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Feb 18, 2014
From staff reports
Michael Schor, lecturer of business management at Ohio University Zanesville, will offer a course entitled, "Commercial Aspects of Energy Development," during summer semester.
"The ability to see opportunities, as well as to understand risks related to the energy exploration and development, is critical for the emerging workforce," Schor said. "It is important for our graduates to be comfortable talking about this timely topic with constituents in the region as well as with executives who may visit from out of town."
The course curriculum is designed to include a breadth of information related to the energy boom in the region. Participants will become familiar with the commercial implication of oil and gas exploration, the global market for energy, and a general overview of the technical aspects of energy development and production.
In addition, participants will discuss issues related to the sale, acquisition and resale of mineral rights and related issues of cash flow from sales of rights and royalties. Also included will be a discussion of the broader political and economic environment in which these activities are taking place.
While the class is designed for Applied Management students, Schor is extending registration to anyone who is interested in learning about the impact the energy boom will have on their business or industry.
The blended course will meet on Monday evenings May 12; June 2, 16 and 30; July 14 and 28; and Aug. 4, with a blended format using BlackBoard. For more information, contact Schor at email@example.com or call (740) 699-2488.


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text: LOS ANGELES -- The simple wooden coffin that was supposed to be Lee Harvey Oswald's final resting place will soon have a new resting place of its own. The coffin was put on the auction block late last month by a Texas funeral home owner who swapped it with Oswald's family for a new one when the body was briefly exhumed in 1981. The top bid had reached $37,404 when the auction was to have closed at 5 p.m. Thursday, but the deadline was extended by two hours after a flurry of last-minute bids poured in. "There are a few bidders still going at it," said Nate D. Sanders of Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Santa Monica. "We'll allow bidders to go until someone bows out." Oswald was arrested in President John F. Kennedy's 1963 death but was slain two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Funeral home owner Allen Baumgardner had held onto the coffin since Oswald's body was dug up in 1981 in an effort to put to rest conspiracy theories that he really wasn't buried in his grave. After the body was identified through dental records, it was returned to Rose Hill Memorial Burial Park in Fort Worth, Texas. Because water had gotten into a cracked burial vault and damaged the original coffin, Baumgardner swapped it with Oswald's family for a new one. The original shows signs of the water damage. Its metal ornamentation is rusted and parts of it, including the roof, have rotted. Its satin lining has long since disintegrated. Still, the curator of a museum dedicated to Kennedy's Nov. 22, 1963, assassination said when bidding opened on Nov. 30 that he expected it would generate a lot of interest. "My experience as a curator has been, if people have room and it's a Kennedy item, they will collect it," said Gary Mack of the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation has declined to comment. Baumgardner was a 21-year-old funeral home assistant when Oswald was shot to death in a Dallas police station just two days after Kennedy was assassinated while riding through Dallas in a motorcade. "I've never seen so many security police and FBI and Secret Service and news media just everywhere," he recalled earlier this month.


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Spier Films MD Michael Auret talks about the boom in South African production and his plans to branch out into television.
Michael Auret is managing director of Spier Films, the London, Cape Town and Reykjavik based production, financing and sales company, which he took over in January 2008 (he previously headed up the Cape Town World Cinema Festival).
Spier Films was originally set up in 2004 to produce U Carmen and Son Of Men and focuses on co-productions shooting in South Africa.
Currently on the slate are Jake Paltrow's Young Ones, starring Michael Shannon and Elle Fanning, Kristian Levring's The Salvation starring Mads Mikkelsen and Eva Green, and South African director Jahmil XT Qubeka's Of Good Report, which will open the Durban Film Festival in July – all of which shot in South Africa.
Spier Films' recent Layla Fourie received a Jury Special Mention in Berlin.
There seems to be a plethora of films shooting or to have shot in South Africa recently. What's the appeal?
It's the range of locations and the diversity of locations – jungle, desert, mountains, coast, urban settings.
But it's also the fact that it's an overnight flight from Europe, so there is no big jet lag, it's sunny in your winter, the currency has depreciated quite radically in last year, almost 30%, and once a project becomes a co-production you then also have a rebate for South Africa, another 25 to 30%.
So you get a film like The Salvation. It looks like a $30m film but it costs a lot less. The director, Kristian Levring who has done over 300 commercials worldwide and a number of feature films, was blown away by the crews, by every department – wardrobe, cameras.
If you look at productions like Judge Dredd, Mad Max, the feedback you get from directors is that they are very happy. You've got skilled English speaking crews, in the same time zone, cheap currency and a rebate. It makes a lot of sense.
What locations have you used for your films to date?
The Young Ones shot in Springbok in the Northern Cape. A beautiful part of South Africa, hot and dry. It is set in the US in the future when water has run out on a farm. The director wanted the look of a place that hadn't rained for many years. So we found a farm that had the lowest rainfall and highest sunshine in south Africa.
The Price of Sugar is set in 1700s South America. We shot in KwaZulu Natal for the sugar cane and tropical look. And then we shot Stellenbosch one of the oldest towns in South Africa and at the castle in Cape Town.
The Salvation, a western, needed a prairie look, so we shot near Johannesburg on a big farm. We built two big western towns.
Has the recently built studio in Cape Town had an impact?
It has state of the art technology. Right now they are shooting Black Sails there, the new Michael Bay TV series. There are two enormous water tanks, one for pirate ships and one that leads to beach up to a pirate town, it does low tide and high tide.
They've got four sound stages, they've shot Dredd, Black Sails, Long Walk to Freedom.
There also seems to be an increased appetite for stories about Africa?
Because of the rebate primarily, there are a lot more local films being made. People are making films at lower budgets.
We want to try and do international good quality films which are embedded as South African stories and which are not necessarily about apartheid or about the past or about politics, but are just good thrillers.
We are developing a film called Riding With Sugar, directed by Sunu Gonera, which we are hoping will go into production this year. Gonera is originally from Zimbabwe, he did the film Pride with Lionsgate in 2008. Now he has come back to Cape Town and is developing his original script about the quest of two Zimbabwean refugee kids to become BMX stunt bike riders.
Do you have ambitions to make films outside South Africa?
Ultimately, we want to do more international films which will travel. It's restricting to do films only in S Africa, but it's where we have a strong base financially. But the more we have contact with actors and agents we will begin to develop films which may happen outside S Africa.
You've tried to diversify, with production, finance and sales. Any other areas you are looking into?
The film business is tough, it's very hard just to be in production, you have to do a number of things to keep afloat.
Another aspiration of ours is to go into TV. We've done a lot of factual work, but we'd like to be able to get into the drama side. TV has come along so much. And it means longer periods of production. That's an area we are marketing aggressively at the moment – to find TV production that wants to come out to S Africa.
We have also made a $1.5m investment in an animated film called Khumba [with Triggersfish Animation Studio – cast includes Steve Buscemi and Lawrence Fishburne] . The first screening was in Cannes and it's already sold most of the world.
Animation is a big focus for the government and the state bank in South Africa, IDC. It creates a lot of jobs and it is one area which the government feels we can have some comparativeness on price and cost.
We'd love to do more animation. When you look at how often children consume animated product, from 3D version to sky box office, sky premiere, games, dvd..on average you probably pay 2 or 3 times for an animated film..the revenue stream on animated content is huge.
What more can South Africa do to boost its film industry?
Our national funder, the National Film And Video Foundation, doesn't receive as much funding as our European or Australian counterparts, which means its very hard for us to become majority co producers or to do films of the right kind of budgets.
So although the rebate is great and the IDC is great, I think for local films it would be more helpful if our national funding body had more budget and was able to finance purely local films which are not going to travel but which need more support.


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The roller brush attachment has its own motor and a 10 ½ inch wide brush with a floating design that makes it exceptionally maneuverable. It lifts the nap on carpet even as it performs its powerful dirt removing suction on low to medium pile carpets. It works great on pet hair and for other difficult cleaning purposes.
Like all Miele hoses, this one is crush-proof and is guaranteed to keep its shape. Connected to a telescopic wand of stainless steel, the Miele S514 vacuum comes with a dusting brush, upholstery nozzle and crevice tool. All can be stored neatly on the body of the vacuum for easy access.
This particular Miele vacuum cleans the air as you vacuum. It uses HyClean dustbags that have 9-ply construction to make sure the dirt stays in and does not escape during use. A self-sealing collar is built into the bag as well.
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For normal home vacuuming purposes, the S514 vacuum is easy to use and exceptionally quiet. It cleans household carpeting thoroughly and gives those who are concerned about allergens the peace of mind they are looking for. It is one of Miele's more reasonably priced vacuums and is a good choice for low to medium pile.


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Tom Barton's Feb. 24 column "Dinner with Bernie" resonates strongly.
When living in Atlanta, I had an experience at a Home Depot in the mid-1980s. I went in to buy Astroturf for an outside patio floor and also needed four gallons of adhesive for the job, but they had only one, so another trip would be necessary before starting the job.
That afternoon I called HD's headquarters, was connected to Bernie Marcus' office and spoke with his secretary about such a large store having only one gallon in stock. She agreed and prompt action followed.
Next day Home Depot delivered three gallons and refused my offer of payment. This demonstrated to me the company's strong orientation toward customer satisfaction. I have been a Home Depot customer ever since.
Now, to Marcus' business philosophy as stated in Barton's piece: Pay employees extremely well in return for hard work. He claims to have made millionaires of 4,000 employees with this policy. He and Arthur Blank did this rather than "obscenely" enrich themselves by taking stock options, thus creating fewer, or no, millionaire employees.
What a stark contrast the Marcus and Blank approach is to that taken by the obscenely greedy top managements so prevalent in today's major corporations, who draw multi-million base salaries, additional millions in performance bonuses — and multi-million "golden parachutes" for failing!
Outside of some unpredictable major change in American business, I don't foresee a return to the old days which Marcus says we need. The age of entitlement has replaced that of enlightenment. It's very sad.
Bluffton, S.C.
Expect more wrecks at I-95/Ga. 21 exit
It was a tragedy that someone lost their life at the I-95 exit at Port Wentworth waiting in line for traffic to move.
The Georgia Department of Transportation came in and converted the emergency lane into a turn lane as well as the far right hand lane to exit lanes. This should leave the middle and far left lane open to northbound traffic.
As hard as I try to avoid this mess, I had to use this exit at 5:30 p.m, last week. To my surprise I saw impatient people speeding up the center lane then stopping and trying to squeeze in.
People, think about it. You are dead stopped on a three-lane interstate that has already got one lane stopped. Unfortunately there will be another accident here. I can only pray there will not be another loss of life.
Wonderful message from Knights of Columbus
My wife and I, who are not Catholics, want to commend and express our thanks to the Knights of Columbus for the wonderful President's Day message they have sponsored and we have intently and proudly watched on TV recently.
God bless you Knights of Columbus for providing some of the short but powerful messages.
Tybee Island
No work, no pay
If I don't do my job I don't get paid. Our government should work under the same rules.
One of the most important jobs of Congress is to consider and pass a yearly budget. If they don't pass a budget by Oct. 1 they should not be paid.
Vehicle owners should go smokeless, too
Chatham County Commissin Chairman Pete Liakakis made a statement at the recent county commissioners meeting regarding the new smoking bans in county.
I agree with the general ban, but why do we allow vehicle owners to remove their catalytic converters and pump carbon monoxide for all to breathe? Every day I follow vehicles and am choked by carbon monoxide.
If we are to clean Savannah up, let's start with major pollutants.
President Obama or President Chavez?
According to James Howell (letter to editor on Feb. 25) it's case closed on the Catholic birth control controversy thanks to President Obama's "compromise," which was to make the health insurance companies pay for contraception and abortificents.
Putting aside the outrageousness of a president issuing such a directive to an entire industry (who does he think he is, Hugo Chavez?), this is no compromise. It's not going to be "free." That cost will be passed on to customers, so indirectly the Catholic Church will be paying for it.
And what about Catholic institutions that self-insure?
And fundamentally, it's also still requiring the Catholic Church to provide the service of contraception for its employees.
Howell and Steve Gordon (Feb. 21) just don't get it. This is not about contraception. You can get that for free at the health department. What is at issue is forcing a religious group to violate its fundamental teachings and beliefs. Liberal-statists often talk about conservatives "forcing" our beliefs on others, but as far as I can see they are the only ones doing this in our country.
When you're driving, please just drive
Driving a vehicle is a skill. We learn it.
Hurtling down the highway at 65 miles an hour in a 4,000 pound piece of (mostly) steel is not a good time to apply your makeup.
Nor is it a good time to text your friends about your weekend plans. The way you're going, you may not have another weekend.
There is also the guy looking at his work orders for the day. He looks up every minute or so.
Of course you always have the map readers, the cell phone dialers, moms turning around to talk to her kids, dogs in laps and people searching for things in the floor board.
The list goes on and on.
The automobile is meant for us to get from point A to point B. We all want our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and ourselves to get there safely. Please just drive when you're driving. Get up five minutes early to put on your makeup, make your plans and eat your breakfast. That way you and all of us will still have a chance to do all of those things.
To the lady I saw painting her nails going down the road, you almost made me run off the road I was so stunned by what you were doing.
Port Wentworth


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Bob Vila's 50 Shades of Green
While our 50 Shades may not be as sexy as the blockbuster novel, these green tips for the home promise gratifying results and earth-friendly fulfillment.
Standing in her kitchen, she knew the handsome stranger wasn't like the other men in her life, when he pulled her close, gazed into her eyes, and whispered, "Can I fix your leaky faucet?" And that was only the beginning.
He adjusted her thermostat, put air in her tires, even convinced her to get up on the old bike again. She swooned at his knowledge of glorious things. Could this be the man, she wondered? The man whose desire for energy conservation would finally unleash her deep desire to recycle, repurpose, and live sustainably. As he drew a deep breath to speak, her heart leapt. Could this really be happening?
And so begins the 50 Shades of Green…
Plant a tree (or two). These hardworking beauties help prevent soil erosion, absorb C02 and produce oxygen, and provide sweet shade come summer. To determine the right species for your region, visit arborday.org.
Recycling is great but precycling is better. Choose products that create less waste from the get-go: If possible, buy grocery staples in bulk and opt for items with less packaging, such as a two-liter bottle of soda instead of a dozen single-serve cans.
You've it heard before, but remember to turn off the faucet each time you polish your pearly whites (or shave). You'll save two to four gallons of clean water every time you brush
Volunteer at one of American Rivers' annual cleanups and help collect some of the millions of tons of trash that wash up along the nation's waterways. To locate an event near you—or find out how to become a sponsor—visit americanrivers.org.
Feed the birds, especially in winter, when providing food and water may really make a difference. If it dips below freezing in your region, invest in an electric deicer so your birdbath doesn't ice over.
Fix leaks promptly. According to the EPA, leaks in American homes account for 1 trillion gallons of wasted water per year—or the annual water use of Chicago, Los Angeles, and Miami combined!
Buy clothing that doesn't require dry cleaning—and the toxic chemicals that entails—whenever possible.
Brew organic, fair-trade coffee. No chemicals are used on the fields, famers make a living wage, and the tasty java costs just pennies a cup! And if the beans are shade grown (which most organic coffee is), the trees that shelter the coffee plants provide habitat for birds and mammals, too.
Save water and energy by only running your washer and dishwasher when fully loaded.
Does your car need cleaning? Use a bucket of soapy water to tackle the grime, saving the final rinse for the hose.
Bob Vila's "50 Shades of Green" continues here.


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In our study on malicious web servers, we interacted with web servers using older versions of the browsers Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Microsoft Internet Explorer. We didn't configure any plug-ins other than the ones provided by a clean Windows XP SP2 installation. The results of our study yielded only observed attacks on Internet Explorer, but did not observe any attacks on Firefox and/or Opera. However, just because we didn't observe any attacks on these clients, we couldn't conclude whether they are not targeted at all, because our configuration/versions might have simply been too bare or old.
The web exploitation kits provides us with a specific answer to this question. Other browsers and operating systems are certainly targeted as well. The following attacks are currently supported by the web exploitation kits. They first assess which browser and operating system are being used before delivering an attack to foster a high success rate:
|WebAttacker (as of September 2006)
|MPack V0.94
|IcePack [8] (as of September 2007)
|Microsoft Data Access Component Vulnerability
Windows VML Vulnerability ( CVE-2006-4868 )
|Microsoft Data Access Component Vulnerability
Microsoft WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
|Microsoft Data Access Component Vulnerability
WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Microsoft Management Console Vulnerability
Yahoo! Messenger Webcam ActiveX Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
|Windows Media Player Plug-In with Non-Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
|Windows Media Player Plug-In with Non-Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
|Windows Media Player Plug-In with Non-Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
|Exploitable crash in InstallVersion.compareTo vulnerability
Windows Media Player Plug-In with Non-Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
|Windows Media Player Plug-In with Non-Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
|Windows Media Player Plug-In with Non-Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
JavaScript Navigator Object Vulnerability
While the set of attacks supported is rather small, it does show that multiple browsers are targeted. Many attacks utilize attack vectors that make use of plug-ins. Firefox and Opera are being attacked via a Microsoft Windows Media Player plug-in and Internet Explorer is attacked via some older vulnerabilities of the browser (MDAC attack), but also some more recent vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins, such as QuickTime and Winzip. (Note that this the attack sequence we encountered on the Italian Keith Jarrett web site.) In September 2007, a vulnerability was discovered that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on Internet Explorer 7 via crafted PDF files ( CVE-2007-5020 ); another dangerous potential candidate for inclusion in one of the kits. How quickly new releases with new attacks are actually unleashed is still not well understood and will be answered as part of future work.
If we look at these three web exploitation kits as evolutionary successions, however, there seems to be a trend towards attacking plug-ins. Browsers nowadays have some sort of automated update mechanism that would result in a closure of the attack window for these web exploitation kits fairly quickly. However, third-party plug-ins, such as Flash or Yahoo! Widgets, do not have such update mechanisms and remain unpatched on the system even when patches are available. Targeting these plug-ins ensures that the web exploitation kits remain effective.
MPack has an additional feature that we haven't considered so far: geolocation-dependent triggering via the freely available MaxMind Geolocation Technology. MPack determines in what country the user is located and can be configured to only trigger on certain countries. A copy of MPack that we obtained was configured to trigger only on users from Russia, Ukraine and the United States. A user located in New Zealand that navigates to the malicious page would not be attacked. The PandaLabs Report shows an MPack installation that doesn't seem to be as selective triggering on users from different countries. Their statistic page shows successful attacks on users from Japan, Germany, Spain, United States, Romania, UK, Italy, France, China, Mexico and Canada.
The geolocation-dependent triggering could easily be extended into a more fine grained triggering mechanism to avoid specific networks. Web exploitation kits could create the illusion of a malicious server in a sheep skin for entities that find and assess malicious web servers (AV and securtity companies), but could continue to exhibit malicious behavior when accessed from outside these specific networks . For the attacker, it would lead to a greatly reduced risk of detection, while at the same time increasing the likelihood of continued operation of the malicious web server and therefore lead to continued financial gain for the attacker.
All web exploitation kits record information about the clients in a statistics database. An example of the effects statistics, shown in Figure 3 , makes targeting easier. It provides attackers with information to determine whether their attacks are still successful. Do old attacks, such as the MDAC attack on Windows 2000, still lead to successful exploitations? If so, an attacker might refrain from upgrading to newer and more expensive exploits. If the success rate of an exploit suddenly drops, the attacker can react accordingly. Browser statistics and the subsequent trends allow the attacker to purchase exploits that provide the highest return on investment.
Geolocation information could potentially be used for follow-up attacks in the regions that were most successful. Successful rates in a specific region indicate that users are less security aware, do not use the latest patches, etc. and therefore will be prone to future attacks. These attacks are not limited to drive-by-downloads, but could be in the area of phishing, attacks on servers, SPAM, etc. These are the low hanging fruits attackers will go for first.


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Evelyn Stevens
Date of Birth: May 9, 1983
Height: 5'5"/1.7m
Weight: 120 lbs./54 kg./8.6 st.
Place of Birth: Claremont, California
Hometown: Acton, Massachusetts
Current Residence: San Francisco, Calif.
Teams: Specialized-Lululemon (2012-Present), HTC-Highroad (2010-11)
Education: Dartmouth College (B.S. Government & Gender Studies '05)
Website: evelynstevens.com
Olympic Experience/UCI World Championships Results
- 2014 UCI Road World Championships, Ponferrada, Spain (1st place, team time trial with Specialized-lululemon; 3rd individual time trial; 12th road race)
- 2013 UCI Road World Championships, Toscana, Italy (4th time trial; 1st team time trial - with Specialized-lululemon; 5th road race)
- 2012 UCI Road World Championships, Valkenburg, Netherlands (2nd time trial; 1st team time trial - with Specialized-lululemon; 16th road race)
- 2012 Olympic Games, London, England (24th road race)
- 2011 UCI Road World Championships, Copenhagen, Denmark (15th time trial; 72nd road race)
- 2010 UCI Road World Championships, Melbourne, Australia (6th time trial; 21st road race)
- 2009 UCI Road World Championships, Mendriso, Switzerland (15th road race)
National Championships
- 3rd place — 2014 Volkswagen USA Cycling Professional Road & Time Trial National Championships, Chattanooga, Tenn., (Time Trial and Road Race)
- 2011 USA Cycling Time Trial National Champion, Augusta, Ga.
- 2010 USA Cycling Time Trial National Champion, Bend, Ore.
Career Highlights
- 1st place — 2014 Boels Rental Ladies Tour (Holland), General Classification
- 1st place — 2014 Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Stage 4 and General Classification
- 1st place — 2014 Parx Casino Philly Cycling Classic
- 1st place — 2014 Pan American Continental Road Championships, Individual time trial
- 1st place — 2014 Ladies Tour of Holland
- 1st place — 2014 Sweden team time trial with Specialized lululemon
- 3rd overall — 2013 La Route de France
- 1st place — 2013 Amgen Tour of California women's time trial
- 1st place — 2013 Giro del Trentino Alto Adige, Stage 1b, General Classification & Points Classification
- 1st place — 2013 Parx Casino Philly Cycling Classic
- 1st place — 2013 Gracia-Orlova (Czech Republic), Stage 1
- 1st place — Sweden team time trial with Specialized lululemon
- 1st place — 2012 La Route de France, Stage 7, Stage 9 and General Classification
- 1st place — 2012 UCI World Cup #4 - La Flèche Wallonne (Belgium)
- 1st overall — 2012 Women's Tour of New Zealand
- 1st place — 2012 Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminile, Stage 3, Vernio - Castiglione dei Pepoli
- 1st place — 2012 Gracia-Orlova (Czech Republic), Stage 1 and General Classification
- 1st overall — 2012 Exergy Tour (Idaho)
- 1st place — 2012 Sweden team time trial with Specialized lululemon
- 1st place — 2011 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Stage 4
- 1st place — 2010 Giro d'Italia Femminile (Italy), Stage 7 Chiavenna to Albese con Cassano
- 1st place — 2010 Chrono Gastineau
- 1st place — 2010 Nature Valley Grand Prix, Stage 6, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 1st place — 2010 Redlands Bicycle Classic, Stage 4, Redlands, California
- 1st place — 2009 Route de France, Stage 4, Vierzon to St. Poucain sue Sioule
- 1st overall — 2009 Fitchburg Classic (Massachusetts)
- 1st overall — 2009 Cascade Cycling Classic (Bend, Oregon)
Points of Interest
- Evelyn's rapid rise from amateur to pro and then to a national time trial title elicited the remark that "She just came out of nowhere" from HTC-Highroad team creator and visionary Bob Stapleton. Stevens stood out enough for USA Cycling V.P. of Athletics Jim Miller to notice her competing in regional races while still working on Wall Street and invite her to be a part of USA Cycling's National Development Program. Her history, however, smacks of hard work and determination, which is more likely responsible for her white-hot emergence.
- Stevens was an investment banker on Wall Street until she gave it up to become a professional cyclist in 2009.
- 'Evie' was a stellar collegiate tennis player at Dartmouth.
PersonalA decade ago, choosing a career as a professional road cyclist over that of an investment banker would have been considered risky at best, irresponsible at worst. Then in 2008, the tables turned, the economy crashed and Evelyn Stevens' employer, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy. Soon a job as a pro racer looked promising for Evelyn, who was introduced to cycling by her sister and got into racing through New York City's Century Road Club Association.
Evelyn swapped her business suits and flats for lycra and cleated shoes, swung her leg over a bike and rode off down a new career path that led to the top of the podium in no time. After scoring two hard-won victories in prestigious stage races in 2009, she went pro in 2010. Evelyn confessed that she was extremely fortunate that the estimable team HTC-Columbia took a risk on her for her first pro season but it was a well-calculated risk for the team and an incredible learning experience for Evelyn.
For instance, her descending skills were seriously lacking and so, to avoid disaster, the team's technical director took three days out of his busy schedule to put her through "downhill camp." Those three days proved to be some of the most challenging yet rewarding days of her 2010 season. The training and practice paid off as Evelyn again climbed to the top of the podium at significant races during her rookie year.
After several stellar seasons on the bike Evelyn is on her way to fulfilling her dreams — from banker to biker via a crash, and thankfully not the other way around.
Hobbies and interests: Tennis, yoga, reading and golf.
Favorite races: "Fleche Wallone, Philly and any TTT!"
Best Cycling Memory: "Being in the break away at Exergy, knowing I would win the overall and while cresting a climb, I saw my sister running alongside me with the biggest smile and cheering. Cycling can be quite selfish, so when you can share your successes with your loved ones, it makes it even more special."
Favorite Place to Train: "Any place with good roads and respectful drivers (and sunshine usually makes it even better)."
Best Advice Received When Starting Out: "You have to learn to win with bad legs."
First Involvement in Cycling: "My sister, Angela, introduced me to cycling over Thanksgiving 2007 while I was working on Wall Street in NYC and immediately fell in love. I began racing in Central Park in 2008 and, poof, next thing I know, I'm representing the U.S. at the 2009 Worlds and signing with a Euro pro team."
What motivates you? "Pushing myself beyond what I thought was possible."
Community and Charity Involvement: Works with CycleKids, World Bicycle Relief, Transportation Alternatives in NYC, SF Bicycle Coalition and The Right to Play.
Family: Daughter of Edward and Harriet Stevens...has two brothers, Michael and Drew, and two sisters, Angela and Mary.
Did you know: After working as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, Stevens did not start riding a bike until she was 26.
Related Articles
- Stevens first American to win Fléche Wallone Féminine World Cup - Apr 18, 2012
- Stevens wins 2012 Womens Tour of New Zealand - Feb 26, 2012
- Stevens win highlights stellar time trial national champs - Jun 23, 2011


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Prayer is a conversation.
Prayer is an action.
Prayer is friendship, love, companionship and trust.
It is not a performance or a recipe you must follow to "get it right."
I've read a trove of books and articles about prayer down through the years, all of them well-meaning, and none of them either wrong or right. The authors of these books and articles seek to give Christians instructions or a methodology for doing prayer right.
The most common advice is to avoid laundry-list prayers in which you just say "I want this. I want that." as if He was your personal genie and prayer was the lamp. That's good advice, by the way, for the reason that just listing your wants is not prayer at all for the simple reason that it's not conversation. It is, at base, rude and presumptuous. How would you feel if the only time you heard from your kids is when they want something?
But the writers who give this advice usually try to help you out by giving you a formula to follow before you present your list of wants. Begin your prayers with another list, they tell you. List your thank-yous. Then move into a list of praises for the wonderment of God's creation. Don't forget to ask forgiveness for your sins. After all this, you can get back to the real reason for praying and trot out that list of wants.
The main problem with this advice is that it's just another kind of clocking in. It is predicated on formulas found in the Old Testament (Think Abraham dickering with the angels over Sodom and Gomorrah) and also mirrors the formulas of many public worship services.
Even though it is based on legitimate foundations, when you go through it as you kneel beside your bed at night, it is not genuine. You may be following the recipe, but your heart is really only in the end piece where you ask for the things you want.
There is nothing wrong, in fact, there is a whole lot right with saying thank you to God for the blessings of your life. There is certainly nothing wrong with pondering His greatness. We all need to confess our sins and ask His forgiveness. It is wise to do this daily.
But you don't need to go through this whole list of worship stuff in order to pray. In fact, practicing prayer in this way can lead to, well, practicing prayer instead of actually praying from the heart. If it's a performance, God sees through it, even more clearly than you do — and if you will admit it, you see through it too.
Other people advise that you use a totally formulaic approach. The most common formula used by Catholics is the prayer-meditation of the Rosary. Protestants urge the laying on of hands and a sort of rotational prayer among friends. They also advise "claiming God's promises" by quoting a verse of Scripture and telling God you are "claiming" His promise in that scripture.
I'm a big fan of the Rosary myself. Prayerfully meditating on the Gospels through the heart of Mary is a powerful experience. I've also had groups of people gather around me, lay their hands on me and take turns praying for me. That's an incredibly powerful experience, as well.
I am, however, not so much in favor of the "claiming God's promises" stuff. The prayers I've heard that were done in this way sounded more like an attempt to bully God than worship Him. But maybe I just haven't heard it done right. I'll leave that to people who know more about it.
Still other authors advise that you meditate on a painting or crucifix to focus your mind while you pray. There are those who tell you to set aside a place in your home for your prayers.
None of this is bad advice in itself — except perhaps for the effrontery of reminding God of His "promises" like a lawyer carping at a witness on the stand — and all of it can have positive applications.
However, these various pieces of advice and formula can leave the average Christian with tongue-tied brains where prayer is concerned.
I know.
I've been there.
I never could get into the first, say thank you, then praise god, then confess your sins, then ask for what you want formula. I tried it a couple of times, and it was dead as dirt for me. God and I both knew I had reduced Him to a little g god of doing it right instead of the big God Who is a living being. So I chucked that bit of advice almost as soon as I considered it.
However, I did drink deeply of the notion that I should not just ask God for things. Unfortunately for me, this led to a deeper and almost immediate shut down of praying altogether. Somehow I morphed this into an admonition not to bother God with my itty bitty stuff.
I reached the point that I never asked God for my wants, stopped talking to Him about my hurts and fears and pits and stains, aches and scars. I felt that all this stuff of my life was unworthy of Him and since it was just about everything I had going on in my mind, I didn't have anything much to say.
When I first found Christ, I chattered to Him almost like a stream of consciousness prayer. I would fall asleep at night, just talking to the Lord about whatever was in my mind. But somewhere along the line, I become too sophisticated for that. I began to try to pray "right" and in the process, I found myself praying to a wall instead of entering into conversation with my heavenly Father.
My prayers got drier the more I censured them. When I read enough books to become convinced that it was wrong for me to go to Him with my picayune wants and needs, that I should only approach God with problems that were worthy of God, my prayers verged into formulaic deadness.
I stopped praying except in church because I didn't feel that my prayers were worthy to be prayed.
It was a strange time of living faith without conversation with the One in Whom I had such faith.
In all this time, God never left me. His presence was right there with me, but He was quiet, letting me bumble around in my unworthiness.
What saved me was, ironically enough, a prayer. I had a personal problem, a family problem, that was driving me up one side of the proverbial wall and back down the other side and then back up again. It was one of those things I couldn't solve and didn't think I could bear. I just burst out saying, "Lord, I know I'm not supposed to talk to you about this, but it is more than I can handle."
I don't know exactly how it happened, but I realized as I was praying my desperation prayer about my desperate little problem that I had it all wrong. I was supposed to be talking to Him about these "little" things that make up my life. Because …
My prayers are not "worthy" of Him. Ever.
I are not "worthy" of Him. Ever.
That is the point of Calvary. The cross on which Jesus died is the bridge. We walk through Calvary onto the cross and into God's loving arms. Not because we are "worthy" but because we are loved.
If you love God, you will find yourself thanking Him spontaneously. When you look into your baby's eyes. When you finally get that new house. When you find a job. When you lie down at night in a comfortable bed. You'll say "Thank you" from your grateful heart without any formalities.
If you love God, you will find your awe of His greatness spontaneously. When you look up at the night sky. Or down the tube of a microscope. When you see your child on an ultrasound or stand on a ship and watch a whale break through the water, glistening in the sunlight. You'll know that He is God.
There is no reason to turn your prayers into formal worship sessions. Prayer is talk. Not God talk. But talking with God, your heavenly Father, Who loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.
It's not only ok to chatter to God the way you did to your parents as a small child, it's good. Prayer is putting your hand in His hand and walking through life beside Him.
I still pray the Rosary, by the way. I also pray a prayer of consecration to Our Lady. I do not ever refuse to have people lay hands on me and pray for me. Every single one of these things blesses and sustains me.
Real prayer is conversation and these things are just another type of conversation.
Don't worry about praying worthily. Just consider that the same God Who made everything, everywhere; Who holds all of existence in existence with a single thought, enjoys your conversation that same way you enjoy listening to the talk of your little children or, as in my case, my elderly mother.
Consider that miracle of miracles. And be grateful.
Then talk to Him from your heart.


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MAGALHAES, Reginaldo Sales y ABRAMOVAY, Ricardo. The emergence of a micro-finance market in the sertão back lands of Bahia.Traducido porMartin Charles Nicholl. Rev. bras. ciênc. soc. [online]. 2008, vol.4Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0102-6909.
This paper analyzes the organizational and cultural basis on which financial markets in poor regions are built. The action of Christian Base Communities has been especially important in promoting a cultural change process and in the formation of a dense network of organizations that has enlarged the access of farmers both to financial markets and new channels of commercialization. This paper reconstructs the historical processes of constitution of credit unions, underscoring the influence of natural factors like climate on the "sertanejos'" rationality and the social structures of the new economic organizations.
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Here is some helpful information to find the best computer under $500. The average price of a personal computer is somewhere in the neighborhood of $1300, according to CNET.com. That's a rather hefty chunk of change, especially if you're a recent high school or college graduate and don't have a sizable bank account (who does in this economy?). Even spending $1000 or $800 on a personal computer could be out of the picture. Fortunately, you can still find very good personal computers at a much more reasonable price. In fact, you can get a top-notch PC with great technology for under $500.
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So let's say, hypothetically, you've narrowed down your choices to three or four personal computers within your $500 price limit. Here comes the crucial question – which computer should you purchase? This question can only be answered by you, the purchaser, but we'd recommend going with a computer whose company has a good reputation, can provide a rock solid warranty, and received positive feedback from other computer consumers. The Compaq, Lenovo, Gateway, and eMachines have good brand recognition and reputation. The personal computers described above have received "5 star ratings" from Amazon consumers, which means the feedback is generally very positive.
But if you want reassurance, do some additional research. A good resource would be PCWorld where they rate and review bargain priced personal computers. Check to see if your computer has been reviewed.
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Great CSS DesignFebruary 29, 2004
I just haven't had time to cruise for new and inspiring work recently, which is a shame because there is some absolutely fantastic standards-compliant work showing up these days.
These have been pretty well covered elsewhere, but regardless, here's a good-sized list of some of the work I've been enjoying lately. Hats off to each of you!
- Fish Marketing
- A clever theme carried through to logical conclusion (Freshness, anyone?). The bros. Fish have built a low-in-navigation, high-in-concept instant classic.
- WDDG? Standards Compliance? Can it be? It can, and oh is it good. (Don't miss the tanks in the footer…)
- Serco TransArctic Expedition
- No stereotypical snow and ice theme here, designer Damien du Toit has built an incredible site to chronicle an incredible voyage. Damien's tech notes include a brief and tantalizing mention of live updates during the trip (which started on Thursday if all went according to plan).
- Fyrebase
- Pixel-fresh titles, theme switching, and a great set of work. Australian Kirk Bentley's portfolio site cranks up the lickability factor. Mmm, orange.
- Design Dojo
- Fellow Canadian Sam Royama's great portfolio/weblog. Simply elegant, with great detail. Come back Sam, we miss you.
- Airbag
- Fellow Canada-lover Greg Storey's classy, and safe weblog. The recent redesign is a brilliant fit; the light, white space enriched header floating above the grounded content is one of the more clever visual metaphors I've seen in a while. Bravo!
- The Man in Blue
- A strong showing by Aussie Cam Adams. Smooth background tiling, and unrelenting blue (just call me biased). Nice attention to content design on the post pages, something that gets overlooked a little too often.
- Adobe. Macromedia. Quark.
- That's a smokin' trifecta.
- PixelTable (or {pxl>table}, or whatever those crazy artist types are doing with punctuation these days)
- C'mon. It's a Carole Guevin production. It's good. Mm-hmm.
- Firewheel Design
- Texan Josh Williams' day job. (also see his YellowLane and IconBuffet). Josh has a knack for well-contrasting colour schemes, beautiful ligatures, and wildly lush and imaginative illustration and icon work. A true inspiration.


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it's the 5th anniversary of RTA (dubai road and transport authority), and they celebrate it by making 1st november a 'free public transport day'!
metro (their lrt system), busses and water transport (the abra) – all were free for all on this day. guess how many people ditched their car to take advantage of this once-a-year offer?
dubai prince, sheikh majid, anak pemimpin dubai officiated the day by riding on all the available public transport. cool, eh?
the aim of the free transport day is (from gulfnews)
- to involve various public and private sectors and different segments of communities
- boost the use of public transport in the emirate
- reduced fuel costs and vehicle maintenance
- reduced traffic fatalities
- less carbon emissions
this is the first time dubai held a 'free public transport day', and will make it an annual 'celebration'.
best kan?
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some interesting bit about the public transports in dubai :
the bus stops are air-conditioned.
yeap. as you can see from the picture above (taken from my sis in law tina's facebook) there are doors, and during the scorching summer heat, you can wait for the bus in the cold comfort of the cool bus stop.
i repeat – bus stop. ade air-con.
i've waited inside once, not for the bus though, but for mr. khairul. and a lady complained that since she's the only one inside, sometimes the bus just pass by and did not stop. hmm. what's the point of the tinted doors – to protect from heat, but bus drivers can't see (or choose not to see that one passenger) the passengers waiting at the bus stop?
so how? hihi.
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that's mr. khairul's little bro asrar during his cuti-cuti dubai late last year. yes, mr. khairul's whole family came all the way and took the opportunity to ride on the 'water transport', or the abra, to cross dubai creek.
the fare? just 1 dirham! (less than RM1!)
abra is a traditional boat made of wood, and the original, classic way of transportation for dubaians. now people are still using it, including tourists like my bro in law la. hihi.
where passengers sit all around it, facing outward – 10 on each side. and yes, like you see in the picture – there are no railings or raised sides to hold on to. ade la canopy nak teduh dari panas but it's really open-air like that! scary kan? but this is what the dubai people use, daily!
the scarier part is, it's mentioned that small collisions between abras are common, as they jostle for space while at the creek! brrr! langgar-langgar tu biase je!
dubai creek separates the old dubai (deira), and the new dubai (bur dubai). i think there are 4 roads/bridge including a couple of tunnels you can use to cross the creek by car.
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while abra is the traditional mode of transportation, metro is the modern one. newly launched, and a few new lines opened, more and more people are opting for metro to commute.
i had the pleasure of using this brand new train service late last year when my in laws came. i'm proud to say that malaysia had been using this service for many many years ahead of dubai, eventhough ours are not as posh and our train stations are not as lavishly designed. ye la diorang punya train station siap ade chandellier tu!
me on dubai metro with sis in law tina & bro in law asrar
read my 'adventure' on dubai metro here.
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hmm. 'free public transport' day. imagine if malaysia has such a 'day'…


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Do Harsh Economic Conditions Signal Religious Revival?
Conditions are right for a spiritual revival, said American Evangelist Sammy Tippit this week, though not all agree.
Tippit sees the economic downturn and housing crisis as a time for churches to evaluate their mission and goals and to figure out what really matters.
"God uses these economic difficulties to make us take a hard look at what it is that we're doing and see what it is that's really fluff, what's really substantial, and what it is that God's in," Tippit told Mission Network News.
But Dr. John Hardin, a historian of business and religion in America, told The Christian Post that just because the U.S. is in an economic crisis doesn't necessarily mean it's going to spark a religious revival.
If God uses "economic recessions to tighten our focus on the sacred and loosen our grip on the secular, one would expect other recessions to spark revival," he said.
According to Tippit, "The last Great Revival that took place was when there was an economic crisis – 150 years ago during what was called 'The Great Prayer Revival.' It took place when the bottom fell out in the financial district in New York City."
Tippit believes the U.S. is seeing a similar economic crisis today but to a lesser degree.
A 2009 Barna report found that almost a third of adults had reduced giving to their churches, and nearly half said they also had curtailed their donations to other nonprofits. In April of last year that number stayed at 30 percent. Of that 30 percent, 24 percent said they had stopped giving to their church altogether.
Notably, a recent "State of the Plate" report revealed that church giving is on the rebound with 51 percent of churches having seen an increase in giving last year.
Also, the unemployment rate is currently at its lowest in three years, at 8.3 percent.
Nevertheless, Hardin cited various disasters in U.S. history to disprove the notion that revivals are born out of a bad economy. He pointed to the Panic of 1857, the collapse of the railroad boom in the late 19th century, which wrecked the American economy three times, the end of World War I, in which Americans were faced with 12 percent unemployment, and the Great Depression.
Hardin explained that during these times and after World War II, "we see no other examples of religious revivals in the wake of economic recessions."
In reality, most religious revivals in American life have come during times of economic prosperity, Hardin pointed out.
"In the early 18th century, the American colonies enjoyed the profits of British mercantile policies and the Atlantic trade system during the first Great Awakening. The second Great Awakening in the early 19th century stood on a booming market expansion in America. In the twentieth century, American religion exploded in growth in the 1950s, riding the waves of post-war economic surges," he explained.
Hardin told CP that revivals often happen, not because of religious fervor, but because of a principle that former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once highlighted: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
"The 'Great Prayer Revival' followed on the heels of the Second Great Awakening, a period of revival led by pastors such as Charles Finney, who used crises and peer pressure to nurture religious fervor. Finney believed that 'a revival is not a miracle; it consists entirely in the right exercise of the power of nature,'" Hardin explained.
So essentially, if a preacher could create the right conditions, then one could guarantee a revival. Hardin noted that on Finney's terms, "An economic recession is just the right spark."


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Sleepy All the Time
I am sleepy all the time. I can sleep all day get up fix dinner and be ready for bed sleep all night. It not filling tird. It sleepy my eyes feels like bolders are holding them down. What`s wrong how can I fix it.
Excessive daytime sleepiness can be a very frustrating and potentially dangerous problem. It can be due to a large variety of causes and truly needs to be evaluated by your physician, who may decide to refer you to a Sleep Specialist.
Most commonly, daytime sleepiness can be caused by inadequate night time sleep. The average person needs an average of 7-9 hours of sleep per night to perform optimally and to feel fully rested. If you are not getting adequate sleep regularly you may be creating a "sleep debt" that can lead to excessive sleepiness. Unfortunately a couple of nights of prolonged sleep (for example, on the weekends) can not compensate for chronic sleep deprivation.
Other causes of excessive daytime sleepiness may include the use of certain medications and the presence of certain medical conditions. Some medications that commonly cause sleepiness include narcotics (pain killers), benzodiazepines (sedatives, often used for anxiety) and antihistamines (often used for allergies). Daytime sleepiness may also be a symptom of a chronic medical diseases, such as thyroid disorders, or psychiatric disease, such as depression.
Primary sleep disorders need to also be considered and some of the more common ones that might cause sleepiness include obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnolence, periodic limb movements in sleep and a delayed sleep phase (usually resulting in inadequate sleep time). Shift work is also a risk factor for sleepiness, especially if you are working nights.
The most common sleep disorder causing excessive daytime sleepiness is OSA. OSA is a disorder where you have partial or complete closure of your airway when you sleep causing you to abruptly arouse to open your airway and to take another breath. This results in frequently interrupted and fragmented sleep. Risk factors for OSA include snoring, being overweight, having anatomic problems in the airway (such as large tonsils), being male gender, increasing age, having difficult-to-control hypertension, and having a family history of sleep apnea.
If you are getting the appropriate amount of sleep, then I recommend that you discuss your symptoms with your physician. To determine the cause of your problems, a thorough history and physical examination will be needed. A referral to a Sleep Specialist may be necessary to help sort out whether further testing is needed. Once a history and physical examination have been performed, the Sleep Specialist will decide if evaluation by a sleep study is necessary to further evaluate the cause. Best of Luck!
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A Crystal Age
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Have you heard of sciatica? A lot of peoplecomplain about nerve pain down the back of their leg. Usually the cause is withinthe lower back or pelvis. I'm going to give you 2 stretches today for the sciatic nerve. Itis the largest nerve in the body. It runs down the back of the leg and splits into two behindthe knee. It runs the whole way to the foot. It can cause shooting pain, numbness, tingling,dead leg feeling or the feeling that your leg is falling asleep. The first exercise is this. It is called flossing.We are going to sit up nice and straight here. What you are going to do is straightenthe affected leg or the leg with pain.
Stretch that leg out and look up at the sametime. As you are doing this, if you are doing it right and you are doing it on thepainful leg, it could actually make the symptoms travel down your leg. That is ok.You are putting a stretch on the nerve. We are going to hold that 5 seconds. Then bendyour knee and look down. 5 second hold here. 5 second hold, 10 times each way. Thisis called flossing. The next exercise is called a slump stretch.Same idea here, as you are doing this exercise, you could experience increased symptomsdown the leg and that is ok. Outside of the flossing or this exercise,no other exercise should increase the pain
travelling down the leg. Everything else shouldactually decrease the pain in the leg and you will experience more pain in yourlower back. What we do is this: Feet against the wall, knees straight, fingers interlockedbehind the head. Then you are going to slump forward. So bring your elbows in. Thereyou go. This should cause pretty sharp symptoms down the back of your leg. It iscalled the slump stretch and it is ok to feel increased pain down the back of the leg. Wehold this for 30 seconds and we do 3 of them in the . Now if that is too difficult,if that is too advanced, here is what you can do: Place your arms behind you and situp and arch your back. What you want to
try to do is if that is too much for you,if that is too intense, you can place your arms behind your back and simply arch your back.Rock your pelvis forward. That will do the same exact thing but it is a little less intensethan interlocking your fingers behind your neck and leaning forward. This is a littlemore basic. So you can modify. The same idea though 30 seconds, 3 times. If you canat least get yourself to sit up straight with the legs straight, feet flat against the wall,you are in good shape. The third exercise you should do for sciaticaor symptoms running down your leg is this: Realize that with symptoms travelling downyour leg, often there isnt a problem within
the leg. The problem is within the lower backor the pelvis. The sciatic nerve, the nerve roots where it originates is in your lowerback. If you are getting pressure on the nerve roots there either from disc degeneration,from a herniated disc or, as is also common, a problem within the pelvis and the sacroiliacjoint. If you have a problem there that is putting increased pressure on the nerve, thatis what creates the symptoms in your leg. You can think about it like this: if you havea long garden hose and there is water running through it and you pinch one end,obviously at the other end you are going to have less water flow. Same idea in your body.If you pinch that sciatic nerve, that is
what creates the symptoms. That is what changeswhat you are feeling down your leg. The solution isn't to continually addressthe problems in your leg. Or to put heat on your leg or ice on your leg. The solution is torelieve the pressure on the other end of the garden hose or the other end of the sciaticnerve. So what you need to do is figure out what is causing the symptoms down your leg.A good Physical Therapist can help you do that and they can decipher through testingwhether it is coming from arthritis or disc degeneration or stenosis in your back, a herniateddisc or a problem in your pelvis. So the third exercise that you should be doingis the 3 exercises that are addressing the


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Artists: "Second Generation" in Israel
A number of studies from the mid-1980s onward have demonstrated the impact of the Holocaust on visual art, in particular for artists who themselves experienced the agony of the Holocaust, but also among their contemporaries. These artists portrayed the Holocaust's atrocities and responded to the horrific trauma through various forms of expression. Now, more than sixty years after the Holocaust, it is apparent that its impact has carried over into the works of so-called "second generation" artists as well.
Artists: Contemporary Anglo
By focusing on Jewish women artists working in Britain today, whose Jewishness and gender are central to their artistic output, it offered valuable insights into the diverse ways in which women perceive their Jewishness in contemporary Britain. Aware of their complex "otherness" as women, Jews and artists, they put that awareness to good creative use; and in so doing, proved that art has a crucial role to play in exploring—and perhaps crystallizing—issues of identity.
Artists: Israeli, 1970 to the Present
The 1970s were a conceptual and political period in Israeli art. Art during these years expressed the plural form—of the nation, the society and of modern art.
Artists: Russia and the Soviet Union
Women in general and Jewish women in particular have been participating in the artistic life of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union for over a hundred years.
Artists: Yishuv and Israel: 1920-1970
Until the 1970s women were always a minority among Israeli artists and most of them either followed the men or worked outside the leading artistic movements. Although the early twentieth-century Yishuv (the Jewish settlement in Palestine) was a pioneering society with egalitarian ideals, it was (like every society in the world) ultimately led and directed by men, and so too were the various artistic groups.
Devorà Ascarelli
Although in the writing of history the term "first" must be used with caution, Devorà Ascarelli may have been the first Jewish woman to have had her own book published.
Asenath: Bible
Although the Bible does not have much to say about Asenath (Osnat, LXX: Aseneth), the wife of Joseph, she became the main character of a widely disseminated Jewish novel from Hellenistic or Roman times, now called Joseph and Aseneth (JosAs).
Asenath: Midrash and Aggadah
Asenath is mentioned in the Torah as "the daughter of Poti-phera" (Gen. 41:45), who was married to Joseph in Egypt. The Rabbis found it difficult to accept that Joseph, who withstood the wiles of Potiphar's wife and proclaimed his loyalty to the Lord in the palace of Pharaoh, would marry a non-Israelite woman. The question of Asenath's origins has significant consequences for the standing within the Israelite tribes of Manasseh and Ephraim, the two sons born to Asenath and Joseph.
Asherah/Asherim: Bible
Asherah, along with Astarte and Anath, was one of the three great goddesses of the Canaanite pantheon. In Canaanite religion her primary role was that of mother goddess. In mythological texts from the Late Bronze Age (c. 1550–1200 b.c.e.) city-state of Ugarit, she is called "the creatress of the gods"; her consort at Ugarit, the god El, is called "creator."
Dora Askowith
Dora Askowith, author, historian, and college educator, believed that a knowledge of Jewish women's history would serve as a catalyst for organization, activism, and moral leadership. She taught women at Hunter College for a total of forty-five years, and wrote that she was anxious to teach college students Jewish history because they were "poorly versed in the history of their own faith."
Assimilation in the United States: Nineteenth Century
Scholars have conventionally considered the nineteenth century the German era in the American Jewish history. Between 1820 and 1880, more than two hundred thousand immigrants from German lands arrived in the United States. Besides German Jews, this transatlantic movement also included migrants from ethnically Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Baltic territories that at that time remained under German political control or cultural influence.
Assimilation in the United States: Twentieth Century
Jewish women began to assimilate into American society and culture as soon as they stepped off the boat. Some started even earlier, with reports and dreams of the goldene medine, the golden land of liberty and opportunity. Very few resisted adapting to the language and mores of the United States; those who did often returned to Europe. Well over ninety percent stayed, even those who cursed Columbus's voyage and subsequent European settlement in North America.
Associazione Donne Ebree D'Italia (ADEI)
The Association of Italian Jewish Women, or ADEI, was founded in 1927 in the city of Milan, Italy, home to the second largest Jewish community in the country.
Astarte: Bible
Astarte is the Greek form of the name Ashtart, who, along with Asherah and Anath, was one of the three great goddesses of the Canaanite pantheon. In Canaanite religion she was associated primarily with love and fertility, playing the role of divine courtesan, for example, in mythological texts from the Late Bronze Age (c. 1550–1200 b.c.e.) city-state of Ugarit (in western Syria).
Athaliah: Bible
Queen Athaliah is the only woman in the Hebrew Bible reported as having reigned as a monarch within Israel/Judah.
Athaliah: Midrash and Aggadah
The Rabbis state that Athaliah was one of the four women who wielded the scepter, two of whom ruled over Israel (Jezebel and Athaliah) and two over other peoples (the heathen Semiramis and Vashti) (Esther Rabbah 3:2).
Liliane Atlan
Liliane Atlan is a postwar French Jewish writer whose plays, poetry and narratives display innovative forms at the limit of written and oral literature.
ATS and WAAF in World War II
The Yishuv regarded the war against Nazi Germany (World War II) as its war. At the behest of the Jewish Agency thirty thousand men volunteered for the British Army between 1939 and 1946. Only when the Council of Women's Organizations called for the recruitment of women as well, was an agreement reached with the British authorities to enlist women into the forces. The first to join, on January 25, 1942, were a small group of sixty women to be trained as officers and N.C.O.s for the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service). Women for the WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) were drafted only on May 25, 1943.
Beatrice Fox Auerbach
People who shopped or worked at G. Fox and Company in Hartford, Connecticut, from the 1930s to the 1960s have fond memories of Beatrice Fox Auerbach and her department store. Many enjoyed the benefits of her merchandising innovations and progressive employment policies. Her customers enjoyed services such as personal shoppers, free home delivery, and toll-free telephone ordering long before these services were standard in other department stores. Because Auerbach believed in training programs and promotion from within, employees could achieve steady advancement and job security.
Charlotte Auerbach
Charlotte Auerbach, 'Lotte' to her friends all over the world, was known above all for her discovery in 1941 that gene mutations can be artificially induced by treatment of Drosophila flies with a chemical substance, mustard gas. Later she became renowned for her profound knowledge of classical genetics and especially of mutation.
Ellen Auerbach
The life of Ellen (Rosenberg) Auerbach was a constant journey of self-discovery and, in her photographic work, a search for the essence that lies behind people and things. Her curious mind, her keen and intuitive eye and her sense of humor permeated her photography, which was re-discovered in the late 1970s, along with that of other avant-garde photographers and artists of the Weimar Republic. Auerbach belonged to the generation of New Women who sought to break with traditional female roles and become independent through their work.
Rokhl Auerbakh
Rokhl Auerbach (1903–1976), a member of the Polish-Jewish literary elite, ran a soup kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto while simultaneously in her writing recording the voices of its captive inhabitants. She ultimately survived the war by passing herself off as an "Aryan," and went on to found the Department for the Collection of Witness Testimony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
Rose Ausländer
Rose Ausländer, a German-speaking Jewish poet from Czernowitz/Bukovina who spent much of her life in exile in the United States and Germany, wrote that her true home was the word itself.
Australia: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Since the beginning of British colonialization of New South Wales in 1788, when between eight and fifteen Jews were among the convicts who arrived with the First Fleet, several waves of immigration have brought the Jewish population up to its present size.
Austria: Jewish Women Artists
Although modern Austrian art attracted a high proportion of Jewish women, most of them are forgotten today both because of the male ethos of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century life which relegated women to the domestic domain, and because of the Holocaust which robbed many Jewish women artists of their lives and erased their artistic achievements from popular recognition.


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Intellectual Freedom in Canada: Speech Police Hired to Roam Queens University Campus?
Yes, it's true, apparently. I'd love to believe it wasn't.
KINGSTON, ON, November 19, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Queens University in Kingston, ON is coming under criticism for hiring six "dialogue facilitators" to roam its campus and intervene in student conversations in order to promote "diversity" and deal with what they deem to be any "offensive" material.We used to call those kinds of people snitches. They weren't popular.
The six graduate students from diverse backgrounds have been hired to encourage discussion on race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and other social issues, as well as step-in when they hear conversations that could be deemed "offensive." Each facilitator went through an 11-day training course to prepare them for their roles and have been granted free room and board as well as a yearly stipend as payment.
The Hudson Institute freedom report better downgrade us further, from a 2 to a 3.
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