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Principal Investigator [CGEM, GMRC, UXO & CSEM] Specialize in 3D modeling and inversion of gravity, magnetic, and electrical data as well as numerical techniques for processing and inverting large data sets. |
(303) 273-3510 |
Richard Krahenbuhl | Research Assistant Professor, Department of Geophysics
[CGEM, GMRC & UXO] Specializes in hybrid and global optimization methods for large scale inversions; modeling & inversion of gravity and magnetic data, and time-lapse monitoring. |
(303) 384-2329 |
Misac Nabighian | Distinguished Senior Scientist, Department of Geophysics
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PhD Candidate, Department of Geophysics
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Trevor Irons firstname.lastname@example.com |
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Jiajia Sun firstname.lastname@example.com |
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Anya Reitz firstname.lastname@example.com |
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Brent Putman |
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conductivity meters, magnetometers, and nuclear magnetic resonance surveys.
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Kristofer Davis | PhD;
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methods, TDEM, stuff _________________________________________________________________________________ |
Marco Braga | Visiting Scholar from Companhia
Vale do Rio Doce, Brazil. Research interests: Gravity Gradiometry _________________________________________________________________________________ |
Whitney Goodrich | Master of Science, 2007 |
Barry Kirkendall | Doctor of Philosophy, 2007, |
JeongMin Lee | Master of Science 2006 Research topics: Modeling and inversion of potential field data. _________________________________________________________________________________ |
Sarah Shearer | Master of Science 2005; Thesis:
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David Sinex | Master of Science 2005 Research topics: UXO Discrimination; Effect of magnetic soils on UXO magnetometer data; Depth-estimation using gravity and magnetics; Forward modeling and procession of potential-field data sets _________________________________________________________________________________ |
Qiaoluan Li | Master of Science, 2001 |
Marc Pessel | Post-doctoral Fellow, 2001 Thesis topic: Multiscale approach using simulated annealing Research interests: Multigrid methods for very fast numerical resolution of Poisson's equation; Interpretation of sources of potentials fields with the continuous wavelet transform and extended Euler deconvolution _________________________________________________________________________________ |
Alisa Green | Master of Science, 2003 |
Cambrey Johnston | Bachelor of Science, 2002 Research interests: Modeling and inversion of gravity gradiometry data; 3D magnetic field envelope mapping _________________________________________________________________________________ |
Shawna Leavitt | Bachelor of Science, 2002 |
Matt Haney | Doctor of Philosophy 2005 |
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Kitchenette Uptown
Kitchenette has grown from its tiny beginnings ten years ago to become a bustling cornerstone of hearty American cuisine. Touted as having the best brunch in New York City by citysearch.com as well as Time Out Magazine, it serves up stacks of mixed berry pancakes and fluffy scrambled eggs with melt in your mouth biscuits to neighborhood people, business people, and tourists alike.The comfort food continues at lunch with hearty Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes with Gravy, or an oversized Turkey corn bread stuffing and cranberry relish sandwich with old fashioned chicken noodle soup. For those that want lighter fare there are plenty of choices too. Try a Tandoori Chicken Salad with roast red onions curried lentils and yogurt dressing or opt for a grilled Veggie Burger with honey mustard in pita. Dinner is served at Kitchenette Uptown. Come and eat fresh Crab Cakes with dill tartar sauce and you'll think you're on vacation in New England.
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Swearing in:
I am officially a Peace Corps Volunteer (no more of this trainee nonsense). Our swearing in to Peace Corps service took place on a rainy Friday morning at 8am (which means had to leave Guarambare at 5). The swearing in ceremony takes place in the US Embassy. The embassy is beautiful and I wish I could have taken photos of the outside of the embassy, but at the risk of getting arrested, I didn't take any. The swearing in ceremony was really nice. I got to meet the US ambassador, and got to see an international health agreement being signed. Then, after a quick brindis with cake and bocaditas, we headed to the Peace Corps office to get cell phones, internet modems, bank cards and attend meetings.
After the business side of things was taken care of, the fun begins. Everyone (including most Peace Corps Volunteers) stays in Asuncion for the weekend. It was nice to talk/ drink with other PCVs. That night,I went to ahendu (the word ahendu means listen in Guarani, but the event is a concert put on by Peace Corps.) On saturday we my friends and I took the time to do a bit of shopping and attend the volunteer fair.That night, I went to the education dinner. The dinner took place at a Mexicanish restaurant. The food wasn't great, but the margaritas were. Then, being a 22 and an American in Paraguay, I went, with friends to the Brit pub. The Brit pub sells beer in three liter tanks to a table (and it isn't Brahma!) After a fun weekend, I went to site on Monday.
Semana Santa:
It takes me about two hours to get to site from Asuncion. I traveled with Liena and Travis, whose sites are closeish to mine. I got to site just in time for Semana Santa. Semana Santa is the week that leads up to Easter and it is a really big deal here. There is no school and on Wednesday, all we do is make Chipa and Sopa Paraguaya. Both foods are like cheesy, geasy con bread, they are delicious, until you learn how to make them. Once I learned how to make them, I am slightly digusted, but not enough to stop eating them. On Thursday, you are not allowed to do any sort of work and on Friday, your not allowed to eat meat and we all get up early to take bathes before the sun comes up. Apparently the water is blessed. On Easter, Sunday and Monday, everyone slaps each other on the back and says Feliz Pasqua (Happy Easter).
Possible future work in site
Once the school week started, I started observing classes and hanging out with people to get to know them. I am starting to get an idea of what I might be doing. I think I am going to work on promoting literacy in the classroom by using differentiated materials, diagnostic testing, and teaching letter sounds rather than syllables. I am also thinking about doing a side health project because my community could really use it. I've been talking to a few people and I think that might end up being a physical education/healthy habits project in the school.
Funny/cute things that happened to me this week:
- My community figures that if I fall in love with a paraguayan, I'll stay here longer. Thus, I've been introduced to every "eligible" bachelor in the community. When I ran into some of the in the high school and elementary school classes, I put my foot down. I told one of the women in the community that if she wanted to set me up, the guy has to be at least 20. So the other night, my host mom rushes into my room, tells me to put on cute clothes and do my hair. It turns out she wanted to introduce me to her brother. He is kind of cute, but he is studying at the military academy in Asuncion. Another of the times this happened, I met a 27 year old. He immeadiatly said he was too old for me, until he found out I was 22, not 15.
- I met this guy named Antonio, the first thing he said to me was that he was single (which is not true, I know his wife) and I'm single... Antonio is at least 50, and looks more like a bigger boned version of my Dad.
- I had a zit and the entire community knew about it. I now have a painful, puss filled bug bite and my entire community knows about it. I went to play futbol (soccer) at the cancha (soccer field) and my entire community knows about it.
- I sprained or twisted my ankle and it's very swollen. I also have 7+ painful infrected bug bites. My community came up with several explanations ranging from the fact that I am eating to many fried foods to that I am not used to the humidity and that's why my ankle is swelling up.I also got several recommendations for cures, including that I should let a dog sleep on my legs
- Last night, it rained and my roof leaks, so my host grandmother invited me to sleep with her, not wanting to be rude, I accepted the offer. The 5 year old that usually sleeps with her refused to move so all three of us slept together. At some point during the night, the other two kids came into the bed to sleep with us as well.
- The detergent that I, and everyone else uses is illegal in almost all of the countries in the Americas
- I can't convince my host Dad that not all people in the United States are Jewish and that Judiaism and Christianity are not the same. I'm sorry but the fact that Jews don't believe is Jesus is a major difference.
- I didn't have internet access for a while because my computer runs on a new software that isn't compatable with my modem. I was really upset about it, and I'll admit I broke down and cried. My host mom and grandma saw me, unfortunately, but they hugged me and told me that if I started crying, they were going to cry too. Some of the kids that I hang out with a lot (Mariella, Sole, Carolina) wouldn't let me wallow alone...they made me go dance and play futbol with them instead. Surprisingly, when I wasn't thinking about home, I felt better.
Call to arms:
Please keep in touch with me in whatever way you can, it really helps me do my job.
If you email me, I'll send you my phone number and a website you can use to send me free texts. I will also send you my physical address and, if you write me a letter, I'll write you one back.
Pregnant woman, English classes, A cat
For the past week, I've pretty busy. I've been organizing projects, working at the school, hanging out with people around the community, preparing for the bicentenario (the 200 year aniversery of paraguay's independence) and caring for my new kitten.
I've started working on two projects. Generally, PCVs don't start working this early, but both ideas were brought to me and I am just providing the technical skills for both. The first project is on computer skills. I was kind of surprised that such a poor community wanted their kids to have computer skills, but it turns out that you can't get any sort of job, except for manual labor, unless you can manejar una computadora (have basic computer skills). In order to teach the kids basic computer skills, a bunch of the parents are raising money to buy a computer. My second project is helping a university student with his English. He is studying computer science and a lot of the matireal they use is in English. I am going to give him classes. I am also planing on starting a project with the teachers in the school, but I want to wait until the scheducal goes back to normal.
The school schedual has been sooooo messed up for the past two weeks because of the bicentenario. The school day is normally two groups. the morning group gose from 7-11 with 20 minutes fro recess and the afternoon group goes from 12-4 with 20 minutes fro recess. However, we have been practing for a parade that celebrates the bicentenario. Everyfay, we practiced marching for an hour and some of the teachers trained a group of girls to be chiloreras (baton twirlers). I marched in the parade with the professors. Based on the amount we practed, I assumed the parade was a huge thing. The parade was about 200 feet long. Eye roll.
Oh and exciting news, I got a cat. Well, actually, it was given to my host sister, but it decided it was my cat. The cat's name is Tomas Miguel Ceniza. My host dad named him. At first his name was just Miguel because he was born in a community called San Miguel. My friend Liena's host mom gave it to my host sister. I caried it back to Calle 1-80 (where we live) for her, but tried to give it back to her, but it kept coming back to me. My host dad is also responsible for the Tomas part. One evening, he was drinking some beer with friends and offered the cat some. The cat must have been thirsty cause it drank it. Thus, it was given the name tomas (sounds like tomar which means to drink). It's last name is Ceniza which means ash because it's fur looks like ash. I call him Michi'i as a nickname. It means little kitten in Guarani
Additions to the list of weird Paraguayan beliefs:
- If a pregnant woman drinks beer, she will have a blonde baby, if she drinks wine she will have a dark haired baby, but if a pregnant woman drinks a lot, she will have a black baby.
- **only appplies to one person** A friend of mine told me that his truck was used in both Vietnam and world war 2. I seriously doubt ither is true because the jeep was made in 1969. The guy said that when the US. Army finished with it, they gave it as a gift to Paraguay.


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I can't deal with this. It's like the bodice is poking out its lizard tongue at me.
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I can't deal with this. It's like the bodice is poking out its lizard tongue at me.
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I just realized that Jane Fonda is wearing, on her dress, the garment version of Heidi Klum's jewelry.
However, Jane Fonda looks classy and elegant and frankly totally bangin', whereas Heidi looked like a gilded boob clown. Game, set, and match to the legacy.
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Too much going on here for me, I think.
We've got sheer smockage, we've got long hanks of fringe, we've got a minidress underneath… at least the yellow color makes it interesting (if it were a black dress we'd all be in a coma right now), but how could this be better? Less fringe? MORE fringe? More lining, and maybe… a belt? I don't know, but I do know this: I wish Kerry Washington wore her hair like this on Scandal, because the immobile flip they make her sport is starting to distract me. I don't think it's budged all year. Olivia Pope deserves something sassy, not stiff.
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For those of you who like to know the score going in, this yellow dress is Stella McCartney.
Jessica definitely got the makeup right; the red lipstick is exactly how she needs to work wearing canary. Things look a bit pinchy over on the left up there, but as Stella's oeuvre goes, this isn't as offensive to me. And isn't THAT a glowing compliment… Frankly, I think, YET AGAIN, my immediate issue is the shoes. Why does Chastain always belly-flop with the footwear? They're like that old Monty Python sketch on How Not To Be Seen, where yes, technically, you CAN'T see Mr. Nesbit of Harlow, but when there is only one bush to hide behind in a giant field, you know exactly where to put your explosives.
Then again, riddle me this: In this particular case, is it the frock color that's making it hard? Would the shoes be easier to pair with this if the dress were not yellow? Those chilly blanks on her feet do nothing for me, but I can see why it might be tricky to find the right option — I almost think you have to go with a fun, bright, screaming contrasting shoe. But I don't know. So even more than the dress, I really want to hash out the shoes you'd put with this. Chat it up, and post your links, if you've got 'em, in the comments.
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If we've learned anything from the Emmys, it's that this is a tough color to wear correctly.
And this is not the way to do it — it's the wrong combination of consumptive makeup and a whole lot of dress. We here at GFY HQ have a major soft spot for J.Lo.Hew and she's had a tough year, so we don't blame her for trying to inject a little sunshine via a day-glo demi-caftan. In fact, we applaud her for resisting the urge to go full caftan and bunny slippers. But, in the Fantasy Stylist spirit: I think I'd fix this by snipping either the sleeves or the skirt, just so there's less of all the glaring yellow, then prescribe a red lip. But really, it probably needs to be a richer, gentler yellow — more dijon than canary. What would you do, Fug Nation? Embrace her with your tender healing aura.
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If you're a Hollywood star, and you're pregnant, I would think awards season is an excellent time to do it. No Spanx, no sucking it in, no worries about whether you ate too many cheeseburgers in your hotel room before getting in the car. You can just let it all hang out and make the most of not caring what your stomach is doing. So freeing!
That's why this was so disappointing for me. First, from a design perspective, I'm bored. If this were the back, we'd be wondering if it had gotten stuck in her panties during a bathroom stop. But beyond that, it felt so blah, so uninspired, as if she hoped that from the front nobody would notice or remember she is pregnant. I'm not saying a lady has to go so skintight that we can see how your belly-button is progressing, but… why not relax and enjoy it and have a little more fun with the whole thing? At least walk the red carpet with a sandwich, just to taunt people: "Hey, how's that corset? DIG MY MEATBALLS ON BREAD?"
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The Forthwind Family Friend Fun-times! (Forthwinds, 4/21, evening)
Marisée put Tegan down to bed and then headed into the main dinning hall to eat with her family. While she would mostly be staying with her husband's family, she'd asked Tristan to let her spend the evening with her birth family. She hadn't seen her uncle and aunt and cousins in so long, and any extra time with Melari was precious to her as well.
She entered and sat down. Everyone else was already there. Marisée's face lit up in a smile at the sight of all her family. Not that she disliked the Essexes, but in her heart she would always be a Forthwind. "It is so good to see you!" All of them. Bradyn and his kids, Liam and her father. Nym. "Uncle Bradyn, you have to tell us everything that has been happening here in the capital. And Carys, I heard there was going to be some lunch for the younger people? Are you going? You should make sure Melari goes as well." She gave her sister a smile. Maybe she could do as she wished and meet someone there. Marisée had hope anyway. *Note: Assuming that all the Forthwinds, even the unmades, would be here. NPC as needed! Last edited by Marisée Forthwind; 12-09-2011 at 10:48 AM. |
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Nymeria was happy to have an evening with her family. Although it seemed strange not dining with the other priests and priestess or even the Keeper, she was given the evening to be free so she could spend it with her family. She dressed not in her temple garb- but in a plain dress that was modest but still somewhat fashionable. Her hair was left down but only partially clipped up. "I see you are just as lovely now Marisee as I remembered you." Nymeria smiled at her nieces and nephews as she greeted them in turn as well as her brother.
"Bradyn has been busy. You should be proud of him, organizing the jousts for the royal celebrations." She gave her brother a smile. Bradyn was always a clever man. Nymeria truly trusted her brother above all else and here amongst her family there was almost the glimpse of what Nymeria could have been. The wife of a lord somewhere with children of her own but nay, the faith was where she belonged still. |
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Rosebuds and Stars
Melari loved her family, but she couldn't help rolling her eyes at Mar's teasing. "Of course I'll go to the lunch, Marisee. Why on earth wouldn't I?" Seriously. Why should she assume her little sister wouldn't want to meet people her own age? It was true that Mel was shy, but she was also lonely and curious about the other provinces. Maybe she could make new friends. "Besides, I have to go! Uncle Bradyn's giving me an outfit for this celebration, and what better time to dress up then with all the other young lords?"
The girl smiled and gave her uncle an affectionate kiss on the cheek, turning next to Nymeria. Her aunt frightened her, a little -- she always seemed so serious and intense, but at the same time she was Handmaid for the gods. It was a power and responsibility Mel could never understand. "Auntie Nym," she greeted, going for a hug. "It's good to see you again; congratulations on your calling." |
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These people were the family from where she might have been born. A land and a castle she could hardly remember, and even that seemed as if it was only from the stories. It almost seemed a dream to meet them all after so long. She had been younger she supposed, for she hardly recalled any face, and yet, she knew them all as family. Seeing her father's eyes in some of them, their nose, the blonde hair in others. She couldn't help but seem a small dark doll compared to the group. Intimidated by their beauty and poise she let her hands lightly hold one of her brother's shirts like a safety blanket. However, the look of a started deer broke for a moment when her aunt spoke. Giving a glowing look to her father at Nymeria's praise of him. Perhaps that is what she needed. Hearing the praise, the positive banter, and the happy talk of family that had not seen one another in so long.
Taking a breath and hearing them all speak of luncheons with the young and mostly unwed crowd did not sound all that appealing at first, but with Melari's enthusiasm about the even she felt her self grow excited about the event despite herself. With a delighted laugh she chimed in for Marisee "I suppose I shall be the one Melari drags along!" she pushed a few stray ebony locks behind her ear, the constant curls starting to frame her face despite how hard the maid had attempted to retain the wild locks with pins. The dark tresses would rebel as if that was their purpose in life. Her wild hair something of an oddity when standing next to her blond brothers who where always there to help agitate the beast that lived on her head with a well mannered pat pushing her into the girls conversation with a light nudge. "I hope she will also have time to lead me to watch the tourney as well as the courts." |
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Nymeria smiled at her niece. "Thank you. The ceremony is not until next month. I have spent all this time preparing though. There is so much. I know now I will be traveling to all the temples and now I won't just be here in Belleile anymore. It is quite a responsibility but it is what I have loved all my life." And the freedom of not having to marry a man. She couldn't deny that.
Taking a bite of her food she smiled at her other niece Carys. "Ah tell me what you have been up to Carys. You should see the jousts. When I was your age we only had a few. I was always so wrapped up in my duties then with the church. Even now I still have yet to see them but when I was a girl they were exciting. I remember when Bradyn used to even lift me up so I could get a better view of the knights. Have you all picked new gowns for the ball? There is much stir I know. Everyone will be waiting for what bride the King will pick. It seems as if we are all on baited breath." She bemused. Foolish women. There was a greater purpose to life than becoming a Queen but Nymeria would never say this to her nieces or even any other lady. She had found her calling and if other noblewomen wanted to live their lives as mere arm decorations, then they could be happy with it. |
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It had been a particularly long day. What had only been a few hours had felt like almost a month in getting out of his office and heading to meet his family. It was such a rare occurance that his entire family was in one place that he had gone to fetch Drusilla and brought her along to the meeting as well. The gods knew she could use a family to equal the one he had butchered.
But all too soon things were settled and for the first time in years, he relaxed. Here, with his family, he didn't need to stand on ceremony or be needlessly full of pomp and ceremony. And he was respected simply for being their uncle and knowing much about the land. He wasn't feared as the councillor of war, or the inventor of dangerous technology. He was just Bradyn. But when Nymeria praised him, he simply shook his head and chuckled. "My dear sister makes it sound more impressive than it is. All I did was sent a lot of letters. The hard part was done by Duncan Montrose, the authority of the castle." He looked over to Marisee and smiled. "The capital, my dear niece, is much as you would expect it. There is ceremony, there is awkward diplomacy...it is dull to speak of. But I understand you have a little bundle of joy to tell us about?" He sat near the centre of the room in his comfiest armchair. Sure, they were his family, but the room was his and he was allowed to be a grouchy old man set in his ways every now and again, wasn't he? |
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Marisée beamed when her uncle mentioned her child. "She is but three months old, Uncle Bradyn, and so lovely. She looks like a Forthwind too." Which was fortunate, Marisée thought. Their family was so much better looking in her opinion than her husband's. "If she wakes I'll bring her down. She'll probably sleep no longer than four hours, although if she pushes five, which she sometimes does, then the rest of you will probably asleep instead."
She nodded her own praise about her uncle's accomplishments. Her father always touted how smart Uncle Bradyn was, and how skilled. Although she wouldn't mention it now, her father would brag about how he put down the Equitatus clan with his skills, and how he'd invented weapons that worked wonders. "I'm sure the tourney will be amazing. Frederick is riding in the joust. I hope he does... well." In truth she didn't much care. If a Forthwind had been riding, like her brother, she'd have rooted for him over her husband any day. "Is anyone going who would like to sit with me during the ceremony?" She turned to Nym and smiled, "And my congratulations also, Aunt Nym. How exciting for you to be chosen over all others!" |
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"Well you do deserve more credit brother. A mastermind of war clearly knows a thing or two on jousting." She noted with a coy smile as she took a sip of her wine. Gathered with the rest of her family was something she hadn't done in a long time. "You have forgotten what a task you can have. Surely you aren't too old to remember your last jousts brother?" She teased before she smiled at her niece.
"It is exciting and certainly I still wonder at the Keeper's judgment. But it is an honor I still am far too humble for. I will have to grow into the title in time. There is so much I have to learn and only a few weeks to do so in. It will be a challenge." |
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Fidgeting with the pleats on her skirt she had very little to tell indeed. "Well… I've uh… I suppose Mother has been instructing me on riding more, and I've two little bird called Hazel and Nut who have laid a few eggs not but a few days ago. I've also taught Nathaniel Merrik how to tie a proper knot, but the most exciting thing I suppose will be the tourney. I am very excited to watch the events." She offered her aunt still a bit shy, a silly blush coloring her cheeks with the attention on her for the moment. Needless to say, she was relieved a little when the topic changed to someone else.
Focused on the duties of her aunt, the duties and responsibilities sounded so important and exciting. Traveling and serving the gods! Such a life was grand indeed. Such adventures she was going to have was something that sparked the imagination of the childish girl. She listened happily to the back and forth of the brother and sister, the tiding of her cousin's wonderful little one and watched all the funny little things that family shared. "A Baby! I should like to see with her very much!" She cooed lightly to Marisee, her eyes wide in the delight of meeting the small child. She hadn't had much experience with babies at the castle so the idea it self was quite wonderful. "May I sit with you and Melari for the tourney she would like to come?" Though she would have normally cuddled between her larger brothers like a small kitten between two bears, the idea of talking with her girl cousins during the festivities sounded much more exciting. Besides she was sure that the boys would be talking to the other young ladies now, no need for a little sister to tag along behind them at every turn. |
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Consisting of ashes.
- adj. Resembling ashes, especially in color; very pale: A face ashen with grief.
- adj. Of, relating to, or made from the wood of the ash tree.
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- adj. Made from the wood of the ash tree.
- adj. Of or resembling ashes.
- adj. Ash-colored; pale; anemic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of or pertaining to the ash tree.
- adj. Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
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from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to the ash-tree or its timber; made of ash.
- Consisting of or resembling ashes; ash-colored: as, "the ashen hue of age,"
- n. Obsolete plural of ash.
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After a two month investigation, Walworth County authorities say a deputy was justified in using deadly force against a prisoner at an Elkhorn Hospital.Photo: Video by tmj4.com
ELKHORN - A Walworth County Sheriff's Deputy has been cleared after shooting an out of control inmate inside a hospital. The district attorney said the shooting was justified.
When a Walworth County Deputy shot and killed an inmate, Sheriff David Graves stood behind him, saying, "he felt he and the other people around him were in imminent danger. He took what he believed to be necessary action."
The Walworth County District attorney agrees.
In January, 18 year-old Alfredo Villarreal was brought from the jail to the hospital after he fainted. While in the hospital he kicked Deputy Richard Lagle, and tried to smash the window with a chair.
Lagle first tried using his taser, then fired five shots at Villarreal, killing him.
At the time Villarreal's family admitted he'd been in trouble before, but said he was getting his life together.
"He was going to school back in Janesville, trying to get his high school diploma, about to be a father. Now, his kid has to grow up without him," said Joseph Verdick.
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Faculty Profile: Dr. Robert Cunningham
Bob Cunningham's favorite part of Alma College is interacting with faculty from a variety of disciplines.
"The faculty here are dedicated to teaching and pushing students beyond what they think they can do," the Economics assistant professor says.
Cunningham joined the Alma College faculty in 1999 and is originally from Pennsylvania. He chairs the economics department and is also the coordinator for the pre-law program.
He came to Alma for the liberal arts atmosphere and wanted to work with students from a variety of disciplines.
Economics explained to him how certain relationships are connected. He realized if he wanted to do anything in the field, he had to pursue his doctorate.
Still, he wasn't even sure what to pursue with his Ph.D. until he began teaching an undergraduate class during his doctorate studies. That made Cunningham realize that he really enjoyed teaching.
Traveling is one of his favorite activities, and his travels to London for a 2003 spring term were a great experience. He also enjoys reading, movies and softball in his spare time.
Dr. Bob Cunningham interviewed in February 2007 by CBS affiliate WLNS-TV Channel 6 Lansing about the rise in Michigan home foreclosures.
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Looks like the kid doesn't have it that much easier at my parents' house.
So my mom was trying to tell Hazel what to do. Ya know, to eat her dinner or change her clothes or get out of the pool. And this is what my child said to her grandmother:
You are sounding just like Ne. I look like her and you sound like her.
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"Gran Torino" Through a Postcolonial Reading
After taking an English class in postcolonial literature, I began to see my world in much more critical terms.
Gayatri Spivak's essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" had the most profound effect on me. In this essay she calls the reader's attention to the oft-used trope of "white man saves brown woman from brown man." (A postcolonial reading of literature will allow the reader to view the ways that "brown men" have been constructed as lascivious.) This trope allows us to look at the political discourse surrounding affairs in African, the Middle East, and Asia in a critical light. Suddenly we can conceive of centuries of evangelism and warfare in a new, and sometimes difficult, way.
For example, the events which were discussed in terms of "saving," take on a connotation of colonizing. This is especially true when we look at the language that Americans, in particular, have used about Muslim women in Middle Eastern countries, who wear the veil. American media constructed the image of the veil as symbol of their oppression. The veil also allowed us, Americans, to other all Muslim women. However, some Muslim women vocalize their choice to wear their veils as a sign of solidarity with other Muslims around the world, to draw attention to the discrimination that Muslims face, to experience a personal relationship with their spirituality, and to feel from from masculine objectification. If we actually tried to deconstruct the veil as a symbol, what we would find is that a) in a dry climate, the veil functioned to protect the face and throat from harsh light and wind, and b) that women who belong to other religions, but share a similar climate, also wear veils. This includes Hindus and Christians. Lastly, in this process of deconstruction, we would call to attention the fact that the Catholic Church, other Christian sects, and Hasidic Jews require women to cover their heads/hair. (Being raised Catholic, I can only reference this religion specifically. I may be incorrect about other religions. If so, I hope that any of my readers will correct me.)
With some of that background in mind, I move on to the discussion of culture, instead of political, discourse. While the second (although technically a prequel) Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, immediately comes to mind as a story to which we can apply a postcolonial reading, I want to take this opportunity to take the more difficult path.
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Gran Torino, starring Clint Eastwood, received an excellent review and was nominated for an Academy Award. This film is about an old, white, Polish man, Walt Kowalski, living in Michigan who must cope with his wife's death, his unappreciative family, his racism, and ultimately his legacy. To whom will he bequeath his cherished Gran Torino when he dies? While these heavy issues weigh upon his mind, Kowalski confronts the changing character of his neighborhood. The neighborhood has become increasingly a Hmong community. (The Hmong are an ethnic group, based in Southeast Asia, but not limited to any specific country; some live in Laos, others live in Vietnam. They are hill people, as Sue, the young, Hmong neighbor explains.) Kowalski, expressing stereotypically old views of different races and ethnicities, is suspicious of his Asian neighbors. However, he gradually comes to know the family and the culture, and ultimately falls in love with his neighbors.
However, there are multiple instances where we see Spivak's trope, "white man saves brown woman from brown man," emerge. The first happens when Kowalski defends Sue from a group of young, black men who are verbally, sexually harassing her. They draw on slurs which are simultaneously racist and sexualized. (Think, "Me love you long time," made famous in Full Metal Jacket when spoken by a Vietnames prostitute.) Kowalski defends Sue, he uses vicious, racist slurs, violent threats, and a gun to scare the men off. While Sue criticizes the men for drawing on the stereotype of Asian women as passives, subordinate, and sexualized, it is ultimately Kowalski who must come to her defense. The way that he is able to scare other men, functions to allow him to assert his masculine identity as more real, and therein, superior to their masculine identities. When considered within the context of race, we can understand that Kowalski implies white masculinity is superior and more authentic than (urban) black masculinity. In this scenario, Kowalski is the "real" man, and the rest, in their fear, become effeminized.
The other scene, and actually it is not a scene, but rather the entire plot of the movie, which is so problematic under a postcolonial reading, is the relationship between Kowalski and the Hmong gang of deviant youth who terrorize the neighborhood. They assault Sue's younger brother, and rape Sue. This is made even worse by the understanding that one of the men in the gang is Sue's cousin. (So the rape is incestuous as well). Kowalski threatens the gang in much the same way that he threatened the group of black men. Ultimately, he arrives at the realization that he cannot beat this gang. Perhaps he believes he is too old. He decides to sacrifice his life, to draw attention to the way he is brutally murdered by the Hmong gang and effectively ensuring their incarceration in order to save Sue and her family, whom he has come to love as his own.
We cannot ignore the fact that the violence that is done to Sue appears to always be sexualized violence. This aspect presents the perpetrators in such a way as to highlight their hypersexuality. The sexualization of the male Other also allows Kowalski to construct his own identity in opposition, as sexuality-less. This in turn allows him to construct his identity as based on rationale, as opposed to driven by, and not in control of, his body.
At the same time, we cannot ignore the fact that the entire plot hinges on Kowalski as the white man who saves the brown community from the brown men who are members of their same community. I am at a loss as to how I can make this clearer. But Kowalski acts like a missionary/colonizer, who assumes he knows what's best for the Hmong community, and "takes action," like our society tells us "real" men should.
The repercussions of Kowalski's actions cannot be ignored. His actions effectively cause the incarceration of a significant number of male youth in the Hmong community. This has the potential to rip apart the kinship ties, which, unto itself is enough to destabilize the community. However, if, as the film presents the information, we believe that the community does not have a strong economic base, then the young men had the potential to make large financial contributions to their families. As men in the United States, they had more earning potential than the women family members.
Futhermore, it is this type of imagery and plot, or as Spivak would say, trope, that has allowed specifically white, middle class police officers, social workers, faith workers, cps workers, et cetera, to explore neighborhoods which are constituted primarily of people of color or of people of lower classes, assuming that a) whites/middle class know the objectively correct way to do any and everything, and b) that people of color do not, and therefore, must be dependent.
At best, the film is problematic. While, as a white, middle class woman, I want to believe Kowalski does the right thing. I want to believe that his sacrifice at the end is good, and right, and selfless, and just, and honorable. At worst, the film is downright racist. Kowalski is another modern day colonizer who first others his neighbors, and then exploits them to construct his own identity, and finally tears apart the seams of the community with violence.


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Some Counties' Planning Focus on Renewable Energy
Renewable energy and wind farms play roles in the Hickenlooper Administration's "ground-up" economic-development planning underway aimed at providing guidance for counties in the state.
All 64 counties in the state are part of the process and they're grouped into 14 regions.
"It certainly got people talking on the community level," Don Cohen, executive director of the Economic Council of Eagle County told the Denver Post. El Paso County Commissioner Sallie Clark said it "tore down silos"
opening up the planing process in El Paso and neighboring counties.
All the regions had to organize their plans as a set of goals, strategies, action and outcomes. The plan for southeastern counties in the state focused, in part, on wind energy and transmission, a natural for the plains area. Northwestern counties like Garfield, Rio Blanco and Routt have a component in their plan dealing with oil and natural gas drilling and mining.
An expert from UC-Boulder cautioned about the process being oversold, however, in remarks to the Post.
"If the exercise identifies some things the state can act on — regulatory issues, taxation, avoiding cannibalistic competition among counties — that's a good thing, but those are the limits," said Jeffrey Zax.
"Most development decisions are local and most are made by the market, not government."
While a handful of issues are common to most counties in Colorado, such as tourism and making downtown corridors more vital, each region identified its own specific economic challenges and opportunities. The plan for Denver and the surrounding counties focuses on procedures more than specific actions.
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Build your own water level Indicator
Everyone will have an overhead water tank in their houses. Isn't it a very tiring work of switching on and off the motor every time the tank is empty? And it is a very timely time. If forgot once, may lead to lackage of water when you are trapped inside…
Here is a small project which uses a relay and 8051 microcontroller which will switch ON the motor when the water level reaches the minimum threshold and turns OFF automatically when full.
Isn't it great?
Every project can be done in two methods.
- By using analog circuit.
- By using a micro processor (digital).
Here are the components required :
A wooden or plastic scale (length equal to the depth of the tank) , 8051 microcontroller kit (programming and developing kit) , 5V-240V relays, LED's (green and red for convenience), connecting wires, OpAmp LM324, 5V power supply, a bit of your programming logic.
We are going to mark two levels in the tank. One is for the minimum level, and one for the maximum level.
When water reaches minimum level, the motor automatically turns ON.
When water reaches maximum level, the motor turns off.
Requirement of relay :
The input and output of the microcontroller is only 5V. This is not enough to drive a motor. Right?
Hence we use a relay. We can differentiate the relay as two separate circuits. One, low voltage circuit (DC), second, the HV circuit (AC).
Whenever the input of the LV circuit is high, the HV circuit acts as a short circuit. When input is low, the HV circuit acts as an open circuit.
Hence the output, of the microcontroller can be used to drive a motor.
Requirement of OpAmp :
Water has its own resistance. Hence the complete 5V may not be given at the input. Hence we use OpAmp to bring the voltage to Vsat.
We leave a floating positive terminal of 5V at the bottom of the tank. We tie up two strips of open copper wire to a plastic or wooden scale which are called as maximum and minimum levels.These strips of wires are connected as level inputs to the microcontroller. Whenever water is above the maximum level, both the inputs to the 8051 are high (water is a good conductor of electricity) . This is an indication to the motor to turn OFF. When the level is lower than the minimum level, both the inputs to the microcontroller are low. This indicates the motor to TURN ON.
Hope you got the clue.
You can connect the LEDS to the output of the microcontroller in a format where red glows when the motor is off and green glows when the motor is ON.
CLUE: Connect then in reverse bias with respect to each other.
I'm leaving the work of programming to you. Since it is a simple logic and can easily write.
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From antisemitism to condoms to….classical Iranian poetry. I was all set to finish the third part of my Thinking About Condoms series (here and here), which I do still plan to complete, when I realized that giving time to that piece would take time away from a writing project for which I have an actual contract. Not that I am getting paid–and that statement is not a complaint; such is the world of small press literary publishing–but Junction Press agreed in January to publish the book-length section I have translated from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, or Book of Kings, which is Iran's national epic. Since then, I have been mostly doing some necessary additional research and rereading both the draft of the translation I submitted and the trots from which I worked to produce it. (A trot is a more or less literal rendering, in the target language of the translation, of the passages from the source that are to be translated.) It is time, however, to start the work of revision in earnest, and given the other demands my life makes on my time, I had no choice but to put something aside, and the blogging I've been doing recently is what I have decided I have to give up, at least for now.
I feel badly about this because, while my translation work is important to me on many levels–and I obviously think it should be important to you on some level as well, or I would not be posting about it–my heart as a poet and writer is much more fully committed to the kinds of issues with which my recent blog posts and almost all of my poetry are concerned. Not that translation is not important; it is, deeply, and I will have more to say about that over the next couple of posts. Doing translations, however, became a part of my writing life only recently, and to the degree that I have had to embrace an two disciplines that were entirely new to me–translation studies and Persian studies–it has meant a sea change in how I think of myself as a writer and, not incidentally, as an academic. The content of what I am translating, for example, almost always takes me farther afield than I would like from what the central concerns of my own writing usually are. First, I have had to learn about the poets I am translating, about the historical periods in which they wrote, about the history of the translation of their works into English–which is a much more fascinating topic than I would ever have thought; I have learned, for example, that Benjamin Franklin was involved in a huge plagiarism scandal involving his use of a poem by the 13th century poet Sa'di–and about the Persian language, its poetics and its literary canon. Not that these are not interesting and worthwhile topics in their own right, and not that they do not involve issues of gender, sex, class, antisemitism, racism, and power and oppression in all their myriad forms, but, because I am not a scholar of Persian studies and am learning as I go about the works I translate and their authors, it is hard for me to do much more than acknowledge that the issues are there. I simply do not know enough, yet, to say anything much more substantial than that.
My first book of translations from classical Iranian poetry, Selections from Saadi's Gulistan was published in 2004, and the commission which initiated my work as a translator came to me only in 2002. Before that, I had only dabbled in translation. I did an independent study in my senior year of college translating poetry from Hebrew; and when I lived in South Korea, I worked briefly with a woman who was studying Korean literature on translating some poems by Hwang Jini, whom I have sometimes heard referred to as Korea's Emily Dickinson, an analogy that only works if you consider nothing more than the status each woman's work occupies in her respective canon. Hwang Jini was a kisaeng and so, in many, many significant ways, lived as Emily Dickinson's precise antithesis. Since 2004, I have published two more books, Selections from Saadi's Bustan and, as Professor John Moyne's co-translator, A Bird In The Garden Of Angels.
When I got married in 1993, I suggested to my wife that an exciting thing for us to do would be to translate some contemporary Iranian literature into English. It seemed to me a good way to get to know her language and her culture–and for us to get to know each other on a different, deeper level–but she was ever as interested in the idea as I was. So I let it drop, though the idea never really left my head, and once I began to learn from some Iranian friends about the impoverished and paltry state of the literary translation of Iranian literature into English–a subject that will probably merit a post all its own–I would allow myself to fantasize about producing such a work. It was always very clear to me, however, that this would remain a fantasy. Not only, as I mentioned above, was Iranian literature a field about which I was truly ignorant, but I neither spoke fluently nor read nor wrote Persian, skills that seemed to me central to any translation project I might decide to take on.
Life, though, has a way–if I can bastardize an old cliche a little bit–of making itself "interesting," and so when I received a phone call from a friend of mine, a translator of Rumi who is pretty well known on the Iranian arts and culture scene, asking if I would be interested in joining an Iranian-literature project that a friend of a friend of his, Mehdi Faridzadeh, the executive director of the International Society for Iranian Culture (ISIC), was starting, I immediately said yes. (ISIC's website is in need of work, but you can still find out about the organization if you poke around.) As it was first explained to me, the project would involve my reading existing translations of five major works of classical Iranian literature and then writing summaries that English-language readers could use to familiarize themselves with those texts. The end product would be either a website or a book, and the purpose was to provide readers in the US access to an important body of literature that most of us know nothing about, the masterworks of which are actually well-known throughout much of the rest of the world, and that was, during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries acknowledged in England and the US as a major world literature that educated people ought to know.
When I spoke to my friend's friend, however, the description of the project changed. He told me that what ISIC wanted was for someone actually to retell the stories contained in the works that had been selected for the project. This idea intrigued me even more, since there would be more room for creative expression, but when I finally met Mr. Faridzadeh, and he explained that each of my first two contacts had been wrong, that what he wanted was to publish new literary translations of these works, ones that would both stand on their own as works of contemporary American poetry and come to replace the outdated and scholarly translations that are currently the only venue for studying classical Iranian literature in English, I said no. I neither read nor wrote Persian, and while I understood a fair amount of the language–enough, the joke among my wife's relatives has been for a while now, that they can't so easily talk about me in front of me anymore–my comprehension was (and still is) limited largely to ordinary conversation, including some of the more common, and colorful, obscenities. I did not see how I could possibly do justice to the project. Mr. Faridzadeh persevered, however, explaining that, precisely because they wanted the final product to be a work of contemporary American poetry, it was more important that the translator they chose be a native-English speaking poet than a Persian bilingual. He would provide me with accurate English-language renderings of each of the texts he was asking me to translate; my task was to reimagine them–retranslate is not quite the right word, since I would be working from English to English–as contemporary American literature.
ISIC's goal, Mr. Faridzadeh explained, was for these translations to provide a window into Iranian culture and history separate from the highly politicized ones represented by our mainstream media and the inflammatory rhetoric of the Bush administration. (I will have more to say in my next post about President Obama's Norooz video message to Iran and the Iranian people.) The existing translations of classical Iranian literature, almost all of it poetry, were either too scholarly and/or too old to appeal to contemporary readers. One of the books, Sa'di's Gulistan, had not been translated in its entirety since the 1800s, while another, Attar's Ilahi-Nama, had only been translated into English once, in the 1970s. The other books, with the exception of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (of which more in another post), had been similarly neglected. All he asked was that I give it a try and produce a couple of samples. He, of course, wanted to evaluate my work before making a final decision, but doing the samples would also give me a chance to experience whether or not the project was for me.
Obviously, I took the project on, and I did so for three primary reasons. First, I think the role of literary translation in educating people about other cultures is enormously under appreciated, and it made a great deal of sense to me that, given the political situation between the US and Iran, we here in the United States needed more, much more, information about Iranian culture and history. The translations Mr. Faridzadeh was asking me to produce would, at the very least, provide for those who read them a more rounded picture of Iran than was being disseminated through the highly politicized rhetoric of our media and our political leaders. Second, I started to think about my son, who will most likely never be sufficiently literate in Persian to read the works I was being asked to translate in the original, and of my wife's cousins, and all the second and third generation Iranian-Americans, and the fourth and fifth generations still to come, who are or will be in the same position; and I thought about how the lack of contemporary translations that would speak to them in the English of their times would effectively cut them off from large swathes of their cultural heritage; and suddenly I did not see how I could refuse at least Mr. Faridzadeh's invitation to try my hand at what he had in mind. And, finally, as a poet, I felt very deeply the value of making the kind of contribution to contemporary American letters that these translations could become, assuming they found the right kind of readership; indeed, the one enduring disappointment I have suffered as part of this project has been the inability and/or failure of the publisher of my first two books even to attempt to connect to that readership.
I would be lying if I denied that some of that disappointment is about my own ego. I am, after all, a writer and a poet. A book of my own work was published in 2006 and, like most people I know who have written for publication, I like to think that my words are important enough to demand the attention of a large and enthusiastic public. If I had my way, lots of people would be reading my books and reviewing them and even teaching them in their classrooms, because I do think I have something to say that it would be worth your while and a few dollars our of your pocket to read. The reality is, though, that what I think is important about what I have to say might, in the long run, turn out to be profoundly insignificant. The writers I have translated, however, and the ones I am translating now, are people who ought to command your attention. Their stories and wisdom, and the poetry in which they have couched them, have withstood the test of time. They have a lot to teach us, and I am going to share some of what I have learned and am learning about them in the next series of blog posts that I write.
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Sunday, 7 June 2009
It Cannot Have Been Easy for the Prince of Wales
Prince Charles stepped up and did his duty and represented us all, wearing the medals and honours that he has been awarded as a serving member of our armed forces. It was noticeable that Brown has no such distinctions.
Brown was distinguished by his greeting of boos and shouts of rejection from the veterans whose Commemoration he had gatecrashed and from which he had tried to exclude our county's representative.
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Well said, lass. Alibi-Braun was claiming on the Beeb 24 hour News that he was wearing decorations that he was not entitled to. Dear God, she's thick.
- 7 June 2009 11:46
- Elby the Beserk said...
To my surprise, the BBC have reported the booing. The pictures of Brown at Obama Beach (God help us) are shocking. Looked as though he was about to pass out. Danny Finkelstein very funny today in the Times, saying that the Labour party has a window of opportunity, and that they should throw Brown out of it.
Looks like PM is PM now, in reality. - 7 June 2009 11:48
Since I was the only commenter on your earlier piece, I am delighted to read your retraction HG.
Charles may appear to be a bit wimpish on the surface, but I do believe there is some cold hard steel underneath that exterior. Commanding frigates(?) on active duty and earning paratroopers' wings by jumping out of aeroplanes at 10,000 feet is not for everybody (me included!).
I thought he carried himself very well at the ceremony despite the obvious embarrassment he (and no doubt most of the other guests) were undergoing. Brown stood out as exactly what he was - an ignorant sore thumb seriously out of place.
And well done to those veterans who made their feelings crystal clear. It would be most fitting if HM could now arrange a wholly private commemoration party for just the families of herself and the veterans all of whom can be proud of what they have done for us. - 8 June 2009 05:07


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The 68-member Marlins Swim Team placed sixth at the 2012 Merced County Recreational Swim League Championship meet July 21 and 22 at Kerman High School.
The Marlins were edged out of fifth place by just six points by the 92-member Atwater Stingray team. The Hilmar Hammerheads won the meet.
"Unfortunately unexpected illnesses and family emergencies kept some of our key swimmers from participating in the meet and that impacted the overall strength of our relays," said head coach Tammy Kudela. "Despite the set-back to some of our relay teams our swimmers did an amazing job in their individual swims."
Kudela said every one of the Marlins swimmers improved their time in one or more of their events at the meet and for the first time in their 22-year history, the Marlins had two of their swimmers earn the coveted High Point award at the meet.
Eleanor Cummings captured it for the 17-18 year-old division and Phillip Kudela brought it home for the 13-14 year-old division.
Cummings placed fourth in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 27.37. She placed second in the 100 freestyle setting a new team record with a time of 59.38. Setting two more team records with two first place finishes, she came in with a time of 1:08.75 in the 100 individual medley and 1:04.70 in the 100 butterfly.
Kudela won all four of his races and set a new team record in each of those events.
He posted a 25.08 for the 50-yard freestyle, a 55.73 for the 100 freestyle, a 1:05.30 for the 100 individual medley and a 1:14.78 for the 100 breaststroke.
Record breaking efforts continued at this meet by several additional Marlin swimmers.
Trinity Zelazo, 10, broke a 2007 record in the 100 freestyle previously held by Triana Garrett, who was the first Marlins Championship High Point winner as a 14-year-old last season. Zelazo's record now stands at 1:17.44.
Parker Jones, 10, also surpassed one of Garrett's records in the 100 IM. She earned the bronze medal spot in the final round coming to the wall with a time of 1:30.59.
Triana Garrett 15, still stands as a leader in the league, placing second in each event to 16-year-old competitors. She broke Cumming's 2010 record in the100 freestyle, holding the new record with a time of 59.38.
Recent Yosemite High School graduate Karley LeQuia, 18, placed first in the 100 yard backstroke at this meet, securing a Marlin's team record of 1:09.77.
Kylie Johnson, 17, finishing in fifth place in the final heat broke a 2005 record in the 100 yard breaststroke previously held by Nalani Ludington. The new record now stands at 1:26.26.
Chad Coffman and Russell Zelazo, both 12, also set new team records. Coffman finaled in all four of his events and established a new record with each effort. He placed first in the 50 backstroke in 34.84 seconds and first in the 100 freestyle with a time 1:05.80. He finished second in the 50 freestyle and 50 breaststroke with new record times of 28.52 and 38.01 respectively.
Zelazo also made it to the final round in all four of his events, but his tremendous effort in the 50 butterfly prelims allowed him to set the new team record at 36.49.
In addition to setting numerous team records, the Marlins had 27 of its 68 swimmers earn a top 10 swim in one or more of their events.
"This is the greatest number of swimmers to achieve that level of swimming in a championship meet," Tammy Kudela said.
Those swimmers, not already mentioned, were Reilly Brandauer, 6, Geep Cummings, 10, Van Cummings, 14, Brooke DiFiore, 15, Daniel Gilger, 12, Carissa Leonard, 17, Ryan Leonard, 11, Cora Lowery, 8, Jacob Montgomery, 13, Audrey Ogilvie, 11, Felina Ogilvie, 7, Connor Oliphant, 5, Walker Phillips, 14, Kendra Tapia, 12, Nicole Tapia, 15, Bernhard Wall, 14, Daria Wood, 11, and Caleb Zelazo, 6.
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And I mean that in the best way possible. These crumpets sell out before noon so get in early to get yours. The cookies and homemade breads and sandwiches are pretty darn fine too.
And I mean that in the best way possible. These crumpets sell out before noon so get in early to get yours. The cookies and homemade breads and sandwiches are pretty darn fine too.
Their English Muffins are absolutely, positively the best! I purchased a couple bags to bring home with me and then I ordered more bags so that I could have them for the Thanksgiving holiday. All my guests loved them as well. Looking forward to heading back to St. Helena / Napa to try more of their treats!
I sought out Model Bakery a few years ago on a previous visit after seeing a Food Network show in which chef Michael Chiarello said that their English muffins were among the best things he has ever eaten. He wasn't kidding. And I have been hooked since that visit. This is a required stop anytime I am in the St.... More
Great place to grab a bagel, danish, loaf of bread or even a bag of their special granola! Tiny and busy, but the food is delicious.
We were blown away by this little place on the main drag in the heart of St. Helena. Besides offering a huge array of bakery-type delights from homemade breads, cakes, cupcakes, tortes and other delicacies one would expect to find in a bakery, the Model Bakery also offers a daily menu of gourmet dishes including a wide variety of salads... More
A bit over a year from my last trip and the English Muffins were on my mind:) Model has fantastic breakfast and lunch sandwiches and english muffins-on their own, or as the cornerstone of a breakast sandwich cannot be beat! Massive, fluffy, yum. A super reasonable spot for a meal that will carry you well into the day.
A Super Model ! Delightfully delicious. Everything looks terrific. Each item we tasted superb. When you go order two of each item and send the second off to me.
We stopped by The Model Bakery after wine tasting in town. What a wonderful find! There was a great selection of sandwiches and pizzas. Everything we purchased was delicious, right down to the chocolate chip cookies! The quaint atmosphere and friendly service make it a must visit destination.
I was there visiting my in-laws and doing a nice long bike ride. I was a little bit surprised that the food wasn't quite up to par. The coffee was a bit off as well. The atmosphere was great however!
we were staying at an inn that included breakfast....we skipped one morning to come to The Model Bakery to sample their breakfast sandwich on the most incredible, buttery english muffin. It was soooo worth it! we brought some muffins to bring home with us. these muffins are worth the wait.
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