14 - Dem Primary
Wisconsin - 124 of 128 Precincts Reporting - 97%
Clark , Fred 14,879 67%
Church , Rol 7,203 33%
State Senate - District 18 - Dem Primary
Wisconsin - 94 of 110 Precincts Reporting - 85%
King , Jessica 17,410 68%
Buckstaff , John 8,138 32%
State Senate - District 32 - Dem Primary
Wisconsin - 99 of 119 Precincts Reporting - 83%
Shilling , Jennifer 14,171 70%
Smith , James 5,979 30%
Milwaukee Journal now calling all races for the real Democrats running in the primaries.
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So, is this the best Mountain Pointe football team ever?
Karl Kiefer thinks so, and he's seen some good ones at Mountain Pointe, as the head coach when the school opened in 1991 until he retired four years ago.
"This is the best team ever as far as I'm concerned," Kiefer said after the Pride wrapped up an undefeated season with a 26-23 East Valley Region victory over previously unbeaten Marcos de Niza in Tempe Friday night.
Both teams went into the season with 9-0 records and the conference championship on the line.
Kiefer was the first Arizona coach to win 300 games. His 1999 Mountain Pointe team went 9-0 before losing to Desert Vista in the Ahwatukee Bowl, back when the rivalry game was the final game of the season. His 1995 team went 11-2 and made it to the semifinals where the Pride lost to eventual state champion Phoenix St. Mary's.
"The 11-2 team that went to the semis was pretty good football team," Kiefer added, "and the proof of the pudding is how far you go now. But these guys are 10-0 and that's the best team ever at Mountain Pointe."
The Pride rebounded from a 2-8 season last year under first year coach Norris Vaughan, who now has rung up his fourth consecutive undefeated season -- the last three at Wickenburg before moving to Mountain Pointe.
"These guys have good shot and see what happens," added Kiefer, still coaching at Mountain Pointe, now as an assistant with the junior varsity team that also went undefeated this season.
"The fans are going nuts and this is the best thing that's happened for Mountain Pointe football," Kiefer said. "It was a long time coming. Norris Vaughan is a fine coach. He knows his football."
Vaughan and the Pride will open the playoffs next week at home against a familiar foe -- Mesa Westwood, a team Mountain Pointe faced, also at home, just three weeks ago, defeating the Warriors 28-14.
"They're a tough team. That's a scary first seed," Vaughan said. "Westwood is a real talented team. We beat them the first time, but it's going to be real hard to beat them twice."
When it came down to crunch time in the final four minutes against Marcos Friday night, Vaughan knew to put the ball in Davon Jones' hands.
Jones was punished by the Padres defense on almost every one of his 31 carries.
Although the gained 201 yards and scored the Pride's three touchdowns, none of those runs were as critical as in the final five minutes when Mountain Pointe was trying to protect a three-point lead.
Jones didn't have the spectacular, breakaway big play during the drive, but gained just enough yards to keep the clock running and still maintain possession of the ball.
"They beat us up," Jones said. "They swarmed to ball quicker than any team we've played, but once we got used to how fast they were, was we knew what we had to do."
Vaughan used what he calls the "four-minute" offense to keep the ball out of the Padres' hands.
"If I had opened it up a little bit we could have run away with it but we didn't want to take a chance and do that," Vaughan said. Our defense was playing well and we thought we could run and we did. We could have scored at end but didn't want to do that because we might have fumbled."
Although this was Vaughan's fifth perfect regular season, including one in Georgia, he had to guide the Pride through three games when they were behind, including a 28-point halftime deficit against Mesa Desert Ridge.
"A 10-0 season is not easy to come by, "Vaughan said, "but now have to get on with the next season and that's the playoffs."


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Hopefully I know enough about this machine to explain my question. I have a z3100ps and am printing with PS Cs3. What I can't figure out is what place that you can change the settings for printing takes priority for adjusting settings. For instance If I want to change so that the PS manages color, there are settings in PS, in the print driver, in the print utility, and on the printer. I once thought that what was on the printer took precedence, but I realized that I had been doing color prints, while the screen on the printer said it was in greyscale. It feels a little convoluted. I appreciate any help.Maybe on another note, is there any kind of training a guy can take on printing. I researched like crazy before I bought this thing, and thought I had a pretty good handle on the process, but now I just think I iron out the wrinkles, and then another issue pops up. Thanks Guys,TJ
On my site I have some pages on printing with HP and ICC which should still be close enough, although mostly off a MAc.I even have some movies on my .mac site on this.
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Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Ware says he hasn't discussed his contract, and his future with the team, as of yet.
Coming off the worst statistical season of his career--Ware missed three games with a quad issue and finished with career lows in tackles (40) and sacks (6)--Ware has said he would be open to restructuring his deal to help the team get under the cap. However, as Ware clarified shortly thereafter, he is not so open to taking a pay cut.
As if his future in Dallas wasn't cloudy enough, Ware announced on Wednesday that he'll undergo arthroscopic elbow surgery to clean up some wayward bone chips. It'll be his second offseason surgery in as many years.
"I don't know what's going to happen," Ware said, per ESPN Dallas. "I'm going to let the guys run the numbers and handle that. My mentality is that I'm going to do what I need to do to try to help the team out the best I can where they're going to win and I want to win.
"We need guys here to be on the team for next season to help me out, to help us out, so sometimes you can't think about a whole bunch of money and then not have anybody there. You need somebody there by your side, a defensive tackle, a defensive end, a wide receiver. You need to figure it out because the time is now. We need to win. That's what I get out of playing. I play hurt, bruised up. Some guys don't play, but I still get out there and play because I don't care about anything else."
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ATLANTA - The Atlanta Braves were teased with the idea of an emotional, come-from-behind victory against Philadelphia.
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Ryan Howard's 10th-inning grand slam capsized that notion with one swing.
Adam LaRoche's game-tying, three-run homer in the seventh had revived hope. The super-rookie Howard destroyed it in a hurry in Philadelphia's 10-6 victory at Turner Field that served to keep the Braves' magic number to close out the NL East at six.
For weeks during the summer, talk - and a certain widely popular sports magazine cover - in the baseball world revolved around Atlanta's Jeff Francoeur, whose bat has cooled since a torrid start.
If Howard, 26, hadn't taken the torch already, he grabbed hold of it Wednesday partly thanks to Francoeur.
With his grand slam, Howard has 19 homers and 54 RBIs in 71 games.
With a man on first, Chase Utley hit a fly that Francoeur first misjudged and then lost in the lights as he retreated toward the right field wall.
The ball skipped back to him, but the Phillies had something going against rookie Kyle Davies (7-4).
After David Bell was intentionally walked, pinch hitter Shane Victorino bounced to third, where Chipper Jones threw home for a force out.
Again, hope was instilled that Atlanta could slink out of the inning unscathed. Howard's mashed opposite field shot off newly inserted John Foster shot that.
That squandered work by the pen in previous three innings to induce frame-ending double plays after getting into any trouble.
It also made LaRoche's dramatic shot moot.
Wasn't long ago that LaRoche was spinning wheels in the worst slump of his short career. He hit .105 in 19 games from Aug. 20-Sept. 13.
But the second-year player's rallied from that sophomore slump to go 11-for-26 with three homers and six RBIs in his past seven games since Sept. 14.
Before the late-inning see-sawing, Horacio Ramirez predictably struggled against Philadelphia.
And you better believe his 4.69 ERA has been greatly influenced his five starts this season against the Phillies, who have beat him around for 27 earned runs in 22 2/3 innings (10.88 ERA).
They've hit him so hard that the five runs in six innings was an improvement from past outings. He allowed six earned runs in a career-short three innings last week in Philadelphia. Bell's two-run homer in the second was the 31st the wildly inconsistent Ramirez has allowed this season. That's the most on the team and seventh in the National League.
The Phillies got a run earlier in the inning to lead 3-0 through two.
Johnny Estrada sliced into that advantage in the fourth by hitting his first home run since June 18, first at Turner Field since May 8 and fourth of the season. And the switch-hitting catcher, who's been battling back pain since early June, did it from the left side, the one that induces tightness the most.
Estrada was 0-for-11 until a ninth-inning single Tuesday. He went 2-for-5 on Wednesday and took advantage of his good friend Brett Myers' mounting inconsistency.
Counting Estrada's home run at-bat, Myers had fallen behind four his of his last seven batters.
The Braves tied the game in the sixth because of more erraticism from Myers, who walked three and hit a batter to force in the third run. In the inning, Rafael Furcal was one of the recipients of a free pass.
By taking second, Furcal claimed the Atlanta record with 187 steals. He has 44 this season.
Furcal singled to lead off the seventh. Chipper Jones walked to set up Andruw Jones with two on and one out. He was ahead 2-0 in the count before eventually popping to center.
But LaRoche bailed him out with the game-tying shot to right.
The Phillies' Jimmy Rollins induced havoc yet again, singling and doubling to increase his hit streak to 26.
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Woooohooooo! Can you believe it?!
What is it with getting older? I used to actually like the colder temperatures; not since I hit my late 30s. And for about two weeks (the same two weeks we have all been sick, coincidentally), the temperatures have held with what our weathermen like to call an "ARCTIC BLAST." Hoh hoh, I could wipe those smirks right off their faces when they say that! 😉
Anyway, I'm tired of winter early this year. I'm tired of frozen feet and tired of packing on layer upon layer of outdoor clothing (not to mention indoor clothing), and I'm tired of the animals' complaints (we had to bring them all inside because it was so cold, and they just hate it– they get stir-crazy. So do I!). I'm tired of the bland, colorless trees and yard. Boo hoo, poor me, huh? lol
Well, I think we've now had enough snow and more than enough frigid temperatures to kill off the insect eggs nesting under our lawns (I hope, anyway). That's the only silver lining about these freezing spells, it kills the bugs. The lowest temperatures so far this winter were -15 Fahrenheit, without factoring in the wind chill. The air was is so dry that our head hair stands up on end (literally). I electrocute everything I touch, especially my furry kitten, poor baby. And I have an aluminum Apple keyboard for my computer, and so, well, that isn't pretty. But the cold drafts are the real killers. I have a 150-year old house, remember. When we open the kitchen drawers and cabinets, polar air blasts in, from all the old holes in the plaster behind the cabinets. We have to remember NOT to have wet hands when we reach for the metal silverware, I'll tell you that much! lol
So the winter blahs came early this year. I am looking forward to plunging my warm and not-chapped hands into the soft brown earth again, coaxing my little flowers from the soil. I'm looking forward to bright, warm sunshine, to cookouts, to campfires, to laying on the dewy grass at night and seeing the brilliant stars. Ahhh. Winter does have its own beauty, yes. But winter has a wart on its nose this year. I am ready for sunshine and GREEN STUFF again!!


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Born in Texas, Greene studied with noted regionalist Ancel E. Nunn, then attended the Arts Student's League and the New School in Manhattan. He married in 1980 but it was only after several years of 'regular' jobs and a move to Europe was he able to start his career as a working artist. His first solo show took place in 1983 on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza and sold out in less than an hour. He lived in Europe for several years and exhibited widely there, including group and solo shows in Germany, France and his beloved Spain.
In the New York studio - 1998
Though he worked steadily after his return to New York he never felt completely in his element artistically. In 1997 he was invited to join the elite Hudson River Sculpture Center in Manhattan – ironically, this was also the time he began to seriously question aspects of the market-driven New York art scene and the negative effect he was allowing it to have on his work.
At the HRSC - Manhattan 1999
In 1998, at the behest of the HRSC, he made an extended visit to Brazil, where - in lieu of producing artwork - he discovered the joys of "voo livre" (hang gliding). He returned during 1999/2000 to learn the sport, living and working for nearly a year on the northeast coast near Fortaleza.
Brazil, 2001
In 2001 he relocated to California where the climate - both cultural and weather-wise - helped him develop a new philosophy of art which he calls 'Neat-O!' (see below)
At home with "U-Shaped Woman". Los Angeles, 2004
Now Geoff is on the move again. He and his 2nd wife Annie recently moved to the California Wine Country where they are looking for the perfect house. They make regular visits to Annie's home country China, and he has adopted her son who recently graduated UC Irvine with an engineering degree. Geoff is currently at work on a new series of paintings and sculpture which will be available on this site in the near future.
At work in 'SoSoCal' - 2010
Geoff 's work is featured in several prominent collections including PBS NewsHour's Jim Lehrer, star actor/writer/producer Owen Wilson of Hollywood and NY taste-maker Michael Hirshchorn as well as the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Galleria Es Moli - Ibiza, Spain................1985-95
Galeria Maecht - Barcelona.......................1997
Hromatka Gallery - Vienna, Austria...............1998
Hudson River Sculpture Center....................1998/99
Galerie Tiant - Paris, France....................1999
Dragao Do Mar, Fortaleza, Brazil.................2000
Studio Gallery - Irvine, CA......................2001 - Present
Pegaso Gallery - Los Angeles, CA.................2003 - Present
Selected Collections
THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM - Permanent Collection
Personal Collection OWEN WILSON, Malibu, CA/Oahu, HI
Personal Collection MICHAEL HIRSCHORN, New York, NY (VHI, Ish Entertainment)
Personal Collection of JIM LEHRER, Washington, DC (PBS NewsHour)
BORLETTI Collection, Ibiza, Spain and Milan, Italy (Fiat Motors)
FIAT MOTORS Milan, Italy - Corporate Collection
HROMATKA INC Vienna, Austria - Personal & Corporate Collections
Personal Collection of KLAUS & RITA VON BEULHAUER, Berlin/Mannheim, Germany (Royal House of Hapsburg)