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AVNT necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 114 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Pregnancy - Before, During & After
Hi, my name is Andrew and I am the director of Neuro-Training. We are starting the promotions for a special event in Tenerife (Canary Islands) as an international training event. We are a manual, specialist health company with new and unique ways of helping people have real changes with simple self taught techniques.
Our focus is from general public (the focus of this job) to training professional practitioners as a new health and personal development modality.
The modality is called Neuro-Training and we train your nervous system to do things it has never done before, before you need to actually do the activity. So we have found that we can help people not only get better but prepare for future events and be totally successful.
Brand new approach to human training and development.
This special event is focusing on all the professionals that work with or support the process of pregnancy. The woman who is trying to get pregnant, the needs during the pregnancy as well as the baby care that follows.
This will be promoted to the Spanish speaking as well as my wife is Spanish and the president of a breast feeding organization. We will be focusing on professional carers as well as on the women who need to know this for themselves.
So anyone wanting to be pregnant, those who are and those who were, as well as the professionals that may be helping them.
Simple, Elegant and relative to pregnancy. These are the main requirements. It would be nice for the logo to be related somehow to the Neuro-Training Logo, but not mandatory. (Attached)
The logo needs to be used on a variety of materials from website to manuals and stationary.
I would prefer some stylized design that is recognizable as a pregnant woman. Or something that appears that way.
It needs to follow a more 'soft' feel.
Lots of curves and only sharp angles as a contrast effect.
I like there to be negative shapes to be a part of the design.
There is a time factor here with the Before, During & After, which would be good in incorporate if possible. eg, three shapes depicting the three stages??
Although the design needs to be soft, the color needs to be eye catching. So I am looking for an eye catching logo that doesn't appear assaulting.
There is plenty of space for creativity and I am open to any new ideas.
Thanks for your attention and designs. Andrew
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URGENT PLEA: One of the guests at the tea party lost a brown envelope containing a power- of-attorney document. If anyone took it by mistake or if anyone just happened to pick it up, please email me right away. This guest will be ever so grateful.
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Riding a Royal Enfield, one of the most revered bike of the nation, isn't just a matter of pleasure of riding a motorcycle, for most it is a symbol of attaining manhood. With reliability, performance and an excellent blend of the classic and modern, we every time keep adding something more appealing which deliver a unique personality as well as suitable for leisure and practical riding with a strong emotional appeal…The first modification many of fans do is changing the Exhaust!!! Truly the roaring appeal is missing in the new exhausts, so you are one like me and you search in Google and find plenty of XYZ sellers and dozzons of eBay links along with hundred of Facebook Enfield pages discussing thousand guys over buying Royal Enfield exhausts– let me say it very straight -choosing any of them could be dangerous ….so which one is right for your Bullet! Choosing any random exhaust could lead you towards a disaster result…trust me there's a lot you should consider before you put a 2000 bucks exhaust on your 1.5 Lakh Bullet's heart!! A huge technology runs inside the pipe to deliver a decent performance and upmost longevity. So let me share my own experience:
Well, it's always advisable to change the Exhaust at least after 3000 KM from the buying day, I did it at about 3200KM in my Classic 350. I first tried the one is easily available in any Bullet shop, long bottle/punjab dholki, well at preliminary stage the sound might impress you if you like creviced (at above 60KM/h) bass, but harms a lot your Engine, you probably wouldn't want that. However I ended up with the exhaust in about 2 months as it had a terrible crack and rusty body! I then chosed glasswool equipped Goldstar , Glass wool is a thermal insulation that consists of intertwined and flexible glass fibers, which causes it to "package" air, resulting in a low density that can be varied through compression and binder content, well that too might not satisfy you much, as you may find very poor quality of glasswool in most exhaust in the market. I, then happened to use one from Khalidaro house, Cannon it is, it was heavy..full of stainless steel..looks premium…produce powerful thumph at 100km/h and a noticeable change in performance – the acceleration is smooth as you never experienced in your Bullet. Satisfied me enough and grab attention of my fellow rider friends!!
So I had a talk with Khalidaro Design of Mumbai and was interested knowing the tech-spec. Stainless steel body with high grade aluminium nozzle which creates a high bass sound. The exhaust has 1250 degree Celsius heat bearing capacity and the nozzle is turned to match with a cone shaped muffler which creates a good amount of back pressure due to which mileage is not affected. This is what exactly the USP of our product is. At present they are offering 4 types of Exhausts – 1. Cannon Performance Exhaust, 2. Cobra Performance Exhaust, 3. Barrel Performance Exhaust and 4. Mental Performance Exhaust.
Cannon Performance Exhaust Exhaust type: Straight Metal- Stainless Steel 304, Nozzle-Aluminium endures high grade temperature, Exhaust end- Clamp less lathe turned, Heat sink- Alloy, Rivets- Aluminium and Stainless steel, Muffler-Cone Shaped with Zinc coated, high quality Imported Glasswool, Heat bearing capacity-1250 degrees, Exhaust Finish- Outer body – high gloss buff, Nozzle- Powder Coated Heat Sink- Powder Coated. Cannon is available from Khalidaro at 12,500/- including shipping all over India.
Cobra Performance Exhaust has everything same apart from the bended look, which surely accords an appealing attitude. Flexible joint used in Cobra is been imported from Argentina which is stainless steel 304 rust free. The price for Multi bend Cobra Performance Exhaust is 16650/- including the shipping. However, Khalidao offers to buy back Khalidaro manufactured exhaust systems in exchange of their new one with an additional exchange price of 60% of the current cost.
Both Cannon and Cobra is been tuned especially for Royal Enfield to give a specialized grooved bass sound, the cone shaped muffler increases the performance as this turns the nozzle to create the circular airflow which enhances the back pressure.
Mileage : Even they say "Never Ask, Woman's Age, Man's Wage & Bullet's Mileage", but on a serious note, for an Indian biker, achieving the highest possible fuel efficiency for any bike is a constant endeavor. So does those performance exhaust affect bullet mileage? My experience says Yes, it's improved! Initially I was bit unhappy cause I felt there was a slight mileage drop, however after changing the air-filter and some routine check up it was indeed improved (I'm getting about 36kmpl now).
Assuming you don't want to compromise your Royal engine for few thousand bucks, this is always recommendable to avoid cheap silencers pipe and use something salubrious, damaging few extra money is always been a better decision than damaging the engine. I can strongly recommend Khalidaro Performance Exhaust after few months of riding my Classic 350!
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(Bloomberg ) Samsung Electronics Co.'s reclusive chairman has long warned employees against complacency and obsolescence.
"Change everything except your wife and kids," Lee Kun Hee told them in 1993, charting a course that would turn a $2 billion maker of cheap TVs into the $200 billion giant it is today. Two decades on, his message remains the same: "Forget about the past and start anew," Lee exhorted employees in his New Year's address on Jan. 2. "We must search out new businesses that Samsung's survival depends on."
That commitment to disruption has served Lee well. Samsung's pioneering of flat-screen TVs crippled Tokyo-based Sony Corp. and Sharp Corp. Its relentless focus on chips helped bankrupt Elpida Memory Inc. Nokia Oyj's 14-year dominance in phones fell last year. With Samsung now preparing to shed Apple Inc. as a customer as their rivalry intensifies, the Korean company's smartphones are already outselling the iPhone and its share of the market for tablet computers has doubled in a year.
The Cupertino, California-based maker of iPhones and iPads is already taking steps to distance itself from Samsung, according to a person familiar with Apple's thinking, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject matter. Rivalry in smartphones and tablets, and lawsuits in which both insist the other is stealing ideas, are undermining the relationship, the person said.
Goodbye, Old Fruit
Samsung has zoomed past Apple in the smartphone market that the U.S. company pioneered. Samsung's market share rose to 30.4 percent last year from 19.9 percent, while Apple's remained at about 19 percent, according to Strategy Analytics.
In tablet computers, the market Apple created with the iPad, Samsung doubled its market share in the fourth quarter, to 15 percent from 7.3 percent a year earlier, according to IDC. Apple's lead dipped to 44 percent from 52 percent.
Apple's purchases of chips, screens and other components now account for about 3 percent of Samsung's earnings per share, roughly half the level at the beginning of last year, said Marc C. Newman, whose team of Sanford C. Bernstein analysts published a 211-page study of the Korean company in September.
While Samsung is searching out new customers, Apple has expanded its list of suppliers, according to a statement from Apple as well as so-called tear-down reports in which analysts take gadgets apart to identify parts. Samsung's reliance on Google Inc.'s Android operating system and more recent adoption of Microsoft Corp.'s wireless software also strengthens its ties with Apple's two biggest U.S. rivals.
Tricky Relationship
"Samsung is trying to get ready for a possible breakup with Apple," said Lee Jin Woo, who holds the South Korean company's stock in the $6.6 billion he helps oversee as a senior fund manager at KTB Asset Management Co. in Seoul. "Samsung will make another big push into tablets, its multiple products driving sales of components and making up for any losses from Apple."
The struggle between the two will gauge not just their ability to reap the biggest gains from more than $400 billion in global sales of handheld wireless devices, it also tests two contrasting business models.
Where Apple is defined by a handful of products, Samsung sprawls across industries; where Apple outsources its manufacturing, Samsung's mastery of industrial processes is its biggest strength; where Apple seeks markets for its designs, Samsung designs for the market.
Disentangling from the relationship with Samsung will take time, said Newman, a senior analyst at Sanford in Hong Kong.
Apple needs Samsung's processors to avoid shortages of iPhone and iPads. Alternative suppliers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. aren't able to meet demand and Samsung is withholding investment in new capacity.
'Severe Lock-in'
"It may take a few more years before they're entirely separated from Samsung because it's a severe lock-in, extremely complicated," Newman said. "Samsung is a phenomenal manufacturer and even TSMC, which is also a phenomenal manufacturer, is going to have a lot of trouble to ramp up."
Innolux Corp. and AU Optronics Corp., Taiwan's largest makers of liquid-crystal displays, were named among the iPhone maker's suppliers last month, according to an Apple statement.
Samsung's processor sales will continue to rise along with Apple's revenue this year at least, and in the meantime the Korean company is supplying more parts for its own phones and tablets as well as finding new customers, Newman said.
"Samsung makes the best-quality parts, and if Apple rules out Samsung, they have to make a compromise," said Baik Jae Yer, a fund manager at Korea Investment Trust, which holds a 2.7 percent stake in Samsung.
Jason Kim, a Samsung spokesman, declined to discuss any changes in the relationship with Apple.
New Helmsman
Weaning Samsung away from its relationship with Apple is a task that will increasingly fall to Lee Jae Yong, the 44-year- old grandson of the company's founder. Lee, also known as J.Y. Lee, was named vice chairman in December, the clearest signal yet on the succession for his 71-year-old father. Educated at Seoul National University, Keio University in Japan and Harvard Business School, he has helped run the components business, which provides parts for Sony, Hewlett-Packard Co., Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc. and Dell Inc., as well as Apple.
The younger Lee "has worked hard over the past 10 years and can have actual influence now," said Lim Hyung Kyu, who ran Samsung's chips, research and new business divisions in a 33- year career beginning in 1976 and remains an adviser to the company. In any event, Samsung has grown to the point it's no longer reliant on any one person: "There's no one giving orders in Samsung. Even the chairman doesn't give orders -- just broad guidelines."
Profit Growth
Full-year net income may reach 30 trillion won ($27.4 billion) this year, according to the average estimate of 44 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. That's a 142-fold increase from 1993, and would make Samsung the world's sixth-most profitable company, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Samsung last month reported net income for the fourth quarter jumped 76 percent, more than analysts had forecast. The company's shares fell 6 percent in the following two days after it said smartphone sales may slow as developed countries are saturated and cheaper Chinese manufacturers crowd out the bottom of the market.
The phone division now accounts for almost 70 percent of Samsung's operating profit. The company is also pushing forward on parts. On Jan. 10, it unveiled a new, faster processor -- chips that make other components work together. Samsung is focusing on integrated processors, memory chips and display screens to capture more of a smartphone and tablet market forecast to reach $416 billion this year.
Whole In One
"The only company that has logic, memory and display is Samsung," Woo Nam Sung, head of System LSI, the division making the Apple processors, said at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month.
The company also said it was targeting a 50 percent jump in sales of home appliances such as fridges and washing machines over three years. Samsung's 43 percent hold over the global market for DRAM memory chips may also cease to be a drag as prices rebound this year, Sanford C. Bernstein said. A gauge of DRAM chip prices has jumped 24 percent this year.
"We love Samsung," said Olaf Rogge, London-based chief executive officer at Rogge Global Partners Inc., which manages about $50 billion in bonds. They're "very well diversified. It's not Apple. Remember, one day, a company like Apple will go ex-growth. One day, everybody has this iPhone 4 or 5."
That day may be arriving. As Samsung's fortunes waxed, Apple's have waned.
Insurance Policy
Even though 51 out of 64 analysts recommend buying Apple's stock, with full-year earnings forecast to hit $46 billion, the most for any company, investors have dumped the shares. Since peaking in September, about $240 billion has been wiped from Apple's market value as it failed to keep pace with customer demand and on increased competition from rival operating systems -- particularly Google's Android.
Unlike Apple, Samsung isn't locked into any system -- including its own. That gives the Korean company insurance against missteps by Google and time to keep working at its own software designs.
"If they can be better at making software, of course, it'd be great, but it's like expecting one company to be able to control everything," said Baik. "Samsung relies on Google a lot now, but they can also build a relationship with Microsoft."
Crowded House
Google and Microsoft are also among companies entering the top end of the smart-device market, while faster growth in the middle of the range, where Apple hasn't been competing, has eroded its share.
A cheaper iPhone may be added to the iPad Mini Apple brought out last year, a person familiar with the plans told Bloomberg News last month. Apple CEO Tim Cook already reversed a vow by late founder Steve Jobs that the company wouldn't introduce a scaled-back and cut-price version of the iPad. By positioning the company at the peak of design, quality and price, Apple may have limited options to expand.
"We can only do a few things great," Cook said in an interview in December. "That's a part of our base principle: that we will only do a few things. And we'll only do things where we can make a significant contribution."
Friday, Friday, Friday
Samsung didn't seem so well-placed when the elder Lee inherited the family business in 1987. The company was four years into a gamble by his father and Samsung founder Lee Byung Chul to develop DRAM. The U.S. pioneers of the industry had just been overwhelmed with relentless investment in plant and technology by Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp.
Lee was "betting the company's future," recalled Lim. "It was Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday-Friday- Friday," he said. "We worked seven days a week, 14 hours a day."
Not only did Samsung survive, it became the biggest DRAM maker in less than 10 years and developed a taste for market domination: "We wanted to be number one in all our businesses," Lim said.
Mario Basher
TVs were next: three-and-a-half decades after shipping its first black and white sets to Panama, Samsung passed Sony in 2005, and was growling at the heels of Helsinki-based Nokia in telephones.
And then came the iPhone. Apple's 2007 foray into smartphones made the once near-bankrupt maker of desktop and laptop computers an overnight threat in several new markets.
BlackBerry shares have slumped more than 80 percent as bankers ditched their once-totemic handsets; gamers shunned consoles, sending Super Mario creator Nintendo Co. to a first annual loss last year; and demand for Microsoft's software was crushed in the stampede for Apple's integrated, connected and portable devices.
While Apple's phone was a boon for Samsung's components business, the device was a disaster for the company's mobile phones. Within two years, Apple was selling four times as many smartphones as Samsung.
'Crisis of Design'
The gulf between the iPhone and latest Samsung was a "crisis of design," managers at the Korean company's mobile division wrote in a February 2010 internal memo used by Apple at last year's trial. "Do you know how difficult the Omnia is to use?" the memo said. "It's better to not make anything at all than to make it in a laughable way."
Just four months later, Samsung released a new smartphone that a California jury in August last year ruled was too much like the iPhone, landing a $1 billion fine and possible import ban for infringing Apple patents. The companies returned to court Dec. 6: Apple seeking to broaden the judgment to cover more models; Samsung to have the case thrown out.
"What we would like, in a perfect world, is for everyone to invent their own stuff," Cook said in the interview.
Samsung Electronics has struggled to shake off the copycat tag that has dogged it since its foundation in 1969, when engineers ripped apart Sony TVs to learn how they were made. And while Samsung made the world's first MP3 phone in 1999, and followed that a year later with the first camera handset, it has remained an innovator of gadgets and industrial processes.
Getting Radical
"They aren't the kind of company that makes products no one else can mimic," said Lim, the veteran. "Samsung has been making small, incremental improvements, but haven't been as successful with radical, big changes. But they're getting close."
About six miles (9.6 kilometers) from Apple's 1 Infinite Loop home, and a five-minute stroll from Google's sprawling campus in Mountain View, Samsung is building a 385,000-square foot (36,000-square meter) complex. When finished, it will house engineers to design mobile software, the company announced Sept. 19.
"We've seen their investment in software really spike," said Amit Pandey, CEO of Redwood City-based Zenprise Inc., which designs software to manage employees' mobile devices and works with Samsung.
Luring the best talent away from freewheeling West Coast startups or market leaders like Google may prove tricky in an industry where demand for skilled workers allows the picky to be pickier still.
"Mobile is super-hot. It's very easy to find work,'" said Leah Culver, a San Francisco-based software developer for Apple's iOS operating system and Android, used by Samsung. "I'd care more about what particular product I am working on."
Samsung represents a stepping stone on a career path, said Dave Howell, CEO of Avatron Software in Portland, Oregon. "I don't think of working for Samsung as a lifestyle, I think of it as a job," he said. "People go to Apple to retire."
That's not how it is back in South Korea, where the company is the most sought-after employer, according to a survey last year by SaraminHR, an online job-site operator.
About an hour's drive southeast of Seoul is Samsung's headquarters at Suwon, once a sprawling industrial complex churning out TVs and other household appliances. Factories have made way for pizzerias and ice-cream parlors, basketball courts and soccer pitches.
R&D Spending
A 30-story center under construction will house 10,000 people working on networks and telecommunications, one of five new R&D units to open by 2015 at a cost of more than $3.6 billion. An industrial complex for new businesses -- part of a $20 billion search for the next drivers of growth -- will open in three years, and employ about 30,000 people. Samsung plows about 6 percent of revenue back into R&D, more than three times the rate at Apple, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Globally, Samsung has more than 55,000 engineers and other researchers -- about a quarter of its workforce -- looking at robotics and semiconductors, or seeking new applications for advanced materials that may yield game-changing advances from batteries to medical scanners and displays. Apple's total headcount was 72,800, according to its latest annual report.
The South Korean company was granted 5,081 patents in the U.S. last year, the most after International Business Machines Corp., a Jan. 10 report by IFI Claims Patent Services shows.
"Samsung in its back pocket has got an increasingly relevant portfolio of patents," Vlad Cara, a London-based analyst at Pacific Investment Management Co., said by e-mail.
'Patent War'
As their legal fight spills across the globe, some decisions are going against Apple: a Dutch court Jan. 16 ruled Samsung's Galaxy Tab products didn't infringe Apple's design rights. Apple last month lost a U.S. appeal to block sales of Samsung devices pending the result of its patent-infringement case. The U.S. company itself is fighting suits from Samsung, as well as other phone and software providers.
"Everybody's talking about the patent war," said Pruksa Iamthongthong, who holds Samsung preference shares at Aberdeen Asset Management in Singapore. "It's a game all these players are playing, and it'll continue to be there," she said. "It'll just speed up the product life cycle."
The aggressive legal tactics of Apple, Samsung and other technology companies reflect the need to monetize intellectual property before the erosive effects of emulation. History is littered with examples of innovators that failed to keep hold of their first-mover advantage, according to Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang, authors of "The Quest for Global Dominance."
Apple Followed
While the Altair computer is regarded as the spark behind the personal computer industry, Jobs and fellow Apple founder Steve Wozniak took over the market just two years later when they began producing the first Macintosh PCs, the authors noted in a March article on the website of Paris-based Insead business school. By the early 1980s, IBM was the dominant player in an industry crowded with rivals that drove Apple close to failure by 1997.
Apple was "lucky enough to seize the moment of change successfully," said C.W. Chung, a Seoul-based analyst at Nomura Holdings Inc. in Seoul. As for Samsung: "They haven't run their course, and they're still evolving."
One of J.Y. Lee's biggest challenges will be picking those businesses he wants to remain in. His father's success coincided with the decline of Japan Inc. Japanese chipmakers failed to react as Samsung began to outspend them, turning a $1 billion capital expenditure gap with nearest rival Hitachi in 2004 into a $15 billion chasm last year.
Capital Game
The scale of investment Samsung needs to stay in front of competition means it risks getting caught on the wrong side of the market. It also means the company has to keep expanding to offset the cost of depreciating fixed assets, said Kota Ezawa, an analyst at Citigroup Inc. in Tokyo.
All the time, hungrier rivals are eyeing Samsung's patch -- and business model.
Huawei Technologies Co., the world's biggest seller of communications networks, is unveiling more phones and tablets. Based in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, Huawei was the sixth-biggest phone manufacturer in the world during the quarter ended Sept. 30, according to Bloomberg Industries data.
ZTE Corp., also Shenzhen based, is already the fourth- biggest phone manufacturer. Then there's Lenovo Group Ltd., poised to become the world's biggest computer manufacturer, surpassing Hewlett-Packard Co. Lenovo, the maker of Thinkpad laptops, is bringing out phones, tablets and TVs.
"Long term, they will become a bigger threat," said Edwin Merner, president of Atlantis Investment Research Corp. in Tokyo, which manages $300 million in assets. "So you have to keep running very fast."


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PhD Candidate Wins First Prize for Catalysis Research
Tao Chen, a PhD candidate from the Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Department at Stevens Institute of Technology, has won the first prize and a cash award for his research presentation at the annual symposium of the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York. The symposium was held on March 14, 2012 at the ExxonMobil Corporate Research in Annandale, NJ and was attended by more than 130 participants. Students and postdoctoral researchers participated in a poster competition with 30 poster presentations from universities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Tao's winning presentation was entitled "Spectroscopic and computational study of BPE adsorption on Ag/SiO2 as a function of silver oxidation and adsorbate coverage." He is co-advised in his research by Prof. Simon Podkolzin and Prof. Henry Du.
In this project, monodispersed silver nanoparticles with a diameter of about 50 nanometers supported on silica were synthesized using a colloidal solution. The extent of silver oxidation was varied with a time-controlled exposure to ozone and monitored with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic measurements. Vibrational spectra were collected using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Adsorption geometries and vibrational modes were analyzed with quantum chemical calculations using density functional theory. This closely integrated experimental and theoretical study for the first time identified at the molecular level the adsorption modes and energetics of an organic probe molecule trans-1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene (BPE) on silver nanoparticles. In addition, effects of the adsorbate coverage and the extent of silver oxidation were evaluated. This understanding will help scientists to choose optimal conditions for running chemical reactions with catalytic silver nanoparticles and also to improve sensors that use similar nanoparticles as spectroscopic detectors.
"This recognition from the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York demonstrates the substantive theoretical and experimental impact of this research," says Dr. Michael Bruno, Dean of the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science. "We are delighted at Tao's placing first in this competition and look forward to his continuing contributions to the field."
"This research will improve our understanding of hydrocarbon reactions on silver catalysts and provide guidance for optimization of reaction conditions and catalyst formulations," says Dr. Simon Podkolzin.
The presented research is related to Dr. Simon Podkolzin and Dr. Henry Du's research on gold and silver catalytic nanoparticles for green chemistry and sustainability, for which theywere recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant.
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By Shihan Roger A. Jarrett
Like a proud father, I am very excited to announce that our very own Jake Lease has been named the new CEO for USA Karate (USANKF). At our recent USANKF Board of Directors meeting in January, Jake was promoted to this position by a unanimous vote. Jake has been working extremely hard over the past few years as the USANKF Director of Events and Member Services at our Colorado Springs office. Mr. Lease has done a fantastic job directing our two large events, the USA Open in Las Vegas each year, and our annual National Championships. He has also been essential in coordinating US Team travel around the world. He will continue that and more in his new position.
Jake is from Bancroft, WV and started his Martial Arts training with me at the age of ten. As a teenager he became a junior assistant instructor at our Teays Valley location, and competed regularly in local, regional, and national karate championships. He went to college at the WV Institute of Technology in Montgomery, WV, where he also trained and assisted at our USA Martial Arts Montgomery branch. Jake eventually became a senior instructor at our USA Martial Arts Federation Headquarters Dojo in St. Albans, WV. He worked tirelessly teaching at both the St. Albans and Kanawha City locations. He soon served not only as a senior instructor, but as the Office Manager at the USAMAF national headquarters as well as my direct personal assistant.
Sensei Lease holds several Martial Arts ranks including 4th Dan in Tae Kwon Do, 4th Dan in Karate Do, 3rd Dan in Aikido, 3rd Dan in Judo, 3rd Dan in Jujitsu, and 3rd Dan in Iaido. He also became one of our youngest ever Pan American Karate Referees. His skill and knowledge I the Martial Arts is outstanding.
During my tenure as both Secretary General and President of the USANKF, Jake was my right hand. He honed his skills for his present position traveling with me to many events. He assisted me as I negotiated, developed, and ran many national events. Jake was part of the development of the USA Open as we held the very first one in West Virginia. He helped tremendously as we salvaged the event after everything was dropped in out laps.
After I hired Luke St. Onge as our Executive Director we sent Jake out to assist him with our new USANKF office in Colorado Springs. Luke was familiar with the workings of the USOC but really knew nothing about the sport and art of Karate. Jake hit the ground running and was excited to serve the Olympic Karate movement.
I have full confidence that Jake will do a tremendous job as CEO. All of the Instructors and student of the USA Martial Arts Federation wish him well in his new position. He needs all our prayers and support. His love of the Martial Arts and his great hope for the future of Olympic Karate is unbounded.
Congratulations Mr. Jake Lease!!
Shihan Roger Jarrett, president of the USA Martial Arts Federation, has been selected for the West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame presented by "West Virginia Executive Magazine". In the latest issue ( Spring 2010) of WV Executive Magazine, West Virginia's premier business magazine, Master Jarrett was selected along with many other notable sports figures such as Jerry West, Randy Moss, Don Nehlen, Lou Holtz, Jeff Hostetler, Pat White, Chad Pennigton, and Phil Pfister, just to name a few.
On January 14 & 15, 2011, the USA Martial Arts Federation and the USA Judo/Jujitsu Association in cooperation with the US Jujitsu Federation, held a special Judo and Jujitsu seminar at the USA Martial Arts Training Centers National Headquarters in St. Albans, WV.
Seminar instructors were Shihan Roger Jarrett, 8th Dan, president of the USAMAF and the USAJJA, and Shihan Bruce Bethers, 8th Dan, president of the USJJF. The two days of instruction included a variety of throwing, groundwork, and self defense applications of Judo and Jujitsu. The dojo was packed full of participants in this very exciting annual event. Students and instructors from all over West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio attended this years training.
A very special part of the weekend was the Black Belt examinations. The Black Belt candidates put on a great display of techniques. Chris Jarrett and Kevin Seagle received their Shodan (1st Dan) rank, Todd Stanford received his Nidan (2nd Dan), Chris Wood received his Sandan (3rd Dan), and Mike Jacobs did an outstanding job to move up to Yondan (4th Dan). All of their ranks were certified in both Judo and Jujitsu.
A special treat was 11 year old Gunnar Stanford, the first student to receive Shodan (1st Dan) in the USAMAF children's Aiki-Judo program. He had to display an array of Aikido, Judo, and Jujitsu skills for his test. He also teamed with his father to perform the traditional Judo "Nage no Kata". Congratulations to all the new promotions!
On April 16, 2011 the USA Martial Arts Federation in conjunction with the US Jujitsu Federation, will host the US Jujitsu National Championships and US Team Trials at St. Albans High School in St. Albans, WV. This event will be held together with the 31st Mountain State Martial Arts Championships. You don't want to miss this very exciting competition.
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Master Jarrett was on hand with his son Chris Jarrett to lead a special Sport Judo in Karate Competition Seminar for the Pennsylvania Shotokan Karate Club, ran by USA Karate National Coach, Dustin Baldis. The seminar went very well and PSKC photographer Shelly Lipton was on had to capture the weekend with her camera. Shelley Lipton is a psychologist and amateur sports photographer. Part of her graduate research was in sports psychology. Through the lens of her camera, she works to capture interesting and key moments in sports, drawing the viewer into the image with a heightened awareness of the situation. Click Here to see the amazing set of photos she took over the weekend.


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This is for anyone wanting to learn how to play Old Dangerfield, by Bill Monroe. Old Dangerfield is a modal instrumental. When I tried to look up info on this song, all I turned up was lots of speculation, but it seems like most people think the song is named after Bill Monroe's dog.
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So I couldn't find anyone showing how to play this on the fiddle slowly, so I did my own.
Tabs (I think it's $10 for the tab): http://robanderlik.com/Tabs&Video.html
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Sorry had trouble finding a guitar only version, let alone a slow version.
Tab (need tabledit)
Ok so this video is of Mike Block and Darol Anger playing this song, and while this video is nothing but awesome, it's probably not a video to learn this song from. So if you do find a good one, please leave it in the comments and I'll add it:
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Worrisome Article - Any Rebuttals?
Worrisome Article - Any Rebuttals?
John Peterson, the author of the article you reference, is guilty of perhaps the most gross misrepresentation and defamation of EV's I've ever seen. Basically he cherry picks the few articles that support his thesis... his thesis being: Electric cars are basically evil, and everyone should instead advocate microhybrids and also maybe buy some shares in Axion Power which makes (or is trying to make) batteries for microhybrids and which John Peterson has a very large position in. He also, for now at least, has massive paper losses in that position so you can see why he's 'passionate' about the whole thing.
I took issue with Johns (woefully uninformed and largely dishonest) critique of electric cars on the financial site where he used to publish Tesla attack pieces all the time (and I do mean ALL the time), and so wrote a couple of articles to rebut his assertions; hopefully they can put your mind at ease, but if not just google around - there is a LOT of work that discredits him.
On the issue of greenhouse gases and pollution: http://seekingalpha.com/article/680731-ev-myths-and-realities-part-2-gre...
On EV economics: http://seekingalpha.com/article/756681-ev-myths-realities-part-3a-tco-an...
I'm occasionally tempted to chase John to TheStreet and point out his many errors there, but usually I can't be bothered (and there are plenty of others who do so anyway). It's best to just not pay too much attention to him, and if you DO decide to then do very careful fact checking before you buy what he's selling.
And I wouldn't take what he's selling if he paid me.
I took a look at the study that Peterson is referencing. Honestly it appears to me to be a well researched high quality study that is woth a read. Peterson ignores the one very optimistic statement for BEV fans which was also included in the results. It reads: "BEVs have the potential to offer the greatest reductions in emissions and oil consumption at competitive cost if air emissions from electricity generation are substantially reduced, battery prices drop dramatically, gasoline prices rise, high-power charging infrastructure is sufficiently deployed, and battery life is increased beyond vehicle life". In fairness to the authors their thesis is that U.S. policy to subsidize BEVs is inneficient and that ther is a much better opptoruntiy to reduce emissions and oil consumption at a competitive cost by focusing US policy on HEVs and PHEV's with small bettery packs. I don't disagree with their conclusion. However, I don't think they properly account for the benefits of the U.S. Policy moving us further downt the S curve of technology adoption. At the current state of technology it is true that an HEV gives you more emisions reduction per dollar but if the various factors citred in the quote come to pass BEVs will win. The authors are supportive of U.S. funding for battery research for exactly that reason. I contend that by increasing adoption now the applied research that typically happens in industry will take place faster and that there is an uncaptured (in their study) side benefit here to US susidies for BEVs. As far a just buying a BEV now I am still game becuase I do believe that the US grid will get cleaner (and by the way for Tesla with the solar powered supercharger network coming we're already ahead of the game). I also believe that batteries will get cheaper while providing longer life. I see more and more articles weekly if not daily about new charging stations coming on line (not just Tesla) and who doesn't think gas is going to get more expenive.
So I would say by all means read the CMU study that Peterson refrers to. It may give you pause but if you are optimistic as I am about what will ultimately come to pass it won't pause you for long.
The study and your conclusions are nonsense. The only emissions that matter are local, near highways and on city streets. And the Model S is simply a superior product, as it stands.
The Michalek et al. PNAS study that Peterson references is indeed generally correct, but it makes a significant error by guessing that the 240 km BEV (Tesla S base model) has a 66.1 kWh battery instead of 40 kWh. This is understandable since the study was published in 2011 before all details of the model S were available, and the author may have incorrectly assumed that BEV range and PEV range are identical for the same battery capacity (not true: PHEVs with small batteries need significant fractional reserve capacity to retain electric hybrid energy even when EV only range is depleted).
Correcting this error reduced the cost and impact of the BEV240 battery (liter blue bar in the figures in the Peterson article) by 40%. That puts it at lower cost / impact than the PHEV60 (C Volt).
The moral of the story is that cars produce significant negative environmental impact in their manufacture and operation. BEVs do pollute the air less and produce fewer greenhouse gasses during operation than HEVs or gas guzzlers, but the mining of Li and other battery materials for BEVs releases a lot of toxic compounds into the environment.
The most environmentally friendly car to drive is no car - ride a bike! Barring that, drive the HEV or ICE car that you already have provided that it is not a total gas guzzler. Don't junk you current 10 year old HEV for a BEV in order to help the environment. BEVs are only lower impact than ICE or HEV / PHEV IF you operate the BEV for a really long time (think 200,000+ miles) AND if you use a clean electric power source like solar panels on your roof. You can minimize the impact of a PHEV or BEV by getting one with a battery as small as possible; indeed 60kWh is much worse for toxicity than a 16 (Volt) or even a 40 kWh one (S or RAV4). This should be better in 5-10 years if battery storage density of commercial EVs goes up by 2x or more.
First remember Mr. Peterson has a long history of trying to trash Tesla and EV's anyway he can.
In looking at the CMU study I found a few flaws. First they compare against the Prius, a great car and low emissions but hardly the average car. They use a battery cost between $625/kwh and $850/kwh and Tesla is under $500/kwh.
Then I am not sure they are properly accounting for battery production. Here is an excerpt "a materials-based assessment is performed for battery manufacturing, including lead-acid (plastic, lead, sulfuric acid, fiberglass, water), nickel metal hydride (NiMH)". Today's electric cars do not use lead batteries and we know lead is particularly nasty.
They use a "the high case assumes all electricity is from coal". No where are we 100% coal and I cannot imagine a case where we will ever be all coal. The majority of the air pollution costs for the electric vehicle is from SO2, not a good pollution, but it only comes from coal, a power source that is in decline and less than 40% of our grid.
They also appear to assume battery production is 100% coal powered as half of the pollution cost of the battery is SO2. Again I am unsure making lithium batteries makes that much SO2.
Finally they assume $30,000 on battery replacement costs on a BEV that has 150 mile range. I can't imagine that a new battery for Tesla 40 KWH pack would cost $30,000. I am sure they are plenty of other "errors" in the study.


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The Memphis Grizzlies are running an ostensibly fun promotion that received a write-up in yesterday's Wall Street Journal: instead of cash or a car, the lucky Grizzlies fan randomly selected to take a shot from half-court will get—quote—"a lifetime supply of Tater Tots" from Sonic should the shot happen to go in. What do you picture when you read "lifetime supply"? A freezer forever being replenished with frozen Tater Tots? A card that allows you Tater Tots whenever you want them? A room literally overflowing with Tater Tots? I am picturing all of those things, and more—dump trucks full of garbage bags full of Tater Tots. A Tater Tot house. An army of Tater Tot soliders saluting a Tater Tot flag. You hit a half-court shot. Are you entitled to anything less?
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Jason Potter, the Grizzlies' director of promotions and event presentation, said the winner would receive the equivalent of one coupon per week for a medium order of Tater Tots.
Does that sound like a "lifetime supply" to you? You can eat a medium-sized portion of Tater Tots once a week? Doesn't that just make you want more Tater Tots?
Really, the embarrassment of rolling up to Sonic once a week with a coupon for a medium Tater Tots would have to outweigh many people's desire for the Tater Tots. Per the Wall Street Journal's research, a medium Tater Tots is a $1.69 value, meaning that a year's worth of medium Tater Tots coupons is worth about $88, redeemable only in Sonic Tater Tots. Giveaways by other NBA teams include: lump sums of up to $77,777, big screen HD TVs, and cars. Oklahoma City gives you $100 just for hitting the backboard—the guy in the picture above won the full $20,000 when he hit the half-court shot at a Thunder game in 2010.
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You'd hope Lego had more sense than this - though at least it's not as bad as some of the crap that's featured on the brilliant Royal Wedding Tat tumblr (seriously, Prince William and Kate Middleton Pez dispensers?!)
Anyway, they've chosen to surround the Lego couple in Lego celebrities, including a pregnant Victoria Beckham, along with Sir Elton John and his civil partner David Furnish - complete with their little boy.
Hey, man in the back - it's not polite to barf at someone's Lego wedding! [Daily Mail]


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As the project grew, I realized I was approaching the parked cars in the same way a photographer would shoot a portrait. Whether gleaming and restored, or beat-up and deteriorating, each car had its own character and story. The American landscape serving as backdrop is also part of the story of these cars, which were mostly produced here in the U.S. before the decline of Detroit's big automotive companies. I photographed the cars as I found them, using mostly medium format cameras, as well as some large format and digital cameras.
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Katie Schwarzmann doesn't have the Tewaaraton trophy displayed prominently in her College Park house. For now, it sits on a shelf in the basement of her parents' Sykesville home.
Not that the Maryland senior wasn't honored to be named the best women's college lacrosse player in the country last spring. Her Tewaaraton Award eventually will have its perch of distinction. She just hasn't gotten around to that yet.
She's too preoccupied right now with reaching another goal — and to her, a loftier goal — for her final season as a Terp.
"Of course it was awesome to win the Tewaaraton," she said, "but it was also kind of bittersweet because we didn't win the national championship last year, so I think moving forward that's obviously the biggest goal, putting the team first. I just want to get back to the national championship game and win it again like we did freshman year."
Despite a trophy case full of awards, Schwarzmann has always put the team first and she certainly has the Terps in contention for another national title. Heading into Friday's Atlantic Coast Conference semifinal against Virginia in Chapel Hill, N.C., the No. 1 Terps (17-0) remain Division I's only unbeaten team.
The two-time national Midfielder of the Year, known for her explosive first step and overall speed and quickness, has started since the fourth game of her freshman year. Her game has always been superior, making her only the third four-time all-conference player in ACC women's lacrosse history as well as the fourth-leading goal scorer in Terps history with 218. She has made the NCAA Championship All-Tournament team all three years.
While Schwarzmann has mostly been content to lead by example, this season she has embraced a more vocal leadership role.
"This is her team now," senior attacker Alex Aust said. "She really has emerged into the captain role. Everyone obviously respects her on the field, but off the field, she's definitely become more vocal just realizing this is her last year here, so she doesn't want to leave anything unsaid."
The leadership role hasn't come as easily to Schwarzmann as her game, but she said coach Cathy Reese has helped her grow into the role in her second year as a team captain.
"That's something Cathy had to talk to me about, being more vocal," Schwarzmann said. "Initially, I'm more so leading by example and I'm more quiet in the sense where I'm not always yelling or saying certain things, but this year just going along with the whole I-don't-want-any-regrets thing, I'm trying to help out my teammates in the best way that I can, giving them advice when I can and asking for advice also. It's a two-way street."
That willingness to keep learning no matter how many accolades come her way is one of the keys to Schwarzmann's phenomenal success. She always believes she can get better and do more to help the team.
This season, in addition to being the Terps' second-leading scorer with 48 goals and 18 assists, she has also emerged as a shutdown defender. In an 8-3 win over Stony Brook last month, she held the Seawolves' Demmianne Cook, currently Division I's leading goal scorer, without a shot; Schwarzmann also contributed three goals and an assist.
In a 14-13 win over then-No. 2 North Carolina — which the Terps could meet again in Sunday's ACC championship — Schwarzmann scored five goals while playing a key role on defense.
"She's just a natural," North Carolina coach Jenny Levy said. "There's not anything that looks so hard. She runs easy and she's fast. She's quick. She's smart defensively. She can hurt you on-ball or off-ball offensively, and yet you never see her make mistakes. She's very polished and she's very consistent both physically and emotionally. I'm a big fan of hers."
Schwarzmann had that poise as a high school player at Century in Carroll County, where she helped the Knights to three state Class 2A-1A titles and was The Baltimore Sun's 2009 All-Metro Player of the Year. She scored 307 goals in her high school career and set a state record with nine goals in the 2009 state championship victory — a mark that still stands.
The youngest of three lacrosse-playing sisters — Ashley and Lauren played at Johns Hopkins — and a three-sport athlete at Century, she always seemed to have a precocious feel for lacrosse.
"She is just capable of every aspect of the game," said her high school coach, Rose Pentz, "and she will adjust to the adversity under that pressure. She doesn't even look like a player under pressure. She'll just do what she's told, and I think a lot of it may be because — aside from the important pieces of the athleticism and her speed and the skill — she had the knowledge of the game. She was a student of the game, and when you understand the concepts, you can see things a step or two ahead."
One of the things that has helped her continue to grow has been experience on the national level. Schwarzmann has played with the U.S. national team since 2010 and, at 21, is the youngest player on the team that will compete in July at the Federation of International Lacrosse Women's World Cup in Oshawa, Ontario.
"It's really helped with my confidence and just being able to play in different situations and game scenarios," Schwarzmann said. "On U.S., we have a very different philosophy in how we play offense, how we play defense, so just being exposed to different things and then I can bring them back here to Maryland and help my teammates with that."
Schwarzmann helped the Terps to a national championship as a freshman, an appearance in the title game as a sophomore and an appearance in the final four last season. From winning ACC Rookie of the Year to being a potential three-time first-team All-American to winning the Tewaaraton, she has achieved about every honor there is.
Yet she still marvels that young girls who stand in line for her autograph the way she did with her idol Jen Adams. No matter that Schwarzmann now wears the same No. 7 that Adams, still the NCAA's all-time leading scorer, did at Maryland when she won the first Tewaaraton in 2001.
Schwarzmann still has the stick Adams autographed for her more than a decade ago. Even though she will play in the World Cup against Adams, who is from Australia, Schwarzmann still can't quite picture herself in the same lacrosse stratosphere with her hero.
"It's funny how I grew up idolizing her," Schwarzmann said, "and I've worked camps with her and I've become kind of good friends with her. Coming here to Maryland and even wearing No. 7, it's awesome the opportunities that I've had."
She's taken advantage of every one to become the best, so now it's time to start thinking in the stratosphere — and to think about bringing the Tewaaraton out of the basement and into the spotlight.


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Full-time Job Title MRI Technologist (VA) Job Description OUR CLIENT The VAMC Memphis has been improving the health of the men and women who have so proudly served our nation. We consider it our privilege to serve your health care needs in any way we can. Services are available to more than 196,000 veterans living in a 53-county area of western Tennessee, northern Mississippi, and northwest Arkansas POSITION DESCRIPTION : The MRI technologists care shall cover the range of mobile MRI services. Will operate magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) scanners to create diagnostic images.as would be provided in a state-of-the-art civilian medical treatment facility. The standard of care shall be of a quality, meeting or exceeding currently recognized national standards as established by the professional standards of the Joint Commission (TJC) and the American Hospital Association (AHA)0. Duties of the position include, but are not limited to: Performs Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) of the head, neck, spine, chest and body with or without contrast materials. Assist patients during MRI procedures. Positions their patients before starting the procedure and correct any discomforts that are being experienced during MRI. May be required to move disabled patients from wheelchairs onto examination table and position them for imaging. Explain the radiologic procedure to their patients so as to alleviate fear and anxiety. Answer questions and queries the patient wants to know regarding the procedure. Technologists may use some restraints onto the patient to make sure that they are safe during the MRI procedure. MRI technologists are also responsible in monitoring for the patient's safety and shall be prepared in performing some emergency procedures when needed. Choosing options for the software and adjust the MRI table and MRI machine basing on the particular images that needs to be carried out. Operate MRI equipment for the purpose of capturing diagnostic images of a particular segment of the patient's body. Shall review the result and input the reports on the computer. Regularly check equipment to make certain that it is functional before any procedures. Job Requirements MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS : American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) Magnetic Resonance (MR) certification. Two (2) years of experience Must have understanding of advanced MRI applications, super conducting magnetics, the physics of superconducting magnetics, and how they related to the human anatomy in medical imaging. BLS Must have experience Siemens and G.E. scanners; Siemens SKYRA, AVANTO and AERA with software on E 11. GE 450 W and understanding with GE software. Experience in advanced Neuro, MSK, and Body imaging. This will include; Neuro Cine, MRA/MRV, Body applications including MR Elastography MR Enterography and Fat Quantifications, MSK all extremities including MRA/MRV and Breast applications including Breast MRI with Biopsy. current CMEs as required or requested by the PVAHCS. Contractor's technologist(s) registered or certified by national/medical associations shall continue to meet the minimum standards for CME to remain current Ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently CLICK ON LINK BELOW TO BE DIRECTED TO OUR WEBSITE FOR YOUR APPLICATION PROCESS: https://btltech.mua.hrdepartment.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/1061 (CLICK ON GREEN BUTTON TO APPLY WHEN IN OUR WEBSITE) Location Memphis - TN 38088 US (Primary) Category Medical
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Editor's Note: Angela Burt-Murray is the editor-in-chief of Essence magazine. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two sons. Read veteran journalist Gwen Ifill's interview with Michelle Obama on Essence.com
Angela Burt-Murray says Michelle Obama shouldn't be pressured to hide her considerable ability.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- She's been clear about her priorities.
The self-professed Mom-in-Chief is focused on getting her family settled into a new home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, buying a puppy, and enrolling daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, in their elite new private school.
Admirable concerns and certainly ones that every mother, or father, would consider in the face of any move -- let alone a move to the most famous address in the world. But when you're discussing a woman as accomplished as Michelle Obama, you can't help but wonder: Can't there be more?
Perhaps, but for the nation's first black first lady, it won't be easy.
When black women initially met the statuesque double Ivy League-degreed hospital exec with coiffed hair and smart outfits, it was love at first sight: supportive spouse, loving mother -- the total package.
On the campaign trail, many journalists noted she was a gifted speaker, pulling in large crowds at solo events, capturing the attention of audiences for 40 minutes and more, without notes, even holding her own while sharing the stage with megawatt personalities like Oprah Winfrey and Maria Shriver.
For us she was instantly recognizable. She was a self-made six-figure sister who was like so many women in our communities -- leading church boards, chairing neighborhood programs, running the show at work -- as well as a reflection of the women we saw in our own mirrors. But for some whites, she was different, a bit unsettling. Not what they were used to. And then she made that infamous comment:
"For the first time in my adult life, I'm really proud of my country."
You could practically hear white folks saying, "Aha!" The sound bite heard around the world would be impossible for her to fully recover from, at least during the campaign. She was vilified -- labeled Mrs. Grievance and Angry Black Woman.
Like Michelle, Hillary Clinton was attacked for everything from her cookie-baking and Tammy Wynette comments to the national health care debacle she led during her husband's administration. The attacks on Michelle, though, were rooted in racist stereotypes.
There was the Fox News producer who dubbed her Obama's Baby Mama; the incendiary New Yorker magazine cover that featured an Afro-wearing, fist-bumping, Uzi-toting Michelle; the hunt for a videotaped panel that didn't exist, in which Michelle Obama was allegedly featured with controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan, talking about "Whitey" as if channeling 1970s TV character George Jefferson.
The Huffingtonpost.com ran a piece called "Why Do We White People Dislike Michelle Obama?" It was based on a New York Times/CBS News poll showing that 24 percent of white Americans had an unfavorable opinion of her.
Huffingtonpost.com later pointed out that they omitted the number of people who said they were "Undecided" (17 percent) or "Haven't Heard Enough" (37 percent) about Michelle Obama, but the negative perception had by then been encoded.
More recently, there was the misguided Salon.com essay by African-American journalist Erin Aubrey Kaplan about Mrs. Obama's behind, a piece that harkened scarily back to the story of Saarjite Baartman, the young South African woman who was brought to Europe in 1810 by an English surgeon so fascinated by her large bottom that he changed her name to Venus Hottentot and displayed her naked in cages in museums for more than five years. Seriously, people?
The attacks got so bad at one point that blogger Gina McCauley of Whataboutourdaughters.com said Michelle was becoming a "verbal punching bag." So she launched a Web site called MichelleObamawatch.com to keep track of every article, video clip and interview to mobilize her visitors to voice their concerns.
"Whether you support her husband or not," McCauley wrote on the site last July, "Let's be clear, any and every black woman who walks in her footsteps can expect the same treatment, so we might as well pull a Gandalf, draw a line in the sand and yell, 'Thou shall not pass!' "
White America may be trying to relax -- after all they really like her husband. Yet even after Barack Obama's decisive victory, it still seems that Michelle's team wants to dial down her fabulousness. And black women know why.
Allison Samuel's recent Newsweek cover story "What Michelle Means to Us" clearly articulates the double-edged sword she faces: "While every first lady -- and plenty of professional women -- walk the line between being confident and seeming like a bitch, African-American women are especially wary that being called 'strong' is just another word for 'angry.' "
It's the thing that many black woman face at their jobs -- the appearance of confidence and ability can be threatening to people. And so Michelle's smart outfits were replaced with sensible sweater sets. Her focus became military families and photo-ops of her packing supplies.
There's certainly value in Michelle Obama playing the traditional first lady role as she greets heads of state, travels the world meeting with foreign dignitaries, and continues her important work with military families.
But lest everyone decide that Mom-in-Chief is enough to keep her busy for the next four to eight years, Michelle has said in interviews that she and her family always try to get involved in the communities in which they live.
In Washington, which has some of the nation's worst high school graduation rates, and HIV/AIDS infection rates that rival African countries, there will be no shortage of issues for the new first lady to tackle.
Perhaps her team could take a bit of inspiration from the hit NBC series The West Wing. During the fictitious first term of President Jed Bartlett, played brilliantly by Martin Sheen, his administration is unable to achieve any of its goals because it tries to manage to the middle and not upset anyone. Ultimately, they decide to create the sort of change they campaigned on by letting "Bartlett be Bartlett."
Like most black women, I look forward to watching Michelle be Michelle, no matter what form that takes.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Angela Burt-Murray.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe: A community group in Zimbabwe says a pastor and three activists were arrested for holding a voter education meeting a day after President Robert Mugabe announced March 16 as the date for a referendum on a new constitution.
The Center for Community Development said today the four were campaigning for people to register as voters for the referendum and national elections later in the year.
They were detained in police cells in Chegutu town, 100 kilometers southwest of Harare, on unspecified charges after the meeting yesterday.
Under sweeping security laws, political gatherings require police clearance.
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The directors of Blain|Southern are delighted to announce an exhibition of new works by Francesco Clemente, Mandala for Crusoe, the artist's first London show in seven years. This recent series brings together 14 paintings which continue Clemente's singular pictorial language, gathering together myriad cultural references and merging timeless symbols, iconic imagery and philosophies. Inspired by the symbolism of the originally Buddhist and Hindu Mandala, this form, combined with allusions to more classical and mythological tropes, becomes apertinent description of the world as a whole, now and throughout history.
Eastern spiritual traditions identify the mandala as a conduit to a deeper level of consciousness, allowing the meditator a sense of oneness with the cosmos. Conversely, at the centre of Clemente's mandala is the empty, mundane life: a man smokes as he reads a newspaper, while another busies himself with digital technology. However, it is from this emptiness that a world of imagination arises. Indeed, the artist affirms the objectivity of the imagination not as sentimental fantasy, but as a function of the mind that leads to a harmony with both the self and others – a necessity for life. The group of exhibited paintings are thus Clemente's tools; like Crusoe shipwrecked in isolation, he composes and narrates a belief in a common experience free of cultural divides or contemporary materialism.
Since the 1970s, Clemente has divided his time between New York and Varanasi in India, feeling a nomadic affinity with the contemplative visual tradition of both the East and West; while the roots of his painterly vision are in the frescoes of the Italian Renaissance, historical Indian imagery and the Romanticism of William Blake are equally pervasive. This is particularly evident in works such as Candy and Chloe at the gate (2012), which portrays a scene where the Warhol starlet, Candy Darling, performs alongside the modern-day actress Chloë Sevigny, and The Ark (2012), where a chorus of animals from Noah's ark sit atop an ancient Greek temple and float upon a sea of Sanskrit text.
Clemente's use of materials is equally heterogeneous, utilising raw linen, milk paint, verdigris, silver pigment, mica, oil sticks and lithographic ink, which are combined in different permutations. They create a variety of painterly surfaces, which mirror his notion of the self as a fragmentary experience where the only constant is 'the continuity of discontinuity', which in itself reflects the principle of the Mandala, which states that 'what is here is elsewhere, what is not here is nowhere'.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with an essay by Sir Norman Rosenthal, who writes: "To analyse Francesco Clemente's paintings is inevitably to look into the world of modern dreams and desires. But they are dreams that have a history and a culture both personal and general [that is] intentionally poetic."


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Well, she's done it again. Not two months after her last crash, Linsay Lohan has been in another car accident, albeit this time only a minor fender bender.
LiLo's summer crash theme seems to be iconic L.A. thoroughfares. Her last wreck was on the Pacific Coast Highway, and this one — she tapped the back of a Ford Mustang with her black Porsche Panamera — went down on Sunset Boulevard.
The Mustang's driver said Lohan's male passenger apologized and gave her a phone number before explaining that they were being chased by paparazzi. The damage to the Mustang was minimal — a little scratch or something.
If I had a scratch like that on my car, I'd use it as a selling point. "You see that scratch right there? Lindsay Lohan hit my car and didn't total it!" Instant Hollywood memorabilia. That's definitely worth a couple extra grand. (Hat tip to $skaycog!)
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WALTHAM, Mass.- In the first home meet of the season for the Brandeis University swimming and diving teams, sophomore Brian Luk (Hong Kong/Northfield Mount Hermon), rookie Edan Zitelny (Syosset, N.Y./Syosset High School), and sophomore Theresa Gaffney (Braintree, Mass./Braintree) led the way against Wesleyan.
The men's squad had their closest match of the season, falling 102-135 while the women lost 35-217 against the Cardinals with only three swimmers able to compete.
On the men's side, Luk produced the biggest day for the Judges. Luk won all three freestyle sprints to record his best performance of this young season. In the 200-yard freestyle, Luk took the race by a sizeable margin, winning by more than three seconds with a time of 1:46.80. In the 50 free, he finished in 22.15 seconds, over a second better than the runner-up. Finally, in the 100 free, Luk again essentially cruised to victory completing the sprint in 48.07 seconds, over three and a half seconds better than second place.
Zitelny joined Luk with three victories on the afternoon. Zitelny swept his backstroke races winning both the 100-yard and 200-yard events. He took the 100 back in 55.93 and won the 200 back with a time of 2:03.11, edging the runner-up by 0.17 seconds. Zitelny rounded out his victories for the day by barely beating junior Max Fabian (Keene, N.H./Oak Meadow) in the 200-yard individual medley, finishing with a time of 2:06.64, only 0.21 seconds ahead of Fabian.
Fabian had another strong day in the distance races taking home two victories and a second place finish. He won the 1,000-yard freestyle in 10:06.84 and completed the sweep by taking the 500 free as well with a time of 4:57.59.
On the women's side, Gaffney led the way with a win and a second place finish. In the 1,000-yard freestyle Gaffney completed the race in 12:05.60 more than 15 seconds in front of the next swimmer. Gaffney did not fare quite as well in the 500 free but was the runner-up with a time of 5:59.84. Sophomore Fallon Bushee (Malden, Mass./Mystic Valley Regional Charter School) also had a second place finish in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25.96 seconds, exactly one-tenth of a second behind the winner from Wesleyan.


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Im stucked installing the boost numeric bindings under MacOS X. When I do the 'make install' I get the following error in the prompt:
install: illegal option -- D
As far as I could discover by googling ( http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?install ) the '-D' option is not included in the BSD 'make install' program (and -d is something completely different).
Removing the '-D' option does not help either because the directories are not there, error: 'No such file or directory'.
Some people ( http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/bb/viewtopic.php?t=629&sid=15de9bdc914090d791db75b6e90762d3 ) created all the directories by hand trying to fix the same error but still got problems. Even if it should work, that doesn't seem like a very nice long term fix.
You can just copy the files, or use the headers in-place. The install doesn't do anything magical. HTH, -- AndreasKloeckner 2011-07-29 16:17:23


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CNET believes modern cars with automatic transmissions are complicated and that's why they had Brian Cooley go make a "how to" video about driving a "modern automatic transmission." It's so poorly done you may actually forget how to drive an automatic transmission after using it.
Some cars now use rotary dials or weird electric wands to select gears which, we'll admit, can be initially confusing to those who aren't acclimated to anything but a PRNDL with a large stick coming out of it. That's not covered here.
Perplexingly, Cooley chooses a Mazda 3 with a six-speed automatic and talks about using the steering wheel paddles, sport modes and bilateral paddles on Porsches.
Oh, and manual gear selection is good for getting those "granular gears," Cooley says. Don't you only use granular when talking about different types of sugar?
What he also doesn't really go over is that you're going to leave the car in D, for drive, most of the time unless you're going around a track or an auto journalist. The whole P-R-N-D business? That's pretty much as it's been for roughly the last 50 years.
So if you're someone with a modern automatic transmission and confused about how to drive with it, here's a tip: don't watch this video.
Thanks for the tip, Travis!