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Earthquakes in Oklahoma
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This is not an unusual amount of aftershock activity for a magnitude 4.7 to 5.6 earthquake sequence. There is always a small possibility of an earthquake of larger magnitude following any earthquake, but the occurrence of the magnitude 5.6 earthquake, and the increase in activity in recent years does not necessarily indicate that a larger more damaging earthquake will occur.
Seismicity in the Oklahoma region since 1973. Events shown in red pre-date January 1, 2008, while events in blue post-date this time. Star shows the epicenter of the 5 November 2011 magnitude 5.6 earthquake. The locations of known Quaternary or younger faults are shown as red lines.
The magnitude 4.7 and 5.6 earthquakes that occurred on November 5, 2011, were situated in a region located about 50 km east of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Earthquakes are not unusual in Oklahoma, but they often are too small to be felt. From 1972-2008 about 2-6 earthquakes a year were recorded by the USGS National Earthquake Information Center; these earthquakes were scattered broadly across the east-central part of the state. In 2008 the rate of earthquakes began to rise, with over a dozen earthquakes occurring in the region east-northeast of Oklahoma City and southwest of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2009 the rate of seismicity continued to climb, with nearly 50 earthquakes recorded--many big enough to be felt. In 2010 this activity continued. The shallow magnitude 4.7 and 5.6 earthquakes of November 5, 2011, are the largest events recorded during this period of increased seismicity. Additionally, the M5.6 quake is the largest quake to hit Oklahoma in modern times.
There have been dozens of aftershocks recorded following the November 5, 2011 magnitude 5.6 earthquake and its magnitude 4.7 foreshock that occurred on the same day. These aftershocks will continue for weeks and potentially months but will likely decrease in frequency.
In general, it is very difficult to correlate earthquakes to specific faults in the region and in eastern North America. The earthquake sequence that started yesterday occurred close to where a magnitude 4.1 earthquake occurred on February 27, 2010. From the location of the earthquake and the focal mechanism it is possible that this earthquake occurred on the Wilzetta fault.
Faults in Oklahoma Earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains, although less frequent than in the West, are typically felt over a much broader region. East of the Rockies, an earthquake can be felt over an area as much as ten times larger than a similar magnitude earthquake on the west coast. A magnitude 5.5 eastern U.S. earthquake usually can be felt as far as 500 km (300 mi) from where it occurred, and sometimes causes damage as far away as 40 km (25 mi). According to felt reports submitted to the USGS' Did You Feel It? Website (shown at right) (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/ ), yesterday's magnitude 5.6 was clearly felt from St. Louis, Missouri, to southwest of Dallas, Texas, an epicentral distance of about 500 km. Nearly 60,000 individuals from the south-central U.S. have reported their observations on this website.
M5.6 felt from St. Louis to Lubbock
The Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) has deployed several portable seismograph stations after the M4.7 on November 5, 2011, to facilitate improved detection and location of earthquakes; the OGS will deploy more stations in the next few days. This work is being done in partnership with the USGS, and builds on earlier cooperative efforts with OGS in the past two years to expand seismic monitoring in the region.
Ongoing Earthquake Monitoring
For More Information See:
Oklahoma Geological Survey and Leonard Geophysical Observatory: http://www.okgeosurvey1.gov/
U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program: http://earthquake.usgs.gov
Faults in Oklahoma
The Wilzetta fault is one of a series of small faults formed in the Pennsylvanian Epoch (approx. 300 million year ago) during the intraplate deformation known as the Ancestral Rocky Mountains mountain-building episode (orogeny). The relationship between the recent earthquakes and this older structure is still unknown and requires further investigation.
The Meers fault located in south-central Oklahoma, about 100 km southwest of Oklahoma City, is the only fault identified in the state with evidence of surface-rupturing earthquakes in the last 3000 years (prior to historical settlement of the region). Paleoseismology studies have identified a temporal clustering of a least three earthquakes on this fault, two of which are dated (1200-2900 years before present) and the third is believed to be older in age. An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 like the one that occurred yesterday east of Oklahoma City, are considered to be capable of striking at irregular intervals anywhere in eastern North America.
Earthquakes near Oklahoma City, November 6, 2011
Center for Earthquake Research and Information , University of Memphis
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text: Soybean markets have rallied significantly throughout 2002, but the initial portion of the upswing in prices probably was due to typical seasonal gains, says George Shumaker, University of Georgia Extension economist. "However, the latter part of the rally that pushed prices up $1 per bushel was due to supply concerns. Hot and dry weather in many portions of the soybean growing areas reduced yield potentials. Strong demand contributed to the rally. Concerns about lower support rates under the new farm bill faded as prices surged," says Shumaker. Worldwide production of soybeans will be slightly larger during the 2002 marketing year despite a smaller U.S. crop, says Shumaker. Increased production from South America — especially in Brazil — will nearly offset the U.S. shortfall, he adds. "Production likely will remain nearly steady in Argentina despite major financial problems. Other 'minor' producing countries also will see increased production. The total world crop is projected to be about 184 million metric tons," notes the economist. Worldwide consumption of soybeans is projected to increase again for the 2002 crop marketing year, but at a rate slower than observed over the previous two years, says Shumaker. Total consumption should be near 190 million metric tons, outstripping production by more than 3 percent. The United States, says Shumaker, is the only major soybean-consuming nation with a projected decrease in consumption. Brazil, Argentina, the EU-15, Japan and China all are likely to use more soybeans this marketing year than last. Total off-take will increase about 6 million metric tons over last year compared to annual increases of nearly 12 million metric tons posted the two prior years. "World soybean trade during the 2002 crop marketing year is projected to be record-large at about 60 million metric tons compared to last year's trade of nearly 56 million metric tons. "The most eye-catching feature of the trade numbers is the 3.7 million increase in Chinese imports to total a record 14 million metric tons. This increase shows a continuation of significant Chinese imports in recent years from under 3 million metrics tons in 1998 to the projected 14 million this year. " World ending stocks are projected to decline from 30.6 to 25.4 million metric tons, an 18 percent drop, to the lowest levels since the 1997 crop marketing year, according to Shumaker. "All major keepers of carry-over stocks should see declines in stocks with the largest drops in Argentina and Brazil. The U.S. season-average price for soybeans for the 1997 crop year when world stocks were this tight was $6.47 per bushel." Soybean planted acres across the United States declined in 2002 from 74.1 last year to 73 million acres according to the September USDA Crop Production Report. This is the second consecutive year for reduced U.S. soybean acres. Current projections for harvested acres is 71.8 million acres, the lowest level since 1998. The current projected percent of acres to be harvested is 98.4 percent which may well prove to be high based on other years in which yields are below-average when percent of planted acres harvested tends to be lower than average. If this proves to be the case this year and yields turn out to be as projected, production will be less and prices could be supported as a result. Current yields are projected at 37 bushels per acre, one half bushel per acre higher than in the August report, but down from the 39.6 bushels per acre harvested last year. Total production is projected to be 2.656 billion bushels, down 8 percent from last year's record crop of 2.891 billion bushels. This current crop projection is nearly identical to the 1999 crop and except for that would be the lowest since 1996. Total supplies of U.S. soybeans are projected to be about 2.856 billion bushels when the 195-million bushel carry-over is added to current production. This is down 9 percent from the 3.141 billion bushel total supply of last year and the lowest total supply since the 1997 crop year. Given the sharp reduction in available marketable supplies, it is inevitable that off-take will be reduced. The latest USDA projection of total use during the 2002 crop marketing year is 2.696 billion bushels, down about 250 million bushels or 8.5 percent, one of the largest year-over-year reductions in use in recent years. Both major-use categories will decline in off-take. Domestic crush is projected to fall from 1.705 billion bushels to 1.675 billion bushels or only 30 million bushels of the projected 250 million bushel drop. That leaves the exports market to make up the difference. Current projections are for exports to fall 210 million bushels to 850 million bushels, the lowest level since 1998. The seed and residual category is lowered by 10 million bushels. If all of the previous projections come to pass, U.S. ending stocks will drop to 160 million bushels, the lowest level since the 1996 crop year. This level of stocks is commensurate with high price levels. The stocks-to-use ratio is also at a very tight level of only 5.9 percent of use. Given the tight stocks situation, price should be well supported until the situation on the coming crop in South America becomes clear. USDA currently projects season-average prices received by farmers to be near an average of $5.60 with a 45-cent range around that point figure. Even if prices are near the upper end of the range, they would be low by historical comparison to stocks. Any threat to the South American crop should stimulate a further rally during the winter or spring, says Shumaker. In recent years, the seasonal movement of soybean prices during the post-harvest period has been tempered by increasing production in South America. The amount of carry provided by deferred futures has also been lower than the cost of storage. "This makes storing soybeans with profit hopes tied strictly to futures price improvement a difficult proposition for many. In that situation, sales at harvest with the purchase of a slightly out-of-the-money call option to guard against a Southern crop threat would seem to be a good choice. "If there is a good chance of basis improvement from the harvest period, then a delayed sale may be a good choice. Storage costs about six to nine cents per month including interest opportunity cost. So, basis improvement and/or futures gains need to exceed that amount to make storage profitable. "I favor the call option alternative to storage since it limits potential downside risk to the cost of the option whereas with a stored commodity, there remains the chance that prices could fall." Most of the revenue received from sale at harvest could be put to immediate use paying bills or earning interest, says Shumaker. If the option does gain in value, it would provide a very high rate of return on the risk capital. "That is, a 31-cent gain would be a 100-percent return on the cost of the option but would only provide a 6 percent return on soybeans sold for $5.40 at harvest. Good leverage and a great return on investment."


text: The new Portuguese Court of Arbitration for Sport International Arbitration Newsletter Share this 29 SEP 2015 By: José Manuel Meirim Marta Vieira Da Cruz* The Portuguese Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is expected to become fully operational in October 2015. The CAS will have mandatory jurisdiction over all administrative disputes arising in relation to sports federations, sports leagues and the anti-doping authority. Unlike many other examples, the Portuguese CAS is a creation of the state itself, rather than of a sports body. The sports world is regarding the CAS with both apprehension and enthusiasm. On the one hand, it is understood that the complex and unique legal universe of sports requires that disputes must be handled by people who have sports law expertise. On the other hand, the creation of a mandatory arbitral jurisdiction − of which there are few examples in Portugal − may open a Pandora's box and it is difficult to predict future developments. Notwithstanding the anxieties, Portuguese sports entities are committed to creating the best possible conditions for the functioning of the arbitral tribunal so the CAS can set an example for other jurisdictions. From a practical point of view, it is likely that sports disputes in Portugal will be resolved in a faster, more efficient and simpler way, which will be of benefit both to parties and the legal community. The legal process that led to the creation of the Portuguese CAS was fraught with challenges. Two earlier versions of the law seeking to create a CAS were rejected by the Constitutional Court. The solution ultimately adopted − which has so far not been questioned − seeks to prevent sports disputes from reaching the state courts, which in the context of sports disputes were often viewed as slow, ineffective and bureaucratic. An interesting feature of the law is its appeal mechanism. An initial CAS decision can be appealed to the administrative courts. However, the parties may agree to refer the matter to an inner body of CAS, thereby expressly waiving the right of appeal to the state courts. This inner body of CAS is, in effect, an internal CAS forum for appeals. Beyond its mandatory jurisdiction, voluntary arbitration in non-administrative matters (such as contracts involving image rights, sponsorship, some labour aspects and representation agreements by intermediaries) and arbitration in labour matters involving sports bodies (in respect of which the CAS will have jurisdiction from August 1, 2016), the Portuguese CAS is also responsible for, on appeal, hearing disputes arising from acts or omissions of sports federations, professional leagues and other sports entities, in the exercise of their regulatory, organisational, direction and discipline powers (all having a public law nature). This is a significant development in the scope of arbitral jurisdiction in Portugal, and the extent of CAS's success over the next few years is likely to be of great interest. *José Manuel Meirim is Professor of Sports Law and Counsel in sports law for DLA Piper relationship firm ABBC, based in Lisbon. Marta Vieira Da Cruz is an Associate Lawyer at ABBC in public and sports law. They may be reached at [email protected]


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Dungeon Hero provides players with a fresh take on the classic dungeon based game. The in-game world is a totally functional, living, breathing community in every way. Eat, sleep, chat, socialize, trade and travel as you would in any civilized place – after all dungeon creatures are people too! Fierce adrenaline pumping close quarters combat against a multitude of enemies drives the player deep into their heroic role. The battle system is intense with savage encounters that will leave enemies wondering where they went wrong. Dark times call for one to stand against many, will you be the one strong enough to become the Hero of the Dungeon?
Dungeon Hero is the first game that takes the player into a real dungeon, one where a shadowy evil has come to feed on despair. This is a dungeon at war, not a place where mountains of gold are ripe for the plunder! This action-RPG uses Firefly's new HD engine, allowing the player to storm heroically through the underground halls while taking in the detail and complexity of a world previously unseen.
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5 reasons bloggers think your pitch stinks
Bloggers don't want to promote your product for free, or cover a story their readers won't care about. Here's what they do want.
I started blogging in 2009, and over the course of three years I have read a gazillion blog posts and attended dozens of conference panels all dedicated to the topic of why PR pitches stink so badly.
I assumed these conversations would lead PR professionals to learn how to write great pitches. However, three years later, I think it is safe to say that 95 percent of pitches still stink. (Says the girl who was just invited to test drive a car from a New Jersey dealership. I live in Illinois.)
I've spent a great deal of time learning how to pitch bloggers in a way that would make them smile every time they saw my name in their inboxes, and I've learned a few things along the way.
Why does your pitch stink so badly?
1. They don't know you.
Bloggers receive hundreds of emails each day not only from friends and family, but from readers with questions, editors at their freelance writing gigs, and PR pros with pitches.
To manage their inboxes, they have to filter through and choose which emails to read. If a blogger has never heard your name before, he might filter you out. If a blogger has never heard your name before and your subject line is something like "GIVEAWAY: NEW MOVIE RELEASE," he will delete your email instantly. This means your pitch stunk so bad no one even opened it.
How to fix it: The truth is you need to start building a relationship with a blogger at least three months before you ever need to use it. Meet up with him at a conference, comment on his blog, or retweet his blog posts. Connect with him in a way that makes your name recognizable when it shows up in his inbox.
2. Your pitch is too long.
If your pitch requires scrolling, has bullet points, or includes a press release, no one is going to read past the first line. Bloggers get anywhere from five to hundreds of brand pitches a day, and they don't have time to scroll through all the intimate details of your campaign.
While they might have opened your pitch, they probably didn't read far enough to even know what brand you were reaching out about before deleting your pitch. (See more in my post, "What being a lush taught me about pitching media.")
How to fix it: The initial pitch only needs a few things:
- A mention showing you know the blog and understand how the blogger works with brands.
- The name of the brand you are reaching out about.
- What you are asking the blogger to do.
- What you are offering the blogger.
- An offer to send over more information if he or she is interested.
Not only will you save yourself a lot of time, bloggers will actually read your email. The bloggers who are genuinely interested in what you are doing will respond.
Bonus: It can be hard to get a client to approve such a short pitch. Instead of talking about "pitching," position your first outreach as an "initial email," and then follow up with the pitch. The moment we stopped using snail mail or fax machines to send pitches is the moment we could send short emails and respond with a detailed pitch.
3. They don't want to give your product away for free on their blogs.
Bloggers learn early on that hosting giveaways on their sites can drive a lot of traffic. (Assuming they give away something good.) However, they also learn that all of that traffic will disappear once the giveaway ends, because the people who clicked through to their sites only did so because they love free stuff.
Hosting a giveaway on your blog is like a one night stand with fame. Your traffic shoots up, you get really excited, and the next day everyone is gone and you are left picking red solo cups out of your yard (metaphorically speaking).
Generally, the only bloggers who want to host a giveaway on their sites are bloggers who rely solely on advertising revenue, because a big jump in traffic translates to more money. If they don't rely solely on advertising revenue, they want you to compensate them for hosting. Giveaways take time, and there is no incentive for them to host them if they aren't compensated.
How to fix it: Compensate them for hosting a giveaway, or find out what the value of the prize would need to be (or what kind of prize would naturally appeal to their readers) to incentivize them to host it.
4. They don't want to drive readers away from their sites to your contest, giveaway or sweepstakes.
Why would they send their readers away from their blogs to enter your giveaway? Even if you are giving away a trip around the world with Dennis Rodman, you are asking bloggers to send their dedicated readers away from their sites. As I mentioned above, the majority of people who are interested in giveaways are people interested in free stuff, and very rarely are a blog's dedicated readers interested in free stuff.
Unless the blogger you pitch creates content about trips around the world with Dennis Rodman, her readers probably won't care about your giveaway and will be annoyed their favorite blogger sent them to such a terrible contest.
How to fix it: Buy an ad in the blog's sidebar, host a sponsored post to drive traffic to your giveaway, or find a way to make your giveaway exciting enough that the blogger wants to promote it.
5. Your story is only interesting to you.
Getting editorial coverage from bloggers is really hard and rarely happens. It is not because bloggers are evil power moguls. It is because bloggers work really hard on their blogs. Running a blog can take a lot of time. (Says the girl who woke up two hours early to write this post.)
When you ask a blogger to write about your brand without any kind of compensation, you ask him to promote a brand for free on his blog (a.k.a. his business) that he invested a lot of time and energy into—a brand that clearly has enough money to hire a PR team.
This is why getting editorial coverage is tough. Because your story or opportunity needs to be so exciting to him that he doesn't care that you don't have a budget.
How to fix it: First, look at the content the blogger organically writes, and find a story he would organically tell. (However, that story better be interesting enough that he wants to tell it despite the fact there is no monetary incentive.)
Second, look at the blogger's interests and what goals he has, and find a way to offer him an opportunity that helps him reach a big goal: meet a celebrity he's obsessed with, attend an event he's dying to go to, etc.
Bloggers and PR pros, weigh in. Why do you think pitches stink?
Cassie Boorn is a writer, social media specialist, entrepreneur, and PR girl. She blogs at Ask a PR Girl, where a version of this article originally appeared.
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Dirty, Pricey, and Obsolete: Why Desalination Is Not Worth Its Salt
Last month, the regional water agency that serves the city of San Diego approved a plan to buy seawater made drinkable through a process called desalination. If built, the plant that will provide that water, known as the Carlsbad Desalination Project, will be the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
While heralded by some as a panacea to our planet's water problems, desalination plants such as Carlsbad have proven to be, at best, a small-scale solution when water resources are very limited. At worst, the technology is being pushed by private interests looking to profit from the sale of water while sticking the public with its high financial and environmental costs. In most places, desalination is unnecessary, especially since we're already making great progress in making water available simply by using less of it.
In the United States, there have been dozens of proposed desalination facilities, mostly in California and Florida. Yet few have actually been built, and there remains only one major facility, which is in Tampa Bay Florida. Poseidon Resources, a privately owned corporation, won the initial contract to build the Tampa plant, but was never able to get it to work as the project was years late and costs tens of millions of dollars more than projected. Poseidon was ultimately bought out by the city of Tampa. Poseidon is the same company behind the Carlsbad plant that was just approved for San Diego.
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That plant would cost $500 million to build and would process 50 million gallons of water per day. It would be privately owned and controlled, and has been in the works for over 15 years. The process has been riddled with cost uncertainties and Poseidon continues to lobby public agencies for subsidies.
Yet there is no real need for the project. Here are three reasons why Californians should look to other sources for their water.
First, there's the good news is that efforts to decrease water consumption are finally making good. Water usage across southern California has dropped 10 to 15 percent in the last few years, and there is much more room for improvement, as about half of residential water use is for outdoor irrigation. Agriculture uses about 80 percent of the water in California, according to the Pacific Institute, so further cuts can be focused there. Increased water efficiency and waste prevention are the cheapest and greenest ways to make more our water supply more reliable.
Second, desalination is an energy hog, making it the most expensive source of potable water. Pushing ocean water through a filter at high velocity requires tons of energy, and thus, tons of money. Desalinated water typically costs over $3,000 per acre foot of water, whereas simple efficiency measures cost between $300 to $800 per acre foot. A now-defunct proposed desalination plant in Marin County, Calif., would have doubled the energy usage of the area's water district, already the single largest user of energy in the county. In a time when the climate crisis demands that we make our society as energy-efficient as possible, desalination would take us in the opposite direction.
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Third, desalination's briny waste stream pollutes the ocean. In the Middle East, where desalination is most heavily used, coastal areas around the facilities have become dead zones with incredibly high concentrations of salt and toxins. This imbalance destroys local ecosystems and kills fish, which also die when they are sucked into the plant.
Our nation has serious water problems, and the choices we make now will affect our environment and our budgets for decades to come. Our existing water infrastructure is leaking and in serious need of being rebuilt and upgraded. As a nation, we fail to effectively capture and use stormwater and rainwater, which are often polluted running off urban landscapes and into waterways. Finally, over 70 percent of our nation's water is expended on agriculture, a sector that could stand to be much more efficient.
We won't need the expensive and dirty technology of ocean water desalination, if we take these opportunities to make more of the water we have.
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Within the Support to Members activity a number of workshops and conferences will be organized focusing on scientific/operational topics within climatology, best practices in climate services and data management. Within this activity a dedicated expert team on data rescue and recovery has been set up, with the main task to collect and share information and to produce an overview of what is happening in these fields of work within the EUMETNET community. The Support to Members activity is open to support existing EUMETNET working groups, e.g. on climate observation requirements.
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Wow, it really fell apart this week. Probably because I posted what should have been "Inspiration Monday" on Wednesday, clearly I had nothing to give you for "Organization Wednesday", and then I thought Thursday was Friday, even though I had my Thursday Styles section (still unread) right in front of me for half of the day! The weekend cannot come quickly enough for me! Speaking of Thursday Styles, the Home section of The New York Times featured a great senior condo makeover by Dara Caponigro and her parents yesterday. Remember the "Ask Dara" column in Domino? Well, now she's the E.I.C. of Veranda. I had been wondering why Veranda had become so chic lately! Check out the full article at nytimes.com.
Speaking of Veranda, check out this California beach house slideshow. Here's a teaser:
Speaking of California, I loved getting a peek at Betsy Burnham's kids' rooms, especially the use of the Union Jack. I think the only way I might ever stop liking Union Jacks is if England decides to send over the red coats again!
Speaking of flags, Martha's Vineyard was bedecked in red white and blue for the Fourth of July weekend. If you like the eclectic look of the Carpenter Gothic cottages I showed you on Wednesday, I have more photos. My friend Christina brought her real camera and got some shots that were much better quality, so I have uploaded them to houzz here.
The Detroit Conversation Continues – a thoughtful essay over at Design Observer. Read it here. I think Detroit is one of the most interesting cities in our country to follow and study right now, and this essay is so thorough and interesting, interweaving theories of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and even Eminem.
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YORK, PA – York College senior women's basketball player April Sparkman (Walkersville, Md./Walkersville) has been named a 2012 WBCA Honorable Mention All-American as announced by the organization on Friday.
Sparkman becomes the third Spartan in the history of the program to earn the WBCA accolade. Forward Kristen Daly earned honorable mention honors in 2007-08 and point guard Keli Ward, who was a first-team All-American in 2008-09.
Sparkman, who was a d3hoops.com all-regional selection earlier in the week, continues to haul in the post-season accolades.
Sparkman was a huge part of the Spartans run to their second Sweet 16 in four years. She led the Spartans in scoring at 16.2 points per game. She was second in the Capital Athletic Conference in scoring while she was also seventh in rebounds per game and three point field goals made.
Sparkman shot 41.1% from the field, 33.3% from beyond the arc and 71.3% from the charity stripe. She contributed 7.4 rebounds per game while she also handed out 69 assists, blocked 29 shots and collected 31 steals in her 29 games played. She was one of two Spartans, along with sophomore point guard Aja Wallpher (Ellicott City, Md./Seton Keough), to play over 1,000 minutes for the year, finishing with 1,036 minutes played for a team-high 35.7 minutes per game.
Spartan head coach Betsy Witman was pleased to see Sparkman earn the All-American honor.
"April worked so hard to come back and I am thrilled to see her earn All-American honors," said Witman. "She has meant so much to this program and so much to me. It has been an honor to coach her and her legacy will be that she is one of the best players I have coached."
The senior guard finished her career with 1,615 points, leaving her third on the all-time list. She was a career 44.6% shooter from the field while she converted 35.6% from three. Sparkman drained 75.5% of her free throws including a career-best 84.2% as a sophomore.
Sparkman accumulated 767 career rebounds while she also had 248 assists, 110 blocked shots and 108 steals in a school-record 110 games.
Sparkman notched a number of career highs this season. She set a new scoring standard with a school-record tying 36 points in the November 30 win at Wesley.
Sparkman is slated to graduate in May with her biology degree.
Founded in 1981, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) promotes women's basketball by unifying coaches at all levels to develop a reputable identity for the sport and to foster and promote the development of the game as a sport for women and girls. The WBCA is pleased to join the women's sports community in commemorating the 40th anniversary of Title IX, which was passed by Congress on June 23, 1972, and provides females with equal opportunities in athletics in the U.S. For more information on the WBCA, please visit wbca.org.


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$: is a way-too-Perl-y special variable alias for
$LOAD_PATH. You could change it like this:
The upside: you're now doing something more comprehensible. The downside: that "something" is editing an all-caps global. That doesn't feel wrong to you?
This code pops the local directory name (relative, not absolute) onto the load path. Then you can require filenames as relative paths. This is not such a good idea.
Say you've got a gem which provides an interface to the Twitter API, and this gem uses this convention. This is just an example; I'm not thinking of any real code out there on the githubs. Say you're enabling your web app with some Twitter-related functionality. Maybe you've got files like
lib/twitter.rb or
app/models/twitter.rb. The problem comes not with this idiom, but from what it makes possible. It enables you to do this:
require 'twitter'
In this particular example, that shit breaks all over the fucking place.
Yay! I saved myself the effort of typing an absolute path and/or code which would generate an absolute path! And in the process, I guaranteed myself unexpected load bugs. The code attempts to load
lib/twitter or
app/models/twitter and you get
MethodNotFoundErrors and similar problems. This idiom is only a good idea if your filenames are like the Highlander and there can be only one.
You can make it a little nicer:
But you're still looking at a mess, and if you're going to go to all that trouble, you're better off doing this:
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)) + "twitter"
Of course the nicer thing is to do this:
class File
def self.here(string)
expand_path(dirname(__FILE__)) + string
require File.here "twitter"
I think in reality
File is a module, but you get the idea. You see
File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)) all over the place, and it's ugly as sin. You see
$:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__)) now and then, and it's not just ugly, but also vulnerable to annoying breakage. Any time you're faced with a choice between ugly shit and ugly shit that doesn't even work, the only sane response is to say "fuck no" and rewrite the rules so you're not faced with that kind of dilemma again.


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Sex is an extremely powerful force, and never a neutral one. Either it serves life, or it serves death. Its fruit can be the highest joy of earth, bringing forth new life in the embrace of self-giving, or else its fruit can be violent and destructive activity, ruining and ending the lives of others or oneself.
Society is not
with sex. It is
of it…afraid of the total reality and power of what it represents, where it comes from, and where it leads. Sex properly understood requires that we acknowledge God who made it. More than that, sex can never be separated from its purpose: to insert us into an immense, powerful movement of life and love that started when God said "Let there be light" (Genesis 1:3) and culminates when the Spirit and the Bride say "Come, Lord Jesus!" (Revelation 22:17).
Sex is deeply symbolic. It is a language that speaks of things beyond sight and feeling. Many think of the Church's teaching about sex as "
You cannot do it except
in marriage and when open to life." That is true, but the fuller understanding of why this is true comes when we can see that sexual activity
means so much
that it is wrong to diminish its message or deny its full reality. It belongs in the context of committed love (sealed by marriage) and openness to life precisely because this is the only context great enough to hold its message and reflect the greater reality to which the gift of sexuality directs and commits us. The teaching is not just that it is wrong to have sex in certain circumstances. The teaching is that it is wrong to r
un away from the full reality of sex
. It is wrong to think we have the kind of control that can change that reality to suit ourselves.
The most bitter fruit of this flight from the full meaning of sex is abortion. Thousands of lives a day in our nation are deliberately killed in order to control who will be born and when. They are even destroyed
in the very process
of being born. If we ask why abortion happens, or how we arrived at the culture of death, we would do well to consider another question:
What happens when you distort the meaning of sex?
One of the many ways in which the meaning of sex is distorted is through contraception, which is an
intrinsically evil act
. The links between abortion and contraception are more and more widely recognized, and not only in Catholic circles.
They are
linked by a common mentality
, which is that I may stifle the power of sex to produce a new life. Pope John Paul II wrote in his encyclical
The Gospel of Life
" It is frequently asserted that contraception, if made safe and available to all, is the most effective remedy against abortion. The Catholic Church is then accused of actually promoting abortion, because she obstinately continues to teach the moral unlawfulness of contraception. When looked at carefully, this objection is clearly unfounded. It may be that many people use contraception with a view to excluding the subsequent temptation of abortion. But the negative values inherent in the "contraceptive mentality"—which is very different from responsible parenthood, lived in respect for the full truth of the conjugal act—are such that they in fact strengthen this temptation when an unwanted life is conceived. Indeed, the pro- abortion culture is especially strong precisely where the Church's teaching on contraception is rejected" (n. 13).
They are linked sociologically
. Every culture and subculture which has opened the doors to contraception has likewise experienced an increased practice of abortion. The Alan Guttmacher Institute indicates the following as the main reasons women offer for their abortions. Ask yourself what resemblance they bear to the reasons for birth control. " On average, women give at least 3 reasons for choosing abortion: 3/4 say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or other responsibilities; about 2/3 say they cannot afford a child; and 1/2 say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner" (
from the website www.agi-usa.org
They are linked in law and jurisprudence.
In 1973, the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion clearly built upon the recognized privacy right behind contraception. In 1992, the Supreme Court reaffirmed Roe in its
Planned Parenthood vs. Casey
decision, and explained that they could not remove the "right" to abortion from "people who, for two decades of economic and social developments, have organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society, in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail" (505 U.S. 833, 835).
They are sometimes linked by being identical
. Some "contraceptives" have a backup mechanism whereby a newly-developing life may be destroyed in its microscopic stages. These drugs and devices are abortifacients, capable of causing early and usually unknown abortions. The morally relevant point here is that
"it is objectively a grave sin to dare to risk murder"
Declaration on Procured Abortion, 1974, n.12-13
). If your action
kill a person, and you do it, you declare your willingness to kill a person (like shooting at what is behind the bush when you are uncertain whether it is a bear or a man).
nature of the link
between abortion and contraception needs to be accurately understood. The Pope writes,
"Certainly, from the moral point of view contraception and abortion are
specifically different
evils: the former contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love, while the latter destroys the life of a human being; the former is opposed to the virtue of chastity in marriage, the latter is opposed to the virtue of justice and directly violates the divine commandment "You shall not kill". But despite their differences of nature and moral gravity, contraception and abortion are often closely connected, as fruits of the same tree" (n. 13).
"Fruits of the same tree." Contraception, in other words, is more like the sister to abortion rather than the parent. What gives rise to them both? The Pope continues,
"Such practices are rooted in a hedonistic mentality unwilling to accept responsibility in matters of sexuality, and they imply a self-centered concept of freedom, which regards procreation as an obstacle to personal fulfillment"
n. 13
). Dr. Bernard Nathanson, when asked whether contraception was "the beginning of the downfall of the issues of reproduction in this country," said that "contraception was not the fount…that spawned all of these other horrendous technologies...
it was the perversion of autonomy…If you elevate autonomy to a deification status…then people are going to make choices which are irrational…"
(Presentation to 1999 Legatus National Conference).
Yes, abortion and contraception are linked. They are linked with each other because they are linked with many other evils: the disconnection of freedom from truth, a relativistic view of morality, a positivistic view of law, a culture of hedonism, and many other problems.
What lies at the solution to these problems is to rediscover the dominion of God.
It is perfectly legitimate to acknowledge that there are circumstances in which a couple should not have a child. There can be medical, social, financial, psychological, or other reasons for this. To acknowledge God's dominion does not mean to act imprudently. Methods of natural family planning are legitimate. (We are not referring here to outdated calendar
methods, but to modern methods such as those made possible by
.) In planning one's family, however, one may never destroy the meaning of sexual union on one's own initiative. Natural family planning respects the body's cycles, during portions of which God closes the door to life. In contraception, we close the door. We have no authority to do so.
There are two basic truths that each person has to admit in this life: 1. There is a God. 2. It isn't me. To understand these lessons is to understand why both contraception and abortion are wrong. Only God has absolute dominion over human life. "None of us lives as his own master and none of us dies as his own master. While we live, we are responsible to the Lord, and when we die, we die as His servants. Both in life and in death, we are the Lord's" (Rom.14:7-8).
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I'm writing in response to Lou Marra's letter on unions being a "haven for incompetence". First I have to address the fact that his accusations against a nurse's aide come as a third party as he says, "According to a co-worker". He then goes on to say (the aide) "spends most of her time on break". A statement I find hard to believe.
Even if Mr. Marra's statements are true, while I appreciate his use of the expression "some unions", to be fair I think what should have been said was "some union members". Just as some people will pick up a lost wallet take the money, possibly use the credit cards and throw away the rest, others will pick up that same wallet and do everything they can to return it to its rightful owner. In the same respect, some people will take advantage of a situation while others take advantage of an opportunity. There are thousands of union members across the country. Most are appreciative, hard working people who care greatly about their jobs. Being an "incompetent gold brick" has less to do with whether you are affiliated with a union or not and more to do with your personality. As an active member of 42 years in a building trades union, I can say, due to our well trained, highly skilled and available work force, we are able to execute jobs of all sizes in both a timely and professional manor.
Just as our systems of democracy and free enterprise don't always produce the outcome we hope for, unions may not be perfect. But they have been, and continue to be, the best answer to unfair, or at times unsafe mandates by a superior or an employer. They are part of a "checks and balances system" in conjunction with corporate America that I feel is a necessity. A part of that system is economically basic; generally, the more demand for work, the more advancement can be made for the workforce by way of contract agreements. Less demand means little or no advancements or sometimes, concessions. So, while there will always be a few "bad apples" in any walk of life, I believe unions are still our only real representation for middle class and working class Americans.
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Thanks FlyOnTheWall for the heads up!
Who thinks that a team effort is worth their time and effort?
Who is actually willing to commit to a team effort?
I left this thread wide open for a couple reasons,
One is if you voted Yes, you must feel like that you need some help a specific area.
Two on the other hand there must be strengths you have to offer to help others.
Make a statement about areas you are good at and enjoy.
Then make a statement about areas that are a challenge to you.
Nobody does everything great, the most effective way to really accomplish great is, do what you do well and love and let someone that is great at what you have challenges with.
Lets figure this out there are many viable solutions. We just need to know the challenges to solve them and strengths to utilize them.
I have been preaching team for a number of years now and this year is the year that will prove that I was right. I have had a couple offers to drop what I had and join other teams. But I couldn't, I believe too much in what we are doing here.
- 1) Index drivers, we have some. Do you have an Idea for a new one?
2) Back linking, do you get enough?
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Foods to Avoid for Pets with Cancer
For a dog with a history of mast cell tumors, are there any foods that should be avoided? I've read that there are certain foods that contain high levels of histamine?
Lili Duda, VMD, MBE, DACVR Veterinary Radiation Oncologist- University of Pennsylvania, responds:
There are no specific diets we recommend for prevention or treatment of any type of cancer (including mast cell tumors), or for pets undergoing cancer therapy. We do recommend that pets are fed a commercial, high-quality, well-balanced diet. If you would like to home-cook for your pet, we strongly recommend that a nutritionist is consulted to be sure that the diet contains adequate supplementation of vitamins and minerals. There are on-line resources such as balance-it.com to help with home-cooked diets. We also strongly advise against feeding raw food diets. Animals with cancer may have weakened immune systems, and will be more vulnerable to bacterial infections from raw or undercooked foods such as E. coli and salmonella. In addition, there are several reports of people becoming infected from their pets who contracted food-borne illness from contaminated foods. To my knowledge, there are no specific foods that will trigger a histamine reaction in dogs with mast cell tumors. Any dog with a mast cell tumor can have a histamine reaction (degranulation episode). Your veterinarian can give you information on what signs to watch for, and medication dosages of antihistamines such as Benadryl and Pepcid that might be helpful.
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Greetings! My name is Jenny Ingram. I've lived here almost 10 years, have been married for 14 years, and have 3 kids… just taking life one day at time. Of course, there is always more to a story than meets the eye. Most of my story is "punctuated" by my children. I credit them for not only my frequent occasional battles with insanity, but for the rebirth of my passion for writing. Look, this is our most recent family picture. Like I said, insanity:
Seriously. This was our Christmas card.
My muse is my role as "mom", but like a tree — there are branches. I started writing at Jenny on the Spot (my personal blog) 5 years ago as an outlet for creativity and sanity. It started as a "mommy" blog but has shifted to include other parts of who I am as well. It is there I "get my silly on". In December I joined Type-A Mom as their Just for Moms editor. I absolutely love being connected with other moms… sharing, encouraging, crying out for help… And now this! I get to combine my "mom-side" with my community! So awesome!
So, for my first post here, I would like to take a moment to
introduce myself to you. If you are choosing to use a portion of
your time to read these words, the least I can to is let you know
what you are wasting spending time on… I
figure the best way to get to know me is through the eyes of my
children. They are honest little creatures! I recently asked them a
few questions about me. Their answers are in order of my children's
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